# A-Team trailer - This could be the greatest movie of all time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 11, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-team-trailer-this-could-be-the-greatest-movie-of-all-time/524535 "2010-01-11T18:11:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-team-trailer-this-could-be-the-greatest-movie-of-all-time/524535/61 "2010-01-12T21:15:02Z")
> [@labtrash](#): > > These were my original choices for casting: > > Hannibal: George Clooney > Murdock: Jim Carrey > Face: Brad Pitt > B.A.: Will Smith or Ving Rhaimes (sp?) > > It would’ve only cost about $80 million or so to cast these guys, but it’d recoup it the second week. Ving Rhaimes looks far meaner than Will Smith ever could. I can’t picture Jim Carrey punching someone or shooting a gun. ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-team-trailer-this-could-be-the-greatest-movie-of-all-time/524535/62 "2010-01-12T21:21:20Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > Ving Rhaimes looks far meaner than Will Smith ever could. I can’t picture Jim Carrey punching someone or shooting a gun. Agreed. Will Smith is way too scrawny for B.A. and I just can’t see Jim Carrey being violent. Brad’s a possible but, as previously mentioned, Bradley Cooper is soooo doing it for me! ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-team-trailer-this-could-be-the-greatest-movie-of-all-time/524535/63 "2010-01-12T21:33:52Z")
> [@Mtgman](#): > > When I was a kid, we didn’t have a television. The only shows I ever saw were ones I would catch at a friends house occasionally and the one night each week when we went to my grandmother’s house to watch The A-Team as a family. Tuesday nights we’d all go to granny’s and mom, dad, and granny would all sit around the dining room table and chat while the kids would all watch The A-Team. It was our family show that everyone liked. I’m hoping they do a good job with this. Maybe we’ll get the family together to go watch it when it comes out. > > Enjoy, > Steven Tuesday night was Scouts night, so I never got to watch A-Team. Mean, mean Scoutmaster! ☹ Hopefully this movie makes up for it. ---
**Author:** ![Ceejaytee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ceejaytee/32/2956_2.png) [@Ceejaytee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ceejaytee)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-team-trailer-this-could-be-the-greatest-movie-of-all-time/524535/64 "2010-01-12T21:44:32Z")
“Sucks to be you, homey.” That was just awesome. I wonder if I can get my husband to go (he’s never seen the show, but he still loves it when a plan comes together). Hell, I’ll just take off a day from work and go to a matinee by myself. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-team-trailer-this-could-be-the-greatest-movie-of-all-time/524535/65 "2010-01-13T23:49:35Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Nah, they’ve got to be wrongfully accused good guys who are so good, that they never kill anyone. If they start killing their enemies, even in immediate self defense, they become soulless mercenaries. So yes, when the helicopter crashes into the side of a cliff, then slowly rolls hundreds of feet to the ground, all four passengers must crawl out, shaking their heads and trotting out of range before the chopper explodes. The movie must go further. If I’m laying out $12 to see it I want A-Team but BIGGER A-Team. A-Team, but more of it. What I wanna see is an entire widebody jetliner of bad guys, like 300 evil ex-soldiers in a chartered 777, flying in to an airport to lay a smackdown on the A-Team, except B.A. Baracus, as part of Hannibal’s plan, has constructed a surface-to-air-missile with nothing but a stick welder and the parts they found in a shed they were locked in, and they use the missle to shoot the 777 down and it piles into the runway and compeltely disintegrates in a gigantic ball of fire, the plane busting into flaming jet fuel and twisted metal and exploding across a square mile of airport, everything incinerated and throwing up a pillar of black, oily smoke… and then every single goddamned bad guy that was on the plane staggers out of the wreckage, confused, and surrenders to Hannibal who holds them with a .38 and chomps on a cigar and says “I love it when a plan comes together.” Oh, man, another boner. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-team-trailer-this-could-be-the-greatest-movie-of-all-time/524535/66 "2010-01-14T02:05:49Z")
While RickJay’s tongue is firmly in cheek… Yeah, I kinda wouldn’t mind something like that just for the hell of it. Just go effing _mental_. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-team-trailer-this-could-be-the-greatest-movie-of-all-time/524535/67 "2010-01-14T02:14:38Z")
And all because they stole his boots. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-team-trailer-this-could-be-the-greatest-movie-of-all-time/524535/68 "2010-01-14T14:03:00Z")
Ok, we’ve now established that **RickJay** is actually Steven J. Cannell. Well done sir. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-team-trailer-this-could-be-the-greatest-movie-of-all-time/524535/69 "2010-01-14T16:02:00Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Just to insert a moment of sanity into this thread… > > Tanks are heavy; like really, seriously heavy. You would need some ridiculously bigass parachutes to ride one of them down and live to tell about it. Hey! **Robot Arm** is trying to inject sanity into a thread about the A-Team movie! Git’em! ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-team-trailer-this-could-be-the-greatest-movie-of-all-time/524535/70 "2010-01-14T16:47:05Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > So yes, when the helicopter crashes into the side of a cliff, then slowly rolls hundreds of feet to the ground, all four passengers must crawl out, shaking their heads and trotting out of range before the chopper explodes. I always remember that clip, because they took it from another film where the bad guys in that 'copter all died in a horrible fireball. In the A-Team, they just graze their shins. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-team-trailer-this-could-be-the-greatest-movie-of-all-time/524535/71 "2010-01-14T16:53:47Z")
That trailer is so ridiculously preposterously over the top that I’d buy a ticket right now if I could. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-team-trailer-this-could-be-the-greatest-movie-of-all-time/524535/72 "2010-01-15T22:30:15Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#): > > While RickJay’s tongue is firmly in cheek… . No, it’s not. My dong’s halfway across the room every time I watch that trailer, but I assure you I was 100% serious. I wanna see 300 bad guys walk away from a jet crash. I also want to see B.A. Baracus make a working tank twice the size of an M-1 Abrams out of scrap metal. In six hours. You can’t go too far with the A-Team. Ridiculous is the whole point. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-team-trailer-this-could-be-the-greatest-movie-of-all-time/524535.md?page=3)