Thread: Did it bug anyone else?

Not really. Martial arts movies usually require a bad guy that has corrupted martial arts and is either a bully, murderer, drug-dealer, or some other sort of villain. If he learned kung fu in some alternate spirit world just to come home to deal with a run-of-the-mill bully, it wouldn't be as good.

yeah, but it was cheesy. Most American street thugs don't know kung fu, I would venture to say. And what makes it worse is that the bully was making fun of him knowing, or acting about knowing, Kung Fu.

I would think the odds would be that at least some American street thugs would know some kung fu. Everyone surely doesn't learn it for the right reasons, and with the setting in Boston I'd reason that there'd be a greater cultural influence. It is weird that he'd make fun of the main character about that though. Maybe he makes fun of everyone about everything because he's a bully and that's what he does? I have to...

who says the bully knew kung fu?????? doesn't he say to the kid "you want some taekwondo?"?

Thank you! The bully was using Tae Kwon Do, not Kung Fu. He mentioned it in his first encounter. Plus, you can see the style in the particular kick he does.

Yeah it was actually really annoying in my opinion. But I suppose it could be just like-- he knew it for the wrong reasons and didn't care what it WAS exactly..well you could think that for the sake of the story right? But I think the only real reason why he was such an expert is because that kid in real life is actually a martial artist and is well known in China for his skill. Apparently he was praised by Jackie during filming. So they...

No, there's nothing annoying about that. If anything, the bully being a master martial artist, pretty much proves that the wrtiers were intent on giving round-ness to all the characters, even the ones with the smaller roles. If the bully wasn't a martial artist, he would've just been the standard cliché bully who does nothing but take advantage of his victims' wimpyness. That's neither compelling nor original...

That the bully was what seemed to be a master martial artist?