The Karate Kid
one minute and sixteen seconds in and I see a "I was this tall when daddy died" thing. I'm gonna find something else to watch.
~13 minutes in. white kid assumes black kid plays basketball. More of this and I'm sticking with it.
~14 minutes. black kid can't play basketball--what a twist!
~15 minutes. old chinese man assaults black kid; young chinese girl laughs at his pain. chinese girl plays the violin, obviously.
~18 minutes. lol white kid is a total wuss! this movie nails the races so far. And two more hours of this? I hope the white kid wins the tournament by asking his mom for help.
better than the original movie. Better story, better characters (besides Miyagi), better editing, WAY better fight choreography, beautiful scenes and shots that make me wanna tour china.
your play by play watch makes no sense, and just sound like some dude being down on a movie because of nostalgia instead of just fucking watching it.
yeah, the remake of The Karate Kid. I've seen the original many times.
anyway, it was pretty lame. No one really has any motivation and it all seems to be about race. Like, the enemy teacher in the original was like this hardcore white army dude teaching popular jock-y kids to be kickass bullies. Here it is just one really angry chinese dude teaching random chinese kids to be really angry too. But they're not popular or jocks and Will Smith Jr doesn't really do anything before they start brutally beating on him. They even say things like "stay away from our kind" when he's trying to mack on this one chinese girl. Then the teacher is telling them to brutally murder this kid because, uh, his students were caught committing a hate crime? wait, there is a random story about a car and Miagi's family. nvm, we're already past that subplot. And then it ends and evil chinese kids still don't apologize to the black kid; instead they revere the old chinese dude that taught him. And where the hell did the white kid go? he leaves after 20 minutes and then shows up in the tournament audience with the black kid's girlfriend and mother (who is AWFUL, btw). But they're not friends! the entire movie has two parts: 1) black kid macking on chinese girl; 2) black kid and Mr. Miagi training. The white kid wasn't part of any of that and doesn't deserve to be in the ending! it's like they needed a white kid, so they found the whitest whitey ever and placed him in beginning and ending. It is the racial version of having a stack of $1 bills in between two $20s to make it seem like more.
Race is not once brought up in the movie.
The kid does not say "stay away from our kind". He says stay away from us. It's obvious the kid likes her, is protective, and jealous. Race is not pertinent.
"He doesn't really do anything before they start beating up on him" makes no sense, because they start beating up on him 5 minutes into the movie.
The "random" subplot about Miyagi 2's family's death is not random. The movie starts out with Jaden staring at the wall he marked growing up, one of the marks being,"the day daddy died" signifying a big moment in his life. This was just maybe a year ago. The kid is obviously not over the death of his father, and the way he lashes out shows this. The two people are brought together from their pasts in that scene, just like how Macchio (Italian) and Miyagi (Japanese) are brought together. It's about two lonely people who find each other with common pasts.
Learn how to watch a movie, stop putting nostalgia on a pedastal and then come back.
ps: first karate kid none of those kids can fight, especially ralph.. In this remake you can tell Jaden learned how to do kung fu and brought a lot to the role. The fighting and acting were great and a lot better than the awkward fighting found in the original.
The fact that the white kid barely shows up in the movie doesn't matter. He is not a pivotal character.
