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I usually DVR everything but sometimes I have to watch commercials while surfing. So the new version of the "Karate Kid" comes on. It appears to be based in China and Jackie Chan is playing the part of the sifu previously portrayed by Pat (mr butterball) Morita. Given the clear chinese influence, shouldnt it be renamed to "Gung-fu Kid"? Is this cultural ignorance profound evidence of the dumbing-down of America?
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Remember when it used to take a year for a movie to hit video? And then it would be another year before broadcast rights could be obtained for it to be shown on television?Originally posted by SlowwHand View Post"Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
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Yep,Originally posted by Al B. Sure! View PostAll Yellow people are the same. Am I right?
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As a follow-on, do you think "the amazing race" improves or worsens americans cultural ignorance?We need seperate human-only games for MP/PBEM that dont include the over-simplifications required to have a good AI
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I watched both KK and KK2 on two plane rides the last few weeks -- yes, they were long plane rides... KK2 was a straight remake of KK. I would have liked to see them break new ground with KK2 and to call it KFK. Maybe the intended audience was kids nowadays.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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Hey, I watched KK2. Apparently, SpencerH did too.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Karate Kid 2 came twenty years ago Dan.
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Let's not talk about that version.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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What about Karate Kid 3? Or what about the 4th one with the girl?Originally posted by DanS View Post
This one with Will Smith's kid would be Karate Kid 5, I guess."Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben KenobiComment
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Obviously, it's called Karate Kid to increase market appeal or whatever PR folks call it. Name recognition and all that.
While we're asking questions about movies, can anybody explain Mad Max to me? I mean the original 1979 movie, where Mel Gibson's 21 and looks closer to 17. It says on the Netflix jacket that it's "post-apocalyptic," the kiss-ass documentary on the disc calls it "post-apocalyptic," but to all appearances it takes place in a world barely distinguishable from our own. There's no reference to nuclear war, zombie/virus infestations, or anything else that would qualify as "apocalyptic." The countryside looks normal, the buildings are all intact, there's just one homoerotic biker gang challenging the mildly authoritarian-flavored police, and they get away with it because there are lawyers in this horrid dystopia who get their clients off the hook. They have rule of law, FFS! I got it expecting a silly, overblown weird-society-in-the-desert movie like the two sequels, but instead there's just an hour and ten minutes of drama and disjointed biker shenanigans followed by maybe fifteen minutes of actual vengeful rampage.Comment
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That's not the right one. You want The Road Warrior or Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome.Originally posted by Elok View Post
I'm pretty sure the one you're talking about has nothing to do with the next two... I imagine this is a case of re-imagining things for Road Warrior."Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
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