ahar...@earthlink.net
I'm really looking forward to seeing this film. I liked the trailers and I
love Jackie Chan. I hate the title. The story has nothing to do with Karate
which is a Japanese thing.
It is about kung-fu and China! This film's title insults billions of Chinese
people all over the world that Hollywood is so greedy to sell tickets by
exploiting the Karate Kid franchise that they think folks are too stupid to
tell the difference between Karate and Kung-fu?
All those slanty-eyed Asians are all alike, eh? Typical Hollywood willful
ignorance. They could have correctly and accurately called this film Kung-Fu
Kid and with Jackie Chan's name on it, sold just as many tickets I bet!
I'll still go for Jackie Chan, if nothing else.
Amy
It's not Jaden. It's his parents. The world hates his parents but worship
money too much to say it to their faces.
Generation X and early Y are under-achievers. We coin phrases like
"underwhelm". Will and Jada do what they say they're gonna do. Collectively,
we don't like that. And so yeah, they're gonna be hatred towards BOTH kids.
Wait till Willow's album drops.
What has amazed me is the amount of BLACK hatred towards Jaden. We keep hating
on young people who are doing good work, and we wonder why the majority of
young people wanna stay under-achievers.
On Jun 21, 2010, at 10:26 AM, ravenadal wrote:
http://movie-critics.ew.com/2010/06/18/why-the-hatred-for-jaden-smith/
What is Jaden Smith's crime? Last weekend, the up-and-coming young actor, who
will turn 12 this July 8, starred in a remake of The Karate Kid that audiences
flocked to beyond expectation and, from all available evidence, loved. Given
that Smith is front and center in more or less every frame of the 2 hour and 20
minute movie (and given that his performance, as a kid who hides his sadness
behind a mask of surliness, is — to this critic, at least — a magnetic and
affecting piece of acting), I hope we can all agree that Jaden Smith's presence
on screen had a little something to do with the movie's success. Yet Smith's
rise has been greeted, in far too many quarters (including a number of comment
boards on ew.com, like the one on my review), with bitter, gnashing resentment.
This 11-year-old really has the haters foaming.
