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

[vetpsychwars.livejournal.com]

That's not entirely true. They hit a lot of *things* but they never hit (with weapons) any people. You can easily rationalize it to say it's one thing to be on the lam for a crime you didn't commit, but actually shooting someone is yet another story.

As the original show is on Hulu, if you're going to comment about it, you really ought to watch it so that your comments (about the original) can be taken seriously.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

OK, I should rephrase that ... "I never watched the original past enough short bits of the first few episodes to become entirely certain that it was complete rubbish." I never managed to watch a single episode all the way through. It was that bad.