011; a couple o' guys who were up to no good, started remakin' movies in china-hood.

will smith is pretty cool. i won't lie. one minute he's all nu-rave pre-nu-rave, chillin' out maxin', relaxin', all cool, shootin' some b-ball outside o' school, then he's shootin' some aliens, then pursuing happiness and spelling 'happiness' incorrectly. he's a machine. he's a rapping machine. he's all kinds of legit.

but i have a bone to pick with you, mr fresh prince phd. i'm not sure if you're aware of this but your son ('jaden') is going to star in a remake of the timeless classic the karate kid.

...already emotion wells up in my chest as i remember the sad passing of pat morita, the people's karate mentor. whenever i go out to the beach to perform the crane on my wood stump i can't help but hear 'wax on, wax off' in the crashing waves. i taste salt in my mouth, but it's not the splash of the ocean but my own nostalgic tears...

i don't know if this new version of the karate kid can be really be classified as a remake. a) the daniel-san character is played by a ten year old, b) it's in china as opposed to japan, c) it's in china as opposed to the us (i know karate kid 2 was in japan but you can't just launch off into asia without street smart american dicks from the cobra kai dojo) and d) it's not even about karate.

they're remaking the karate kid and it's not even about karate.

re: ten year old daniel-san, how is this interesting? the karate kid was brilliant for the awkward teenage situations! for daniel dressing up as a shower at prom! ten year olds don't have proms! ten year olds don't even have personalities yet. or souls. they may as well just re-cast ralph macchio, with his hormone deficiency he still looks about fifteen anyway. they probably serve him the children's menu when he goes out to dinner.

apparently this whole thing is being made solely as a 'star vehicle' for jaden smith. yeah, he's going to be a huge star after a film is made that has a huge ass budget, earns no money and pisses off every single fan of the original films. NO QUESTION.

if pat morita was still alive he'd find a way to either stop this or make a good movie out of it. because as we all know, man who catch fly with chopstick accomplish anything.