And the lipstick on my cigarette, frost upon the windowpane

[stillsostrange]

The A-Team: Surprisingly--nay, shockingly--good. Certainly the best gratuitous Hollywood remake in recent history. Everyone in it was adorable, especially Sharlto Copley and his extra-adorable accent slippage. The people in charge didn't make the mistake of saying "Let's make this serious." Instead they said "Let's make this awesome!" And I believe they succeeded.

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I woke up with an IDEA today, burning like an amphetamine-fueled tyrannosaur straight out of Warren Ellis's brain. I've figured out how to make my Spies With Fabulous Hats book work. I will even make it work as a historical novel. The primary focus of my research will be what sort of hats my nameless femme fatale is wearing in any given scene. All I need now is a working title and this thing will be a menace.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_eljefe_/]

I agree. I went in expecting it to be an ok homage, but it was awesome. The two performances I was most worried about (BA and Murdock) were done well and insane, respectively.

And hats! Spies! Meth rex! Your day was cooler than mine.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Hats are important. Hong King film director Fok Yiu Leung (English name Clarence Ford) had a phase of serious hat fetishry in his crime films and they definitely added to the coolness of his female thieves and assassins.

[tyches-echo.livejournal.com]

I don't know; I'm kind of a fan of "Spies With Fabulous Hats" as the actual title... ;)

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

I totally need to see this movie. All I remember about A-Team from my childhood is 1) Opening sequence, 2) Montage involving building a biscuit-hurling jeep or something, and 3) EXPLOSIONS WOOHOO EXPLOSIONS. So this sounds like a movie for me!

[caprine.livejournal.com]

I am now imagining "Einstein's brain...placed into the body of a young tyrannosaur, stuffed full of amphetamines and suffused with Sex Radiation" and the tyrannosaur is wearing a fabulous hat.

This makes my brain hurt because it is made of so much awesome.

[blackaire.livejournal.com]

Liam Neeson as Hannibal rocked my socks. That movie was insane fun. (And how nice to see Copley without prawnhand! makeup.)

[stillsostrange.livejournal.com]

More importantly, how nice to see him without that awful moustache.

[blackaire.livejournal.com]

And sporting a variety of kicky headwear!