No matter the state of the economy, going to the movies, purchasing movies, and renting movies, has always been popular way to have fun, relax, and escape life's daily stresses. There are many different movie genres to meet every movie goers' taste. One movie genre that has maintained popularity over the years is action-packed karate movies.

Karate movies have a huge fan base all over the world. Karate movies have had many stars over the years such as David Carradine, Jackie Chan, Chuck Norris, Bruce Lee, Jet Li, Ralph Macchio, and many more. Each of these famous actors took karate movies into the mainstream and helped create a multi billion dollar industry. Now movie theaters are becoming filled with karate movie lovers whenever a karate movie is released. Such famous karate films include: The Karate Kid, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Fists of Fury, Enter the Dragon, Way of the Dragon, and many other great karate films. These movies are exciting, action-packed, and most importantly, display thrilling martial arts scenes. They have great story lines with 'good vs. evil' that people enjoy watching. The style, grace, and art of karate, make these movies so popular and has led to an increase in people taking karate lessons. The goal of karate movies is to entertain and they have definitely succeeded.

A few of the most popular karate movies include:

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon: This karate movie was a hit with the critics and public. With a compelling story line, fantastic martial arts, beautiful costumes, fantastic cinematography, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is a must-see movie that will blow your mind.

The Karate Kid: World famous, The Karate Kid is a fantastic movie for the whole family. This movie had a positive effect on children with many wanting to take karate lessons. The Karate Kid is one karate movie that will be loved for generations.

Good Guys Wear Black: This movie is Chuck Norris's 1978's breakout film that launched his movie career. Chuck Norris is powerful in his martial arts scenes and the movie is exciting and fun to watch.

Iron Monkey: This movie has received rave reviews by movie critics and the public. The storyline is a traveling monk unites with a Robin Hood-like hero to beat the bad guys. The final battle is awesome and the fight scenes are incredible.

The Legend of Drunken Master: This popular martial arts movie features the legendary Jackie Chan. The plot of this story is Chan's character must stop the villains from stealing and selling China's historical treasures. The fight scenes are spectacular.

Fists of Fury: A great story line with Bruce Lee's character trying to break up a ring of drug dealers in a corrupt ice-packing plant. Great action and acting in this movie.

Billy Jack: Billy Jack is a half-Native American, half-white martial artist who spreads his message of peace. He takes on nasty rednecks that attack the local pacifists. Billy Jack spreads the lesson of peace with martial arts.

There are so many fantastic karate movies that you will love watching the great stories and cool karate movies. The next time you are looking for an exciting action-packed movie, consider getting a thrilling karate movie.

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There are many American comedy-dramas on television today but one that has become particularly popular is Weeds, a Showtime show made by Lionsgate television and created by Jenji Kohan.

The plot of Weeds involves your typical American housewife whose life is fairly simple until her husband dies suddenly while jogging. In order to continue her suburban lifestyle, she needs to find a way to make ends meet which results in her entering the marijuana trade.

The TV series name, Weeds, seems to refer both to the plant that the protagonist sells (marijuana) as well as widow's weeds which is what one would wear when one's husband dies and becomes a widow. Additionally, it may refer to American suburbs which grow quickly like weeds and contain many people who are indistinguishable; just like weeds.

The opening theme song for Weeds is "Little Boxes" further emphasizing the American suburban neighborhood lifestyle as well as the fact that all of the houses and people are very similar thus stressing more the "Weeds" type mentality.

Weeds currently has five seasons and began to play in 2005. It was the highest rated series for Showtime in its first year and has been considered a definite success for the channel. On average, the season has attracted 962,000 viewers.

A total of 1.7 million viewers which is made up of 1.2 million viewers for the beginning and an additional .5 million viewers later for the rerun later that night mean that Showtime was quite happy with the success bringing in 1.7 million people to watch Weeds.

The show's exterior shots and many other shots are taken in places in California like Calabasa and Santa Clarita Valley.

Nancy Botwin is the protagonist who is the housewife whose husband dies. She lives the typical affluent suburban life style in a very nice neighborhood where one wouldn't think much about drugs or other seedy type activity. However, after her husband's quick death while out jogging, she must find a way to make ends meet which leads her to begin selling marijuana to her neighbors and friends. Later on, she must continue to expand her customer base which brings on more challenges and obstacles.

Celia is Nancy's best enemy and friend. She is in a marriage that is particularly unhappy which may explain why she is so attracted to various vices like alcohol and trying to take others down in order to "teach them a lesson". However, her friend/enemy status is interesting in contrast to Nancy.

To give you a taste of what the seasons comprise of, season 1 involves the death of Nancy's husband as he is jogging. He dies suddenly of a heart attack and leaves Nancy a widow thus setting off the plot for her marijuana dealing.

Both of Nancy's children attend public school but for Nancy to live and keep going on in her upper middle class lifestyle, she has to make ends meet and this involves her entrance to the marijuana market when she begins to sell to her friends and neighbors.

At one point, some of Nancy's customers begin to go to the medical marijuana shop because its quality is much higher than the quality of Nancy's marijuana. For this reason, Nancy is forced to make baked goods using her cooking skills to find a new way to sell her inferior quality weed. She does a good job of this and covers up her sales by actually making her own bakery and putting Costco's products on her shelves as her own.

Weeds is a very good television show and if the plot and characters seems like something that you might like, you should definitely check out Showtime and see the show for yourself. If you cannot watch it right now, you can at least look at the clips and other videos online about the show by searching for "Weeds" in any search engine.

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