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1st Impression: Karate Kid Trailer

by Rich on Jan.10, 2010, under Movie Trailers, Movies

For months I have heard about the pos­si­ble remake of The Karate Kid, and I said to myself, “the plot is sim­ple and to the point, so the odds of get­ting it wrong are slim”. Sadly, I was mis­taken with that assess­ment. The basic premise goes as fol­lows: Sin­gle mom and son move to new home — son has trou­ble fit­ting in — son takes a lik­ing to pop­u­lar girl — boyfriend/bully makes life hard for the son — son meets jan­i­tor who is mar­tials art mas­ter — son learns to fight and beat bully/boyfriend in tour­na­ment or con­test of some sort.  How easy does that sound? It has been used in count­less movies and is usu­ally okay.

I’ll leave you with this: Karate = Japan­ese mar­tial art.  Jackie Chan = Chinese.  The boy =  learn­ing Kung Fu. Oh yeah, and it’s called The Karate Kid. You be the judge:

 

Trailer Credit: Traileraddict.com

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7 Comments for this entry

  • Arkady
    January 10th, 2010 on 10:19 AM

    You know, I wouldn’t mind see­ing this. I think it’s because Jackie Chan is in this though. lol  (Quote)

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  • Ricky
    January 11th, 2010 on 3:00 PM

    Looks great! Cant wait!  (Quote)

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    • Rich
      January 11th, 2010 on 4:23 PM

      You have to be jok­ing right. Unless you want to see how bad it is. I see this movie des­tined for fail­ure. More than likely it’ll see reg­u­lar rota­tion on the Dis­ney chan­nel  (Quote)

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  • Mortis
    January 11th, 2010 on 5:45 PM

    I was think­ing the exact same thing… Karate is a Japan­ese mar­tial art!.. urgh. And of course they had to put rap in the trailer, because the kid is black, right? Any­ways.. looks pretty lame, but I’m sure I’ll still watch it. I’ll wait til it comes out on DVD, though. Hey, I’m still a movie and mar­tial arts guy.. so it’s inevitable that I’m even­tu­ally going to see it, lol.  (Quote)

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  • BryanBronx
    January 12th, 2010 on 5:38 PM

    I agree with Mor­tis, and besides, I’m a sucker for train­ing Mon­tages.
    I do find it funny that the kid lives in Asia, and they just hap­pened to cast the tini­est black kid in the uni­verse.
    Stereo­typ­i­cally, he should be tow­er­ing over the Asians like God-fucking-Zilla, but they’re all push­ing him around and shit, this plot isn’t even real­is­tic!!
    haha.  (Quote)

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  • Ant Da Troll
    January 13th, 2010 on 11:45 AM

    LoL, the kid reminds me of Riley from Boon­docks, and Jackie Chan is no Mr. Miyagi. This movie looks enter­tain­ing at best, but it also has the feel­ing that all those stu­pid Dance Flicks have. I’ll def­i­nitely see this AFTER it’s out of the­aters. I’m not pay­ing to see it.  (Quote)

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  • Hyena™
    January 14th, 2010 on 1:35 PM

    This reminds me of Jackie’s old old OLD school kung fu movies where it involves unortho­dox (some­times extreme) meth­ods of teach­ing kung fu from an unex­pect­ing teacher. Drunken style box­ing to a 10 year old any­one? lol

    Another thing is…why is Jackie beat­ing up a bunch of kids???

    Anyways…I just hope they explain why the kid’s learn­ing kung fu for a karate tour­na­ment.  (Quote)

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