I remember the original Karate Kid quite well.
And the whole point of the movie was a struggle for one's self respect and honor for oneself as well as the protection of others.
The over theme of the movie was more about humility and honor and self-respect.
Mr. Miyagi for example, had to deal with his racism against whites. He was reluctant to teach the boy because of world war 2.
AND WHAT WAS REALLY THE KEY MOMENT WAS THE ENDING.
Instead of like Jaden Smith pulling kick ass moves with Stunt Wire.
This kid gets beaten to a bloody pulp.
But takes advantage of his opponents arrogance with his crane stance.
And KO's his opponent with a simple kick.
Karate Kid 2 and 3 were not bad either.
Especially when it takes place in my homeland of Okinawa.
The birth place of Karate.
Jaden Smith's roll is like a live action version of Kung Fu Panda.
Fun to watch. But unrealistic.
JakBaronKing
Toy Story 3
Best of the 3! Did you see Totoro?
Grown Ups
Wanted to see it, but only had enough money to see Toy Story again in 3D.
Karate Kid.
You KNOW that Jaden Smith inputed his ideas in this to make him look cool. God he's kinda vein for a young kid. AND FURTHER MORE....logically this punk from the US thinks that with just a few weeks of training he could beat up kids who train Kung Fu their WHOLE LIVES!?
I'm sure the movie was cool to watch. But thinking of how it was made. I can only imagine that humility wasn't Jaden Smith's intention.
Besides.....the original Karate Kid was WAY better. Made sense too. He got his ass KICKED! Yet he still pressed on. That was the theme and beauty of the movie.
Not...Oh so I get pushed around so I'm gonna get a good teacher and go all Jet Li on them.
That's an unrealistic fantasy.
Quite opposite of the struggle displayed in the original Karate Kid.
beastkid7 (Updated )
Yeah that DUDE Jaden. I can tell he's COCKY AS HELL! Fearless it seems on recent interveiws. Like b4 the movie came out he was a chill dude. Now he Raps about his greatness with Justin Beiber.
Or maybe he just has his fathers humor...I don know. But can you blame him he was raised by Will Smith and Jada Pickit.
And I can tell what he put in ...when he was flert'n ...his dancing.
Its always like that ...LOL
Dude I've heard -well I mean every one I know who saw Karate Kid 2010 ...I mean even older people 44, 45 said it was better than the first.
What do I say. . .I can't really say for sure because I havn't watched the old one in a while and in my opinion there completely different movies ...as in its not a real remake.
I don't feel like Qouting ...go to this link...I've been reading the comments LOL skimmed the article. tell me whatchu tink mon!
http://www.cinematical.com/2010/0 6/11/the-karate-kid-1984-vs-2010-
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