The Karate Kid

[a_person]

I doesn't help when people can book FOUR tickets for this.

I agree.

Thanks for finding and posting Steve9872, as always.

Andrews - I only need two too! And they were all gone!

[pcRock]

I've viewed loads of trailers for the Karate Kid, it looks like its going to be really good.

The trailers have reminded me of a TV series that I watched many years ago. It was called "Kung Fu" and was shown around 1972/73 I think.

Heck, was it that long ago? I bet loads of you weren't even born then!!

I thought it was a great series and it was very popular at that time. It followed the adventures of a half Chinese, half American called Kwai Chang Caine (David Carradine). He had been trained to be a Shaolin priest in China, but had been forced to flee the country and was travelling across the American Southwest in the 1870's. He got into loads of scrapes but because of his great skills in "Kung Fu" he was able to see his tormentors off with little trouble.

Caine was a sort of quietly spoken, humble, Clint Eastwood "Man with no name" character but with a stricter moral code. Sure, he could "kick six shades of purple" out of anyone who asked for trouble, but he only applied his martial art skills with extreme reluctance when all other avenues had failed. The series showed Caine's journey across America and flashed back to his previous life in China to the time when he was undergoing his Shaolin priest training.

I liked that kind of "bullied underdog overcomes adversity by facing and conquering his internal fears" feeling that the series had. It's pretty obvious that the film "The Karate Kid" is in the same vein (especially as the Kid is now learning Kung Fu - rather than Karate).

I used to watch that series as a kid. I wasn't aware that it was so old. It was broadcasted in my country in the 80s.

[a_person]

I don't want to set off a new notification on Free Films to annoy anybody but there are tickets available for all locations with steve9872's code that he posted yesterday for SFF. Code: 567554

Grab them while you can. I just did mine and anybody who wanted tickets for this.

[Preston1990]

Hi,

Just a quick heads up for any folks who are able to book Karate Kids tickets through SKY for Sun 20th June.

As at 13:55 the site shows some ticket availabilty for following locations:

Dublin, Worcester, Carlisle, Hartlepool and Thanet (which has only 1 ticket)

Hope this helps someone.

[Beate]

Does anyone know how long this film is? Can't find the info on imdb.

[AYBG]

Just under 2hrs 20mins according to the bbfc
http://www.bbfc.co.uk/website/Classifie ... enDocument

[SimonV]

Yahoo say 2hrs 6mins

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810127520/details

[Beate]

Geez, thanks.

[raza12]

Quick heads up for people with SKY... There would appear to be more tickets avialable for The Karate Kid. I just managed to get 4 tickets for Leicester for me and family after them being sold out for a while.

You need to be a Sky Movies subscriber but if you don't have Sky Movies you can use this link :)

http://mysky.sky.com/portal/site/skycom ... id=6038010

Good luck and enjoy!

P.s. Kinda new to the site so forgive me if i am not allowed to post this here for some reason. Im am simply trying my best to help contribute :)

[andrews]

The remake of ‘80s favourite 'The Karate Kid' is not even out yet in the UK, but the film's bosses are already planning a sequel. (source: yahoo)

The remake, which stars Will Smith's son Jaden and Jackie Chan, went straight to number one at the US box office. And director Harald Zwart has revealed that a sequel has been discussed.
He said, “I personally think it's now so much on its own two feet, given the success, that it would be interesting to see where we could take it without ever thinking about the old ones.

“Every now and then we discussed it. But the truth is, when you see Jackie and Jaden, they're like a really good film couple. On and off camera, I was watching how they were pulling practical jokes on each other and throwing rocks in the lake, and you just want to keep looking at them because they have a great dynamic and great humor. We have just been playing with a few different ideas, but we haven't landed on anything at the moment."

Karate Kid is released on July 30th.