Joe Carnahan we hate are disappointed with you and evidently you’re a filmmaker of diminishing returns. “Narc” was a promising debut that was so good Tom Cruise noticed (maybe that’s where it all went wrong). “Smokin’ Aces” was loved by fanboys, but is generic gun-crazy ’90s Altman-Tarantino-like spawns that should have died long ago (it’s sort of akin to 5th generation grunge bands whose key influence is Candlebox).
Carnahan did have some interesting, redeemable projects on the table, “Killing Pablo,” “White Jazz” the uneccesary remake of Otto Preminger’s classic, “Bunny Lake Is Missing,” but what do we get? Now there’s an adaptation of the “The A-Team“? We still can’t believe this actually happened and was greenlit. It feels like a bad dream and we’re getting flashbacks to the 1999 “The Mod Squad” (one of the worst TV-to-film adaptations ever). People question — for example — whether people really care or are actively seeking films adaptations like “The Green Hornet” or “Machete,” but even those seem 100x more interesting than “A-Team.”
Ok, the cast includes Bradley “I’ll Try and Star In Any Tentpole I Can” Cooper (playing Faceman for those that remember the ’80s TV show), Sharlto Copley (of “District 9” playing ‘Howling Mad’ Murdock), Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson (‘B.A.’ Baracus), Jessica Biel and Liam Neeson, who we thought we had a little bit more respect for and was above looking like a caricature as he does above.
We’re sure the nerds are all over this. Count us out. Also, note. The original “A-Team” was never a good show. Or ok, in fact it was… if and when you were eight years old at the time.
They look like action figures rather than modern day soldiers of fortune.
Funny that Cooper and Neeson are are in the foreground, where Rampage is a background figure. Mr. T was the star of the TV show–no doubt about that. I guess Cooper is too hot off "Hangover" and the studio is hoping Neeson can bring the "Taken" money barge home.
PS: totally agree with you on Joe Carnahan. What the fuck happened to him? "Narc" was so gritty and moving and it was such a great script. I heard he really fucked himself over on the Mission Impossible sequel when Cruise fired him for emo JJ Abrams.
Just wanted to point out that Joe Carnahan's debut was actually 1998's "Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane," an ultra low-budget Tarantino ripoff that played on IFC all the time a few years ago, and which wasn't that great. I'm starting to think Narc was a fluke.
Wow, you guys can trash this and still take "Thor" seriously when Kenneth Branagh is directing it? Whatever.
This is just a hair's breath from trashing the new Barbie DVD. It ain't for you.
Who's the unimaginative retard here that thinks Branagh is bad idea for Thor? Oh he probably wants to see Verbinski do it.
Henry V is still one of my favorite movies of all time. Dead Again was good too. But they were nearly 20 years ago, and Branagh's output has been an unmitigated stream of failure since then. Name me one good movie he's directed since 1993. (and please don't bring up his ridiculous 4-hour Hamlet, either). I can't even understand how he snagged the Thor project. Hope you guys enjoy the slow-mo and the 360 degree camera swirls around Thor.