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mlavagna -> They've got it all wrong (28/1/2009 10:05:51 AM)
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This could turn out to be good but it won't feel like or bare any relation to the original tv series. This movie will be the A - Team by name only. It'll have none of the original actors for a start and that's the very reason why the A - Team was so popular. It was those characters. More specifically it was how the actors played those characters. You just can't replicate that. I realise they're not really trying to. They're taking the central idea and are putting a new spin on it, but do people really want a new spin on it? New actors? A different time period? Plus the director says they're not going to be "cheesing it up". Sometimes cheesy is good and the original series was incredibly "cheesy". It was totally unrealistic, it was goofy, it was innocent but that was part of its charm. That was the feel of the show. It was never really meant to be taken seriously in the first place!
If I were the writer/director I'd intentionally make it cheesy. I'd turn it into an action comedy. I'd include the ridiculous shootouts, the silly punch ups, the slow mo jumps in front of camera, the unbelievable escape plan where they build something incredible out of absolutely nothing, the famous theme tune. I'd also set the movie in the 80s just as th series was firstly to make the movie more representative of the show and secondly because of the nostalgia value that people tend to warm to.
As I said, thgis may turn out to be a good movie but not for the right reasons.
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