Originally posted by NemeBro
You know, I might be kinda sorta alright with seeing this movie if not for one factor: Jaden Smith.I don't know why, but his very presence makes it worse.
Originally posted by MildPossession
I see the 80s film Fright Night is getting a remake, with David Tennant in taking McDowell's role.
I have no problem with this as long as the film holds that scary vibe the vampires had.
I remember the film conveying that sense of hopelessness as the heroes struggled to defeat the neighbour.
Great movie.
original karate kid doesnt agree with the new karate kid coming out
My problem with it, why didn't they just have the family move to JAPAN and learn Karate from jackie chan as a japanese man (i would of been ok with that) instead of moving to CHINA and learning kung fu when the movie is called the karate kid!!!!
Go on youtube and check this out
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdrFwikfJNk
Originally posted by darthmaul1
My problem with it, why didn't they just have the family move to JAPAN and learn Karate from jackie chan as a japanese man (i would of been ok with that) instead of moving to CHINA and learning kung fu when the movie is called the karate kid!!!!
Go on youtube and check this out
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdrFwikfJNk
This is a good read about the film.
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/30/entertainment/la-ca-karatekid-20100530
The mother thinks that Kung Fu and Karate are the same shit.
Even though almost every studio was rebooting long-dormant franchises with mixed results — " Superman Returns," "AVP: Alien vs. Predator," "Star Trek," among the disinterred titles — Sony didn't want to make another "Karate Kid" movie just because the title was lying fallow. "This is a valuable property," says Doug Belgrad, president of Sony's Columbia Pictures, recalling his thinking at the time. "We better have the right idea, or it's not worth doing."
Determined to fight back, Dre enlists Mr. Han (Chan), a mysterious maintenance man who teaches Dre the Chinese martial art of kung fu. (There's really no karate in the film, and Sony wrestled with changing the title to "Kung Fu Kid," but the original film's producer, Jerry Weintraub, nixed the idea.) In following the trajectory of the first film, Dre in the new "Karate Kid" spends more and more time with Mr. Han, who ultimately becomes the boy's surrogate father. Jaden Smith trained for four months before production commenced to perfect his fighting, studying under Wu Gang, Chan's stunt coordinator.
Originally posted by darthmaul1
My problem with it, why didn't they just have the family move to JAPAN and learn Karate from jackie chan as a japanese man (i would of been ok with that) instead of moving to CHINA and learning kung fu when the movie is called the karate kid!!!!
Go on youtube and check this out
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdrFwikfJNk
Jackie Chan is not Japanese, and he doesn't look Japanese. 😐
That's why.
Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
Jackie Chan is not Japanese, and he doesn't look Japanese. 😐That's why.
Well no Sh1t sherlock!! tell me something i don't know.
My point was, it would of been better if they had done that way.
And FYI many actors and actresses take roles to be chinese and they are japanese or visa versa
example
Charlotte Lewis (golden child) she is Irish and Iraqi-Chilean, she sure isn't Tibetan or chinese
Ziyi Zhang and Michelle Yeoh (memoirs of a geisha) they are both chinese playing japanese
Sung Kang (tokyo drift) he's korean playing a chinese or japanese
Kelly Hu (NCIS) shes Chinese-Filipino-Hawaiian and English and she was playing a north korean.
Originally posted by marwash22
would this have been a non-issue for you if they had called the movie, "The Kung-fu kid"?
Yup. just watch this arnie explains LOL
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdrFwikfJNk