A-Team (2010) Question (Spoilers)

[BoxWhatBox]

I thoroughly enjoyed the recent A-Team film. However, one thing keeps bugging me. Eight years past between the film's opening and the remainder of the film. It clearly states that our heroes have had several successful missions and that they are the best at what they do. With that said, why hadn't any of them been promoted? Thoughts?

Colonel Smith with his years of experience and eight years of proven success should have been a general by the start of the main film.

 

[Nowhere Man]

I wndered that too, my guess is that they are too rebellious or not comformative for the Army. Another reason could be they don't want to be promoted into a desk job. I would imagine Murdock doesn't get promoted for obvious reasons and BA. because of the bad attitude

 

[Brikar99]

I suppose you might also ask why Jean-Luc Picard is still a captain after thirty years...

 

[captcalhoun]

BA had been promoted. he tells Hannibal in Mexico he was a Corporal, but IIRC, at the trial he had sergeant's stripes.

 

[Aragorn]

I suppose you might also ask why Jean-Luc Picard is still a captain after thirty years...

Because in the captain's character you can still make a difference.

Why do you think they were so quick to promote Janeway away from starships?

 

[Starkers]

The thing that still bugs me is the F35 fighter at the start if it was 8 years ago!

 

[captcalhoun]

it's an F-22 Raptor.

which is still wrong, but less wrong.

 

[TiberiusMaximus]

it's an F-22 Raptor.

which is still wrong, but less wrong.

Sheldon: "More wrong?" Wrong is an absolute state and not subject to gradation.

Stuart: Of course it is. It's a little wrong to call a tomato a vegetable; it's very wrong to say it's a suspension bridge.

Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

To be fair, it doesn't say that the first 'mission' took place 8 years before the present. It simply says that the later mission takes place 8 years after that. So maybe the bulk of the movie takes place 8 years from now? Yeah, I'm grasping for straws.

I loved this movie, especially Murdock.

 

[Trekker4747]

I thoroughly enjoyed the recent A-Team film. However, one thing keeps bugging me. Eight years past between the film's opening and the remainder of the film. It clearly states that our heroes have had several successful missions and that they are the best at what they do. With that said, why hadn't any of them been promoted? Thoughts?

"We're not promoting you because we need you where you are" strikes me as the answer. They were doing good, needed, work in the positions where they were at. Why mess that up with promotions or transfers?

And why instead of doing "Green Hornet" myths didn't the Mythbusters do that damn "piloting the tank with the cannon" thing?!

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

Also, Generals don't go on operations. Colonel is the highest rank that commands troops in the field. If Hannibal had been promoted, he's pretty much a desk jockey from that point forward.

Mark

 

[captcalhoun]

To be fair, it doesn't say that the first 'mission' took place 8 years before the present. It simply says that the later mission takes place 8 years after that. So maybe the bulk of the movie takes place 8 years from now? Yeah, I'm grasping for straws.

I loved this movie, especially Murdock.

the captions after saying 8 years and 80 successful missions later, say it's the last days of combat ops in Iraq, which puts it in 2010, making the Mexican scenes 2002.

the Raptor didn't enter service until 2005.

 

[ThunderAeroI]

To be fair, it doesn't say that the first 'mission' took place 8 years before the present. It simply says that the later mission takes place 8 years after that. So maybe the bulk of the movie takes place 8 years from now? Yeah, I'm grasping for straws.

I loved this movie, especially Murdock.

the captions after saying 8 years and 80 successful missions later, say it's the last days of combat ops in Iraq, which puts it in 2010, making the Mexican scenes 2002.

the Raptor didn't enter service until 2005.

Its on screen for mear 1 second, and just cause it entered service in 2005 does not mean the A-Team wouldn't have access to one.

 

[captcalhoun]

it was on screen more than one second and Agent Carnahan tells Hannibal it's on a border patrol, so it's apparently a regular USAF flight, not some spec op support mission Hannibal called in.

 

[Captain Craig]

I don't bother with such things of promotion.
As noted Kirk and Picard were dominately captains for decades.
A-Team and their rankings didn't cause me to blink. Fun movie, don't sweat the small stuff in a popcorn flick I say.

 

[TiberiusMaximus]

To be fair, it doesn't say that the first 'mission' took place 8 years before the present. It simply says that the later mission takes place 8 years after that. So maybe the bulk of the movie takes place 8 years from now? Yeah, I'm grasping for straws.

I loved this movie, especially Murdock.

the captions after saying 8 years and 80 successful missions later, say it's the last days of combat ops in Iraq, which puts it in 2010, making the Mexican scenes 2002.

the Raptor didn't enter service until 2005.

Ah. You, sir, have destroyed my straws.

 

[captcalhoun]

clutch away.

 

[Forbin]

Okay, I saw Dirk Benedict's cameo, and I saw "Reginald Barclay" on the movie screen. Were there any other cameos?

 

[Captain Ice]

Dwight Schultz appears in the same scene as Benedict.

 

[Nociod]

What I was wondering was why they went to Norway after busting Murdoch out of the psychiatric hospital in Germany (the passport control)

 

[Captain Craig]

What I was wondering was why they went to Norway after busting Murdoch out of the psychiatric hospital in Germany (the passport control)

A covert team like them doesn't exactly always travel in/out like everyone else. When they did it was played for laughs.