[kranskregyan]

All Yellow people are the same. Am I right?

[DailyRingtone]

New? It's already out on DVD and Blueray.

Remember when it used to take a year for a movie to hit video? And then it would be another year before broadcast rights could be obtained for it to be shown on television?

[bromgeksan]

Shocker: Conservative prefers the status quo.

[Yfclciak]

I watched both KK and KK2 on two plane rides the last few weeks -- yes, they were long plane rides... KK2 was a straight remake of KK. I would have liked to see them break new ground with KK2 and to call it KFK. Maybe the intended audience was kids nowadays.

[Daleman1984]

Hey, I watched KK2. Apparently, SpencerH did too.

[Eujacwta]

Let's not talk about that version.

[Ngwkgczx]

Obviously, it's called Karate Kid to increase market appeal or whatever PR folks call it. Name recognition and all that.

While we're asking questions about movies, can anybody explain Mad Max to me? I mean the original 1979 movie, where Mel Gibson's 21 and looks closer to 17. It says on the Netflix jacket that it's "post-apocalyptic," the kiss-ass documentary on the disc calls it "post-apocalyptic," but to all appearances it takes place in a world barely distinguishable from our own. There's no reference to nuclear war, zombie/virus infestations, or anything else that would qualify as "apocalyptic." The countryside looks normal, the buildings are all intact, there's just one homoerotic biker gang challenging the mildly authoritarian-flavored police, and they get away with it because there are lawyers in this horrid dystopia who get their clients off the hook. They have rule of law, FFS! I got it expecting a silly, overblown weird-society-in-the-desert movie like the two sequels, but instead there's just an hour and ten minutes of drama and disjointed biker shenanigans followed by maybe fifteen minutes of actual vengeful rampage.

[meridiasas]

Yeah, I saw the two sequels, and I saw the original expecting more of the same. I was thinking maybe the villain would be a transvestite with a colorful name like "Mistress Pain," who rode around on a rainbow scooter killing people with a hybrid sword/power drill. Instead you get "Toecutter," who has a stupid name and hairdo, somewhat less excruciating camp-ness than the Great Humungus, and that's it. Boooring.

[bWn4h8QD]

Hey, I watched KK2. Apparently, SpencerH did too.

I have seen KK2 (I think) but I havent seen the latest chinese flavoured version (just pieces of the commercials).