While The Karate Kid franchise relied on viewers rooting for Ralph Macchio’s original hero Daniel LaRusso, the best sequel in the series flipped this approach on its head. The simplistic storytelling of ‘80s movies makes the decade’s pop culture ripe for reinterpretation. Ten years ago, Netflix stumbled on a gold mine with the “Stephen King meets Steven Spielberg” sci-fi mystery series Stranger Things, which took familiar high school and horror movie clichés from the decade and updated, subverted, and rewrote them.
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