i dont know if anyone has seen the preview yet, but i would personally like to punch Will Smith and his kid in the eyeball. Pat Morita is turning over in his grave, and Ralph Machio is well doing nothing like he has been since 1990. But still this p**ses me off
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SmmxvHLsKk
Awful, polished, souless hollywood garbage. They may as well have 50 cent as the Mr. Miyagi character and $hia Lebouf as the pupil. I see there's lots of nice slow-mo matrix style bulls**t and my ears shrivelled in horror at that disgusting mu$ic...
We say it so many times: "when will the remake$ end" (they won't, sure it may be a different approach, but get some original ideas and stop raping our childhoods. Nobody buy nobody is gonna keep catching this on TV in years to come like the '84 film or experience that massive wave of nostalgia when they popped in the DVD after nearly 20 years.
:thumbdown: :hatred:
This is yet another remake that is SO unnecessary. It may be worse than The Rock's version of WALKING TALL.
Ugh! Some movies should never be remade. This is one of them. Got to agree with Circus Circus ... the original Karate Kid will remain pure nostaglia for years to come.
And have to agree with violnt shags too... that Jayden Smith is one annoying kid! I hated the remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still. And that whiny kid made me hate it even more! :hatred: :thumbdown:
Jayden Smith is also just too young. Kids 12 and under just aren't believable in that kind of role. Lowering the age of the character was a stupid decision. Sorry.
Not to mention, calling this the karate kid has got to be pretty irritating to anyone who knows anything about martial arts at all.
About the only thing that might be worthwhile is Jackie Chan. I've seen him play tired, older characters before - he can be pretty good at that when he wants too (New Police Story). Still, looks like garbage.
edit to add: if you look at the description, apparently Dre (the lead character) knows karate, so people call him the karate kid. Pretty weakass way to reuse the old title while still having it be in China with kung fu.
Oh no, not another remake! I guess it's pretty much in the present-day Hollywood zeitgeist to do pointless remakes.
If they really wanted to update this film-shouldn't it be The MMA Kid?
I loved the original, but Pat Morita was no martial artist, and it really showed in the first movie. I'm willing to give this one a chance.
You think we can start a world-wide nuclear firestorm before this comes out?
Okay, okay, it could be worse. Not sure how, but still...I WILL hit the first moron who doesn't realize this is a remake, though.
What bugs me the most about this pointless remake is the casting of Jayden Smith.
He alone ruined "The Day the Earth Stood Still" for me.
The blatant nepotism that founded this kid's "career" is disturbing.
This film, bad as it looks or sounds, can't be any worse than the rip-off South African version of The Karate Kid which was made in 1988 I think. It was called Umfana we Karate and featured a youngster who was bullied at school.
No budget for a sensei so the kid learns fighting moves from a arcade coin-op video game. :buggedout: :buggedout:
Quote from: Trevor on January 06, 2010, 01:35:20 AM
This film, bad as it looks or sounds, can't be any worse than the rip-off South African version of The Karate Kid which was made in 1988 I think. It was called Umfana we Karate and featured a youngster who was bullied at school.
No budget for a sensei so the kid learns fighting moves from a arcade coin-op video game. :buggedout: :buggedout:
That sounds horrendously awesome. And VERY, VERY 80s. I think I might have to track down a copy. :bouncegiggle:
We have it on 16mm at the archives, Jim and I kid you not: the bullied schoolkid does learn his moves from an arcade game. :teddyr:
Why is it even called "The Karate Kid"? Seeing that it takes place in Beijing with Jackie Chan as the teacher, they should call it "The Kung Fu Kid".
Please, please tell me this a joke or a fan trailer. (which I know its not!)
AHgrHhh ... I just threw up in my mouth a little ...
"Hollywood garbage" ... great choice of words for this one.
I am a HUGE fan of the original Karate Kid. Hell, the movie actually inspired me to take up karate for about 3 years during my childhood. I had the action figures and if I try hard enough I bet I can find a picture of me wearing a Karate Kid shirt when I was about 10. I can still watch that movie with the enthusiasm I had as a kid. The movie is actually pretty violent, I mean they literally almost kill Daniel in a few scenes. Plus it has some wonderful light hearted humor that breaks up the action. The movie is a giant in 80s pop culture and its just awesome.
This film is going to be one I probably will ignore. I'm personally sick of Jayden Smith being rammed down our throats. Jacki Chan isn't a bad cast per se. He has the goofiness to pull it off. However, I really am not interested in this film at all.
Quote from: Venomx on January 06, 2010, 08:46:15 AM
Please, please tell me this a joke or a fan trailer. (which I know its not!)
AHgrHhh ... I just threw up in my mouth a little ...
"Hollywood garbage" ... great choice of words for this one.
No joke, venom, I'm afraid. I heard about this almost a year ago. My wife used to work for a big agency in Hollywood, so she still follows the trades and knows all the Internet channels to surf and always tells me about things coming up. I don't need to see any trailers to know it's an abortion.
If I recall correctly, this was going to be called The Kung Fu Kid at one point, and it would be a little easier to forgive the filmmakers, but somewhere along the way it's changed back to The Karate Kid. What I think is pretty funny is that recently I saw an info sheet about it from the studio and not once was the word "karate" mentioned in the synopsis, but it did mention "kung fu" three times...
Against my better judgment, I saw this yesterday and I found it to be reasonably entertaining (but completely unnecessary as it is a very close copy of the original). Jaden Smith's constant mugging at the camera gets pretty old after about 15 minutes, but if you can deal with that the rest of the movie is pretty harmless. And I've always enjoyed Jackie Chan. Of course, I saw it at CHUNKY'S cinema pub and I was drinking 22 ounce beers during the movie, so maybe that helped . . .
I hate to sound racist, but casting that Smith kid is just plain wrong and is a good example of modern society's gutless PC leanings. Anyone who would pay to see this cinematic slop should be beaten. I also wish death on Will Smith and his family. OK, that was pretty harsh, but still.... :hatred:
Actually, this movie is no worse than 90% of what's been in theaters over the past 12 months. It just has the perception of being worse because it's a remake and Will Smith's kid is in it.
Quote from: WingedSerpent on January 05, 2010, 06:33:52 PM
If they really wanted to update this film-shouldn't it be The MMA Kid?
:bouncegiggle:
I'm kinda insulted by this film. I've taken karate for some time and it seems very wrong to me that they would remake a movie about karate and not have it about karate, thats Bulls**t. Thats like remaking the Longest yard and having it be about soccer. I've heard good things about the film, critics say its great but I have some questions. One why is a black mother and son moving to china? Why change the mentors name to Han (oh thats right because its in freaking china, not Japan) Why is this not called the Kung-fu kid?
God I hate remakes where they don't care about the source material.
Quote from: wyckednick on June 28, 2010, 07:46:45 AM
One why is a black mother and son moving to china?
The company she works for transfers here there.
One of the producers, Jerry Something-Or-Other, was pitching how this version of the story is much bigger than the original. Part of what made the original great was that it was a small story about two people finding and helping each other and becoming real friends. I mean, beyond all the fun Cobra-Kai strutting and William Zabka and Elizabeth Shue and "Johhny get him a body bag!" and all the quaint 80's stuff, that was the heart of the story. It's hard for me to consider any re-make anything more than a pale, money grubbing "re-imagination"
Actually, since I have no burning desire to see this: Is there Cobra Kai in this movie?