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"Walking After Dark" by The Mountain Movers

This genre really flourished in the 00s... STARSKY & HUTCH is yet another one of those ZOOLANDER/OLD SCHOOL/WEDDING CRASHER/ANCHORMAN joints that provided a loose structure for some combination of Will Ferrell, Owen Wilson, Ben Stiller, and/or Vince Vaughn (ugh) - or all four in the case of S&H - to clown around for 100 minutes. It's pretty hard to endure for the full running time, though of course there are a few isolated laffs.

ok that ensemble... Stiller and Ferrel can be funny for me, but the overall tone of their schtick gets quite old fast

Dwight Schultz! I agree, he was great as Murdock and as the good guy in ALONE IN THE DARK (82). Wish he'd worked more.

forgot he was in that.

there's an interview where he talks about the first day on set for A TEAM, and says George Peppard just came up to him and went "Hi I'm George Peppard and I'm not a very nice man. My ex-wife said I hit her over the head with a frying pan but she's lying. If that was true she'd be dead", and then walked off!

This genre really flourished in the 00s... STARSKY & HUTCH is yet another one of those ZOOLANDER/OLD SCHOOL/WEDDING CRASHER/ANCHORMAN joints that provided a loose structure for some combination of Will Ferrell, Owen Wilson, Ben Stiller, and/or Vince Vaughn (ugh) - or all four in the case of S&H - to clown around for 100 minutes. It's pretty hard to endure for the full running time, though of course there are a few isolated laffs.

DUKES OF HAZZARD is actually a Broken Lizard film where the troupe wrote/directed and I think plays supporting roles while real movie stars (quote-unquote) play the leads. I know Broken Lizard has a following on this website... I rarely enjoy their films, and this one is no exception. Willie Nelson seems to be enjoying himself, though.

Dwight Schultz! I agree, he was great as Murdock and as the good guy in ALONE IN THE DARK (82). Wish he'd worked more.

no one is above the law

ok there's also

STARSKY & HUTCH (2004)

I haven't bothered with this, although I never saw the series until fairly recently. seeing as Ben Stiller's in it can I assume it plays up to his comic stylings?


THE DUKES OF HAZZARD (2005)

Jessica Simpson and Johnny Knoxville... it would be hard to out-goofy the tv series but something tells me they manage it

(wow these two aren't so 'recent' now)

A lot of good supporting actors but so much posturing and mood-building instead of suspense and action... didn't work for me in the slightest.

yeah agree with that... but although the MIAMI VICE movie was also not my cuppa tea, I didn't feel like it tried to fully sabotage the original series. more like re-invent it slightly, which is less offensive.

The A Team movie is terrible aside from. Sharlto Copley who is great as Murdock.

the original Murdok is a tough act to follow... until I re-watched some episodes my memory of him was just being a general crazy fool all the time. yes he is obviously the comic relief factor, but his character is actually really nuanced and well portrayed imo

The 21 JUMP STREET movies seem relevant here. (I've only seen the first one.) It's a tough premise to take seriously, yes, but if there were any true fans of the show, I wonder if they were disappointed by the farcical nature of the films.

On the other hand, there's MIAMI VICE (2006)... written and directed by the TV show's creator and seems to take itself (very) seriously. However I found it tough to swallow. Colin Farrell is probably a better actor generally than Don Johnson, but watching him earnestly deliver lines like "I'm a fiend for mojitos" just didn't go over for me. Also, Gong Li (a respected actress in her homeland) clearly understands no English and has no idea what she's doing in the movie, thus delivers one of the worst/most ridiculous performances of this century. A lot of good supporting actors but so much posturing and mood-building instead of suspense and action... didn't work for me in the slightest.

[long post / rant, apologies]

long post / rant, apologies


out of nothing more than morbid curiosity I recently checked out the 2010 movie of THE A-TEAM.

the original series is a fond childhood memory for me but nothing more, and when I watched a few early episodes recently (having not seen it since I was a kid) I was surprised at how decent it was, for a tea time action series anyway

I assumed the 2010 movie would get it wrong, but the question was how wrong...

I cannot believe that they started it off with some grizzly torture porn-esque scenario (obviously it doesn't develop into one but still), and within the first 15 minutes there are some "s**t"s, and not 1 but 2 very heavily implied MF's... where the character goes "mother fuuuu"... and this is rated 12!!

no one swore in the A Team. you can't have Face saying MF

In what universe did they think "yeah, this'll capture the spirit of the tv show"?

it also looks and feels like a Michael Bay movie, even though it isn't.

I bailed out after 20 minutes, and the intro credits were still going?!


there's movie reboots of CHiPS and BAYWATCH and the clips I've seen of those look similarly horrendous, in that they've just gone full new-school gross out humour when the orig series had none of that...

The A Team movie is terrible aside from. Sharlto Copley who is great as Murdock. Rampage Jackson can't act, Liam Neeson is miscast and Bradley Cooper as Face loses face 😳💩

surely the tech now exists to merge both guys into one hybrid Super-President?

under Trump-den (or perhaps Bi-dump? no let's go Trump-den) everyone would be happy forever.