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OMG THIS MOVIE LOOK AWESOME!!! :eek: :eek:
Yesterday, Sylvester Stallone filmed a scene with Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger for his upcoming August release The Expendables. Finally, the three biggest action heroes of our time are going to be on camera. Plus that Planet Hollywood reunion we’ve all been waiting for.

The announcement came from set blogger Ethelmae: “While I can’t/don’t want to give too much away I can tell you that Arnold’s character is Trench and Bruce is Church, the scene was shot in an empty church without extras and minimal set dec[oration] and it has tension and humor.”

Stallone plays Barney Ross, a leader of a group of “expendable” mercenaries sent into South America to overthrow a dictator. The rest of the team consists of Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Terry Crews, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, UFC fighter Randy Couture, and Eric Roberts. The only action stars missing from this are Van Damme, Steven Seagal, and maybe Kurt Russell, but otherwise this is a monstrous cast.

Sly wrapped the movie on the same day and now it’ll be in post-production for a few months in preparation for a summer marketing push starting in May at the Cannes Film Festival.

Meanwhile, the 63-year-old actor is already gearing up for a Rambo 5 with a science fiction angle about mutant creatures. Seriously.
http://www.newsinfilm.com/2009/10/25/st ... es-update/

Watch a trailer of it here!!

http://expendables-movie-trailer.blogspot.com/
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:nod:
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That looks worth a $1 rental, at least.
Seriously, looks pretty good, nowhere near Sava's :eek: personally though.

Good combination of action and corny humor hopefully.

Can't say I'd vote for Kurt Russell as an action star though :D
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Brittany Murphy is in it too. :(
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Oh Hell Yeah. :thumb:
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:rotfl: Rourke....he'll need more makeup than Stallone to make his face look human.

I'll look forward to seeing it at home....but ain't going to the movies to watch it.
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623,872 bullets fired...
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Sounds good. Have to see this movie.
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TonyT wrote:623,872 bullets fired...
finish the sentence with "and nobody gets hit" and you have the A-Team! :rotfl:
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YeOldeStonecat wrote:finish the sentence with "and nobody gets hit" and you have the A-Team! :rotfl:
A few members were shot during a few Ep's. A bunch of supporting actors had their characters shot during a few Ep's too so it wasn't like your saying.

I'm looking forward to the A-Team movie more so than this one but they both look great! :thumb:
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AWESOME NON-STOP ACTION PACKED MOVIE!!! :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:
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Sava700 wrote:AWESOME NON-STOP ACTION PACKED MOVIE!!! :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:
I was trying to count the dead. I stopped at 110. Good shoot-them-up show!

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I'm giving it a week or so before I head over to see it (let the lines and crowds die down a bit).
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Gee, I get to wait for it to come out on DVD.
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Easto wrote:I'm giving it a week or so before I head over to see it (let the lines and crowds die down a bit).
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Not bad....brainless predictable story with lots of carnage and fast pace ending.
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What is the movie basically about? Who are the good guys and who are the bad guys?
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RoundEye wrote:What is the movie basically about? Who are the good guys and who are the bad guys?
All of the guys in that picture I posted above are good guys cept stone cold.

Just a action packed movie.. good plot and great acting.
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YeOldeStonecat wrote:Not bad....brainless predictable story with lots of carnage and fast pace ending.

Oh GREAT! Now you given it away. :D
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YeOldeStonecat wrote:Not bad....brainless predictable story with lots of carnage and fast pace ending.
My kind of show!!!!!!! :)


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Sava700 wrote:All of the guys in that picture I posted above are good guys cept stone cold.

Just a action packed movie.. good plot and great acting.
GOOD PLOT AND GREAT ACTING? We must not have been watching the same movie.
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Mutch wrote:GOOD PLOT AND GREAT ACTING? We must not have been watching the same movie.
Your opinion is fine..but it got great reviews on both.
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Mutch wrote:GOOD PLOT AND GREAT ACTING? We must not have been watching the same movie.
He sets his bar quite low. :nod:
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Mutch wrote:GOOD PLOT AND GREAT ACTING? We must not have been watching the same movie.
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JBrazen wrote:If there's something I've learned about Sava700 is that referring to him for Movie advice is like asking Stevie Wonder for driving directions. :D
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no i mean really.. this was a great movie!!! I'm not speaking for myself ether.. for once a action movie didn't have my wife falling asleep while watching it and the reviews were really well received! :thumb:
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Sava700 wrote: and the reviews were really well received! :thumb:
By who?

Most tout it as a rehash of the Rambo movies of the 80's. And they're quite accurate at that.

My favorite quote from a review, ""The Expendables" is an exercise in nostalgia for the bygone era of muscly, macho action films. It's willfully out of date, like an aging hair band that can't pack away the spandex."

Great acting? It's a bunch of no-neck over aged ex musclebound guys with mono tone voices, most of which were never known for being great actors.

Great plot you say?
From IGN review
"testosterone-fuelled action flicks that were light on plot but heavy on body count"
"...But let's be honest, no one is watching The Expendables for plot, "
http://movies.ign.com/articles/111/1110318p1.html

Another review..
"Watching Stallone and Jason Statham trying to do a lively dialogue scene is like watching two fistfuls of talking knuckles."

"..if you accept "The Expendables" for what it is — Stallone having some simple, stupid fun"

...I ran out of time on page 4 of Googles yields for movie reviews looking for a review that actually said it had good acting and a great plot. Couldn't fine one!!!

A bloody action packed mindless body count movie reminiscent of action flicks of the 80's...some hero surviving 20 to 1 odds...yup, it was dead on.
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YARDofSTUF wrote:RT Critics: 41%

RT Community: 70%
RT Top Critics 34%

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meh..whatever, I thought it was a great movie and well worth going to the Theater to view it. I'll be sure to watch it several more times when it hits Blu-Ray and the movie channels. :thumb:
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I thought it was a "good" movie, that being lots of action. The acting was awful though, and so was the plot.
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I saw it over the weekend and while the plot and acting were weak (if you were expecting it to be anything else but that you were fooling yourself), the action, blood, flying body parts, decapitations and all of the other mindless violence more than made up for it. I would watch it again for sure.
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JBrazen wrote:I saw it over the weekend and while the plot and acting were weak (if you were expecting it to be anything else but that you were fooling yourself), the action, blood, flying body parts, decapitations and all of the other mindless violence more than made up for it. I would watch it again for sure.
Good call. I put it right up there with the movie "300." Flying blood and body parts. Lots of mindless violence. The critics were very cruel to 300. However, the box office $$$$$$ made the critics look like morons and basically out of touch with the people who go to movies.

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People will forget what you said... and people will forget what you did... but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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Terry Crews is awesome
If you've never seen Everybody Hates Chris, you should check it out...it's a funny show with him in it.
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Bwah hah hah....despite all the razzing taken from the first one, they're planning Expendables 2. :rotfl:
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YeOldeStonecat wrote:Bwah hah hah....despite all the razzing taken from the first one, they're planning Expendables 2. :rotfl:
Ohh yeah they were talking about another one for a while now, even pulling in Van Damme or Chuck Norris... perhaps even The Rock or Segal would be in it.

Either way I think a sequel for it would be awesome as the first one was just great!! :thumb:
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I had d/l it and caught it with the old lady after a night of drinking. We thought it was a fun watch for having a good buzz. If I had been sober I would have just thought it OK.
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