Ok weird connection, but this is how my brain works.
The woman in the picture is Kathryn Newton. She’s the actor who plays the lead role in Netflix’s The Society, which was an incredible show, sadly cancelled (rather than postponed) just a week before it was due to start shooting its second season, due to COVID.
Another show that I was sad Netflix cancelled is First Kill, a lesbian vampire romance show with strong Romeo & Juliette overtones (the two romantic leads being a vampire and a vampire hunter).
Kathryn Newton
Aw yeah! When she was younger she was also in “The Martial Arts Kid”, a truly terrible b-movie with absolutely no redeeming qualities that I thoroughly enjoyed watching a couple months ago.
Based on the name and the trailer, surely that’s a deliberately stupid satire, no?
I’d call it a self-aware B-movie. Don Wilson and Cynthia Rothrock are/were actual martial artists who moved into acting, they’ve each been in many low-budget action films. The thinking was obviously “let’s do our own take on The Karate Kid” but I think the intent is sincere rather than satirical.
Interesting. Strange, but interesting. I cannot understand why one would name their sincere take on The Karate Kid “the Martial Arts Kid”.
The thing about high-budget first-run films is that a lot of work goes into every part of it. Even the title of the movie. But on a low-budget B-movie, not so much.
- “So, what’s the title?”
- “Dunno, it’s a take on the Karate Kid. But it’s got MMA versus traditional martial arts and is in Florida. The MMA kid? The Traditional Kid? The Florida Kid?”
- “Nah those are terrible. What’s the core of it? The heart of it?”
- “Well it’s anti-bullying. And it’s about the importance of martial arts. The Bullied Kid? The Martial Arts Kid?”
- “The Martial Arts Kid is the best so far. Pencil that in for now. Moving on…”
The recent discussion about vampire police reminded me of this scene from the vampire movie Abigail.
Great movie. Looks like it’s making its way through the corporate sites. Don’t watch a preview, it gives too much away.
