# Sidekicks (Chuck Norris, J. Brandis) - unbelievable **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 5, 2008, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks-chuck-norris-j-brandis-unbelievable/455386 "2008-07-05T16:04:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks-chuck-norris-j-brandis-unbelievable/455386/21 "2008-07-08T15:44:54Z")
Thanks for the updates, **Argent**. This so beats work. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks-chuck-norris-j-brandis-unbelievable/455386/22 "2008-07-08T15:48:10Z")
It’s good to know someone likes it. Anyway, there are just as many posts by other people in this thread as there are by me, so it’s not like I’m just using the thread as a blog or something. In any case, “please don’t do this again” is something that should only be said by moderators, and I think anyone else doing it - if it’s unwarranted, like I believe it to be in this case - is being pretentious. What are you, my fuckin’ mom? If you don’t like this thread, you can report it to a moderator. Obviously our actual moderators didn’t have much of a problem with it because it’s been around for a few days now. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks-chuck-norris-j-brandis-unbelievable/455386/23 "2008-07-08T15:49:51Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] Seconded. And what the fuck? Who made you a moderator? [/QUOTE] [Twitter](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter) is where people “group chat” a single line at a time. It makes for stream of consciousness surrealism, as far as I can tell, and serves no useful purpose. And I wasn’t moderating, I was expressing a fear. “Please don’t let this become a habit!” ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks-chuck-norris-j-brandis-unbelievable/455386/24 "2008-07-08T15:51:49Z")
Oh. Well I really, really really doubt that one thread about an obscure movie with 23 posts in three days is going to transform the entire nature of the board. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks-chuck-norris-j-brandis-unbelievable/455386/25 "2008-07-08T15:56:10Z")
Never heard of Twitter. Ignorance fought. I fear the movie may remain obscure, as it can’t possibly live up to the description. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks-chuck-norris-j-brandis-unbelievable/455386/26 "2008-07-08T15:59:02Z")
I would rather watch this movie any day than any of the slick, over produced shit that Hollywood is spurting out like a full-grown bull elk in the height of the rutting season. It’s entertaining, has comedy and drama in equal measure, deals with real life issues that kids can relate to, and it has a good message. This movie should be re released in movie theaters and garbage like The Happening should be thrown back onto the stinking garbage heap, buzzing with flies and crawling with cockroaches and rats fighting each other over the remains of M. Night Shayamalan’s internal and external organs. ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks-chuck-norris-j-brandis-unbelievable/455386/27 "2008-07-08T19:23:17Z")
Lotta ethnic movie threads of late, **Argent**! 🙂 I saw this movie at the theaters in high school as my friends who were along were not old enough to get into see Bugsy. One gets an Oscar nod, this one…well…not good. It was filmed here in Houston and financed by a local furniture store owner (the “crazy eddie” type). My middle school karate teacher is an extra in the tournament scene. For the record, the furniture owner’s investment did not pay off. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks-chuck-norris-j-brandis-unbelievable/455386/28 "2008-07-08T19:45:21Z")
**Argent** , although she has a bit of an Asian look from certain angles, the girl in the movie is [Danica McKellar](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005211/)\*. According to IMDb, she is of Scottish and Portugese descent. BTW, I love this movie. \*: aka Winnie Cooper from _The Wonder Years_, and still totally hot, as a Google image search will show. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks-chuck-norris-j-brandis-unbelievable/455386/29 "2008-07-08T20:03:00Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] … Only 6 minutes into the movie, and we see an exotic Asian woman - in bondage, no less, tied up by her hands and held captive by an evil ninja or samurai wearing a hideous mask. She moans, her body heaving, and although she is ostensibly making these sounds out of discomfort, they sound disquietingly like something else… The daydream ends, and Brandis wakes up in the middle of class - with everyone laughing at him hysterically, everyone BUT a certain young Asian woman who says, “leave him alone!” Ah - this is the girl from the flashback. He was fantasizing about her!! … Then his teacher - who also happens to be a sexy Asian woman - comes to his defense and comforts him. **This is where I paused the movie.** [/QUOTE] Paused the movie to do what, exactly? 😉😃 ---
**Author:** ![AlmondJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@AlmondJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlmondJoy)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks-chuck-norris-j-brandis-unbelievable/455386/30 "2008-07-08T23:06:34Z")
Oh wow… i used to looooooooooooove this movie. I also was in love with Jonathen Brandis at the time (Seaquest anyone???) I probably saw this movie a zillion times, not as much as Ladybugs, but ALMOST as much ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks-chuck-norris-j-brandis-unbelievable/455386/31 "2008-07-09T04:49:29Z")
During one of the scenes in the tournament, you can see a woman doing a form from the style I was into pretty heavy 10 years ago or so. Good times! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks-chuck-norris-j-brandis-unbelievable/455386.md?page=1)