A couple of days ago while going through the DVD section in Carrefour, I came accross the DVD set of the Karate Kid trilogy.
I was swept away to my childhood in one of those very sweet flashbacks. I remembered the very first time I went to the cinema in Zimbabwe to watch Karate Kid 1, how moved I was by it and how much I loved it.
I must have seen that movie a 100 times and loved it every time.
I’ve even watched it a number of times in Italian on RaiUno not having to understand the dialogue because I already knew it by heart.
It even made me start taking Karate lessons, lol.
I also remembered watching the 2 other sequels some years later in one of the summers I spent in Pakistan. It was so great going on with the story and following Daniel and Mr. Miyagi.
I also used to love playing the Karate Kid computer game on my Commodore 64. Many long hours and burning red eyes went into that one.
So with all that flashing in front of my eyes, I just had to jump on the set and buy it right away 🙂
I started watching the trilogy again last night and WOW, I love it.
It looks so cool. You’d never think this was over 10 years old if you didn’t know it. Very good stuff.
I feel like a kid again, lol.
I must be the biggest Karate Kid fan ever 🙂
Karate Kid (at least the first one, which is all I remember) is a *great* movie.
May I ask what you did for a summer in Pakistan?
Yeah the first one is the best, it’s a classic.
The second one is closely behind, and the third is the third 😛
As for summers in Pakistan. Well we used to go there to spend the summer vacation with my dad who worked in the Tunisian embassy there in Islamabad.
I spent most of my time watching movies, listening to music, playing computer games or zipping around Islamabad on my bike.
What were you in Pakistan for?
(Karate Kid is a great movie.)
That’s where they had the song “Eye of the Tiger”, right? LoL! If you loved the movie, I can almost guarantee that that song must’ve been your anthem like so many other boys at the time. hahaha! My older brother used to play that song non-stop.
Actually “Eye of the Tiger” was from the “Rocky” soundtrack which came out 8 years earlier.
Anyway, I do love that song, it’s a classic, and I love the “Rocky” movies, especially the first ones.
Oops, sorry ’bout that mistake. 😛 These movies were a bit before my generation, so they all seem alike to me. But don’t you think it’s interesting that all these motivational type movies came out around those times? Karate Kid, Rocky, Blood Sport, etc. I don’t remember much, just that damn song my brother recorded like a fifty times on a cassette. haha!
Well yeah, that period witnessed a lot of motivational type movies. I guess some of it was due to the whole cold war thingie going on and them trying to get people’s spirits high.
I can imagine how you feel about that song, lol. I’ve been through some similar situations.
The funniest was many years ago when this nice song by a Tunisian singer was released and my aunt got addicted to it. She recorded the song back to back on a tape and kept it going on forever. Staying over at my grandparent’s place for the weekend became a nightmare, she’d drive me mad with that song. I hated it and truly hated her for it.