Jason's Ultimatum
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People actually think 2 is good? What cooky world do you live in? First is the best, but I love it at the end of three where Daniel is doing that dance shit and the fighter is confused and backs off.
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Ralph Macchio: Where The Karate Kid is Now
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Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
Stay gold karate kid.
Loved that funny or die video with him a few years ago.
Loved that funny or die video with him a few years ago.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
Crazy talk. 3 was horrible. I didn't even like it when I was a kid.
MarauderShields
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I like the villain in 3 but 2 is much better. 3 is too similar to 1 except that its weaker in every way.
EvilDick34
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I would definitely put KK2 up there with the original, 3 and onward are just an abomination.
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Deleted member 231381
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Apologies, I derped and meant to type 2>1>3. 3 is absolute shit, yeah, beyond terrible.
tycoonheart
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3 is the one with Swank right? Fucking atrocious.
Gettysburger
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2 was alright but the original is in a league of its own. although the ice-breaking scene in 2 was pretty kickass
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
Nah, that was technically the 4th.
I'd put 1 over 2, but I can see why people would prefer the second.
johnny_park
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Swank was in The Next Karate Kid.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
3 is clearly the worst, but still, it has this suave motherfucker.
Fun fact: he's actually younger than Ralph Macchio.
digoutyoursoul
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Forget the Karate Kid, My Cousin Vinny was awesome
Sickboy007
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3 is the one with the 80s millionaire inexplicably obsessed by teenage scuffles.
that's impossibru
that's impossibru
alfredofroylan
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William Zabka 2013 (aka Johnny Lawrence)
Jean Valjean
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3 is clearly the worst, but still, it has this suave motherfucker.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEDkSLQ7dFE
bernardobri
Steve, the dog with no powers that we let hang out with us all for some reason
The How I Met Your Mother episode guest-starring him was awesome.
Link
The Autumn Wind
No, it was Johnny Lawrence. Get your head out of your ass, PhoncipleBone.
See You Next Wednesday
Banned
William Zabka 2013 (aka Johnny Lawrence)
If he loses a few pounds & gets into shape, he can match his 1984 looks perfectly.
LumpOfCole
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How I Met Your Mother is a shell of its former self, but this latest season's Karate Kid Bachelor Party episode with Macchio and the 'clown' was really phenomenal.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
BAH! Miyagi>everyone else.
Of course, this just makes me want to do the Zabka Asshole Trilogy. Karate Kid, Just One of the Guys, and Back to School.
http://maddecent.com/blood-bros-first-blood/
Thank me later.
Oh man...
PhoncipleBone
Banned
FUCKING A!
Karate Kid 2 is still a good movie. It does not reach the heights of the first, but is still damn solid. The first is a stone cold classic though.
Download it. Listen. It will grow hair on your chest. It is one giant mix. I sometimes listen to it during my drive to work and always go in with a renewed sense of purpose.
Jag
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It was? I don't remember it that way.
Bucket Mouse
Member
He sure loves waxing on about himself.
Henchmen21
Banned
People with taste do.
Chozen should've played more Rhythm Heaven.
That really puts things in perspective doesn't it? Wow!
Reading about his experiences made me think about the movie The Truman Show, but with a different twist. In this case it isn't Ralph but everybody he meets that is stuck in Daniel's world of 80's movie make-believe. It's like everybody Ralph comes across is in on the fact that he was The Karate Kid / "Truman" and even at the slightest que they try to pull him back into the Karate Kid world with them so he can continue to entertain him.
So, even though Ralph knows he was Truman at some point, he still can't fully escape the Karate Kid universe that resulted from the adoration of the generation of people that watched him and who - in a way - try to conserve his old role and with that also their own past.
(It would make an interesting movie in and of itself perhaps, his real life and dealing with this legacy.)
Sorry for the double post, but this needs to be quoted ad infinitum. Be sure to check the second and third volumes as well:
http://maddecent.com/blood-bros-mix-part-2-heaven-2-hell/
http://maddecent.com/blood-bros-iii-back-in-america/
While I don't know if the 80's were truly better or not, I do know that I miss movie scores such as these ones!
that was great
William Zabka 2013 (aka Johnny Lawrence)
I'm amazed at how much this guy reminds of me of Owen Hart, which makes me sad
teruterubozu
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got to be kidding me.. ? I was born in 75.. the way I look at it I´m 28 years old.
1975-1980 = 5 Years.
1990-2013 = 23 Years.
The 80´s is the worst decade ever.. ever.. oh my I try to block those imaginary years every day.. every fucking day.
Jason Frost
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The last time I saw Ralph Macchio, he was in Ugly Betty.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
JetBlackPanda
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Sweep the leg!
Good read thanks!
Good read thanks!
RumblingRosco
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I would watch the shit out of this if it were a real movie.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
sixteen-bit
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How do you guys like the remake?
Dr.Horrible
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Ever watch Best of the Best? It's up there with the best of the 80's martial arts cheese.
I will never in my life watch it simply on principle.
Dr.Horrible
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DP - sorry. Must be drunk still.
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