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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: AZRedhawk44 on June 01, 2009, 10:13:03 AM
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Srsly, The Karate Kid was not that great of a movie. It was the loser/good movie of the 80's. It's not even geek-chic like the holy Star Wars Trilogy, Back to the Future, or Indiana Jones. And the sequels should have been released straight to Beta.
And... if you're gonna steal a meme from that movie, you are supposed to take "Wax on, Wax off!"
I've been deluged with Karate Kid pop culture references recently, and I've heard "Sweep the Leg" way too many times. I can't cite all of them, but I was watching an episode of Chuck last night and it had the odious reference in there.
Pop culture, stop it! You're not cool, and neither is that movie. Very few people remember that line so you're talking to a small club... and we have excommunicated that movie from meme-able references. :police: Return back to your regularly scheduled programming of Yoda quotes and flux capacitor references.
That is all. :angel:
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I LOVE that movie. (Short Circuit for the uninitiated.)
And seriously, how can anyone who LIVED during the 80's not remember Karate Kid?
EVERY kid who grew up around that time knows the lines and the "Crane Kick".
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=D I think it's hilarious. =D
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So the reason he did the kick was because his foot was injured, and he had to keep it on the ground.
But when he does the kick he lands on that foot just fine and it doesn't bother him at all.
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It's not even geek-chic like the holy Star Wars Trilogy, Back to the Future, or Indiana Jones.
Did you just seriously try to put BttF in the same class as Star Wars or Indiana Jones? :O
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Back to the Future is an awesome movie series, although the first part is FAR stronger than parts II and III.
As a series I would say that no, it does not stand up to the Star Wars Trilogy (yes TRILOGY), or Indy Trilogy (yes TRILOGY). =D
I am adamant however, that the first BttF is as good as any of those films.
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Back to the Future is an awesome movie series
Wow. Just wow.
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So the reason he did the kick was because his foot was injured, and he had to keep it on the ground.
But when he does the kick he lands on that foot just fine and it doesn't bother him at all.
He was standing on his good foot. IIRC, his bad foot was not used for kicking or standing, his good foot did it all.
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I LOVE that movie. (Short Circuit for the uninitiated.)
And seriously, how can anyone who LIVED during the 80's not remember Karate Kid?
EVERY kid who grew up around that time knows the lines and the "Crane Kick".
I apparently don't know the lines. "Wax on, wax off" yes, but nothing else. I don't remember "sweep the leg" even after knowing which movie it apparently came from. I probably know more lines from Red Dawn than I do from Karate Kid.
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Possibly from this which came out a couple years ago?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFlQNtL8F9s
(No More Kings: Sweep the leg)
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I LOVE that movie. (Short Circuit for the uninitiated.)
And seriously, how can anyone who LIVED during the 80's not remember Karate Kid?
EVERY kid who grew up around that time knows the lines and the "Crane Kick".
I'm an 80's kid, and I've never seen it.
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I'm an 80's kid, and I've never seen it.
Did they at least let you have candles in your cave?
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I've seen it once or twice. Never have seen Red Dawn or a lot of the other flicks I was supposed to have grown up on. I've caught up on some of them since then.
It seems a lot of my generation (thirty-somethings) spent summer days and winter evenings curled up in front of the VCR.
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Never have seen Red Dawn
Fisty, I am near ready to weep for you
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Did you just seriously try to put BttF in the same class as Star Wars or Indiana Jones? :O
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Never have seen Red Dawn
BLASPHEMER!!!!
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What sound does the DeLorean's horn make?
Toot Toot!
=D
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What sound does the DeLorean's horn make?
Toot Toot!
=D
You can run a DeLorean on cocaine...
But you have to snort start it!
It will go anywhere there's a white line!
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I've seen it once or twice. Never have seen Red Dawn or a lot of the other flicks I was supposed to have grown up on. I've caught up on some of them since then.
It seems a lot of my generation (thirty-somethings) spent summer days and winter evenings curled up in front of the VCR.
As a kid with all the Cold War stuff still going full bore Red Dawn had an impact. I guess if you see it now, it might be a bit less so.
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He was standing on his good foot. IIRC, his bad foot was not used for kicking or standing, his good foot did it all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYE4fNQKTs4
Please watch this.
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A slow-mo of the kick.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwpmNKgR6Nw&feature=related
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They forgot to mention the stainless steel frame and body. Novelty adds to the coolness factor.