The Karate Kid...lets discuss the greatness.

I like when Johnny is rolling a joint on the toilet. When I was little, I had no idea what he was doing!

Those Kobra Kai skeleton suits are ill.

Why would Ali like a dork like Daniel?

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Huh:

Superstar actor Will Smith will produce an updated version of The Karate Kid, which was originally released in 1984. The remake will feature Smith’s son Jaden Smith in his third major role since his acting debut alongside his father in the movie The Pursuit of Happyness. The original 1984 flick starred Ralph Macchio as Daniel La Russo and Pat Morita as the famous Mr. Miyagi and was set in Las Angeles California. The new version of the film, which is being written by Chris Murphy, centers around a meek young boy who lives in Beijing. He turns to a mentor to build character, defend himself against a bully and to learn that there is more to the Martial Arts than the physical element of fighting. The Karate Kid was originally produced by Jerry Weintraub, who will co-produce the updated version with Smith’s Overbrook Pictures’ James Lassiter and Ken Stovitz. The updated version of The Karate Kid is slated to begin filming in China early next year. Jaden, 10, will next be seen on the big screen in the upcoming movie The Day the Earth Stood Still.

Oh yuck. I'm tired of Will Smith trying to turn his kid into a star.

No! this idea sucks out loud.

karate? in beijing? they all look alike, huh

Oh yuck. I'm tired of Will Smith trying to turn his kid himself into a star.

Just bought the Karate Kid boxed set as I'm a geek. The first movie is a childhood favorite. The second one, well it has an awesome Peter Cetera song....

Best part of the second one is the first scene, which picks up after the end of the first movie. After that, not so great.

I think I may have seen the third movie, but I don't remember anything about it. And I'm pretty sure I never saw the one with Hilary Swank.

Just saw the trailer for the new KK movie, starring Will Smith Jr.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy3TwgpOfr0

Wow, it looks dumb. But, for consistency's sake, I will say this - from neither Reseda, or Beijing, can they get to where they do their "picturesque" training sequence without the use of a car.

In the original, you're driving at least 30 min to get to Malibu, and, depending on where in Beijing you are, you're driving at least an hour to an hour and a half to get to the section of the Great Wall where they filmed the training (looks like Badaling, which is where every tourist goes, so it would never be as empty as it is in the trailer).

I recently caught the end of Karate Kid II on tv and was blown away by the 5-minute long seen where the girl he wants to boing serves him tea/miso in a very ritualistic fashion, which he mimics in turn, before climaxing in a kiss so passionate that it instantly triggers a typhoon.

SCENE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPVYTPoITyA

iirc the stoltz gay kiss comes immediately before this

http://i47.tinypic.com/m8g41v.jpg

I wonder if you can pull "the karate kid" kick off in a real tournament without getting your ass kicked in the parking lot later

wait so jackie chan is teaching him karate in china?

There is a minor bit of controversy around that, since last year Jackie said that it would be retitled The Kung Fu Kid, which Will Smith later refuted.

So yeah:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f31f942970c-300wi

They could use the Bat For Lashes song "Daniel" on the soundtrack, since the name is a reference to the Daniel character in the original Karate Kid.

I was trying to keep it a secret but I got my friend to paint Daniel Laruso from the film The Karate Kid on my back for the single front cover. I have had a crush on him for years and it's one of my all time favourite childhood films. So I think the name definitely came from that reference however the concept on the song is a little bit more secret.

http://www.mtv.co.uk/artists/bat-for-lashes/news/108611-bat-for-lashes-interview

wait so jackie chan is teaching him karate in china?

what a disaster for karate

seeing a little too much of jayden's pinkett-smith there

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:u7IkigYNi2ETVM:http://www.blogcdn.com/www.cinematical.com/media/2007/05/retrokarate4.jpg

can't help but wonder how Jayden will stack up against Academy-Award-Winning horseface

It seems like such a teen movie, I don't see how casting an 11 yr old is going to work.

THE MAGIC OF SCIENTOLOGY

this kid was so unbearable in that wretched Day The Earth Stood Still movie

honestly one of the worst child actor performances i've ever seen.

^^^sounds like a poll

It's so sad that Will Smith is so poor he has to force his child into working so early in life.

kids that don't work build up an unhealthy concentration of body thetans dontchaknow

I never saw that him in anything else, but I thought the kid was decent in The Pursuit of Happyness.

you saw the Pursuit of Happyness

the pursuit of peepeeness

I did see it. I was told by several people I really trust that it was a "surprisingly good movie". I wouldn't go that far, but I didn't completely hate it.

I liked the performances in Happyness, mostly because it was a (will smith) movie and not a WILL SMITH movie.

too bad it wasn't a FRESH PRINCE movie

midway through the movie Chris Tucker will show up in a OMG RUSH HOUR 4 TIE-IN SHOCKER...

just caught a montage of the final contest battles, and forgot how much i fucking loved this film. particularly the korean looking guy when he ducks under the other kid. and when he fights the fat man lol.

that ending fucking tears me up EVERY TIME

Best thing about the remake by far: evil Chinese kid. Badass.

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http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/08/03/karate_kid_lost_footage_a_close_look_at_deleted_scenes_ralph_macchio_s_audition_tape_and_more_.html

The following is a public service announcement for die-hard fans of The Karate Kid. In 2005, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released a perfectly respectable Special Edition DVD of the movie, which included a commentary track as well as several featurettes. But nothing on the DVD compares to the trove of archival footage that director John Avildsen has posted on his YouTube channel. Nestled among home videos of Avildsen’s vacations and birthday parties are a series of clips that, when watched in sequence, comprise a shadow version of The Karate Kid, one that will change the way you think about the movie—even if, like me, you’ve already thought about it a lot.

What Avildsen has posted, in 13 ten-minute segments, is the rehearsal that he and his actors conducted before principal photography began. The footage is grainy and wobbly. Much of it is shot on location, but several scenes unfold on a sparsely appointed soundstage, with the actors pretending to turn on an invisible leaky faucet or drink an invisible glass of pungent Okinawan tea. Some of the scenes closely resemble their counterparts in the finished film, but others remain rough, with Avildsen and his team still working out how to frame the action. We see alternate approaches to scenes we know and love from the finished product. We also hear Avildsen discussing the challenges each scene presents, offering suggestions to the actors and discussing camera set-ups with his crew. Perhaps most exciting of all, we see the actors rehearsing scenes that did not make it into the movie, and several of these provide insight into plot holes that have long frustrated students of the movie. (Among the questions addressed by the footage: How did Daniel’s mother end up working at a restaurant, not at a computer start-up? And how did Daniel prevail over Dutch in the early stages of the All-Valley Under-18 Karate Tournament?)

Um, is this for real

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7221388/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast