Hollywood Remakes - Karate Kid

[Agoogy]

Why do they feel the need to remake this I wonder?

Jackie Chan will be Mr Myagi
and Will Smith's son, Jaden, will be the weed turned hero...

Shouldn't some films just be left alone? especially as given new faces and scripts - stories can be 'changed'.... whereas no-one re-writes classic books...

money I suppose...

Edited by Agoogy on Wednesday 14th January 09:37

[Marf]

Agoogy said:

money I suppose...

Lack of ideas and playing it safe would be my bet. Why risk a new untested concept when they can almost guarantee anyone who has seen the original will queue up zombie like to see a remake of an old film.

[beanbag]

Agoogy said:

money I suppose...

You've pretty much answered your own question.....

[HUW JONES]

You are right...as with most if not all remakes it should be a case of "Step away from the camera"

[Plotloss]

Thats bad.

But not as bad as the news I heard on here the Speilberg is remaking Old Boy with Will Smith as the central character.

Wonder if 'no live octopus eating' will make it into Smith's contract.

[dwilkie]

Maybe they'll remake the four "3 Ninjas" films next

Just face it, this film will suck. But people will still go to watch it by the truckload and so they'll make more.

Edit: Not QUITE as bad as I thought - I've just re-read it and realised that it's not Will Smith himself playing the titular Karate Kid. That's slightly better as I don't think he can really pull of being portrayed as a child...

The thing that made Karate Kid though was the 80s hairdo's - where will it be without those?

Perhaps they should remake "Stay Hungry" next - that was one of the wierdest films I ever saw...

Edited by dwilkie on Wednesday 14th January 09:40

[merc_man]

I hate the idea on the principle that it makes me feel old. Surely The Karate Kid wasn't made that long ago that a remake is required already?

Wax on, wax off.

[roboxm3]

Karate Kid = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qae_TUTeGo

[branflakes]

merc_man said:

I hate the idea on the principle that it makes me feel old. Surely The Karate Kid wasn't made that long ago that a remake is required already?

It was made 25 years ago

[TankRizzo]

branflakes said:

merc_man said:

I hate the idea on the principle that it makes me feel old. Surely The Karate Kid wasn't made that long ago that a remake is required already?

It was made 25 years ago

And Back To The Future was made 24 years ago Now that is scary.

[OJ]

I was just about to say I wont really care until they remake back to the future... that trilogy should never EVER be touched

[Dirty Boy]

roboxm3 said:

Karate Kid = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qae_TUTeGo

Daniel son looks crap compared to the others, how on earth did he win?


I love the originals, but i'm actually looking forward to this...

[dwilkie]

He had the crane kick - that's how he won

Of course I'd have just waited for him to have to put his foot down and move towards me again, since he was already losing, and then battered him but that wouldn't have made a good film - I can see the subtitle now "Weedy kid get's beat up, learns Karate, take part in competition, gets crap kicked out of him"

Actually I would have paid to see that film...

[Dirty Boy]

Ralph Macchio is 47 years old now

[beanbag]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NfkH3Q4JOQ

Great stuff!

[parapaul]

Dirty Boy said:

roboxm3 said:

Karate Kid = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qae_TUTeGo

Daniel son looks crap compared to the others, how on earth did he win?


I love the originals, but i'm actually looking forward to this...

Daniel-san. Not son. He may, in fact, be somebody's son, but Mr Miyagi did not adopt him at any point

Edited by parapaul on Wednesday 14th January 14:02

[Funk]

Karate Kid was responsible for my first crush. Elisabeth Shue. Win.

[funk odyssey]

Funk said:

Karate Kid was responsible for my first crush. Elisabeth Shue. Win.

+1 even with that sperm perm