What’s Aged the Worst?
Slow first eight minutes; camo pants; the shock of Pat Morita having played Arnold; the country-club parents; a college 'Mr. Miyagi' nickname
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- The first eight minutes, covering the move to Reseda and the broken pool, could have gone faster; the camo pants, the Arnold shock value and the over-the-top country-club parents are also listed.
- One complaint is that Johnny's punch to the face should have scored the third point before the crane kick, since a face kick wins it and Ali said everything above the waist counts.
- That scoring complaint is pushed back on as shaky, with the point that full-power punches are illegal in most karate rules—though by that logic the crane kick might have been disqualified too.
- A column quote asks why Ali likes a 5'7", 100-pound kid with no money or car whose mom drives him on dates; it is called the mystery of the movie, with a Back to the Future comparison.
- Ali is already staring at Daniel on the beach before the radio incident; perhaps she surrounds herself with lesser friends to stand out, though Johnny dating her implies she is the it-girl.
- A college-era joke about rebuffs ('wax on, wax off', 'paint the fence') and nicknaming a classmate 'Mr. Miyagi' during an AIDS-fear era is offered as a self-called-out aged-worst.