Jackie Chan, Ralph Macchio Set For New ‘Karate Kid’ Movie
Jackie Chan, Ralph Macchio Set For New ‘Karate Kid’ Movie
While Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio have never before appeared together on screen, even as they’ve led films in different corners of the Karate Kid universe, they’re getting that opport…
No thank you.
Agreed. Not interested.
Why not?
it could be interesting in that the grown 'karate' kid befriends a chinese kung fu artist and theres all kinds of nuance learned between the japanese artform he knows and this new, foreign form, artist and its history.
but it wont be.
Oh my god. Just write a new story with new characters. Why does everything have to be a shitty sequel?
I can't wait for modern "film" to go under. Big movie studios haven't been producing movies worth watching or remembering in a long time.
I feel iffy on this. I loved the original Karate Kid growing up, but absolutely hated the 2010 remake. Partly because I feel like it is following the trend of just lumping every Asian character into a generic "Kung Fu Guy" stereotype with no room for nuance.
Like, in the original, Mr. Miyagi's backstory as a Japanese war veteran was pretty significant to his character, and karate being a specifically Japanese fighting style made sense for him to teach.
Not to say you have to be Japanese to learn karate, but that wasn't even the premise in the 2010 movie, where Mr. Miyagi was swapped out for the Chinese Mr. Han, and the discipline being learned is kung fu, not karate. But that doesn't matter, does it? Because as far as the white people in the audience are concerned, there's basically no difference. Asian is Asian, right?
(And being a movie made in cooperation with China Film Group, which is a propaganda arm of the Chinese government, they definitely couldn't have Mr. Han also be a war veteran who regretted his years of service, because who could ever regret fighting for glorious communism?)
I never saw the Jaden smith film, but that’s a bad joke right? That it’s kung fu, not karate? How did they even think it appropriate to still call it karate??
It is explicitly kung fu. They say as much in the film.
They just called it The Karate Kid for brand recognition. It's not like they haven't abused the name before.
It is such a bad movie, too. Like, if they're going to do that, you'd think it would be a great film, but nooooooo.
Well, at least Jaden Smith isn't involved.
Haha, yes, definitely +1 for that.
Aww heck, I think Jaden and Willow are both pretty cool (their parents, not so much). Everybody has an akward teenage phase, his just couldn't be hidden because he's will smith's son.
ill watch it, but only because it was designed for me; the mary poppins of mediocrity