Escape to the Movies: Expendables 2
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Go see and formulate your own opinion!!!
I loved this movie for what it was: a campy, action flick with awesome one-liners, and a host of (now aged) action stars. Don't go into this expecting ANYTHING but what it is, and I think you'll enjoy it.
Addendum: I don't get the critical slaughter of this series... This is a tongue-in-cheek, self-refferential action film. THEY REFERENCE RAMBO DIRECTLY for fuck's sake!!! This was not TRYING to be a critical success. It doesn't take itsself seriously. I just don't undestand the mentality behing listening to a critic with a movie like The Expendables.
I loved this movie for what it was: a campy, action flick with awesome one-liners, and a host of (now aged) action stars. Don't go into this expecting ANYTHING but what it is, and I think you'll enjoy it.
Addendum: I don't get the critical slaughter of this series... This is a tongue-in-cheek, self-refferential action film. THEY REFERENCE RAMBO DIRECTLY for fuck's sake!!! This was not TRYING to be a critical success. It doesn't take itsself seriously. I just don't undestand the mentality behing listening to a critic with a movie like The Expendables.
I hated Expendables 1. Moviebob, you are not alone.
The movie was incredibly thinly spread, and all the action scenes were dull. I didn't give a crap about the characters and I honestly can't remember a single plot point.
Didn't expect the sequel to amount to much either.
The movie was incredibly thinly spread, and all the action scenes were dull. I didn't give a crap about the characters and I honestly can't remember a single plot point.
Didn't expect the sequel to amount to much either.
wanted to watch it but for some reason the movie has been postponed here in hong kong. it should have come out last week but suddenly it was gone. even the date has been covered from the posters in the cinemas. they told me it might come out in december.
well, i dint mind the first one. it was an ok action movie. dint expect much anyway but still a good watch. from the looks of it, it will be the same for this movie.
well, i dint mind the first one. it was an ok action movie. dint expect much anyway but still a good watch. from the looks of it, it will be the same for this movie.
I watched the general's daughter once as a child/ pre teen and while I only saw a small part of the movie toward the end it has always stood out in my mind because watching that movie was both where I first heard the word rape and learned what It meant.
I remember last year (or was it two years ago?) when The Expendables got the most comments EVER on an Escape to the Movies video, and everyone was super pissed, so much so that they kept complaining about all of his other reviews after that. Now... I think people have either mellowed out or completely forgot about it. It's like they only live in the moment and don't have any kind of foresight or hindsight about them. I actually never bothered to see The Expendables, so I'm not going to bother here. Really, in both cases, the only interesting thing about them is seeing all these action stars in one movie, not because of the actual movie itself... Oh well.
I often hear people lamenting with these movies about how they could have possibly gone wrong. That doesn't make any sense to me. The question I would sooner ask is how would it even be possible for them to go right?
I guess people are blinded by their nostalgia of those old movies to see just what a bad and impossible idea these movies are.
I guess people are blinded by their nostalgia of those old movies to see just what a bad and impossible idea these movies are.
Very funny review Bob +10
So, you... didn't love it?
Also, Crimson Tide is indeed awesome. I mean, all those films are great but Crimson Tide features Aragorn before he was Aragorn, Denzel stoic as always (except the two roles he actually won Oscars for) and Gene Hackman at his gravelly-screamy-peak. It's like Hunt for Red October with actual political tension.
Also, Crimson Tide is indeed awesome. I mean, all those films are great but Crimson Tide features Aragorn before he was Aragorn, Denzel stoic as always (except the two roles he actually won Oscars for) and Gene Hackman at his gravelly-screamy-peak. It's like Hunt for Red October with actual political tension.
This movie was so bad that it made Total Recall fun to watch when I bought a cheap night ticket a few days later, just like the way that the Expendables make Scott Pilgrim look like the greatest movie ever after I saw both opening night a couple of years ago.
So..... The Expendables..... making other action films look better since 2010!
So..... The Expendables..... making other action films look better since 2010!