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Invincible: This Must Come as a Shock (2024)
Not what it once was
This show used to be amazing. Gritty but not overly grotesque for a comics show. Twists and turns but it always felt like the writers had a solid direction. Character interactions that mattered. All of that is pretty much gone. People always say that main character deaths make the story more meaningful but, when you kill off main and side characters every episode, and then backfill them, it's hard to feel attached to any of them or get any semblance of continuity. There are so many storylines going on at once it's hard to keep up with. Had an episode about alternate realities and a new super villain and he just disappears. Alan the Alien finally gets some story only to be left to die and we hear nothing at all. New villains left and right that seemingly just jump out of nowhere. It's like the show is overcompensating because they know that two seasons over the course of 3 years is unacceptable. And it would be better if there wasn't multi-year gaps between content, but there is. This will be the last episode I watch. The fall off from this show should be studied.
The A-Team (2010)
Better than what you'd expect for a cheesy 80s remake
First let me say, I applaud the directors and producers for making a movie that not only sticks to its cheesy 80s action TV show nostalgia, but also leaves enough for the new generation to enjoy. I remember the first time I saw a preview for this movie. I was a sophomore in high school and saw it in a magazine during my lunch period. My father constantly talks about the A Team (as well as many other 80s tv shows he grew up with), so I immediately saw this as a time to bond. I had seen 4, maybe 5 original A Team episodes leading up to the movie.
If you see his movie looking for something completely out of the norm for action movies, you'll be disappointed. If you see this movie for complex and unpredictable plot twists, you'll be disappointed. If you see this movie to love the pure essence of the A Team, you'll love the movie.
Sure, it goes over the top, cracking cheesy (yet hilarious) jokes along the way, but it exactly embodies what the 80s A Team was about. The scene where the team commandeers the C-130 and then flies a tank, the scene where the team is cooking steaks on a sunny day in Afghanistan, the scene where the team breaks out Murdock, every one keeps the pure essence of the A Team while giving it a modern twist.
I absolutely love this movie and have seen it at least 5+ times. I HIGHLY recommend to anyone looking for that cheesy action/80s nostalgia movie.