So, the A-Team movie...

[smurasaki]

I have wildly mixed feelings about this movie.  On the one hand, it was entertaining and there were several bits that made me laugh out loud.  On the other hand, there were two things that kind of put me off wanting to see it again, however much I enjoyed myself at the time.

First off, my god but action movies are full of men.  (Full of white people

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[smurasaki]

I did not know about Quinton Jackson's asshattery. Sounds like he's got his own fail going on right there. Yuck.

I think an extra weird thing about the whole no killing/killing is the only solution in the movie is that (as I understand it - never really watched the show) on the TV show, the violence was...cartoonish, for lack of a better word. Lots of explosions and flying bullets and car crashes, but for the most part without people dying.

And yes, there are fun movies that don't have so many annoyances in them. *sigh*

[auroramoveson]

You know, I was about 5 last time I watched the A-Team and at that age I didn't follow shows so much as stare at them. But I could almost swear that the original A-Team made a point of not killing. "Sure, we'll break-and-enter and steal things and commit assault and kidnapping and all that, but we are NOT getting a murder rap." I could certainly be wrong -- but it could certainly be played that way, too.

I definitely can not get behind any "pacifism is stupid" messages.

[smurasaki]

If you're right about the show, we just achieved a new level of "why, movie, WHY?" *sigh*

[cmcmck]

One of these days the film industry wuill finally get that gender is a continuum, not two seperate camps and that people occupy all sort of spaces along that continuum.

On the military issue, the complexities have been realised in the forces- there are at least a few serving trans people on my flist :o)

On the 'non violence under any circumstances' issue, I absolutely get it, but then, I'm a Quaker, which might explain a lot! :o) :o)

[smurasaki]

Given the trouble the film industry is having with women, much less the whole spectrum of gender possibilities, that may be some time. Sadly.

It would actually be quite interesting (and challenging) if someone made an adventure story with a Quaker hero. I'm quite sure it could be done, and equally sure it would be very, very different. It would have the secondary awesomeness of necessitating a clever hero. (Or rather heroes, since a truly non-violent hero wouldn't be working along side violent ones, unless it was to convince them to change to a non-violent approach.) Great, now I want that movie/book/whatever, too.

[cmcmck]

Aye! I guess the film industry simply cannot get their collective head around the fact that we might be all sorts of things other than bubbleheaded blondes with big boobs :o(

There was a film with a Quaker hero set in your civil war made way back, I think, in the 50's although the title escapes me.