Bah?

[trinityvixen]

Movie remakes, TV shows made into movies, comics made into movies--whatever your non-movie fictional poison is, someone is making a movie out of it. I'd given up complaining about it since before they really--really? really--went there with the pretty left-field remakes like Starsky and Hutch or The Dukes of Hazzard. I mean, I give up at this point. If it exists, someone is going to make it into a movie, no matter how little you want it or how little appeal the original work had in the first place. Even things that are good and could have new life breathed into them end up as movies that make you go, "Really, Hollywood? Really?"

Take this picture:


First thing I thought upon seeing it, "Oh, it's a photo shoot." No, seriously, people do photo shoots in the style of movies and such all the time. Surely, that's what that was. That Liam Neeson, he has some sense of humor! Was Capt. Murdock his Halloween costume this year?

Oh, wait, it's actually a still for a movie. Really? The Hangover guy, Wickus van der Merwe, Qui-Gon Jinn and some UFC guy I'd never heard of until Wikipedia showed me a picture of him in some orange undies...they're in a movie together. As Iraq War vets who are supposed to be the A-Team. Really? Really?

Comments

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

I've been following the recent trend of movies based on "This American Life" stories--"The Informant," "Men Who Star at Goats." "Wonderfalls" was even inspired by TAL. I like this trend.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

You NPR junkies are so cute :)

[cbreakr.livejournal.com]

I'd like to see one based on the wonderful island nation of Nauru!

[mithras03.livejournal.com]

OMG look at the picture!!! http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b150854_new_a-team_take_good_long_look.html AHAHAHAHAHA. I mean, I love Liam Neeson, but I agree with you - really? REALLY?! They look like the also-ran A-Team. :-P (Though I do still find it amusing that George Peppard went from Breakfast at Tiffany's to the A-Team, so there is that... :-P)

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I just...it's like someone recreated the A-Team in the Bizarro universe. It's not that they don't look the part, it's that they look the part so much, I cannot believe they could continue the ruse if the picture kept moving. A still, fine. An entire movie of this? Surely not.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I will say, however, that I'm glad to see the non-actor guy from District 9 get more work. He was really good in his part, and I'd be interested in seeing if it was just a fluke or if he's really just actually a good actor without hardly any training whatsoever.

(Also, he's kinda cute, so there's that.)

[wellgull.livejournal.com]

I can only repeat my endless refrain, Hollywood eats its own young.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I have a real problem with this in particular. Not because I loved the original inordinately--I vaguely remember seeing it in reruns and that's about it--but because I dislike Hollywood's understanding that you can just substitute wars. For all the comparisons between them, the Iraq War (either of them, really) is not the Vietnam War. I don't think you can just update the war and pretend everything else will be the same.

I credit my war movies professor for pointing out the importance of war movies for my sensitivity to this sort of thing. You can watch these movies and learn a lot about the people making them. This? Leaves me with the impression that people making them would piss all over vets--of any war--for a quick buck. It's just depressing.

[saturn-shumba.livejournal.com]

I got a huge amount of amusement from that photo. My god. It looks RIDICULOUS. And not in the annoying Dukes of Hazzard way, but in the silly, possibly entertaining way of G.I. Joe. Hmm. My cinema cred is swirling down the toilet.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

IKNORITE?

In this age of Funny or Die and Photoshop, I expect this sort of thing--I expect celebrities to get together and dress up as characters and take pictures and ha ha ha, look at what they did.

I still get kinda dazed by the prospect of this being real. They actually are making this into a movie. And your comparison with G.I. Joe was very apt--I had the same, "Ha ha ha, you're fucking with me, right?" response to just about everything I saw, promo-wise, from that (save the picture of Ray Park as Snake Eyes because I will not tolerate anyone laughing at Ray Park, end of story). I even kinda want to see how bad G.I. Joe ended up. Of course, it would take a lot of booze and possibly some RiffTrax before I could watch it, but I would. So I join you in accepting the fact that I'll never be a critic of any repute.

[cbreakr.livejournal.com]

WHEE!!! (It's lots of fun until you hit the ground)

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

And by "hit the ground," do you mean "see the movie"?

[cbreakr.livejournal.com]

Let's not say things we can't take back