The back to the '80s thing continues

[A Black Falcon]

There are new Karate Kid and The A-Team movies just out...

[Great Rumbler]

And...I don't care to see either.

[alien space marine]

A-team is pretty good

Its a great comedic action flick, It is faithful to the source material and they did a excellent job emulating the performance of the original cast, It kept the spirit of the show and only made it more grand and epic.

This film explores the back-story that the tv series always left as a mystery while updating it , Basically how and why they got framed and court marshaled, The plot revolves around their quest to clear their name while escaping from the law as fugitives.

I give it a 8/10




See the film or I will pity you fools!

[Dark Jaguar]

Except that it doesn't star Mr T.

More than that, apparently the latest fashions are straight outta the early 1900s. That's a trend that sounds, for the first time EVER, actually interesting.

[EdenMaster]

It's official. Hollywood has completely run out of ideas. Why do they insist on raping the classics?

[Dark Jaguar]

That came out years ago. Honestly as far as unneeded remakes go, it wasn't all that bad.

[A Black Falcon]

I hadn't heard of these two sequels until they came out, but it didn't surprise me really because of how every popular '80s movie and TV show seems to be getting a movie these days... I knew of so many others (Transformers, He-Man, Thundercats, etc, etc), but not these.

... Does that mean that there'll be a Goonies 2 sometime?

I've not actually ever seen the original A-Team or Karate Kid movies/TV show, so I don't have too much interest in these either, but it's pretty funny that Hollywood really does seem to have absolutely no new ideas... but even so, yeah, The A-Team with no Mr. T?

[alien space marine]

Rampage jackson , Does a pretty convincing Mr T impersonation.

Mr T was offered a cameo but he refused to be part of the film, Dirk Benedict and Dwight Schultz were in it, But their cameo is so short that they may has well not be in it.

[Dark Jaguar]

ABF...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goonies_2

Yeah I know that's not what you meant. Besides they can't make a sequel or remake, that was THEIR time, RIGHT THEN.

A Never-ending Story remake might actually be worthwhile, in that they could tell the entire original story without the Emptiness being shoved into a bad sequel.

ASM, if even Mr T didn't want anything to do with this remake, what does that tell you?

[A Black Falcon]

Hah, that's not exactly the same thing... :) But besides, that's really a sequel to the Japan-only NES (Famicom) game The Goonies, not the movie they are both based on directly. But I know that wasn't your point. :)

Yeah I know that's not what you meant. Besides they can't make a sequel or remake, that was THEIR time, RIGHT THEN.

True, I agree, but couldn't that be said for a bunch of the things that have come back recently... did they all really need to?

[alien space marine]

ASM, if even Mr T didn't want anything to do with this remake, what does that tell you?

The reason Mr T refused to take the cameo offer is that he thought the film was "too violent" , The two other surviving cast members did in fact appear in the new film.

I liked the movie , You don't wanna see it since its not a chick flick...Karen

[Dark Jaguar]

Of course I never did like the A-team, but Mr. T did make it hilarious. The new guy just isn't as funny, because he actually sounds like a member of the human race.

ABF, I get your point and agree. Modern remakes of a lot of the 80's are completely unnecessary. For example, is a remake of The Karate Kid really needed? The 3 sequels were already basically remakes of the exact same story (progressively worse each time), and I have no hopes of this one doing anything different. Re imaginings would be far more justified. I can imagine a remake where the kid's master was, himself, the insane trainer he had to overcome. Or, and this is decidedly darker in tone, one where the trainer's pushing the kid to defend himself ends up getting the kid killed and the rest of the movie is the trainer dealing with that. I'm not saying these ideas are any good, and if they do end up being something impossible to make a decent movie out of, DON'T make them just for the sake of doing something new, but that said, these weren't needed.

It's not like remaking King Kong. That makes sense. No matter what argument you make, King Kong looks terrible. You can say whatever you will about "for the times they looked decent" or whatever, but really, seriously? No one alive today is capable of putting themselves in a mental state where that effectively scares them. It's just impossible. You can enjoy it, yes, but never the way it was originally intended to be enjoyed. Today you watch it as basically an interesting history piece and an example of what they had to work with. You could be impressed, but you wouldn't really be scared of the monster. A modern remake of that makes perfect sense.

A modern remake of anything from the 80's? Pointless. Those movies look just fine even by today's standards (the live action anyway). I mean it's in color, it's got decent detail, and they can always remaster it from the film to put it in high definition blu-ray. Heck, a lot of the time they stick it right in the 80's anyway so they can't even try to say it's being "updated for modern times", because it's not being updated! It's useless. Now, remaking old Saturday morning cartoons in live action is at least SOMETHING, that's a new style. It'd be helpful if those live action adaptations were ANY GOOD though, and let's face it, if you are making a movie based on GI Joe, you don't have much to work with anyway.

However, eventually they'll run out of 1980s. Then they'll remake the 1990's. Get ready for yet another Batman reboot, based on the animated series (that COULD be good, Mr. Freeze needs to be taken seriously in a movie for once). Get ready for a live action Gargoyles (which will probably be terrible). Get ready for a live action Sailor Moon (which again, will be terrible).

What else is even left for them to recycle from the 80's at this point? ABF, are they really making a new live action He-Man? Didn't they already make one horrible live action movie from that? Maybe She-Ra? Heck actually the 90's had a lot of remakes from the 70s come to think of it, like live action Scooby Doo, and live action Flintstones (no live action Jetsons yet). Hmm, what else from the 80's... David the Gnome? Nah, no one wants to see a feature length movie about some really helpful guy just sorta sitting around helping old farmers move their crops or chickens count their young. Double Dragon? No they did that... Huh if they really are remaking Thundercats and He-Man... that just leaves...

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God help us... god help us all...

Edit: Actually there's still a lot of live action to rip off, like Alien Nation, or heck, MORE HIGHLANDER, or Doogie Howser, or Alf (minus the sad ending where Alf gets abducted and autopsied by the US government, no seriously, THAT was the last episode).

[Darunia]

And...I don't care to see either.

Correct. As well you should not. By paying to see that trash, you are rewarding their stupidity: no movie ideas? Draw a hat out of 80's phenomena, crank out a generic plot, make a hundred million.

TRY HARDER!


It's official. Hollywood has completely run out of ideas. Why do they insist on raping the classics?

See above.

Creating anything original would require working. Why work, and risk failure, when you can reproduce what has already been made? By reproducing what we already know, they have a built-in nostalgia audience. "I remember the A-team! I'm so there!"

[A Black Falcon]

And here's why Hollywood is doing this... here are the first sales figures for the week. Top three grossing films.

1. Toy Story 3
2. The Karate Kid
3. The A-Team

Lots of people are watching them.

[Darunia]

These are dark times in Hollywood. And I don't see them getting any better.

[Dark Jaguar]

They'll get better the same way they always do. People will get sick of the remakes and they'll have to pick up on the next big fad.

[Great Rumbler]

Toy Story 3 is good, don't lump it in with Karate Kid and A-Team.

[Dark Jaguar]

Yeah it's more of a sequel.

[alien space marine]

DJ :Get ready for a live action Sailor Moon (which again, will be terrible).

Karen..... That is a question of when it will be dubbed into english!

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I have to agree that most of those remakes of 80's flicks have been complete trash, Nightmare on elmstreet and Clash of the CG Titans were major suckage that was even lower then my already reduced expectations.

The A-Team was never made into a motion Picture until now , It does not count as a film remake since its a updated adaption from the of original tv series, The original cast are now either dead or senior citizens so recasting and rebooting was inevitable.

[Geno]

So I was watching Toy Story 3 the other day when I saw a trailer for a... get this... live action/CGI Smurfs movie. What gets me is that they're not even remotely cute. They're creepy and ugly as sin.

Please, Hollywood, just let the 80's rest in peace.