Escape to the Movies: The Expendables
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bah, MovieBob has gone downhill. I don't mind him slating films that don't include him in its target market, I don't mind him creaming himself over pseudo-intellectual geek films such as Scott Pilgrim and the crap Tarintino has been secreting since the turn of the century, but now damning not just the films that push his preferred films slowly out of the Box Office but also the move-going public? Nah, getting beyond a joke here. This isn't Transformers.
Actually, have you seen Stallone and Lundgren's comments about current action movies including superhero films? I have rarely seen comments as insecure as these:IronStorm9 said:
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-sylvester-stallone-blames-batman.html
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/BrentSprecher/news/?a=14952
Wow, just WOW. It's especially sad since Stallone had enormous potential as an ACTOR and tried to be an action star to which Arnie beat him down at every step of the way.
I first saw the trailers and I though. "Eh, maybe I'll see it sometime after Scott Pilgrim vs. The World but now I'm glad I missed it very much. I've seen way to many comments from friends about how great Scot Pilgrim vs. The World is and I don't think even one person made any kind of positive comment on The Expendables yet. This is like some serious paradox that I believe over time will be fixed.
Oh for crying out loud people, you're all acting like MovieBob plowed your mum's beanfield or something.
So you already went to see the movie and enjoyed it. Good for you, I'm glad to see you had fun and that your 15 bucks was well spent. However, it is only your opinion and MovieBob has the right to have his own. I agree that the nerd rage was largely unnecessary and the review doesn't have the usual high excellence, but he saw how an average 90s style action flick attracted a larger audience than an original piece of work that did something different and now he's having a little crisis in the 'faith in humanity' department. It's not very hard to relate to, we all have a little passion we sometimes get worked up about.
For example, I truly and deeply love the first two X-COMs and it makes me so sad to see developers are willing to take a long shit on the spirit of the games and their original creatpr simply to milk more cash out of the little FPS faggots who wouldn't even touch the game if the main character wesn't a gun hovering in air. I am looking at you 2K, you shameless whores.
Anyhoo, please cut MovieBob some slack, he deserves the right to vent a little every now and then just like everyone else.
So you already went to see the movie and enjoyed it. Good for you, I'm glad to see you had fun and that your 15 bucks was well spent. However, it is only your opinion and MovieBob has the right to have his own. I agree that the nerd rage was largely unnecessary and the review doesn't have the usual high excellence, but he saw how an average 90s style action flick attracted a larger audience than an original piece of work that did something different and now he's having a little crisis in the 'faith in humanity' department. It's not very hard to relate to, we all have a little passion we sometimes get worked up about.
For example, I truly and deeply love the first two X-COMs and it makes me so sad to see developers are willing to take a long shit on the spirit of the games and their original creatpr simply to milk more cash out of the little FPS faggots who wouldn't even touch the game if the main character wesn't a gun hovering in air. I am looking at you 2K, you shameless whores.
Anyhoo, please cut MovieBob some slack, he deserves the right to vent a little every now and then just like everyone else.
I feel the need to echo other people's (Hubilub's, mainly) statements and call MovieBob out on his elitism. I have not personally seen any movie in a really really long time - but it's pretty obvious that today's "review" was all about irrational hate. I'd go as far as to say "he's not like himself". But seriously, for someone who constantly demands from us all to stop being elitist nerds, there's way too much hate on the so-called "jocks" and "sheeple".Hubilub said:
The Expendables may be total shite, or it may not - either way, Bob is not a reviewer or even a critic towards it, he's just hater. Which is not okay for someone who claims to be a reviewer or a critic.
No, the film is not a cash-in. The movie was a dumb action-film, but that doesn't make it a cash-in.IronStorm9 said:
"Cash-in" is a word people throw around when they want to have a reason to hate a film that isn't purely subjective. This is not a cash-in. This is supposed to be a dream come true for many people. The people who made this film had fun, and they love this film. They also like to jokingly insult each other, which is where Stallone's "imitating" claim came from.
I only have one thing to say about this review:
According to Bob, if you see this movie you are a part of a bunch of mindless sheep.
What is your message to the people who will now mindlessly go watch Scott Pilgrim instead of the expendables because YOU told them to?
I wonder what hurts him more, the fact that The Expendables is a success and Pilgrim is not, or the fact that his opinion proved to be totally irrelevant to most people.
According to Bob, if you see this movie you are a part of a bunch of mindless sheep.
What is your message to the people who will now mindlessly go watch Scott Pilgrim instead of the expendables because YOU told them to?
I wonder what hurts him more, the fact that The Expendables is a success and Pilgrim is not, or the fact that his opinion proved to be totally irrelevant to most people.
Oh man, that was some of the best nerd rage I've heard in a really long time...no wait I take that back. I heard lots of nerd rage with the air bender movie.
Reviews for shitty movies are fun; we get to watch Bob show his darker side.
Reviews for shitty movies are fun; we get to watch Bob show his darker side.
... O HAI MARKEkonk said:
[sub]I really hope you were meaning to make a The Room reference[/sub]
According to these comments, you're only allowed to insult your viewers and go on a tirade about something you intensely dislike if your name starts with a "Y" and rhymes with "Nazi"; anybody else is a pretentious, elitist critic that totally blew his cool and jumped the shark at the same time. Seeing as how I'm not a sheep, I'm going to agree with all of them with neither question or reason. I mean, shit, why can't you just be a REAL reviewer, MovieBob, and actually do your job by making sure that your opinions and views coincide perfectly with mine?
Remember, you're not allowed to be frustrated about the box-office success of this movie indicating that we're going to continue on the cycle of creative, risky films being shunted in favor of brainless action flicks, because that would make you pretentious. Seriously, dude, that would make you almost as pretentious as a gamer that complains about how much they hate Call of Duty and Halo and everybody that plays them is too stupid and happy with their bland blandness to understand the complex beauty of a lovingly-crafted RPG that likely won't see a sequel because it's getting stomped to death by the competition... and let me tell you something, buster: you sure as shit won't find anybody like that, here.
Furthermore, how dare you take your job seriously by watching a film with an analytical, deconstructive mindset when the basis of your Escapist series is analyzing and deconstructing movies for our enjoyment? We don't want you to call out a movie's self-described style as being bullshit; we just want you to sit still for two hours, forget everything you know about everything, allow your eyes to glaze over, and when the movie is over, go home and make a full-length review that consists of the words "MOVIE GOOD" emblazoned over a fireworks display that makes fart noises instead of booms, for five solid minutes.
Lastly, just because people like to go slack-jawed while staring a screen full of explosions, bright colors and loud noises, doesn't mean you're better than them, so let me bethe first one of many to say: throw away that TP and start wiping your ass with your hand, because we're all doing it, and the majority is always right, you arrogant jerk.
BAAAAA-AAA-AA-AA-AAA-AAAAAAH!
Remember, you're not allowed to be frustrated about the box-office success of this movie indicating that we're going to continue on the cycle of creative, risky films being shunted in favor of brainless action flicks, because that would make you pretentious. Seriously, dude, that would make you almost as pretentious as a gamer that complains about how much they hate Call of Duty and Halo and everybody that plays them is too stupid and happy with their bland blandness to understand the complex beauty of a lovingly-crafted RPG that likely won't see a sequel because it's getting stomped to death by the competition... and let me tell you something, buster: you sure as shit won't find anybody like that, here.
Furthermore, how dare you take your job seriously by watching a film with an analytical, deconstructive mindset when the basis of your Escapist series is analyzing and deconstructing movies for our enjoyment? We don't want you to call out a movie's self-described style as being bullshit; we just want you to sit still for two hours, forget everything you know about everything, allow your eyes to glaze over, and when the movie is over, go home and make a full-length review that consists of the words "MOVIE GOOD" emblazoned over a fireworks display that makes fart noises instead of booms, for five solid minutes.
Lastly, just because people like to go slack-jawed while staring a screen full of explosions, bright colors and loud noises, doesn't mean you're better than them, so let me be
BAAAAA-AAA-AA-AA-AAA-AAAAAAH!
Wow, this looks like the biggest fan backlash sense Yatzee reviewed Brawl, if not bigger. Except this time bob's review was consistent with other critics. Come on people this is the guy who liked 2012, he likes corny movies, but he's saying this movie didn't make that mark.
Good for you. Bob is right that this movie won't matter in 5 years, but with a few exceptions it delivers what it's advertised well enough. Sly tried to add a dramatic scene which Rourke delivers great, but is out of place and very "tried". The action was something I complained about, as it was not as bad as Transformers, but did look like it was shot so they could cut corners. It was nostalgia, it was some fairly mindless entertainment. It was meaningless, but fun.FargoDog said: