Time-travel classic? Sure. Childhood favorite? Absolutely. But let’s stop pretending Back to the Future didn’t teach us a bunch of deranged life lessons disguised as sci-fi magic. Here are ten of the worst.
Lessons We Shouldn’t Have Learned: The Karate Kid
We all grew up thinking The Karate Kid was about honor, balance, and personal growth. But if you rewatch it with grown-ass eyes, it starts to look less like a coming-of-age tale and more like a training video for delusion, entitlement, and poorly disguised emotional manipulation. These are the lessons I (unfortunately) learned.