The Karate Kid III

The Karate Kid III (1989)

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Plot hole: Daniel first needs Miyagi's signature (which Miyagi refuses) to enter the tournament. However the rest of the movie focuses on Daniel's signature needed to enter instead. Didn't Miyagi officially need to sign? How did it suddenly switch?

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Suggested correction: Daniel's entrance into the tournament was engineered by Silver. Mike got Daniel to sign, then had Silver or Kreese sign as the sensei. Silver started training Daniel shortly after, so he is the most likely one to have gotten him in. When the plot was exposed, Miyagi and Daniel probably contacted the tournament officials and corrected it. They wouldn't have told them about the plot since they knew it would have meant more trouble with Silver, Kreese and Barnes, so it's plausible that Daniel could have gotten into the tournament without Miyagi's signature.

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Continuity mistake: At the end of the final match, the announcement is made it's the first time in history the defending champion kept his title. Yet in Karate Kid 1 Johnny Lawrence had already won the championship twice and was there for his 3rd time.

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Daniel Larusso: I know you don't believe in fighting, but tournament karate isn't exactly fighting.
Mr. Kesuke Miyagi: Not exactly ping-pong, either.

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Trivia: The expression "Cobra Kai never dies" was invented for this film; it was never uttered in the first Karate Kid movie.

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Answer: Ralph Macchio admitted that he didn't like it as he felt that they were just making the first movie all over again and left out a lot of good stuff.

Answer: This is just a theory, but in addition to a bunch of people thinking it was too much like the first movie, I think another reason was the lack of love scenes. The girl Daniel liked in the movie had a boyfriend, so their relationship was just one of friendship, whereas in the first two movies there was quite a bit of love in Daniel's life, starting with the girl who went to school with him and was Johnny's ex, and then came his Japanese love in the second movie.

The real reason there was just a friendship with the girl in this film was because Robyn Lively was only 16 and Ralph Macchio (who was in his late 20s) felt it wasn't appropriate to date someone that young, so they wrote the story that way.

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