Just like finding a lump of coal in your Christmas stocking that is how I feel after watching the trailer for the remake of The Karate Kid that was posted on First Showing (via MovieLine). I say wax off to everyone involved with that piece of sh!t that has nothing to do with the original. It takes place in another country, the kid is younger, the challenge doesn’t come the same way, their names aren’t even the same and oh yeah that isn’t f*cking Karate but Kung-Fu. As Jaden Smith says at the end of the trailer (if you make it that far), “That’s nasty.” Yes Jaden it really is.
Here is my vent after watching the remake for Friday the 13th and now seeing the trailer for this, why the f*ck does Hollywood keep calling these pieces of sh!ts remakes if they have barely anything to do with the original? Why not sell the movie as an original movie? Then maybe people would have more respect for Hollywood these days? But if you are going to keep calling these movies remakes that aren’t than keep expecting a loss of revenue at the box office because the movie goers will rebel and not go see your movies. Seriously I really hope that for 2010 the movie studios’ New Year’s Resolution is that they come up with original movies like The Hangover and Inglourious Basterds and stop making sh!tty remakes like The Karate Kid!!! OK I feel better now!
Another ’80s movie is being destroyed, I mean remade and this time it is Vision Quest. According to Eonline not only they destroying, but they are talking to Taylor Lautner to play the role made famous by Matthew Modine. At this point the movie is development and Eonline says that “Richard Munic has penned a screenplay that is ‘very faithful’ to the original Vision Quest.” Even with that I have little hope for this movie. Well maybe they can cast Matthew Modine as his dad and find Matthew Schoeffling from wherever he is hiding and bring him back to Hollywood’s surface and then maybe I would consider seeing it.
We all know that the remake of The Karate Kid is going to be crap, and now that HitFix posted some pictures from the movie we can see just how bad it is going to be. I can’t even begin to express my disdain for this movie, the casting, the fact they call this is a remake when it is a completely new movie and now the pictures. I liked Jackie Chan, but let’s be real Pat Morita is turning over in his grave over these pictures. Mr Myagi would never ever dress like that, he would dress in traditional clothing and not modern day sweat with a baseball cap. And Jaden Smith is just too little to be taken seriously.
Hey Will Smith next time you want to do a movie for your son’s hobbies, don’t say it is a remake and just say it is a movie about Karate.
I will say something positive, the background is absolutely gorgeous.
Namaste!
Although New Moon had a kick a$$ weekend at the box office, it looks like Team Jacob is winning out for upcoming movies. As in Vampires are out and Werewolves are in. There are at least three movies coming out about Werewolves there is Wolfman, (this still one still makes me cry) a remake for An American Werewolf in London and now JoBlo is reporting that The Howling is also being redone. Sounds like they are destroying The Howling: Reborn almost as badly as they destroyed The Karate Kid according to a synopsis that JoBlo got…
The REBORN screenplay opens in a similar manner to the 1981 Dante film, with a young reporter – named Karen White – meeting up with a serial killer who is stalking her. In this version, however, there are no cops who burst in on the scene: she’s confronted and murdered by the killer, who of course turns out to be a werewolf. Only hook is, she was pregnant, and the baby lives… Cut to years later, and Karen’s son – Will – is attending a high-profile prep school, where he’s having weird dreams and the like. Naturally, he’s got wolfy tendencies, and – shock! – so do his friends. Does Will join the dark side (naturally, his friends turn out to be bad news), or fight against his urges and battle his hairy classmates?
Seriously why? Why can’t they just make a Werewolf movie at a prep school instead of saying it has anything to do with The Howling. Does Hollywood like to pretend we are Vampires and put a stake in our hearts with all these sh!tty remakes. The only thing I want for Christmas is for Hollywood to stop doing remakes…do you think I will get that present under my tree?
Proving again that no movie is safe from being remade, The Hollywood Reporter is saying that Marti Noxon was hired to destroy, I mean write, a remake for Fright night. I know I should be OK with it because Noxon worked on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, but I just can’t be OK with it. William Ragsdale was just so freaking awwwdorable in it, I don’t want to see anyone else in his role.
Seriously when is Hollywood just going to come up with original movies instead of remaking their favorite movies when they were kids and destroying them?
