Monday, March 01, 2010

The Karate Kid.
Classic 80s cinema at its finest, right?
Except now it's being remade.
At best I would have mixed feelings about doing such a thing with a movie from my childhood.
(Well... okay, I just being born the year it came out.
But still, I saw it when I was a kid.
And it was new to me, so...)
But this... this is being remade with Jackie Chan.
And set in China.
And I'm all for Jackie Chan / movies set in China.
Only neither of them have much of anything to do with karate.
So I'm kind of bothered and upset by this right now.
Damn you Hollywood.

Oh, and that Tenacious D song "Karate"?
Also terribly inaccurate.
"With karate I'll kick your ass"?
Okay, I can see that.
"Here to Tiananmen Square"?
Um, no.

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