Originally Posted by Solid Snake PAC (Post 10319706)

I LOVED THIS FILM.

I can't tell you how fucking awesome it was. It was fucking awesome, that's how awesome it was.

Originally Posted by stingermck (Post 10319878)

I just wanted to see a bunch of guys shoot, stab, punch, kick, and blow shit up. So I walked away happy.

Originally Posted by droidguy1119 (Post 10319872)

I think emotion hits harder if you can see it in someone's eyes, and a well-timed look up into the mirror at Stallone could have been devastating.

Originally Posted by droidguy1119 (Post 10319872)

I also post on the CHUD forums, where everyone I thought was going to be at least a bit let down came out raving about it.

Originally Posted by Solid Snake PAC (Post 10320030)

As a film in general...it's ok. As an action film it's pretty good. Again CGI and editing work is the big deal w/ me. Maybe it's cuz my influences on squibs tend to be more RR like than what's normally used but...does it cost a lot to have an effects guy there squibbing the shit out of it? What was the budget on this thing? CGI blood never pleases me in action films. The editing in Rambo was also not this crazy. My main 2 issues.

Originally Posted by droidguy1119 (Post 10320119)

There are no squibs because when Stallone started he was planning on making a PG-13, but then he started to let the fans dictate what he did, and CG'd it up to an R.

Originally Posted by Solid Snake PAC (Post 10320295)

Rambo had the same issue for the most part. on the squibs I mean../.

Originally Posted by Tyler Foster

Having thought about it, i came to the conclusion that what I want out of action in an action movie is to feel it, and the reason the CG bothered me so much is because it robs me of the sensation that something is really happening. My favorite uses of CG usually involve a physical element that reacts to the CG. I remember watching a making-of on The Lost World: Jurassic Park and there's that scene at the end where the T-Rex slams a bus. Quality of the movie itself aside, there's B-roll of this bus that is specially designed to crumple inward, and it boggled my mind a little.

Anyway, in films like Universal Soldier: Regeneration and Undisputed II you can feel the violence. People hit each other. The cutting was still distracting but I liked the Lundgren/Li fight because I could tell the two were actually interacting with each other. Even if squibs are fake, it still gives you that sensation, you can tell something is physically happening, other than a dude falling down. And the dispatching of Gary Daniels is one of the best moments in the movie. That shit fucking hurts. You feel it. You go "OHHH!" when you see it because it's there and it's happening.

Also, I don't understand the glee that people get from seeing something just happen. Terry Crews explains how his gun works, and then you see him using it. Not only do I know what it does from his explanation, I even know what it's going to look like, because I saw Rambo and I know what it looks like when Stallone liquifies baddies in a movie. The part I liked was seeing the POV shot from Stone Cold looking down the hallway in disbelief. That was kind of funny. That added something else to it, other than the movie fulfilling a promise it made to me in what I felt was an unoriginal and uninteresting way.

Last but not least, I also forgot to mention in my review (I really need to make a Notepad file of bullet points and make sure I incorporate all of them), I didn't like the way all the fights were intercut during the finale. How can the Stallone/Austin fight build if I keep having to switch gears? I guess they don't have to be totally complete, but he'd cut back and forth for around a minute, then cut to something else.

I also thought the gags were pretty awful. Not cheesy-fun awful, just awful.

Statham: (translates something in Spanish)
Stallone: What are you, Zorro?

Jesus.

Originally Posted by Bill Gibron (Post 10320426)

F*ck sequel - I want a FRANCHISE!

Prediction for one of the films - Arnold gets his old team back together, including one JEAN CLAUDE VAN DAMMAGE - and they take on the EXPENDABLES in a knock down, drag out, dick swinging bullet ballet extravaganza. Gore ensues!

Pencil my ass in!

:)

BILL

Originally Posted by Dr. DVD (Post 10320443)

But for fans of mid 80s to early 90s action, it delivers and then some.

Originally Posted by LosingMyMind (Post 10320491)

Wow, this movie is going to be number 1 this weekend, isn't it? Awesome! Box office mojo poll:

What is your top choice to see this weekend (Aug. 13-15)?
38.8% The Expendables
21.3% Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
13.2% Inception
7.4% Eat Pray Love
7.4% No interest this weekend.
4.1% The Other Guys
3.4% Salt
2.0% Other
1.1% Despicable Me
0.9% Step Up 3D
0.5% Dinner for Schmucks
1,220 users polled.

Originally Posted by Eric D. (Post 10320529)

That only accounts for 1, 220 people. I wouldn't give it much weight.

Originally Posted by droidguy1119 (Post 10320514)

I keep hearing this and I don't get it. I don't think the filmmaking is at all similar to what this movie would have been like in the '80s. It's not at all like Extreme Prejudice, for example.

Please tell me how this movie is like an '80s action movie besides 1) containing people who made action movies in the '80s 2) containing action and 3) containing bad jokes.

Originally Posted by Gunde (Post 10320553)

droidguy1119, you just got really old :)
Not the movie's fault.

Originally Posted by Rypro 525 (Post 10320752)

If you all are right about Sly originally wanting a pg-13 and ratcheting up the blood and gore in post, i wonder if the church scene was shot towards the end when he had changed his mind to go for an R, as thats really the only scene with swearing

Originally Posted by Rypro 525 (Post 10320782)

I still haven't seen the latest universal soldier or undisputed 3 which i hear def bring the violence (and not cgi blood and gore) either. right?

Originally Posted by Ash Ketchum (Post 10320817)

Paging CRANK 3-D!!!