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Cobra Kai


May 2018
So we've moved on from Pat Morita-Sploitation and onto William Zabka-sploitation as a middle age man.

Anyway, had a ball watching Cobra Kai.

Even though The Karate Kid is the laughing stock of martial art connoisseurs with it's highly telegraphed crane kick. It was the kind of movie that made kids interested in martial arts so it served it's purpose.

Quite well done and I like that it deconstructed the original movie. There is a video out there trying to point out that Daniel was the real bully of The Karate Kid and it's like they took that idea and turned it into a TV series. Very enjoyable so far.

A much better way to modernize The Karate Kid than 'The Kung Fu Kid' (You know what I mean by that ) Big fan of Jackie Chan. Not so much Jaden Smith.

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Box_a_Hair says:
#1

May 2018
I've only seen the first movie. Actually, I think I saw the second movie too, but I don't remember it. I'm fairly certain that the show doesn't need you to be familiar with 2 or 3, but I still ought to catch up. I like the idea of this show. Especially since its on the same boat of all those great retro franchises that got a remake, then the remake FAILED, and they went back to the original series. That's the fuckin' way to do it!

I'll be getting this watched soon. emoticon


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Shadow-345 says:
#2, Reply to #1

May 2018
After this i'll be picking up a Karate Kid boxset to watch them all to be honest.

Tamlyn Tomita in Karate Kid II though, yum yum.


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Ballz says:
#3

May 2018
It was a much better show than I expected it to be. I'd go as far to say that I enjoyed it more than any of the movies, including the original. I think it helped that half of the show focused on Johnny rather than only Daniel. His story was more interesting than Daniel's.

I noticed Will Smith's name on the show's credits as a producer. He's probably just in it for the money, but I'd like to think even he's not a fan of his son's remake and decided that the original cast was better.


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Tromafreak says:
#4

May 2018
I didn't realize this was a tv show. I'm actually interested in checking this out. Those were some pretty good movies.


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Box_a_Hair says:
#5

May 2018
As a more casual fan of the original, I wasn't expecting a really good show, but this is a really good show! I just finished it, and I fuckin' loved it. It's a total nostalgia fest with nods to the original all over the place. It's still very much a Rocky-type series (original film was directed by Rocky director John G. Avildsen), what with the training, and focus on characters lives on a daily basis. You really get to see all the characters lives and you like them all. I have a really hard time figuring out who the bad guy is in this, because it really isn't our main guy William Zabka. He steals the show, but Macchio is still playing a great character here.

I've really got nothing bad to say about this show at all. I really liked it.



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