Escape to the Movies: The Expendables

[OmegaXIII]

I gotta be honest i really enjoyed this movie, purely because i wanted a brainless action flick where the name of the game was OTT fun and that is precisely what i got. And no gore? One of the opening scenes has a guy been pretty much liquidised by god-knows-what-sized bullet.

And the cameo scene was hilarious too.

First time in a long time i've disagreed w/ you Bob.
At the very least "not a single memorable kill" is a bunch of bullcrap.
Remember(or not) during the palace basement ambush, Li and Statham beat the crap out of the bad guy whos like 3rd in command or something, and they knock him to his knees, then Li does an axe-kick and breaks his neck backwards? Remember that? Do ya? Do ya?

I know the whole theatre did when I saw it.

I remember both that and the unified 'Oooooooh' from the whole cinema

 

[Cherry Cola]

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Hub, Hub, Hub, Hub, chill out.
I'm pretty disappointed and actually a tad offended, too, and I also don't get what the guy is talking about, but we should keep this civil.

I'm just so fucking annoyed at the fact that MovieBob, the guy that is openly opposed to nerd elitism, is the biggest elitist ever.

He insults every single person that doesn't agree with him because a movie that isn't appealing to anyone but nerds didn't make it big at the box office. He goes into a fit of rage because people don't blindly agree with his opinions. And yes, I might be overreacting, but by now I don't give a damn.

 

[runnernda]

I thought it was a great idea, with all the action stars in it. I saw Scott Pilgrim last weekend, though, and I adored it. I tend to agree with Bob, so I'll probably wait till this comes out on video if I see it at all.

 

[Reosoul]

Not surprised he didn't like this movie and is upset about Scott Pilgrim's shortcomings in the box office.

Bob is known to be a Nintendo fanboy(just check out http://gameoverthinker.blogspot.com/ ), and while Scott Pilgrim has no direct ties to the Mario franchise, there are some striking similarities in some of the movie's Real-life/Gaming world crossovers. Scott Pilgrim is simply a movie that's tailored for him.

I'm not disagreeing with the statement that Scott Pilgrim is good nor that The Expendables is bad, but I do want to make it clear that this review was nearly USELESS. After roughly 5 minutes of the same idea("This movie sucks!") interspersed with nerd-rage swearing, and I feel bad for not just looking at Rottentomatoes.com or something.

I know, I know. You explained every reason you thought it was bad, but for some people(the ones who aren't critics but also aren't the knuckle-dragging buffoons you claim them to be) this movie will be enough, or perhaps even the reason they like it more.

TL;DR

Moviebob, only rage when it's more than a string of cussing and there's a joke to be found.

Edit: And Mario has sucked since it hit the Nintendo 64, get over it.

 

[Reverend Del]

I tried to watch this, knowing full well it was going to be brainless explosions and boomage. I couldn't. The acting and cinematography made me cry. Hated it. With about as much passion as Movie Bob. However, just because some folks chose to see the movie that should have been excellent, over the movie that could very well have been dog turd does not make them "ill-informed sheep", it makes them regular human folks. And if that disappoints you, you may as well end it all now, because it'll never change.

 

[londelen]

You sounded angry. I like it.

 

[Clarkarius]

We all have our opinions, we just need to make sure we are proffessional when making them known.

Admittedly Movie Bob may have been over zelous in his defence of Scott Pilgrim being a worthier film in this review but it does not make his opinion any less valid. I think the main arguement in this reveiw was more about what makes a film sell as opposed to a detailed review, the Expendables just happenmd to be on the boat passing by; and how frustrating this is for films like SP which try to be experimental and end up being overshadowed by perhaps more Generic films such as this.
Admittedly though I did intend to see Scott Pilgrim prior to this review and had no intention of watching the Expendables at all, it did not look interesting enough to cash out on a cinema trip (more of a DVD choice perhaps), so perhaps I'm biased in my view or lack the complete objectivity that now seems to be expected from critics.

Also for the sake of playing Devils advocate why is it that people are happy to see their opinions reinforced and will gladly impose it on everyone else. Yet, as soon as their opinion comes to blows they begin to rant at the critic demanding that they change there own opinion to one matching there own?

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

Whatever, I'm still going to go see it. Jason Statham can do no wrong.

 

[Littaly]

Yeah I'm totally going to see Scott Pilgrim instea... oh wait no, *resisting use of all caps* it's not going up in theaters in Sweden until October!

Seriously! F***! I'll just join in on the nerd rage >,<

 

[ucciolord1]

That's all I can say. Stallon just got pwned.

 

[Rigs83]

I could barely finish watching this review. Took a lot of strength.

I can't believe Bob this week. We are obedient sheep because we go see one of the biggest collaboration films this decade instead of watching a film that was barely advertised in many places? We are the worst kind of people on earth because we like the premise that a movie will be an homage to 80s action films?

He dropped the ball on this review. Insulting a film is one thing, insulting someone for liking it is another, but insulting people for thinking the premise sounds like a fun idea?. That's a new low. I won't even go into how much I disagree with you on the quality of the film.

For someone who tries to hinder people from being elitist nerds, you are one of the biggest elitist nerds I've seen in quite a while.

Also this,

Also Movie Bob keeps holding up Equilibrium when talking about better action movies, that movie was utter twaddle pure over stylised matrix clone waffle. Even metacritic has it lower than the Expendables

Here is a better review.
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/fbv/bmbe/8526-equilibrium

 

[Sethzard]

I've found that I agree with bob when it comes to films, so there is no chance of me going to watch this.

 

[HBaskerville]

This review seems to be more about Bob's hurt feelings over "Pilgrim" going in the tank than the actual film being reviewed. It would have been a better review without all the nonsense about Pilgrim going nowhere at the box office.

 

[Satosuke]

I understand the gripes, but I haven't disagreed with him more since Avatar. I've really begun to think that Bob doesn't actually like big, unapologetically dopey fun action movies at all.

Could also be that he likely saw this without friends, which is a bad idea. Half the entertainment my friends and I got was derived from in-jokes (everyone in the theater where i saw it made Arnold noises when his cameo came around), so I do think I would have enjoyed this movie far less had I been alone.

Oh, and I will gripe about the godawful fake looking CGI blood. That was pretty heinous.

 

[Sampsa]

After watching this I just got a strong urge to go see whether it's so bad. And guess what. I just got a free ticket to any movie I want to see from participating in a university'a psychological test.

 

[Negatempest]

Well I watched the movie LONG before this review came up and you know what I liked it. "But why, its just a stupid, non deep plot action movie." And quite frankly, that is what I saw and liked. Just from watching the movie I didn't see it trying to give some "Politics are bad, huge men get the women." Kind of vibe. Heck even the character that Mickey Rourke played as stated how he messed up his chance and failed at getting the woman in his past.

There was no deep plot. To me, I saw it as a couple of guys doing the same business they have experience in doing so many times, but we just got to see one of their MANY adventures. Also LOVED the banter between them. I saw it as friends doing all this together instead of putting a bunch of people together who have no connection or liking of one another (Mass Effect 2 was like this, the forums there explain alot of how I saw the group as well).

So in the end I liked it because it was more about the group's adventure and communiction than the overall deep plotted conspiracy theories.

 

[Antari]

Bob I can't say as I'm shocked. Hollywood has a very thick layer of cheese developing