Expendables 3 [Movie Discussion Thread]

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Just watched it. Loved it. It's just as good as the second one (if not better) and way better than the first one. It's getting murdered on Rotten Tomatoes right now. Even audience rating is down compared to the first two. I hope it does well at the box office and we get the fourth one.

Did anyone see the trailers for The November Man and A Walk Among the Tombstones? Those movies look great. Good to see Pierce Brosnan again (who is supposedly doing Expendables 4). The November Man looks like cross between James Bond and Assassins.
November man looks dope.
 

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wait.. is it really pg 13?? man expendables 2 was one of the best action films the past few years (and the newer rambo).. cause they were Rated R... anyone actually see this and no blood in it ?
 

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wait.. is it really pg 13?? man expendables 2 was one of the best action films the past few years (and the newer rambo).. cause they were Rated R... anyone actually see this and no blood in it ?

You won't notice. There's still a lot of gunplay and explosions and throat cutting.
 

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shyt was real cool but it being pg-13 held it back a little

Same way I felt about it breh. I was entertained no doubt, but I felt it needed a lil more fighting and brutality. Part 1 and 2 seemed to have the right amount, but part 3 just seemed to shy away from that and increase the gunplay and explosions.
 

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Same way I felt about it breh. I was entertained no doubt, but I felt it needed a lil more fighting and brutality. Part 1 and 2 seemed to have the right amount, but part 3 just seemed to shy away from that and increase the gunplay and explosions.

thats why im hoping that a unrated/directors cut of this makes it way out by Christmas
 

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I could have sworn they dropped 2 fukked bombs...I thought the PG-13 req was only 1.

Anyway, just came back, pretty dope. Snipes killed it.

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when snipes dropped the Tax evasion line, and Arnie referencing Star Wars when Ford was flying. Wish Crews was in it a little more as with Li. Glad fukking Fraiser wasn't delegated an action role. The final expolsion scene with Stallone's jump though...:usure:
:stopitslime:. Ain't no way in hell nearly 70 ass Stallone would have made that jump...haha

Cast overall was dope...the new jacks weren't bad, Bandaras and his stories were funny. Couldn't take Ortiz seriously though, brah was even boxing when Stallone met him :russ:

I kinda hope this is the last one, since if there's more, they'll probably try to hand the baton to the new jacks....or they'd kill them off like they did the dude in 2.



Overall, I think 2 is still a little better action wise, but 3 is up there with the first being last.
 

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The first one was the best. 2nd one was extremely disappointing with a off the wall script. Here the 3rd film comes back to reality with a script with character development and pretty decent villain from Mel. The thing that still plagues the last 2 films are ...

1. Using Jet Li in very little scenes
2. The background and locations all look the same and not realistic like the first film.
3. The CGI sucks big time....cartoon-ish.

Finally someone talking sense. I didn't even like the first one that much because of the horrible shaky cam/fast cuts, but all the characters got proper shine there and the action, despite it being terrible shot, was well thought out. Second one improved on how it shot the action but it basically became a blatant shoot 'em up with a far too short fight between Stallone and Van Damme and a way too disappointing fight between Statham and Adkins. I'd say this brought back a bit more inspired action like the first flick (that final battle was set up great), but they also went back to that shaky cam/fast cut shyt (probably to cover up some stuff for the PG-13 rating). It worked against Ronda Rousey in particular since her fight scenes were pretty much an undecipherable mess, which is a shame even more particular because she was the only 'young' Expendable that was somewhat interesting (outside of the motorcycle jump, the other 'young' Expendables didn't do shyt worthy of note).

They also pretty much threw half the cast in the bushes, Couture, Crews, Lundgren and Li could pretty much all have been written out and/or replaced and it would've barely made a difference. I guess they did this to give shine to Snipes and Banderas, who gratefully took what they were given and killed it. Snipes proved he still got what it takes to be a leading man and Banderas hasn't been having this much fun since whatever the last movie was he did, because he's always having fun. And I died at how they tried to stuff as many lines in as possible for Arnold to say "Choppa" at the end. :dead:

Overall the whole trilogy is barely decent, but as far as nonsensical action movies giving shine to actors most of Hollywood doesn't give a fukk about anymore, it thoroughly entertains.
 

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How the hell did it lose to Let's Be Cops? :stopitslime:

I thought the movie was great. Hopefully it'll make enough money overseas and on video to justify a fourth one.

They better release a cool Blu-ray box set regardless :birdman:
 

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watched an hour of this. these are some of the worst goddamn movies to come out in a long time.
 
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