I share these exact same sentiments. Given you have already spoken all I wanted to say I will simply leave it at: I liked it.AnarchistAbe said:Go see and formulate your own opinion!!!
I loved this movie for what it was: a campy, action flick with awesome one-liners, and a host of (now aged) action stars. Don't go into this expecting ANYTHING but what it is, and I think you'll enjoy it.
Addendum: I don't get the critical slaughter of this series... This is a tongue-in-cheek, self-refferential action film. THEY REFERENCE RAMBO DIRECTLY for fuck's sake!!! This was not TRYING to be a critical success. It doesn't take itsself seriously. I just don't undestand the mentality behing listening to a critic with a movie like The Expendables.
But, but he doesn't like stupid action movies that I like (joke).Spot1990 said:Except that's not true at all. He likes Machete, Hobo With A Shotgun, Smoking Aces and a lot of other stupid action moives. Including, as he said in this video, the stupid action movies these guys were making about 30 years ago. He doesn't like Expendables because he thinks it's a bad stupid action film.TorchofThanatos said:Bob can enjoy some stupid comedy movies for just being stupid comedy movies but he can't enjoy stupid action movies for being stupid action movies.
I never said it made him wrong. Just in the minority of critics as well as viewers.Spot1990 said:So? On metacritic it has 51. What does that matter? Doesn't make Bob wrong.MrDeckard said:66% on Rotten Tomatoes. Yeah, it's not always the most accurate place, but still, more critics liked it then not.
And again, it was a super hero movie so of course he went in expecting to enjoy it. I don't know what review you were watching but they were some of the harshest i've seen him give. He fucking hated that movie.FelixG said:Except he didn't.DugMachine said:What are you talking about? Bob tore that movie into shreds and couldn't find anything to like. Of course he's supposed to TRY and find stuff to like, that's kinda what you do when you watch movies.Terramax said:Meanwhile, movie Bob will like pretty much any super hero movie released, even when they're full of plot holes, cover no new ground, aren't funny when they're supposed to, action sequences are boring, the acting is sub-par, etc.
Hell, he even spent no less than 2 videos reviewing the Green Lantern trying his hardest to like it in some way.
It is really obvious when he goes into a movie wanting to like it, and when he is just seeing a movie to draw an escapist paycheck.
Ah alright, yeah true enough. Bit of a misunderstanding there and what not lolFelixG said:Whoops, misunderstanding about the first part of my post. the "except he didnt" was in reply to the fact that he is supposed to try to find things to like.
Just that he went in knowing he wouldnt like it so made no effort to look for anything good in it unless it slapped him in the face and he couldnt ignore it.
Completely Subjective! EVERYTHING is completely subjective! I didn't find the action boring. I loved every second. Each character got their own special fight and each used their own style. I also found his reason's stupid and laced with nostalgic for the old B action movies that he loves (witch is fine because I do the same thing, everyone does the same thing).Spot1990 said:So? On metacritic it has 51. What does that matter? Doesn't make Bob wrong.MrDeckard said:66% on Rotten Tomatoes. Yeah, it's not always the most accurate place, but still, more critics liked it then not.
Lots of rapid cuts, close ups and shakey cam so you can't actually see any of the lazily choreographed fight scenes. It also took itself very seriously like the first one did, which is why I much prefered the A Team to Expendables because A Team was over the top craziness and it revelled in it. Expendables 2 only remembered to be self referential towards the end, other than that it was a case of having one's cake and eating it. It was a completely mediocre movie that when struggling plotwise would look directly at the audience and say "Hey, you guys remember Rambo?"TorchofThanatos said:His reasons for not enjoy the second movie is because the boring action scenes (I also really don't understand how action is boring)
No it was plenty stupid and American, it wasn't the least bit ironic or self aware about it.and it not being stupid or American enough.
...But he did give reasons.If you don't know why you don't like something, only that you don't, it is okay to say you don't have a reason.
So agree to disagree then.I don't agree with or understand his reasons.
Completely subjective.Not gory enough like Hobo, nothing should be that gory.
Well he still has reasons.In the end, I don't like his reasons, I don't understand his reason,
No, he does.I don't even think he has reasons.
Then either stop watching films or stop watching reviews because eventually films you like are gonna get slammed. Maybe only get outraged when you, you know, made the film being slammed. Otherwise you're just getting upset that people have opinions.It is hard to watch someone slam a movie that you really enjoyed.
The reason people were pissed off is because Bob insulted those who went to see the movie, calling anyone who thought a movie like that could work (or saw it at all) was a moron with no brain and "the worst sort of person", however, Bob doesn't read his comments (which he said himself), so he thought the reason people didn't like his review was that he gave the movie a bad review, so in the following weeks, he kept insulting the people who saw it and commented on his videos, whether they liked the movie or not, and there were more than a few people who disliked the movie, but hated how Bob went after the fans.MB202 said: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.
Actually, they did release it to the critics just not bob and others who they knew right away, before sitting down, hate the film. They didn't release it to those particular critics for 2 reasons. The first one is, the director and Stallone dont give 2 shits about critics who are only interested in reviewing art films, and films that are exactly like the "old ones" from the "good ol days" that give them nostalgia-hardons. The second reason is, they understand that the people that are going to see the movie already know what is going to be in the movie.brazuca said:I knew this movie would be bad!
Not showing to the critics means you had to pay to see this?!
^ThisWarachia said:The reason people were pissed off is because Bob insulted those who went to see the movie, calling anyone who thought a movie like that could work (or saw it at all) was a moron with no brain and "the worst sort of person", however, Bob doesn't read his comments (which he said himself), so he thought the reason people didn't like his review was that he gave the movie a bad review, so in the following weeks, he kept insulting the people who saw it and commented on his videos, whether they liked the movie or not, and there were more than a few people who disliked the movie, but hated how Bob went after the fans.MB202 said: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.