June 18, 2025
Fandom Round-Up: Karate Kid Gets a Glow-Up, Gotham Gets Gritty, and Golf Gets Laughs with Owen Wilson's Stick on Apple TV
Episode Summary:
In this Fandom Round-Up episode of The Fandom Portals Podcast, Aaron and Brash return with a fun, insightful dive into everything they’ve been watching, streaming, or rewatching this week. From their mixed thoughts on the TikTok-styled Karate Kid: Legends reboot to the gritty brilliance of The Penguin, they cover what’s working in modern streaming (Apple TV+ aesthetics!) and what isn’t (Cobra Kai’s gang wars in LA, anyone?). Plus, a fiery debate on digital ownership vs cinema loyalty, platform pricing quirks, and what makes Prime or Apple the best bang for your movie-loving buck.
Topics:
- Karate Kid: Legends – Swipe cuts, Jackie Chan’s return, and Daniel vs Johnny legacy moments
- Why Cobra Kai may have overstayed its welcome
- The Penguin series – Colin Farrell and Cristin Milioti dominate Gotham
- Streaming platforms compared: Apple TV+ vs Prime Video rentals and UX
- DC vs Marvel: Game quality and live-action future
- Rediscovering Gotham Knights (and finally finding a co-op partner!)
- Netflix recs: Tires, Ghosts (US), and Man on the Inside
- Moviegoing vs digital convenience: the cinema support dilemma
- Sweet Tooth: Supporting new IPs and loving original stories
- Sneak peek: Waterworld episode coming soon!
Key Takeaways:
- Karate Kid: Legends is flashy, fun, but formulaic—targeting a younger TikTok generation with swipe edits and digital flair.
- The Penguin captures Gotham’s gritty underbelly like never before—Colin Farrell is unrecognizable, and Cristin Milioti delivers a powerhouse performance.
- Apple TV+ is dominating with high-production, short-form prestige TV (no, this isn’t an ad—just facts).
- Prime is still the go-to for digital ownership and rare films, despite awkward rental pricing.
- DC's animated shows remain top-tier, but Marvel currently rules the video game space with more immersive titles.
- The nostalgia train has hit Cobra Kai hard—maybe it’s time to let the dojo rest.
- Digital convenience is real—but if you love a film, support it at the cinema when you can.
Quotes:
“If you’re that excited about a movie—go to the cinema. That’s how we get more original stories.”
“Jackie Chan plays a funny, modern Mr. Miyagi—but with the same wisdom and way more jokes.”
“Ben Wang is Gen Z’s Daniel LaRusso—charming, cool, and full of fight.”
“Apple’s visual production is chef’s kiss—every show looks like a poster.”
“Nightwing is my main. Red Hood’s yours? Let’s finally play Gotham Knig
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00:00 - What Are You Watching?
00:23 - Stick: Owen Wilson's Golf Dramedy
04:14 - Apple TV's Quality Productions
05:54 - Digital vs Cinema Experience
09:51 - Karate Kid: Legends Review
19:29 - The Penguin and Batman Universe
22:42 - DC vs Marvel Games Discussion
27:25 - Weekly Recommendations
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I don't know what have you been watching?
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What have you been watching?
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What have you been watching?
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No?
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what have you been into?
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What have you been into?
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What have you been into?
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What have I been into?
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What have you been into?
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I've been into a few, actually I've been into.
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I'll still be watching Motobot that's coming out weekly, which I'm now really frustrated.
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I did that because I can't just watch it one go.
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But I'll be watching Stick, a new show with Owen Wilson.
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He's a former pro golfer like a really like.
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They call them the sticks, like there's your really good pro golfers and then there's your sticks and your sticks are you like your best of the best golfers?
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Yep, he was considered a stick and then had a.
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I won't try to spoil anything.
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There was an issue.
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There was something really bad happened in his life and then he eventually gets divorced with his wife, leaves him, he's in the dumps scraping to get by and then he comes across a kid at driving range who just absolutely knocks these balls out of the park and he sort of bets him that he can't hit different markers and he hits those markers square on like bullseye and uh, actually absolute prodigy by the looks of it.
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So he's uh thought this could be my way of moving on and getting over it, by coaching this kid to become better than what I was.
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But in doing that he also has falls into old habits of like he's scamming people because that's how he's been getting by by scamming people.
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So so far it's been really good.
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Four episodes out so far and yeah, it's been pretty entertaining.
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So far I like it.
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Though I reckon if you're into sort of comic sports movies like Ted Lasso, I wouldn't say this is Ted Lasso.
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I still think Ted Lasso is probably better than this, because Ted Lasso is one of my favorite shows of all time, but is one of my favorite shows of all time.
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But if you like similar, like those kind of shows about sports that are also a bit of a comedy, I'd definitely say hit this one up Very cool.
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Yeah, it's created by, or the director on it is Jason Keller and he was behind Machine Gun Preacher with Gerard Butler.
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It also started.
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The young guy in it is Peter Dager and he hasn't been in that much Peter Dager, I haven't seen him in that much no, peter Dager, is that the?
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that's the young boy.
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Oh yeah, no, yeah, he hasn't been in much of that, but because what's his name, people might know him Mark Maron.
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He was in the Women of Wrestling show with Brie Brie community, alison Brie.
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Oh right, yeah, yeah, and he was really good in that too.
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If anyone hasn't watched Women in Wrestling, that was a really good show.
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That's a really good show as well yeah, mark Maron also plays the snake in Bad Guys for any of those people that have children watch kids movies.
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But yeah, he is he like the mentor.
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Mark Maron, does he play like the mentor character?
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No, so he was like the mentor character.
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He was also a girlfriend.
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I believe he was also the the caddy or the the caddy for the main character oh, for owen wilson's character.
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Yep, price is his name, price cahill, yeah so he was, I think, at one point.
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Because at one point um it suggested oh, why don't you caddy for the kid?
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Again?
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He's like no, I'm done carrying people's clubs around.
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So at some point he was probably don't you caddy for the kid again?
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He's like no, I'm done carrying people's clubs around.
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So at some point he was probably sort of mentor caddy for Owen Wilson's character, before he stopped golfing.
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Yeah, I'll tell you what Brash Apple has been coming out with some pretty like really clean cut shows lately.
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I've noticed throughout their production they're like 8 to 10 episodes, really tight storytelling and they actually just look beautiful.
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There's nothing rough around the edges with them, yeah just like Ted Lasso shrinking with Harrison Ford and Jason Segel.
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That was really good.
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Is Severance on Apple?
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Sure is yeah, yeah, Severance.
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And then, yeah, you've got now Stick Murderbot, which is on Apple as well, yeah.
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And you know what, they're actually pulling in some pretty big stars to come into their short TV series.
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I think everybody's kind of attracted to this new space for streaming entertainment and even like I'm looking at some of the posters now for some of these shows and they're just like, they're really freaking beautiful, like everything from the production to the writing to the storytelling to the actual poster.
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art is really gorgeous on Apple Plus right now and we're not sponsored, huh yeah we're actually saying this, because it actually, like, really looks that way to be honest, I pretty much have every single well in Australia, like for Australia at least, every single um video streaming service.
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Just with that, I do have to say sort of still, sort of prime is sort of my favorite Cause I think prime has access to, I think like it's easier access to a wide, wider range of things, or for me and my what I like as well, cause I'm not afraid to buy a movie and I find it easier to buy movies on through Prime than it is anything else, and usually like, if you can't, if there's not any streaming sites here in Australia for us, you can usually buy it on Prime, which is what I do.
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I do have to say that Prime, their rental, is fucking.
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Yeah, I think they're actually pushing for the digital ownership across rather than the rental, because, yeah, you can't really.
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Renting on Apple is a lot cheaper than renting on Prime.
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Hmm, yeah, yeah, because like renting on Apple is like five bucks and then the movie's like 24 bucks, whereas like on Prime, and then the movie's like 24 bucks, whereas like on Prime it's like 15, 20 bucks to rent it and then like 24, 25 bucks to buy it.
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You're like I might as well just buy it.
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Yeah, that's exactly it and I think that's exactly what they want their customers to do.
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But yeah, for me I'm always reluctant to buy digital media because I'm a guy that likes to consume heaps and heaps of special features and features and there's only some digital content that have those extra features like the old dvds does.
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And I haven't dipped my toe into actually having a full-on digital hd 4k collection yet, but it's in my future and I've just got to like hope that my beautiful partner carly doesn't listen to this so she knows my financial plans, but it'll probably that's not my mind's already started.
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I've already got, like I think I've bought maybe probably close to 50 or so movies.
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I've bought on Prime because I'm like, oh, I'm just going to buy this because that way I'll just go, not going to leave watching it, yeah, and then like a week later it comes out like on Netflix.
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I'm like shit yep, yeah, that's actually a frustrating thing for me when I actually go to see something in the cinema, because I do like to support the movie going experience, as it were.
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I'm a little bit I don't know what the word is for that whether it's like posh or whatever I want to see movies, continue to come to the, to the movie cinema, the theater, yeah.
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So I like to go and watch them there and support them in that way, whether it's by myself, with friends or whatever.
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And you know if, if a movie goes to like the theater and then two weeks later it comes to streaming, it's like you're one like ruining the back end for that movie.
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And two, it's like stopping people from going to the movie theater.
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And we're in a culture now where everything's kind of mass produced.
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So whenever there's an original story, like when sinners came out, everyone just sort of loses their mind because it's just like this is great, this is not based on anything previously done before and it's a new as far as there is really quote, no real new stories, unquote.
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It's like a newer sort of story that nobody had seen in terms of franchise.
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So I really like to support that.
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That being said, the convenience of digital is just so, yeah, so it's just so much easier.
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Exactly, exactly, especially when you've got like a film and tv podcast and you've got to review a different movie every week like yeah, and then go like sometimes watch it more than once, like it's definitely good for that too.
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So we're not haters here of the digital media, it's just everybody should still go to the movies, in my opinion and you don't have to to the movies for all your movies.
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But especially if you're excited for something, you're like, oh, I can't wait for that movie to come out.
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And then, oh, I can't wait for that movie to be so good, I hope it comes out on Netflix soon.
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Like, oh man, if you're that excited about it, just go to the movies and watch it, have that experience for something.
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If it movies and watch it.
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Like, have that experience for something.
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If it's a movie like, oh yeah, I reckon that'd be pretty good.
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Yeah, that one, you can wait until it comes to streaming.
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If there's something you're really excited about, just go to the movies and then you're supporting that movie you really like and then it might get pushed.
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If it's like, especially if it's a new IP, if everyone goes to the movies and sees it, they might push it to get like a second movie.
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Yeah, or push for more original content like that as well.
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We also acknowledge, obviously, that not everybody's in the space to go to the movies all the time you might have like no time.
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I'm not even in the space to get the movies all the time.
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Financially, like kids and things like that.
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They can really hamper your free time, as it were.
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But yeah whenever you can try, it's a good experience exactly and especially if you don't know, in a few months it's coming out like months and months and months.
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Just screw away 20 bucks or however much it is to get a ticket and then just buy some candy from the supermarket and stuff in your pockets exactly right we don't condone that, so it's just.
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I kind of do, though, because I do sorry as well, I use it all the time yeah.
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I kind of do, because the variety of snacks at cinemas is just not Lackluster.
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It's very lackluster.
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There's really no jellies there.
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I don't know if any other country listening to this is the same, but in Australia we have like popcorn drinks and then Maltesers, maltesers, that's pretty much Snakes.
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Maybe, yeah, minties, I don't know why, but yeah, why do they have minties?
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I don't know, yeah, I don't know.
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Anyway, we digress.
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What have I been into?
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I'll tell you what I've watched.
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I did go to the cinemas and I watched the Karate Kids legend movie.
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Did you watch Cobra Kai?
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I wanted to start watching it, and then I realized that they were up to like the fifth or sixth season.
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I was like yeah, they pumped them out.
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Damn.
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That is a lot for me to go through.
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To be fair, I think the first three seasons were very watchable and then after that it became oh, you're still fighting another rival, dojo.
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Oh, daniel LaRusso, you are still teaching kids to engage in karate, and pretty much incite gang wars through LA.
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Okay, cool, it just gets a bit far-fetched.
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After season three, season four but wait, wasn't it all meant to be about Cobra Kai?
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Yeah, johnny Lawrence, he's there too.
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And now it's sort of shifted and now it's all about.
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Yeah, it's all about Johnny Lawrence and it's literally it pivots across from Daniel to Johnny.
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But yeah, it was a good eye-opening moment when Cobra Kai first came out, where everybody was just like, yeah, wait a minute.
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Johnny Lawrence wasn't really a villain there, he was kind of hard done by.
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Yeah, because it wasn't him.
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It was a way he was being taught.
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Yeah, it was definitely his sensei and the Cobra Kai mentality.
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Daniel also cheated in that last match.
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He did.
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He used an illegal move.
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He did use an illegal move, I'm just saying, and he still won for some reason.
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But look, he also had his legs swept.
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So eye for an eye.
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No, we don't condone that either.
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We're revenge, no revenge sweepings here, oh man.
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No.
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But it's a.
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Cobra Kai Legends is like a coming of age martial arts story.
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If you're going to see this movie because you really want a fresh and new take on Karate Kid and you want to see something you haven't seen before but a familiar IP and you really want something new and fresh from the genre, you're not going to get it from this movie because it's pretty much a re-add from the old Karate Kid.
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I was going to say it kind of seems like a bit more just a modern take on the original Karate Kid from what the trailers look like.
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Well, do you remember that one that came out with Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan?
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Yeah, and it was literally like a young boy is out of their original city, same as Daniel was.
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This centers around a character whose name is Li Feng.
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He is Chinese and he moves to New York to follow his mom who got a job over there.
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Very similar story and premise already, I can guarantee.
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In the Jason Smith one In the Jason Smith one.
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Yeah, he did the opposite.
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He moved to China from America, so it's literally like a table switch on that.
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Jackie Chan's in the movie.
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He plays Mr Han again and he is Lee Fong's uncle, and Lee's mother, who is played by Ming-Na Wen, is Dr Fong.
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She's the one who kind of moves away, moves away Through this.
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Lee obviously tries to make his way in New York, find new friends.
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He's under a secret and very tight pact from his mother that is along the lines of no violence in New York.
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We're here for a fresh start, so he can't practice his karate, but obviously the karate call is too strong, yep, yeah.
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So he ends up finding this little deli.
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And there's actually an actor in this movie that I haven't seen for a while that I really really like.
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What was his name?
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Have you seen?
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Have you seen Dawson's Creek?
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I have.
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Yes, he played Pacey on Dawson's Creek.
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Oh yeah, joshua Jackson, joshua Jackson, dawson's Creek.
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Oh yeah, joshua Jackson, joshua Jackson, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's in it and he plays one of Lee Fong's school friend's fathers.
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I know we're talking like uncles, sisters, brothers, child here, but no, a school friend of Lee Fong.
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Her dad owns a pizzeria and the gentleman's played by Joshua Jackson.
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He was a previous boxing champion and there's a really unnecessary subplot where Lee Fong trains Joshua Jackson to box through his expertise in karate.
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I'm like, how do these two things connect?
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For one and for two, why is this man allowing a child to train him to be violent?
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But anyway, I think the movie overall is very much targeted towards like a, you know, an 11 to 16 year old range, because the editing and production of it was very much made for a TikTok audience, if you know what I mean by that.
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Very much.
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Two second clip swipe here, swipe there, across the cuts, like literally some of the cuts were literally swipes, swipe cuts, and you could see different sort of pop-ups come through that you see on tiktok all the time, like, uh, like popping up powers and and different sort of visuals when the tournaments were coming through.
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Uh, it's like the scoreboards and the names and things like that.
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So it's very much for a tiktok audience, you might say, and it's targeted towards those young people.
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But it does have that classic karate kid story where it's underdog versus everybody else and he comes through and he relies on his grit and his power and his determination to win the day.
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Now Daniel LaRusso is in it too, played by the great Ralph Macchio Returns for I don't know, he's probably got 15 minutes of screen time or something like that and he and Jackie Chan together are really good.
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They're pretty funny.
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Jackie Chan's probably the highlight of the movie for me.
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He plays like a really funny uncle and he's just like cut and dry, and that's the funny part about it, because everybody thinks he's supposed to be like a Mr Miyagi, which is very traditional, very serious.
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But Jackie Chan's very much the opposite.
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And the thing about Lee Fong in this movie as well is he fights a lot like Jackie Chan.
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When Jackie was young I don't know about you, but whenever I watched Jackie Chan, he always seemed like he was pulling off these martial arts moves accidentally, and he's literally exactly the same.
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Ben Wang is the actor who plays Lee Fong and, yeah, it's fun.
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It's 90 plus minutes of fun action, quick cuts, and it's not something you'll regret watching.
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Is it going to revolutionize the Karate Kid genre?
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I don't think so, but I am glad that we're not getting any more Cobra Kai, and I don't know if this is spoiler alert for anybody.
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Give you a moment to pause, but if you are a fan of Johnny Lawrence.
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You will be disappointed because he's not in this movie.
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Yeah.
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Until the post-credit scene.
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Oh, really, yeah, but it's like a, it's like a, it's literally like a fan service post-credit scene.
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Yeah, so they place him in there interacting with Daniel for a bit so everybody can go ah, there's Johnny Lawrence, but yeah, it really doesn't fit anything for the story or anything like that.
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So yeah, yeah, but I know Ben Wang.
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Ben Wang he's in.
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I don't know if you've seen this.
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It's on Netflix.
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I would say American Born Chinese.
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No, I haven't seen that one.
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Yeah, that's actually pretty good.
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So, um, no, I haven't seen that one.
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Yeah, that's actually pretty good.
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He's just a normal teenager at high school and then he meets a new kid at the school and it turns out that the new kid he meets at school is actually the Monkey King.
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Oh, really, yeah.
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And all these like mythological Chinese gods and shit start showing up around school.
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Oh, wow, so I just normal dude just getting like sucked into this bloody, like war between the Chinese gods.
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Yeah, that has Michelle Yeoh into it as well.
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Yeah, yeah, and she's amazing.
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She's amazing at anything yeah.
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And Ki yeah, she's, and she's amazing, she's amazing anything yeah, and kihei kwan as well.
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Yep, wow, yeah, it is um, absolutely, yeah, absolutely so good, so 2023.
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That came out on netflix by the look of it no, disney no disney plus yeah, yeah, there you go yeah yeah, speaking of ben ben wang in this movie, he's also probably a highlight for me.
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Like jackie was funny and awesome in the movie, but Ben Wang he he speaks to the the Riz generation and I say that like an old man, like he's very charismatic and if you think back to like Karate Kid Daniel LaRusso, he also wasn't like a a little bit of a dork.
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He wasn't like a dorky kid, he was kind of cool and kind of smooth in that kind of way and like understated charismatic kind of way.
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And Ben Wang smooth in that kind of way, in like an understated charismatic kind of way, and Ben Wang does pull that off as well.
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So I think he's, in terms of Parade Kid, if they do make a second and a third with him in it, I think he'll definitely go the distance to pull off a Hercules reference.
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But yeah, I recommend this one to anybody who likes the Parade Kid series and if you have kids between the age of, you know, 11 and 16, definitely give this a watch.
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It's a pretty safe watch as well.
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So I wouldn't say that it is my favorite Karate Kid though which one is your favorite?
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my favorite Karate Kid is, controversially the second Karate Kid movie.
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Is that one where he travels to yeah, he travels to Okinawa in Japan.
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Your favorite, my favorite karate kid is controversially the second karate kid movie is that one where he travels to?
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yeah, he travels to okinawa in japan.
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A special move he learns.
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Oh, that's another thing as well.
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They always learn a special move at the end that helps them hit victory.
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That's just like a story note of a karate kid movie.
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And yeah, yeah, they have one in legends, this new one.
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And in the second karate kid, I like how they all get out the drum and twist it and there's the little drum playing.
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And the soundtrack of number two is also the best and I like how Daniel LaRusso is really in Mr Miyagi's playground in that one.
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So that's my favorite.
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What's your favorite Karate Kid movie has to be the one that's the original.
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You're the OG boy, yeah, yep, because he's on one's original.
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You're the OG boy, yeah, yep.
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So let's get into our recommendations for this week on our episode of what have you Been Into.
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So my recommendation, firstly, is probably something that everybody has already seen that I'm late to the party on, but if you haven't watched it you definitely should, and it is the Penguin.
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I had been brought to this series by my good friend Lollivie.
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He featured in the very first episode of the Phantom of the Puddles podcast.
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He did the bear with me.
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He's kind of my TV show guy and he, yeah, he said you really need to watch the Penguin.
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Because he knows that I'm a Batman fan.
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I have a Batman tattoo on my arm that I got when I was very young.
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