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The New A-Team Trailer

It's a complete contrast to the Tennyson below, and may well lose me any readers whom I have picked up, but, well--yes!

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Chris Hall said…
Such a contrast! But an A-Team movie? It feels so wrong on so many levels.
1:34 pm
Martin Meenagh said…
It's a fantastically silly show which can't really be altered in terms of format for a movie--in fact the 'building a tank in a barn' thing might even look more stupid. But I like cheery trash with brio, and I like the really good things--its middlebrow pretension that winds me up. We dislike that which we fear in ourselves, I suppose....

Anyway, the trailer made me smile and feel around 10 again, which is presumably the effect that the marketers wanted.
2:53 pm
Conservative Cabbie said…
But will anyone die in the movie?

I remember in one episode a helicopter crashing into the side of a cliff and after it crashed to the floor in a jumbled mess, the occupants got out a bit bleary headed. I'm not sure how well that fits with the Bourne generation.
6:42 pm
Martin Meenagh said…
If the American elite units are only really trained in prison escapes and turning combine harvester vehicles into tanks, it says a lot about afghanistan, don't it? And the A-team never manage to kill anyone.

I quite like the silliness of it all. At least no one has talked about remaking things like 'Red Dawn' or escape from New York yet--reenacting them politically, well, that's another story....
8:25 pm
Martin Meenagh said…
And, if they can build Airwolf, why can't they find it down that mesa volcano thing?
8:26 pm
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