We’re not copyright lawyers or anything, but whoever owns the rights to the “The A-Team” may have a strong case for a lawsuit after viewing the trailer to “The Losers.” The very idea of the film is exactly the same: members of a CIA special ops group, betrayed and left for dead, decide to hunt down whoever set them up. The only thing missing in this trailer is a van they all travel around in. And before nerds start clogging up our comments section, yes, we know it’s based on a graphic novel, but that doesn’t make the concept any more original.
One of the Playlist members noted that at the very least, this looks better than the forthcoming “The A-Team” — but just barely. While it doesn’t have any ridiculously stupid set pieces involving tanks shooting down planes in midair, it is just as loud and dumb. The sexy babe factor is up a slight quotient (though truth be told, “The A-Team” marketing department hasn’t quite cashed in their Jessica Biel chips and there is still plenty of time to go), but the amount of gunfire and guys smiling and practically high-fiving each other as shit blows up is pretty much the same.
Our hopes were never high to begin with on this one, director Sylvain White, best known for the cinematic gem “Stomp The Yard” and the straight-to-DVD “I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer,” seems all too willing to crib from other films. The glossy trailer seems to be a pretty obvious hybrid of “Ocean’s Eleven” aesthetic style and “Smokin’ Aces” smirking shock-and-awe. The cast — Zoe Saldana, Chris Evans, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Stringer Bell Idris Elba, Jason Patric — are a lot of “hey, I know that guy” actors who are talented, and deserve better than this.
“The Losers” opens on April 9th, but we’ll just wait one more week and see “MacGruber” instead.
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Did we get a glimpse of the GoldenEye weapon seen in the eponymous James Bond flick?
Playlist is out of touch again.
People are raving about the Wall Street 2 trailer right now. You know, the one Playlist ragged on?
You watch — they're going to be raving about this one too.
Ah Playlist… so cynical… so bitter…
Oh shit, we're out of touch. We'll close shop soon. A press release is forthcoming.
There is a Van….
And they DO slap hands after something blows up.
Wow….
"members of a CIA special ops group are betrayed and left for dead and decide to hunt down whoever set them up."
Don't stop at the "A-Team"…change "members" to "member," and it sounds exactly like the plot of Knockout, and a gajillion more upcoming movies, as well. We must now all reap what Bourne sowed…and it will be repetitive.
Since the summer movie season now starts in May, it seems like April has become the month for not-quite-big enough, dumb fun with: The Losers, Macgruber, Date Night, Kick Ass, Nightmare on Elm Street, Furry Vengeance, and something called Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Undead.
Right now, I'd probably say I'm most interested in Kick Ass.
"The glossy trailer seems to be a pretty obvious hybrid of "Ocean's Eleven" aesthetic style and…"
The trailer even uses a song from the Ocean's 12 soundtrack, David Holmes' "The day of".
I don't understand some of the comments, this movie looks terrible. This is like "The Goods: Live Hard Sell Hard" with guns and explosions. I wouldn't it compares to the aesthetic of Ocean's Eleven, this one looks dirtier.
And how can we even question whether'Knockout' will be better than this?
Technically, THE LOSERS is based on a DC comic (1970s; rebooted for Vertigo in 2000s), so they have the edge against the A-Team. But I still love you Playlist. (seriously AWESOME site! Best new page discovery of the year)
Kick-Ass is the epitome of dumb, that's all I'll say after watching a screening.
Hey it's a little girl saying c_nt, how hilarious.
Good to know. Kick-Ass looks abysmal and the way you describe it is pretty much what I've been expecting for months.
That's disappointing. I was hoping that it would pan out to be more clever than dumb.