After a very lazy and uneventful Christmas, I have returned to the internet with guns metaphorically blazing. So what did I choose to be my first post-holiday “article?” Why, the trailer for the remake of THE KARATE KID of course. To write you the truth, I completely forgot that this movie was being remade, but it happened and here is the proof.
Maybe it’s just me, but I think it’s time that Jackie Chan took a break from Hollywood. The longer he stays in the studio system the lamer his movies become.
As far as the trailer goes, I don’t hate it. Sure, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of Karate actually going on in it and those classic cheap-labor/training techniques seem to have been taken out and replaced by “Jean-Claude Van Damme”esque montages, but at least it seems to be taking itself seriously. Hey, when it comes to crap like this, you take what you can get.
