Why I won't be seeing the A-Team movie, now or ever

[unixronin]

Howard Tayler writes as an aside in a mini-review of new spy thriller Salt,

[...] unlike The A-Team, this movie can’t afford to ask me to put on my industrial strength Suspenders of Disbelief.  It’s odd but completely accurate when I say that I can believe the A-Team flying a tank using the main gun, surviving a water landing, and then driving the tank out of the lake, [...]

...OK, Howard.  Thanks for the heads-up. That one sentence about flying tanks into lakes just completely eliminated any possible remaining shreds of temptation I might still have had lingering around to ever even CONSIDER watching the new A-Team movie.  Because when you get to that kind of complete bullshit, it's no longer even a Laughably Improbable Stupid Action Movie, it's crossed the line into a Warner Brothers cartoon with real humans ... except without the funny.

Comments

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

from seeing the trailer...

i'm thinking they aren't FLYING it... more like shifting weight to affect the parachute drop (i think also they are on a platform)...

so, they aren't purely in tank freefall, they are chuting in... so surviving the water landing? sure, why not?

and if the tank was designed to be amphibious, well... sure, it's going to drive out (stored air for gas/diesel motor, or it could be the newer generation with electric assist/hybrid)

also, iirc, they are using the tanks smaller guns to fend off attack ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTVtRnacok8 1:30 in this video shows some of this...

and this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2ppORflYXw&feature=related
about 1:39 in... some more bits.

don't know about the driving out of the lake part though :)

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