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My point is this:

 

Why does there need to be an A-Team movie?

 

This is proof once again that Hollywood is completely out of ideas. I loved the show once...when I was geeky and 14.

 

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My point is this:

 

Why does there need to be an A-Team movie?   

 

This is proof once again that Hollywood is completely out of ideas.  I loved the show once...when I was geeky and 14.

 

Mike

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You mean to say you are not geeky now <_<

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....and people complained that there were too many "old" movies on that top 100 list. Hollywood is dead. I cant beleive people shell out money and waste their time to see crap like Friday 13 part 10, Legally Blonde II, Brady Bunch, Spiderman, Flintstones, etc, etc. No wonder I much prefer foreign, classic and independent films

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For the same reason as this: <_<

 

http://www.stadiumwall.com/index.php?showtopic=24609

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My father says this regarding entertainment and other subjects:

 

"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people."

 

The older I get (36 next Thursday), the more I agree with him.

 

And I stopped being geeky years ago...I think. :blink:

 

Mike

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My point is this:

 

Why does there need to be an A-Team movie?   

 

This is proof once again that Hollywood is completely out of ideas.  I loved the show once...when I was geeky and 14.

 

Mike

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There doesn't need to be an A-Team movie, but there will be - and it will do decently, I'll bet - because it has a built-in audience. This is something the entertainment industry loves. Look at the summer blockbuster movies: War of the Worlds (remake), Batman Begins (comic book adaptation), Star Wars (sequel), Longest Yard (remake), Bewitched (remake), The Dukes of Hazzard (remake), Fantasic Four (comic book adaptation).

 

How many CSIs are there on television? How many other similar crime dramas? How many hospital dramas?

 

People love things they're familiar with, and this is true in much more than merely the entertainment industry, too. And the funny thing is, there's plenty of people that will post in this thread and say "oh, what a stupid idea" but I'd bet at least half of those people will see the movie anyway.

 

It reminds me of something Johnny Carson once said. It was something like: You ask a person on a street what's wrong with television and he'll say 'oh, well, there's too much crap, too much fluff; we need more news, and more culture, and more originality' because he doesn't want to sound like a dummy. But he'll go home and he'll watch that crap and he'll watch that fluff because 'there's nothing else on.'

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If you want originality and good shows, ABC has brought along some very good programming and there looks to be a few very good non-'cop-drama' series next fall, too. Whoever's in charge over there is doing an awesome job.

 

I don't think it's that Hollywood/entertainment industry is out of ideas, it's just that there's a big nostalgia kick. That happens during and after a time filled with uncertainty --- as a people, you look back and adopt things from when tiems were good. All of the ones listed by Grant are either from the American Pastoral '50s/'60s or the Big '80s. There's nothing wrong with nostalgia, just that it's completely taken over the culture to the point where little is advancing. And most of it is really crappy in quality, with people getting money thrown at them b/c they're sexually attractive according to whoever determines that. W/in 10 years, the American economy will be little more than retail and pornography and it will be one endless circle-jerk.

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Maybe its that most current stuff is crap, and they are going to tap the biggest group- the baby boomers. I would rather watch the older great show than most of the crap on the networks. i usually have the Discovery Channel and the like on.

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A lot of the actors today who are in their 30's, like me (especially Black, Stiller, Vaughn, the Wilsons, Ferrell, Affleck, Damon, etc.) grew up on the TV shows, movies and comic books they're recreating and remaking these days. So it's a bit of a labor of love for them. For example, you can easily see just how much fun Stiller and Wilson had making "Starsky & Hutch," and there are plenty of other examples.

 

Me, I grew up on that stuff as well, and so I don't mind these movies. Nothing wrong with a little nostalgia now and then.

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I don't think it's that Hollywood/entertainment industry is out of ideas, it's just that there's a big nostalgia kick. That happens during and after a time filled with uncertainty --- as a people, you look back and adopt things from when tiems were good. All of the ones listed by Grant are either from the American Pastoral '50s/'60s or the Big '80s.

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That's a really good point. The nostalgia trip (which, I'll point out, includes the recent huge run on biopics of successful American people such as Ray; The Aviator; the ones about Cole Porter and Bobby Darin; the upcoming Cinderalla Man; Ali; and however many more) is definitely fueled by an uncertain political climate and the fallout of post-9/11 America.

 

This is something very evident throughout film history - whenever the country is at an uncertain point, the films of the period tend to look back at an "easier" time (more accurately, what is perceived as an easier time). For example, during the Vietnam war, Hollywood began to produce a lot of films about the country's more successful war effort in World War II.

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