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Alan Smithee posted:from what I gather they don't even explain why the Jackie Chan Kung Fu China is still called Karate Kid since I didnt watch it. I feel like this show could address that without being preachy. Hell have Jackie Chan show up Because Will Smith has more money than god and wanted to reboot a beloved franchise to serve as a summer blockbuster vehicle for his kid.
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Alan Smithee posted:from what I gather they don't even explain why the Jackie Chan Kung Fu China is still called Karate Kid since I didnt watch it. I feel like this show could address that without being preachy. Hell have Jackie Chan show up Technically they don't even have to address it until everyone gets sick of these two. All these characters care about is Receda. China might as well be in a different galaxy.
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Propaganda Machine posted:Because Will Smith has more money than god and wanted to reboot a beloved franchise to serve as a summer blockbuster vehicle for his kid. If he had only called it "The Kung-fu Kid" people would have still made the connection and it wouldn't have been as dumb.
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# ? May 19, 2018 18:28 |
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I only saw the 2010 film once but if I remember correctly the bullies taunted Jaden's character by calling him Karate Kid when he tried to fight them. It was a very "Aaaaaand here's your title folks!" kind of moment. It's not all bad though, Will Smith's brother in law Caleb Pinkett is one of the main people we have to thank for this show as he's the one who got all the permissions in order from Smith and Weintraub's estate. According to the creator's he was super into the idea of the show. X-O fucked around with this message at 19:33 on May 19, 2018 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW6lx9FSiFc
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Alan Smithee posted:from what I gather they don't even explain why the Jackie Chan Kung Fu China is still called Karate Kid since I didnt watch it. I feel like this show could address that without being preachy. Hell have Jackie Chan show up It was going to be called Kung Fu Kid, but marketing tested better with the Karate Kid so they kept the name and had a few throwaway lines about karate in it. Its also the second best Karate Kid movie and way better than it has a right to be.
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Darko posted:It was going to be called Kung Fu Kid, but marketing tested better with the Karate Kid so they kept the name and had a few throwaway lines about karate in it. Isn't it Kung Fu Kid in every English speaking country except America?
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# ? May 20, 2018 03:43 |
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Darko posted:Its also the second best Karate Kid movie and way better than it has a right to be. Stop spreading these lies.
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# ? May 20, 2018 03:44 |
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I mean, it kinda is, if you correctly view KK1 and KK2 as one big movie.
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# ? May 20, 2018 04:19 |
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They did a good job turning Miguel into a scary badass. Hawk too, those kids did good training work. I wonder how long they spent learning karate moves The cafeteria fight is great, when he ducks the fat kids punch, ooh wee
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# ? May 20, 2018 04:37 |
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Solice Kirsk posted:That's what I don't get. Daniel got a "you're all right Larusso" and watched Johnny get assaulted by his psychopath teacher and yet he's holding this dude he probably hasn't encountered for decades accountable for poo poo that he didn't even do. Danny's a bitch made punk. Robby is gonna be a bitch made punk for following him. Our only hope is that Sam and failed cum son turn out to be more like their mom. It really seems like all of Daniel's resentment comes directly from his hated of Cobra Kai. The first time he sees Johnny, he's genuinely happy to talk to him (albeit with some dumb smugness about the tournament). It wasn't until he sees that Cobra Kai is open again that he starts to turn against him. I mean he did walk in and see "Strike First" and "No Mercy" on the wall again, and then heard from his daughter's boyfriend that Johnny jumped him for no reason. What's a little disappointing is that Johnny and Daniel have several conversations in this season, but at no point does Daniel say ".... so you're not teaching your students the way Kreese taught you, right?" Johnny even acknowledges how lovely Kreese was, but never says "I won't be like him." With the success of this season and with all the Ali mentions in it, I hope they can get Elisabeth Shue to guest on an episode next season.
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# ? May 20, 2018 04:56 |
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good lord i had literally forgotten about the Karate Kid remake
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# ? May 20, 2018 05:57 |
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I had too until I saw Will Smith in the credits. For what it's worth, I thought it was a competent summer movie, and I liked Sifu Chan. It was just another in a lineup of eh action flicks that year.
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Propaganda Machine posted:I had too until I saw Will Smith in the credits. I am a giant baby and I thought Chan's little lesson at the end of the "jacket" scene ("Everything is kung fu") was really moving. But yeah, that was Chan's presence as much as anything else.
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I'm pretty certain that Smith's backing of this project was him apologizing for his son making GBS threads on the memory of the original films.
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Rhyno posted:I'm pretty certain that Smith's backing of this project was him apologizing for his son making GBS threads on the memory of the original films. Eh, it wasn't that bad, especially by the standards of howlingly unnecessary movie reboots. It helped that it came out before Jaden Smith established himself as a complete idiot. e: also the kids in the movie were played by actual kids and not 25-year-olds doing coke in between takes which was a nice touch Clipperton fucked around with this message at 15:17 on May 20, 2018 |
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Yes it was.
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Clipperton posted:Eh, it wasn't that bad, especially by the standards of howlingly unnecessary movie reboots. It helped that it came out before Jaden Smith established himself as a complete idiot. Wasn't Ralph Macchio 21 when he made KK1? I thought I read that somewhere and it just my mind.
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Silly Burrito posted:Wasn't Ralph Macchio 21 when he made KK1? I thought I read that somewhere and it just my mind. Dutch and Jimmy were both in their 20s too iirc, it's nuts
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zoux posted:They did a good job turning Miguel into a scary badass. Hawk too, those kids did good training work. I wonder how long they spent learning karate moves The more I think about it, Hawk was the real winner in this movie. He went from being unable to speak he was so shy, to ripping off his shirt and yelling during a public contest. He also got the cutest girl in the movie; though she was an airhead. He also moved past his sycophantic friendship to become his own person. I can forgive him becoming a bully himself because hey that's what happens when you flip the script. Re: Jaden Smith's Karate Kid, ok it was obviously just a vehicle to help try and make Jaden's career, but the movie wasn't awful and it at least tries to depict life in another country, particularly an Asian country that isn't Japan. I mean I'm sure that was just part of the marketing strategy, so that they could court the Chinese government, but still. It wasn't terrible but in comparison to some of the other reboots of franchises that poo poo on one's childhood that falls in the middle.
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Jaden's Karate Kid is fine. It's literally right in the middle quality wise if we're taking all five movies into question. It's better than KK3 and Next Karate Kid for sure (though 3 is infinitely more rewatchable). I'd put it and KK2 pretty close but KK2 barely edges it out I think. Of the five films it's one of three that are legitimately well made and good films. I have only seen it once though, as I said I don't find it as rewatchable as the original trilogy which I've seen many many times. X-O fucked around with this message at 18:36 on May 20, 2018 |
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Just finished all of season 1. I'll echo everyone and say that this was surprisingly good. I really hope they find a way to bring in Elisabeth Shue for season 2.
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X-O posted:Jaden's Karate Kid is fine. It's literally right in the middle quality wise if we're taking all five movies into question. It's better than KK3 and Next Karate Kid for sure (though 3 is infinitely more rewatchable). I'd put it and KK2 pretty close but KK2 barely edges it out I think. Of the five films it's one of three that are legitimately well made and good films. It does edge out KKIII, but I think that's a sign of the times and production value. There's no arguing that it was slicker, but I was much more invested in Daniel than Jaden, whose character's name I don't even remember. I don't particularly want to watch it again, but he had some serious attitude problems. It's fun going back and reminiscing about how Daniel was actually the rear end in a top hat, but at the very least he made an honest go of his new life in Reseda. Jaden was just like, "China sucks; I hate this entire country." Propaganda Machine fucked around with this message at 06:03 on May 21, 2018 |
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Hughmoris posted:Just finished all of season 1. I'll echo everyone and say that this was surprisingly good. I really hope they find a way to bring in Elisabeth Shue for season 2. Have her come back to her hometown after getting divorced. Oh my God she could end up with Jonny after all.
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# ? May 21, 2018 06:16 |
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God help me, about to watch KK3. Fuckers.
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# ? May 21, 2018 08:17 |
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I'm watching KK3 now and I'm quite sure I never saw it before. I definitely saw and enjoyed the first one in theater so it's really wild to me that I had no interest in the sequels, in fact I somewhat doubt I knew they existed. edit: ok so, me during the first hour of KK3: "this isn't so bad, it's just super boring" me during the second hour: precision fucked around with this message at 11:51 on May 21, 2018 |
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I had to skip through the end of the scene in the cliff. There were a few painfully bad and awkward scenes in there.
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# ? May 21, 2018 11:58 |
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I wish I could justify keeping youtube red but the other shows are crap and so is the music. Since all it does is pull the audio from youtube videos, the sound levels are all over the place.
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# ? May 21, 2018 12:01 |
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Just cancel it, there's nothing to feel bad about.
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# ? May 21, 2018 13:56 |
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I'd like Daniel's Okinawan lovechild to visit.
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:I'd like Daniel's Okinawan lovechild to visit. Bonus points if s/he shows up wearing that sweet Chozen yellow shirt. edit: Ha, I just remembered Daniel was in an actual life or death karate fight. Solice Kirsk fucked around with this message at 14:48 on May 21, 2018 |
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Solice Kirsk posted:Bonus points if s/he shows up wearing that sweet Chozen yellow shirt. Super extra bonus points if Chozen's kid shows up and s/he blinks excessively just like dad.
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Hipster_Doofus posted:God help me, about to watch KK3. Fuckers. What's your take?
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Oh man I just remembered there was a Karate Kid cartoon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFz2ElerHnM
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Medullah posted:Oh man I just remembered there was a Karate Kid cartoon Daniel rides a torpedo launched from a submarine headed toward a battleship, jumps off the torpedo onto a airplane, jumps from the airplane into a car (that jumped) and gets in the car and lands. I'm not lying. I also saw the sphinx and I think Lao Pan from Big trouble in little china town. EDIT: I missed a motorcycle jump onto the airplane before riding the torpedo.
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MiddleOne posted:What's your take? Beforehand, I was sure that I'd seen it once and simply forgot most of it, but now I'm sure I got 15 maybe 20 minutes in and just said "nah." It was bad, but not as bad as I was bracing for. Its biggest problem seemed to be just rushed scenes and dialog. It absolutely could have been salvaged, imo. e: Oh and loving lol when Kreese shows up at the dojo and scares the poo poo out of Daniel. Also when Miyagi mocks Silvers "woooahhh" sounds and gestures. I'm tempted to skip to that part with the rifftrax on. Hipster_Doofus fucked around with this message at 21:11 on May 21, 2018 |
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spandexcajun posted:Daniel rides a torpedo launched from a submarine headed toward a battleship, jumps off the torpedo onto a airplane, jumps from the airplane into a car (that jumped) and gets in the car and lands. When you know Karate, you can do anything.
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Hipster_Doofus posted:e: Oh and loving lol when Kreese shows up at the dojo and scares the poo poo out of Daniel. Also when Miyagi mocks Silvers "woooahhh" sounds and gestures. I'm tempted to skip to that part with the rifftrax on. Then you'd miss out on them riffing on Silver in the sink, silver in the goofy car, silver soliciting a guy in a nightclub, silver... You get the idea.
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MiddleOne posted:Then you'd miss out on them riffing on Silver in the sink, silver in the goofy car, silver soliciting a guy in a nightclub, silver... You get the idea. Yeah the Rifftrax is amazing. And man, Macchio was on a lot of cocaine. And it's hilarious when you get to the last act and it still says "Under 18 Tournament" and you suddenly remember that this chubby coked-up turbo-Guido is textually supposed to be 17 and that this millionaire toxic waste mogul is spending all his time on a kid and just lmaooooooo
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The best part is "oh there's a new rule that last year's champion doesn't have to fight in the tournament, he can just skip to the finals." I guess to spare us a tournament montage or to spare Ralph from having to do more katate than necessary.
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