Moderator Karlos Posted May 11, 2011 Moderator Share Posted May 11, 2011 http://www.aintitcool.com/node/49602 WARNING: BIG SPOILER contained therein! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ShaOW!linDude Posted May 11, 2011 Member Share Posted May 11, 2011 Good find. I didn't think the spoiler was too big. Still need to see the 1st one myself. Based on what a lot of folks have said I'm waiting for it to hit the movie channels before investing in a dvd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ShaOW!linDude Posted October 28, 2011 Member Share Posted October 28, 2011 Wasn't sure where to put this so I thought here would work. There's been an accident on set resulting in the death of a stuntman. http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/the-projector/expendables-2-accident-kills-stuntman-153050411.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member kingofkungfu2002 Posted November 18, 2011 Member Share Posted November 18, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ShaOW!linDude Posted November 18, 2011 Member Share Posted November 18, 2011 Hmm. I wonder if there will be any gunfights in this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member kingofkungfu2002 Posted November 18, 2011 Member Share Posted November 18, 2011 For those wondering, the Chinese girl is Yu Nan...I was all in favour of a female cast member but thought they might go for a bigger name Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Karlos Posted November 18, 2011 Author Moderator Share Posted November 18, 2011 2 things that stand out: 1) Where's Jet? and 2) Why have they trimmed Sly's goatee? Clearly, it's been rushed out but hey, still a pretty cool poster! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DarthKato Posted November 19, 2011 Member Share Posted November 19, 2011 Hmm. I wonder if there will be any gunfights in this. LOL 2 things that stand out: 1) Where's Jet? and 2) Why have they trimmed Sly's goatee? Clearly, it's been rushed out but hey, still a pretty cool poster! I heard that the reason Jet Li was not on the poster was because they didn't know, at the time they were making it, that he would be back. The reason his name is there is that, most likely, they found out he would be back at the last moment and decied just to include his name and leave the rest of the poster the way it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Yakuza954 Posted November 19, 2011 Member Share Posted November 19, 2011 I wonder how big Jet's role is in it this time. I hope it's back as a major supporting character and not in a cameo. Same thing for Arnold, Bruce, and Chuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member daisho2004 Posted November 21, 2011 Member Share Posted November 21, 2011 I wonder is Norris, and a few others are really in it as of yet we don't know who is in the real cast! Do we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Karlos Posted November 21, 2011 Author Moderator Share Posted November 21, 2011 http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=7532#comments At last! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ShaOW!linDude Posted November 21, 2011 Member Share Posted November 21, 2011 Nice find, K! And just in time for Xmas, too! I know it stated all the technical specs hadn't been announced but noticed there's no mention of a commentary on this. Surely it will have one, don't you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Karlos Posted November 21, 2011 Author Moderator Share Posted November 21, 2011 Nice find, K! And just in time for Xmas, too! I know it stated all the technical specs hadn't been announced but noticed there's no mention of a commentary on this. Surely it will have one, don't you think? I'd love one, too, bro. Sly's commentary on the theatrical cut was great. As you say, the specs are not locked down yet, so fingers crossed! BTW, Amazon have it up at a good price: http://www.amazon.com/Expendables-Directors-Cut-Blu-ray/dp/B005Y1B3Q0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1321917591&sr=8-1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ShaOW!linDude Posted November 22, 2011 Member Share Posted November 22, 2011 I'd love one, too, bro. Sly's commentary on the theatrical cut was great. Maybe they could incorporate that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Lionclaw Posted November 22, 2011 Member Share Posted November 22, 2011 This is good news because when I first got the dvd of Expendables I didn't have a blu ray player. Now that I do I have more of a reason to double dip. (Even though I probably was gonna get this anyways.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Karlos Posted August 20, 2012 Author Moderator Share Posted August 20, 2012 Hi all Having just seen Exp2, I figured, why not share my thoughts with you guys. After being away from the forum for a while, what better to return to the fold than to wax lyrical about a film most of us here have been patiently waiting for? I was one of the few on here who really enjoyed Exp1 (even more so in it’s extended director’s cut form), and the follow-up was my most eagerly awaited film of the summer – yup, even more than AVENGERS, TDKR and, of course, SPARKLE. And, for me, it mostly didn’t disappoint. I had a blast with it, for sure, but there are still problems. Once again, the plot is wafer thin and I wouldn’t have it any other way. After the events of part 1, The Expenda-gang has gained a new member (Liam Hensworth’s sniper, Billy), lost another (Mickey Rourke’s Tool) and is now in debt to Mr Church (Brucey), who’s come a-knocking, wanting payback. The routine mission he gives them goes wrong when an unexpected second group turn up (led by JCVD and Scott Adkins) and a resutling death in the family means it’s now personal for Sly and the boys. The film kicks off with a supremely confident, bombastic and just plain awesome sequence with our heroes charging into Nepal on a rescue mission. Cue 15 minutes of solid insanity, the kind most other action films would kill to have for a climax, let alone an opening. Straight away we can see that in the hands of new director Simon West, the action is shot clearly. There is no shaky cam here (the modern day bane of out favourite genre), and for that we should be thankful. This sequence houses some great moments, especially Jet Li’s stand-out battle against a horde of enemy soldiers. He takes them on with machine gun, knife, pistol, Kung Fu and finally, a pair of frying pans in a blistering display that is easily his stand-out moment of the whole franchise. Generally, it feels more of an ensemble than part 1, which was focused mostly on Sly and The Stath, but not everyone gains - Couture still draws the short straw. Given little to do again, and Crews gets much less screen time than he did in the first. Perhaps more so than anyone this time round, it’s Dolph’s Gunnar who gets to steal the show a lot of the time and he’s pretty great in this, with some clever referencing of the real life Dolph in some scenes, and the big guy is clearly having a ton of fun. After a middling section with some (it has to said) appalling dialogue, the film gets back on track, leading to an all-out end battle in an airport, where the film maximises it’s special returning guests, Bruce and Arnie, with super special guest star, none other than Chuck Norris. Now, some have called the film out on this, if you like, “fan casting”. Critics have said Chuck (and, to a lesser extent, Bruce and Arnie), add nothing to the film apart from self-referential jokes and nods to past flicks. It’s charge that’s hard to argue against but in a way that’s missing the point: for an action film like me (and possibly, you), it’s the chance to see the big 3 finally all together, doing what they do best, and for a film geek it’s a sight to behold, with Chuck’s appearance – which is actually quite sweet and quite funny, I thought – the manly icing on the macho cake. And what of the other new big name addition to the fold – JCVD? Well, he’s fantastic. I’ve often said that, of his contemporaries, he’s become by far and away the best actor and here he really lets himself have a lot of fun. His Jean Vilain is at once creepy, funny, loose, and menacing. His fight with Sly is pretty good fun, too, as they wail on each other. And do I detect a hint of real-life animosity coming into play? Adkins, as JC’s main henchman, gets his only real moment in a fight with Statham, although he very kindly brought his Boyka accent along for the ride. As I said eariler, there are still flaws – namely, some of the action is shot too close and too fast - this seemed most evident in the Adkins/Statham fight and also the Couture and Crews skirmishes and there’s some very poor dialogue on display at times. There’s also some plot points here and there that are set up and never paid off but these were nothing ruinous. But ultimately, Exp2 delivers what we expected it would – better in some places than the first, but still missing a few things that one had (a consistency of tone and Mickey Rourke), but overall, it’s a big, dumb fun experience that I recommend to anyone who wants a 90 minute return trip to the action movie you created in your mind back when you were a kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ShaOW!linDude Posted August 20, 2012 Member Share Posted August 20, 2012 Excellent review, Karlos. As always, I enjoy your comments and perspectives. Sounds like it may be better than the 1st. Looking forward to seeing this at some point. Here's hoping to a director's cut of this one, too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator KUNG FU BOB Posted August 20, 2012 Administrator Share Posted August 20, 2012 Hi all Having just seen Exp2, I figured, why not share my thoughts with you guys. After being away from the forum for a while, what better to return to the fold than to wax lyrical about a film most of us here have been patiently waiting for? I was one of the few on here who really enjoyed Exp1 (even more so in it’s extended director’s cut form), and the follow-up was my most eagerly awaited film of the summer – yup, even more than AVENGERS, TDKR and, of course, SPARKLE. Welcome back- you were missed. Love the review brother! I'm with you on everything except- I was a little more excited about SPARKLE than EXP2 , and personally, I thought the dialogue rivaled anything Hollywood has ever written (Robert Towne? Hah! Hack. ). But ultimately, Exp2 delivers what we expected it would – better in some places than the first, but still missing a few things that one had (a consistency of tone and Mickey Rourke), but overall, it’s a big, dumb fun experience that I recommend to anyone who wants a 90 minute return trip to the action movie you created in your mind back when you were a kid. Couldn't agree more. In mine and my buddy's minds when we were playing with G.I. Joes in the backyard, they were joined by John Rambo, Lone Wolf McQuade, John Matrix (Arnie from COMMANDO), and John McClane (he was the special Police liaison to the Joes) via our custom-made figures. And the battles were anything but PG! Seeing these EXPENDABLES films is truly like seeing those imagined adventures coming to life on the big screen. I can't wait to see it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ShaOW!linDude Posted August 20, 2012 Member Share Posted August 20, 2012 Wait a sec! Wait just a doggone minute here! On rereading this, you anticipated this movie more that The Avengers (blasphemer!), The Dark Knight Rises (heretic!), and Sparkle (lumberjack! {in the sense of Monty Python's song, that is})? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Drunken Monk Posted August 20, 2012 Member Share Posted August 20, 2012 Thanks for the review! I was a little worried about the sequel as the nods to the cast's classic films seemed a little too on the nose for my liking. It's good to hear so many positive opinions. I'll be going to see it with my girlfriend this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Petie Posted August 21, 2012 Member Share Posted August 21, 2012 Good review. I liked this one better than the first but didn't care for the way Jet Li was essentially written out to be replaced by a female version of his character. Geez, can there never be two Chinese people on film at the same in a Hollywood flick or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member makone Posted August 21, 2012 Member Share Posted August 21, 2012 I loved it. However some of the dialogue did make me cringe. Didn`t Jet have a scheduling conflict, so he wasn`t able to do more. If they make a 3rd i want to see seagal as a villain, so couture can get his revenge for him teaching machida a frontkick. lol I hope he does a directors cut. i want more:bigsmile: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Petie Posted August 21, 2012 Member Share Posted August 21, 2012 . Didn`t Jet have a scheduling conflict, so he wasn`t able to do more. He did I believe. I was partly jesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member monkeygift Posted August 22, 2012 Member Share Posted August 22, 2012 Wait a sec! Wait just a doggone minute here! On rereading this, you anticipated this movie more that The Avengers (blasphemer!), The Dark Knight Rises (heretic!)... Well honestly I found The Dark Knight Rises quite dull... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Tigerstyles Posted August 22, 2012 Member Share Posted August 22, 2012 Well honestly I found The Dark Knight Rises quite dull... here here!! it was a fuckin borefest at least until Catrwoman started showing her ass off on that bike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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