The NEW Karate Kid movie
 

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I dunno, looks pretty good.

I dunno, looks pretty awful

Karate kid is not karate kid with out Mr. Myagi.

ugh, this just puts a dagger right through my heart.

no Johnny Lawrence/Cobra Kai = Box office Failure

Looks aight but this looks more like a complete reboot rather than a remake the story has been changed quite drastically though Jackie Chan was a good choice here though.

If Johnny Lawrence aint sweeping legs, i'm not going.

Hot damn, looks good.

I hope they have Johnny Lawrence appear in a cameo trying to sell coke to the new Karate Kid

Can't for the life of me figure out how it looks good. The trailer is the same shit as Stomp The Yard or any dance movie.
It's garbage. What gets you guys pumped, that awful song or something?

Apparently Will Smith's kid has been working his ass off and jackie chan has been calling him a martial arts prodigy.

Dunno though, could easily just be PR for the movie though

This whole fucking thing makes me sick.

Complete piss on the original.

They might as well of done what they do when those indie studios spend all their budget on getting the right to use the name of an original film in its title, leaving all the money left for the piece of shit the film will be.

This is the same thing just on a grander scale.

Jon Kano is very serious right now

I agree with Jon Kano

Looks really bad.

Change the title and I would probably be fine with it.

Why is he learning Karate in China?

SWEEP THE LEG

Yeah that is the worst part, that he is learning it in china.

I Disagree . Fuck that shit

The original was never a part of my childhood, so I'm all for this one.

A black kid called 'Dre'. :roll:

Watching that makes me wanna burn my Karate Kid shirts.

I call for a boycott....

Yeah i think this looks at least decent, probably better

Should be called Kung Fu Kid. It takes place in China, Jackie Chan who is Chinese plays a Chinese guy and the kid is probably not learning Karate at all.

To be fair, the Crane Kick isn't necessarily a Karate attack.

Kung Fu Bro

It's still a bullshit idea.

by the way, the 48 second mark part. stolen right out of Karate Kid.

I think a Jew should be the next minority Karate Kid.

The Kung Fu Jew. In theaters soon.

I know. Maybe this movie should be called The Doctor instead.

This will suck. Why name this movie the same as the original? Pisses me off to another level. We are all doomed.

Bro Alone: Kung Fuing in China

Every movie that has had that shitty Fort Minor song in their trailer has flopped. This will be no exception.

i thought it looked kinda cack, then i saw jackie chan and it suddenly became more interesting to me. plus the fly swatter was a nice touch. i will remain on the fence for now.

That fucking Fort Minor song is in every damn trailer.

The best thing to come out of this film is to see if ask-a-ninja does an episode about it.

The Karate Kid remake
 

I just saw my first preview for it, and HOLY SHIT does it look terrible.

There's a thread for this somewhere.

ok, my bad for not looking back six months for any given thread

Jackie Chan is not Pat Morita

Jaden Smith is not Ralph Machio

This should be called the Kung-Fu Kid since that is what the kid will be learning.....IN CHINA

this whole movie reeks of stupid.

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Well put, for the record I'm not a fan of the original either its just that I know that at some point I'll be dragged to this film by children and have to resist the urge to kill myself while I'm sitting through it.

Why the fuck is it in China/Japan. And why the fuck is Jackie Chan beating up little kids in that first scene...This movie will BOMB

It's all well and good that a new generation have a Karate Kid film to watch and hold dear for themselves, but the fact is we have our own, hence why the majority of people don't like this, and what's wrong with that? of course its going to be what people who saw the original thing.

The fact is, they are still calling it 'The Karate Kid', which means it has some connection and link to the original, when it REALLY doesn't.

Kids could've had their 'Karate Kid' movie with another name. There is no point in calling this film 'The Karate Kid' at all in my opinion.

The first film is a cult film. No one said it was Citizen Kane, but it is a film a lot of people have something to say about being remade into a piece of shit. And that is for a reason.

This makes me angry.

IT SHOULD BE NAMED THE GOOK KID COS ITS SET IN CHINA NOT KARATE JAPEN I HATE THIS

I, JK, agree with BDC agreeing with ct2k.

You can't.

Now there is no Kano stupid only BDC stooooopid.

Yes we will, you black asshole.

It will make money because people love Jackie Chan and Will Smith's family. It's also a kids movie, and kids movies are usually money in the bank financially.
Still, it looks horrid. I'm not even a crazy fan of the original or some retro-purist either. It's less that I'm upset about it being remade, and more that I just think it looks ass.

I agree but it doesn't even warrant my attention or opinion past the fact I like the original I'm that interested in it.

I do not think it will do as well as you think though.

How well are we talking here? I think it will make over 100 million domestic, which is very good. Especially since the budget is probably low. Maybe 60 or 70 mill

It just annoys me, because right in the trailer, Jackie Chan says " I will teach you Kung Fu."

WTF?

This movie has nothing to do with Karate.

Yeah, this is sort of my beef. The movie takes place in China and he's teaching the kid "Kung Fu" which is Chinese and yeah, Jackie Chan's Chinese but it's the Karate Kid and Karate is Japanese and I'm not entirely sure legitimate Karate enthusiasts would appreciate having "all them Asians" and "all them karates" just sorta thrown together like it's all the same shit anyhow. I mean, I'm not personally Chinese, Japanese or a practitioner of Karate, but I hate it when every martial arts style is automatically "karate."

And yeah, I know that Karate has its roots in Chinese Kung Fu and yeah, I know that there's really no reason for me to give a fuck, and it's just a name, but it just annoys the shit out of me. The styles aren't interchangeable and neither are the cultures surrounding them.

And I'm sure the original Karate Kid had similar nagging, minute issues like this, but that was in the 80's and I had sorta hoped we'd gotten smarter than that since then.

That, and we need to quit fucking doing remakes of every god damn movie anyway. It's not even the same fucking movie, it's barely the same fucking concept, it would NOT have been that god damn hard to give it a different name and BLAMMO new fucking movie. But no, it HAS to be a remake of something, it we NEED more remakes.

They might as well call it 'Kung-Fu Kid' sounds gays as hell but at least its it's own name.

Maybe they will get around the Kung Fu issue by having the kid's mom make some kind of statement and call him her little karate kid. Or something. Seems like a pretty huge oversight otherwise.

Maybe it will inspire a whole new generation of kids to want to take Karate, even though the majority of parents won't let them.
It can also lead to all of them lying on the playground about being a black belt, or close to it.

Who fucking cares. Jesus. None of us were talking about The Karate Kid before this news. This is the most harmless remake ever. I would have like if they called it "The Kung-Fu Kid", though. It would carry the same franchise connotation, and be more accurate as some of you already pointed out.

Yeah, Karate Kid is nostalgic, but timeless classic? Come on.

I talk about the Karate kid all the time. Screw you guys

legend and I have at least one conversation about Karate Kid a week

It's a great underdog story. One of the best sports movies ever made.

Oh wow.

Really hoping this is a joke post.

It is a good underdog story.

And yes it is one of the 10 greatest sports ever made.

Please name me 10 better

Best of the Best
The Longest Yard (remake)
The Waterboy
White Men Can't Jump
He Got Game
Space Jam
Rocky
Bloodsport (genre debatable)
Girlfight
Bring It On

It's not like the sports movie genre is a goldmine of great movies. There are some great movies, for sure, but come on. There's everything from Raging Bull, to Bull Durham. Still, for every Rocky there's about a hundred peices of shit.
Karate Kid is a pretty good movie, and a memorable one. It's not in the top 5 sports movies of alltime or anything, but it's not like it's absurd to consider it one of the best.

Yours guys list are insane. Mighty ducks 2 is not better then karte kid. Really? Also bring it on? What same with space jam?

Outrageous claims here

Rocky v not better then the karte kid.

Terrible

I find it hilarious that neither of those lists included anything like Raging Bull or Field of Dreams

Just noticed that the best sports films tend to be about baseball and boxing

Don't really think of Raging Bull when I think sports films, dunno, kind of transcends the genre. And Field Of Dreams has about 4 minutes of baseball.

To be honest The Karate Kid barely registers as a sports movie so much as a martial arts movie. It just happened to have a sports competition at the end. The climax could have been a street fight and it would change nothing about the movie. My list above dealt with the sports as part of the plot.

Bring It On was actually good, btw.

That's not true at all. The movies full of baseball relating matters. It's all about the sport of baseball, and it's cultural impact. The movie culminates in a game of catch between a father and son to make a point.

I don't see how Raging Bull transcends the genre any more than Rocky, or any other boxing film like Cinderella Man and Million Dollar Man.
It's about the boxer, so it has more to it than boxing, but it's still a sports movie by far.

I guess if we're talking about actual footage of people playing baseball...That's not really what makes a real sports movie though

Pretty sure the culture of the "sport" is part of the plot. This can be said about any true sports movie.
If you consider martial arts a sport of any kind, it's definitely a sports movie as much as any of the others.

But in that case Bloodsport would be a sports movie too. I have no problem with such, just saying.

Also, Bloodsport is awesome

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