Karate Kid!
I recently rented KARATE KID and KARATE KID II to show to my children, as part of a father’s responsibility to transmit the culture to the next generation. (I also most recently showed them a Marx Brothers movie, A DAY AT THE RACES.)
The Karate Kid movies were just better than I remembered, and this is despite that I had fond memories of them. Rather than praise them to you, let me link to a review I found over at John Nolte’s "Big Hollywood" website {"At 25 Karate Kid still Packs a Punch.")
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lgrin/2009/06/24/at-25-the-karate-kid-still-packs-a-punch/
I tell you I was shocked to learn that the suits wanted to remove the scene were a drunk Mr. Miyagi tells of his wife’s death while he served in the war. That is the best scene in the film.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
