If you’re going to re-do something, do it differently…

[almostwitty]

I’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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Comments

[madmosh-uk.livejournal.com]

Haha! The 80s was the beginning of cinema running out of ideas. They really started whacking the sequels out then, didn't they?

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.

[almostwitty]

Avatar isn't ;)

[anivair.livejournal.com]

It certainly is. It's Dune in hte forest. it's Dances with wolves meets Fern Gully. It's also good, but original it is not.

[almostwitty]

Original in the sense it's not a direct adaptation from another source.

C'mon, is there a piece of work that can't be distilled down into the seven/eight basic plots?

[anivair.livejournal.com]

Well, true, of course, but it needn't be so very much like Dune exactly. The unobtanium must flow.

[almostwitty]

There's no cool bit where a character fires a sonic gun made out of their fingers while going "Haaaa ZUM!". Ergo it's not Dune. ;)

[madmosh-uk.livejournal.com]

Nope, it's The Wedding Crashers with blue people.