Strike first strike hard no mercy movie#

I don't think he believes that his methods create 'winners', I think he just enjoys taking vulnerable, impressionable kids and turning them into violent thugs. Kreese might be a troubled man, it's not like we've gotten that much insight into his past, but I think he knows his teachings are wrong. Their strength is in the sneak attack, the low blow.īut I think the real meaning of Cobra Kai is deeper and far worse than even that. Cobras kill with venom, though, and you see that Kreese taught his students to win at all costs, i.e. Cobras can kill you with one bite! So cool. At first glance, it's the kind of edgy, cool guy name a guy like Kreese would choose. It recently dawned on me that Cobra Kai (the dojo) is aptly named. It was a fun watch, especially as I'd just recently watched all three Karate Kid movies. Wonder if that's just a coincidence or that's why Zabka picked that as his character's favorite movie.

Strike first strike hard no mercy movie#

Figure these guys were probably friends having trained for and shot the movie together, so there was probably a bit of a real element of goodbye there.Įdit2 - apparently he was also in Iron Eagle. Although her PA announcement would definitely have had me thinking 'active shooter' not 'karate brawl' in real life.Įdit - yes, that was really him not long before he died.

I do feel like they made her character a little over the top nasty / mean but it's Karate Kid.gotta have villains, I guess. Her character is basically the Clueless archetype of shallow rich white girl so it was kind of funny seeing her in a completely different role. My kid likes the Disney shows (Jessie and Bunkd) where Peyton List is one of the main characters and we watch those reruns quite a bit. She may have been my favorite character in season 2 Ok this an old post, but I have to correct you here. Cobra Kai would annihilate Miyagi Dojo, because they're learning to fight and Miyagi Dojo aren't. Also I do not approve of the fact that the sign you're doing Evil Karate is that it looks even vaguely like athletic training. Side note: karate is a big deal in this show, they need to start doing the karate scenes better. The whole point is really supposed to be 'it doesn't matter who is better at karate' (Johnny, Johnny is better at karate. I don't care who would win in a fight (Johnny, it's Johnny) and they should stop teasing grand confrontations because they don't have the choreography or stunt work to pay them off. Johnny and Daniel are more interesting paired up and I hope that's where the story is going. I don't know, they just kind of ignore that to pair people off and do jealousy plotlines. There's a lot of money on the table in this narrative to talk about things like class (sam vs tori, the fact that Daniel is rich and can afford to undercut Johnny), toxic masculinity (maybe delve into why Hawk is like this), or even the way veterans like Kreese are treated.

They don't have any interesting character conflicts, and the most interesting development for Robbie of 'goes to live with his dad' doesn't seem to go anywhere (did he even do it?). Robbie and Sam are both non-starters, and the show suffers from focusing on them as much as it does. Miguel (my favourite character from the original) doesn't really get anything to do, which is disappointing after his 'I'm an evil guy now' reveal from Season 1.

Hawk is now literally just 'the evil one'. The narrative is spread too thin now, with a bunch of different kids that we're supposed to give a fuck about and two separate, equally awful comic relief characters. It focused far too heavily on the soap opera elements and, unlike season 1, didn't really feel like it had a message it was trying to get across other than 'karate cults are a bad idea'. I finished season 2 and I agree with the general consensus that it was pretty weak.