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almostwittyI’ve often thought that if you’re going to go to the bother of remaking a film or a song, you should at least do it a bit differently. Like the Pet Shop Boys doing Always On My Mind, or … the Pet Shop Boys doing Where The Streets Have No Name.
Anyway, we now have the new trailer for The Karate Kid, starring Jackie Chan and Will Smith’s son Jaden Smith.
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Date: 2009-12-23 02:16 pm (UTC)Having said that, "The Kung Fu Kid" does sound like a sidestep from "The Karate Kid". Like a branching off rather than a remake. I'd be surprised if anyone being told about "Kung Fu Kid" didn't instantly think that it sounded a little bit like that thing from the 80's. It also makes it sound less like a remake and more like it has at least a smidgin of originality.
Which, let's face it, it doesn't!
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Date: 2009-12-23 02:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-23 02:23 pm (UTC)Still bothers me that virtually every big film these days is a sequel, remake or adaptation from other media. And even the "new" stuff rarely has any new ideas within it.
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Date: 2009-12-23 02:27 pm (UTC)C'mon, is there a piece of work that can't be distilled down into the seven/eight basic plots?
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Date: 2009-12-23 02:26 pm (UTC)If Rocky had never thrown a punch before he started training in that movie.
Actually, it's nothing like rocky.
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