I hated that show when it was new.

When is Hollywood going to make some new movies based on new ideas?

Looks pretty cool (I won't say good) - best thing is there doesn't appear to be a token female who can't act, which was the biggest weakness of the original series.

I'm predicting that this is going to bomb...can't believe Liam Neeson signed on as Hannibal.

Wow!  Bradley Cooper is teh Hawt!!!  Thanks for posting, Ace.  And because I'm a giver too, here's a frontrow picture of an awesomely HAWT cheerleader with huge boobies in a partially unzipped orange vest (SFW, but barely!) for you Moron men.  Here's the link:

Wow!  Bradley Cooper is teh Hawt!!!  Thanks for posting, Ace.  And because I'm a giver too, here's a frontrow picture of an awesomely HAWT cheerleader with huge boobies in a partially unzipped orange vest (SFW, but barely!) for you Moron men.  Here's the link:

#10  Wow!  Bradley Cooper is teh Hawt!!!  Thanks for posting, Ace.  And because I'm a giver too, here's a frontrow picture of an awesomely HAWT cheerleader with huge boobies in a partially unzipped orange vest (SFW, but barely!) for you Moron men.  Here's the link:

Your cruelty knows no bounds.  I think you are an apprentice to the consort of Hades herself!

Yeah, Star Trek did turn out OK in the end.

The A-Team Movie?  A solid B+!

Posted by: AE at January 08, 2010 01:47 PM (kSfPT)

--Dude, even as a kid I knew it for what it was: a cartoon (as Robyn Hitchcock would call it, a flesh cartoon)

I like George Peppard as the freelance insurance recovery guy but thought the A Team had a fatal suck factor. Thousands of bullets fired and no one shot... WTF? They'd have never got out of basic training.

This might be an entertaining movie. We'll see (pardon the pun).

Never in the field of human action series have so many bullets been fired at so many, with injury to so few.

Personally I've been having a tough time finding the 300 round magazines that their guns were seemingly equipped with.

I hated that show when it was new.

Commie.

Posted by: Dan at January 08, 2010 01:58 PM (KZraB)

--I think casting saw Taken.  I also feel for the guy for losing his wife in such a crazy, surprising way.  Confession: I liked Darkman, too.

I loved the A-Team, but it did get old.  Every episode had the same script.

1.  Hot female sympathetic figure and her father hasseled by thugs.

2.  A-Team arrives, works under cover.

3.  Bad Guys come, kick the A-Team's asses.

4.  A Team regroups, build a tank.

5.  A-Team kicks bad guys asses, apprehends everyone, no fatalities.

6.  Face kisses hot female sympathetic figure.

7.  MPs arrive.

8  A-Team blows town.

At least Liam Neeson isn't going to do a fakey American accent.

Now Hollywierd just needs to remake Riptide: http://tinyurl.com/ydjdfds and Airwolf and I can have all the garbage TV I watched as a teen in movie form.

#36 - Yes, I am a moron.

But did you watch the show when it was on from '83-86?

I challenge anyone who watched that show faithfully to tell me that the female:

A) was not a token

B) could act

C) was not the weak link of the show (even worse than the formulmatic plots).

5a. Multiple people and vehicles flipped in the air

Yup, nothing like hundreds of rounds from Mini14s and never actually hitting anyone.  Also loved how just blowing out a tire will flip any vehicle even on flat terrain.

After that preview, it actually doesn't look all that bad.  Seems like they are going to keep the original "feel" to an extent, and hopefully not take itself too seriously.

Re: Endless Ammo:  I've seen that complaint often in the past.  I've seen/heard that in the early days of Hollywierd, they would show the reloading.  People complained then that we didn't need to actually see the reloads, just get back to the action, we KNOW they know how to reload their own damn guns!

Yup, nothing like hundreds of rounds from Mini14s and never actually hitting anyone

That might not be terribly uneralistic. The Mini 14 isn't known for its accuracy.

But I still want one.

That guy is now in like everything.

Umm, just fine by me. Yum.

49.  There were good female characters in the 1980s - Angela Lansbury, Susan Dey, Cagney and Lacey.  (Yes, there were a lot of bimbos too).

It was just that the A-Team was a show about guys, for guys.  There wasn't any place for a woman on that show (unless it was under Face). 

It would have been like the Sex In the City show injecting a male character (even a gay one) into all those lunch room talks between Carrie and the girls.  It just wouldn't have fit.

I learned a lot about duct tape in the TV series; will the movie's duct-tape-fu be up to expectations?

@51

Yup, still want one myself.  Not really into the AR scene, as we used the M14s on the ship.  The best thing about those is it goes from normal hunting rifle to Evil Black Rifle in about 3 minutes or less.

Gun Broker had an old one recently, came with the 'regular' non-offensive rifle stock, and the original Ruger folding stock, like they used in the show.  Really wish I'd had the $800 and change that it sold for.

Posted by: MikeO at January 08, 2010 02:16 PM (Ce+tv)

--It'll wow 'em at Sundance!

The awesomely sexy Neeson and the super hawt Cooper. Who gives a shit about the story????

Correct. Give the gentleman a door prize.

disappointed as I was with the Miami Vice movie

That really was a dissapointment. Glad I caught it on free TV rather than actually paying for it.

How the fuck did Liam Neeson go from Oskar Schnidler to Hannibal Smith? 

Seems Neeson is now repositioning himself as an action actor, which is fine with me because he was fucking awesome in Taken.  One only hopes the A-Team movie has Neeson doing as many throat chops as he did in Taken. 

Actually, strike that.

M*A*S*H became a cesspool of Tiresome Liberal PC Crap about the time they started calling Hotlips "Margaret."

Don't forget Mike Farrell.  I think most of the actors on that show really played themselves more than any "character."  Definitely with Alda and Farrell.  Still, was one of the better shows ever, IMHO.

I still want to see a remake of Gilligan's Island: The Survivor Series.

Gangbusters, baby!

How the fuck did Liam Neeson go from Oskar Schnidler to Hannibal Smith? Posted by: Obama is Carter

"Does it have a tank falling from an exploding plane and then I get to shoot down planes from the tank?

"I'll do it!"

84 Also: Qui-Gon Jinn came in between those roles.

I agree with Neelson's repositioning as an action actor.  He did have those  "mentor with action scenes" roles in Batman Begins and The Kingdom.

But Neelson's participation won't nessicarily make this a winner.  See aforementioned "The Phantom Menance" (although that movie was so broken that Liam probably couldn't have saved it even if he meant to).

Sorry to be a wet blanket but that looks effin' terrible! I have distant yet fond memories of the A-Team show when I was young and impressionable and this re-make (to me) looks like a piece of shit.

Can Hollywood do ANYTHING right anymore?

Yup, still want one myself.  Not really into the AR scene, as we used the M14s on the ship.  The best thing about those is it goes from normal hunting rifle to Evil Black Rifle in about 3 minutes or less.

Gun Broker had an old one recently, came with the 'regular' non-offensive rifle stock, and the original Ruger folding stock, like they used in the show.  Really wish I'd had the $800 and change that it sold for.

Are you confusing the M-14 with the Mini 14?  Completely different rifles.  Mini 14's are fairly cheap- or at least were before the Great Obama Gun Boom drove prices up.

Mini 14 is a light, handy little rifle, but as noted isn't very accurate.

Are you confusing the M-14 with the Mini 14?  Completely different rifles.  Mini 14's are fairly cheap- or at least were before the Great Obama Gun Boom drove prices up.

No, not confusing them.  Ruger based Mini on the M14, just in a different caliber.  Would really like to have an actual one, but those are really high dollar these days.

OK...I had unwarranted optimism

There is a female member of the new A-Team.  Jessica Biel.

Yes, she's hot.  At least three-four sofas worthy, but there should be no woman on the A-Team.

I used to have a Mini-14 and traded it to my brother for an 03-A3 because I wanted something more accurate. My biggest gripe with the mini-154 was the .223 rounds were harder to reload because they were so small. (and the gun could not get a group any tighter than 4" at a 100 yards.)

During the first "assault weapons" ban when the prices went through the roof my brother sold it. Yes, they are very expensive now, just like ALL of those evil assault rifles.

At Gunbroker.com they are going for anywhere between $700 and $2000.

Interested in old TV shows?

Check Out This Site

It is a listing of all the old entertainment TV shows by the decade it first started.  Note the small number of shows in the 40s, but most of them were good quality shows.  Look at the 50s. Many more shows with about half of them good shows. In the 60s the number began to explode but only about 10% or 15% were good shows. During the 70s the good shows were down to less than a few percent. In the 80s there may have been 1 or 2 good shows out of hundreds. During the 90s and 2000s there are zero shows worth watching.

The number of good shows on TV has declined faster than the number of jobs in the Obama economy.

Next Up:

Movies of 'Riptide', 'Simon and Simon', and 'The Greatest American Hero'.

The problem is that George Peppard was Hannibal Smith,  and there is no one in Hollywood that could do Bill Maxwell like Robert Culp.

Where are the dignified but manly-men actors?  Where are the quiet but tough-guy actors?

Liam Neeson is good enough for me to watch this thing.

It looks like the TV show.  Sorry, A-team fans.  Cheesy, brainless goodness.

"61 This has a chance of getting the ladiez butts in a seat. The awesomely sexy Neeson and the super hawt Cooper. Who gives a shit about the story????"

No shit.  I'd consider actually going to the human suckfest that is my local movie theater to see this thing based solely on casting.

I don't know about the rest of you but I sure as hell didn't watch shows in the 80's to learn stuff or be touched by the soul-searching stories.  They might just sucker me in if this movie has pretty much no storyline but explosions, firefights and hot men.