Escape to the Movies: Expendables 2

[BrionJames]

Really? You referenced The Rundown and the RE movies as a comparison to this?! For one, I don't know how anyone could even possibly like the Resident Evil movies, being the abomination of a survival horror game adaptation that they are. The Rundown was just poorly executed schlock using Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Sorry, none of the people who star in those movies, with the exception of Danny Trejo and Rutger Hauer (who should have had parts in the Expendables), don't even come close to delivering the sort of on screen machismo-charisma of Arnie, Sly, and Van Damme. I understand that you were trying to compare this movie to its 30 year old counter-parts which I will refer to as THE GOLDEN AGE OF ACTION MOVIES, but you blew it by bringing up such stinkers as the rundown and the mother fucking Resident Evil movies?! Really?! JESUS!!!

 

[abort_user]

i too hated the Expendables. it was like the actors involved forgot they were only half the reason we saw the movie. the other half was good ol' fashion action movie madness. it was like they surgically removed all the fun the fun from the movie before release. ive never been so bored in an action movie (and ive seen all three Transformers and Battleship).

it was also really bland. i barely remember a thing about it. i remember plane, girl, guns, and lots of fire fights with nothing to keep the interesting or unique from one another. it felt more like a lowbudget straight-to-video action movie that through a deal with the devil signed several action stars and a big budget theater release. its a shame too. with that cast and decent script we could have seen a resurgence of the old school action flick. this means these modern action films with constant closeup shakycam footage of incomprehensible CG effects isnt going anywhere any time soon.

 

[Griffolion]

Just watched it last night on a whim with friends.

It was everything it needed/I expected it to be. Macho manliness, explosions, guns, old men ruminating on the past, Stallone being incomprehensible as usual.

It wasn't deep, it wasn't earth shattering, it wasn't cinema redefining. But it didn't need to be. I went in there with a set of expectations about Expendables 2 that the first one had caused me to form, and I wasn't disappointed. Not all films need to be the second coming of Jesus in order to be entertaining.

In my opinion, it's a decent way to go about a night with friends, you'll have a great laugh together.

 

[Mokuren]

I've had a lot of fun watching all the stupid going on in the movie, and I frankly believe it was done a lot better than the first one: the characters looked more, well, unique, even if the objective was only reached through 90s standards of macho action flicks. Which is kind of the point of the movie.

I also got the impression all the actors had a lot of fun filming this; they did indeed take a trip to Bulgaria and shoot some scenes between a drink and another, I'm 100% certain this is what happened.

 

[King Billi]

Hmm? I'll go check this movie out tomorrow I guess, I only hope it's entertaining.

I don't have a high enough opinion of the first Expendables film to actually "defend" it but I do wonder how people can get themselves so worked up in hating these kinds of movies so vehemently? I mean they are what they are, whats the big deal?

 

[MrBaskerville]

I´m actually a bit surprised that an avengers fan like Moviebob doesn´t love this one, i find both movies quite similar for a variety of reasons. But i found this one a bit more entertaining, a bit better paced.

I´d recomend it to anyone who likes a fun action movie, even though i don´t normally like these overblown summer blockbuster action movies. I think one of the things i liked about it was how everyone involved seemed to enjoy what they were doing. Dolph Lundgren, Stallone, Schwarznegger, Willis and Statham (among others)seemed to have the time of their lives performing these roles. It is a bit stupid (understatement of the year), but atleast i doesn´t try to take it self seriously, it knows what it is and rolls with it.

Btw, this comes from someone who despised Transformers 2 and who almost fell asleep through every Pirates of the Carribean movies and i haven´t seen the first Expendables. (just to put it into perspective how surprised i am that i highly enjoyed this movie).

 

[MB202]

I remember last year (or was it two years ago?) when The Expendables got the most comments EVER on an Escape to the Movies video, and everyone was super pissed, so much so that they kept complaining about all of his other reviews after that. Now... I think people have either mellowed out or completely forgot about it. It's like they only live in the moment and don't have any kind of foresight or hindsight about them. I actually never bothered to see The Expendables, so I'm not going to bother here. Really, in both cases, the only interesting thing about them is seeing all these action stars in one movie, not because of the actual movie itself... Oh well.

The reason it was so commented on was because of who insulting Bob was in it, calling anyone who saw it a sheep or a idiotic piece of macho meat, and saying how much he lost faith in humanity just because something that had never really had a chance of being much more the a cult classic not being number one on the chart, pretty much saying you don't have the same taste as therefore you are an idiot. He did this review a lot better and if he had the the review for the first one like this he probably wouldn't have gotten called out

I have no plan to see this movie myself I never cared much for nostalgia movies of any kind.

Yeah, I did figure that MovieBob was overly harsh towards anyone who liked the movie. His use of hyperboles in his videos always get taken the wrong way.

 

[MB202]

however, Bob doesn't read his comments (which he said himself)

Really? Because I've been following Bob for, like, ever, and he said that he reads EVERYTHING, he just doesn't respond to every single one.

However, in the case of the Expendables, I feel like, in his Piranhas review, he chose a REALLY inappropriate image and a far-removed complaint about his previous review, and made it seem like THAT'S the only thing people were angry about, and that, I feel, was out of line.

It's really funny (in an ironic sort of way), because he REALLY liked that movie and tried to promote it a lot. I remember him posting on the previous thread, saying people should go see it, but instead, everyone was either so laser-focused on what Bob said that they didn't listen to him, or outright DIDN'T see the movie just to spite him.