A-Team and Ghost Town

We went to see the A-Team.  This was the best-reviewed movie in town.  What can I say? It’s a small town.  It is quite wonderful crap, really.  LOTS of stunts explosions, flipping cars shooting bad people, blowing stuff up, and they even sink a ship!  A big one!  No one should pay full price to see this movie, never, ever, but if you had 2-10 beers and want to laugh, it’s pretty good.  Liam Neesom stars (I hope he was well paid), Jessica Biel stays irritatingly dressed, Gerald McRaney plays himself in various guises and then there are lots and lots of other people you will never see again because the just blow.

It is a faithful re-do of the TV show except BA’s van gets trashed really early in the show.  I really liked that van—used to have one of those old GMC rattletraps.  “If this van’s rockin” sort of stuff—early 70’s.  I took this one trip through Colorado—- never mind.

So, anyway, the movie really is stupid but it’s a lot of fun to watch the ridiculously intricate “plans” come together.  Neesom looks dumb with a hooter-sized cigar in his mouth, too.  I guess the only thing I liked about this was that it was reminiscent of the old cold war movies—things happened in lots of places—Iraq, Germany, the Western US, DC, etc.  Lots of stupid non-existent technologies, too. I always like those.  I’m still a little irritated with Biel, though.  If they can bust up that many pretty cars and sink a big container ship, she could have got nekkid at least once.  CIA women take showers in knee sox and baseball caps, don’t they?  No?  Must have been a different movie.

So, when this comes out in video and you need your brain scrubbed of serious content and have a ready supply of adult beverages and munchies, this is the flick to see.  I’ not thinking this is a good chick flick.

However, Ghost Town, a Ricky Gervais vehicle IS a good chick flick. Ricky plays a dentist and jerk named Pincus.  He is a complete misanthrope (college word).  But he has an accident and is sort of, like, you know, umm, dead for about 7 minutes.  This leaves him with the ability to see dead people. All the dead people have unfinished business keeping them bopping around New York looking for, you guessed it, a dork like Pincus to finish their lives so that they can vanish in a flash of light, smiling, harps and stuff.  And, of course, Pincus first resists, then begins to change, falls in love, screws that up over and over again, finally takes care of the ghosts needs, and is then rather unceremoniously hit by a bus.  I told you it was a great date movie.  What’s funny about this is that it’s really not.  Funny things happen, but it’s not your basic Gervais-in-your-face kind of stuff.  I kept expecting the ridiculous and what I got was pretty darn good acting.  This isn’t a fast moving story, but the cast is good and Pincus at least sounds like a bad word, doesn’t it?  Definitely a date movie, but not a cuddly one.  You’re on your own for the cuddly.

Spanky, Movie Dude

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