It may be a little too “ Rocky with Karate” at times, but the relationship dynamic between the teacher Mr. But there’s something genuine about John G. The genre is usually boiled down to an overly simplistic platitude that makes your eyes roll. I’m not usually a big fan of the “coming-of-age” drama because more often than not it’s a pretty trite affair. I don’t often pull this off the shelf but it’s an important piece of the collection. As a little squirt, it was the only thing that I watched that wasn’t Superman or didn’t star Arnold Schwarzenegger with “ Conan” in the title.Īs an adult, the film still hits. That first bootleg tape of The Karate Kid didn’t last long. Because this happened with so many movies we wanted to see, my dad made sure to always tape everything we rented. In that time of the long long ago you couldn’t just buy a tape (at least not at a decent price) so you just had to keep going to the store and hope that it was there. My local Mom and Pop shop maybe had all of two copies and it was always rented. The Karate Kid was a genuine video store gem when I was a kid.
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