The Karate Kid (1984)

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4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2010

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Did you want to take Karate lessons in 1984? If so, you weren’t alone! When The Karate Kid first came out in it was a smash hit, earning an Oscar nomination for Pat Morita and entering “Wax on, Wax off” into the cultural lexicon of movie phrases. Now, with this classic story being reinterpreted for modern audiences with this summer’s remake starring Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith, we at Now Playing will “wax on” with our Karate Kid retrospective series. Is this first installment worth the legacy? Listen in and find out!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Now Playings, the Karate Kid Retrospective
0:29.9	series. With the upcoming reboot starring Jayden Smith and Jackie Chan, rock
0:36.7	Arne and Jacob will be looking back at all the Karate Kid movies culminating in a
0:41.9	weekend of release review of the new film. These podcasts will contain
0:49.8	spoilers and you can find a new podcast each week at NowPlayingPotCast.com
0:55.2	Ask one more small request. And if you enjoy this podcast, please take a
1:00.3	moment to leave us a positive review on iTunes. You're a pushy little bastard
1:04.6	ranger. I like that.
1:22.7	Today we're talking about the Karate Kid starring Ralph Machio, Norayuki Pat Morita,
1:27.9	Elizabeth Shoe, the wonderful William Zabka, Randy Heller, and Martin Cove,
1:34.0	directed by John G. Albertson. This is Norayuki Brock Morita, co-host of NowPlaying.
1:40.6	This is Jacob literally a stone's throw from recita. And this is Arne Machio.
1:47.6	I'm sorry, just Macho actually. Well, this is the first in our Retrospective
1:53.7	series of the Karate Kid series because there is an eagerly anticipated remake
1:59.7	starring Jaden Smith coming out in just a few weeks. No one is more surprised at
2:05.5	this movie's being remade than I am. And I'm just extremely surprised that it's
2:09.6	getting such good buzz. So I'm getting a little bit excited about doing this
2:13.1	retrospective series with both of you. Well, that's shocking because when I
2:17.6	suggested to you, Brock, hey, let's do a Karate Kid series. I believe you went
2:21.9	who's going to want that? That's a kid's movie. I know. I said that. You know, now playing
2:26.4	isn't really a review a lot of family films. You know, we did Madagascar 2 as part of the
2:30.6	regular series before we started doing retrospectives. And that was kind of like one of those,
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