I know I’m behind the times…

…but it’s still amazing to me that I can watch a movie on my notebook computer. I mean, don’t get me wrong, it’s amazing to me that I *have* a notebook computer, but it’s like when Bill Bryson went to the Olympics in Australia, and didn’t really get how amazing the athletes were until he watched ping pong (that being the only sport he’d played enough himself to have a frame of reference for).

My computer — it’s incredible, but it’s like trying to conceptualize a trillion of something. It’s just… what is that, even? But movies, I get — movies are like this special treat, and they’re big for me, you know? It always felt big when I was a kid, and now it’s still this incredible feeling when the movie comes up on the screen. Like — wow, that’s a movie! Right there! At my fingertips! I made that happen!

Mirrored from The Marci Rating System.

Movie Review: The A-Team (2010 version)

1. This movie was 8000 times better than I thought it would be (give or take). It arrived from Netflix and I was all, “Well, I guess this is better than the special features disc from Glee. Maybe.” But wow, yeah, it totally was.

2. In the dvd previews, there’s a preview *for* The A-Team movie. I was… confused. Was I watching the movie? Had it started without me noticing? Did I have the wrong dvd? No, apparently.

3. They were all grown-ups! I was shocked, actually, but in a good way. All four of the A-Team characters were over 30 (even in 2009 when filming started, though Quinton Jackson — who played Bosco — was cutting it close). I thought it made the movie better.

4. I didn’t hate Jessica Biel! (Even though she was born in 1982, and so did not make the 30 year-old cut.) I was actually pretty impressed, and totally rooting for her. I did feel bad that she was essentially the only woman in the movie, and didn’t get to be quite as awesome as the guys.

5. There seems to be some dissent about whether this movie was awesome or awful, and some of it seems centered around the comparison of the movie to the tv show. In the interests of full disclosure, I’ve never seen the tv show. ::cough:: (Though now I may have to check it out.)

6. Quotes to follow!

Mirrored from The Marci Rating System.

Quotes: The A-Team

“What the hell is wrong with you? You shoot a total stranger? I don’t even know you!”
-BA

“You guys should see these bullets in 3D! It’s like we’re actually being shot at!”
“We are being shot at!”
-Murdock, Peck

“Why are we in a falling tank?”
“Because the plane exploded!”
“What? When?”
“Recently!”
-BA, Murdock

“Are they trying to shoot down that other drone?”
“No. They’re trying to fly the tank.”
-military guy, Sosa

“You speak Swahili?”
“You don’t?”
-Peck, Murdock

“Who has the most to lose on this? Me. And I trust you.”
“Yeah. I know. But you’re crazy.”
“Not that crazy.”
-Murdock, Peck

“I guess the plan went okay… considering Pike blew up the boat, which I didn’t account for at *all.*”
-Peck

Mirrored from The Marci Rating System.