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    New A-Team Will Use Same Old GMC Van In Upcoming Movie

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    Image of Turboner Turboner
    09/21/09

    In reply to New A-Team Will Use Same Old GMC Van In Upcoming Movie
    Someday, I will have a 4X4 conversion van with A-team paint job as the ultimate ski bum's chariot.
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    Image of Prawo Jazdy and The Velocity Trumpets: I miss  Deartháir II Prawo Jazdy and The Velocity Trumpets: I miss Deartháir II
    09/21/09

    In reply to New A-Team Will Use Same Old GMC Van In Upcoming Movie
    Good.

    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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    Image of Flathead  Smith Flathead Smith
    09/21/09

    @Prawo Jazdy and The Velocity Trumpets: I prefer the days of danger.
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    Image of MrHowser: Now on XBL as NoReturnPolicy MrHowser: Now on XBL as NoReturnPolicy
    09/21/09

    @Flathead Smith Prefers the Days of Danger: I wasn't around during the days of danger, but I suspect I would prefer them to now.
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    Flathead Smith Prefers the Days of Danger promoted this comment MrHowser: Now on XBL as NoReturnPolicy was starred MrHowser: Now on XBL as NoReturnPolicy was unstarred
    Image of Plecostomus [Tyrrell] Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
    09/22/09

    @Flathead Smith Prefers the Days of Danger: Bumblebee was NEVER a Porsche, he was a VW Beetle.

    JAZZ was a Porsche, not a fucking Solstice.
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    Image of Northernsky Northernsky
    09/21/09

    In reply to New A-Team Will Use Same Old GMC Van In Upcoming Movie
    So... bonus points for whomever can tell me just what the crime that the A-Team did not commit was.
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    Northernsky was starred Northernsky was unstarred
    Image of MrHowser: Now on XBL as NoReturnPolicy MrHowser: Now on XBL as NoReturnPolicy
    09/21/09

    @Northernsky: Courtesy of the fountain of all knowledge, Wikipedia.

    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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    HoonThatFerrari promoted this comment MrHowser: Now on XBL as NoReturnPolicy was starred MrHowser: Now on XBL as NoReturnPolicy was unstarred
    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    09/21/09

    @MrHowser: Then they all got shitfaced on a wormwood-based beverage & were declared to be found guilty in absinthia.
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    Image of MrHowser: Now on XBL as NoReturnPolicy MrHowser: Now on XBL as NoReturnPolicy
    09/22/09

    @HoonThatFerrari: Brilliant!

    *clinks Guinness bottles*
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    MrHowser: Now on XBL as NoReturnPolicy was starred MrHowser: Now on XBL as NoReturnPolicy was unstarred
    Image of Ya- hoo-n! Ya- hoo-n!
    09/21/09

    In reply to New A-Team Will Use Same Old GMC Van In Upcoming Movie
    If in this version, they replace Face with a woman or make him gay, if Murdock is PC and just "misunderstood", if BA doesn't hate flying, and Hannibal isn't smoking a stogie when his "plan comes together", then yet another piece of my childhood will have died.

    At least they kept the van, instead of changing it into a product placement piece.
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    HoonThatFerrari promoted this comment skaven approved this comment Ya- hoo-n! was starred Ya- hoo-n! was unstarred
    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    09/21/09

    @Ya- hoo-n!: Little do you know, Hannibal's long-lost brother (a custom vehicle designer, coincidentally) will be played by Bob Lutz, who - when the original van blows up in the opening scene - subsequently supplies them with the latest model Escalade... all blacked-out & weaponed-up, of course.
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    Edited by HoonThatFerrari at 09/21/09 10:24 PM HoonThatFerrari was starred HoonThatFerrari was unstarred
    Image of Flathead  Smith Flathead Smith
    09/21/09

    In reply to New A-Team Will Use Same Old GMC Van In Upcoming Movie
    From Hollywood Insider:

    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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    Edited by Flathead Smith at 09/21/09 12:22 PM Flathead Smith was starred Flathead Smith was unstarred
    Image of Prawo Jazdy and The Velocity Trumpets: I miss  Deartháir II Prawo Jazdy and The Velocity Trumpets: I miss Deartháir II
    09/21/09

    @Flathead McNabb: He won't be allowed to the premier though.

    [www.mlive.com]
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    Prawo Jazdy and The Velocity Trumpets: I miss Deartháir II was starred Prawo Jazdy and The Velocity Trumpets: I miss Deartháir II was unstarred
    Image of wojo wojo
    09/21/09

    @The World: Hi everybody! Your pal wojo here, and I just wanted to say something to everyone who has never been to Michigan.

    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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    FP: Your Volvo is awesome! Anyway promoted this comment Edited by wojo at 09/21/09 1:07 PM wojo was starred wojo was unstarred
    Image of STR8SIX STR8SIX
    09/21/09

    In reply to New A-Team Will Use Same Old GMC Van In Upcoming Movie
    If this movie is anything like the TV show it will begin with a local tv reporter (Jessica Biel) in search of the A-team. She will speak with a man (Hannibal in disguise) who gives her a hard time before he says, "you just found the A-team." At some point in the movie Hannibal, BA, and Face will get captured by someone (Col Decker, local thugs, Banana Republic guerrillas, etc). Murdoch will somehow rescue them with the help of Jessica Biel and a helicopter, but not before the rest of the A-team makes an armored truck/catapult/battering ram inside a large barn/garage/holding cell. I love it when a plan comes together. Fin.
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    Maymar promoted this comment STR8SIX was starred STR8SIX was unstarred
    Image of Maymar Maymar
    09/21/09

    @STR8SIX: Oh, and don't forget, approximately 6.6 billion bullets will be fired, and no one will get shot.

    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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    Image of alowishus wants to run a Saab Sonett III at LeMons alowishus wants to run a Saab Sonett III at LeMons
    09/21/09

    In reply to New A-Team Will Use Same Old GMC Van In Upcoming Movie
    I pity the fool who . . . um . . . uh . . . I got nothin
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    Image of redman042 redman042
    09/21/09

    @alowishus finally has his Miata: Pitying the fool is enough.
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    High Speed Indeed promoted this comment redman042 was starred redman042 was unstarred
    Image of TurboWeasel TurboWeasel
    09/21/09

    @redman042: I used to have one of these vans. I pity the fuel.
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    High Speed Indeed promoted this comment TurboWeasel was starred TurboWeasel was unstarred
    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    09/21/09


    @TurboWeasel: I love it when a flan comes together.
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    Image of Maymar Maymar
    09/21/09

    In reply to New A-Team Will Use Same Old GMC Van In Upcoming Movie
    I love it when a van comes together.

    /apologizes for the bad, and slightly nonsensical pun
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    Image of dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity
    09/21/09

    In reply to New A-Team Will Use Same Old GMC Van In Upcoming Movie
    I don't remember the van from the TV series having a winch...
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    dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity was starred dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity was unstarred
    Image of Peugeot--Making Bicycles Once Again Peugeot--Making Bicycles Once Again
    09/21/09

    @dwegmull: I am sure they welded one onto it during one of the episodes. What couldn't they do with a welding torch?
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    Image of MrHowser: Now on XBL as NoReturnPolicy MrHowser: Now on XBL as NoReturnPolicy
    09/21/09

    @Peugeot--back from IAA: Get B.A. to fly while conscious?
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    HoonThatFerrari promoted this comment Edited by MrHowser: Now on XBL as NoReturnPolicy at 09/21/09 8:29 PM MrHowser: Now on XBL as NoReturnPolicy was starred MrHowser: Now on XBL as NoReturnPolicy was unstarred
    Image of superbadd75, now I remember why I left... superbadd75, now I remember why I left...
    09/21/09

    In reply to New A-Team Will Use Same Old GMC Van In Upcoming Movie
    FAIL, FAIL, FAIL. Hollywood can no longer innovate, so they're hoping to either cash in on the memories of old TV shows, or make something happen with ones that failed back in the day. Next thing we know they're going to make movies out of ALF and Small Wonder.
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    Image of JDisnidiet JDisnidiet
    09/21/09

    @Never say maybe: Alf in Pog form?
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    HoonThatFerrari promoted this comment JDisnidiet was starred JDisnidiet was unstarred
    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    09/21/09

    @JDisnidiet: You guys forgot the other common Hollywood go-to... stealing the Britcom! Alf as Blackadder, anybody?
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    Edited by HoonThatFerrari at 09/21/09 10:29 PM HoonThatFerrari was starred HoonThatFerrari was unstarred
    Image of Maxichamp Maxichamp
    09/21/09

    In reply to New A-Team Will Use Same Old GMC Van In Upcoming Movie
    In the 80s, Universal Studios theme park had a very light A-Team van mounted on a hinge. Kids could stand on one side and lift it up by themselves. That was awesome.
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    Image of GreenN_Gold GreenN_Gold
    09/21/09

    @Maxichamp: There's a picture of me doing that as a kid.
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    GreenN_Gold was starred GreenN_Gold was unstarred
    Image of Syrax Syrax
    09/21/09

    In reply to New A-Team Will Use Same Old GMC Van In Upcoming Movie
    At least that. It wouldn't look right in a Safari/Savana.
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    Syrax was starred Syrax was unstarred
    Image of Captain Liverspots Captain Liverspots
    09/21/09

    @Syrax:

    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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    Syrax promoted this comment Captain Liverspots was starred Captain Liverspots was unstarred
    Image of Syrax Syrax
    09/21/09

    @Captain Liverspots: Yes, the Transit is the winner.
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    Syrax was starred Syrax was unstarred
    Image of gman1023 gman1023
    09/21/09

    In reply to New A-Team Will Use Same Old GMC Van In Upcoming Movie
    Why is Mr. T not going to be cast as B.A.? No one can top him in this role. Better yet, he's alive, relatively well, and still looks basically the same as he did in the 80's. Any A-Team anything without Mr. T is the setup for FAIL.
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    Maxichamp promoted this comment Edited by gman1023 at 09/21/09 10:53 AM gman1023 was starred gman1023 was unstarred
    Image of Maxichamp Maxichamp
    09/21/09

    @gman1023: The producers can't convince him to fly to LA for the shoot.
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    Maxichamp was starred Maxichamp was unstarred
    Image of gman1023 gman1023
    09/21/09

    @Maxichamp: Good one! Although they could give him the A-Team van and have him drive from Chicago.....It would be great PR. With the way he drives on the show, it wouldn't take that much longer than flying either.
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    gman1023 was starred gman1023 was unstarred
    Image of Tobias Merriman Tobias Merriman
    09/21/09

    In reply to New A-Team Will Use Same Old GMC Van In Upcoming Movie
    Liam Neeson guarantees success.
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    P161911 promoted this comment Tobias Merriman was starred Tobias Merriman was unstarred
    Image of P161911 probably shoudn't have P161911 probably shoudn't have
    09/21/09

    @Tobias Merriman: I could see them going a much darker route and Liam Neeson playing someone like his character in TAKEN.

    i guess they couldn't even get GMC to sponsor it this time around.
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    P161911 probably shoudn't have was starred P161911 probably shoudn't have was unstarred
    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    09/21/09

    @Tobias Merriman: In the sequel, the team travels back to Nazi Germany to save a group of Jewish prisoners. It will be filmed in black and white, for authenticity.
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    Image of scroggzilla raids again scroggzilla raids again
    07/23/09

    In reply to The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
    It's Used Cars meets the A-Team. How can I resist?
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    scroggzilla raids again was starred scroggzilla raids again was unstarred
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