Oh my.

Well they already butchered Death At A Funeral, s why the hell not.

Also btw, they're remaking Karate Kid... with Jackie Chan.

(I've never seen Real Genius, but I feel your pain)

I've never seen Karate Kid and I don't know kung fu from fucking, but I'd wager the core audience of a remake of Karate Kid are people who were eight when the original came out. Not, you know, martial arts enthusiasts.

Uh huh.

I'm part of the core audience for the new Karate Kid AND a fan of Jackie Chan, and I couldn't tell aikido from ambo-jitsu.

although half of what I make is crap.

Yeah I'm with Mike on this one.  If you're a true fan of the original Karate Kid then you might remember Miyagi's speech to Daniel-san where he explains how Karate originated in China as Kung Fu and came to Okinawa.  It was converted to Te (hand), and then later to Kara-Te (empty hand).  THis is essentially true (there are other styles, like how Pan Gai Noon became Uechi-Ryu, and Korean styles like Kang Duk Kwon and Hwarang-Do took Japanese influence and became what we know as Tang Soo Do and Tae Kwon Do, but Karate was the most proliffic).

So yeah, you don't need to be a historian to know this stuff.  If you loved the film, theres a good chance you did some light reading and figured out that Karate and Kung Fu are as alike as oil and water.  And I say this as one who doesn't prefer one style to another.

Even Kung Fu has styles in it that look very different from one another.  THe Northern Shaolin styles you see in movies is very different than what Bruce Lee started off in (Wing Chun) and what my first Black Sash was in (Jing Mu). 

There's WAY fucking much more I could say, but I'l save them for the inevitable Karate Kid DiF, or the rage-tweets that I'll pound out when I'm watching the remake.

So continuing my ZombieThreadPocalypse...

Smurfs (With Neil Patrick Harris...why Neil??!?! I was in such love with you!!)

and

Yogi Bear

Fuck....me.