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THE A-TEAM Trailer!!
Merrick here...
TheFilmStage has embedded the trailer for Joe Carnahan's THE A-TEAM.
Not the highest quality, but you get the idea. Seems to play out as described EARLIER THIS WEEK. Not sure about Liam's accent here, but on the whole this looks just like a big, gritty version of...well...THE A-TEAM!
NOTE: clicking the Vimeo logo on the embed window will take you to a bigger version of the same.
Trailer removed at request of studio with promises of beautiful version next week.
Thanks to NAte for the heads up about this!
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Trailer removed at request of studio with promises of beautiful version next week.
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I just do...
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...maybe. Just maybe.
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Ran into him in the Garden Centre in Cape Town. Cool guy.
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That actually looks kind of awesome. Bringing a tank to an air fight? GENIUS!
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Never watched the tv series, won't see this.
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oh wait, they're overused and annoying
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Not too excited by this. Looks like standard fare. And the new BA seems to suck ass!
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Drugs in the milk? Mmmmmmm..... I ain't gettin' on no plane Hannibal!
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hoping for a better trailer.
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Think I'll pass.
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For a really interesting approach to a trailer, go to YouTube and type in "Magic trailer." Now that's got some thought behind it. Not to mention being scarier than hell. That dummy gets me every time.
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Horrible casting.
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Looks like absolute dog shit that will get lapped up by people who think Eraser is a good movie.
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After watching this, I'm 50% disappointed, but the other 50% kinda like it and won't give up on it yet..
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Jan 08, 2010 10:47:13 AM CST
They needed the original theme to kick on right after -
by professor_monster
- he says "maybe you can hire - The A Team"
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...and I like tingly.
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I AIN'T GETTING IN DAMN PLANE!!
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Crap like this should be kept out of the theaters.
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so this actualy looked better than i anticipated.
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...the whole air plane sequence looks iffy with all the CGI. Had hoped this movie would be 100% live action like the show.
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WhAT you guys think? I pity this personality bankrupt fool filling Mr T's shoes
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Poor pro wrestling, no one cares about you any more.That preview neither bored nor offended nor excited me. Good cast though, so who knows.
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Which is shame, considering how good Narc was. I'm really bummed by Carnahan's career trajectory. But then again, all of this nostalgia pop is what's really cheapening movies. So we've had Dukes of Hazzard, Charlie's Angels, now The A-Team...what's next? T.J. Hooker starring Chris Pine?
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Unless the clips in the trailer are all from the beginning, it seems like they got rid of the "Face is the villain" script! Yesssssss!
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...YES.
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was horrible line of dialogue.
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He had personality on The Ultimate Fighter Reality TV show when he and Rashad Evans would butt heads and sass each other. I expected them to either fight or make out at any moment.
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Well, this looks predictably retarded. I'm sure it'll make a mint. At the end of the day, who needs self-respect?
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I like the subtle, symphonic version of the original "A-Team" theme. It kind of reminds me of how the theme muisc was handled in "Speed Racer." I was never a big fan of the show. I watched it for a few weeks because Mr. T and Starbuck were in it and then I lost interest in it, but this could be fun. That last sequence in the airplane/tank is pretty insane.
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Trailer looks good. Movie will probably be decent. And I will definately see it. Compared to the crap action movies Hollywood shits out nowadays, this looks like Die Hard!
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Neeson is always solid; adding Sharlto Copely has me sold.
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They couldn't help themselves. NO fucking sale.
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To me, this trailer seems ok. Maybe after a few dozen views, it will grow on me. It seems too serious like MIAMI VICE. I wanted the first trailer to hit a home run like Tom Cruise's first MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE trailer in 1996. Now that was a teaser equipped with the theme song/score. Hell, THE FUGITIVE trailer was one of the best. To me, Liam Neeson and that guy playing B.A. (trying to be Mr. T) doesn't seem right. With MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE, this is how you do a teaser trailer for a well known tv show with a popular theme score...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leVUoBSiSnY...Maybe the closest we ever get to a true THE A-TEAM movie is in August when THE EXPENDABLES comes out.
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The no mark who plays B.A looks like he has the charisma of a four day old glass of water.
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This film is not also overbudget just from BC filming but lost money when they would build an expensive set only for Joe Carnahan to not like it costing money for the crew to sit around while they tore it down and built another one.
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yeah, i sort of wish they could have just stuck with Mr T, but maybe that would have camped it up. I was dying for the original theme to start blasting. maybe a slight reorchestration would fit the trailer, but still conjure those inner child goosebumps
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But Rampage and Sharlto don't have the presence that Mr. T and Murdoch had...and those 2 characters are supposed to have the biggest presence. They should have gotten Jim Carrey for Murdoch...and I agree with FreeBeer...Terry Crews would have been better for B.A...sans mohawk.
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The only reason to watch the movie version of another shitty 80s TV show.
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this looks like fun, but I don't think I need to see it in the theater. NetFlix.
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Was iffy on this until the very end. The ludicrous parachuting tank and automatic weapons fire is the A-Team I know and love. Hope the full trailer has more Murdock and less Face though.
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Cool! Garden Centre used to be my local mall when I lived in Vredehoek. Now I get blown to bits in Milnerton.... What did Wickus say? Does he live in Cape Town?
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If you don't like The A-Team, really there's no hope for you and you might as well just give up on life now.
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...4 times out of 5 he'll be gay...especially in New York...but I think this applies everywhere.
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THE A-TEAM!!!
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Jan 08, 2010 11:08:25 AM CST
There was a script where (possible spoiler, I guess)
by bruce of all trades
Face was the villain???
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I just became VERY excited!
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Looks like a LOOOOT of fun. Count me in.
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I'll be keeping an eye on it that's for sure.
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as yackbacker said, if the whole thing is a load of cg bluescreen bullshit then whats the fucking point?! bring back real stunts hollywood!! this looks even lamer than the expendables.
p.s. does they change it to soldiers for hire because the kids have never heard of a soldier for fortune or something? or was it to avoid associaction with the computer games? either way it ruined the already way too boring voiceover. by the end i almost expected the guy to go 'bueller? bueller?' -
he wanted too much money so producers balked and went with rampage jones. It's a shame as i have see Ving's screen test and it was so good it made me cry. I can rmember Liam turning to me after the screen test and saying "oy mate I think we gots us a Mr T on the Barbie". Or something like that, i'm terrible with accents
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tu tum psst
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of course.
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that looks so over the top!!! so a-team!!!!
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Nice one, bru. I didn't ask him, really. I think he's on holiday. The guy was kinda shy. I think he's not quite used to all the attention yet. Wore his A-team 2009 production cap. That's how I recognized him.
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Not a great trailer. But I will wait for the quick time version before i cast my final judgment. It still could be cool.
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That's like changing the Pledge of Allegiance or something. That alone wouldn't turn me off to the project, but the mind-numbing CG crap does. And as someone else mentioned, Rampage has no charisma in the trailer. He's like a stunt double for the real B.A.-- Mr. T.
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just does.
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Even so, I'd probably still watch it if the A-Team was a puppet movie, where the puppets were actually turds in little costumes.
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A-Team trailer looks a million times better than the Expendables. Looks like they will actually get an 80s tv show to actually translate to the big screen. -
With a terrible American accent.
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Lekker man, wish I can bump into him and get him to sign my District 9 DVD. I'm going to keep my eyes peeled.
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But please don't let face be the villain
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And I never watched the show.
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And instead hes doing this? What-the -fuck-ever.
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I mean this looks awesome! I loved the tv-show when I was a kid, and this looks like something I will love in the future! I just love it!
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you'd appreciate the plane/tank crap.
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...part of the TV show was when they constructed something crazy. Don't see anything like that in the trailer... And have to agree about the tank. Looked good until that bit.
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... desert wars simply aren't as photogenic, but Iraq is the only war that on-screen veterans ever fight anymore.
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Gimmmee trash bags.
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followed closely by A-Team vs. SWAT
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that if I went to see this movie I’d be walking out of the theater feeling embarrassed for having paid to watch that movie? Anyone else ever get that? You kinda just want to slink away back to your car and not talk about it.
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who was my least favorite character on the show, this looks like a wait for cable and watch only if there is nothing else of interest on. Which is about what i expected.
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Neeson started talking. He took crap for Next of Kin with Swazye, but I thought he did a great hillbilly accent.
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Is no one else calling The Shart out for his accent? Unless he's suppose to be some bad foreign comedian doing the lamest American accent ever? It sounds like every person who's not American and tries to do an American Accent. And all they know are Clint Eastwood films and Arnold films.
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That was a really good trailer, I loved the voice over mirroring the show's intro and the re-orchestrated A-Team theme sounds excellent. Definitely looking forward to seeing this.
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I thought of the 80s movies/series re-imaginings need to be family friendly? WTF?
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Although it seems a little long, as it's just a teaser I'd have made it shorter so it was more like the TV show intro.
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GET SOME FUCKING CREATIVITY.
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And I strongly believe that's what most of the reviews of the movie are going to be like.
"Not bad, but it could have been better."
There won't be any "nuke the fridge" moments that make you want to poke out your own eyeballs in protest, but it won't induce any mass geekgasms either.
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Jan 08, 2010 11:54:45 AM CST
There should have been zero dialogue in the trailer . . .
by royston lodge
. . . except for the narration.
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Fuck, all those fades to black between every shot nearly turned me epileptic!
"Sucks to be you"
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... "homey".
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I like face and Murdoch in this, however they really miscast everyone else.. Liam will never be George and that MMA wannabe will never be Mr. T. I will go watch it because I am stupid and love the series. However I know it will disappoint. They needed in this trailer BA being hit with a tranquilizer to get him on the plane.
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Now there's a movie worth seeing.
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Fail.
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Looks about as good as you could expect it to. Could be worse I guess.
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Or our glorious Grenada War. "I've seen the smoke and the carnage, the dying boys calling for their mommas. I was in Grenada and that, my friend, was the real shit."
Even I cant post that without laughing. But I do wonder in 10 years if we're going to start getting crazed Iraqi vet movies. Oooh - there you go - remake "The Park is Mine"! Whoo hoo! -
... At least, I HOPE the military doesn't choose it's targets based on how cool the movies about them will look 10 years later.
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...but now I kinda DO. --A little more serious... better cinematography ... bigger budget... but still the SAME in a way that the kid in me wanted to see. TANK out of the back of the plane? --why the HELL NOT! THis is the ATEAM... this is the kind of stuff theyre SUPPOSED to do-- a little cheesy? Maybe-- it may even be a bad movie-- but the show was pretty bad and I LOVED it --and theyre getting me in the theater out of pure nostalgia ...so I guess we'll have to wait and see if its a fun flick.
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If it isn't made out of spare parts they found in a junkyard, I'll be really upset. ;-)
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I hope somebody drugs my milk if I am ever made to sit through that .
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. . . the van slamming through the fence looks very promising. The camera angle is VERY reminiscent of the awesomely weird camera angles from the show.
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No Ruger rifles = flames on Optimus
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I saw some sides from it a while ago. Looks like at least one scene from the books made it into the movie. The telekenitec scene. Wonder when that trailers coming.
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Jan 08, 2010 12:10:40 PM CST
If You Wanna See A Film About Canada And USA Going To War...
by miami'scanadian
...Go to www.thecontinentfilm.com
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But I am slightly underwhelmed and somewhat indifferent.
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The tank part sold me. Ridiculous movies can work if the ridiculous settings are just right!
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Too much CGI, of course, and nobody can follow Mr. T, but good enough to watch.
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Looks like a scene something John Woo would do for Hollywood a la MI2.
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... at least for the trailer anyway. Because unless they throw us something more interesting, I'll probably watch it on a borrowed friend's DVD when it comes out, but otherwise I wont be making the effort to trek to the cinema. If they wanted to make a movie they should've done it back in the day with the actual cast. I mean, what's up with BA? Where's all his funky fool's gold!?
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Jan 08, 2010 12:15:59 PM CST
Miami'sCanadian: That opening shot will cause rejoicing...
by royston lodge
...in every Canadian city that is not Toronto. Heh heh heh . . .
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I was in the USAF... Yes, tanks can get dropped out of planes... they are loaded on what are called pallets. Chutes are attached to pallets.
I was on a plane when two hummers were dropped... The little wheels on the floor of the plane which allow the pallets to roll on out were GLOWING, they were so hot.
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... it's realism in an A-Team movie.
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Neeson will do fine, but it would've been a better fit for Mel. He'd be far more at home chomping cigars and wearing a Godzilla suit. For that matter, I think the whole project was more interesting as a 90s "big name" project: Mel as Hannibal, Jim Carrey as Murdock, Tom Cruise as Face, and Ving Rhames as Mr. T. I'm sure the new version will probably do well. Just about everything else seems to these days, regardless of how much hate or criticism is thrown around. At least the new film looks like it's intended to be goofy fun, rather than some heavy-handed attempt at "realism".
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Parachutes deployed moron. And I agree, too many edits in that trailer. My brain convulsed. Looks fun tho.
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I'm in.
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I was actually thinking to myself "huh...this looks much better than I thought it wou-" and then the fucking CGI airplane/tank scene.Plus, the gun shots at the end sounded wrong...
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Jan 08, 2010 12:27:54 PM CST
B.A. should have rolled his eyes at Murdock after . . .
by royston lodge
... Murdock says "now we're talking."
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this movie looks so fuckin great im mad jacked for this one
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If the back story isn't much longer than what they showed in the trailer, then it might be OK. I don't think "The A-Team" is really an "origins" worthy kind of movie.
If it's a ninety movie... here is how it will break down. Get ready to set your watches.
0-10 mins - A-Team gets out of jail. BA drinks/injected with knockout drug for plane ride.
11-30 mins - Meet the client.
31-45 mins - Kick nemesis' ass.
45-55 mins - Celebrate.
56-65 mins - Get captured by nemesis.
66-68 mins - Interrogation by nemesis.
68-70 mins - Placed in warehouse full of tools and raw materials.
71-72 mins - Nemesis leaves them to carry out plan, tied up and unguarded.
73-77 mins - Montage of A-Team building impossible device/escape vehicle.
78-85 mins - A-Team kicks ass, while plan comes together.
86-87 mins Face makes move on human female.
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Color me anxious.
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i think hes gonna be awesome as b.a., who do u guys think would be better?
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Not only that, you're totally wrong.
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The best A-Team movie is Three Kings.
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Jan 08, 2010 12:34:52 PM CST
Waht a waiste of Mauro Fiore and Alan Silvestri.
by the_genteel_gentile
They're the only two aspects that this project got correctly. And for what? Narc was a fluke, Carnahan proved it with Smokin' Aces. Say what you will of Bay, but he would have never done anything as stupid and cheesey looking as that tank thing at the end of the trailer. THAT smacked of McG right there. I'm not saying Bay should have directed, but I would definitely have prefered him to Carnahan. No question. Oh well, it's all over now. There went the dream of every 80's kid of seeing a big budgeted slick slice of nostalgia that could actually be taken pride in. Just leave Magnum P.I. alone!
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"I'm sure the new version will probably do well. Just about everything else seems to these days, regardless of how much hate or criticism is thrown around."
That's because regardless of how much "geek pull" Harry has convinced talkbackers they have, our whiny opinions don't mean shit.
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But lets face it, what we really wanted was some flippin' jeeps, and - at a push - Neeson in an alligator suit.
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Worst casting in years. Nice job.
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That guy can deliver any line with absolute PERFECTION!
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Just wow. Can't wait.
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Stop being so humorless.
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Richard Dean Anderson will probably still do it, too.
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But my idea for an A-Team movie is even closer to Tears Of The Sun (the serious A-Team movie). I look at Tears Of The Sun as a being the better backstory for why they were sent to prison. Because you know Willis and company went away for war crimes after interjecting on behalf of the african citizenry and causing a international incident. Being sent to prison for standing up and doing what's right is more interesting than being framed for some crime that they didn't commit.
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It's all serious and bad ass....La-ha-ame!
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Looks like a blast.
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But then I have no taste, so take that as you will.
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I laughed so hard at the end of the trailer that I'm convinced of one of two things:
A) They really nailed this trailer!, or,
B) They really nailed this trailer BECAUSE it's actually going to be real good!
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BA passed out in the back seat while the plane is spiralling out of control? Love it. LOVE IT.
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Jan 08, 2010 12:54:54 PM CST
guess i missed the memo declaring i should give a fuck
by jackknifed_juggernaut
because i don't. at all.
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the bullet hits all miss the A Team title logo? BTW, this reminds me of the SWAT movie, that was competently done, nothing more, nothing less.
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No one gives a fuck if you give a fuck.
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Expendables trailer made me cringe; this doesn't. I'm officially stoked for A-Team. This actually reminded me of the BMW film that Joe Carnahan directed. Smokin Aces was always a comic book adaptation without the comic book, and in a sense so was the A-Team show.
Perfect melding of talent's sensibility and material, geek-royal cast (save Rampage). I think this is a win. Fingers crossed for Losers (my favorite comic). Fail of epic proportions or complete and total surprise of epic proportions for Expendables.
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I did NOT notice that until you pointed it out. You definitely get a patented, coveted Royston Lodge No-Prize for seeing that.
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suggestion. After realizing what an incredible douche Rampage is in interview situations I can't support this chump. 100% ego, this guy.
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I saw vehicles flipping over, automatic weapons fire, and shit blowing up. 75% of the A Team formula is complete right there!
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FUCKING AWESOME!!!!!!!!
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Jan 08, 2010 1:05:08 PM CST
The first half of the trailer actually gave me hope.
by the_genteel_gentile
The latter half shattered such notions.
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Ugh...ugh....William Shatner's pubic hairs are turning grey...that's more news worthy than this POS.
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I think they've got my money, based on this.
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Either that or you're jumping to conclusions after seeing 90 seconds of a 90 minute film. One or the other.
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the tank scene was fucking awful.
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another unnecessary remake from idea-deprived hollywood.
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Which means it looks beyond stupid. Maybe GI Joe will get some competition for dumbest modern action flick.
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How quaint. And so 5 years ago.
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. . . actually bouncing OFF the A-Team logo. The logo appears to be made out of armour plating, and those don't appear to be bullet holes - merely scorch marks.
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Jan 08, 2010 1:22:54 PM CST
the second kick ass trailer looks good. whats this about anyway?
by thedannerdaliel
ooohhh the a-team. nice.
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. . . the more I ENJOY the tank scene. Especially the twisted comedy of the guys bouncing around inside like Jiffy Pop popcorn.
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Crazy... That's what that nonsence was the last 25% of the trailer. I might still see it.
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My description on Monday was pretty accurate, right? Hannibal and face meet at a bay rather than a beach though. But it looks like a whole lot of fun, which is the point! Watching it online, the CGI isn't of the best quality, but y'all need to see it in higher resolution. It knocked my socks off on a 30ft screen with blaring DTS sound.
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Looks like shit
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. . . the high-rez .mj2 file online for us.
I thought you WANTED the temporary respect of people you've never met!
Seriously, epic fail, man. Epic fail.
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Everything else looks pretty good tho... I mean people can say this is going to be a mindless action flick but WHAT THE HELL else do you expect from an A-TEAM MOVIE???At least Shia Lebeouf aint in it!
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JEEP FLIP AT 00:59!!!!
JEEP FLIP AT 00:59!!!!
JEEP FLIP AT 00:59!!!!
JEEP FLIP AT 00:59!!!!
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In the Eighties they woulda built a fake tank out of plywood and dropped it from an aeroplance while filming from a nearby helicopter... and it woulda looked awesome!
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...this, however, looks very very horrible.
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If your gonna rehash an old TV show because your lazy and out of ideas...at least play it up more. Looked like any old action movie with one action scene you might remember.
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Hooray for pleasant surprises!!
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... like in that fucking Mission Impossible movie. Heh heh heh...
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I was hoping for an lethal weapon feel. Ya know guy doesn't want to pay his bill so he leaves a grenade on the table, everyone hauls ass..no boom.."its a dud" Then owner of a drug cartel and restaurant pulls up after getting intel...Gets sniped by the telephone repair man about 50 yards away who politely slides down the pole after ending a phone sex conversation. He drives off in a black van. He picks up the man who left the grenade who is hitch hiking. He reaches out the window and rips off the fake phone company logo revealing a red racing stripe.
"I love it when a plan..."
The van is pulled over by border patrol Whom leans in and asks for license and registration. A black fist puts his lights out...
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and it knows it does. Not the least bit serious...just big, dumb, stupid fucking fun. Pass the popcorn bitches.That said...Rampage is no "T", fuck that Rampage has zero charisma or noticeable acting skill in this trailer. And Liam is no George Peppard that is for Fucks sake sure.
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It ran well as goofier M:I trailer. Should be fun. Casting looks adequate. Although Neeson!???? I need convincing. I guess Clooney passed.
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I hate to be negative about a movie I haven't seen yet... I really do... but that just looks so bad. And the effects at the end are just laughable in this day and age.
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I am assuming that's why he decided to do this trash.
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No way, how did I miss that???? I'm going to have to hang my head in shame. You're a better man than I, Royston.
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but i'm in. Peter Griffin must be pissed.
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Same shit. Different pile.
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It's based on a real thing:http://tinyurl.com/y9efrnd (SFW)Altho, it looks like shit in the trailer.
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Jan 08, 2010 1:56:16 PM CST
like a poster said: good until the tank scene... DUUUH..........
by damien chowder
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... until i saw the whole aereal stuff and the flying tank bullshit and my heart sank. count me out of this movie. when this trailer hits theaters, i will be able to hear the eyes rolling. Why the fuck this action movies have to have bulslhit like this, anyway? Who are the retards who come up with this kind of bullshit? And who are the even bigger retards who watch and like it?From the guy who directed NARC? Unbelievable!
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At first I didn't like that tag-line. But seeing it up there at the end of the trailer, I've warmed up to it. It actually fits the action/comedy concept of the A-Team quite nicely.
Like, is there no Plan B because they're so damn good they only need a Plan A? Or is there no Plan B because they're so batshit crazy that they never stop to think about contingency scenarios?
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Is if we could have a jeep ramp off of some of the debris in midair. You pissheads would lose your shit, and I would laugh. If Matrix were here, he'd laugh too.
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they're called A-team. Not B-team. Get it? Me neither.
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That looks sweet as a fuckin nut, couldnt give a flat pack fuck what any other punter thinks about it, good fuckin times. That said, i was just taken by how much of a 80's tv show vibe they managed to insert into just over one minute of clips. Remakes, especially 80's remakes suffer from being either flat out comedies (in the broadest sense of the word) or flat out dull (Miami Vice), this, hopefully, seems to strike an even balance.
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... but mainly because it gives me an excuse to write the words "batshit crazy".
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Looks better than I thought it would.
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in tone, somebody forgot to ask which one.
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Make me want to punch whoever edited this trailer.
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I'll give it a shot in theatres.
Oh! and for the dude who asked earlier about how they got BA into the plane, I'm picking, that they got him into the tank, without him knowing they're gonna roll that tank into the plane. I'm also picking that mid flight he'll realise this and freak out... I'm just guessing but that's what I think will happen. -
Jan 08, 2010 2:51:16 PM CST
Yeah at least this doesnt look as bad as the Miami Vice movie...
by mrhazard
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Again, I gotta give props to davidwebb for noticing that he's unconscious.
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FLOCKA!
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... why would the tank's machine gun be loaded?
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Any talk about staying true to the show is ridiculous - I watched it as a kid but look at the show now -it is unquestionably a piece... of... shit. Mr. T was not a thespian even if he is an icon, so Rampage will do nicely (he seems natural enough for the 2 lines he has in the trailer). The movie has to be bad ass to give you the feeling you had of watching it as a kid and the trailer makes it looks like it is.
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Who's got another link? It's taken down already!!!
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now replaced with Parachuted the Tank.
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Agreed on both counts. There's also the fact that, for all their complaining, fanboys are largely hypocrites who will go see just about anything. (If for no other reason than to continue to be part of the online discussion.)
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I downloaded the trailer to my hard drive, so here's a sendspace.com link for you.
Note, Sendspace links are only temporary. I'll be taken down automatically if nobody downloads it after 30 days. I think that'll be plenty of time, eh?
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and Liam nailed it as Haniball.
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...WE'VE GOTTEN ALL THE FEEDBACK WE NEED FOR THE TRAILER. LET'S MAKE THE EDITS AS NECESSARY. GET TO IT!" -Joe Carnahan & Studio Superfriends
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south USA,? is the A-Team going against redneck hillbillies like they did in 90% of the series? (the rest 10% was in latin countries). they creators seem to firmly use the formula of the tvseries,and if thats the case,then that sucks.
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Jan 08, 2010 3:53:27 PM CST
They promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to . . .
by royston lodge
. . . the Vancouver underground.
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this MMA shithead is embarrassing... (he's right behind me, isn't he???)
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Looks like a fun time at the movies. Brings back memories of 8th grade for me!
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Did SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE magazine threaten to sue their ass or something?
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F'ing awesome trailer, I'll be first in line. Hearing that theme was beautiful.
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Bruce Willis as Hannibal Eamonn Walker as B.A. Cole Hauser as Face Johnny Messner as Murdock and Tom Skerritt as Decker. Keep Mauro Fiore on as cinemtographer and Get Zimmer to score it. What's that? Oh...yeah. Well, that was a pretty good movie.
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So the A-Team is opposed to birth control?
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I was looking forward to seeing how this movie would turn out but the trailer left me kinda................................................................................................................................................................................
Here are a few things I noticed,
Liam and Co. didn't show a single ounce of chemistry In this trailer.
Putting a MMA fighter in a mohawk doesn't necessarily mean they are B.A Baracus or that they can act.
Parachuting from a plane in a tank doesn't look "cool" It looks like shit!
Bradley Cooper should've spent what's left of his 15 minutes on something else.
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...the studio's serious lack of faith in the audience's intelligence.
soldiers-of-fortune --> soldiers-for-hire
maximum-security stockade --> maximum-security facility
crack commando unit --> elite commando unit
I think the studio assumes that the average movie-goer doesn't know what "soldier-of-fortune", "stockade", or "crack" means.
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NOW! Why do movie studios leak this pixellated shit? It's their own advertising - they want as many people watching as possible and they want it in the best quality available. This is not 1994 and people have broadband.
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B.A. is unconscious on the plane.
The shot of him is very quick, and he is partially obscured, but he's clearly unconscious. -
I don't care about most of the subtle changes to the voiceover but "soldiers for hire" sounds lame! give me "soldiers of fortune!"
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Neeson and Cooper look and sound great, not sure about the other two. But Face and Smith were always my favourite characters on the show anyway.
And dropping and tank out of a plane and shooting down a fighter jet would look shit in any other movie, but this is the A-Team, so it somehow works! -
While I too have doubts about Neeson as Hannibal (Sorry Liam. You're awesome. But your accent in this trailer reminds me of the Family Guy bit where they made fun of your american accent.), Sharlto Copely looks like he's going to steal every scene he's in with his performance as Murdock.
He totally looks like he's going to really pull off the crazy without being too much of the goof-ball that Dwight Schultz was.
And...
I don't think Jackson's performance as B.A. is really the problem. After all, Mr. T isn't Master Thespian (sorry T, you know I still love you). I think the problem is that B.A.'s dialogue in that trailer doesn't fit. Mr. T always tried to emphasize that he was a tough-guy who wasn't a jackass. The dialogue they put in that trailer makes him seem too much like a wannabe gang-banger.
I mean really, "homey"? Why on Earth didn't he say "fool"?!
Also, the trailer tries to make Faceman look like an action hero, instead of the smarmy con-artist (and borderline coward) that Dirk Benedict portrayed.
Except for Liam, I'm more willing to blame the writing rather than the acting.
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I agree, but these days anytime you see ANY guy with a mohawk/faux hawk he's probably either gay or just horribly unimaginative. Except for those poor toddler boys whose aging hipster parents are trying to live vicariously thru their kid's hair styles. You know who you are. Please stop. For the kids.
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Caring this much about The A-Team should really be in the DSM-IV as a mental illness.
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damn it! taken down. admittedly I was just moaning about the quality, but I wanna see again! I am so fickle!
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Jan 08, 2010 4:41:35 PM CST
So After this is Michael Bay gonna remake "Mamas Family"
by chocolatejesusman
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..than in this shitty trailer. looks like a fucking abomination.
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Frankly, I love the t.v. show and think the trailer was great. Bradley Cooper looks good, Liam always rocks hardly any Sharlto and B.A looks like B.A. I'll see it. Fo show...
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Jan 08, 2010 5:00:44 PM CST
Just like this site has a "Spoiler" box for some stories...
by burnhollywood
...It should also have a "Too late!" box for when the studio throws a hissy fit and makes TeamHarry remove it...
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...a local copy on my hard drive, knowing that it might always be yanked by the studio.
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some people judge a film from a 90 second trailer. The A-Team is repeated all the time in the UK, and that is just what i saw in the trailer, just updated and with a big budget. The A-Team was never about realism and i'm sure if the money would have been there, we would have had scenes like the tank falling through the air. As for the CGI looking poor, trailers are released all the time without the fully rendered effects. That might not be the fully finished product. It really amazes me how some people are adamant something is going to be shit just by seeing a few seconds of footage.
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Fuck the haters, bring on the jazz
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..that "MMA wannabe" is an ex Light Heavyweight champion and Pride legend who's beaten the shit out of more tough guys than you've had premature ejaculations. And that's a lot.Have some fucking respect, you clueless tit!
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..but before that, it was Kenan and Kel-era Ken Foree. Says it all really, Crews would have made a bad-ass BA.
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that bit with the tank has put a smile on my face all morning. Not sure why everyone is so opposed to it. It's very....very stupid...but that's the point. Looks better than The Expendables at least. Can't wait.
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When they talk shit about some film only to be visited by studio execs with baseball bats, rope, and potato sacks!
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Jan 08, 2010 6:21:58 PM CST
I dont understand why this didn't cast Kimbo Slice.
by gibsonusa returns
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The first A Team movie was called "Three Kings". Clooney was Hannibal, Wahlberg was Face, Ice Cube was B.A., and Spike Jonze was Murdoch.
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I waited all damn day to come home and watch this since our faggot computers at work have outdated software, only to see it's been deleted. Son of a bitch!
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How did they already recast and shoot it under the radar?
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did the A-Team TV show ever have an actual ending?...or did they leave everything open ended
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Charlie's Angels with less tits no?
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Tanks can and have been air dropped, so why are so many people crying "Flaming Optimus Shark Nipples!" over it?
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I don't know why some are bitching about it either. It's a f'ing A-TEAM MOVIE! Go jerk it to Colin Farrell in Miami Vice all you haters.
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My god this site is filled with ignorance. Tanks have been dropped off of MANY planes including B-52's and C-130's for years (among others). Of course, some types (like the Abrams) cannot but most tank types are absolutely dropped. You think they swam off the deck of some aircraft carrier then drove a thousand miles to the theater of battle?
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I think that was pretty good. I have great memories of the A-Team... but I attempted to watch the pilot on Hulu and couldn't get into it at all, because it was crap.
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Somebody wrote that. They might have even wrote something else then thought STBYH would be better. It's one of the worst lines I've ever heard uttered.
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Do you guys even come on this website? You shit on everything. There were 9 bitchy posts within the first five minutes of the "article" going up. Here's an idea. Make your own movie or shut the fuck up.
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rampage made such a cunt of himself on the last series of the ultimate fighter. anyway, cant wait. loved the a team as a kid.
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Honestly.
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It will be cringe worthy crap
Machine gun fire point blank
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But if I had to choose between this, The Losers, and The Expendables...Well, lets just say this will not come out on top.
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The fact that they decided to use some 2 bid-negro crackhead like "rampage" is a huge mistake and will definitely hurt its box office take. All other replacements of the A-team are not a big deal, because they have been replaced with better actors generally. But the studios decision not to use the original Mr T (who looks like he could eat this rampage bitch for breakfast) is a great miscalculation. I don't see why Mr. T couldn't reprise his roll, unless he is sick or dying or has better things to do, which doesn't seem to be the case. The studio FALSELY presumed that just because the rest of the cast have been replaced, logically, so should Mr. T. Well, that's precisely the reason why this film will underperform at the box office.
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You're luggage!
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That's news to me. You're luggage!
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I might see it. I like how they tease you with a bit of the theme song. And the tank scene looks pretty cool.
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This is like another remake of the Charlie's Angels remake ... With XY chromosomes.......
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also shit, I never knew Bradley Cooper was ripped.
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you've got up and comers making awesome career decisions (coupled with some shite mind you, but still awesome filmographies) like Fassbender and Garfield. And Copely picks his next film to be this shit.
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http://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/breaking_news/story/982411.html
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http://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/breaking_news/story/982411.html
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RIP Art Clokey…
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one of the overlooked movies of this decade. didn't see smokin' aces. this one looks well-intentioned by carnahan, but that trailer doesn't sell it at all. you can't replace mr. T! i pity the fool.
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This didn't get much reaction, Cop Out and Kick-Ass got tremendous laughs. Both, even though the Cop-Out trailer sux.
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Of course my posting this probably assures that it will get taken down now as well. Also, props to the poster far above for the trash bags reference. That was a great Murdock scene. And all the people that cried "plant" eralier need to apologize to strangewood. And to those that keep saying the parachuting tank thing isn't real, please refer to the numerous posts (some with proper annnotations) that explain that it is. The people surviving that landing is another story all together.
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not so much any more. I still wanna see it but that trailer gave me some pause. I will now begin quiet prayer that they haven't totally ruined this movie.
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Quality and enjoyment wise anyway, at least that's my early bet. And I want The Expendables to own both, but let's face it, that one could easily go either way. Despite that 50/50 bet, I want to continue to hope and believe The Expendables will indeed kick ass, so I will, until proven otherwise. Anyway, back to The A-Team vs The Losers, The A-Team will of course make far more money, as The Losers has bugger all name recognition to it, and hasn't gone wide appeal pg-13 route. But unless they severely fuck up The Losers journey to the big screen, and The A-Team manages to go beyond likely best case scenario of being passable fluffy fun, and actually turns out legitimately good, then I can't see it being anywhere near as good a men on a mission action film as The Losers has the potential to be. Of course, maybe we'll get really lucky next year, and The A-Team, The Losers and The Expendables will all turn out to be worthy of action fans time and money. Could it be the year of 'The...'? Probably not, but it's nice to hope.
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Fuck off. Enough said.
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fuckin retards. He was that show.
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Dwight Schultz is da man.
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I watched every episode religiously. I really dig the show. and it had Starbucks from Galactica in it too, how cool was that?This trailer, however, just gives me the notion that the movie is just another action movie with the obligatory retarded fucking stupid bullshit over-streatching believability iditoci action scene for the sake and pleasure of the retard fucks who pollute the theaters with their mouth breathing. In the case of this movie, the aereal tank fight bullshit.
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EASILY the nadir of the entire series.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szLoJhywUdQ&feature=player_embedded
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... please!
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Now that she was trying to show she was a legit actress and not just a hot piece of ass. Teach her right to not remain 23 forever.
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I want to go to the movies to see movies. Not telly shows. That looks about as much fun as a fire at an orphanage.
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and is going to FLOP.and Obama is going to be elected again.all that from this teaser.
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Who can hate Schultz?
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famous role,is the one from ST TNG,where he does that mechanic with no self-esteem.he also had a cameo in FC.
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Fucking hope so. GOP has onlty mannaged to fuck up not only the USa but the whole world when they are in power. Fuck GOP. About tiem america create some new party that cana ctually care for the interests of the people instead of being the private club of the very rich and the religious fanatics, like GOP is.
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He was my favorite character in the whole show.
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And I fucking looooove Eraser. I know it's cheesy but it was like Commando on CGI steriods. Arnie fighting alligators,jumping out of planes and hanging on to the side!! James Caan in his bad ass glory.... who can hate on Eraser. I know its against popular opinion but Carnahan does this kind of thing good ,a lot better than McG,and if all we get is Smoking Aces with ATeam players, i'm in.To me the trailer looks liker what GiJoe could have been.
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Man up, you whiny fucking bitches! You think a flying tank's not realistic enough for a show where a fucking HELICOPTER smacked into the side of a cliff, burst into flames, plummeted a couple of hundred feet to the floor, then two dazed pilots got out and ran off? You want realism, go see THE HURT LOCKER. If you want to see something fucking FUN for a change (God knows there's few enough of those on here), give this a chance. THE A-TEAM wasn't exactly renowned for its real-world physics and veroisimilitude, y'know.
I think this trailer fucking ROCKS, and I can't WAIT to see this movie! Fuck tha haterz... -
If you watched THE A-TEAM religiously, then you'll remember how every week they'd turn a drainpipe, 3 8mm slugs and a handful of nails into a fucking rocket launcher, God knows how many jeeps and cars would flip, crash, explode or just get wrekced, and yet NOBODY DIED - or maybe you remember the episode with the helicopter crash, as I just mentioned.
If you remember all THAT, but have a problem with that flying tank scene... Either I call bullshit on you watching ANY of THE A-TEAM, or you're being a straight-up hypocrite. THE A-TEAM wasn't renowned for its realism... -
"It will be cringe worthy crap Machine gun fire point blank hitting no one. Massive car crashes people walk away from and worst dialgoue in universe. "
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EXACTLY what THE A-TEAM looks to be! There's too many contrary twats on here who log on just to say "WAAAGHH this movie isn't what I wanted, whcih is the exact OPPOSITE of what I just saw, WAAAGHH!!". Anyone expecting realism from THE A-TEAM either hasn't watched the show in decades or is a boring fuck for wanting one of the most deliriously daft shows of the 80s to be some miserable gang-on-the-run downbeat flick along the lines of THREE KINGS. It's the fucking A-TEAM! It SHOULD be daft!
Which is why I also enjoyed GI JOE. It's a movie based on toys... WHY the fuck would it need to be PLATOON or RAMBO? It's going to be a kids movie! And it was... and it was just fine for me, a big dumb loud explosion of a movie, but reined in from the stupidity of, say, VAN HELSING. I think GI JOE was the beginning of the Comeback of Stephen Sommers.
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People complaining about unrealism in The A Team need to be slapped upside the fucking head.
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I can't wait for "Three's Company: The movie" Starring Patrick Dempsey as Jack, Scarlett Johansson as Chrissy, and Jim Carrey as Mr Roper
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Dwight co-hosted with a radio show a few years back (UFOs Tonite! and Dark Matters) the radio bug bit him. He began his own show several years ago called "Howlin' Mad Radio" which is a take off on his character "Howling Mad Murdock" from the A-Team. Dwight's show dealt with politics which is one of his real loves. He had recently been doing fill-ins for major political talk show hosts like Jerry Doyle, Laura Inghram, Rust Humphries and so on. He feels very strongly about the direction the country is heading, he has a daughter that just graduated from VMI, took a commission in the U.S. Marine Corps, and will be heading over to the "sandbox"
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Thanks for setting the fight back to make this movie, dick.
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although i remember an 80s movie which was like that,5 hot women (they were celebs in the movie) made a team to avenge a drug lord,they even had a modified van with weapons,but i cant recall the title of the movie.
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If you guys just took this "news" down now. I just clicked on it for the third time...feel compassion for those with literally no short term memory.
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YOu're making the same argument (mistake) as the GI Joe / Transformers appologists made.. Oh cause in the cartoon, NOONE was killed by a giant laser blast.. the movie should be stupid too!!
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oh i forgot the teaser has shown all the movie.yes,shame on me.
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So that's not unrealistic. Riding inside one, the other hands IS, but its the fucking A TEAM for god sakes you humorless fucks get over it.
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Yes, they used off-the-shelf stuff to make their contraptions. but there was soemthing realistic or at least plausible to them. They weren't as far fletched as McGiver's. And what the movie does? CGI out of their predictment so they can deliver impossible stuff. I'm sorry, but that doesn't rock my boat. In fact, i rate that as a proof of a movie's lameness. Yeah, mvoies are worst when thety have that Flying Tank bullshit like in The A-Team's trailer. That's how it is. If you have more tolerance for that bullshit, that's your deal, not mine. Me, i can pass very well without them.
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In once case the bad guys think they have the upper hand on BA and Hulk. They are led to the gym only to be confronted by among others Ricky The Dragon Steamboat, and The British Bulldogs. Carnage ensues as the bad guys get their asses handed to them.
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...Or anything else that happened in THE A-TEAM. It's the fact that is WASN'T real that made it great - I'd rather have the TV series as-is than show the bloody, gory consequences of blowing all those henchmen away! Should you WANT realistic gore, I heartily recommend you see the fourth RAMBO movie - it's fucking awesome. Man vs mounted 50 cal gun!! But THE A-TEAM was a KIDS show - why shouldn't the movie play like a kids' show? And a parachuting tank is no less plausible than that helicopter crash sequence where the two pilots miraculously walk away.
SUSPEND YOUR DISBELIEF, ASI! It's what great escapist cinema was INVENTED FOR!! -
You know who you are,
I know tanks can be deployed from a plane.
I can enjoy a cheesy camp flick SUCH AS Critters, Independence Day, G.I. JOE even Eraser....
Okay, maybe not Eraser,
but C'mon... In theory the Tank vs plane fight sounds cool .
But in 2010 A.A (After Avatar) If the Tank CGI looks like shit....
guess what?
IT LOOKS LIKE SHIT!
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was locked in a room which happened to be one of Wal Mart's storage rooms.mind you,he is one of my fav heroes,but that tvseries is heavily outdated.I wouldnt mind a McGyver movie though,with Murdock as his nemesis from the series.
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... All the exapmples you give are kids' shows. So the only rules they need to play by are their own. And one of the rules in THE A-TEAM was that no matter how outlandishly cool the stunt, how dangerous it looked or how bruising the crash or explosion, the henchmen ALWAYS escaped alive.
Why didn't they have CGI parachuting tanks back in the day? BUDGETARY CONCERNS. You wouldn't have enough money to pull a sequence off like that back in the 80s - and we didn't have CGI worth a damn in the TV series' heyday. But you know, had they got decent CGI and a bigger budget, I think a parachuting tank with Face on the big guns would be the LEAST they would have done. THE A-TEAM was just that awesome... :D
As for GI JOE / TRANSFORMERS - if you're saying you want to see the bloody aftermath of a giant robot fight, watch ROBOCOP or TERMINATOR: SALVATION - something aimed at ADULTS. Why in the name of all that does not suck would you want an R-rated GI JOE or TRANSFORMERS? They're for KIDS! THAT is why they aren't full of gore and dead people - because they're for KIDS!
As long as they play by their own internal rules, it's all good in the hood for me. TF was all about fighting robots - so were the movies. GI JOE was about military cool, action figures fighting action figures. There's many things about those movies that you could argue made them suck, but the audience they were aimed at and made for is NOT one of them - that is something all these movies got RIGHT. -
Both holed up in Wal-Mart warehouses. Even Michael Bay would have trouble keeping up with the excesses of THAT movie...
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For great big action sequences in movies, nowadays CGI seems to be much easier on the budget than traditional SFX. Don't get me wrong, particularly in SF and fantasy I much prefer to see real SFX rather than CGI - but how the fuck would you do the tank sequence for real? Impossible. So they did it with CGI. And what's wrong with that??
Not EVERY war/military movie has to be PLATOON, THREE KINGS or THE HURT LOCKER. Some get to be ALIENS, RAMBO or PREDATOR too... -
pose as a Middle Eastern bad guy (Brown make-up and all), Sneak into a tent to rescue a friend and make a plane from a crate, window fan and a box of matches to escape, coolest shit ever.
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something like a jet-tank with wings and propulsion system.you can fly it or drive it.in fact somewhere i have seen a picture of a flying tank.let me find it.
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But if you cast an actual actor, they might, like, reveal their humanity or something. By casting rappers or athletes, the audience can relax and enjoy the stereotype.
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he was awesome in Tropical Thunder,he could pull it as Haniball
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One of the things that most amused me even back then when i watched THE A-TEAM was that regardless of how many explosions and shooting and flipping of cars they showed, nobody, and i mean, NOBODY died. And the violence never seem to really hurt anybody. Hell, the series even had a very non-xchallant and happy attitude to the whole violence it showed. It was all so sanitized, so jolly, no nice, so happy! Even as a kid i wondered if that was just not a bit too much! Hell, back in day i saw japanese cartoons for kids which dealt with violence with a more mature and sense of plausability, and which showed the praice and cost and hurt that violence brought. That the A-Team was more innocent on the use of screen violence then a cartoon is in itself mind-boggling.I think that what made me really liked the series was the characters themselves, how every one of them were so goofy, and how they interacted with each other. Back then i couldn't express that in this words, i wouldn't even be aware of such, but in truth, it was the guys who made me watch the show every week without fail. And it had Starbuck from Galactica.As for the pipe rockets, yes, they are plausible. In fact, the pipe thing in a rocket is just to provide direction, because a rocket itself doesn't need it to fly away, they operate on different principles then gunpowdered ballistic projectilles. And you would be suprised of how many weaponry you cna make with daily objects. Well, not to the extent of sophisticationof the A-Team and McGiver, but if you really know it, you can do a lot of effective home-made weaponry. Just ask anybody who had to deal with guerrillas.
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It has been done before. But the point is not so much that the tank in the trailer is falling with a parashoot, but how the scene is played. first of all, those tanks ar deployed EMPTY. Yiu know why? Because of the impact when they land. Nobody would get off without a major injury, or even get killed, if they were inside a tank deployed like that. At the very leas,t bones would be broken. Worst, the traielr shows this people being pretty well off inside the taknk while it still falls,a nd Face is able to coem up and shoots the airplane in quite a very steady stanze. Unlie what would happen, in tha,t they would be shaking and stirring around inside the tank worst then a dry martini. Even by going fantasy like the movie does, not evne doing a bit of a lip service to that it just retard and absurd and completly takes one off a movie. It's not a cool moment, it's a dumb moment.As for suspense of disbelief, read what roger Ebert wrote about it: suspension of diebelief is not given, it's earned. The movie has to earn it. and our suspension of diebeleif happens without a conscuious though. We ar emanipulate dinto it, we don't voluntarily provide it. If you are willing to swallow any fantastical impossible action movie buillshit, you do that on your own accord, but that's not suspension of disbelief, it's just your own deliberate choice to eat up anything that a filmmaker throws at you. Suspension of disbelief is soemthing a filmmaker manipulates you into it, not somethign you give away. As so many other things, like the notion of theory and quantum leap, the popular believed definition is wrong.
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They are indeed good choices. Only one problem: both are in their middle or late 60s.
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inside the mech after that big fall,realistically speaking.But you know what? That scene if was filmed in a way to respect the law of physics,then it wouldnt have become iconic as it is now.
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you bring a tear to my eye.....that was beautiful.
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Jan 09, 2010 4:52:11 PM CST
just learn how to use yer spellcheck num nutts!!!!!!!!
by theycallmemrtibbs
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I honestly don't care if it was realistic or not. In fact I didn't even think about it, because I was too busy rubbing James Cameron's cum out of my eyeballs.
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If first, it wasn't in a teaser trailer to be put under such nerd boy scrutiny.
Who knows... maybe he parachutes out of the tank before it it hits the ground and they play the A-Team music and he floats away.
Considering this is something I never seen attempted before on screen, it should've been a scene tat was held under wraps until the actual release. It definately would've been one of those moments that people would've talk about after the movie is over, if it worked.
I just think the set up is all wrong, it looks cheap and goofie....
Not holy shit!!!!
did you just see that?
....u feel me?
That's why I'm critical
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I prefer my coolness with realism. The lesson i learned, after watchign moveis all this years, is that if you can pull coll stuff with a good degree of realism, they are far mroe cool and awesome. This is why the shootout at HEAT will surpass any "kool" shit that hacks like Michael Bay, Jar Jar Abrams, McG and and any other shits like them can ever dream to pull out of their asses. If a filmmaker can't put some degree of realism or believability in their action scene sand need to go full fantasy, then it's a failure of them as filmmakers.
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You will notice that with the new Rambo movie, Stalone went old school in the effects. And actually, Sly provided a reasonable way why Rambo would mannage to make the carnage he does in the climax of the movie, has he was standing on the high ground with the heaviest machien gun on the field. and even he would had get killed if it were not for the shielding, as it gets hit by several rounds, and he gets wounded. whichy was a far more display of believability then all the first two sequels combined. So, that example of yours don't work.As for the silliness of the parashooted tank and that it needed CGI to accomplsih, i replywith this: it shouldn't even had been made in the first place. Shouldn't even be part of the movie. Stupid useless silliness resolved. Simple, isn't it?
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And even SUNSHINE fails quite many times and bluntly in the realism. The instant freezing in the vaccum of space and the every which way the gravity inside the ship works being prime examples. Good movie, should (and could) had been so much better.
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People surviving impossible falls are a dime a dozen in bad dumb action movies. The parashooted tank is merely a superficial detail. It's in true the same old, same old. I'm not that easily impressed.
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... to not watch this movie. Good job, trailer boys!
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Jan 09, 2010 5:28:04 PM CST
In all fairness, Indiana Jones did a lot of Insane shit as well.
by theycallmemrtibbs
Let's see,
He jumped from a plane with two other people with a life raft and survived. Chopped an extension bridge in half and smacked into the side of a mountain like a Human fly swatter then proceeded to climb it like a ladder. Jumped into an icebox to escape a nuclear blast and that's just on a lazy Sunday afternoon.
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It's exactly what I'd imagine an A-Team movie to be
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I don't care if it's something they do in real life, the effect looks awful. I can't believe people are actually defending this trailer. Then again, people defend G.I. Joe, which makes my brain hurt.
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Have you even seen the TV show? Jesus Christ. You uppity faggots need to lighten the fuck up.
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And those heroes did crazy shit and were seemingly invincible. I don't think being believable was the point.
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I normally dislike cheap action movies with bad cgi like this and GI Joe, but nostalgia has sucked me in! I think their problem will be it only appeals to old farts like me (38) who don't go to the movies as much as younger farts.
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Embracing my inner fan boy...
1) I don't mind the tank in principle, but it's lousy CGI. I would have done this movie with 1985 unapologetic production values. i.e. NO CGI.
2) Sucks to be you Homey? Really? For the trailer, don't you have to go with the iconic "I pity the fool?"
3) Just for fun, if I'm casting: Tom Selleck as Hannibal. He can pull off heroic, glib, stogie-smoking; he's an 80s icon; and he's the right age. Brad Pitt as Face; dapper and dangerous. Jim Carrey as Murdock; and I hate Jim Carrey. And as B.A.? Mr. T. There is no one else. Sorry.
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...lets turn The Equalizer into another shallow crap action flick with the wrong actor to play Robert McCall, make Mickey Costmeyer and Control out of CGI and turn the Jag into some big HumVee product placement.
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I don't have high hopes for the A team movie. Maybe I'll be shocked, not schlocked.
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How was Daybreakers?
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How was it?
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daybreakers was fucking awesome, best vampire movie in a while
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How long til he officially complains about not being asked to reprise his role and how stupid studio was in having someone else play his part ...
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No reason. Just suck it.
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though that was back when Stephen J. Cannell was stating on his website that the script was going to be a continuation of the original story into the present, with a "B" Team of sorts (ironic). In that scenario, Faceman should've aged into the role of the commander. Perhaps they could've avenged Hannibal's killing or somesuch?
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perhaps Mr. T has copyright on "I pity da fool"?
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No it was cheesy as shit. Just like this movie will be. What do you people expect with this source material. Hamlet version of the A-Team?
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Spoof would not. I want to like this movie, and will probably go see it, but, so far, the tone of the trailer is uneven. Before the trailer I got the impression that the movie would be light hearted bordering on silly --yet sincere-- adventure stuff, like 80's action shows. This trailer starts out surprisingly serious and hard, and then kinda loses that along the way. Hopefully the finished product is just a fun time.
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The problem is, EVERY FUCKING ACTION MOVIE is playing mythology. They aren't the exceptions, they are the rule. To the point of banality. And sicne each tries to "better" the previous one in this impossible action stuff shit, the result is that mroe and more the movies get more stupid in their impossible stunts. The stuff they are showing is jsut beyond all the pale of believability. And me, well, call me crazy, but i'm the kindof person who needs some believability so i can be manipulated into suspend my disbelief into the amazing unsusal stuff that a movie shows. This tank shit from the trailer, this is bad filmmaking. and it's not evne spectacular because it's so fake looking. So they have two wrong thing sin a row packed in one, a phoney impossibility. It's stuff like this that seperates the good form the bad movies. And the fact that it's an action movie doesn't justify it one bit.
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I know what you mean. As a fan of the show when i was a kid, even tehn i knew of it's goofiness. Yet i accepted it because, evne in it0's own reality, there was a limit they could do. To this day i still have found memories of watching the show, and we all know the name of the characters, whothey wer,e they are minor cult figures in the imagination of culture of me and my freinds and people of my age who watched it back then. Everybody remembers the theme music, the characters, the actors.But i cna't see the movie as part of the TV show. It has the same title. Same character's names. But it feels completly different. A today's exagerated midnless action blockbuster whose only claim to identity is that it takes it's name from an old TV show. and thahks to this trailer, and that goofy dumb tank scene, i'm getting really bad vibes about it. andthis is never a godo thing. No, man, my hopes for this one died right here. Before, it was a curiosity, now it's a no show. The people who made this trailer are fools who made a terible disservice to the movie, but no worst then the filmmakers themselves.
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Jan 10, 2010 6:22:11 AM CST
What if the A-Tem had been arrested for a crime THEY DID COMIT?
by asimovlives
And they sent their time in a redeption quest to right things right through their actions? Oh gosh, too sophisticated for an action movie, maybe?
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is a general in the movie,and your problem of realism is the parachuted tank???
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Jan 10, 2010 7:33:04 AM CST
I want to see the A-Team hired to go to Europe
by grammaton cleric binks
and drag Polanski's sorry carcass back here for a crime he DID commit.
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And like Jim Phelps they could have Hannibal turn out to be a Commie Spy or a Nazi War criminal whopse brought to justice by some smug dwarf played by Tom Cruise
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You think this movie looks like a "today's exagerated midnless action blockbuster", compared to the series. Which was what? Unless I missed all the Pinter-esque character work, the Mamet-like dialogue and the Ibsen-esque plots highlighting the best and worst of our humanity, all I remember of THE A-TEAM was a very simplistic plot every week - A-Team roll into town, either get hired to help someone or have already been hired by them, they encounter bad guys, good guy has more harassment from the bad guys, then there's all-out escalation before the massive action finale where everyone is shooting something but no-one dies. There's some fun banter, and it's undeniable that one of THE A-TEAM's biggest strengths was the chemistry between the team themselves onscreen (buy all accounts it was a different story behind the scenes), but no different than what we saw in the trailer - I particularly liked the way they all laughed when Hannibal did the " I love it when a plan comes together" line - they laughed in a knowing way, like this was something said often - like a unit who knew, when their commander said those words, that they were going to go and kick ass, and have fun doing it. Writing this movie off as a piece of shit - especially when you've only seen two and a half minutes of it - is a bit much when the source material essentially was a live-action cartoon for 10-year olds.
And slagging off the CGI is just stupid. The movie's not out til June - hasn't everyone seen enough CGI-fest movies to know that trailers quite often use unfinished CGI, and will be better rendered and edited by the time the movie's released? Give it a rest with this hating the CGI shit. Not everyone has the budget of Cameron or Lucas, and unless you'd prefer an A-TEAM movie where everyone sits talking in a diner because they don't have Lucasfilm budgets, suspend that disbelief (which may well be earned when you actually WATCH THE MOVIE) and enjoy this movie for what it is: a big-screen A-TEAM episode. And let's face it, how many times could you blatantly see the ramp hidden for a jeep to flip over from, or see the pneumatic ram pop out of the ground as it flipped a car or jeep? The original series wasn't exactly perfect at hiding its stunts, y'know. And that's BEFORE you get into the "nobody ever dies" argument. All this talking about the original series like it's Shakespeare or something is just daft. It was throwaway popcorn fun, and so will this movie be. -
I love a bit of mythology after all this realism. And THE A-TEAM seems to be embracing a mythology slant rather than a realistic one - and why the hell not??
You want realism, there's the BOURNE movies, and the new BOURNE rip-off BOND movies. I want some fucking FUN with my action movie! And THE A-TEAM looks a whole helluva lot of fun. -
If you were to start your own movie review site, well, I may just visit that site and forget about aintitcool ;-)
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I am a dog. I love it when a plan comes together. Also, I eat poo. https://t witter .com/SammichtheDog
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the only thing that is missing from Bourne is a cape.
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She isn't a general. Who ever originally said that was a fucking idiot. She is a LT.
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Fuck that. We don't need that sort of drama in the A-Team. They need to be good guys blowing shit up and taking out bad guys. I don't want to hear BA or Hannibal expressing regrets.
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I'd LOVE to run a site like this. One day, when I finally get off my arse and get something done in this life, I will learn how to do this kind of stuff - but right now, I just enjoy giving my two cents here on AICN.
They're much maligned, these guys - but these AICN TBs are still kind of the wild frontier of the internet. Anything goes (almost), and honest discussion is always welcome, even with the amount of bile and expletives that invariably get thrown around - but damn if I don't have some of the best conversations in my life on these things. In the DR WHO thread on New Year's Day, I even got to see what Smashing and Hairy Nutsack look like! (Both better looking than I expected ;P). THAT'S why I love it here at AICN, flaws and all - and why, when I someday get my own site up and running, all will be welcome, because I'd want my forums to be JUST like these Talkbacks :D
Cheers for the props, sir. -
This movie is going to be a hit because it has a Mid-Air showdown between a Tank and a Plane. Spoiler Alert: Tank WINS!
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Most people who hear about it from me don't really care.
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Jan 10, 2010 8:19:46 PM CST
In 1972 a crack commando unit was given a parking ticket...
by royston lodge
...for a parking meter that had not expired.
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Yeah, that's right.
Heh heh heh . . .
I kid because I love. -
Cannon's are fired. Nothing is hit. Then for some reason a Jeep goes flipping through the shot. ???
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I'd pay NOT to watch this shit.
What's next? Dallas? Diff'rent Strokes? Benson? Charles in Charge?
It's official: Cinema is dead! -
I keed, I keed. It's all in a brotherly love stylee :D
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why remove the trailer? so what if they requested it?
once upon a time aicn was sneaking people into movie test screenings and screwing with the process, now you remove bad trailers at a company's request. Meh. -
ask for more sophistication in a A-team movie? I bet he would just love it if they went the 'The Dark Knight' route. Well, the purpose of an A-team movie is FUN, and inserting drama in an A-team movie would be out of place, just like an erotic shower scene would have been out of place in the ‘Straight Story’ or a tap-dance routine in ‘Das Leben der Anderen’
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How about posting a trailer that's not going to be yanked already.
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it looks like just another action movie.... Mr.T disappoints... but know what>??? that shot of tanker having a dogfight. was.just. F.U.C.K.I.N.G.A.W.E.S.O.M.E....
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And it looks pretty good. A little more of the theme song wouldn't hurt. The parachuting tank thing bothers me not a whit. It'll still be more entertaining and coherent than Transformers.
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.. the chemistry between the leads works. That's all that matters. Throw in all the goofy, unbelievable action you like! The more, the merrier. Don't you think if they'd had the money and wherewithall to drop a tank out of a plane in the original series, they'd've done it? Course they would! That trailer is entirely in keeping with the spirit of the source material, and I can say that in full confidence since I just picket up Season 1 of the old show on DVD for five measly quid, watched every episode and loved it for the cheesy, formulaic, good-guys-versus-bad-guys romp it is. Sorry to call Asimov out, this goes for any other fuckers whining about realism and believability, but anyone who thinks this is somehow inferior for not being The Bourne Team, or some bold reinvention, is a joyless life-sucking ass. It all depends on the leads, and actually the dialogue. Watching the old epiosdes anew this week, I was surprised how self-aware the show was, how sly some of the lines were, and more than anything what an awesome comic performer Dwight Schultz was. And I never remembered (it's stated pretty clearly in the early episodes) - Murdoch was only pretending to be crazy to stay outta jail. Here's hopinh Copley can match Schultz. Cos that dude was on fire. Different accent and persona in nearly every scene. Well, kinda.
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except with felon Celebrities. OJ, Michael Vick, etc. Their mission is to get airdropped in Afghanistan assassinate Osama Bin Laden. If they survive, they get a full pardon.
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