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Monday, July 26th, 2010 07:11 pm

Howard Tayler writes as an aside in a mini-review of new spy thriller Salt,

[...] unlike The A-Team, this movie can’t afford to ask me to put on my industrial strength Suspenders of Disbelief.  It’s odd but completely accurate when I say that I can believe the A-Team flying a tank using the main gun, surviving a water landing, and then driving the tank out of the lake, [...]

...OK, Howard.  Thanks for the heads-up. That one sentence about flying tanks into lakes just completely eliminated any possible remaining shreds of temptation I might still have had lingering around to ever even CONSIDER watching the new A-Team movie.  Because when you get to that kind of complete bullshit, it's no longer even a Laughably Improbable Stupid Action Movie, it's crossed the line into a Warner Brothers cartoon with real humans ... except without the funny.

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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 05:12 am (UTC)

I always took the 125,000-round number as evidence of their skill, actually. At some point even the most clueless idiot will hit something downrange by accident. It would take a shooter of genuinely superlative skill to put 125,000 rounds downrange and hit nothing at all. :)