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Ralph Macchio Reveals 'Mixed Feelings' About 'Karate Kid' Remake
Access Hollywood via Yahoo News ^
| 9 June 2010
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Posted on 06/09/2010 4:13:05 PM PDT by edpc
"Wax on, wax off" is now "Jacket on, jacket off," and the original star of " The Karate Kid ," Ralph Macchio , wasn't so sure the reboot -- starring Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan -- was a good idea.
"It's like mixed feelings. At first, I felt old. Number one, you feel old when they start remaking your stuff," Ralph, 48, told Access Hollywood at " The Karate Kid " premiere on Monday night in LA.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hollywood; karatekid; movies; pointlessremake; waxonwaxoff
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"Wax on, wax off" is now "Jacket on, jacket off,"
My inner 12 year old is snickering. The teacher/student relationship takes a turn for the creepy in the remake, so it seems.
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posted on
06/09/2010 4:13:05 PM PDT
by
edpc
To: Borges; DollyCali
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posted on
06/09/2010 4:14:45 PM PDT
by
EveningStar
(Karl Marx is not one of our Founding Fathers.)
To: edpc
He’s 48? The original Karate Kid was only 25 years ago. Was he in his 20s??
To: edpc
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posted on
06/09/2010 4:19:03 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Political Correctness Kills)
To: edpc
At first, I felt old
Well you are.
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posted on
06/09/2010 4:19:44 PM PDT
by
mgstarr
("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
To: Larry Lucido
23 years old for the first one.
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posted on
06/09/2010 4:20:46 PM PDT
by
Wolfie
To: Larry Lucido
Yes. He was a 23 year old playing a teenager. Not too uncommon, really.
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posted on
06/09/2010 4:20:50 PM PDT
by
EveningStar
(Karl Marx is not one of our Founding Fathers.)
To: edpc
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posted on
06/09/2010 4:21:36 PM PDT
by
denydenydeny
("Why should I feed pirates?"--Russian officer off Somalia)
To: Larry Lucido
Yep. Macchio was 22 or 23 when Karate Kid was released. He just always looked younger because of his size and looks. He was actually several years older than his nemesis Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka).
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posted on
06/09/2010 4:23:32 PM PDT
by
DemforBush
(There's another old saying, Senator: Don't p*** down my back and tell me it's raining.)
To: edpc
Ralph played a homo in some movie....suprised he didnt play the coach in this one.
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posted on
06/09/2010 4:24:46 PM PDT
by
blasater1960
( Dt 30, Ps 111, The Torah is perfect, attainable, now and forever)
To: Larry Lucido
Yes. He always looked younger than his age. He still does.
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posted on
06/09/2010 4:26:54 PM PDT
by
kara37
To: GeronL
Hollywood hasn’t had a fresh idea since “The War of the Worlds” (George Pal/Gene Barry version.)
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posted on
06/09/2010 4:28:32 PM PDT
by
shibumi
(Pablo (the Wily One) signed up for the "Hippo Attack" ping list!)
To: Larry Lucido
He’s 48? The original Karate Kid was only 25 years ago. Was he in his 20s?? I'd have thought a younger actor could have kept the franchise going longer, but the movies love to have twentysomethings play teens. It must be that they have experience and sometimes even maturity.
Ralph at 30 was too old for Karate Kid III so they gave the part to Hillary Swank:
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posted on
06/09/2010 4:29:53 PM PDT
by
x
To: Larry Lucido
And how old is/was Elizabeth Shue?
Saw her in Hamlet II recently and she was STILL really hot! Older than I am apparently, but I sure didn't notice.
Still got a ‘Shue’ fetish I guess.
(looked it up, she was born 1963, so 47 or so, 21 when Karate Kid was shot)
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posted on
06/09/2010 4:30:32 PM PDT
by
allmendream
(Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
To: shibumi
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posted on
06/09/2010 4:31:10 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Political Correctness Kills)
To: edpc
I'm looking forward to this movie for the eye candy landscapes, etc shown in the previews.
Side note,, Prince Of Persia is a good movie!
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posted on
06/09/2010 4:33:58 PM PDT
by
2aberro
To: GeronL
I hate remakes
I do too.
Nothing disgusts me more than a present day musical artist trying to cash in on an oldie hit by doing a remake of it. It was the original artists and their rendition of the hit that made it so. There is nothing a new artist can do to enhance on it. All they're doing is "filling in" their CD's due to the lack of their own originality..........
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posted on
06/09/2010 4:38:13 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(Peanut butter was just peanut butter until I found Free Republic.........)
To: edpc
I have mixed feelings that Ralph Macchio is 48 years old. Has it been 25 years?
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posted on
06/09/2010 4:39:22 PM PDT
by
Free Vulcan
(No prisoners, no mercy. 2010 is here...)
To: allmendream
And how old is/was Elizabeth Shue? Saw her in Hamlet II recently and she was STILL really hot! Older than I am apparently, but I sure didn't notice. Shue definitely got a whole lot of sexy in the early 2000s. I know it may seem weird but I think she was dead sexy in Leaving Las Vegas, a 10 out of 10 on the depressing scale but her with the hair up in that choker and the black pumps..to quote Rachel Ray yummo! Come on guys you know you find 'Some' trashy sexy.
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posted on
06/09/2010 4:42:08 PM PDT
by
pburgh01
To: pburgh01
I liked her more as the 'all American girl' role. Never saw "Leaving Las Vegas" because I heard there was a graphic rape scene. I don't watch those. But yeah, I find a little trashy sexy. Like this...
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posted on
06/09/2010 4:46:12 PM PDT
by
allmendream
(Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
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