The A-Team movie is going to be so awesome

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Probably not your kind of movie, but he's in the WONDERFULLY named "Midnight Meat Train" horror flick and he's pretty damn good in it. That was the movie I first noticed him in. I would have been thrilled to have him play Hal Jordan after I saw that flick (although he was still second to Reynolds in my book).
I love horror/slasher movies. I own every Friday the 13th and Final Destination movie. :) Midnight Meat Train is actually #2 in my Netflix Queue RIGHT NOW.
 
Doh! I knew that! Yeah, it's a fun flick with some really nice visuals. It's a very pretty-gritty movie.
 
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Chazwozel

Looks crap.

The cast sucks.

And I LOVED Transformers 2!

Did you just get back from a bodega? The cast is f-in perfect. I couldn't have thought of anyone better to play Hannibal, Face, and Murdock. No one can replace Mr. T, but the dude sure looks like him.
 
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I ain't too familiar with the A-Team (never seen the show), but Liam Neeson at least looks like a riot in the trailer.

Also is Mr. T. supposed to say homie. I thought he said stuff like sucka and foo'.
 
I realized the other night that the release date for this movie is the night before my friend gets married. I'm a groomsman, but I already told him I'm going to have to miss the rehersal dinner. Considering it's for this movie, he considered skipping the rehersal himself :p
 
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And no one can replace Spock either, right?

/facepalm

Keep a candle burning for your favorite shows, I guess.
The A-team (while I loved it) was literally a shitty, predictable show. This remake is going to kick oh so much ass. Despite what folks have been saying round here, the casting of all the characters is a spot on match, especially face and murdock.
 
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It's really just not the same.

I like the Will Smith as Face idea and pick like, Steve Austin (or whoever) for BA. Complete recast.


This.Looks.Like.Crap.
Are you blind? Mr. T and Rampage look almost as if they could be brothers. Will Smith as Face... did you ever watch the show?!??!
 
I'm not sold on Rampage Jackson playing Mr. T, but that's more because I have a hard time imagining ANYONE but Mr. T. playing Mr. T. I haven't seen him act in anything, but he's exciting to watch in the octagon.
 

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I know exactly zip about The A Team, but I'm definitely going to see this. It looks like lots of fun.
 
I'm gonna see this one with a couple of buddies and a big bucket of popcorn and it's going to be awesome. Even if the movie is terrible, we'll have a blast mocking it after.
 
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Will Smith as Face... did you ever watch the show?!??!
Yes I have. I suggested Will Smith because Eddie Murphy's too old.[/QUOTE]

/facepalm

The movie's casting is fine.[/QUOTE]

I'm curious: Do you know the context of my suggestion? I mean, did you read the whole thread? Specifically the part where Chuck's talking about an alternative casting that has Steve Austin playing himself in a role similar to Mr T. Because my suggestion of Will Smith was, "well, if you still want a black guy in one of the roles Will Smith would make a good Face."

I'm not wrong.
 
It can't be awful, it has Face shooting an airplane with a minigun from a falling tank.
That's why it fails as an A-Team movie. They never hit anything with their guns in the TV series.[/QUOTE]

They hit a lot of tires!
Then the car would very obviously drive over a ramp, turn over or somersault a bit (no explosions like newer, more unsafe, cars do) and then the bad folks crawl out just to meet a member of the A-Team pointing a gun at them which would make them rise theier hands. I so hope they bring this exact scene in the movie, it wouldn't be A-Team without!

And from the trailer I have to say that it looks surprisingly good.
 
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It can't be awful, it has Face shooting an airplane with a minigun from a falling tank.
That's why it fails as an A-Team movie. They never hit anything with their guns in the TV series.[/QUOTE]


I'm sure it'll pay homage to it. You can't seriously expect the entire movie to follow through with that can you?
 
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It can't be awful, it has Face shooting an airplane with a minigun from a falling tank.
That's why it fails as an A-Team movie. They never hit anything with their guns in the TV series.[/QUOTE]

That's because the series was during the Reagan Years when anything unhealthy was expunged from media. Cheech and Chong stopped making drug movies, and cartoons didn't have any 'real' violence. He-man always threw Skeletor over the horizon rather than hurting him. When planes were shot down in GI Joe, all the cobras escaped with parachutes. And on the A-Team, whenever a car crashed, the writers were always careful to show that bad guys got out of them afterwards.

Kids didn't even have toys that shot real plastic darts. They were all changed to prevent the little plastic pellet from actually flying out, because it might hit someone in the eye or something.

It was the lamest time to be a kid, let me tell you.[/QUOTE]

I had He-man and Ghostbuster toys in the 80's. They all had shit you could shoot. Well even if most didn't the early 90's revived that big time. I used to love the TMNT vehicle that shot pizzas out of a cannon. The thing was motorized and those pizzas friggin stung when you shot em.
 

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I remember loving this show. But I also remember even as a kid being painfully aware of bad FX. I remember explosions not centered on the exploding thing (I mean worse than seeing the jets of flame when the SSD crashes into the Death Star). And I remember clearly, for some reason, that I hated that everything sounded like a fist. Metal on metal? *fist sound*. Then again, they seemed to be self-aware of the cheesiness, which made it acceptable.
 
That's because the series was during the Reagan Years when anything unhealthy was expunged from media. Cheech and Chong stopped making drug movies, and cartoons didn't have any 'real' violence. He-man always threw Skeletor over the horizon rather than hurting him. When planes were shot down in GI Joe, all the cobras escaped with parachutes. And on the A-Team, whenever a car crashed, the writers were always careful to show that bad guys got out of them afterwards.

Kids didn't even have toys that shot real plastic darts. They were all changed to prevent the little plastic pellet from actually flying out, because it might hit someone in the eye or something.

It was the lamest time to be a kid, let me tell you.
So, kids should be exposed to violence and death, and then hand them toy guns that really shoot projectiles? That sounds healthy.
 
When I was still in toy playing age, the Battlestar Galactica toys fired tiny plastic darts. They were of smaller diameter than a pencil and about and inch and a half long. Those darts killed several kids. So the knee jerk reaction was to ban all projectiles. So six years later, they just changed it to making projectiles too large for toddlers to swallow.

This will likely be a PG-13 extravaganza, with wild explosions and hinted at death. Yes, it will be easy to make the movie much better than the TV show.

I am also creeped out that Liam Neeson looks a lot like the original Hannibal (George Peppard) in that photo.
 
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