'Destiny'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Fighters don't have to be children, but apparently that's the Spike market.
Hence TNA Wrestling.
(Which, I get why some wrestlers have issues with McMahon and how he runs WWE, but seriously. Looking like even bigger idiots in a separate federation doesn't solve anything.)
The Flick Filosopher likes The A-Team.
You know how when they put the peanut butter and the chocolate together and it was like, “Ooo, I didn’t expect it to taste that good”? It’s like that with the ridiculous and the overkill here. Which makes The A-Team completely insane, totally preposterous, and sort of wonderful, in a junk food kind of way...
And the best thing? The flick isn’t just inventive with its action and snarky in its dialogue, it’s also cheerfully free of the kind of ugliness that is typical of overblown summertime popcorn movies. There’s no Megan Fox humping a motorcycle, no shucking-and-jiving robots, no fart jokes. And as cartoonish as the movie may be, it does at least offer us actual adult characters, and nods just a little -- not so much as to get heavy about it -- to adult motivations and adult competence...
And thanks, too, Carnahan, for having Bradley Cooper half naked for a surprising percentage of the runtime; thank you for remembering those members of the audience who are not heterosexual males. Now, if only you could have worked in a fight scene for Cooper and Patrick Wilson, wherein they could have rolled around shirtless for a bit -- that would have been so hot.
I'm totally going to see it. I don't expect more than a blow-shit-up summer movie.
And half-naked Bradley Cooper.
There appears to be a scene featuring an aerial battle with a falling tank. I am up for that.
There appears to be a scene featuring an aerial battle with a falling tank.
Okay, I'm in. I might even go see that in the theater.
I'm not sure whether they actually fight in the tank. But they certainly fall in it.
'm not sure whether they actually fight in the tank. But they certainly fall in it.
Is the tank's main gun fired? That could cause all sorts of wacky Newtonian reactions to the tank in free fall....
I really hope so!
I am going to see it tonight.
I'm going to wait for DVD. I saw the trailer and it looks fun...but for what theaters charge these days, if it doesn't rock my socks off ala "The Dark Knight" or at least make me think it will, ala "Iron Man 2"...Thanks, but no. And there's a scene of a guy shooting down planes from the turret of a tank as it falls from the sky and...yeah. I don't expect it to change my life, but it is not "Shit yeah, let's spend a ton of change on tix and snax" compelling.