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Ruining the Classics.

I just found out about this:



And decided to make a thread about the abstract destruction of the classics, where you had impeccable story, actors, and directing and yet someone still decides to remake it, setting it in a different place, learning a different martial art, with child-stars.

GGREEEATTTT


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This has been going on for a loooong time. Even in "Golden Hollywood," some movies from the 30's and 40's remained.

For example, "The Women," was originally a movie with only female stars including Rosalind Russell, Jane Fonda, Norma Shearer, and more. It was a perfect black and white film, and the characters were realistic, which made the occasional snark snarkier.

They remade it in the 50's, turning the heroine into a club singer who met her husband touring through entertainment for the troops... This version was made during the time in Hollywood where everything focused around a singer, so they could feature big bands [which were very popular at the time.] All the stage numbers dragged down the story

And of course, the film was re-re-made in the 2000's, with Meg Ryan, Eva Mendes, and it was full of so much WOMAN-POWER that it completely lost the charm of the first film.

"You've Got Mail" was also a third remake, the first, "The Little Shop Around the Corner," with Jimmy Stewart and Lionel Barrymore, the second "In The Good Old Summertime," with Van Johnson and Judy Garland, and again in the 90's. The script is eerily similar - the scene where the woman waits for the first date when the man sees and recognizes her has the same lines in every film - which gets really weird with all the anachronisms.

Normally, I say if a story's been put into film, leave it alone. But then, some remakes are better than the original, like "Imitation of Life," the first with Claudette Colbert, the second with Kim Novak.

But that's Hollywood. They make more money doing this... I just wish they wouldn't!

Of course, most moviegoers only see/hear about a remake if the film is a only a generation or so later... such as with the Karate Kid.

One Free Man, I've been seeing my favorite movies being made a joke of for ages.


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I remember they did a remake of Harvey and I nearly killed someone it was so bad.

I wish they would just pull a George Lucas and digitally remaster and rerelease it until the end of time.


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it is all about benjamins...


hollywood will always try to make money by remaking/reimagining movies


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I imagine that that kids just going to be annoying as hell full of touching moments where he looks in the camera and acts cute so you want to stab him in the face, as opposed to the kind of rocky balboa style of the original kid.

the original was a gran torino-esque journey of cultural discovery and coming of age, in which a japanese man became a father figure in order to help a kid against bullies. This seems to be aimed towards a race issue of another kind, in which the chinese kids are evil. we won't have great dialogue and stuff like this ever in this movie:


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Don't go and watch it, simple. If an original film is good, it will not be ruined by a remake... stick out tongue

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He says "the only way to defeat them is to face them" in the trailer. In the original it was "why do you learn to fight?" "so that I don't have to fight." it had a deep moral


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whats next oprahs son the kid in the new home alone movie


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home alone was shit to start with though...


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quote: (post)
Originally posted by BruceSkywalker
it is all about benjamins...


hollywood will always try to make money by remaking/reimagining movies


This and they ran out of ideas.


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also the title is karate kid. jacki chan says i will teach you real kung fu.


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who cares. just dont watch the movie... classics will always be classics, regardless of what happens to them later. theyre hardly being "ruined"


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My policy on any movie is not to compare it to the original (or indeed to first in the series)

I don't really mind remakes if they're good stand alone films. I'm the same with books though, I never compare. I see them as separate films smile


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I also find it humorous that the movie is called Karate Kid, but is learning Kung Fu.

Though I agree with Ms. Marvel, who ****ing cares?


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Yeah I'm not going to go see it, same with any other remake I don't want to see, easy enough to avoid. Not like music, where I'm just minding my own business driving down the road, listening to the radio and BAM! Glee rapes another classic without warning. At least that doesn't happen with movie remakes


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smile I agree,another movie that is pointless being remade, but I bet every person on here will end up seeing it.......wont you


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Nope. Will not be going near it. Even with Jackie Chan.

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No way am I going to see it, I'm all for going to a crappy movie for a few laughs but this? This is just wrong.


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quote: (post)
Originally posted by chomperx9
also the title is karate kid. jacki chan says i will teach you real kung fu.


which is why they should have called this film The Kung Fu Kid..

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smile I agree,another movie that is pointless being remade, but I bet every person on here will end up seeing it.......wont you



i , for one won't even see this free up at the Sony Pictures lot right in Culver City


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This is nothing but a shitty remake done by Smith and Chan. Seriously though, does Smiths son have to be in this.....Crap. Chan is a good choice though!


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