The Karate Kid remake - Jaden Smith and... Jackie?!

[luckystars]

The trailer is great. High hopes for this.

[Shingster]

It's no shocker that the posters look similar, if you're going to have a close up of a single Karate move within the dimensions of a one-sheet then a near-verticle high kick is the obvious choice.

[Markgway]

Passed uncut with a 'PG' (presumably less violent then that the original trilogy) at a run time of 140 mins(!)

Jeez, talk about overlong.

[grim_tales]

140 mins seems too long to me.
Saw a trailer for this in the cinema before Prince of Persia. Why is it called The Karate Kid when Jackie is teaching him kung-fu FFS?

[Yi-Long]

140 mins seems too long to me.
Saw a trailer for this in the cinema before Prince of Persia. Why is it called The Karate Kid when Jackie is teaching him kung-fu FFS?

I believe it was because the kid had prior experience with karate in the USA, so the chinese kids bully him and call him 'the karate kid'...

Something like that.

Personally, I'm glad it's 140 minutes, cause hopefully that means lots of training-sequence and character-building etc. It means they wont rush through it as they do with so many 'kiddy-flicks'.

[grim_tales]

Have you seen it already or is that just how you think it will be?
I hope it has character building and stuff too but even stuff like Drunken Master/36th Chamber of Shaolin wasnt as long as that, and that has lots of training in it

[gasteropod]

Yi said 'hopefully'

[grim_tales]

My bad

[Shingster]

Hopefully a Director's Cut will come out with 3hrs of character building, then it will rival the best works of Dickens and Shakespeare!

[Markgway]

Hopefully a Director's Cut will come out with 3hrs of character building, then it will rival the best works of Dickens and Shakespeare!

It's a movie about a kid who learns to beat up some bullies.

Does that sound like a plot that requires 140 mins of "character building"?

The original did it in 127 mins - and that was quite long.

[Markgway]

Scored a big hit at the US box office with a $56m opening weekend.

More than twice what The A-Team grossed (in at second place with $26).

[romerojpg]

I love weekend box office figures, they posted them Sunday mornin, that means they guess, as Sunday aint over

[grim_tales]

They were probably estimated weekend figures...

[romerojpg]

Estimated out of their arses

[HungFist]

Old news, but anyway...

Chinese Censoring of the Karate Kid
- https://shandongxifu.wordpress.com/2010 ... arate-kid/

[bradavon]

Doesn't the Chinese government force Chinese film-makers to always make Chinese look like the good guys?