I resisted seeing The Karate Kid for a long time for the same reason Dan did: I thought it was a karate movie, and I just wasn’t into karate.
A friend of mine who was into karate–he had a red belt, as I recall–refused to see it because he insisted it was so unrealistic about karate matches. A move like sweeping the leg, he kept telling anyone who would listen, would get a competitor disqualified.
This seriously undermined his claim that practicing karate made a person smarter.
