Todd’s Movie Blog

Mother’s Day is a dayto celebrate how much our mothers do for us and how much we appreciate them for it,and for TV stations to show fluff movies and shows about how awesome motherhood is.  So I thought up an alternative list of movies that show moms kicking ass and forgetting about the names.

She-Devil (1989)–Roseanne Barr and her kids get dumped by her husband for a pretty, thin woman and the meek housewife proceeds to systematically destroy his new marriage, his business and ultimately his freedom.

Friday the 13th (1980)–Betsy Palmer cuts a wide scythe through a bunch of horny teenagers in retaliation for them letting her son Jason drown.

Surf Nazis Must Die (1987)–Gail Neely buys a gun and starts racking up a body count among a group of racist, Hitler inspired surfers who kill her son.

Aliens (1986)–A knock down, drag out fight between adoptive mom Sigourney Weaver and the Alien Queen Mother.

The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)–Amnesic single mom Geena Davis has several attempts made on her life and hires Samuel L Jackson to find out wiy, only to discover she was once a top government agent. When her memories return, she packs up her daughter and hits the road with a bunch of relly big guns.

Serial Mom (1994)–Kathleen Turner is a happily insane housewife and will go to great links to avenge any real or imagined affront made against her family.

H2O (1998)–Jamie Lee Curtis picks up an ax and goes on the prowl when Michael Myers returns to kill her teenage son.

Indiana Jones and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) Karen Allen returns to the Indiana Jones franchise, helping her old lover and their son stop Commies from uncovering a long buried alien craft that could spell the end of the world.

Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)–Linda Hunt breaks out of an asulumm and teams up with an old terminator to prote t her son from the laest model, and to try and prevent the machines from taking over the world in the future.

Panic Room (2002)–Recently divorced Jodie Foster protects her  diabetic daughter from three hoodlums that break into her new home.

My title is a joke on the tag line for the new A-Team movie coming out next month.  The tag line on the ad I saw is “There is no Plan B.”  Pretty catchy huh?  Being a die hard fan of the original show, it helps to have been fifteen when it originally debuted, I had some trepidation about the new movie version.  Will it be a fun romp, that captures the spirit of the original while updating the material for a modern audience like Get Smart was? Or will it be a  disappointing mess made simply to cash in on the interest of long time fans, like The Dukes of Hazzard turned out to be?

Hard to say.  The trailer shows lots of explosions and good natured, manly bantering among the cast, as well as that recognizable tag line from the show, “I love it when a plan comes together.”  But the trailer did raise a couple of nit picking questions.  One, Was it really necessary to have BA in a mohawk haircut, since that was  more a signiture look of Mr T than an actual aspect of the character?  Two, did they really need to dye Liam Neeson’s hair white to play Hanibal just because Peppard was white headed?

True they are rather minor points but it brings up a valid concern.  Are the film makers more interested in slapping some supercicial cosmetics on the project so that it looks like the old show and cause fans to plunk down money than they are in making a good movie?  We will have to wait and see, but hopefully this will turn out better than GI Joe did.

Afterthought:  Did anybody else notice that The Losers is an updating of the A-Team with a bunch of specialized commandos on the run and blowing a lot of stuff up?