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Shat the Movies: 80's & 90's Best Film Review

The Karate Kid (1984)

Shat the Movies: 80's & 90's Best Film Review

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Film Reviews, 80s, Shermerhighschool, Sixteencandles, Movies, Tv & Film, Weirdscience, Breakfastclub, Vcr, Johnhughes, Vhs, 90s, Classicmovies

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

In Part 2 of our Wondertwins co-commission, younger brother Josh dedicates "The Karate Kid" to big brother Adam. And the Shat Crew gets crazy nostalgic over this 1984 martial arts father-son romance. Gene predictably brings his three decades of martial arts experience to the table, while Roger explores the darker side of Mr. Miyagi's hermit status, Daniel's mischief, and Daniel's mom's conspicuously optimistic behavior.

"The Karate Kid" stands up as a timeless classic, but we noticed a few things we missed as kids: a lackluster score from a legendary composer, hints of racism and sexism, an abundance of soccer, missed food gags, and a real question of who ultimately was the aggressor in the standoff between the bully Johnny and the rebel Daniel. Also, did you know Ralph Macchio was 22 YEARS OLD when this was filmed? Changes the whole movie.

Regardless of whether you loved it or hated it, "The Karate Kid" was long overdue. Strike first. Strike hard. No Mercy.


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All of these things that we're saying we love him for or red flags today.

0:05.0

If you said, hey, that guy who lives down there by himself by the boiler room, cutting small trees and fixing young boys bikes,

0:12.0

that would be something that you'd be scared of.

0:15.2

Encouraging boys to drink with him.

0:18.2

Yeah.

0:19.2

Trying to dress them up in his clothes.

0:21.0

Remember when we first met John McLean?

0:24.0

Our god picked him up from the plane and took him down the nakatome tower at the Christmas

0:31.0

party and the terrorists were over zealous but it was sweet when they killed

0:36.4

Ellis and with a little help from Allen John McLean

0:40.8

King dies.

0:42.0

Welcome back to Shatt the movies, the podcast where we answer the question

0:44.7

where the movies we love and growing up really that good. Have you ever got

0:47.8

yourself thinking, man, why do they make movies like they used to? Can you still

0:52.4

remember spending your Friday night searching for the perfect movie

0:54.6

Rental at Blockbuster Video? Do you even remember what Blockbuster video was? If you answered yes,

0:58.8

and this is the podcast for you, I'm one of your three co-hosts, Roger Roper, and alongside me sitting next to me are my two co-host, Big Dekebert.

1:06.0

Good evening.

1:08.0

And Jean Daniel Sun Lyons.

1:11.0

You're the best friend I ever had. Oh. And each week we take a look

1:18.0

back in time and decide if our favorite film still hold up each week the audience

1:21.2

selects from six movie choices that we then break out a

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