-Whats his problem?
-He wants to be president.
The whole fucking theater laughed and clapped. Epic movie.
[QUOTE=Uberman77883;24089064]Jet Li was embarrassed that he was smaller than the rest of the team, so he said he had a family so that he wouldn't have to say he was small in front of everybody.[/QUOTE]
Yea I know.
It was utterly pointless, badly presented, and was relevant for about 15 minutes.
[QUOTE=Uberman77883;24088168]People who don't like this film either watch it for the wrong reasons or are nerds with no friends.
Its funny how you say that Scott Pilgrim has better action scenes. Its a fucking comic book movie with a shitty actor who plays shitty roles. I doubt you even saw this movie.
Btw Scott Pilgrim is another one of those shitty romance movies. Real men don't like to watch teenagers be awkward.[/QUOTE]
This has to be the most incredibly stupid post in this topic. And it proves my point.
And you have to be the most incredibly stupid poster in this topic.
"hurr hurr im not conforming cuz i liek to pretend to be a movie critic"
I am watching this movie tomorrow with 6 of my friends. I have no doubts it's going to be great.
[QUOTE=Uberman77883;24090130]And you have to be the most incredibly stupid poster in this topic.
"hurr hurr im not conforming cuz i liek to pretend to be a movie critic"[/QUOTE]
"hurr hurr expendables is for men, who needs an intelligent plot, direction and actors go back to your nerd movies nerd"
I'm not conforming because people are fucking idiots and have an awful taste most of the time.
And you keep telling yourself that this was a bad action movie.
I will.
[QUOTE=Uberman77883;24090599]And you keep telling yourself that this was a bad action movie.[/QUOTE]
Well he's the only one who's really listening to what he's saying, I'm still gonna go see it at some point.
I don't really care, since I know your opinion is inferior.
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But no do what you want, and let me do what I want.
"I know your opinion is inferior"... Jesus christ, you do realise how unvelievably stupid some of the stuff you're saying is, right?
[QUOTE=Uberman77883;24090599]And you keep telling yourself that this was a bad action movie.[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't say it's bad, but there are many action movies that are MUCH better.
It's mediocre at best.
[QUOTE=Tabarnaco;24090515]"hurr hurr expendables is for men, who needs an intelligent plot, direction and actors go back to your nerd movies nerd"
I'm not conforming because people are fucking idiots and have an awful taste most of the time.[/QUOTE]
Here's to that. Incredibly, I don't think people understand that box office numbers have no meaning, least of all for weekend figures, when the end of the entire first week is generally the point in which you understand who is actually making the most money. And even then, people let garbage like this get made and be profitable because they make all kinds of excuses for when films have no redeeming factors aside from action scenes. Unfortunately, that's come full circle, because nobody seems to get what constitutes "good action". Explosions are like punchlines for a lot of these mouth-breathers, and so we just get more and more generic colorless actioners with douchebags with no capability to discern good from bad making under-achieving excuses for it.
What I hate the most is the excuse of "it doesn't NEED to be smart, it's a popcorn movie!". This shit is like cancer for the big budget blockbuster. People are acting like you can't have good action, good acting, a smart story and great writing in the same movie, like you can only pick two. Bullshit. This is exactly why JJ Abrams' Star Trek movie was worthy of elicited groans from even NON-trekkies like ME. "Fuck the guys who made this series immortal; let's dumb it down and pander to the guys who beat them up and stole their lunch money!" Seriously, fuck "The Onion" for that piece they did about it last year, way to fan the flames of these dumbshits.
And then of course, "District 9" came out, showing anyone with a brain who bothered to see it that you can CERTAINLY make a film with a smart, stellar script, great acting, great visuals and AWESOME action scenes, and with only a budget of 35 million dollars.
...Then of course, nobody saw it. I mean, naturally, why see something awesome that will actually MATTER more than a year from now?
I saw this and got what i expected, which was a bunch of really badass guys shooting a bunch of guns. But that was it. Guns and killing. thats it. Which is fin because yes it was entertaining, but ill forget about it in a couple days. I saw Scott Pilgrim too, and that movie was the coolest shit ever. The action was better than the expendables believe it or not. Cera delivered, the chick was hot, the jokes were hilarious. Everything about that movie was perfect. But Expendables was ok, very forgettable.
District 9 grossed six times its production budget from box office sales only, people DID see it and it has a huge fanbase :v:
[QUOTE=evlbzltyr;24090907]"I know your opinion is inferior"... Jesus christ, you do realise how unvelievably stupid some of the stuff you're saying is, right?[/QUOTE]
Well apparently you don't realize I'm sarcastic, so whatever.
The movie is only fun if you know the actors.
can't believe anyone actually wanted Jean-Claude Van Damme in this movie. every movie he was in..shitty.
[QUOTE=Jimmyshimmy;24091533]District 9 grossed six times its production budget from box office sales only, people DID see it and it has a huge fanbase :v:[/QUOTE]
Again, it WAS only 35 million in budget. Comparatively, yes, it kicked the pants off it's competition by ratio. But still, in all my time working at the theater, I've scarcely seen so many people walk out of the theater a half-hour into the film telling me it's "the worst movie they've ever seen", and it got kicked out of our theater within a few weeks.
Yeah...I lost a LOT of faith in the taste of the masses from that...
[QUOTE=Armotekma;24091625]can't believe anyone actually wanted Jean-Claude Van Damme in this movie. every movie he was in..shitty.[/QUOTE]
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[B][I]You did not just call Street Fighter a bad movie.[/I][/B]
I just got back from watching it.
I got to say, my suspicions in the OP were confirmed.
[QUOTE=Armotekma;24091625]can't believe anyone actually wanted Jean-Claude Van Damme in this movie. every movie he was in..shitty.[/QUOTE]
Universal Soldier was decent. Dolph Lundgren was in it too.
[QUOTE=The Vman;24088892]I saw it a couple nights ago, and while it was a fun movie, it wasn't [I]as[/I] fun as, say, The A-Team.
Expendables seemed like it was trying too hard to have a story. It had all of those awfully written padding scenes while you wait for the next deafening action segment. Worst of all, all of the story bits seemed utterly pointless. The "Statham's girlfriend" plotline? She's got like, a total of 10 minutes of screentime and they never metion her again. Jet Li needing more money for his "family"? They mention that a couple times then Jet Li says he has no family. What was the point of that? Was it a joke? Where's the punchline (if it's supposed to be the whole "I'm smaller" thing then that was a terrible punchline) Speaking of which, Jet Li's smallness is only relevant in a single scene, then once again, it's never mentioned again. Lungdren's revenge on the team? He's in one scene, gets shot, but oh he's better and he's back. Pointless plot thread.
Even the main plot with the General felt pointless. The General seemed like an utterly pointless character as he doesn't ever do anything, then gets killed. You could have done the whole movie without having a terrible actress for a love interest by just writing the general and his daughter out and just having the rotten ex FBI guy as the main villain through and through.
It also bugged me that they say this movie has "EVERY ACTION STAR EVER!!!!" And I will give them credit that they got a ton of the best guys... [I]so why not give half of them action scenes?[/I]When I first came into the theater I thought that everyone featured on the banners were going to be part of the team and go in guns blazing, but instead we get it so that over half of the characters have fewer than three scenes in the entire movie, and some of them are just speaking roles. If they wanted a realistic representation of the movie they should have just thrown Stallone and Statham on the posters.
Speaking of which, why the hell was Willis on the poster, and Schwartzeneggar wasn't? They practically had the same screentime.
Still, all that said, it was fun. The action segments were good and manly, and the final battle was just what I had hoped. I only wish that they had spent more time trying to add more awesome action scenes rather than the awful padding that filled a majority of the movie.[/QUOTE]
the A-Team was also a giant piece of shit and the only capable actors were Sharlto Copley and Patrick Wilson
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OK SO Here's what I thought of The Expendables:
most people seem to be on a consensus that it wasn't a good film but it was an enjoyable action film that delivered what was expected
but see that doesn't work for me. i didn't like most of the action either.
first of all, the dialogue. oh man the fucking DIALOGUE. who wrote the screenplay, a 10 year old?
second of all, the only half-way decent acting scene was mickey rourke crying about some chick he could have saved. the rest was abysmal.
and as for what the film was all about, the action. really there were only 3 parts I enjoyed.
1. the bit at the start with the gun that blow a guy clean in half.
2. the bit where they broke a dude's neck with a downward kick. that was brutal.
3. the autoshotgun mowing through the tunnel of enemies.
those were the 3 action sequences i enjoyed. the rest of the action wasn't even any good at all. for an action film where everything else sucks, it really did not deliver on the action at all and was all around just an awful film, i don't care how many big names were in it if none of them were any fucking good in the film.
it was just an atrocious piece of cinema. and i normally like jason statham in stuff like crank, where the action is so ridiculous and over the top. but this film has nothing on crank. absolutely nothing. crank was funny and well executed. this was not.
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and fucking [sp]dolph lundgren randomly at the end, totally fine and forgiven. what the FUCK YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME[/sp]
Damn, guess I won't be seeing this then.
A-Team was a blast; it was funny, it had great set-pieces, original action-sequences and treated "crazy" as damn-near a martial art in itself. When an airborn tank is being driven by it's own cannon fire to steer it into a lake and drive out of the water like a vehicular Godzilla to the awe of all onlookers, it's a party.
THIS is the "popcorn movie" so many idiots think define unmitigated pieces of shit like "Transformers" or "Expendables". A movie that may not have the strongest script or question the inherent morality of man, but glistens purely out of style. "Bang, bang, kaboom, one-liner, kaboom" is not "style", it's banality.
[QUOTE=J-Dude;24102884]A-Team was a blast; it was funny, it had great set-pieces, original action-sequences and treated "crazy" as damn-near a martial art in itself. When an airborn tank is being driven by it's own cannon fire to steer it into a lake and drive out of the water like a vehicular Godzilla to the awe of all onlookers, it's a party.
THIS is the "popcorn movie" so many idiots think define unmitigated pieces of shit like "Transformers" or "Expendables". A movie that may not have the strongest script or question the inherent morality of man, but glistens purely out of style. "Bang, bang, kaboom, one-liner, kaboom" is not "style", it's banality.[/QUOTE]
the A-Team was disgustingly bad up until the very last action sequence which was the only redeemable part of the film. that and Patrick Wilson. even liam neeson sucked in the A-Team, that's how you know it was shitty
[QUOTE=Rusty100;24102949]the A-Team was disgustingly bad up until the very last action sequence which was the only redeemable part of the film. that and Patrick Wilson. even liam neeson sucked in the A-Team, that's how you know it was shitty[/QUOTE]
Your taste and logic really suck, y'know that?
You should watch MovieBob's reviews; he's more in-touch with cinema than anyone else out there...and he would disagree with you completely.
This movie must of cost a shit load of money to produce, not only because of all the fucking A Class celebs but the fact they got Arnold in it too makes this movie look like the budget was huge, big disappointment to Hollywood if it doesn't go well.
[QUOTE=J-Dude;24103137]Your taste and logic really suck, y'know that?
You should watch MovieBob's reviews; he's more in-touch with cinema than anyone else out there...and he would disagree with you completely.[/QUOTE]
uh okay so because i disliked a movie because it was bad in every sense of the world and i didn't like the action my opinion is invalid?
i get the whole mindless action thing but it only works when the action is actually good
i seriously don't understand how you can say my taste and logic sucks because i legitimately critique a film for being bad instead of overlooking the fact it was bad and liking it anyway because it was 'awesome'
Watch and learn, Skippy; class is in session. Here's The Master at work:
[url]http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/escape-to-the-movies/1780-The-A-Team[/url]
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