Sly Stallone has remade The Dirty Dozen and the cast includes Jet Li, Arnie, Dolph Lundgren, Bruce Willis and Jason Statham. For the last twenty years Hollywood has been feeding us movies with a message about how we should be better people but finally a movie has been made with no message and is just about killing bad guys using as many big explosions as possible. This could be one of the greatest movies ever......or one of the worst. Thoughts?
The Expendables.
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I really am looking forward to this movie. I mean, look how cool the poster looks 
This movie could be fantastic....or a huge flop. Interestingly, there is a few lines in the movie Rambo II where Sly talks about being expendable, his attractive co-star, in a Vietnamese accent, says "Rambo, what mean expendable?"
My only thought when reading this was that Bruce Willis has officially fell off the Hollywood A-List.
Maybe it happened a long time ago and I just never noticed it.
Yeah, it happened a looooooooooong time ago. Bruce is now a cameo actor. Look at his resume:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000246/
The last noteworthy movie (in my mind, at least) was Unbreakable in 2000. Ten years ago. Most of the movies since then were either complete flops, or he was a minor character.
I believe that both he and Arnold are only in this movie for a few minutes. The same may be true for Mickey Rourke. I believe that The Expendables is mainly Stallone and Statham with a few apperances by other guys.
To be honest, I don't really care for anybody in the movie. I liked Stallone in Rockey and that's it. I liked Statham in The Transporter and that's it. The rest of the guys are wrestlers or MMA fighters, or I don't know who they are. As a kid, I loved Arnold. He's the only person in the film I'd care about seeing, for nostalgia's sake; but, as I said, I don't think he's in it for more than a few minutes.
Sometimes I enjoy action films and sometimes I do not. Generally, I like action movies where there is a plot and solid acting (The Bourne trilogy, which I liked a lot) or action movies where the hero battles monsters, because I can do away with trying to rationalize everybody's actions. I don't have to question the Predator. Action movies where the good guys battle other people are usually full of stupid plots where villains' motives are something like: I'm gonna get revenge on this guy for killing my brother/family/lover/children; I want to extort money from the government/someone so I'm going to do 'x' (x = kidnap someone, hijack a plane, set up a bomb somewhere, blahhhhh); I'm an evil drug lord and I'm just doin' me, being an evil drug lord; I'm an ethnic stereotype and I just act this way, I have no motives other than my accent.
If The Expendable is well reviewed, I'll rent it on DVD. Often I sit down to watch an action movie and enjoy it and forget all about it by the time I wake up the next day. Nothing wrong with that.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000246/
The last noteworthy movie (in my mind, at least) was Unbreakable in 2000. Ten years ago. Most of the movies since then were either complete flops, or he was a minor character.
I believe that both he and Arnold are only in this movie for a few minutes. The same may be true for Mickey Rourke. I believe that The Expendables is mainly Stallone and Statham with a few apperances by other guys.
To be honest, I don't really care for anybody in the movie. I liked Stallone in Rockey and that's it. I liked Statham in The Transporter and that's it. The rest of the guys are wrestlers or MMA fighters, or I don't know who they are. As a kid, I loved Arnold. He's the only person in the film I'd care about seeing, for nostalgia's sake; but, as I said, I don't think he's in it for more than a few minutes.
Sometimes I enjoy action films and sometimes I do not. Generally, I like action movies where there is a plot and solid acting (The Bourne trilogy, which I liked a lot) or action movies where the hero battles monsters, because I can do away with trying to rationalize everybody's actions. I don't have to question the Predator. Action movies where the good guys battle other people are usually full of stupid plots where villains' motives are something like: I'm gonna get revenge on this guy for killing my brother/family/lover/children; I want to extort money from the government/someone so I'm going to do 'x' (x = kidnap someone, hijack a plane, set up a bomb somewhere, blahhhhh); I'm an evil drug lord and I'm just doin' me, being an evil drug lord; I'm an ethnic stereotype and I just act this way, I have no motives other than my accent.
If The Expendable is well reviewed, I'll rent it on DVD. Often I sit down to watch an action movie and enjoy it and forget all about it by the time I wake up the next day. Nothing wrong with that.
I'll watch it.
I'm getting pretty excited about it myself.
I'm in! Looking forward to this one.
The Trailer looks pretty good too! I'm looking forward to it. 
The Trailer looks pretty good too! I'm looking forward to it.
I'm definitely in after seeing the trailer
I want to see it but not enough to shell out the dough, writhe in discomfort and suffer the tinnitus that comprise the modern movie going experience.
I plan on seeing it. Looks good enough, but I don't think the wife will be going with me.
When we first saw the trailer, we looked at each other and said, nearly in unison, "Is that for real?" My next thought was, "I loved that movie when it was 'The Dirty Dozen.' " So, we'll probably watch it on late night TV, but no money will be spent on it.
If you know films you can see what the remakes are and how they differ. Many young people have no idea there was a 3:10 to Yuma in the 50's or the movie with Dana Andrews that Airplane was taken from. Most young people will look at this as brand new and what a great idea or concept, the old will know he stole the concept or plot. A number of movies in the 50's were remakes in the same as well.
The other argument is, how much is left for Hollywood to do, we're at nearly 100 years of it if you start in the 20's
The other argument is, how much is left for Hollywood to do, we're at nearly 100 years of it if you start in the 20's
I'm personally a big fan of shooting and blowing things up.
Just watched The Expendables...
No mention by anyone of a straight razor in there?? It's probably the same guy that did Sweeney Todd's razors (same "Spanish point type blade with a 9/8-6/8 size, approx.)....
Oh yeah... old thread, I know
No mention by anyone of a straight razor in there?? It's probably the same guy that did Sweeney Todd's razors (same "Spanish point type blade with a 9/8-6/8 size, approx.)....
Oh yeah... old thread, I know
'nuff said
