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movie: The A-Team
Jan. 31st, 2011 09:59 amDid I tell you that we watched the new A-Team movie?
We did. It didn't suck. It was sort of a prequel to the show. There was lots of action and it seemed to assume the audience would be able to keep up when there was something quirky to the plan.
I had some issues with Face. 1) He's not pretty. Ew.. 2) Everyone else had their full character names given by the overlay, but Face's just said Faceman Peck, the Templeton was omitted.
I loved how Murdoch broke B.A. and made him afraid to fly. That had always seemed weird in the show because no one explained it. The guy playing B.A. did a great job of bringing more characterization to the role than Mr. T had done while remaining true to that interpretation.
Liam Neeson was good in this. I'm not sure why he keeps getting these big-name parts because he's really not a great actor. Everyone disses Kevin Costner and Keanu Reeves for sucking at their profession universally, but Neeson is inconsistent. If you get him a laconic part where he mostly is supposed to sound like he's parroting something someone actually intelligent told him to say, then he's fine. But it was very difficult for me to believe he was their great strategic planner with the ability to anticipate anything. (I liked Neeson as Qi-Gon Jinn in Star Wars 1: Jar Jar Makes Lucas Look Racist. But the whole point of the role was to pass along knowledge garnered from other masters.)
And the after-credit scene was amazing. I really enjoyed that.
I have some cognitive dissonance about modern entertainment. Things that were on TV when I was a child but which everyone derided as being mindless filler, now they're being resurrected and usually in a higher brow format.
There was a recent episode of Jeopardy where they talked about actors in the Broadway production of The Addams Family.
Did your brain screech to a halt? Mine did.
We did. It didn't suck. It was sort of a prequel to the show. There was lots of action and it seemed to assume the audience would be able to keep up when there was something quirky to the plan.
I had some issues with Face. 1) He's not pretty. Ew.. 2) Everyone else had their full character names given by the overlay, but Face's just said Faceman Peck, the Templeton was omitted.
I loved how Murdoch broke B.A. and made him afraid to fly. That had always seemed weird in the show because no one explained it. The guy playing B.A. did a great job of bringing more characterization to the role than Mr. T had done while remaining true to that interpretation.
Liam Neeson was good in this. I'm not sure why he keeps getting these big-name parts because he's really not a great actor. Everyone disses Kevin Costner and Keanu Reeves for sucking at their profession universally, but Neeson is inconsistent. If you get him a laconic part where he mostly is supposed to sound like he's parroting something someone actually intelligent told him to say, then he's fine. But it was very difficult for me to believe he was their great strategic planner with the ability to anticipate anything. (I liked Neeson as Qi-Gon Jinn in Star Wars 1: Jar Jar Makes Lucas Look Racist. But the whole point of the role was to pass along knowledge garnered from other masters.)
And the after-credit scene was amazing. I really enjoyed that.
I have some cognitive dissonance about modern entertainment. Things that were on TV when I was a child but which everyone derided as being mindless filler, now they're being resurrected and usually in a higher brow format.
There was a recent episode of Jeopardy where they talked about actors in the Broadway production of The Addams Family.
Did your brain screech to a halt? Mine did.
