Some movies you just don't remake.

Star Wars, Ben Hur, Rebel Without A Cause, Casablanca, Wizard Of Oz, Apocolypse Now.

These are all classic films of their independant decades.

The Kararte Kid is an 80's Classic, like Ghostbusters, Gremlins and Back To The Future.

Leave the classics alone.

Don't remake them, they are perfect for their era in time.

A Karate Kid reboot / remake won't work because the world is now at a different stage / level / time then it was back then.

If we want to wax on and off we will go back to memory lane and can love spending time with Daniel Son and Miyaggi.

Not Big Willy junior !

Oooh the horror !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Leave the Classics alone !

Pat Morita is dead. If he was still alive, I'd allow this but who can you get to replace him? George Takei? Actaully I'd like to see Sammo Hung...

Why use Jaden Smith?  Because he's the best around.  With a father like Will, nothing's ever going to keep him down.  

Yeah, I'm right there with you, guygardner1.  Remaking classics is a load of crap.  

I doubt I'll ever see it if they do remake it. 

Though with my name being Daniel and being a kid when the original came out, I expierienced being called Daniel-San for years and even still get the occaisional Daniel-San thrown my way.

Sweep the leg!

Guy and Jf I completely and 100% agree with you. Leave these classics alone NOW!!! There is no reason for it. Only thing I can also say that other people have said. Hollywood Needs to get off it's A$$ and go back to making Original Movies and stop with the remakes.

someday there will be hell to pay put it all on the bill.

This is a stupid idea leave the movie be.  And for the dumbasses in Hollywood I say you need a crane kick to the nuts.

the karate kid is up there with the back to the future trilogy and the indiana jones movies, there's no way I'm watching another karate kid, remale, reboot or whatever they wanna call it!!!!

make the movie, borrow elements from the original, just don't name it the karate kid!

I'm not sure about this.  I think that I'd enjoy a different take on this franchise than a reboot.  Like they're doing with Ghostbusters.  Where they're not rebooting it but more of a passing the torch.  Giving a new team a chance to lock up the ghosts and ghouls of today.  Maybe get Ralph Macchio to play the experianced marial artist who is running a rundown dojo and has little faith left in himself (put in your basic troubles and conflicts for this character) and then have Smith experiancing the same problems as Daniel did when he was a kid and it gives them both a chance to grow individualy together.  Then, if successful, they can drop Macchio and Smith can take over the franchise.

But a reboot would have to many adults comparing the two movies, like is always done with these things, and no matter how many times I hear directors and producer claim that they are going a different direction, getting creative, updating for the times, blah, blah, blah, it's still the same shit, and we still compare.  There have been a handful of succesful reboots/remakes and IMO it's because Hollywood recognized this and did all of the above things all the while giving us something new to see at the same time.  Which is not an easy thing to do, hence the mass amount of failed reboots/remakes.  I like the approach of listening to the fans of the original and trying to take the reboot/remake in the direction that the fans wanted to see in the original.

And, "yes", we would all like Hollywood to get more creative in it's movie making but with times being what they are, they want to make sure they make money off of these films and don't want the risk of something new.  Look at the "success" of the movies out now.  Changling, Zack and Miri, The Secret Life of Bees, and The Haunting of Molly Hartley aren't really raking in the numbers compared to Madagascar 2, High School 3, etc.  These double and triple dips into familiar territory show little risk and that's what they want.  Because lets face it, that's what Average Joe wants too.  They're money, our money, isn't guarenteed right now and if we want to spend it on something we want to make sure that it's well spent.  Nobody wants to go into a theater expecting to walk out disappointed.  So how do you prevent that?  Plus, you have people like me who've cut theater trips down due to a better experiance at home.  This and other things all way on the money makers in Hollywood and you don't expect THEM to take the hit, do you?  Of course not.  So they film in other countries to drop down cost and take other cuts as well and then raise the ticket prices.  These, and the reasoning behind reboots/remakes, all have to do with $$$.

What's this!?! People agreeing with my eternal tirade against remakes of 20 year old movies? Usually everybody could care less and just want to see the new version. They don't seem to realize that when studios and producers do this they are throwing the worst possible insult they can at you.

They are saying, "We think you are so stupid, so gullible and sheep-like that all we have to do is throw the name of some of the classics you saw as a kid in front of you as a remake, you'll just walk like a drone with money in hand to see it again. We don't have to make it well, you'll do it like a machine. We don't have to think of anything new. We don't have to be too creative and original. All we have to do is collect the cash."

Sure they want and need to make money on their films, but whenever they do these things, appealing to your childhood nostalgia with a film that's not necessary to re-do, they are blatantly screaming how much they look down at you as nothing but meat with money  that they can tug along into a theatre like a Pavlov's dog.

Yes, the film might turn out to be good, but I just don't like to be thought of in such a loathsome manner. 

I've been there monkeyfoot - I didn't just jump on.

This is just stupid - but the majority of sheep will say "Baaah Baaaah, it might not be bad."

It's only a matter of time before they try and remake Goonies.... Then I'm burning it all down.