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Now remaking the Karate Kid is just horrible...like the idea of remaking Goonies, Gremlins or Fast Times At Ridgemount High....I understand rummaging through comic book and anime properties because of lack of original script ideas...but this is a new low....it's an 80's classic, I think the key word is 80's....and Jaden is way too young to be beating up Cobra Ki and driving lessons...Smith seems to think because he's one of the richest actors he can force feed his son into Hollywood...that's going to work for awhile until studios get fed up with loosing money...on the other hand Jaden Smith in a 3 Ninjas remake could work...
The only thing to really be angry about is the amount of effort and money that could be used for something so much more interesting
Do not tempt fate, my friend. Just wait until we get the "Karate Kid II Spoof" movie starring Jaden Smith as "The Fresh Prince of Okinawa". On second thought, even that couldn't be much worse than this crap.
@Peter: Only to people who are so canonically (is that a word?) minded that they can't bring themselves to ignore them.
it's like a hardcore christian just finding out that the writer for the twilight series is re-writing the bible. yeah it doesn't change any of the older versions written but still that they called it the "bible" is where the frustration lies and uproar begins. so yeah, i can understand.
some things people just cherish too much and those things should not be re-visited.
bottom line: with all these remakes, hollywood has lost most of its originality. and that's what we should really be angry about most.
some things people just cherish too much and those things should not be re-visited.
your wrong ,it's different with a religion is a belief and a movie is just a movie anybody who holds a movie so close to their hearts and it's sacred and they remake it and they get mad or sad they are just a lame who already lost
i can tell you film has had more of an impact- more of a significance, than religion ever has to a lot of people.
and those people, believe it or not, will choose to see a movie early sunday morning over going to church.
but let's not get into that. like i said, it all depends on the person and what they cherish most.
I believe they did that already, it was call Never Back Down and it sucked. Do we really need to do that again, except this time tarnish the original Karate Kid in the process?
I mean, it's like me wanting a movie about the Mexican Revolution that takes place in Cuba.
God, the original movie was great. screw the remake.
Think about it... what kind of people do you think will actually go see this film? Then ask yourself if you *really* care that much what those people think of the Karate Kid franchise. I certainly don't.
Any film buff who has any respect for the original is simply going to ignore it. And any kid nowadays in the age of the internet who even skims film news sites at all is going to know that this is a remake, and if they're at all a "film person," they're going to want to see the original instead, or at least first. I know I do when I see something come out now that I find out is a remake of an older film.
I'm a firm believer that future film history books are goign to look at this period as the "bad remake/sequel" period where Hollywood literally ran out of ideas and started to cannibalize itself. And the future generation will probably ignore most of them as a result. And if they don't, who cares? They aren't goign to appreciate the originals as much as us anyway. They didn't grow up with them.
I think it's the principle of it all, and how Hollywood is really getting desperate here. Then they're going to remake 90s movies, and so forth.
What really irks me is that the movie is taking place in Bejing. China. Karate is Japanese. To normal people, it doesn't matter. But it matters to me because the whole "Asians look the same" mentality has never left Hollywood for some odd reason, and they have all the wealth and power in the world. They have interns to do hours and hours of research for them. Are they that ignorant?
gee, just what we need....another Smith to ruin more films..........
aw hell, no!!!!!!!!!!!!
We'll see about that: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1319720/
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He basically took ideas from The Karate Kid and was like "Hey son, lets totally butcher my favorite movie only make it The Kung-Fu Kid."
"But wont it be the same movie only differently titled?"
"No, were just going to include the elements of bonzai trees, the scene with the fly, the car washing, fence painting scenes and some other stuff associated with it. And its gonna be in China!"
"But I dont speak Chinese! And neither does the character."
"Well we'll have the replacement Mr. Miyagi teach you that too, and then the whole movie will be in Chinese!"
This was such a bad idea, I swear.
And Jaden's not even a teenager yet, is he? So its all gonna have little kids in it. Yeah. That's WAY better.