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Fun Stuff => ENJOY => Topic started by: Ozymandias on 11 Jul 2010, 17:14
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Watch a fucking trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMDC76D9l94)
I don't know if it'll be good. I don't know if I care if it's good or not. It looks like a bad 80s action movie and that's all I need.
The only problem is that that's the same weekend as Scott Pilgrim.
FUCKING DECISIONS.
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I think I'd be more optimistic if Sly wasn't so unabashed about ladling on sentimentality and clumsy passes at timeliness. It's what makes his directorial efforts so boring, so often.
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I hope they show this at the drive-in near here. This seems like the kind of movie you should see at a drive in.
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yeah this movie looks pretty expendable if you catch my drift
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looks like a sausagefest
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What the hell??!
WHY is Samuel L. Jackson NOT in this?!!
Motherfuckers.
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Maybe he's working on those Marvel movies?
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I'm guessing Sam Jackson is not buddies with Sly Stallone, nor does he owe any favors.
Besides, Terry Crews is like Sam Jackson but not lazy.
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For a little while there were talks about how the studio was pushing pressure on Stallone to make it PG-13. If that was the case I would have lost any interest in this film that I have (which is...a little bit). It's going to be R so at least it's going to have the probably ridiculous action it needs to satisfy it's audience.
However, I am a little sad by the casting. Stallone, Lundgren, a cameo from The Terminator himself? Awesome. Statham....ok? Jet Li, no. Do you want to know who should have been in this film but declined? Steven Seagal and Jeanne-Claude Van Damme. Now, if those two were in this film I would be a lot more willing to see the film but unless I get awesome recommendations by some trusted people I'll definitely be passing.
-> Kugai
I can name 4 Samuel L Jackson films made that I enjoyed out of the over 30 films he's made in the past 10 years. I'm so freaking sick of his persona which he takes into every single movie....he's starting to turn into a reason for me to pass on a film.
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I am seeing this. I've recently rediscovered my love of ridiculous action movies so this looks like it could, at the very least, be really funny to watch just to see people get hurt. Considering that I enjoyed the shit out of Alien vs Predator 2 I don't have an excuse not to love this film.
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Ikrik, I was under the impression that they were trying to get both old-school and new-school action stars, which is why they included Jet Li and Statham. Don't ask me why they picked Couture, maybe they are trying to get the MMA lovers that don't normally watch action films (all 2 of them)?
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You can play an official Expendables Contra knockoff on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/expendablesmovie?v=app_136379469711900)
... I think they may have won me over with this.
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-> Nadaisho
Maybe I'm totally wrong then? I just thought I remembered reading about how The Expendables was meant to be a love letter to the old B grade action films, it's not really that big of a deal though. I'm not that bothered by Statham, considering he's actually done some great action films but Li really doesn't fit with what they're doing and I totally forgot about Couture. I would have totally preferred maybe replacing them with someone like Clive Owen.
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It's our last hope.
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-> Nadaisho
Maybe I'm totally wrong then? I just thought I remembered reading about how The Expendables was meant to be a love letter to the old B grade action films, it's not really that big of a deal though. I'm not that bothered by Statham, considering he's actually done some great action films but Li really doesn't fit with what they're doing and I totally forgot about Couture. I would have totally preferred maybe replacing them with someone like Clive Owen.
I think it is supposed to be a tribute to the old action movies, but also including the newer actors, sort of a passing-the-torch moment. Except instead of a torch, it is a machine gun that never runs out of ammo and can be fired one-handed with only enough recoil to cause the hero's gleaming pectorals to ripple slightly.
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ok now i kind of want to see it. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMDC76D9l94&feature=player_embedded)
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i hate Stallone's face almost as much as I hate Sarah Jessica Parker's face which, incidentally, is ALOT
meh I'll wait for it to come to Netflix
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(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D_Z-D2tzi14/S8TRIo4br3I/AAAAAAAACv4/Zh7_GcMlRKo/s1600/ALOT.png)
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ok now i kind of want to see it. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMDC76D9l94&feature=player_embedded)
The copyright police came to town
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ok now i kind of want to see it. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMDC76D9l94&feature=player_embedded)
The copyright police came to town
Welcome to the world of the YouTube Stazi
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man zombie you miss all the cool things
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Guys, this movie fuckin rocked. They managed to include every 80's and 90's trope, with rare exception, in and it worked amazingly well in a stupid fun way. The victory calm even ends in a bro fist.
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My friends and I have placed bets on the order people die. It's only $4 per person (50 cents per actor, we have a list of 8 actors), but there's a few of us in on it. I'm just hoping to either break even and maybe, if I'm lucky, get enough to cover the cost of the movie.
Sausagefest the Movie: Now With More Action!!!
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So, will this lead to a Hot Shots! Part Trez?
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It was a pretty okay movie! Self-aware enough, and too fast-paced to languish in Sly's signature Reaganite schmaltz. Even the "white man's burden" shit that made John Rambo so odious is negligible, despite its presence.
Mainly I'm just rooting for anything that features Dolph Lundgren. Dude was a Rhodes scholar.
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Just saw this last night and I was very happy. Its a solid action movie and I have a complete mancrush on Terry Crews. I don't even want to know how much time I would have to spend at the gym to get his size.
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There were so many great and ridiculous scenes in this movie.
SPOILERS (Is this even necesarry?)
Dolph Lundgren curbstomped a passenger in his truck while stunt driving.
Randy Couture punches Stone Cold Steve Austin, who is on fire at the time, in the face.
Terry Crews has a shotgun that fires 4 rounds per second.
I left the theater with 2 more days of facial hair growth than I had when I came in.
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Just saw this last night and I was very happy. Its a solid action movie and I have a complete mancrush on Terry Crews. I don't even want to know how much time I would have to spend at the gym to get his size.
this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tI4CbCniBI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tI4CbCniBI) and others already did it for me.
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i hate Stallone's face almost as much as I hate Sarah Jessica Parker's face which, incidentally, is ALOT
meh I'll wait for it to come to Netflix
wow I have no recollection of making this post.
weird!
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this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tI4CbCniBI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tI4CbCniBI) and others already did it for me.
I cannot put into words how happy you just made me :D
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Here's the "Call to Arms" Fan trailer that was in the OP. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIZTgUxVa28)
I need somebody to see it with. :(
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There were so many great and ridiculous scenes in this movie.
SPOILERS (Is this even necesarry?)
Dolph Lundgren curbstomped a passenger in his truck while stunt driving.
Randy Couture punches Stone Cold Steve Austin, who is on fire at the time, in the face.
Terry Crews has a shotgun that fires 4 rounds per second.
I left the theater with 2 more days of facial hair growth than I had when I came in.
That shotgun actually exists. You forgot to mention the explosive shotgun shells, too.
The only problem is that you are lucky to get more than a mag off without jamming, and you go through ammo really quick when you don't have a magical movie magazine. And it is extremely heavy.
This is the best movie to see with other cheesy action movie aficionados. It was awesome, as long as you don't care about realism, or logic. Just huge fireballs.
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Yeah, I love the fact theyone upped the idea of explosive shells. They were miniature warheads.
God I loved this movie and I want it on Blu-Ray.
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Those miniature warheads actually do exist, too.
I'm pretty sure the friend I went with is going to get the movie when it comes out, which will be pretty sweet since he has a projector to watch movies on.
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(http://media.daemonsmovies.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/expendables-body-count-poster-Copy.jpg)
Yeeeeeeeeah.
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The Rourke seems low for some reason. Those are the only films he's killed in? Also why count Willis, but not Schwarzenegger?
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Holy shit Dolph Lundgren has fake killed a lot of dudes.
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Because Ahnold was not on the movie posters.
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Dolph can't even be in a Rocky movie without killing someone with his hands.
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They forgot to mention that Jet Li killed at least 2 people in Romeo Must Die.
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Must see movie - too bad the oldest is too young to enjoy it with Daddy.
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(http://i.imgur.com/2XBOQ.jpg)
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are they at the stock exchange?
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Yep. They were at the New York Stock Exchange and Terry Crews decided to take his shirt off and start yelling. Sadly no bikini top was actually involved.
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Well yeah that was a pretty obvious photoshop
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Well yeah that was a pretty obvious photoshop
Or was it?!
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Yeah, in the second picture Statham was actually saying "So you took it! I thought I'd lost it."
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So, the guys I was going to see this with did a midnight showing I couldn't go to, so one of my friends and I are going to have a super girly day and then go watch this movie.
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Really just a lot of action and fighting and nothing else.. 2/10
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Really just a lot of action and fighting and nothing else.. 2/10
And you were expecting . . . . . ?
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Actually, most of the complaints I have heard involved it having too little action and too much talking. And too much of a buddy movie feel rather than the ensemble piece it was advertised as.
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Terry Crews continues to crack me the fuck up
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True. I liked The Expendables. But I wished there was more action in it. And could have done without the romantic angle :cry:. But I guess having a pretty face is mandatory these days. The fight scene between Jet Li and Dolph Lundgren was nice 8-)
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These days? Dude, a completely superfluous love interest is just as ingrained as an 80's action movie trope as bad guys who can't shoot or Vietnam war revisionism or rampant homoeroticism
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Even Predator had Elpidia Carrillo running around in a tank top for no real reason.
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Yeah, what they both said. I have this on disc - made my own backup copy, so I can watch it at work too.
This is classic.