Johnny was always better than Daniel, Daniel was getting beaten up in the Karate kid finale which was a points battle until he cheated and won lol, it helps that William Zabka actually looks like he can fight, Ralph Macchio is and always was awful in fight scenes, he has no weight to his movements and can't move well at all, I was never convinced he has ever been in a fight, whereas Zabka is more athletic and sells that he can at least throw a kick or punch with some power.

The main thing I noticed on rewatch was how unbelievably terrible Hayden Christensen was as Anakin, tbf he was better than he was in Attack Of The Clones but still a huge miscast, way too gawky, way too whiny with a terrible voice. But even despite this, the movie still holds up as a great Star Wars movie, my fourth favourite in fact, so much other good stuff in it to counteract the bad acting.

The main reason X-Men movies were successful initially was because they were basically ''cool'' Wolverine movies featuring side characters (who are more than that in the comics of course), Wolverine was the thing that hooked general audiences, comic accurate dwarf-sized Wolverine would not have worked, especially at that time, same with if Wolverine was just a side character of a team in bright yellow costumes led by a character like Cyclops, it may not have resonated beyond the niche comic book audience, a fair number of who would be quite insular people who may not be the type to venture into crowded theatres (a stereotype that is an accurate one, especially at that time)

To reply to the comment by the guy named Damian, the difference with Spider-Man is he was basically a KID just starting out as his hero with a homemade costume that was also red and blue not bright yellow, the Matrix comment is partly true though in that was the look in the early 2000's movie landscape and any grown men and women dressed in a bunch of bright banana yellow costumes would not have been taken seriously, Fox made the right decision with the costumes evidently as the comic book genre is a thing now mainly because of the X-Men movies being palatable to general audiences in that way. I love CBM's but they are slowly on the way out of vogue now like what happened to Westerns , possibly about to be supplanted by video game/toy brand movies, which is the most likely thing to take over.

Alan Ritchson would make good Batman sure, it's just hard to picture him having to play way weaker than David Corenswet (which he obviously would have to do), Alan could snap his scrawny neck lol, Ritchson is too big and wide he would make Superman look even flimsier than he already is, which is weird optically.