WSo8M: (2) The Karate Kid v. (15) Pee-Wee's Big Adventure

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Wrapping up the first-round contests with the Lacey Underall Division, All-Valley Regionals:

(2) The Karate Kid


(15) Pee-Wee's Big Adventure

[Benjamin Grimm]

Didn't see either, so I'm not voting, but I have to imagine that Karate Kid is the better of these two movies.

[metirish]

Got to go with Karate Kid , I remember liking it a whole lot.

[Guest sharpie]

Pee-Wee all the way. I can't for the life of me understand the appeal of The Karate Kid. Then again, I wasn't 10 years old when it was released so maybe that's it. Of course, I also wasn't 5 when Pee-Wee was released but I liked it a lot more.

[Edgy MD]

Pee-Wee is the only Tim Burton movie I like without reservation.

Vote Pee-Wee.

[Guest themetfairy]

I graduated high school with Ralph Macchio, so I have a soft spot for Karate Kid. Gotta vote for that one.

[HahnSolo]

This is the first matchup of films I really don't like. No vote for me.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I like Pee-Wee, let me say that.

But Karate Kid is miles better than it gets credit for. Sure it's the very definition of the cliched sports movie, and it traffics in all sorts of hokey stereotypes and comically overdone villianry and terrible music and stuff. But even with all those strikes against it, it's still a sweet, funny and inspiring movie that you can't stop watching or quoting.

Perhaps it has something to do with Elisabeth Shue in her gym shorts.

[Edgy MD]

Two things I'm not down with there:

• "Cruel Summer" is excellent and raises the rest of the music out of the crappy field.


• Ralph Macchio is tough to like and, when he sort of asks for it (like dousing Zabka as he rolls his reefer on the can), I'm sort of not rooting for him.

I guess I should accept that stupid teenagers sometimes make their own trouble --- or just get over it with the thrill of Miyagi's asskicking rescue --- but what sort of asswad does that shit while dressed as a shower?

[metirish]

I remember being stunned at the time the movie came out to learn that Ralph Macchio was more than twice my age.

[Edgy MD]

It's Elisabeth Shue vs. Elizabeth Daily in Fman's pants.

[Willets Point]

Edgy DC wrote: It's Elisabeth Shue vs. Elizabeth Daily in Fman's pants.

Don't make wanking allusions in a Pee-Wee thread, seriously.

When I find it tough to chose between two movies, I throw my vote to the one that's way behind. So Pee-Wee, you owe me.

Edited October 30, 2008 by Guest

[dgwphotography]

JCL said it better than I could.

Wax on. Wax off.

[Vic Sage]

I cannot understand those that decry the sentimentality of ET, and then turn around and vote for KARATE KID over the surreal delight of PEE WEE.

And don't give me any "but, but" excuses, cuz everybody i know has a big "but".

[Edgy MD]

Um, agreed.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

but, but...

We're not talking sentiment, we're talking sentiment plus karate.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

I never "got" Pee-Wee.

Karate Kid is as subtle as a sledgehammer, but the iconic stand-on-one-leg-with-arms-in-the-air thing is kinda cool!

[soupcan]

Sweep the leg.

Cobra kai!

[Willets Point]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: but, but... We're not talking sentiment, we're talking sentiment plus karate.

And Pat Morita's role of a lifetime.

[Vic Sage]

but, but... We're not talking sentiment, we're talking sentiment plus karate.

for a superior "sentiment + karate" combo, I recommend DRAGON:THE BRUCE LEE STORY.

But PEE WEE has no corollary... unless you consider the movie that Ionesco may have written and Bunuel may have directed, if they had decided to collaborate on a remake of THE BICYCLE THIEF.

[Willets Point]

Tell 'em Large Marge sent ya!

[soupcan]

My aunt played the gypsy fortune teller, Madame Ruby, in Pee-Wee.

[Frayed Knot]

Vic Sage wrote: I cannot understand those that decry the sentimentality of ET, and then turn around and vote for KARATE KID over the surreal delight of PEE WEE. And don't give me any "but, but" excuses, cuz everybody i know has a big "but".

And once again a thread leads to Vic's butt

[Theoldmole]

I've watched both of these recently with my grandson. Pee Wee was a true original.

[Fman99]

I'm voting for Elisabeth Shue here, as my wife puts off a very Shue-like vibe.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

KK 17, PW 7