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The new team.
First, let me apologize for that headline. I’m sure there are a million reviews of “The A-Team” using Mr. T’s catchphrase. So I’m sorry for being a million and one. I’m lazy, it’s that simple.
So this past weekend was the battle of the ’80s remakes. There was of course the first big screen adaptation of the popular TV series from the ’80s “The A-Team,” and then there was the Jackie Chan/Jaden Smith reboot of the classic 80s film “The Karate Kid.” So who won? Well, “The Karate Kid” kicked “The A-Team” in the faceman.
“The Karate Kid” production barely cost $40 million and recouped all of it over the weekend, and then some, by pulling in $56 million. While “The A-Team” spent a whopping $110 million and walked away with only $25 million. Which baffles me. I expected “The Karate Kid” to do better than “The A-Team” because it was more of a family film, kids would love it, but I didn’t expect that so few would see “The A-Team.” It’s an action movie throwback. Pointless plot, but fun stunts and badass men doing badass stuff and laughing the whole time.
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Last night’s “Treme” began with Antoine sharing his “bone” with a stripper from the club he’s playing at on Bourbon Street. But it’s okay, there’s “pride in Bourbon Street,” as they say on “Treme.”
Last night’s episode took us further into the characters. We’ve moved past the character introductions where we see the image they project. Now we’re getting into what’s behind each character’s façade.
Antoine doesn’t seem as complicated to figure out, but it’s still early. He’s a fuck up who cares about nothing but playing his trombone. Being a fuck up, however, makes it hard to get the good gigs because no one can depend on a fuck up. So he has to go down to Bourbon Street and play for the tourists. For Antoine, playing for a bunch of tourists who don’t know shit about New Orleans’ music is like following Dante into the lower levels of hell.
Davis is also a fuck up, but his pride is for the city of New Orleans. Sure it has everything to do with the music but it doesn’t change the fact that it’s his home. So when the national guard is still wondering around, it makes sense that he’d “motherfuck” them.
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Oh Al Pacino, how I’ve missed you. I don’t think Pacino has made a good movie since the last time he partnered with HBO. Don’t confuse the last few sentences to mean that Al Pacino has returned to the days of “The Godfather” and “Dog Day Afternoon”, that’s actually just the opposite. Despite Al Pacino’s best efforts to return to acting he’s come just shy of making it.
I think the make-up department for the Barry Levinson directed “You Don’t Know Jack” should get most of the credit for making Pacino’s performance resemble anything of the life of Jack Kevorkian. He obviously had prosthetic ears. He got a little dye job, but nevertheless it was obviously Al Pacino. If anything all he did was reinhabit the body of Michael Corleone in “The Godfather: Part III.” I think he might have even worn the same cardigan in both films.
I’ll tell you who was amazing, Brenda Vaccaro as Kevorkian’s sister Margot Janus. I’ll be honest, I did not recognize her from anything else. I even looked up her IMDB profile and couldn’t place her. She’s acted in mostly television in her nearly fifty year career. I’m embarrassed because she was brilliant. I’m sure a lot of other people recognized her but I didn’t. I think though this will be a good role to help her get a lot more high profile gigs.
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