But here it is.... the trailer, followed by the original film's trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMJM5_MT8nQ
It will air on YouTube Red.
Heresy!
:fail
But here it is.... the trailer, followed by the original film's trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMJM5_MT8nQ
It will air on YouTube Red.
Heresy!
:fail
However, one knock against the original is that the All Valley tournament was rigged against poor Dutch.
Don't believe me? Watch below, and notice how Daniel is crowned the winner simply for landing a partial kick shortly after Dutch brutalizes him with a kick to the face.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBktYJsJq-E
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Originally Posted by Dan Druff
This post is the final piece of the puzzle of "who is Dandruff"
Only watching if they bring back the original Mr. Miyagi.
I am the man
Who wil run
This site at a loss
I know people who subscribe to just about every streaming service that I'm aware of, except Youtube Red. Anyone here a subscriber?
If they bring back Elisabeth Shue. Would still bang. But when she was young, what a babe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zER0WGtY6h0
Johnny in modern times was already done in 2007, and 8 minutes was more than enough treatment of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olQ3vaiv47I
This is how the Karate Kid should have ended
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07vsDmMcSnU
Larusso was the real bully
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Gz_iTuRMM&t
This was actually supposed to be the end scene from The Karate Kid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KF4iJzBVWM
They decided to hold it back for the sequel instead. However, this was actually filmed at the time of the sequel, and not simply left over.
The sequel, which I wasn't a big fan of, was actually filmed in Hawaii, even though it was supposed to take place in Okinawa.
It was still better than the pointless Karate Kid 3, which was like a poor man's version of the first film. Even worse, the casting was horrible. They inexplicably cast a 17-year-old to play Daniel's love interest, and then removed the romance element when it was determined that it was inappropriate to have 28-year-old Ralph Macchio romancing a teenager onscreen. Then Thomas Ian Griffith, just 29, was cast to play Vietnam War veteran (and villain) Terry Silver. So a guy born in 1960 was supposed to have been in the Vietnam War? As what? The drummer boy?
The movie basically brought nothing new to the table and sucked balls.
why does he call a japanese guy a slope exactly
Actual rehearsal of final sequence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLIiHFyHWVQ
Final scene, Crane Kick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BogMLXeYjPI
The series is not a terrible idea, actually pretty creative. Karate Kid is still a cult hit even among people that were not even born when the original came out.
It is interesting they are making it a series rather than a movie. 10 episodes it a long plot line, and my guess is if enough people watch they have alternate endings on episode #10 to spawn off another season.
Look anything is possible. The series on HBO called OZ in the late 90s/mid 2000s was about a male prison which was so bad and unrealistic it forced you to watch every week. I watched it every week just because it was so ludicrous it was entertaining.
What is going to hold this Karate Kid redux back is this whole Your Tube Red thing. What an awful name, as someone, said earlier it sounds like a porn site. If this was Netflix it might have legs, but I am just not going to sign up for another monthly service. I barely watch what I have now.
I am just surprised this did not get a run on the big screen, surely it would have only cost $20M to make it's hard to believe with all the Karate Kid diehards out there it could not have at least broke even. Maybe KK Part 3 was so horrendous (it was), it killed off the franchise beyond repair. Part 3 was truly the worst movie I have ever seen.
Say what you will about OZ but if it wasn't for the success of OZ there wouldn't have been The Sopranos, The Wire, Deadwood.... and without them no band of brothers, Game of Thrones. EtcQuote:
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Assuming he wasn't cremated, they'll have to dig up his corpse, then. Pat Morita (who played Miyagi) died in 2005.Quote:
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COBRA KAI TRAILER #2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2_2oCRPrjM
New trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCwwxNbtK6Y
How about anyone up against Killer Kai?
Trailer looks decent. Naturally some cheesiness, but still looks like a decent plotline. Hard to believe they did not put this on the big screen, going to be interesting if they can draw interest over 10 episodes.Quote:
Originally Posted by David USF
BUMP
Watched episode #1.
Will watch #2 later.
That's all YouTube gives for free. Then you have to subscribe to lol YouTube Red to get the other 8. Probably on a torrent somewhere. Fuck YouTube/Google and their censorship/demonetizing bullshit against hardworking content creators.
Wasn't perfect, but wasn't bad. It was actually better than I expected. Was nice to see that they didn't go for the simplistic "good guy versus bad guy" approach, but rather expanded Johnny's already complex character (which was alluded to but never explored much), and instead portrayed him as a bitter-but-decent guy whose misfortunes were mostly a result of a combination of bad decisions and bad luck. Daniel was portrayed as also a decent guy, but somewhat arrogant.
Episode #1 was strictly from Johnny's point of view, and I assume the rest of the series follows that. This differs from the three Karate Kid movies featuring Daniel, where he was the center of that universe.
On the negative side, it had some cheesy and ultra-contrived elements. It also was the opposite of subtle.
Having spent a lot of time in the San Fernando Valley during my life, I enjoyed seeing the modern setting there.
They also introduce a skinny Mexican kid (whose look isn't too different than '80s Daniel LaRusso) who gets bullied by kids at his high school, and who becomes Johnny's student at the revived Cobra Kai.
The comments on episode #1 are mostly positive, and it seems to be well received, including by those who thought it would be full of fail prior to seeing it.
Patton Oswalt wrote a surprisingly glowing review for the whole series, make of that what you will.
Saw Episode 1 and am actually considering getting Youtube Red just to watch this.
i honestly feel like someday, im going to get youtube red, but there have to be some more bells and whistles to make it really worth the plunge for me. and i dont even know what they are, but im thinking like, foreign tv channel broadcast access, some sort of dvr function, so on.
First month of Youtube Red is free. Just sign up, watch the series and cancel before the month is up if you don't want to pay
https://seriestop.co/show/cobra-kai-...on/1/episode/3
Binged watched it today....... not aweful. But fuck........ does everything have to be turned into a fucking multi year series?
Youtube TV is the more complate cord-cutter solution from youtube, $40 a month, has all the standard cable channels (or a bunch of them anyway), dvr functions, available on tons of devices, and includes Youtube Red.Quote:
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https://tv.youtube.com/welcome/begin/
Just finished all 10 episodes. It was actually pretty decent. Nice surprise cameo at the end. Looking forward to seeing more of him in season 2.
:clap:popcorn
I watched the entire first season a couple days ago and enjoyed it.
It's nothing that amazing but has that nostalgic feeling for people who enjoyed the original film.
On imdb the series has a 9.3 rating which is too high imo.
That parody video put up a few years ago on youtube by some guy showing how Johnny was the real hero likely played a part in Youtube creating this series.
It actually has more similarity to the 2007 "Sweep the Leg" music video I posted earlier in this thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeerAndPoker
In that video, Johnny was middle-aged, poor, washed up, and constantly reliving his defeat against Daniel. He then fantasizes what it would have been like to have won at that tournament (in a scene containing most of the Karate Kid stars, at 2007 age, but made up to kinda look young again.)
At the end, Daniel accidentally his Johnny with his car.
^^^ - that too! Their have been other videos on the movie that I'm sure with the ability to track search activity they figured the show could work.
This is one huge advantage for anything youtube backs on their network/service is they know exactly how popular something can be based on search activity stats.
Was the cameo Martin Kove? I assume it has to be him. His career has been real active lately, been starring in a lot of things. Ironically, he has had a much more active movie career than Ralph Machio. Elisabeth Shoe has been spotty at best since the mid 90s.Quote:
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I might watch it, I dunno. There are so many great documentaries on right now it's tough to watch anything fiction.
Quote:
Originally Posted by DraymondWas the cameo Martin Kove?Quote:
Originally Posted by David USF
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I assume it has to be him. His career has been real active lately, been starring in a lot of things. Ironically, he has had a much more active movie career than Ralph Machio. Elisabeth Shoe has been spotty at best since the mid 90s.
I might watch it, I dunno. There are so many great documentaries on right now it's tough to watch anything fiction.
Okay, I'm actually into this now.
Watched episodes 1-4 and it's good.
The "mean girl" high school blond chick is way over the top, though. They could have created a "bitch" character without making her the pure embodiment of evil.
The main villain (the Asian high school bully -- who reminds me a lot of punks I've played at Commerce) is a lot better drawn.
Just finished watching. Definitely a lot better than I thought it would be. Although there is some pretty bad acting.
Ready for season 2!
I've watched 5 episodes, and I have to agree.Quote:
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There are some portions where the acting is bad (not by Zabka or Macchio), and other portions where the writing is pretty cheesy/bad.
Despite that, the underlying concept behind the show is good, and overall it's pretty well executed.
Famed '70s-'80s executive producer Stephen J. Cannell once described his training as a young man under older executive producer Roy Huggins. He said that Huggins instructed him to both read the scripts carefully and watch the finished product, and then "cut out the crap" wherever he noticed it. He said that lesson stuck with him over the years, especially during his work on The Rockford Files.
Cobra Kai definitely needs some crap cut out of it, but fortunately these tend to just be small segments. For the most part, it's interesting, fun to watch, and remains far more true to the source material than any of the awful Karate Kid sequels.
I watched the free episodes. They are entertaining after a few drinks, but you can easily see the production quality issues as well as acting issues. I think this will lose steam big time second year.
This would have been a homerun sequel if it had come out as a movie on the big screen, from Johnie's viewpoint. Remember Grand Torino? You could have Johnie as very politically incorrect Karate Instructor and mentoring a kid against Daniel LaRusso (who everyone hates now).
Oh well who cares.
Watched 2 episodes and really enjoyed it. Liking the way they switched the hero/villain role.