Speaker 1: Carl Brager know you're listening to the Christian O Carl's
Speaker 1: Show podcast. I asked Jack yesterday. Obviously very hard sometimes
Speaker 1: sort of describing what the eighties was like to someone
Speaker 1: who's under thirty five. It was a very strange decade
Speaker 1: when you look back on it, But when we were
Speaker 1: living in it and more excitingly growing up in it,
Speaker 1: it was really exciting. It was amazing. It was a
Speaker 1: changing world. And one of the big movies of the
Speaker 1: eighties was The Karate Kid. And we're doing the letters
Speaker 1: Jay and Kay in our eighties out of the eighties today.
Speaker 1: I love The Karate Kid came out in nineteen eighty four, Patsy,
Speaker 1: Did you go and see this at all? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I loved it, loved it.
Speaker 1: Did your brothers all practice the crane kick on each other?
Speaker 2: Wax on, wax off?
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's get into it. What did you
Speaker 1: make of nineteen eighty four's The Karate Kid?
Speaker 3: Jack, There's a lot to like about The Karate Kid. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's a lot to like about The Karate Kid. Love
Speaker 3: Larusso's relationship with Miagi.
Speaker 1: That was a mentor that was great. You know, we
Speaker 1: got nominated for Oscar Pat Moriarty was he actually played
Speaker 1: mister Miyaki got nominated for an Oscar for that role.
Speaker 3: Oh really, because actually one of my points against Karate
Speaker 3: Kid was Miagi wasn't a great fighter. Him jumping the
Speaker 3: fence to save Laruso and apparently kicking butt against all
Speaker 3: the bad guys. He was so slow. He was such
Speaker 3: a bad fighter.
Speaker 1: What he was he was effective a fight comm ended
Speaker 1: with one telling blow. It was the worst movement from
Speaker 1: a karatea. Okay, he's an old dude as well, he's
Speaker 1: a janitor. Yeah.
Speaker 3: It was so unconvincing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, it's a yoga character. This is mental.
Speaker 3: But even Yoda, I guess could use the force and
Speaker 3: make things.
Speaker 1: Like because he was a little green little fellow, you know,
Speaker 1: he's not roundhousing people.
Speaker 3: For the most part, I did like Miyagi though, love Miyagi,
Speaker 3: loved Laruso. My problem with the film way way, way
Speaker 3: too long. And I find this with a lot of
Speaker 3: eighties films that you have me go back and watch.
Speaker 3: They did not know how to edit.
Speaker 1: Editors didn't come along to the late nineties. You go
Speaker 1: back and watch an eighties moving now and find this
Speaker 1: a lot when I go to my kids, it's like,
Speaker 1: let's go back and watch it, and even I'm going,
Speaker 1: but every scene goes on too long.
Speaker 3: The first scene is four minutes. The opening titles is
Speaker 3: four minutes of them.
Speaker 1: How I reach you sound like you watch too much TikTok.
Speaker 1: You can't concentrate for four minutes. If you just said
Speaker 1: like twenty two minutes, four minutes isn't that long.
Speaker 3: It's four minutes of them driving from New Jersey to California.
Speaker 3: That's all shots of them along the.
Speaker 1: Road we think is happening.
Speaker 3: Come on, So I had to fast forward already in
Speaker 3: the first four minutes.
Speaker 1: And do you know what they should do? They should
Speaker 1: do a millennial cuts of eighties because there's lots of
Speaker 1: good stuff in the good stuff, but you're right, it's
Speaker 1: padded out with a lot of just nonsense.
Speaker 3: Full runtime, guess the full run time.
Speaker 1: I'd say probably something like one fifty.
Speaker 3: Two hours, seven minutes.
Speaker 1: Oh that's all right, that no, that's agree on this
Speaker 1: though you cannot. You cannot edit down the All Valley
Speaker 1: Karate Tournament. O.
Speaker 3: My number one place to edit was the tournament.
Speaker 1: The show.
Speaker 3: We know he's going to fight.
Speaker 1: One of those chilling lines in a movie.
Speaker 3: I agree. Great scene when we finally got there him
Speaker 3: Verus Johnny Lawrence was great. We knew he was going
Speaker 3: to fight him.
Speaker 1: What about this tournament? Oh my god, just hearing that
Speaker 1: makes me I'm the cinema going no.
Speaker 3: No, I'm sweet te lict.
Speaker 1: I got a problem with the problem with that.
Speaker 3: Wait, I agree with you, Normous. The fight between LaRusso
Speaker 3: and Lawrence is great. Why did we have to see
Speaker 3: the whole tournament, the qualifying rounds, the semi final four
Speaker 3: play just say, just make up a bit of dialogue
Speaker 3: that says he got into the final. We didn't need
Speaker 3: to see.
Speaker 1: Every every cranking up is cranking up the tension, tension, tension. No,
Speaker 1: he's going to fight at the Yeah, of course.
Speaker 3: We know it.
Speaker 1: But it's not just about the destination. What a journey.
Speaker 3: It had a lot of potential. Karate kid just needed
Speaker 3: to be a little more succinct and keep everybody in cage.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this. Did you like Daniel LaRussa.
Speaker 1: I couldn't stand him. I hated him. Actually generally hoped
Speaker 1: that he got beaten in the final.
Speaker 3: I thought his jokes were lame, a whining little key
Speaker 3: but I liked him.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, I couldn't stand him. I wanted Lawrence.
Speaker 1: I want him to be beaten Mercisley at the end.
Speaker 3: This is the last thing I realized watching Karate Kid.
Speaker 3: I know you did Karate as a junior, Yes, idiot.
Speaker 3: I always thought Christian like knows so much about Karate's
Speaker 3: always telling me like, tay means hand and kara means
Speaker 3: empty and it's the way of the empty hand. Everything
Speaker 3: you've ever told me about Karate has lifted direct line
Speaker 3: from line about the film.
Speaker 1: It was an impressional more movie on me. I just
Speaker 1: paid attention to the age of eleven to the Karate Kid.
Speaker 1: So Mark's out of ten.
Speaker 3: If it had been edited swiftly nine out of ten.
Speaker 3: But sadly it's a four out of ten.
Speaker 1: Woul you know it was too boring.
Speaker 3: I kept getting up and doing other things and then coming.
Speaker 1: Back to watch it, so you would have missed key scenes.
Speaker 3: I could hear him in the background while I did
Speaker 3: the dishes and that sort of thing my phone.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you just Chris like Cobra Kai loves It
Speaker 2: got me into it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good show, isn't it.
Speaker 2: I love Johnny, the guy that plays Joey Lawrence. Johnny,
Speaker 2: my wife got a crush on him. Yeah, he still
Speaker 2: Isn't it very attractive?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 3: I would try I probably would try Cobra Kai because
Speaker 3: it's recent, you'd like it, and they've learned how to
Speaker 3: edit and make things compelling.
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