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

[anivair.livejournal.com]

I just developed a problem with this film.

It's called the karate kid.

Everything I saw him so was Kung Fu.

that's sort of like remaking the Bad News Bears, but making them a hockey team (I know, you'd call it the Mighty Ducks, but that's sort of my point).

[madmosh-uk.livejournal.com]

I gather the international release *will* be called "Kung Fu Kid" - I read it somewhere. Given that the original film featured standard Taekwondo rather than karate (though did at least have a Japanese mentor) it wasn't exactly accurate anyway.

I saw the trailer yesterday and it doesn't look quite as awful as I expected. Not a complete remake, another of those flipping "re-imaginings". The scene with the fly and the chopsticks... priceless, and a joke only those familiar with the original would get.

[http://users.livejournal.com/rinny_/]

Not to sure what to make of this yet, The Karate Kid was yet another classic film that really didnt need remaking IMO tho the bit at the end with the fly swat did make me LOL

[mseuphrates.livejournal.com]

Okay, I generally hate re-makes on principal. This? Looks pretty awesome. Wow.

[actionreplay.livejournal.com]

This looks like it could be reasonably good, as kung fu flicks go...