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Thursday, April 29, 2010

A-Team + Airwolf = Why Candace likes to watch things go boom.

This post was sparked by someone's reply to the last line of my review of The Losers. I said that The Losers made me wish for The A-Team. A. replies: "Unless the A-team fires guns and hit things, I'm going with the Losers - lots of fun."

UNLESS?!

*sigh*

I'm guessing A. is younger than  me, and therefore does not know what The A-Team is. I pity the fool...(Sorry - I had to.)

The Losers might be an excellent comic (I haven't read it, so don't know).  I certainly found it to be an entertaining movie - lts of fun, as A. wrote. But it was, in my head, an A-Team imitation. An amusing imitation, but an imitation nonetheless. As I was figuring out why (past the whole "team of soldiers betrayed by the gov't and now on a kick-ass rampage" thing), this helpful equation came to me:

"The A-Team" + "Airwolf" + "Knight Rider" = Why Candace likes to watch things go fast, go flying, and - most of all - go boom.

My dad would be excited to see me embracing the mathematical explanation.

Here are some visuals for those unfamiliar with The A-Team.
The intro to the old show involves lots of silly disguises, but also lots of jeeps crashing and blowing up. Also? Awesome theme song.


old school A-Team intro

I am highly amused to see that there's an old-school Cylon in the A-Team intro  :)
(Dirk Benedict, aka Templeton "Face" Peck from The A-Team, was Starbuck in the original BSG).


The trailer for the new movie involves Bradley Cooper (Playing Face in the movie version) firing very large guns while parachuting. Did I mention that the guns are attached to a tank? Yes. He's parachuting in a tank.


New A-Team teaser trailer


New A-Team long trailer

Also? Awesome theme song!

And, just for fun, here's the Airwolf intro, featuring an awesome helicopter (and another awesome theme song).

4 comments:

  1. It's good to know that no matter what country you're raised in, blind devotion to all things dramtion (that's my lame combination of drama and action there)is highly encouraged.

    As a wee whipper snapper I loved nothing more than imagining that the A Team were going to come and kick some Highland ass on a Saturday afternoon, or that the infernal low flying aircrafts on the Isle of Skye were in actual fact Stringfellow Hawke coming to save me from my math homework on a Wednesday night. I'm glad to see that you identified how amazing the theme tunes were for these shows!

    As for the remakes... I don't care if they place Liam Neeson and Nathan Fillion (and any other sexy people that I can't recall right now)on the screen for two hours doing nothing but posing nude... I refuse to go watch them. These remakes take the word 'bastardization to a new level.

    Thanks for the blog post, it's inspired me to go look out my old Howling mad Murdock leather jacket with the tiger on it :D

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  2. OK, I obviously need a picture of you in that jacket. Howlin' Mad Ness?

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  3. Um, how did I NOT know that there was an Ateam movie coming out!?! Yup, bastardization and rip offs be damned, I am THERE! :o) Erika

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  4. Yeah, I'm going to have to be part of the problem on this one, because I can't wait to see it :)

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