Karate Kid, the Remake

Hmmm… Good point. I saw the trailer recently, and hadn’t thought of the karate/China angle; karate originated on Okinawa, and you can ask Pai Mei what the average Chinese martial arts master thinks of Japan. Barack Obama apparently isn’t the only one who didn’t do his homework on Chinese/Japanese relations.

and… for his first movie… he gets top billing?? thanks dad

So 9mm’s aren’t available to little kids in China like they are in LA eh?

Ah, now the China twist makes sense.

Blame the studios and DC: it started out as the Kung Fu Kid.

If you’re gonna be picky though, it should be “The Wu Shu Kid” — ?? wushu is “martial art”. Kung fu ?? gongfu means “skillful achievement”. You can have kungfu in wushu, or in calligraphy, or in making pedantic blog comments.

More old crap from hollywood. I really feel sorry for jackie chan for doing the crap he’s in. note to terrorists: pls attack hollywood with all you’ve got. k thnx bye.

Wow, this sounds terrible. Pat Morita, please!

My god this looks terrible.

This appears to be predicated on the notion that Chinese fights involve kung fu. Nothing could be further from the truth. Watch Beijing Bicycle for a completely authentic rendition of how Beijing street fights go down–it’s all slap-fighting until someone picks up a loose brick.

My kids have been taken kung fu for almost 6 years and I can tell you that calling kung fu karate is NOT COOL. Yes, this is SO NOT the Karate Kid, but the Kung Fu Kid! But, it will be like Kung Fu Panda when it was released – all the local karate schools jumped on it and make it theirs, which is pretty hilarious considering that kung fu is Chinese and karate is Japanese. Ignorance is bliss, I guess.

How to ruin a well loved Franchise

Step 1: Plan a Remake
Step 2: Change the lead character to appease the black community while completely upending the whole premise of the original series.
Side-note: Change everything about the movie while you’re at it to seem original, but keep the basic plot and title, despite neither of them making sense anymore.
Step 3: Cast Riley Freeman as said main character.
Step 4: ????
Step 5: PROFIT!!!

Ugh, movie directors have run out of new ideas and are just rehashing old things that people love into horrible monsters, like the Chipmunks or Garfield, or the Honeymooners.

I agree with the bomb Hollywood comment above. Or at least the movie ban. There should be a strike on movies until new, original plots are come up with. Anything older than twenty years is off limits to film makers.

It looks like it would be a good movie without the Karate Kid branding, but it’ll be just like Eragon, a decent movie that suffers because it doesn’t live up to its namesake.

another remake….good job hollywood, way to change it up and completely surprise me….

Jackie Chan is fine for casting, Jaden Smith is absolutely horrible! Big time hollywood star trying to make son a star as well. Sorry folks, this kid can’t pull it off. Maybe in a few years he could pull off some role but I just can’t stand the casting. Why mess with the original so much and then call it the same thing? Boooo to Hollywood for ruining this great 80′s movie.

shut up@ dave if you talk about the president one more thime i will go up side your cracker butt, white trash personally.