The Expendables 2 --> News, casting, rumors, etc...
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Re: The Expendables 2 (2012?)
Yes, Crews says "you're terminated" (sans interrogative) in the trailer. And, yes, Crews was in Terminator Salvation. However, since most of his footage was cut, he only appears as a cadaver when Christian Bale emerges from the missile silo/prison camp during the beginning of the movie.
#727
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Re: The Expendables 2 (2012?)
New poster:

I'm a tad indifferent towards it.

I'm a tad indifferent towards it.
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#730
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Re: The Expendables 2 (2012?)
It almost looks like the poster was designed without Hemsworth but after the success of Hunger Games (and the confusion with his brother Chris) they wanted to capitalize off his name. And instead of redesigning the whole poster they just decided to pigeonhole him in after after the fact.
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Re: The Expendables 2 (2012?)
It almost looks like the poster was designed without Hemsworth but after the success of Hunger Games (and the confusion with his brother Chris) they wanted to capitalize off his name. And instead of redesigning the whole poster they just decided to pigeonhole him in after after the fact.
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I don't know, he does look kind of shoe-horned in there. He's so far back his face isn't even in focus. I didn't even notice somebody back there at first glance.
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None of these guys are shot together. They're shot individually and the image is composed from the individual photos. Most times it's only their faces shot and pasted onto photo-double bodies.
Contractual obligations often get as ridiculous as "______'s head must be 15% larger than ______'s head". Stuff like that is why we get a lot of "bad photoshop" from some very skilled graphic designers.
No question that Liam's head is the smallest there. He's probably getting paid the least and no doubt has less staff negotiating on his behalf than the other career actors and athletes on the poster.
Contractual obligations often get as ridiculous as "______'s head must be 15% larger than ______'s head". Stuff like that is why we get a lot of "bad photoshop" from some very skilled graphic designers.
No question that Liam's head is the smallest there. He's probably getting paid the least and no doubt has less staff negotiating on his behalf than the other career actors and athletes on the poster.
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Re: The Expendables 2 (2012?)
It almost looks like the poster was designed without Hemsworth but after the success of Hunger Games (and the confusion with his brother Chris) they wanted to capitalize off his name. And instead of redesigning the whole poster they just decided to pigeonhole him in after after the fact.
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Who cares what you losers think of the poster. I'll wait til Solid Snake chimes in with his take before I decide whether the poster sucks or not. Hrrmph
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Meh. It's not good, it's not bad. It's meh at best. It's too desperate on selling the cast. Of course...the cast is the selling point..but...it could've been better made w/o the generic feel of it.
Again...I really wonder if we will ever see Norris do a kick in here? I mean..that's his thing. This movie looks tons better than the whole of the first film for sure.
Again...I really wonder if we will ever see Norris do a kick in here? I mean..that's his thing. This movie looks tons better than the whole of the first film for sure.
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#747
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I'm still cracking up that Djokovic is in this. He's still not a huge name (despite being #1 in the world) relatively speaking but cool to have a tennis player beating people up with his racket.
#748
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The banter seems much improved over that of the first film. However, the most important thing? Squibs!



