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Karate Kid 3 and other poor martial arts films

  • 30-12-2017 3:16pm
    #1
    BuilderPlumber
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    I remember watching Karate Kid 3 and thinking it was one of the worst films ever made. In a year when there was a lot of good quality action films like Batman, Licence to Kill and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, KK3 stood out like a sore thumb. Really awful film and one of 100s of awful martial arts movies of its era. KK3 had little action and little invention.

    The problem with the Karate Kid is all of them were the same and all were pretty poor. Other martial arts films then may have more action but had wooden acting and no story.

    If one was to compile a list of the 100 worst films ever made, one would have no problem compiling it based on 98 martial arts films and the 2 50 Shades of Grey films.


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  • #2
    Icaras
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    Karate Kid 2?


  • #3
    BuilderPlumber
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    Icaras wrote: »
    Karate Kid 2?

    Definitely Karate Kid 3 from 1989. The second one was bad but not as bad as the third. Did not watch the 4th from 1994 but have heard it was even worse again.


  • #4
    Ralf and Florian
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    None can be as lame as the remake of the first with Will Smiths young fella. He looks about five in it.


  • #5
    Harry Palmr
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    Anything with Michael Dudikoff in it.


  • #6
    Pelvis
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    Ralf and Florian wrote: »
    None can be as lame as the remake of the first with Will Smiths young fella. He looks about five in it.

    That's a decent remake tbh.

    Let's face it, the karate kid was "of it's time". I don't even consider it a martial arts movie.


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  • #7
    BuilderPlumber
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    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Anything with Michael Dudikoff in it.

    He made some awful martial arts film. He also did one of those biased Vietnam war films called Platoon Leader directed by Aaron Horris, the brother of another mass producer of biased Vietnam war films and martial arts nonsense, Chuck Norris.


  • #8
    BuilderPlumber
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    Pelvis wrote: »
    That's a decent remake tbh.

    Let's face it, the karate kid was "of it's time". I don't even consider it a martial arts movie.

    They were of their time but the third sequel was even bad in its time.


  • #9
    BuilderPlumber
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    Golan Globus aka Cannon were responsible for a lot of the martial arts/biased Vietnam film junk of the 1980s. Chuck Norris of course was in many of woeful films. That company also made those Ninja films.


  • #10
    Ipso
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    Has anyone seen Showdown in Little Tokyo recently? I wonder how it aged, I used to think it was great.


  • #11
    Agent Coulson
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    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Anything with Michael Dudikoff in it.

    You leave The American Ninja alone.


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  • #12
    umopepisdn
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    China O'Brien starring Cynthia Rothrock ...it did not age well


  • #13
    Optimalprimerib
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,885 ✭✭✭Optimalprimerib


    I always thought the relationship between Mr miyagi and the kid was a bit.... Wierd


  • #14
    2smiggy
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    big trouble in little china was not as good as i remembered it as a young fellow :p:pac:


  • #15
    Dravokivich
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    Hi op, karate kid is not a martial arts movie in the same way warm bodies is not a horror movie.

    And big trouble in little China is still as fun to watch now, just as when I was a kid. Good'ol Jack Burton.


  • #16
    2smiggy
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    Dravokivich wrote: »
    Hi op, karate kid is not a martial arts movie in the same way warm bodies is not a horror movie.

    And big trouble in little China is still as fun to watch now, just as when I was a kid. Good'ol Jack Burton.

    ah ya it is still fun and watchable, just not the fantastic movie I remembered when i saw it first. Not sure what age i was !!


  • #17
    BuilderPlumber
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    umopepisdn wrote: »
    China O'Brien starring Cynthia Rothrock ...it did not age well

    I remember that vaguely. There were 2 of them. China was a cop with martial arts skills IIRC. I remember it being more fun than those Karate Kid sequels. Wasn't the first one directed by the same person who directed Bruce Lee's films?


  • #18
    darkdubh
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    Remo Armed And Dangerous. Another lame mid 80's Kung-Fu flick that bombed at the box office.


  • #19
    smurf492
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 647 ✭✭✭smurf492


    Jeff Speakman... The Perfect Weapon... Remember Sky rated it 11 way back in the day which meant could only be shown after 11pm


  • #20
    RainMakerToo
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    darkdubh wrote: »
    Remo Armed And Dangerous. Another lame mid 80's Kung-Fu flick that bombed at the box office.

    Remo was supposed to be a pilot for a TV show that never got made. Actually I liked Remo! More an 80s comedy/action movie than a martial arts one.

    My vote goes to "No Retreat, No Surrender" - sort of a Karate Kid clone, but instead of a Mr Miyagi, the lead character receives instruction from .... the ghost of Bruce Lee! (also has JCVD as the bad guy in one of his first roles)


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