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Could've easily been a karate kid remake

posted 11 years ago by JFarnsy
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Don't get me wrong I like this movie but if you watch this you'll see the backbones of this and the karate kid are very similar! Lets take a look shall we??

>Poor kid moves to new town (Daniel La Russo/Jake Tyler)
>Poor kid meets hot girl (Ali Mills/Baja Miller)
>Hot girl has Jerk boyfriend (Johnny Lawrence/Ryan McCarthy)
>Jerk boyfriend is a skilled fighter (Johnny's karate/Ryan's mixed martial arts)
>Poor kid gets into fight with jerk boyfriend and gets his ass kicked (Beach party/mansion party)
>Poor kid learns martial arts from a foreign born teacher (Miyagi/Roqua)
>In the climax Poor kid has gained new skills and does well in the fighting tournament (karate all valley championships/beatdown)
>Poor kid suffers injury and has to go sit out to recover (Daniels leg/Jakes ribs)
> Poor kid gets into fight with jerk boyfriend who beat the hell out of them early in the film
>Through determination and new skill poor kid wins and wins the heart of hot girl as well as jerk boyfriends respect.

Just my 2 cents

[–] robl0051 11 years ago

My roommate just showed me this for the first time, and this was my exact thought!

[–] BigRich 11 years ago

More like a remake of No Retreat, No Surrender: http://youtu.be/Ua8Tgv99Ljc?t=37m19s

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[–] spookyrat1 9 years ago

This movie is certainly more than a little derivative and a number of templates have been used in constructing it.🐭

[–] MovieBuffMarine 9 years ago

Hell yeah! I enjoyed this one more that the actual Karate Kid re-make from 2010. Since they went to China for that one, the title has become misleading as it is NOT about Karate!

[–] Prismark10 9 years ago

It certainly was not very original with a mixture of Karate Kid, Rocky and lots of other similarly themed films.

Its that man again!!

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[–] Dan_Garten 8 years ago

Yeah.

[–] ipacac22 8 years ago

Not to mention both Ali and Baja are blonde and Jake and Daniel are brunettes.

[–] rammur65 8 years ago

Actually inspired by karate kid so yuo were not far off even the very last fight to where the villain congrats the guys who wins. not 100% if thats on the normal cut but it was on the extended dvd i watched.