Badmouth » a-team http://www.badmouth.net Look, Ma! No pants! Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:04:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Casting Call: The A-Team Movie http://www.badmouth.net/casting-call-the-a-team-movie/ http://www.badmouth.net/casting-call-the-a-team-movie/#comments Fri, 28 Nov 2003 03:07:00 +0000 John Marcotte http://www.badmouth.net/wordpress/casting-call-the-a-team-movie/ The A-Team was an action-adventure program that I watched semi-regularly as a child, although the "action" was so farfetched that even my quite-elastic, 12-year-old credibility was often stretched to the snapping point. The show followed the exploits of a crack Vietnam War commando squad acting as mercenaries in the Los Angeles area after getting framed for crime they didn�t commit. There were a few things I could count on every episode:
  • The A-Team would shoot more live ammo at their opponents, than was expended during the Korean War
  • They would not actually hit anyone with any of this ammo (see any episode of G.I. Joe for more insight into this phenomena)
  • They would get captured by the bad guys
  • The bad guys would lock them in a fully equipped machine shop and ignore the sounds of miter saws, arc-welders, industrial grinders, etc.
  • The Team would create an armor-plated car/truck/bus/scooter and drive around knocking off bad guys who refused to go indoors where there were far fewer armor-plated vehicles
  • The end.
The show followed this template religiously, only slightly changing the details from week to week. I remember a favorite episode where instead of making an armor-plated car, they made a machine � and I am not making this up � that shot cabbages: a cabbage gun. Probably a trick they picked up from Charlie in the backwaters of Long Tan. Despite the ridiculous plots, or perhaps because of them, I tuned in every week. I think it was mainly due to the cast. The actors were certainly much better than the material, and they often managed to elevate the absurd to the sublime. Like every other mediocre television show ever made, rumors of an A-Team movie have been swirling around for years. Unlike some other shows, I think The A-Team might have a good shot of making it. But who will replace that cast that made the original series so watchable? We have a few ideas on that subject� Related posts:
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