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Posted: Jun 22 2010 12:02 pm

I just read an article about the hatred for Will Smith's son, Jaden. I'll be honest, I can't think of any celebrity that I really like. I think this backlash is coming because people are tired of the insane amount of money these actors make and the entitled lives they lead. Celebrity kids seemingly don't even work for it. At the very least, be humble for the great life you have...
Here is a list of no-talent assclowns that are famous due to geneology: Charlie Sheen, Gweneth Paltrow, Drew Barrymore, Miley Cyrus, Kate Hudson, Jane Fonda, Peter Fonda, Bridget Fonda, Ben Stiller...there are a lot, so F it...

My wife just told me that Sean Penn’s father was an actor, too. So, I looked up the surname. Wow, two stinky actors in the family!

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/06/21/jaden.smith.hatred/?hpt=Sbin

Posted: Jun 22 2010 12:10 pm

i like sean penn, but i agree w/your assessment. and in your list you forgot the obvious Tori Spelling

Posted: Jun 22 2010 12:16 pm

If you're doing Sean Penn, you can't leave out his late brother, Chris. Chris Penn was awesome, and I think, an exception to that rule.

Posted: Jun 22 2010 12:35 pm

I did like "Best of the Best." But, that's not because he Chris Penn was good actor...it was because that movie was just cheesy-good. Wait a sec...Eric Roberts was in there: Julia Roberts' brother. That movie is like the thesis statement of my complaint!

Title: Titlating Joined: Dec 17 2007 Posts: 5042

Ok this is a bit much people cmon don't these people deserve some credit? Being a name alone doesn't make you a star. Being a name might give you break but if you suck you aren't going to last long.

If you hate celebrities and actors are entitled and get too much money, then you become famous and be a beacon how people are supposed to be.

Posted: Jun 22 2010 12:37 pm

nicholas cage is in that group too, but he changed his name from coppola to cage to avoid all that BS. as is emilio estevez

Posted: Jun 22 2010 12:37 pm

It sucks, but it's not unlike anything else in the world. There's often going to be the kid that wants (or is forced) to participate in the "family business."

Posted: Jun 22 2010 12:51 pm

This also just made me think of the irony that in "Best of the Best," we got Eric Roberts ans Chris Penn, the second best actors in the family...

Posted: Jun 22 2010 01:05 pm

Rycona wrote:

It sucks, but it's not unlike anything else in the world. There's often going to be the kid that wants (or is forced) to participate in the "family business."

its not what you know, its WHO you know....

Posted: Jun 22 2010 03:47 pm

Speaking of Best of the Best, I do like the guy that eventually got cast as Liu Kang, but wouldn't all of us had been excited as hell if the guy who played Tommy in BotB been cast instead? Then you coulda had James Earl Jones, who was also in BotB, voice Shao Kahn...

OK, I'll stop.

Posted: Jun 22 2010 04:28 pm

username wrote:

nicholas cage is in that group too, but he changed his name from coppola to cage to avoid all that BS. as is emilio estevez

Actually Estévez is Martin Sheen's real last name. Martin Sheen is just a stage name , his real name is Ramón Antonio Gerard Estévez. So Emilio uses his dad's real last name whereas Charlie uses his dad's stage name. The "Sheen" name comes from Bishop Fulton Sheen, a popular Catholic television figure from the 1950s. Martin Sheen is a devout Cathloic.

Posted: Jun 22 2010 04:45 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

username wrote:

nicholas cage is in that group too, but he changed his name from coppola to cage to avoid all that BS. as is emilio estevez

Actually Estévez is Martin Sheen's real last name. Martin Sheen is just a stage name , his real name is Ramón Antonio Gerard Estévez. So Emilio uses his dad's real last name whereas Charlie uses his dad's stage name. The "Sheen" name comes from Bishop Fulton Sheen, a popular Catholic television figure from the 1950s. Martin Sheen is a devout Cathloic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Sheen

interesting. i had no clue.

Posted: Jun 22 2010 05:37 pm

Why are people picking on Jaden Smith? He did a fine job in Karate Kid. Also, he's eleven years old for christsakes. Lay off.

Also, Ben Stiller is awesome.

Posted: Jun 22 2010 05:59 pm

I'm not sure if he counts because he's Jack Bauer, but Kiefer's dad was a pretty good actor.

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I think people are bitter because there are thousands of kids who wanted to be Karate Kid this go around, and instead of trying to find a poor kid who might actually know Karate, they go and get the kid with the last name Smif and pay to have him learn it instead. I mean it's gonna make the studio more money, it's not surprising.

Posted: Jun 22 2010 08:10 pm

They never should have remade Karate Kid. Ralph Macchio said it sucks. If Pat Morita weren't already dead, watching the remake would have killed him.

Posted: Jun 23 2010 01:42 am

Oh, it did not suck. If they had REALLY tried to remake it--the exact same story--THAT would have sucked. This one uses the same plot and beats from the original, but the settings and characters are enough to make it work. For me anyway; I liked it.

Posted: Jun 23 2010 02:35 am

I do hear Jackie Chan played a spectacular part in it, but really, my only offense is their use of the name Karate Kid. I don't think I'd have cared so much if they weren't attempting to tack on something else to my nostalgic childhood memories.

THAT'S why the cynicism-- to a degree, Hollywood knows we won't put up with this shit unless they appeal to our nostalgia. It's a kind of backhanded tactic, really. How many people are going to go see it because they recognize the movie's name from a list of 80s movies, figured "Hey, it was critically acclaimed," go see it, and totally fuck their expectations for the original?

Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 5316

Exactly...call it something else. Call it "Jackie Chan: Action Kung Fu".

Posted: Jun 23 2010 08:31 am

If I remember correctly, it's only called The Karate Kid here. In any other country it's marketed as The Kung Fu Kid.

Title: Titlating Joined: Dec 17 2007 Posts: 5042

They called it the Karate Kid because if they call it that it will sell tickets.

Posted: Jun 23 2010 01:03 pm

They should have called it Teenage Mutant Ninja Black Kid.

Posted: Jun 23 2010 01:08 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

They never should have remade Karate Kid. Ralph Macchio said it sucks. If Pat Morita weren't already dead, watching the remake would have killed him.

he didnt really say it sucked. just that it had a different vibe:

Quote:

After attending the remake's premiere, Macchio said the new film "has a very different vibe." Indeed, the action has shifted from Southern California to Beijing, the protagonist is a preteen and, uh, nobody's doing karate (the remake centers on kung fu instead)."It is bigger, the fighting's more intense, and the landscape is international. It is well-done and effective, as they have stuck to the original's story points. ... They are two different movies with the same story."

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1641822/20100617/story.jhtml

and elizabeth shue gave it her seal of approval: http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/news/a231599/shue-happy-with-karate-kid-remake.html

Posted: Jun 23 2010 05:20 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

They should have called it Teenage Mutant Ninja Black Kid.

I would go to see that. Jaden Smith gets horribly deformed from a big pile of money falling on him, the stress causes his parents to divorce, and Jada Pinkett (reverting back to her original name back when she could act; see Demon Knight) takes young Jaden to China. He's befriended by a giant rat and then gets killed by the Chinese government for loving freedom.

Seriously, I would watch the shit out of this.

Posted: Jun 24 2010 12:51 am

aeonic wrote:

Syd Lexia wrote:

They should have called it Teenage Mutant Ninja Black Kid.

I would go to see that. Jaden Smith gets horribly deformed from a big pile of money falling on him, the stress causes his parents to divorce, and Jada Pinkett (reverting back to her original name back when she could act; see Demon Knight) takes young Jaden to China. He's befriended by a giant rat and then gets killed by the Chinese government for loving freedom.

Seriously, I would watch the shit out of this.

that. sounds. awesome.

quick, call hollywood.