The Karate Kid
After carve a niche as the quintessential eighties teen - movie uncollectible guy cable , William Zabka has had quite a chequered life history in Hollywood . Zabka spend the following decade endeavor to shed his pigeonholed image as the prototypal teenager yobo , and as a result , made a slew of disposably subpar flick , direct - to - video recording departure , made for TV productions , etc .
In 2004 , Zabka forged his own track of success by written material and producingMost , a 30 - minute short film that won an Academy Award . In 2018 , Zabka ’s playacting career was revived viaCobra Kai , in which he repeat the part of Johnny Lawrence fromThe Karate Kid , the very first screen function of his career .
Best - Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) 6.4/10
In the nostalgic high - concept comedyHot Tub Time Machine , a foursome of older high - shoal chum reunite for a holiday at a ski refuge . When they enter what is likely a relaxing jacuzzi , they ’re suddenly whisked back to 1986 .
John Cusackpokes fun at his 1980s teen - movie image , as does Zabka who appear as the antipathetic Rick in the picture show . As the grown homo revert back to their mellow - school selves , they take in how little they ’ve matured over the years .
Worst - Antibody (2002) 3.4/10
In the last of four Zabka films to be release on video in 2002,Antibodystars Lance Henriksen and Robin Givens as a pair of scientist who enter the bloodstream of a dying terrorist ( Julian Vergov ) via a petite travel vessel . The design is to obtain a nuclear computer crisp before it explode .
Zabka bring in third charge as Emmerich in theFantastic VoyagemeetsInnerspaceknockoff , one of the scientist lead by Gaynes ( Henriksen ) .
Best - Just One Of The Guys (1985) 6.5/10
One yr afterThe Karate Kid , Zabka fine - tuned his brazen bullying as Greg Tolan inJust One of the Guys , a gender - reverse high - shoal comedy directed by Lisa Gotlieb .
The celluloid star Joyce Hyser as an aspiring high - school diary keeper out to obtain a summertime job at the Sun Tribune . When her clause is rejected on what she thinks is on the undercoat of sexual discrimination , Terry ( Hyser ) poses as a male child , enrolls in a raw school , and re - submits her article to try her hypothesis . Zabka run Greg , a more violent and insolent offshoot of his Johnny Lawrence lineament .
Worst - Ablaze (2001) 3.2/10
Zabka join the likes of Tom Arnold and Ice - T inAblaze , a chinchy and derivativeBackdraftripoff in which a isthmus of firefighters must extinguish a monumental insurance flaming .
Directed by the late B - movie director Jim Wynorski , the pic traces Wendell Mays ( Arnold ) , an oil color refinery owner who plot an insurance scam by advisedly lighting his belongings reddened . When the flaming rage out of control , a hardened mathematical group of firemen is forced to throttle the damage . Zabka plays Curt Peters , Wendell ’s sick - doom helper .
Best - Where Hope Grows (2014) 6.6/10
Chris Dowling ’s sports - driven salvation taleWhere Hope Growsrevolves around Calvin ( Kristoffer Polaha ) , a once - promising baseball whizz and individual don whose personal demons jump his big - conference vocation . Calvin come up inspiration in the unlikeliest of place .
When Calvin meets a young humanity with Downs Syndrome name Produce ( David DeSanctis ) at a grocery store storehouse , he slowly forges a meaningful bond with him that ignites genuine hope . Zabka portrays Milton , one of Calvin ’s closest friends .
Worst - Python 2 (2002) 2.8/10
According to IMDB , most of Zabka ’s worst movies were put out in 2002 , the lineal - to - disc killer - snake filmPython 2included among them . It ’s one of several movies Zabka filmed in Sofia , Bulgaria around the turn of the century .
The plot of the film concerns a married couple and their business associate tax with transporting a secret object from a top - hidden Russian military post . When the carriers realize the target is a humongous , genetically - mutated python , a wash for survival ensues . Zabka takes top billing as Greg Larson , a BMW - force back bad - male child up to the challenge .
Best - Back To School (1986) 6.7/10
When the affluent but uneducated businessman Thornton Melon ( Dangerfield)goes back to schoolas a challenge from his Logos , he becomes the life story of the campus . Jealous of his father ’s instant popularity , Jason shoot his anger out on Chas , who try out to steal his lady friend and prevent him from pee the swimming squad .
Worst - Mindstorm (2001) 2.7/10
Also known asProject : Human Weapon , Mindstormpits Zabka against Judge Reinhold in a preposterous sci - fi action plot in which a surreptitious government experiment is conducted to channelize telekinesis for use in war .
Also starring Victor Browne , the moving-picture show involve Evan Mink ( Reinhold ) tasked with finding twin siblings who survive the experimentation en itinerary to becoming one of the most dangerous biologic weapons on the major planet . Zabka plays a CIA operative named Mike Rojack who serve Mink locate the Gemini .
Best - The Karate Kid (1984) 7.3/10
It should come as no surprisal thatThe Karate Kidranks as Zabka ’s finest film to date , according to IMDB . Without the watershed 80s coming - of - age movie , there would be noCobra Kai , presently one of the most popular television shows on Netflix .
Zabka stars asJohnny Lawrencein the 1984 classic , a high - school toughened - hombre whose status is jeopardise by the arrival of New Jersey graft , Daniel LaRusso(Ralph Macchio ) . After torment Daniel several clock time , the two ultimately feather off in the All Valley Karate Tournament .
Worst - Hyper Sonic (2002) 2.4/10
Zabka plays a character called The Executive inHyper Sonic , akaAir Race , a lineal - to - video action group B - movie about the fastest jet race in the world . Antonio Sabato Jr. takes top charge .
Also star Adam Baldwin , Michael Sutton , and Amanda Kiely , the film follows a group of dare superstar jet - pilots who participate a competition to race for a $ 25 million grand prize . The film was shoot in Bulgaria and score one of four square - to - video recording movies Zabka made in 2002 alone .
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