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The Karate Kid Remake Trailer

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ChoklitReign said:
Jackie Chan looks like the only good part. Jaden is way too young and it panders too much to the black audience. Fuck the soundtrack! Just call it "Kung Fu Joe."
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Seriously, how? Outside of the fact that the family is black, how does it pander to a black audience too much? :lol
 
OuterWorldVoice said:
I am not getting into criticizing it, but I will say this, he's way too young. The role is about the difficulties of being in your teens, girls, cars, peer pressure. Making him a tween or whatever he is, destroys the heart of the movie.
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I do think he's too young. But I think they can stay true to the spirit of the original by presenting this younger kid with a different set of conflicts, including the displacement of being in a foreign land, and racism.

Not sure it it will try to do that, though.

Looks surprisingly decent, and I'm all for Chan being the wise old master rather than the aging action star of recent years.
 
SanjuroTsubaki said:
SOMEONE GET THIS FILM A BODY BAG! YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
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I saw him in The Day The Earf Stood Still and I thought he was the worst kid actor I've seen. This trailer confirms it
 
harSon said:
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Seriously, how? Outside of the fact that the family is black, how does it pander to a black audience too much? :lol
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You answered your own question. Though I think you already knew that, you just wanted to get him to say it :P
 
Oh, so rather than a remake it's something completely different but has the same name simply to get people in cinemas that remember the original? Gotcha.

(I guess you could say this about most remakes, but whatever.)
 
Lebron said:
What about a The Last Dragon remake?


LEROOOOOY!
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That's actually happening or at least it was. RZA is involved and he wants Rihanna to play the role that Vanity played and Sam Jackson will apparently be Sho'Nuff.
 
SolidSnakex said:
That's actually happening or at least it was. RZA is involved and he wants Rihanna to play the role that Vanity played and Sam Jackson will apparently be Sho'Nuff.
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Win..
and screw the haters that movie looks awesome.
 
LukeSmith said:
This looks fucking terrible.

Jackie Chan beating up a bunch of 8 year olds is nothing compared to Mr. Miyagi beating up a bunch of highschoolers in Skeleton costumes.
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Yep. :\

Looks tolerable, though.
 
Sho_Nuff82 said:
I've got something real to show your remake in these hands:
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Yup, fuck it. I'm rewatching this on netflix instant.

SolidSnakex said:
That's actually happening or at least it was. RZA is involved and he wants Rihanna to play the role that Vanity played and Sam Jackson will apparently be Sho'Nuff.
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Oh yeah, I think remember hearing about that. That actually doesn't sound too bad. Though there wouldn't be any kid Ernie Reyes Jr :(
 
That trailer would've been cool if it wasn't for the cocky lead. Damnit hollywood. Stop trying to push this image that all teenage black kids are hood, and cocky.
 
Have to say, the only thing I really have an issue with is that Jaden seems a few years too young for the role. Doesn't look awful, especially for a film meant for younger audiences.
 
turnbuckle said:
Have to say, the only thing I really have an issue with is that Jaden seems a few years too young for the role. Doesn't look awful, especially for a film meant for younger audiences.
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Basically of the same mindset. Film doesn't look that bad. Has some cheesy comedy skewed towards younger audiences, and what appears to be some descent martial arts scenes.

Even before I read any replies in this thread though when I watched the trailer the 1st time I thought wow he does look umm young. I also think that sort of kills the story as the middle school angle just doesn't work as well as the high school angle for me.
 
It will be amazing.

Especially if they use a dragon punch in place of the crane.

Oh man, I'm really itching to see the Karate kid again now. :(

LAUGHTREY said:
People complaining about the kids age is funny, the kid was like 30 in the third one.
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Yeah, at least Jaden IS a kid.

Battersea Power Station said:
The jacket off/on thing is funny because that's how Jackie Chan fights in his movies. I can imagine the other lessons:

"Turn the chair over.

Now tumble over the chair!

Now turn it over again! Again!

Grab this flower pot and pass it from hand to hand while blocking! Do it!"
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:lol
 
Change the damn title!

Karate!=Kung Fu

The marketing department must think we really are idiots.

The Kung Fu Kid title would have paid homage to the original while being it's own thing like it's presenting in the trailer.

Other than that it looks pretty good. If Jackie gets in a fight with another head master, that's all I need to know. He's at the age he could be playing the badass master teacher characters.

Outside of nostalgia and actually growing up watching Asian martial arts films, I kind of thought the original kind of sucked on martial arts.

Also I'm rolling my eyes at the practically "It's too black" comments. :lol

EDIT: Yeah, yeah, technically it wasn't much karate in The Karate Kid either, heh.
 
No goddammit, NO!

Other than the shitty hip-hop, the film didn't look so bad until THE KARATE KID pops up. That was my ONE excuse for this film to exist and since they backed out of KUNG FU KID I will boycott this goddamn film.
 
Battersea Power Station said:
The jacket off/on thing is funny because that's how Jackie Chan fights in his movies. I can imagine the other lessons:

"Turn the chair over.

Now tumble over the chair!

Now turn it over again! Again!

Grab this flower pot and pass it from hand to hand while blocking! Do it!"
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:lol

That would be too awesome.

Seriously, his role in this film looks a million times more fitting than The Spy Next Door, accentuating his talents for a more perfect fit.
 
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