Will Smith

For child stars, the road to adult fame is littered with the bodies of fallen compatriots who couldn’t make the transition. From Haley Joel Osment to Candace Cameron, Debbie Gibson to Jonathan Taylor Thomas, these days you’re most likely to find a former tween dream on some VH1 show about rehab or has-beens and the carnage stretches back to Hollywood’s silent era.

Only time will tell if the Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus and their cohorts go the way of Jodie Foster or David Cassidy, but presently all eyes are on the stars of High School Musical.

There is no question that the Karate Kid remake starring Will Smith’s son Jaden and Jackie Chan is an absolutely retched idea.

But what does the OG Karate Kid, the only real star of the series, Daniel Larusso himself, Ralph Macchio think?

He thinks it’s great that the fans of the film, like us, are up in arms over this blasphemy.

As if we didn’t hate this movie enough on principle.

Jackie Chan is reportedly in final negotiations to star as Mr. Miyagi in the bad idea jeans remake of The Karate Kid.

He would play the mentor to Jaden “My daddy starred in Independence Day” Smith.

As everyone knows, the part of Mr. Miyagi was legendarily played by Pat Morita in the 1984 original and sequels. He even earned an Oscar nomination he was so dope.

Let's get the painful worst out of the way first so we can end this year on the high note of what was great.

Worst
1. Hounddog
A terribly written, amateurishly directed, horrendously acted, self-important parable about lost innocence rife with Adam and Eve symbolism; the film’s major claim to fame is the rape of 12-year-old Dakota Fanning. To call it offensively bad is to be kind. 

Seven Pounds should be re-titled "Seven Pounds of Cheese."

Rotting, stinky cheese.

Will Smith’s latest vehicle, which is too irritatingly cryptic to be explained in a few lines here, earns the dubious honor of not only being one of the worst films of 2008, following closely on the heels of the unwatchable Hounddog, it is also the least comprehensible movie we can call to mind. It makes Memento look as linear as an episode of Hannah Montana.

Will Smith’s new movie, Seven Pounds, is a story so cryptic that any sort of synopsis would destroy the mystery which the film must remain shrouded in. Instead, as a descriptive, Smith refers to the Shakespearean line from The Merchant of Venice which inspired this tale of a man in search of seven people whose lives he can choose to change: “These griefs and losses have so bated me, that I shall hardly spare a pound of flesh to-morrow to my bloody creditor. Pray God, come to see me pay his debt, and then I care not!”

Where’s Carlton, Hilary, Geoffrey, Uncle Phil and Aunt Viv?

Tatyana Ali, who will always be Ashley Banks to us, came out to support her former Fresh Prince of Bel-Air co-star, Will Smith, at the premiere of his new film Seven Pounds in Westwood last night.

Seeing her makes us want to sing…

“In West Philadelphia, born and raised, on the play ground was where I spent most of my days…”

Will Smith and his co-star Rosario Dawson, who is perhaps the most exquisite woman in Hollywood as far as we’re concerned, attended last night’s premiere of Seven Pounds at the Mann Village Theater in Westwood.

Rosario, you are a vision in camel, girl!

When we sat down with Will to discuss this new film (more on that Friday), he admitted the film’s emotional core was what drew him in, rather than the prospect of international success. What he didn’t expect was that the character he plays would incite his own internal war. 

When we sat down with Will Smith during the Seven Pounds press junket last week, the amiable star, who sported an ear to ear grin throughout the majority of the conversation, was surprisingly candid.

At Friday’s press day for his new film Seven Pounds, Will Smith got called out by co-star Rosario Dawson about his painful shyness around their love scenes.

“My grandmother was really firm about how men are supposed to treat women. So for me, my worst nightmare is for an actress to feel like I’m taking this opportunity to get a little quickie feel. You know, some legal cheating going on,” Will laughed.