Something bugging me about new Karate Kid movie...

[Green_Lantern]

It's about a kid learning KUNG FU in CHINA.

Someone didn't do their research.

[Seneca]

1. Just having the Demon Spawn of Scientologist Will Smith in it

Is enough to deter me.

[Green_Lantern]

3. he says he's not a Scientologist just agrees with them on alot...

Why don't you like Will Smith?

[Seneca]

5. I never liked him

Even before he expressed any agreement with some of their... tenets.

I just don't like him. Some actors I have changed my mind about over 20+ years (Depp, for example), but not Smith or his ubiquitous wife and kid.

[Green_Lantern]

7. I feel the same about Cameron Diaz...

I find her very grating.

[Kat45]

24. Interesting. I thought everyone liked Will Smith.

I thought that it's because he's so likable--and nonthreaetning to white people--that he was cast as the lead in a lot of big movies and has become a huge box office sensation.

[jobycom]

6. What? You're honestly trashing someone's kid because you don't like the father?

That's pathetic.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Kid learned karate in America, Jackie Chan feels sorry for him and teaches him kung fu.

Right there in the commercials.

[Green_Lantern]

4. no..he moves to China at the beginning and gets bullied....

karate isn't even in the movie

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. Right, he learned karate in America before the move.

Karate sucks. That's why he still gets his ass kicked and Jackie Chan feels sorry for him.

So "karate kid" is mocking.

[Green_Lantern]

12. Japanese audiences are going to hate that

nt

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

14. Fuck 'em.

Kung fu is a superior fake stage fighting style.

[Green_Lantern]

16. both better than boxing

nt

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

17. No, boxing actually exists.

[Green_Lantern]

21. kung fu exists...what do you mean?

It's better known as wushu in China.

[jobycom]

10. No, PornoSyrup is right.

"the land of kung fu, Dre knows only a little karate, and Cheng puts "the karate kid" on the floor with ease. With no friends in a strange land, Dre has nowhere to turn but maintenance man Mr. Han (Jackie Chan), who is secretly a master of kung fu. As Han teaches Dre that kung fu is not about punches and parries, but maturity and calm, Dre realizes that facing down the bullies will be the fight of his life."

[jobycom]

8. I guess it won't have that gutsy realism of the first one

in which Ralph Macchio actually beats someone up after waxing a car a few times, despite looking like he'd lose a fight to his shoelace.

[Green_Lantern]

11. lol hey...in the 80s you could do anything in a montage...

Especially train for a fight or ace the big exam:


This video says it all:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLuOl36vamI

[jobycom]

13. Ha! That was about the only worthwhile scene in that movie.

:rofl:

[Green_Lantern]

15. I love that movie it is a total parody of American politics...

I didn't ever see it as an attack on liberals.

[jobycom]

18. I didn't see it as JUST an attack on liberals.

I don't know, I say I didn't like it, but I laughed my ass off all through it, and I still chuckle from time to time over the whole "Dicks fuck pussies" routine. Even the sex scene made me laugh, while I was trying not to barf. :rofl:

So my feelings are mixed. :)

[Green_Lantern]

19. I thought it made fun of the dopey liberal celebrities the media calls

Up to make liberalism look dumb or outlandish.

[Fire Walk With Me]

20. I've got one that can SEE!

[flvegan]

22. Isn't wushu a Chinese martial art?

[cheneyschernobyl]

23. I read somewhere that all the actors

in the movie called this flick "The Kungfu Kid" during filming. Plus, everywhere outside the U.S. this movie is being advertiesed as "The Kungfu Kid".

[Bucky]

25. In Asian markets it's being titled "The Kung Fu Kid"

I'm pissed that they're not casting Ralph Macchio as the lead. I mean, sure, he's 48 years old now. But he still looks like a kid. No one owns that role like Ralphie.