EPTThe Expendables 2 - Page 7
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CutieBK
Sweden227 Posts
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SirKibbleX
United States479 Posts
I should probably clarify this. For a movie with this much star power and over-the-top potential, it disappointed. I expected something more like Crank, like an almost-action-comedy "man's man" action movie. It just seemed to compromise in too many ways and play down the middle. Playing it 'safe' is exactly the opposite of what a movie like this should do. It didn't hype the heroes up into the kind of over-the-top badasses the 80's and 90's films did. It wasn't deep cinema, and it wasn't a balls-to-the-wall, twelve-year-old-me's dream action film either. I know I wasn't the only guy who thought this. Most of my friends were all 'oh you just don't like it bc you're the artsy PC type.' In fact it was just the opposite; the one time I wanted to see hilariously preposterous machismo, silly/bad acting, and a lot of explosions on display, I got disappointed. It felt like a bait-and-switch. Afterwards several of my friends agreed with me. | ||
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-vVvTitan-
United States473 Posts
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AziDon
Denmark142 Posts
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myIRE
Belgium229 Posts
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AutomatonOmega
United States706 Posts
On December 16 2011 01:24 theBALLS wrote: what a shit show I'm gonna watch it This appears to mirror general consensus on the subject. And yeah, I probably am, too. | ||
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Simple
United States801 Posts
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Auvoo
United States5 Posts
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SirKibbleX
United States479 Posts
On December 16 2011 20:33 Simple wrote: guys, its all the great action stars from the last two decades. its not an arthouse movie with an deep story. just enjoy it for what it is Actually its not as much of a throwback ultra-manly action film either. The first one played it way to safe and was actually very disappointing. See my above post. | ||
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FarmI3oy
United States255 Posts
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Tien
Russian Federation4447 Posts
It's a damn shame only once a blue moon does a good testosterone filled movie like this come out. | ||
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Yergidy
United States2107 Posts
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lacho_u
Bulgaria535 Posts
 its filmed in bulgaria btw. | ||
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fuzzy_panda
New Zealand1681 Posts
On December 16 2011 20:33 Simple wrote: guys, its all the great action stars from the last two decades. its not an arthouse movie with an deep story. just enjoy it for what it is i dont think anyone is expecting this to be an arthouse film. just hoping for something more enjoyable than The Expendables 1., coz that was seriously just a turd. | ||
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Tien
Russian Federation4447 Posts
Nothing more, nothing less. Stallone isn't trying to impress the new crowd of viewers, he's bringing back his old fans. | ||
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Foreplay
United States1154 Posts
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Rodimus Prime
182 Posts
On December 17 2011 07:02 Tien wrote: Dude expendables 1 was everything a Rambo / Arnold fan could wish for. Nothing more, nothing less. Actually far, far less. The action scenes in The Expendables were shit. Too dark and not enough awesome. It's like they tried too hard to make it realistic rather than cheesy. | ||
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lethal111
Canada460 Posts
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Keyboard Warrior
United States1178 Posts
Though I think the first one was a little shy on the trigger given the amount of testosterone it had | ||
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YipMan
372 Posts
On December 16 2011 19:22 -vVvTitan- wrote: The first one was horrible, so I expect the same to continue. Watch it for the lulz though :D!! Yeat the movies are definitely good to experience what a brainfart must feel like. | ||
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