The Reel Rejects - THE KARATE KID (2010) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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Starting point is 00:01:21 Oh, I'm so ready. What's up? We just watched Karate Kid, 2010. Give this five stars on Apple or Spotify. For listening over there, what's up, you guys? We're back. We're back at it again. Me and Tara have taken the karate lessons taken down this movie.

Starting point is 00:01:47 Like, what did you think? That was great. Yeah, right? I actually thought it was really freaking good. Like, oh, man, this was underrated as hell. Right? And I'm shocked that people don't talk about this movie. I don't talk about this movie.

Starting point is 00:02:01 Like, why is no one, I just don't understand why it doesn't pop up on, even if we log in a Hulu or Netflix or whatever, wherever it's streaming, that it's not even recommended. It's so odd to me. Like, when I clicked on this poster to play it, I was like, I've never seen that poster before my life. What's up, Netflix? Why you're trying to bury Karate Kid 2010? It's fantastic. It's a great movie. It's a great movie.

Starting point is 00:02:20 I'm surprised I never got sequels. Maybe because it maybe bombed when it came out because people were over the factor, rejected the fact of their being a new Karate Kid. Because I think this maybe was at the beginnings of the reboot sequels and spinoffs and all that jazz, which still continues to this day. But, you know, they're not all bad. You know, sometimes they have heart. Sometimes they capture the essence of the original franchise without necessarily being a direct copy of it. I can definitely see elements that sort of homage or see how it's like, it's like George Lucas said, you know, it's like poetry. It rhymes.

Starting point is 00:02:56 But I don't think just because it has similarities. to some of the elements from the original Karate Kid makes it any less of a quality film in and of itself. What do you think the rating is on Rotten Tomatoes from critics and then audience? Did you play this with Andrew? I have done it on a movie before, yeah. We do this at home.

Starting point is 00:03:15 Oh, you do? Oh, my God, I just burped. Okay, so what do you think the critic score was for this? It's okay, guys. Critics score, let's see, I'm going to check my database. I'm going to get 79% higher or lower. Okay. It's lower. Shut the heck up.

Starting point is 00:03:30 Shut the front door. 67. Yeah. Which I'm like, exactly. Haters in these streets. Let me guess audience, though. Um,

Starting point is 00:03:38 nah, man, man, I'm, man, man, man, it's the exact same.

Starting point is 00:03:45 Seriously. I don't understand it. What the hell, 2010? Like, here's what I think. What? I know.

Starting point is 00:03:53 I'm like, why? I don't understand it. I'm like, I'm trying to look up like, reviews here, like, maybe on here if I could find it. And I'm just like, is it because it's two hours and 20 minutes that people are like, it's too long for like what it is.

Starting point is 00:04:08 They wanted more karate or a call. Like, this is a great film. It's honestly a great film. The way that it tells the story from the beginning of the end, from the beginning to the end and the way that he grows throughout this film to getting to the point where he is, where he wins, we had to spend this much time with him and take it slow to go from, he moves all the way to freaking China, he's getting beat up on. I mean, literally, any other movie would show us the bullies hitting him once.

Starting point is 00:04:41 Yeah. Once. And then he meets Jackie Chan five minutes later. And then, yeah, 45 minutes later after that, we're in the fight scene. Maybe he wins. And you're like, oh, maybe it's kind of like corny. Maybe it's too easy of a win. you had to put all this juice into her.

Starting point is 00:04:59 I mean, they hit it home with him being bullied and then eventually getting to Jackie Chan, but believably Jackie Chan going, no, I don't want to do it. Not like, I don't want to do it and me not believing him, right? Yeah. They really like, they did such a great job.

Starting point is 00:05:16 They did a fantastic job. Yeah. They killed it. I love it. I love it too. I love it so much. Yeah, I'm glad that you liked it too. And the thing about it is it's so balanced in all the things that it's attempting to do, you know, with its humor, with its heart, with its sense of scope, you know, and it really invests you in his story and his journey and not only Dre's story, but Mr. Hahn's story and the way that they bond.

Starting point is 00:05:48 And you really need that time to really get on Dre's side. he has such a distinct personality in this film it's so i don't know man it's it's just it's great from start to finish i think drayden smith did a fantastic job as a young actor as a 12-year-old actor between the comedy between the drama and the heart the things that are inspiring about this movie the sense of wonder in this movie and you know people could could i'm sure at the time it would tease like okay maybe cries too much but no i think all of that stuff really made me care about him, really endeared me to Drey and Jaden in his film from start to finish. You really feel his pain and his sense of loneliness.

Starting point is 00:06:36 And it made me want to take care of the boy. You know, Ms. Parker was just trying to do as much as she could. What I'd like to have seen a little bit more of Taraji, you know, I can never get enough of Taraji. But, hey, I think that she played just the right role within this film for their relationship. I would have liked to have seen maybe a culmination of, you know, their experience together, but ultimately it was about the main character Dre and then eventually kind of pivoted more to his relationship with Mr. Hahn. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:07:08 And yeah, I think all of the things in it really made for a very satisfying experience. I really kind of said throughout the entire film that the music really made this what it was as well. Even the absence of music when they chose not to. play anything at all. That just made all those moments that were really tense more effective. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know who this director is, but he killed it. He ate with this. He did a great job. Kudos. Kudos to him. I also think, you know, a couple of the lessons, you know, in this film is number one is like when you get, when you get, you know, pushed down, you pick yourself back up. But it's like we really saw him grow into that in throughout.

Starting point is 00:07:53 his training because that is so not a thing that Dre would ever say that's just not a thing that would come out of his mouth you know he hated where he was and we needed time with um Jackie Chan's character right to to get him to a point where we're tired of seeing him take his jacket off and put it on and put it on the stick where we're like yeah when are we going to move on from this that the movie did a great job of putting us in in the point of view kind of in the shoes of Dre's character, where it's like, yeah, it's time to move on. In any other, like, little, like, comedy movie, they would just spend maybe a montage of it,

Starting point is 00:08:35 and he looks tired, and he moves. They threw us in it. They made us feel it. Take it off, take it on, and we're like, the third day of this, what are we doing here? And I liked, though, that when he tells him, too much of one thing can be a bad thing. and we they actually show us a very clear example of that when he's like drinking too much right they there's it's all very intentional of they show us a bottle he's been drinking he starts to destroy the car the guilt takes over and now but when we see him in his everyday life he's not he's not doing that right he has his stuff together he's teaching the kid good lessons but it's like a very clear example of two

Starting point is 00:09:22 much of one thing can be a bad thing that gives us a good physical example of what's happening but it also obviously feeds in the kid for training and you do need to like remember to have fun he he teaches he throws off that lesson to the girl and then i bet you she played better because they want you know there's all lessons in it exactly yeah and it's funny kind of watching back on it you realize that mr han is this kind of secluded broken character because of the pain that he kind of less himself or that he tries to push down he focuses all his energy into building the car back up to this one day of the year where he just gets trash and destroys it just for him to do it all over again kind of staying in the cycle of pain until he finds purpose and finds a sense

Starting point is 00:10:07 of love again in dray and a reason to keep going yeah and helping him which is so great and so beautiful for both of them you know this is this uh synchronistic relationship between a boy who lost his father and a new land and this lonely guy who lost his family lost his son and his wife and they just really are able to capitalize on that relationship in a way that is extremely satisfying and you need a slower pace for it to work that way you need to be able to watch their relationship kind of bud watch them him keep his distance until the point where like okay I need to step in because if I don't this uh this kid is going to get hurt this kid is not going to survive in this environment and he was reluctant up until the point

Starting point is 00:10:54 where he saw what he was up against and he's like okay I need to take action and I need to open myself up to this kid in this experience even though it is harmful to uh to my reclusion now I will say I granted I have not seen a wealth of Jackie Chan films but to watch him act his ass off And because I know him as an action star, I know him as a comedy star, but to see him actually go into a drama, have that tearful emotional scene, that blew me away because I was, I don't think of Jackie Chan when I see scenes like that. And you really feel his heartbreak, his despair, his regret. Because the lion is like, I don't even remember what we were arguing about. I wish I can remember what we're fighting about. and I feel like that's so true of people that go through.

Starting point is 00:11:51 Everywhere. Everywhere, yeah, they go through tragedy, you know, or go through an accident like that. Like, what are we even fighting about? Like, it's about the things that are important to you. And you, like, you kind of let that go in the day to day. You know, we kind of lose sense of what our values are. And, like, we don't take the things we have in our lives.

Starting point is 00:12:13 We take the things we have in our lives for granted until, you know, it's too late. But that scene where I love that he, he's a 12 year old. So one, he's not going to know what to say in that moment, but two, he finds the way in which they both are able to connect with one another through the lessons that Mr. Hahn has taught him. And then he in turn is teaching him something without ever having to say anything. And that scene was so beautiful. And it made me feel so many things.

Starting point is 00:12:44 Yeah. Yeah. heartwarming and sad and touched all in one and this movie really deserves more love than it gets because crazy that nobody talks about this movie and I'm happy that we're getting a pseudo sequel do you know about that Tara thank you to Huell for sponsoring today's video now guys I'm gonna give you all the God's honest truth of how this sponsorship came to be sponsorship came to be we got contacted about basically partnering up with Huell before we agreed to anything the very first thing I said was

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Starting point is 00:15:10 that I think my, like the point where he tastes the sticks and he grabs his hands is a very emotional turning point. It's probably like if you were to say, oh, what's a favorite scene? You kind of think the emotional and the heart of that put into this movie is just, it's such a beautiful way of displaying the story. How I look at it, it's as though a grieving father and a lost boy are saved by Kung Fu. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:15:37 That's what this movie is about in a sentence, really. And that scene shows us how that is what's happening. There is always stuff buried underneath in a movie, the stories that were finding that have to do with him and his loss and have to do, you know, with Dre and his loss. And now we see them come together in that loss with Kung Fu saving them in the midst, you know, and we see their shadows.

Starting point is 00:16:04 And it's just such a beautiful moment when he lifts a stick up to like wipe it. face it's very like it also is a callback to what we saw in the theater when she's telling him how how they they were able to finally meet and like be together type of the thing i just thought it was so brilliant the way they showed us that and that this story that's what it's truly about and if we do get a sequel if that's what you were talking about which i didn't know gladly obviously watch it so i believe it's it's coming out next year called karate kid legacy and it's about Because I want to say the original credit kid back in the 80s with Ralph Machia takes place in California.

Starting point is 00:16:48 So this new one that's coming out as a film takes place in New York. And it's about this one kid being trained by Mr. Hahn and Daniel. Oh, wow. So they're combining the two versions of it. That's exciting. Yeah. I kind of like that. That'll be fun to watch.

Starting point is 00:17:06 Yeah. That's very cool. I wonder what the story is going to be there but I'm happy that this movie in and of itself stands as a great experience independently of the original of karate kid yeah I mean it's like

Starting point is 00:17:22 it doesn't really it's not like they went to where they're like we're going to make it over step by step but just going to be new we're going to add in some new jokes and instead of wax on wax off it's going to be a jacket thing It's like, no, it wasn't that. You didn't even see, you saw similarities in the training,

Starting point is 00:17:42 but they made it their own while still telling the story and getting us engulfed in how he was going to actually get there in a way that we didn't see coming if you had seen the original. Right. Which is great. Yeah. I think you killed it on all fronts. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:17:59 Even the little we got to see of the bully, they really got us in dear to his motivation. Yeah. got us on his side and caring about him wanting to stand up for himself. I agree. This is a great movie. I mean, I'll recommend it to friends or I'll probably talk about it. Have you guys seen Karate Kid 2010?

Starting point is 00:18:19 Like, because if you haven't, it's pretty good. 67 is crazy, guys. 67, I do think, is way too low, especially for an audience score. We know critics, whatever. Audience, though, come on. But I'm like, I can't even imagine what they would have. the issue with i i don't know that it's too here's the thing yeah i honestly think it doesn't have to do a story or plot i think when you want to get nannis to go like meh i think if this would

Starting point is 00:18:49 if you cut it down 20 minutes smash it all of that more into maybe a little under two hours maybe the score would have gone up people just they get antsy they're not here's they had a lot of fill in sort of B-roll shots of establishing the environment. They're showing us the freeway. They're showing us the sunrising. They're showing us kind of what China looks like. Establishing

Starting point is 00:19:17 shots of the outside and where they are. Yes, there's drum in between but I'm like, yeah, people just, they want to get to like this and are they really looking at the subtext of this movie? Probably not. They're like,

Starting point is 00:19:33 oh, he's getting beat up by bullies. How many times Can we put his jacket on and take it off? It's too much. Like, I feel like people don't have, they just want to get to it, which is like, it's like every seven seconds, if you can change the shot, that's how you can keep somebody engaged. And this movie is not, movies don't aim for that. That's a little bit. I honestly don't think it has to do with acting or plot or any of that. I just think, oh, if they had sped it up, I bet you the audience would be like, oh, yeah, we got to the action.

Starting point is 00:20:03 Wow. Yeah, but the thing about it. it though those things i know that are they essential to the plot no but i think exactly that's what makes it that's it has a lot of love and respect for for china and chinese culture

Starting point is 00:20:16 which is really cool and it allows you to sit with it in the environment and i just think that people are too antsy and they like they don't go to the movies i don't think they're thinking about it i mean they're especially probably not thinking about it like we would

Starting point is 00:20:32 but um that may be the problem with it is that maybe but i i thoroughly enjoyed it and i like that they were doing that of throwing us in it and allowing us to experience truly where they were so we could kind of feel like we were a part of that environment a part of his growing a part of the exhaustion of this boring part of training how does this even work into kung fu because i don't know and then when it when it clicks boy does the movie take off real We're like jacking on, jack it off. Right.

Starting point is 00:21:08 And then, whoop, there we go off to the races. Right, we're training, we're crying, we're inspired. Totally. We're eating ass. We're kicking people in the phase. It's great. It's great. I love it.

Starting point is 00:21:18 10 out of 10. 10. I would say the same. I love it. Yeah. Terry, do you have any final thoughts before we close out of this? No, just go to Reject Nation Shop.com. Get you stuff.

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The Reel Rejects - THE KARATE KID (2010) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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