Memories of the Karate Kid

On Saturday night after going to the greatness which is Camkong, Vero and I decided to go to Wal-Mart to see if we could find the Karate Kid in their bargain bins.

Have you ever gone to Wal-Mart to REALLY look at their movies? It is solid goodness people. I even found all three seasons of Sealab 2021 for $20 each. Arrested Development – 2/$35.

But the real winner was the fact that I found The Octagon starring Chuck Norris for $3.33. Now, I have not yet seen this film but I remember Jennie telling me about it and it’s Chuck Norris goodness – full of him fighting an evil twin brother?

We also found the Karate Kid collection which includes all three plus The Next Karate Kid which I can only imagine sucks. This weekend was spent reliving grand moments while watching Karate Kid 1, 2, and 3.

I remember the first time I saw the Karate Kid – it was my birthday and my parents rented, RENTED a VCR along with the Karate Kid. I can’t recall if there were friends over watching this with me, but all I remember is watching this movie over and over again. I’m not sure if we had this VCR all weekend long, but it was a sweet piece of technology. I could watch a movie over and over again, and better yet, I could rewind the best friggin’ action scene in the whole wide world, the crane kick at the end of the movie. PAF! Aww man, that’s gotta hurt Cobra Kai.

Anyhow, Part 1 & 2 were excellent, but Part 3 kind of fell apart and I’m thankful the series ended with that (although I have yet to see The Next Karate Kid).

I was watching the special features of the Karate Kid, and the martial arts master – Pat Johnson – was seen with a The Octagon t-shirt, no doubt from actually working on this film.

Is this some weird freaky coincidence that I should buy these two movies, but there was an unknown connection between the two of them all along?

Strange.

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As I was sick during the weekend, I never got around to writing my all-around goodness report on the Sam Roberts concert. Stay tuned when I feel inspired!