Re: A-Team remake (2010)
The trailers for this movie have been more entertaining than anything in that horrible GI Joe movie.
The trailers for this movie have been more entertaining than anything in that horrible GI Joe movie.
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Re: A-Team remake (2010)
My expectations are very low so hopefully i'll end up enjoying it. I don't like the casting of Rampage as Mr T but the rest of the cast looks pretty solid. Maybe rampage will surprise me but i doubt it.....Comment
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Re: A-Team remake (2010)
Well obviously i'm not expecting an oscar nomination but i still think there were better actors out there who could have been better in the role. Who knows he could be great and this could be start of a big acting career but i doubt it.Comment
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Re: A-Team remake (2010)
I thought Mr. T was great. Also, the whole show was cheesy. I loved it back when I was a kid, but the whole show now looks so cheesy too me. So if that movie goes that route. I guess I will be OK with it. I wouldn't have mind it being more action and realistic, if I had my choice.Comment
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Re: A-Team remake (2010)
Take this how you like but even the critics are speaking out!
I can report exclusively that the Writers Guild recently decided the credits on The A-Team, the movie based on the '80s TV show and opening this weekend. There were 11 screenwriters who worked on the film -- 5 single writers and 3 teams of two: Kevin Broadbin, Bruce Feirstein, Jayson Rothwell, Laurence M. Konner and Mark Rosenthal, Michael Brandt and Derek Haas, Skip Woods, Joe Carnahan & Brian Bloom, Mathew Carnahan. And that's with the interruption of the writers strike. The final credit now reads: "Written by Joe Carnahan & Brian Bloom and Skip Woods. Created by Frank Lupo & Stephen J. Cannell." In other words, 11 writers, and in the end, the director and his partner get first position credit. The WGA has a history of idiotic credits decisions. But the story behind these 11 writers that interests me most is how Alex Young lost control of The A-Team.
The pic comes out Friday following almost 10 years in development, millions of dollars in script costs, all for a movie version of a forgotten TV show that 20th Century Fox already is predicting to reporters may not gross more in its opening weekend than the recent 4th installment of the Die Hard franchise. Not since examples like Sister Act and Armegeddon and G.I. Joe have so many screenwriters labored so much to produce so little. (This is not about whether the movie's any good. It's about yet another unoriginal movie idea emanating from Hollywood and how it was developed.) So I chuckled when I read a trade review today that started out: "Beginning with the sound era, studios and films producers have longed for a way to eliminate the screenwriter from the filmmaking process. By and large, writers are prickly personalities who absorb too much time, demand too much credit and need to be kept clear of the set, where they might interfere with the director, who is, after all, the real auteur of the film. With The A-Team, a Fox film derived from a 1980s TV series, this dream now is a reality. The film seems nearly writer-free. Absolutely no time gets wasted on story, character development or logic."
All the actors can do amid the explosions and stunts is to develop a comic banter among themselves that isn't about anything other than how unconcerned everyone is over these supposedly life-and-death situations. Because for all the firepower in any sequence, none of the heroes gets more than a bump on the head or clothes that need cleaning.
Yes, a writer would only gum things up with suspense and character.
"It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
"You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob NeyerComment
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Re: A-Team remake (2010)
I saw this Sunday and liked it just fine.
Funny with big dumb action sequences.
Anybody going to see The A-Team expecting anything else never watched the damn show or paid attention to the commercials that were right on target for how the movie played out.
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Re: A-Team remake (2010)
This movie was awesome for what it was.
Really fast-paced and entertaining.Comment
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Re: A-Team remake (2010)
I haven't seen it but that's the same thing I thought. I'm not expecting much in plot for A-Team. Not sure why anyone would*
I posted the critics comment because it related to the development of the film and how it was designed.
*I do expect plot in all films. I think that's the basis of all media, but just because I expect it doesn't mean I'm gonna get it. I already know the intentions behind A-Team. I won't blast the movie for being what it wants to be. I don't agree with it, but the audience has spoken."It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
"You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob NeyerComment
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Re: A-Team remake (2010)
BC was funny in this one-the guy's a natural.
I got confused with the whole BA, "can't kill" thing that later showed up in the story-it drug the movie down a bit. I don't know how it lined up with the TV series. Probably would have been a better R movie.Comment
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Re: A-Team remake (2010)
I just saw it and freakin' loved it. It was a hell of a lot funnier than I expected. Never got bored and Sharlto Copley is freakin HILARIOUS. Can't wait for the blu-ray now.Comment
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