The Expendables Was Such A Huge Let Down Of A Franchise

[Dominic Brehetto]

Decided to do another watch of them and

The overly fake looking CGI blood looked bad at release and it has aged like milk. Why the fukk did they do this


How do you waste such a dope cast why is all the action so subpar and forgettable.

Everybody just seemed to be collecting a cheque instead of having fun with their roles. Ironically Mel Gibson looked like he enjoyed himself the most.


Most of the humour is terrible


And why would they make the third one PG13 Ronda Rousey


Just read Terry Crews won’t even be back for the fourth because one of the producers told him to drop the sexual abuse stuff

They had 3 tries and struck out each time.

 

[MenacingMonk]

They were fun nostalgia. You expect an Oscar performance with great cinematography? They're ACTION flicks.

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

They were fun nostalgia. You expect an Oscar performance with great cinematography? They're ACTION flicks.

No. I expect good action. The action was terrible with cgi blood that is distractingly bad.

I can’t think of a phrase that makes me cringe harder than fun nostalgia. The ultimate rock bottom.

 

[MenacingMonk]

No. I expect good action. The action was terrible with cgi blood that is distractingly bad.

I can’t think of a phrase that makes cringe harder than fun nostalgia. The ultimate rock bottom.

You're the @stro of TFR.

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

You're the @stro of TFR.

Who?

 

[Mason quartermaine]

I remember after the 1st if anyone dared criticise it they would have someone jumpin down their neck calling em a beta male that was born in the 00s who just didnt get it.
Them shyts were like a feature length movie version of a-team when it should have been magnificent 7 meets rambo. I dont need hindsight to see they've aged badly always thought they missed a great opportunity from the jump

 

[Deltron]

third one suffered from Sly buckling down on some PG-13 bullshyt and trying to pass the torch on youngsters.

First 2 were dope, especially the finales

Arnie and Willis quipping each other and saying each other's lines was

and Chuck Norris

 

[ig88]

I thought all of em were fun.

The snipes train scene off memory in 3? Was dope

Van damme kickin the knife into the kid was classic

The auto shotty scene in first one wit terry crews

Jet li fight scen s with the pots and pans

Dolph as the renegade drug addict was well played

Bruce willis was the most dissapointing part of the series. He didnt do shyt.

Arnold held it down tho.

Statham and sly had the best scenes all together.

Loved eric roberts in the first one and mickey rourkes character (Heard he did it as a favor to sly for putting him in get carter... and underrated CLASSIC imo)

 

[OmegaK2099]

I actually enjoyed them, 3 not as much

 

[Monoblock]

Yea that whole series was a letdown IMO. I thought I was getting Rambo 2008 level of violence and it wasn't even close. It was more humor in it then I'd like and the violence was just mild.

 

[KevCo]

I own em but never saw 2/3...first was ok i guess

 

[LauderdaleBoss]

I fukked with all of them, but part 3 was the weakest one although it had some dope scenes.

Series peaked at part 2.

 

[RajWatts]

Part 2 was and still is piff

 

[KateFabersBoyfriend]

Goofy. Don't need the self-aware quips. Don't care that it's referencing old action movies and the miners those worked because they were mostly being sincere not trying to be self-referential. Would rather watch just about anything the folks involved have been in instead of these movies.

 

[OmegaK2099]

Part 2 was and still is piff

Part 2 was the only good one really