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Man Up!! There's An EXPENDABLES Trailer To Watch!!
Merrick here...
I've spent the better part of the day camped out on the shitter - this more than makes up for it.
Not sure where this video comes from, and I don't know how long it'll last...but here it is in all of its unapologetically testosterone fueled glory.
A marketing reel(?)/trailer for THE EXPENDABLES - much better quality than the version which was leaked (and banished) a few weeks ago.
Enjoy!
BTW: clicking on the embed above will jump you to a bigger version!
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but looking forward to this one, anyone care to give a description?
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was exactly what I expected. And I am pleased. Looks like a good movie, so far, to put next to any early 90's and 80's movies.
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FUCK YEAH.
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DTV production values, not one memorable new line for any of these awesome actors, slow-moving fight scenes, phony-looking explosions, bad sets that look half-built for a tv series, no clear-cut storyline... and worst of all, the cell phone gag at the beginning kills taking any of these guys seriously for the rest of the movie - yeah, they're bad ass but they bring along their Sidekicks like GOSSIP GIRL characters. Awesome? What are you smoking? Sorry, Sly - I love you man, but this didn't work from conception onward because you didn't pay attention to the two things you need - character and story. Better luck tomorrow.
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Oh yes, Stallone bring the pump in 2010.
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grrnt.
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Oh guns, is there any problem in the movies you can't solve?
This is also Stallone's second movie in a row with a cast member from "Dexter". I'm just sayin'. -
it aint workin
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I'm calling for Erik King/Doakes to be in The Expendables II. "Surprise, motherfucker!"
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If you don't like the production values—okay, I can see where you're coming from. But, "slow-moving fight scenes"? Really? I don't see it man…
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and guns and fists and explosives and blunt objects and cars and kung fu and other things that hurt.
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Well, done.
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Fuck yeah! Not what I was expecting but still will be there opening night.
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That really, really looks like a DTV type thing, and nothing I saw in that trailer looked anywhere near the badassery that was Rambo. I'm hopefully optimistic, but it sure seemed more like a comedy than a kickass action movie...
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Get ready for a whole lot of "Expendables was overhyped, Inglourious Basterds was better!" Personally, that looked pretty DTV, but that's not always a bad thing. I just hope to be entertained, and that line-up looks promising. After the last Rambo I trust Sly's action chops enough to buy a ticket and see for myself.
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Looks much better than I expected!
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of an 80's knucklehead actioner. That is cheesy dialog, stiff acting and cardboard characters that destroy real estate and people. Could be fun.
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...woke up John Cusack in the middle of the night after an epic bender to pose for a dust jacket picture? Farewell Atlantis? Is Jackson Curtis his pen name or something?
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Stallone. Is. The. Man.
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Oct 13, 2009 7:48:27 PM CDT
This is much better than that first one...not just quality...
by flickapoo
...it's a different and much better trailer.This one at least looks like fun.
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nor too crammed full of one-liners. I'm sure as hell going to give it a shot, especially after RAMBO, but god help Sly if this is a corny POS even after he assembled the best action cast ever for the job.
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Stallone as Oscar of course...Thus spak Spunkmunk you have a right to your opinion but give it a chance..
I bet you'll be there in line..Sly
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Oct 13, 2009 7:51:16 PM CDT
...and I'm a big Dick Cheney hating liberal and all, but...
by flickapoo
...I kind of enjoyed watching that hot chick in the thin, thin cotton T-shirt get water boarded.I'm sure she is being falsely detained and is not properly represented by legal council...but I'm going to watch it again...
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and back hair. Fucking A! The Expendables- Testosteroning your Nutsuck in 2010
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Looks like viral ads have gone kinda low budget since Cloverfield.
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MOVIE OF THE FUCKING YEAR!!
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Promo trailers always look like shit . Never Polished always have shitty music I'll wait for a real trailer before I make my judgment
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i saw it. il def be seein it opening day but its not what i thought. i was expecting rambo type war violence but... the big ass gun tearing the guard tower to shit looked pretty awesome. i have faith
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Holy Shit, I'm sporting wood!
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I cannot believe you dipshits are excited about this. Let me guess, your all big fans of Armageddon too.
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I'm sporting wood!
Does that make me gay? -
Sheeeeeeeeeettttt.
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What the action seems to lack in creativity (based solely on this, and Stallone has never pretended to be Sam Raimi), it makes up for with lines like "Bring it, happy feet!" The fact that it's Lundgren saying it is merely the icing on the cake. Can't wait. I hope it warrants a sequel - with DUDIKOFF and WEATHERS.
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Looks fucking ludicrous. I'm in.
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It looks fucking TERRIBLE. I want to see it FIVE MINUTES AGO, they make so few good B-movies these days. *sigh*
The only way this would have been better is if they had cast Rutger Hauer and Christopher Lambert.
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That is one bizzare time capsule I just watched
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and looks like they showed all the money shots...
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...marry me.
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as the Chef to the Expendables.
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...Haters were holding out for??? Well, keep on holding your dicks, bitches, cause this sucks the stink off shit!
"Who sent you?!"
"Your hairdresser."
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Also missing: Gary Busey as Frank McBain, and Brian Bosworth as Joe Huff.
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suggests the film doesn't take itself seriously, and it's a throwback to the late 80's early 90's action pictures. This is Guilty Pleasure Cinema, with Stallone and Co. having fun while playing on the nostalgia of the past and updating the action for the 21 Century. "Armageddon" didn't take itself seriously, but was overproduced hokum, relying on false drama, wrapped in amazing special effects. Plus, that film FELT like it was 9 hours long.
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there is something terribly wrong with this... i cant put my finger one it. it doesnt look like a movie, more like a parody of a movie.
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is cheesy 80's synthesizer crap music.
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You have all ... all of you ... just seen the movie. Everything that is in the movie is here. All the explosions, the set pieces, the best lines ... it was all crammed into this reel. Guaranteed, there is little else other than more bad villian acting and incomprehensible plot. Now it's just a matter of re-ordering all the material to call it "edited". Sorry, but pass.
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Oct 13, 2009 8:07:08 PM CDT
...this isn't a throwback, this is an actual lost 80's flick...
by flickapoo
...it looks that bad.And that good. They've got berets on for fuck's sake.
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and Jeff Speakman, while were at it.
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Don't forget, some dude also says, "I'm getting too old for this shit!"
Brilliant dialogue, right up there with Mamet's "Put that coffee down" beat in Glengarry Glenross, you ask me. -
with Barbera Carrera.
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dolph: bring it happy feet did it for me, ill be there in aug, looks fun like an 80's early 90's actioner is meant to be.
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Still, that shit just blows. Sorry, I'm as giddy as any other fool that Stallone's making his way back, but I didn't expect him to go all the way to the 80s. -
YOUR HAIRDRESSER
Why isnt Segal in this?? -
What's missing from that trailer is any sense of dread, suspense, or danger - anything to make you care about any of those characters or what happens in that movie. Any weight. It's like a cut and paste job from numerous previous action films with different actors. I know that's enough to give a lot of fans a boner, but I'd like something more. And I've scene Stallone jumping of a pier, making his O-face while there's a huge explosion behind him enough times...it symbolizes fanboys making liquid explosions on Stallones back while he submits.
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but man id rather watch a stallone made action film than half the shit we get these days.
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Only because he gave the genre a kick in the ass in the first place and then made movies that made fun of it. The Last Boyscout and Long Kiss Good Night were crazy movies with awesome one-liners. Too bad he wasn't tapped for this, then again I have no idea what Stallone's going to pull off with this.
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.. but just wait for it to get a little positive buzz or hype going. Then you'll turn on it faster than Old Yeller with the "hydrophobie"... just like you do with everything else that's even halfway popular. You nutty contrarians, you!
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or fuck it, Linda Hamilton. Much more appropriate love interest than Stallone's waterboarded grand-daughter.
Also, I hope what we saw was the only dialogue in the movie. Only the following lines are needed: "We go in, ain't no guarantee we're coming out."; "We're in!"; "Leave me, save yourself!"; "Send in... the Russian!"; and "I'm gonna go home and sleep with my wife!" -
Reminds me of the 80's baby!
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Rourke looks so sick on that bike!! Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man!! http://sickpicks.blogspot.com/
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There's only one line he should utter after hoisting Jet Li up: I MUST BREAK YOU.
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Quoting what you said for posterity:"What's missing from that trailer is any sense of dread, suspense, or danger - anything to make you care about any of those characters or what happens in that movie. Any weight. It's like a cut and paste job from numerous previous action films with different actors."Now, you total fucking moron, allow me to explain a basic fact of filmmaking and marketing. The ENTIRE MOVIE does not fucking fit in the TRAILER! In order to begin identifying with the hero and coming to care about the characters as if they were real people . . . that's something you have to see THE ACTUAL FUCKING MOVIE for.
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Oct 13, 2009 8:40:25 PM CDT
YES!!!!!! I KNEW I RETURNED TO AICN JUST IN TIME!!!!!
by gibsonusa returns
Oh yeah. BIG LOB!
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Anyone else notice the big blood splatter when Statham slashes the dude's throat? Is there hope this might not be PG13?
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hopefully that pg13 bullshit attached to this film will go out of the window.
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It just looks seriously z-grade DTV. I was kind of expecting a movie with the look of, say, TRANSPORTER 2 - polished but low-budget. This doesn't have that polish. RAMBO had that polish. I am just kinda disappointed in the dialogue and the look of the thing. You remember in the first BATMAN trailers that came out how they hadn't fixed the sound editing yet and when Batman punches the guard in the movie the guard goes "HAHHHHH!" but in the original trailer that ran he goes "OOooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh." That's kind of how I feel about this - uncomfortable and worried.
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Can't view the trailer yet, im posting on my phone, im too lazy to turn on my computer.
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manifestchaos, calm down, shit for brains. A trailer gives you an idea of what to expect from a movie. A hostage stand-off where one of the special-ops receives a text message in what appears to be an attempt at humor is lame, cartoonish, and makes me not care how that stand-off ends. And texting humor, how topical. Will there be facebook jokes, where Stallone adds the rest of the Expendables as facebook friends? Will Stallone send out E-vites for missions? Hilarious. Don't worry, genius. This movie was made for guys like you, manifestchaos...you rocket scientist, you.
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very exaggerated and corny. Otherwise this film is going to fucking kick ass. Too bad they didn't show Ahnold in here. But I think that would be too much for a trailer. I would spontaneously combust with excitement. Looks cool.
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Ticket sold.
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Wow. He spoke more lines in that 3 minute clip than he has ever spoken in his entire English filmography. Man I hate that fat spanish guy from Dexter though. I hope he gets shanked by Stallone relatively early on.
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Sly, thanks for reminding the Stephen Sommers, Mike Bay-types of the world what a real action movie looks and tastes like. Viva Sly!!!!
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It had an 'unfinished' look to it as well.
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You ass kisser.
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Probly not as crazy bloody as Rambo, but it's got definite R level violence.
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Slow-motion explosions and bad dialogue with the old gang!!! Nice to see Dolph working and the actor who plays Angel on Dexter, but movies like this are why most of these actors disappeared in the first place. Of course I'll see it but I don't expect much.
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Looks awesome. Sly---PLEASE, Just make sure the Schwarzenegger and Willis cameos get filmed.
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I'm stoked for this movie, whens it coming out again?
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Looks like bad one liners and horrible dialogue with passable action scenes strung together. Hopefully, it's just a bad trailer, but those one liners need to go... not good. Again, there's a reason this won't be out until the fall
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And butterfly kisses.
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This looks shit. Yeah, I get it, it's intentionally over the top & the dialogue is sort of ironic, but it looks cheap as fuck!
I loved the intro article though.."I don't know where this comes from" he he. Yes you do.
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Just no. Just a string of cliches. Clearly we are meant to look at this as slyly ironic. I'm sick of irony. Just make a good action movie for christ sake.
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did you watch Crash on DVD? that made me explode from both ends...
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HOW AWESOME THIS FILM WILL BE!!!! HUZZAH!!
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You weren't born n raised in the 80's...all those things you complain about (cliches,dtv visuals,dialogue) were cliches in the 90's, this is just our way of relieving the past no matter how fucked up it really was. Remember throwback jerseys? No matter how much Charlotte Hornets sucked, we still miss Larry Johnson and his Grandmahmah.
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How awesome this film will be.
Not very.
Come on! There's a reason the 80's went away. I was hoping for an 80's style action thing, but done in a modern way, not an ACTUAL 80's movie, complete with cliches & bad explosions.
It reminds me of the review of "couples restreat" the other day. A film that looks lioke the actors had more fun than the audience will. -
Sniff.
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DAMN, NOW THAT IS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!!! WOW, STALLONE IS still the ACTION KING...along with SCHWARZENEGGER who films his opening scene this week with BRUCE WILLIS. THIS MOVIE IS GONNA OWN and then some!
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Fuck yes movies are looking better and better.
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"You mean you don't use machine guns in your movies?"
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I am an unabashed follower of all things Stallone. I would never want anyone to take my opinion of this or any other of his movies as objective. I like cheesy, loud actioners and this one hits my palate like a fresh-baked cinnamon roll topped with cocaine icing.
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when given good material to work with, he really delivers
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More Tango than Cash.
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Check out the violent kills from this clip...IT IS RATED "R"! STALLONE and SCHWARZENEGGER will not disappoint.
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That hasn't been done enough.
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This looks fucking terrible, dude. I'm sorry. This is your biggest problem: you make an incredible movie, like Rocky, then you make something shitty and no one takes you seriously anymore. You made two FUCKING AMAZING films with 'Rocky Balboa' and 'Rambo,' then you give us a shallow, cliche, by the numbers buddy flick? My advice is.... have this released DTV and let us all forget this ever existed. It looks fucking horrific. But, then again, the story for Rambo V sounds retarded, too. So, maybe you're just a fucking dumbass who got lucky by making a few good films in his career. At this point, I really don't know....
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The 80's didn't have retarded, cliche jokes with cell phones going off during gunfights. This thing WISHES it were from the 80's. Seriously, fuck this. I'm not seeing it. IT'S GOING TO BOMB.
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hes in MENSA apparently.
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Looks like a 80's over-the-top actioneer. I'm in.
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He was fucking Rocky and Rambo, but over the years, my interest kind of waned. But, I still love watching his movies.
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That's the gayest facial hair since...well, since your facial hair in Get Carter. In all honesty, I think this is going to be shit. I would have been happy if Sly had spent a fraction of the money and just made a kick ass trailer that was a homage to his hey-day, with all the boys. Theres no need to drag this out for two hours, all it's going to be is explosions and novelty cameos for the kids of the 80's.
Oh, and I still can't get my head around that fucking slaphead Statham being regarded as the modern equivalent of the rest of those guys. Would much rather see Van Damme or Seagal in there.... -
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It takes nothing to read, learn & use your brain cells, but to want a secial little certificate? That makes you a tit. -
SLY, ARNOLD and BRUCE film there scenes this week and it opens the film and sets the BIG ACTION TONE of the movie. THIS "R" rated ACTION EXTRAVAGANZA will be one of the BEST ACTION FILMS EVER MADE!
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is pretty fucking gay. I agree. Stallone went from being a badass to.... well.... a fag.
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Blow yourself up with a suicide vest.
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It will kick butt in 2010!
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Oct 13, 2009 9:45:19 PM CDT
this is the movie Inglourious Basturds wanted to be.
by yoda's ball sack
Told you so.
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FUCK OFF! Sly spent 80 million dollars on this and got a cast of action heroes, who usually have BIG egos, in one action film. The man is a god. Respect him or go watch THE ROCK in TOOTH FAIRY. Your choice!
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Bow before the awesome, scum! Holy fuck, that looks like it's going to be one fun film. Cannot wait. Rocky Balboa, Rambo and Expendables in the space of 4 years? Truly, we are blessed. Sly just achieved two things - not only made every sane person who saw the trailer want to see the full film (Cameron, take some fucking notes) but he also just dispelled any worries I had over the script idea for Rambo 5. The guy's on a winning streak and I can't see it ending soon. You wanna take Rambo to Mars, Sly? Put him in suspended animation and wake up in the new Star Trek universe? Whatever you want to do, it's going to be aces. I know that now. Thanks man! (Although personally, I think a way of killing two birds with one stone would be to have Rambo wake up in the Aliens universe. Who wouldn't pay good money to see John Rambo getting hunted by/hunting Aliens???! Re-invigorate the Aliens franchise and make fans of Rambo piss their pants in excitement. And nowhere near as outlandish as the recent AVP movies. Yeah I know, but who cares. I'm daydreaming. Fuck off. Bring on Expendables!! Bring on Savage Hunt!!! And bring on anything else he wants to film!!!!
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So our choices are..
1.Watch this.
Or
2. Watch The Rock in Tooth Fairy.
Really?
I was thinking of waiting for something good to come along instead.
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I withdraw my previous statement. Hail Golan Globus!
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As a marketing vehicle, it is ok.
Let's hope that Sly understands that the line between success and failure lies in the editing room.
This movie needs a very tight cut. He must be willing to, as Faulkner said, "kill your babies."
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the attempt at humor failed miserably... and it seemed they were trying to put one of these hopeless jokes in every couple of seconds. man... i'm shocked. this looks like a horrible movie
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Since posting my recent love letter to Sly in thanks for releasing this trailer, I've skimmed the actual talkback so far. Normally I'm for debating opinions, trying to see the other person's side etc. But frankly, fuck that. This is Sly Stallone. In an action movie. An action movie that looks ludicrously brilliant, funny, thrilling and dumb all wrapped up in a glorious technicolour 80's bow. Anyone of you who is stating 'it looks crap' or 'where's the characterisation' or 'dtv wahh' is one of two things. 1: A communist OR 2: Gay. One or the other is simply the only explanation. Except maybe for gay communists. Shit, that's it, you're probably all gay communists! It's starting to make sense.....
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Oct 13, 2009 10:07:06 PM CDT
I love how the stallone apologists keep giving 2 choices..
by the dark shite
Do you live in a world where there are only 2 choices for everything?
First it was ABking with "Watch this, or watch The Tooth fairy".
Now it's Hint_of_Smegma, with "If you don't like this, you're either gay or a communist."
Did you grow up in prisons or something? Like years of ABking saying "Hey, Hint_of_Smegma, either lick my mighty abs or you'll have to suck my cock"?
Seriously, I like dumb action flicks as much as the next guy, but this is 2009 & this just looks disappointing & not worth the cast or the hype. -
About that trailer blew IMO. The sound, the editing...I hope the movie is better than this. I trust this is why the original was squashed.
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How fucking funny it is that you cus down anyone who dislikes the trailer as gay, when you so blatently have a hard on for Stallone's saggy old man tits. Sorry, but Stallone is no longer an action God - his last few movies have been the cinematic equivilent of some twat on Youtube running round with a water pistol and a fucking head band. He's basically remaking/rehashing every success he's had in his career, and if twats like you keep mindlessly paying to see it, we'll have a fucking sequel to Demolition Man, The Specialist or Judge Dredd within the next few years. Give me Cop Land Stallone over any of that shit.
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This Vs Predator=Predator K.O
This Vs Rambo=Rambo K.O
I could go on for ages. But the 80's throwback thing doesn't work. With a cast like this, they could have made something pretty fucking special. This just looks like a self parody. Which it is, except it's exactly the fucking same as the kind of stuff he did for years & which made him unpopular in the first place. -
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To the people that think this movie seems rife with low production values, corny one-liners, and ubiquitous action scenes. . .it's SUPPOSED to be this way. As far as I can tell, Stallone isn't going for a modern take on the action genre, filled with deep character introspection and a complex story. It's a straight-up homage period piece, the way that Black Dynamite and Deathproof is. Stallone's doing his best to emulate the action movies of old, down to the relentlessly huge explosions and cheesy dialogue. Those of you expecting anything else are simply misinformed.
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I'm not sure what that shit was we saw earlier for the supposed trailer...but this is the sweet, sweet eighties that I grew up in. And I likey
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Oct 13, 2009 10:32:17 PM CDT
No need to be an apologist, this looks like it will be GREAT!
by gibsonusa returns
1. It's just an early trailer, and will probably not be the one we see in theaters.
2. The music appears to be placeholder.
3. The trailer is roughly edited, but that is no indicator of actual film editing. The sound bites at the end were cheesy, but thats from the way they were edited. Too many jumping from explosions were edited into the trailer.
4. The trailer only slightly acknowledges Dolph or Steve Austin.
5. A 3 minute trailer provides very limited sense of context. The cell phone joke (and other lines) could be better (or not) during the actual flow of the movie.
I dont think the above points qualify as excuses at all.
My friend used to post here at AICN, but doesnt anymore cause he got tired of the negativity. It seems almost every time a trailer is posted, you read down the talkback and its just rapid fire negativity. Even for Toy Story 3!!!! WHY???? This looks like it could be an AWESOME movie, yet people seem to be bashing based on an early 3 min trailer that probably wont even be the "official" one. That makes no sense. -
While it may an homage to the old style actioner, this isn't the good kind & 80's actioner.
If he made this in the late 80's/early 90's, it would have been one of the flops that helped his career to divebomb.
The truth is, he could easily have written this in the 80's & we wouldn't know the difference. The only thing adding irony is the shit dialogue & crappy poruction values, which BECOME a joke in 2009, but otherwise are pretty much standard stallone.
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Cameron's embarrassed right now.
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I'd buy that for several fucking dollars. www.thefilmblogger.com.
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This isn't anything like the classic 80's action stuff. It's like the bad stuff that people stopped going to see.
People forget that there was actual acting in stuff like the first Rocky & First Blood. Unfortunately, Stallone forgot he was an actor too. His ego got in the way & he made rubbish for fucking years & other people followed.
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I'm IN.
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BunnyMcNibbnles, you show just how CUNT like you are with your BOGUS posts on this topic! Only a cunt who doesn't like there action movies BIG, FUN and ACTION PACKED would babble about how bad they think this looks. And rest assured, THE EXPENDABLES is NOT going to BOMB. It will open with at least 40 million dollars on opening weekend. Your pussy ass will see this even if you say you wont! DAMN, I gotta go watch that clip again:) I think you should too...
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Spiderman 3 and Harry Potter 6 cost 250 million. Huge surprise when I checked that out. Avatar looks triple the budget of both of those films.
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It better open with Arnold killing 20 people whilst screaming some hilarious one-liners.
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I agree with you. Rocky and First Blood had surprisingly good acting. And this trailer was corny and just felt cheap. But the cast is total nerdgasm.
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Lava.... it's HOT!!!!!!
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The fuck? Let's compare this to Rambo III and Rocky IV. It looks like a blast.
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And every EXPLOSIVE penny is on the screen. Sly and his mega cast didn't take much upfront, but will get theres in the backend with a % of the gross... which should be huge worldwide. And to The Dark Shite, guys like you grew up on people like THE ROCK and VIN DIESEL and all these PUSSY wanna-be action stars. The kids of the 80's had STALLONE and SCHWARZENEGGER. I almost feel sorry for the young kids today who think the stars of NEVER BACK DOWN or STEP UP is what you call action heroes.
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and those are some of the worst things on cable.
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I don't know what makes you think you know how old I am, but I'm pretty sure I'm closer to being an old man than a young kid.
& I've never seen a movie with The Rock in it. I've seen the Riddick movies with Diesel, but that's about it. I grew up in the 80's & nobody would want this to be great more than me.
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I grew up on Stallone, Arnie, Christopher Reeve, Ford. Eastwood and Wayne were a little before my time.
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..instead...then we'll see GAY. fuck some of you weeners are total bedroom heroes.
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God help me, this actually looked pretty entertaining. The Sly/Statham bickering has a good "bromosexual" vibe to it...finally the rift between shaved chests and naturally hairy is resolved.
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They STILL make this stuff. It just ended up being relegated to DVD because it was bad.
So regardless of which side of the "80's homage" discussion you fall down on, essentially, it's really just a modern, shit movie, the likes of which you can find in the rental shop..alongside such classics as Seagal's "Half past dead", Dascascos' entire career, or the marginally more fun "Transmorphers" & "Alien versus Alien", just with a bigger budget. -
DESTROY THE ENEMY WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE
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Sure looks about as stupidly fubar. And I love Reno Hightower.
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it looks pretty DTV as far as production. And what's up with the sound?? The gunshots and fighting scenes sound flat. When Dolph and Jett are fighting the punches hitting each other sounds so dead. Reminded me of the punching audio in Rocky Balboa, it may sound more "realistic" but I want those bone crushing punch explosions like in ROCKY III and IV!
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It looks like a freakin' Sci Fi -- er, excuse me -- Sy Fy Channel movie! That sums it the fuck up. -
I'm gay.
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For seriouslly pulling this shit together. You gotta be impressed for the sheer fact that he managed to convince these people to get together. Lets be honest, some of these guys probably put up a fight for whatever the hell reason to do this. Sly, ill be the first to say that your welcome to take half the talkbackers here as your personal bitches..Im sure theyd all be ready and willing to do as you say. Dont go easy on them, even when they use the secret passcode. I also cant wait to hear the original sound of the boyband The Expendables... That cover art looks dope... Cant wait to hear your first single.. "Still got it"
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your point????
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I have mixed feelings about it. Most of the dialogue came across terrible, and ackward, but the action and explosions looked ok. I kinda hope its simply because it's crappy editing/sound mix. There we're one or two fun lines from Dolph in there though, and I liked the one about "you're gonna die, with an accent." But Over all I think some of this stuff needs context to really judge if it works or not.
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yeah.. ching chou wah!!!
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yes rourke
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Where he will cut his pizza with garden shears.
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Was so looking forward to this, but that trailer is pcompletely awful. Totally agree with ThusSpakeSpymunk, and am hoping that its just the trailer and there may be a good film underneath...somewhere...unlikely I know.
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What do you have against MENSA? Did you try to get in and get rejected? How do you know it takes nothing to get in? are you a member? I'm not trying to pick a fight, I'm just curious cause your post seemed so hateful.
LOVED THE TRAILER--- Yeah it looks cheesy and stuff but I think the problem most people have is that it didn't look polished using shots with bullet time or cg or other modern crap that just fucks up today's action movies...but it still is just a trailer...but I will be there opening day if only for the cast alone. -
Rocky Balboa, but accepted Sly's offer to be in this?
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but oddly the guy who made me happiest when he showed up was David Zayas. They should buy their guns from Lance Henrickson (sp?) and buy their bombs from Tommy Lee Jones.
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Facts for the dumb ass's on AICN...this is a 3 minute test footage for Sly to sell at a festival, so it's NOT the trailer; the film is NOT finished or edited yet so judging the sound effects and look of the film is really stupid; THE EXPENDABLES is going to live up to expectations and then some, you wanna know why? Because Stallone directed RAMBO and he knows what he's doing in the editing room. Another reason why this film will not dissapoint is because SCHWARZENEGGER will finaly come out of retirement and open the film with Sly and Willis!
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In an era of girly vampires and wimpy action stars, it is nice to get our 80's on!!
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testosterone fueled glory," right?
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It's Stallone. After Rocky 4 the man can do no wrong. Respect the cock.
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The production value looks rather poor for a 70 mil dollar movie.
It's not the content of the movie but rather the visual style or lack thereof that's disappointing to me. There's nothing "cinematic" about it. It looks more like a made for TV, Sunday Night action movie than a nostalgic action piece. Sad, i was really looking forward to this. Hopefully, all it needs is some finishing touches to spruce up the look of it. -
Man, I have mixed feelings about this.
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AGAIN, this is not a trailer, but a clip. A trailer does not end with a poster of the cast like this does. Sly was just showing rough footage...this IS NOT WHAT WILL BE IN THEATERS as the trailer.
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And "Harley Davidson & the Marlboro Man." Once again playing The Slightly Wacked Out Grungy Dude You Don't Wanna Fuck With (tm).
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More along the lines of Broken Arrow or The Rock than Cobra or Commando. And that trailer was shit, but thankfully it's not the official one.
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Who obviously finds a time machine to travel back to the '80s and talk his way into a Cannon movie. "Look, roight, Mr. Globus, I'm good, and I want to make a real action flick, I'm bloody sick of all that 'bullet time' Matrix rip off shite in my era." -- "Bullet what? What the fuck is a mate-tricks? Hey, Menahem, do we want a fuckin' limey in this picture?"
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Or was it Axe? Some cheap after-shave that helps you smeel like a man... Sorry but that looked atrocious
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Oct 14, 2009 1:06:42 AM CDT
Jason Statham's cell phone going off does have reality basis.
by gibsonusa returns
That actually does happen, at least for police officers.
One of my friends is a cop and I once texted him while he was pinning a bad guy to the ground...his chest pocket started vibrating lol.
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I'm in. The rest of it looks great, too, but...Sly fans a six-shooter.
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Oct 14, 2009 1:13:15 AM CDT
That was me texting Stratham by the way.
by christian_bale_trashed_my_lights
Sorry about that.
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Eleventy hundred variations of, 'Yeah I know it's supposed to look like shit, but...it looks shit'.
To be fair though, it doesn't even look 80s poorly shot. It looks exactly like a WWE DTV which isn't the good bad, but the really rectal raping bad.
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that clip was all kinds of kick ass!! Can't wait to see the finished product.....fuck it....i will take the unfinished shit too!!
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He will with THE EXPENDABLES as well. And then next is RAMBO 5.
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I have just witnessed the very definition of "so bad it's good"
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Oct 14, 2009 1:35:11 AM CDT
Sly pulls down goggles, Couture pulls down googles.....
by gibsonusa returns
...Jet Li slickly slides them up like sunglasses.
Go get em Jet! lol. -
This seems to be proof that Sly has hit a real stride as a filmaker. The tone of the film seems to be witty and with a knowing nod to the genre.
It also looks like the action is gonna kickass, without being as grotesque as it was in the latest Rambo. And don't get me wrong I love the Rambo films for what they're worth.
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Rather see this then the A-team
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Needs Dudikoff and Carl Weathers in the sequel, I agree.
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*sigh* after he got his "cool" rep back with rocky5/rambo4 now he's saying fuck all yall i need money now.
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Oct 14, 2009 2:16:55 AM CDT
The most important thing for this is to push for a SEQUEL.
by gibsonusa returns
That's what its all about. Tighten up, increase on screen violence...Chow Yun Fat, Antonio Banderas, Kimbo Slice, The Rock...its about EXPENDABLES 2...you must support part 1!!
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...for their action fix. I'm in. Just what the doctor ordered. Old Skull Action ! mrbeaks says it right... Where's that Cannon logo.
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and everything else gets slammed?
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come on, they have to be in this!
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just watching that,
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The Expendables seems to take place in the open jungle.
It would be cool if the Expendabler stook place in a more confined area, kind of like Kurt Russell's Executive Decision...a team of soldiers (and enemies) navigating limited space...thats what I want to see. :P -
Oct 14, 2009 2:28:31 AM CDT
kind of like Navy Seals (1990) with Charlie Sheen/Michael Biehn
by takingscorpioscalls
complete with lots of night scenes.
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How effed up is that, when a few years ago Statham was a nobody in a Jet Li movie and now THIS?
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did you even forget about that?
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I wasn't lying.
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.. but I was wrong. They just dropped another 4 inches.
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Oct 14, 2009 2:50:09 AM CDT
"Normally I'm for debating opinions, trying to see the other"
by takingscorpioscalls
person's side etc. But frankly, fuck that." Funniest shit i've read today, and this has nothing to do with your post smeg i didn't even read the rest of your post but that's a winning statement, normally i'm for something but this time fuck it, no kidding!!!
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LIKE HUMPING A BLOCK OF SMOOTH, MATURE CHEESE. BALLS DEEP.
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Oct 14, 2009 2:52:44 AM CDT
yes lockes, the bold lettering, and no added comment
by takingscorpioscalls
adds to the feeling of unbridled bliss to your statement far more than the actual word meaning itself.
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sound and music editing has not been added yet etc
which means the official trailer will be better.but yes i also got a bit disappointed with what i saw,it looks too dtv as you said,and sly shows too much from the movie.keep some action scenes for the cinema,ms stallone.
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Oct 14, 2009 2:59:21 AM CDT
This can't be the 80s if it's intentionally corny
by takingscorpioscalls
Filmmakers do NOT know the 80s, i assure you do you think the director of Commando said "oh heh he this will be funny Arnold, but you will pick up the tollbooth and swing it around! it'll be corny and fun!" no they were dead serious in their outlandish aspects which made them all the more awesome. This just seems too wank, Sly is too self referential.
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The thing that really makes this look cheap is the lack of color grading. My guess is that the trailer editor just did a quick grade for this and that the final film will have much more aggressive color grading (though hopefully not quite as washed out as Rambo4!). In fact I wouldn't be surprised if it looks significantly different color-wise when it turns up on Apple/trailers.
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...is that good or bad? i'm not sure.
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This is what AICN is waiting for? This your example of high art you claim is lacking in all movies?
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"I winned!" ....."Yeah you winned"
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...because they haven't finished grading it yet? Just a thought.
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the 21st century version of a rat pack movie
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Oct 14, 2009 3:55:00 AM CDT
Fanfackintastic! Everything in the 80's actionfest playbook
by killakane
"I Own you!" yup...reckon this will.
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...but made out of Awesome.
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Every time they get in a tight situation, Jason Statham gets a text message from Bruce Vilanch with a wacky one-liner.
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"Oh, Pancho.". "Oh, Sisco. ". Then they link arms and dance in a circle.
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The standard whine about blockbusters these days is that there is too much green screen, too much dodgy CGI. But this movie takes me back to the 80s/90s, where the standard whine was that there were too many explosions. And that whine was justified. Every goddamn action movie seemed to build from one big explosion to another. And there were usually people jumping away from the explosion in slow motion. THIS WAS NOT A GOOD THING. It was boring. Things turned around in the mid-nineties, I think. But that's my whine - what do you guys thing, genuinely?
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It would have to be MIDNIGHT RUN, followed by TOTAL RECALL. Now THAT is a reminder that the 80s could be violent as hell, but also witty and even intelligent, subversive. Why can't people be alluding to GOOD 80s movies, not bad ones?
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Genuinely, I think some people are just whiners.
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looks kinda weak. I haven’t seen Rambo 4 so I don’t know how Stallone does action. All I’m saying is that having a bunch of good ideas is one thing, shooting cool action scenes is another. David Goyer anyone?
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Stallone wasn't kidding when he said this thing was going to be like an 80's action movie. I fucking love it!
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...and man do I love me some 80s throwback!
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This is just what I need.
As for you guys bitching about the sound effects and editing -- do you even know what a marketing trailer is? Seriously, are your hate-boners so hard that you've got to complain about stuff that anyone with a brain knows will be punched up for the official release? Are you that desperate for a hategasm?
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Fuck that peice of shit jew jerk-off hum job. Expendables looks like being 10 times the movie that sorry excuse of a movie was.
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Does that mean you actually liked those action movies with endless explosions?
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Couldn't just hate the movie, could you?
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chocolate and cookies are great!!
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Oct 14, 2009 5:23:44 AM CDT
Sly makes you an old school 80's action movie because you whine
by talkbacker with no name
and then you whine he has made an 80's action movie. What the hell? I love the look of this. I winned!
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movie quote of the year. hands down!
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but if I had got it right "I would have winned"...there back on track!
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Just what I expected. A modern version of an 80s action film with guys throwing knifes into each others throats and everything exploding. Who gives a fuck if its missing a "sheen"!? I'm there!
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very hard not to get itself serious.And i think thats a big mistake from Sly.As someone else said above,the beauty of the 80s action films was that they tried to make themselves serious and that made them so entertaining even today.
But if u try all the time to make all the action scenes and these badasses characters lighthearted and funny,to the point of self-parody,because u want to make sure that the audience must not take what it sees seriously otherwise it wont get entertained,then i am sorry but this harms the movie more than making it better.
Ok we should not judge the movie from a rushed trailer,but until now the vibe i get from the film is thats more about the deconstruction of the 80s action genre,than making an action movie with a modernized 80s action style. -
The Arnie, Sly, Lundgren movies etc. were not serious at all. What you think the one liners are for? They were big dumb superhero movies.
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THE EXPENDEBALES - Fucking everything else next year.
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I don't want to be a buzz kill but it looks like a cynical money grab. Love Sly, Rourke, etc., but this reminds me more of Grindhouse than anything else - a pulp homage to 80's action flicks.
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*EXPENDABLES* was the word I meantgeez.
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roberts and dolph are the bad guys? i thought that roberts was the one who gave them this mission and dolph was member of the expendables team until he betrays them later in the movie.or did i miss something?
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Oct 14, 2009 5:56:34 AM CDT
BoE well that's jsut what it is. You not get the memo?
by talkbacker with no name
It can't be anything else than a "pulp homage to 80's action flicks" can it? We are not in the 80's anymore. Sly can't go back and film it back then. I'm betting it's mighty rewarding if you just go with it, maaan.
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I'm not sure exactly what movies in particular you're talking about.
Some of the best action movies ever were made and released in the 80's.
Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, Predator, Commando, First Blood, The Terminator, Bloodsport, The Running Man, Tango & Cash, Cobra, Escape from New York, The Road Warrior, Big Trouble in Little China, Shaolin Temple and Cyborg.
I think the 80s action wave died in 1994 after Speed came out and Schwarzenegger and Stallone etc were starting to get bad scripts like Eraser or The 6th Day.
But to answer your question - if you could name me a few action movies from the 80s that were basically just a series of explosions - I would go watch it immediately because that would sound GREAT! Bring it on!
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it's going to be a stupid movie.
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complaining about "too many explosions" in what is supposed to be an action movie made as a throwback to the 80's, is like complaining about people getting killed one by one in a slasher movie.
The Expendables seems kind of like the SCREAM of action movies - not the END OF DAYS of action movies.
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This looks EXACTLY like an 80's, early 90's flick. Those were never serious, fuck. Demolition Man, Judge Dredd, Tango & Cash, Commando, Running Man. All of them had corny one-liners. Now, if you're gripe is Stallone didn't make a "hard-core" serious action flick, okay, I can buy into that a little bit. But guess what, that would never have happened with this cast. To me, that's more a First Blood type movie, focusing on just one of these action stars. But you got a whole boat load of them, so they are all going to get a spot in the show, so to speak.
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whatever.
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I know because I live exactly 1 second in the future ahead of everyone else, and that's what I've seen. Or I could be deluded and its a real turd.
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This 3 minute footage delivered what audiences will want next August. This will easily gross over 300 million worldwide and establish a new franchise for STALLONE and SCHWARZENEGGER!
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It looks like good fun trash...I just hope he does not fuck it up..But i recon in the future after i see it in the cinema, it will be in my DVD collection right next to Rambo..
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i thought that was funny. and i agree with many others, it does look DTV but as this isn't a final proper trailer i'll give em the benefit of the doubt til there is one. of course if they used HD cameras then chances are this is the final look regardless.
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Just saw your post What do you mean mine "seemed hateful" against MENSA? I wasn't hateful at all (unless you're a member & it hurt your feelings, in which case aww, poor you. But why the fuck would I have anything serious against MENSA?
I just replied to someone's post that Stallone "isn't a dumbass because he's a member of MENSA". I happen to think the notion of being a member is fucking stupid. Like you get a little certificate, or maybe a card that you can pull out at parties to show everyone how smart you are. It's ridiculous.
I knew a kid at school like that. Always using big words when nornmal words would do. I'm perfectly capable of using the same words, I just don't feel like it. 'Cause I'd look like a cock. That's what MENSA looks like to me. & by explaining my earlier joke, it now looks like I do hate MENSA, but fuck it. I just think it's a stupid organisation. Utterly fucking ridiculous. -
and Yes again.
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then good for you. I thoroughly hope you enjoy it, I really do. My personal opinion is that this DOES look like an 80’s action movie. Nothing wrong with that, except we don’t live in the 80’s anymore. All those movies were cool back then, but action movies, like all other things, have evolved. This kind of stuff doesn’t get my blood flowing anymore.
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...are considered good movies now? Yeesh.
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http://tinyurl.com/cl4j9c . Notice how the one-liners are both humorous and badass at the same time, instead of jokey and corny.
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Exactly how have action movies "evolved"? They have more shaky cam, too many close-ups of chase scenes, etc, so you are unable to actually see what is going on, too much CGI. I don't call that evolution.
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Judge Dredd - no, Tango & Cash, yup. But I actually didn't say they were good movies, I was comparing the tone of those to the Expendables.
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I watched the trailer before reading what was written about it or the talkback and I literally laughed out loud and then went straight to the talkback expecting to read funny disses and slams, but instead found that people are actually looking forward to this piece of shit? people seem to overlook the shitty dialogue/one-liners, cliche'd action sequences and b-movie lineup because "Stallone is a god"??
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Bennett was quite the cartoony villain, not that there's anything wrong with that."Let off some steam, Bennett."
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Oct 14, 2009 7:44:30 AM CDT
Arnold was always much better at comedy and one-liners...
by chakraborty
...than Stallone. Stallone's best characters were the ones who were played realistically (for that genre) and not jokey, like Rocky and Rambo.
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Seeing Terry Crewes with an AA-12 just made my day, and sly firing the 6 shooter was fucking awesome. Lot of nice little action beats in there.
The black terrorist guy at the start was awful though, 'IM NOT DOING THE DISHES, I DON'T CARE!'
As for it looking cheap, what are you guys on? It clearly hasn't been graded etc or had a sound mix done and we still haven't had a good quality encode to watch. Besides which it looked fine to me anyway. Remember the film doesn't come out for almost another year for chrisakes.
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Looks like a blast in more ways than one. So far so very good.
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The guy's no spring chicken, but he's out there bringin' it old school stoopid and looking not too half bad while he does it, I give him much respect. The guy loves him some adolescent fantasy action, he's got more cred than that punk Jackie Chan these days I'll tell you that for free.
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..from start to finish.A perfect blend of serious action and humor courtesy of Sandra bullock.Oh, and Snipes had me chuckle a few times as well. "Jeffrey Dahmer? I like that guy".I think after DM, it went downhill for Stally with the noted exception of Rambo but Rocky 6 was not necessary IMO.
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Stallone did a great job in Demolition Man and Tango & Cash. If Arnie's one-liners and comedy was better, that was probably more because of the screenplays he was handed. Remember he also worked more often with greater directors like McTiernan, Cameron, Veerhoven and Milius.
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Oct 14, 2009 8:01:25 AM CDT
As for those who didn't want/expect an 80s type action
by thenorthlander
What did you guys want? Stallone & Co making a Bourne/Casino Royale type action?
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...how many people here just. don't. get. it.
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Oct 14, 2009 8:06:10 AM CDT
If they are trying to give it an 80's look and feel...
by lanemyersclassic
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
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Have you ever been in a fight, played a rugby/AF game or fought a judo match? It’s not nicely choreographed and you don’t really know what’s going on. I think shaky cam simulates that feeling well, as opposed to those static 80’s fight scenes. So for me personally, that’s a lot more exhilarating. For the rest I guess you can hardly call movies like Blade or the Matrix realistic but I think they are an evolution compared to earlier stuff as it was never seen before, certainly not in Hollywood movies.
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...but I still look forward to the film. Both the last Rocky and Rambo films were really enjoyable.
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Things are looking up.
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Steak!
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...whatever happened to that John Rambo Director's Cut we were promised?
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"How many one-liners fit into one marketing trailer?" Hopefully they tighten up the threads, cause this one is all over the place as it looks right now.
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because that's what the quality looks like. But even if it was, how could I not rent this one? It's a must see. So I guess I am insulting the movie, but admitting I want to see it anyway. :)
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Now that is a man's movie. The anti-chick flick.
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lols
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As if this wasn't cool enough.
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But this trailer was just meh. Hopefully this will go bad trailer -> great movie route.
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This looks like a great throwback to the days of Commando, Tango & Cash, and Roadhouse. I'm just going to go ahead and tell all you pansies who are about to criticize the "production values and thin storylines" that those were great movies and we need more of them.
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Oct 14, 2009 8:58:18 AM CDT
Man, that looks like fun with a capital FUCK. YOU. HATERS!
by mr. nice gaius
Although, I'm not sure how I feel about the berets...
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I already want to see a sequel to this... hope no one dies, including Dolph.
He should come back as the reluctant sidekick to the group and be this guy that's trying to hold in his rage. Then when moments of action hit, he's this sick sadistic over the top killer.
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by seriousness i dont mean that they tried to make a movie with serious content,but they put serious effort to make a good movie even of this kind of genre.
for instance take the main baddie from this trailer,with the red beret and the beard.he is like he came out from a Red Alert 3 videogame,a cartoony copy of Fidel Castro whom u cant take serious.
Yes we are are going to laugh at the big bad boss one way or the other,because this kind of a movie screams for a stereotyped bad guy,we EXPECT a sterotyped bad guy.But Sly tries too hard to make him look so laughable,that at the end damages his status of threat in the movie thus the coolness and thrilling of the action scenes.
Remember Escape from LA? do u remember the Che Guevara look alike main villain? did u like him as villain,did he make u take the movie 'seriously' as an action flick with a cool badass protagonist? or he was one more ingredient which helped the movie to turn into a parody of the original one,which anyway that was the main goal from Carpenter?
i dont know maybe i am too harsh with the film which i even havent seen yet,but i dont know that trailer gave me the impression that the film is going to be too 'childish',too fan flavored.
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thats exactly what i am trying to say.Commando is the perfect example of this.
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Try readin the post again. Was the "gay communist" comment tongue in cheek perhaps? A throwback itself to the kind of insults that we threw around in the 80's ? No, because that would be a joke and then you'd look like a fuckwit goin off on one like you did, and it couldn't be that at all. Also to the moron who said "give him Copland Stallone" over this - what? Ye he was amazing in Copland. Yes he was criminally ignored for the Oscar that year. But that isn't this film, it's not the kind of film he's making here. Maybe one if his next films will be in that level again, I'm willingto bet he will go back to that kind of movie soon but in the meantime I'll enjoy this. As well. Because, you know, you can like both. And if you don't you must be a gay communist.
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......but are you a communist as well?
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needs to die from falling.
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nuff said!
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The difference is I'm watching a movie. I WANT to see what is going on. Sure, sometimes shaky cam fits the bill like storming the beach in Private Ryan, but hell, in an action movie I want to see everything.For instance, the shaky cam and close-ups in Quatum of Solace ruined that chase scene. Then take a movie like Ronin, which is aces. And with Matrix, superhero flicks, that's completely different and exist in a different environment, so to speak.
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How the hell did that happen?
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I can't wait to see this. Best movie of next year already.
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You have pure cheesy fun (Rambo, Commando, Tango and Cash). You have high quality, extremely well made action films (Predator, Lethal Weapon, Die Hard – Stallone almost made it with Demolition Man). Then you have a slew of really crappy films on both ends of the budget spectrum (Judge Dredd, Cobra, The Specialist, all of the way down to the Missing in Action Series and anything featuring Michaeal Dudikoff). Unfortunately, at first glance this trailer/reel makes this thing look squarely in the last category. After Rambo, I’ll give Stallone the benefit of the doubt, but will remain frustrated just the same. I think Stallone still has some great films/performances left in him – I would rather see something more serious in the vein of Cop Land or the original First Blood then see him try to resurrect the big, stupid 80’s action film.
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...is their placement. In the action movies of old, the good action films took the action seriously. It was only after the baddies were killed and the tension diffused that the hero made a one-liner to allow the audience to laugh and breathe a sigh of relief. From what we've been shown of this film, the one-liners and gags take place in the middle of the action like the prop gag with the text message or in the middle of a gun fight saying "he says he's gonna kill us with an accent". Bad jokes diffusing the tension in the middle of the action in a way that the heroes are so cocky that they aren't taking the action seriously, and therefor the audience shouldn't either. "From your hairdresser.". . That's one thing that differentiates the decent 80s action films from the crap ones, and is more characteristic of parodies of action films like Hot Shots Part Deux.
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Theme song by Survivor, thnn things will be complete!
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I'm sorry man, you're absolutely right. It is possibly the best contender for the Palm Dor Award. Give me a shout, I'll go watch it with ya! :o)
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like the kinetic energy of the shaky cam scenes in Bourne and the new Bond movies, (Ronin was great too!). Different strokes for different folks, I guess. Movies like Blade and the Matrix are totally different of course; I just threw them in to prove that good action movies have been made since the 80’s.
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or Where Ego's Dare
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I'll have to wait until I get home - the embed is blocked. Stupid school district and its filtering ways. I'm sure there's a way around it - I'll have to ask my students...
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Seriously? No, wait...really?!
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I've been at AICN long enough to know that Expendables talkbacks are fap fests. Out of shape geeks converge for a circle jerk and praise their idols in the hope that it will make them more manly. So there's no point discussing this on any level because this gets a free pass from the man-childs who lament their lost (or raped) boyhood in one talkback, and act like manly men in another. It's not meant to be discussed, I know this. But I couldn't help myself. Forgive me....forgive me...
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or does anyone get the "cannot play in your country error on youtube?
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Whether THE EXPENDABLES is being given a free pass by "out of shape geeks" is irrelevant to me. I'm more impressed with your expertise in Action Movie One-Liner Placement. I had no idea that the only acceptable place for a one-liner, zinger, or gag is at the end of an action sequence. They're like rimshots. Who knew!
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Just saying.
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Anyone who dares voice their opinions about movies in a talkback at a website for movies better damn well be an expert. Otherwise people might just voice any opinion they like. We can't baby that. No, no...that would be outrageous. Can you imagine? . No, I went to action film school and graduated summa cum lauda, with a minor in explosions, and a major in one-liners. Vern taught a course there. No, I wouldn't dare voice an opinion on this matter without proper credentials. The manlihood of a lot of fragile geeks is at stake here. It's a sensitive issue.
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We can't HAVE that. Damn this iPhone spell check.
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Cracked. com has a really great article, about them. Apparently, the group loved putting the word American, in front of film titles!
http://tinyurl.com/yh84qjt
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The video is telling me I can't watch it in the USA. Are you fucking kidding me?
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Actually people join MENSA for a variety of reasons. To say it is a stupid organization without actually knowing the people or what they do is a little short sighted. Yes, there are people who join just so they can have a card that says how smart they are but there's also a lot of smart people who have socialization problems who join to hang with people who can actually think for themselves. I guess I am getting a little defensive but I NEVER brag about being in MENSA to my friends or anything like that. The only reason I joined was to pad my resume and it worked great! Plus getting into MENSA is not as easy as you think. There's two exams and out of the 20 I took the test with I only saw 1 other person make it. But I do get what you're saying there are a lot of pretentious pricks in the organization. ANYWAY I think this movie will be good only for the fact that I didn't see 1 shaky cam shot, bullet time, or CG explosion BS. in it.
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and his name was John Matrix, very cool.
And very cool scene was robbing the guns and ammo shop.
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I can think of two examples from Predator alone where one-liners are uttered in the thick of the action:
"Stick Around" (Arnie pins bloke to wall with knife through head)
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"You're one ugly motherfucker!" (as Predator is choking Arnie).
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...due to copyright restrictions??!?!"
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Damn I really want to see this movie inside of an army's tent...
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You gotta love the comparrison text in that article between RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and FIREWALKER.
Raiders - Adventurous Treasure Hunter
Firewalker - Adventurous Treasure Hunter
Raiders - Relatively Attractive Female Lead
Firewalker - Relatively Attractive Female Lead
Raiders - John Rhys-Davies
Firewalker - John Rhys-Davies
Raiders - Best Picture Nominee
Firewalker - Chuck Norris
FIREWALKER WINS!
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Man I fucking HATE THAT!
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Luckily I was able to find it over there. Great trailer!
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Watch it here:
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interesting...
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This is nothing but a mid budget actioner. Sly is cool and we all love him, but he´s no Quentin, leave alone Bay. RAMBO was great becase it was a Rambo flick no less...no more. Still, Sly has my 6 bucks, if only because I´m in my mid 30s and I grew up with his stuff.
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... until I hear what the rating is.
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Not available in your country....
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Forget The Rock, Vin Diesel, or Statham. Crews is both legitimately funny and tough, and the only one worthy of taking up the Big Damn Action Hero crown.
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You people are so LAME. THE EXPENDABLES is not even close to being finished as a product...editing, lighting, cinematography, pick-up shots, looping and actual filming of scenes etc....AND yet you guys are complaining over a 3 minute clip (not a trailer)? HOW FUCKING LAME! This film is being released in AUGUST for a reason. It needs more time to finish filming etc....ALSO, the studios saw how well INGLORIOUS BASTERDS did as well as G.I.JOE (another movie you ASSHOLES at AICN complained about looking cheesy). G.I. JOE edned up grossing 150 million in the U.S. As for TANGO & CASH...that movie is an 80's gem...pure fun. JUDGE DREDD was pure crap though. It could have been great.
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I'm frothing at the mouth over this. Fun fun and more fun !!!!!!!!!!!!
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PRETTY FUCKING PLEASE???!!!!
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I'd love to see smart-assed cunts like you say that kind of shit to Sly's face. That trailer, though not the best, clearly shows that this movie will be fucking awesome. Maybe if you whining fucks grew some pubes you might get it. IT'S MEANT TO BE FUN...not bloody "Citizen Kane". Fucking wankers...
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UK version of trailer at filmtwats.com - I was checking it out this morning! Awesome!
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...that when they screened this trailer every woman in the audience was instantly impregnated.
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...that for this movie, you're allowed to purchase cigars and whiskey at the concession stand.
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...that in order to get in to see this movie, you have to bring a severed grizzly bear head.
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...that this movie will cause you to grow a third testicle which has its own five o'clock shadow.
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...Chuck Norris saw this and thought it was one of the better romantic comedies.
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I know you be checking out the TBs. Notice how not one 12 year-old has been on here to say "Man, this thing better be PG13 so me and my friends can go without our parents." Us guys with hair on our balls need a fucking "R" rated 80s throwback action movie. Fuck the Wii generation.
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G.I. Joe WAS cheesy, in addition to be an unmitigated piece of shit. Your point?
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My point was this: G.I. JOE's trailers looked so ok I thought the film was going to be aweful, so I set my expectations LOW. I was pleasantly surprised then that the film was actually ALOT of fun. Not a great movie, but a very entertaining fun time to spend an hour and a half. It was worth my 10 dollars. It had legs to a solid 150 million in the U.S. so audiences must have liked it. I'm sure we will get a sequel. The same people that are judged G.I.JOE from the trailer are judging THE EXPENDABLES based on this clip (again, not a trailer). I'm sure Sly has made one heck of a fun summer movie and it will deliver. People are complaining about the humor in this. If the comedy in THE EXPENDABLES come off half as good as the comedy in TRUE LIES, I will be one happy camper.
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not even with this new attempt to bring the character to the big screen.The problem lies to the fact that Dredd is a hero who works for a wrong system.
How can u make this character likable to the audience,while making fun of the political system he protects,serves and believes in?
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Oct 14, 2009 2:02:03 PM CDT
I love how AICN pimps this shit but forgot to post the one sheet
by glory_fades_immaxfischer
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Why do you fucking care?
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I remember how excited I was to see GI JOE come on the screen, and then i realized it was just going to be another shit ass forgettable action movie.
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I hope Sly realises this. It's a question of tone. The humor should come from the cheesy machismo of the whole thing, but it MUST be played straight if it's to succeed. This isn't Last Action Hero. The makers of Commando did not see all the gay subtext when they were making it - Bennett's camp dress sense was perfectly acceptable for a badass in the 80's. They claim that now, but that's just revisionism. Marion Cobretti was the ultimate in 80's cool - George Michael copped his wardrobe for fuck's sake! So no Scream self-referentiality here please, Mr.Stallone; it's just not cricket.
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THE EXPENDABLES is Rambo meets Demolition Man meets Commando meets True Lies meets Tango & Cash. If thats the case, the film will deliver a spectacular action ride come August 2010. And if Stallone is reading this board, please don't listen to half these jaded 12 year old dipshits. Get Arnie and Bruce, make a bad ass opening action scene and watch the cash flow right in on opening weekend. Then tell Avi Lerner to sign your pal Arnold for KING CONAN.
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There should be a Chuck Norris cameo. Maybe he could beat-down 10 guys one-at-a-time while his friends watch.
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"Benny, Screw yuuuuuuuuu"!-Total Recall
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its not as bad as some of you are saying. It looks to be as good as Rambo. we will see.
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he is 100% right with what he said.Dont fall to the trap of making the movie self-aware of its cheesiness,just let the characters and the actions flow freely and the laughs,irony,parody whatever will come by themselves.
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Look at STALLONE'S track record as a filmmaker/director. He has never directed a bad film.
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Its your time to shine.
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There's a guy from a south American country behind you!!!
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enjoy a movie just for the hell of it?? plot structure and character development did not mean shit. you simply liked it. man, those days rocked. now you get flamed for any lil bullshit minutia that someone else does not agree with. love how the haters are ssooo mad at those who wanna see this. so fuckin' what man?? you fuck-chops outta save the 10 bucks and try to get a lil therapy or something for all the repressed anger you have. there, you can have my two cents to get started
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Oct 14, 2009 3:06:46 PM CDT
This movie is an epic failure on every conceivable level.
by ganymede3010
What a waste of a brilliant cast. Fuck a 80's throw back, I wanted a mordern day realistic depiction of action icons eviscerating asses. Instead what we get a hokey remake of the BIG HIT, minus Mark Walberg and Bokeem Woodbine.
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Oct 14, 2009 3:07:58 PM CDT
RE:"Look at STALLONE'S track record as a filmmaker/director.
by stalkeye
He has never directed a bad film."*Cough*StayingAlive*Cough*
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it would seem to me that most of us should know by now that some of those scenes prolly won't even make it in the movie. and there is no way that sound,editing,etc is gonna be a final cut so why even get all emotional on such a fuckin' stupid basis of an argument?
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First of all, box office gross is not now and never has been a measure of quality. Second, with the kind of marketing push that movie had it damn well better have made at least $150 million. To say audiences must have liked it because of that $150 million is specious at best considering more than 1/3 of that was made in the first weekend and sales dropped almost 60% by week 2. Third, yes the same people who judged the G.I. Joe trailer are also judging the clip from The Expendables, and they're calling it as they see it. Welcome to AICN, that's what we do here. If you're looking for a large group of people who blindly lap up every morsel from a production simply because someone they desperately wish they could be in their wildest fever dreams stars in said production, you're going to want to mosey along, compadre. Fourth, you just admitted to judging G.I. Joe based on the trailers. I'm sure the world's biggest Channing Tatum fan would've been pissed at your judgmental attitude toward the movie except that he or she doesn't exist.
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its what Tango said,from what i heard.
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Have you ever SEEN any of these guys' movies?? The closest we come to action if we're keeping it even moderately modern and realistic is Michael Mann.
Now, I think Michael Mann rocks (except for Heat and Miami Vice) but Mann directed crime thriller starring Stallone, Statham, Li, Dolph, Rourke etc etc would be really boring to watch because it's not what these guys are GREAT.
They COULD do it, but it's not where they shine. They shine when they do stuff like in the Expendables trailer. -
Stallone...WTF man. This looks positively awful. Cheesy lines..no chemistry displayed between the stars. Bad effects values (that explosion was weak)...was this made for TNT or USA Network? C'mon..you owe us better than this. This is half assed.
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That explains why he was not in The Expendables...
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Goonies video.
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there are a few scenes that have some potential. Although, the terrible cell-phone-rings-at-the-wrong-time joke almost ruined anything good from the trailer.
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You are really gonna compair something like THE EXPENDABLES to THE BIG HIT? That film was ok if I remember it correctly (saw it in theaters when it first came out). I really do not know what some of you are talking about with saying THE EXPENDABLES looks cheap. It looks like the 80 million dollars that MELLENNIUM FILMS threw at it. That studio gives STALLONE the budgets he needs to make his films. Sure, they are an up start indie company who still specializes in dtv movies, but Sly is the exception. He got 50 million of their money for RAMBO as well. (CONAN is said to cost 80-90 million when it is made). Ok, to the guy that said STAYING ALIVE was Sly's only bad directing movie, I will give you that. But it was just fluff 80's cheese. PARADISE ALLEY was Sly's first directing film and it was an interesting film at that. As for The Garbage Man, I was not saying that box-office dictates if a movie is good or bad, I was just saying that a film like G.I. JOE was being ripped apart at first by these same people ripping THE EXPENDABLES apart only for those same people to actually like G.I. JOE in the end. And by the way the film actually did have legs to reach 150 million in the U.S. What is your box-office prediction for THE EXPENDABLES? I think it should reach 100 million in the U.S. and another 200 million overseas.
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What a terrible trailer. Corny jokes and lame, tension free action. Outside of Iron Man 2. I was looking forward to this film the most. Just lost a customer unless the reviews of this film by Harry a through the roof.
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Sly- ring Bruce and asked him how he kicked so much ass in Die Hard 4.0.
This is terrible sly. Please change this quick and pull the trailer. I demand a reshoot. -
Soon. We want this movie to kick major ass. Yet this trailer has shocked the fans on how bad it is.
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You put exactly, this feels more closer to Hot Shots Part Deux than it does to Predator.
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is the one that is going to fucking TANK. Because everyone's dying to see all the 80's action icons together on screen.
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How could you not like heat?!
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I watches the trailer and i cannot help think we have another Skank Trek here. "But it will funs" i hear you say. Yes you may see this but remember that the Skank Trek appologists also say that movie is FUUNN FUNN FUUNN. We do not go to the cinema to have fuun - we go for the visceral experience!The only hope we have here is that it is directed by Stallone who has a good track record and is much better director than that ass man Jar Jar Abrams! What an ass man! Anyways, it comes down to what you want to watch at the cinema. If you are the types of person who likes watching shit served up by people like Bob Orci which is not visceral even though it pretends to be and think that Skank Trek is FUUNN FUNN FUUUN then you may like this movie of people shooiting guns and making jokes.If you are like me and exist on a visceral level when you watch a movie and dont go to the cinema for FUUUNNN FUUUUN FUUUN - if you like good movies basically is what i am saying - then you will reject this movie like the american people should have rejected that ass man Jar Jar Abrams. You want the visceral experience like me and should watch a visceral movie that isn't unnecessarily visceral much like antichrist. you decide. i am telling it like it is. i am always telling it like it is.ps. fuck yous Jar Jar abrams and also fuck yous Bob Porci!
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He has been/is likeable in the comics, its not impossible to make a good Dredd film. But it is true Dredd is more about the city and its denizens than just Dredd himself.
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I had a pastéis de nata today and very much enjoyed it. if you come to Portugal, you should try one. very nice. Every one in the world except for Jar Jar Abrams and Bob Porci should try a pastéis de nata at least once in their life.Jar Jar Abrams does not deserve one. What an ass man! What a fucking fuck ass man he is!
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But Asimov (yes i mean you this time) people dont go to a film always expecting the same thing.
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Did you really just say DIEHARD 4.0 was good? That was one shitty movie and you wanna rag on this clip (which isn't the official trailer you dumb fucks).
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Completely agreed how this is too self-parodic instead of being unknowingly funny. On that Bennett allusion the self revisionism on that he's now gay is exactly that, in the 80s the short cut and chainmail vest with leather pants was COOL. Look at Terminator 1 from 1984, the spiky hair was just coming into fashion in the 80s trailblazed by Arnold in Terminator again, after the 70s hippie hair was going away, and no one really saw mustaches as alluding to the Village People biker back then. WHY teh fuck are the Expendables smirking and talking with one another during that standoff? In fact Predator was dead serious to me when i was a kid, everything about it. Hell even Arnold was the coolest thing i've ever seen in that and when he yelled "Get to da choppa!!!" even then i didn't at allt hink of it for comic affect i was going "oh shit they better get the fuck outta there Pred is going to be there in a few seconds!"
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Do you guys really think people wont show up in line to see STALLONE, SCHWARZENEGGER and WILLIS in a film together...which also features STATHAM, JET LI and MICKEY ROURKE! WAKE UP! 40 MILLION on opening weekend. And give it up already for the peeps that say this looks DTV. It looks expensive like any big budget action film.
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ah but that is what the Skank Trek appologists will have you believe. i worry that the appologists are growing so powerful here that it is becoming much like a following. it is like those people who hide in the sand houses and stocade themselves with weapons whilst worshipping some strange god. Jar Jar Abrams has become that god to them and they worship him even though he is the god of shit! What a fucking ass man he is!Anyways, i do not go to the cinema for fun. I go to experience movies on a visceral level. It is all about the visceralism for me. If i need to explain this to you, then it is not worth my time. You can either sense the viscerality about a movie and bathe in it or you can watch a movie by Jar Jar Abrams which would not even know how to spell viscerality. people who experience movies on a visceral level are far too few and near between.If you are gay for Bay then you will never understand.
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Who am i trying to kid, I'll be there opening weekend any ways,that would just make it awesome. If this movie is half as entertaining as it seems I will fucking buy a ticket every day of opening week end
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http://www.thearnoldfans.com/news/1553.htm
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DONT NEED THE GIRL.
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Yeah nah the whole thing just felt like an excuse to put Pacino and DeNiro in the same room together. The fact that it was these two particular actors playing opposite eachother, and the bagage they brought with them because they hadn't been in the same movie since The Godfather Part 2 was both the whole point of the film and the reason it didn't work for me.
You're not watching two actors portray characters in Heat, you watch to major movie stars battle it out over who can steal the most scenes. Suddenly it's not a crime thriller anymore - it's a Pacino+DeNiro Vehicle.
Who knows? If Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds had been made years ago when he first thought of the concept and with a cast similar to The Expendables, which was the original idea, maybe it would have suffered for the same reason Heat did.
This looks great though, probably because it's been so long since we've seen most of these guys in an unapolagetic action film that is comfortable with being just an action film. -
You've used the word "visceral" 12 times now, in two posts.
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But why didn't he go for the Rambo cinematography? The trailer footage looks dated, like the JCVD Street Fighter movie.
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http://twitchfilm.net/news/2009/10/the-expendables-trailer-hits-online.php
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He sure is. What's your excuse cockbag? Why not go out and buy yourself a thesaurus with the money you won't spend on an "Expendables" ticket? And no matter how often you type it "Jar Jar Abrams" just isn't funny. Fuck off you utter cunt.
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Your killer performance here and the genius post you left in the ANTICHRIST thread has had me in stitches for the past 5 minutes.
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I, The Jury was wicked for a 15 yr old kid (as I was)to see. Kinda cool as shit. Assante was hard boiled. Lots of T & A. Carrera was hot stuff indeed.
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However, I gotta say the actual movie does not come out until sometime next year, March 2010 I believe. And this is NOT the official trailer. They are now aware what we think, and will be fine tuning this baby accordingly. This movie has to be good, too much riding on it, if this hits big, lots of people are going to get paid. But based on the trailer, it does look like Direct to Video, but regardless, overseas they are going to eat this up with a shovel. Hopefully final product pleases the masses that grew up on action movies in the 80's and 90's.
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seriously...the fuck man?? that is one of the fuckin stupidist things i have ever heard. you do know after a beer enema you are not supposed to drink the beer? i think the bacteria is eating away the parts of your brain containing coherent thought and intelligence. pretty sure that "visceral" experience you are so concerned about is actually fun biting you in the ass and you not knowing it.visceral... fuckin hell man
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Just curious.
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REMEMBER people, SLY has until next AUGUST to make this baby perfect. This isn't coming out in December. THE FILM WILL DELIVER and be THE MOTHER OF ALL ACTION FILMS. STALLONE and SCHWARZENEGGER in a film for the first time is a BIG DEAL!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttc84BFlMWs
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and I could have sworn that I posted in this talkback already. Anyway yeah it's great. Can't wait.
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Is the minigun from Predator and the Dodge Ramcharger from Lone Wolf McQuade.
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an unabashed homage to 80's cheese, complete with all the fixin's. I smell a BOF. (Box Office Flop)
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$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
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... and, as a group, BEG Stallone to drop the cell phone gag. Please, Sly, for the love of ALL that's holy, drop the cell phone gag. Who's with me? SLY IS READING THIS STUFF! LET'S CONVINCE HIM!
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Jet: "I blake you light back."
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and amp up the action. Please Sly!
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The jet li line made me giggle!
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It looks floor-banging retarded!
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Oct 14, 2009 11:50:33 PM CDT
Too much Jason and Jet!!! Damn I wanted more old school!
by hollywoodhellraiser
Why couldn't Norris, Seagal, Snipes, Van Damme, Hogan, and Weathers be in this?!Terry Crews a good fit but Jason and Jet just seem like that lame teamup movie they did before!Hell I think Danny Glover would've made for a good appearance as well!
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Oct 15, 2009 12:12:12 AM CDT
One thing for sure, this movie will spawn sequels.
by bizarroasimovlives
So with any luck, we might see other 80's and 90's action stars. Who knows, Gary Coleman might make an appearance.
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That's fair enough. If you have reasons to be a MENSA member that's cool by me. I wasn't saying it's easy to join, I'm pretty sure it's tough. I just said something along the lines of "You'd have to be an idiot to want to join", (in the sense that a person can be smart but still an idiot. Hitler being a fucking huge example, but even on a day to day basis, I meet plenty of people who are smart in one way & fucking idiots in every other way).
It just seemed to me that the only reason for wanting to join, is bragging rights. If you have different reasons, that's fine by me.
I take exception to your suggestion that I must have tried to get in & failed though. I was just joking about it. I've got nothing against them really. If I wanted to try, not only would I get in, they'd have to create a new club called MEGA MENSA just for me;-).
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and he doesn't give a fuck what you think. That's the attitude he's approaching with this movie. From the corny one -liners to the obnoxious amount of explosions. this is a movie that will definitely separate the super fans from the people that's on the Bandwagon.
If you enjoyed Tango and Cash, Cobra , Demolition Man and Judge Dredd (I know I did.) then this is your movie.
If your looking for Rambo, just wait until the next movie or re-watch the last.
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Even Stallone doesn't like Judge Dredd.
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some of us appreciate it, and get it.
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Not only did they ruin the character, but he did so many interviews in the U.K (it was made there), saying how proud he was of the movie & praising the crew & the technicians etc as the best he'd ever worked with.
Then when it flopped, he said something like "I knew it wouldn't work. It was always gonna be a disaster because none of the people working on it knew what they were doing."
Basically he tore into the crew & the behind the scenes people, blaming the very same guys he'd been praising to the hilt.
At worst, it's disrespectful & arrogant. At best, it means he was full of shit, one way or another.
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The script was originally written for SCHWARZENEGGER and then turned into a STALLONE movie. Then hiring Danny Cannon was the worst thing they could have done. Stallone didn't even show up at the premiere for this, that's how bad it was for his dislike of the film. DREDD could have and should have been STALLONE's BIGGEST hit.
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Oct 15, 2009 12:51:31 AM CDT
I can give you my reasons for liking Judge Dredd....
by bizarroasimovlives
For one, I liked the look of the movie, I read Judge Dredd during that time and I was impressed with the Judges' costumes and the vehicles. I was pissed that he revealed his face which was something Dredd never done in the comics but I went along with it anyway because I wanted to see what Stallone could do with the material.
Honestly, He wasn't bad, Dredd was a no nonsense grumpy mother fucker that upheld the in the comics and I thought Stallone was okay in that respect.
Second, Armand Assante was the villian! He was bad ass! He killed a shit load of judges in a two day span! I enjoyed his performance as well as Max Von Sydow's.
Third, Mean Machine walked right out of a Simon Bisley Graphic Novel. I thought his look was incredible. The robot looked cool as well.
The story was passable with Rico framing Dredd knowing he would go along with a tribunal because he believed in the law that much.
The problem was Fucking Douche Bigelow Rob Shneider. I was waiting for Dredd to beat the shit out him and rip his head off. The movie became too goofy, If Dumbass wasn't in it, Judge Dredd would have been much better but still, I enjoyed a good 75 percent of it. -
Yeah, you tell 'em!
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as much as anyone else but this footage looks like DTV. I don't care if Stallone spent 80 mill, you can't see it from that footage. I have a feeling that most of you are blinded by your prior expectations on this one so don't go proclaiming the second coming of christ until we see a real trailer next year. HOPEFULLY they pull this together and make a nice throwback film we can all enjoy. All I'm saying is this compilation doesn’t thrill me like I thought it would.
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Oct 15, 2009 1:10:15 AM CDT
Considering this movie isn't coming out for another year
by bizarroasimovlives
They could be feeding us a bunch of test footage. A lot of what they're showing could be out-takes.
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What he was doing in that movie I'll never know! But that's just one of the problems with it.
Direction etc aside, they went the typical Hollywood bullshit route, the comedy sidekick, the love interest, the tough guy lead not only showing his face but starting to thaw out & show his human side. Just bullshit.
I also agree that it looked kinda cool, but like everything else they got right, it was taken directly from the comics. The shit stuff was pure Hollywood.
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Oct 15, 2009 1:17:37 AM CDT
Imaging what Paul Verhoeven would've done with it.
by bizarroasimovlives
Oh right, he already did Robocop, whose creators were inspired by...Judge Dredd.
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directed by Louie Anderson.
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..would be Jerry Goldsmith's score during the trailer.Too bad it's not available on itunes.That being said,Dredd NEVER takes his helmet off (and it's rumored that it was Sly's idea to shoot scenes sans helmet.)and then there's Rob Schneider....Ahhhh...they should have minimized his role just like in Demolition Man. The clones were poorly used near the end but at least Joan Chen was good to lQQk at. all in all this movie was an abomination.
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http://stinkblogcom.blogspot.com/
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How many times do people have to be told?! This IS NOT a fucking trailer! It's not graded, the sound isn't finalised, and it's probably an editing rush job to get what we are seeing out there.
The finished product will look and sound nothing like what we are seeing, and the editing can (and probably will) be tightened up.
Some people don't deserve to be given little advance nuggets like this, as they then go and write off a film which hasn't even finished shooting and has a whole YEAR of post production/editing ahead of it.
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You are saying I do not knowing what i am talking about? I am always right. If you do not believes me, i will post the same thing another hundred times until you do.
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I do not drink beer to have fun. I drink it for the visceral experience. You are obviously a beer apologist. What an ass man you are!
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Sly didnt have any problem to wear the helmet all the time,it was the director who wanted to take it off,because he thought that it would be easier for the audience to relate to him.Sly has told about this in an interview here in aicn if i remember correctly.Ofc he could be lying but anyway the helmet thing was the least of the problems with this movie.
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... is frickin' HILARIOUS. Testoterone Martinis all round eh what? Think about what youknow about "good movies": Stallone has made/appeared in exactly ONE. The original "Rocky". Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING else he's ever done has been pure CHEESE. Erm, except for "Copland", not a good film, but not PURE cheese. And you know, even "Rocky" was pretty damn cheesy. Watch it sometime, it hasn't aged well. Just IMO, no need to tear me a new one, but flame away if you must. Carry one with the Stallone gush, I'm done.
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Oct 15, 2009 6:53:23 AM CDT
"i will post the same thing another hundred times until you do."
by miyamoto_musashi
great work
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... I am not a member of MENSA. {;-)
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"I am the law young man!!!!!"
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You're KILLING me! ROTFLMFAO. Not another 100 times, I'll pass out...
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Truly a great and funny piece of imitation. Take a bow.
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That's a fair point about Deniro and Pacino. I fell in love with Heat when I wasn't too familiar with either of their careers. In retrospect I do think Pacino hams it up a little, but it doesn't spoil the movie for me.
I have to admit I have a nostalgic fondness for the Dredd movie even though its an abomination. The production design is certainly the best thing about it, and Mean Machine was spot on visually.
I don't think Danny Cannon was soley to blame, I have quite a lot of sympathy for him actually. I think the producers exerted a lot of pressure on him over certain things and as much as I love the guy I still don't totally trust what Sly has to say about it all.
I think they hired a young inexperienced direct precisely because they wanted someone that they could exert more control over. Look what good it did them.
I would have preferred to see Cannon fail on his own terms, might have produced a more interesting film, who knows he might have even produced something half decent. -
When will you learn? Not everything that looks good in the comics works on screen: yellow spandex, a giant squid that decimates an entire city, a protagonist that never takes his mask off.
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Yeah, and what's funny is that Danny (Cannon) had mentioned it was Sly's idea to dump the iconinc helmet throughtout most of the film. but regardless who is responsible, the blame for the suckage that was dredd lies upon both star and director.Sly is usually known for having creatvie control on his projects ergo he's just as responsible for this film tanking. Hopefully we can see a remake that will do the comic justice.I mean, fuck Robocop was partially inspired by Dredd so why not a remake?
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Robocop was inspired by not only Judge Dredd but Marvel's Deathlok and it's more than an obvious comparison as the protagonist attempt to regain his humanity in a dystopian setting. I second a Judge Dredd being helmed by Verhooven as he was one of the greats in sci fi cinema. (Robocop,Total Recall and Starship Troopers.)
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I think of any comic book adaptation, Judge Dredd is one where it would work on screen with the helmet on throughout, because that's the character. He isn't a tough guy hiding a soft centre, like in the last version. He's Judge Dredd. Nothing more, nothing less. He IS as they say "The Law". That's it.
The only reasons for him taking it off in the movie were star power & the fact that they changed the character into some kind of an "I'm a nice guy really", goody two shoes by the end of the film.
Let's face it, why does Spiderman end up with half a mask in every movie? Because they wanna show Tobey Maguire under the mask. There's no dramatic reason for it. Same thing happened with Stallone in JD.
As far as a remake goes, it could easily work without him taking his helmet off, as long as they make him the character in the comic books. All they need is an actor who can play it without wanting to show his face. Look at Jackie Earle Haley in Watchmen, you barely see him, but it works, because the acting's good & the character comes through. In fact, he was the best thing in that movie.
That's not saying much 'cause Watchmen was shit, but you get my drift.
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I can understand why conventional action movies wouldn't work with the character in full costume all the time. But Dredd isn't a conventional character. We don't need to see his private life, or see him juggling with dual identities. We didn't need to see scenes like in the last movie, where he takes his gear off in a locker room like a normal cop.
They could even set the whole thing over the course of one night & just have him doing his job the whole time & it would work. If they NEED to show a bit more emoting or something, I'm sure they could have his visor come up or whatever, but a JD movie should be exactly that. Just the character from the comic books, out on the streets. -
the material is so rich with satire I don't think you could find a better fit than Verhoven especially with his experience making ultraviolent sci-fi action films.
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my sincerest appy-polly-ogies...i am a beer apologist and i overreacted...and yes i am an ass man..please forgive me for my past transgressions
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They were very visceral.
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You know that's how i felt before Sly's resurrection these past few years. Even as a kid i was 100% Arnie, Sly was too angsty which is just BOGUS. boxing movies are snoozefests.
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Anybody got an alternate link?!?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZI7m0sq1fE
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the concept of bringing together a group of 1980's action heroes doesn't click with anyone except you cheesy action flick fans. The only people in line will be you. And I'd bet my left nut half of you will just stream it anyway.
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Funny you should mention Rorschach; I was just going to bring him up. Wasn’t the interesting thing about him the fact that we learnt his history? I just think that a character that is so 1 dimensional would not work, not even in a popcorn movie. Also, don’t forget that most audiences have never read an issue of the comic before going in and what might seem interesting to you could be really boring to most people. Your idea of setting it during one night could work, but you would need a very strong script.
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http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Expendables-Trailer-Explodes-Online-15190.html
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This movie MAY tank... Cuz they postfuckingponed the premiere!!!!! Trailer for a 12 months... Aaawwwshootemintheanus!!!
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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xasvqd_the-xpendables-trailer_shortfilms
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