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Detroit, 10:40 PM
Fri Nov 20
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I think I speak for the team when I say it's depressing to watch my childhood go up in flames and the thought of having a kid in times like these makes me disgusted.
I'm not talking about things being dangerous.. Times are actually too safe. I don't know how its possible to be any safer these days. Gated communities, soft mulch around the plastic playground and you have to go through 20 different screens and memorize 30 passwords just to watch a porn with the old lady on pay per view. I'm not raising a kid in a Whole Foods generation where my favorite childhood characters are slaughtered in the name of marketing while doing my job of raising a child.
Seriously, a kid can't go to the movies and see a proper G.I. Joe. They have to tart up 'Joe' with French nationals to show equality and throw in Jar Jar Binks to keep the mama's boys giggling.
I'll be damned if they ruin this with Hannibal chewing gum instead of a cigar or B.A. with correct grammar. "reboots" have got to end unless someone steps in and puts a stop to all this deviation for marketing and child protection purposes. Bumblebee was a Porsche, Han shot first and Rip Cord was a white guy.
This needs to be as close to possible as the original. I don't need any new members to the team and I'm really glad to see its going to be the same old van and not some Honda Odyssey.
Keep the van, keep the plan. What the hell.. throw in a freeze frame ending of the team laughing about the days work and everything will be just fine.
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JAZZ was a Porsche, not a fucking Solstice.
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The "crime they didn't commit"
During the Vietnam War, the A-Team's commanding officer, Colonel Morrison, gave them orders to rob the Bank of Hanoi to help bring the war to an end. They succeeded in their mission, but on returning to their base four days after the end of the war, they found their C.O. murdered by the Viet Cong and his headquarters burned to the ground. Therefore no proof existed that the A-Team were acting under orders, and they were sent to prison by a military court. They were sent to Fort Bragg, from which they escaped before they could actually stand trial.
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*clinks Guinness bottles*
09/21/09
At least they kept the van, instead of changing it into a product placement piece.
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Word has it that director Joe Carnahan has cast Michael Moore as Captain H.M. "Howling Mad" Murdock in the new Movie remake of A-Team. In Joe’s words, "Michael already has the required ball-caps and dirty tee-shirts for the Murdock role and we won’t need to train him to play a psychopathic paranoid delusional sociopath", but word on the street is that wardrobe is having trouble finding a large enough cow to supply the hide for a custom A-2 Leather Flight Jacket to fit the corpulent Moore. Carnahan has also decided to use CGI for all modes of transport, even walking, which feature the rotund actor because quote "it just ain’t safe moving his fat ass around". When Michael’s name was announced, Dune Entertainment immediately set aside 25% of the production budget for food, but those in the know say that isn’t nearly enough for Moore’s larger than life appetite,...and that is it, from this edition of Hollywood Insider.
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Although Michael Moore, Madonna, Eminem (aka Marshal Mathers), Kid Rock, etc. are all from Michigan, I should say that most all Michiganians are completely normal. We don't talk in fake british accents, act like whiney commie fat-asses, or pretend to be a member of a race we're not from. We aren't crazy, it's just our celebrities.
Thank you,
wojo
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At some point, there will be a car chase, in which a '99 Malibu or Taurus will be flipped.
One of the bad guys will go flying over the camera (in slow motion), while Wilhelm screaming.
Murdoch will have a new, different quirk.
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@TurboWeasel: I love it when a flan comes together.
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/apologizes for the bad, and slightly nonsensical pun
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How about a tricked-out Transit Connect? I mean, stealing the new Knight Rider away from GM worked out well for Ford, so clearly this would be a win-win.
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i guess they couldn't even get GMC to sponsor it this time around.
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