The Expendables 3 - Part 1

[Pink Ranger]

To be honest, this movie is underperforming so poorly I don't think anyone cares at this point.

 

[SlamAdams]

As if they would pass the opportunity to vent about "political correctness" I'm afraid to even look at the comment section at cinemablend after seeing the reaction to the slim possibility of Daryl in The Walking Dead being gay.

 

[MadVillainy]

Stallone did the sequels for the money. He only cared about the first one artistically.

Well then that's really sad to me because the first movie is the worst one imo

If it matters at this point, the director has laid to rest whether that bit at the end of was joke or not.

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Two-Expendables-Gay-Lovers-66837.html

Good for them I guess. I dont think anyone is gonna care either way.

 

[Pink Ranger]

A last minute boycott by Focus On The Family might help this movie's bottom line. Come on people, we need you! t:

 

[Slushy]

PROS:

The opening sequence was fu**ing fantastic.

Ford didn't have much screentime, but he hasn't lost his touch in commanding screen presence.

Rousey had a nice intro.

Gibson was basically Owen Davian. His character was so damn similar to what PSH portrayed. I loved it.

Lots of action.

Stallone Vs. Gibson could've been longer, but a better fight scene than the disappointing bout with Van Damme.


CONS:

Stallone being clean shaven. The goatee is what made Barney Ross stand out from his other characters.

Zero fu**s given about the younger Expendables. That was 30 minutes of screentime they could've saved us.

I like Banderas, but he was Jar Jar Binks in this. I wish I could've fast fowarded his scenes. He was so damn annoying.




Overall, its a good movie and better than Part 2, but not surprised to see its underperformanced for the two reason stated above. Worth a watch, not a buy.

 

[LostSon88]

Spending 30 minutes on the young Expendables was one of their biggest miscues. No one gives a **** about them. The whole appeal of this series was/is to see the old schoolers do their thing. Toning it down to PG-13 didn't help either.

This 3rd one should've kept the same story but instead of Barney recruiting some young blood he should've recruited the old schoolers for one "last ride" against Gibson and HIS TEAM OF YOUNGSTERS.

Put Li, Ford and Arnold on the team to avenge what happened to Ceaser, put the kids on Gibsons team and just like that you'd have an epic showdown between old school and new school.

As it is, the movie was okay. Part II is still the best one.

 

[dude stannis]

Here's my part 4;

20 years after 3, Lee Christmas is the last known surviving Expendable. He’s older, his life is in shambles, he’s a drunk, he has predeceased his son and Lacy walked out on him a long time ago. One day out of the blue, he gets black bagged and taken to a mansion. There he finds Mr. Church on his deathbed, in bed with an IV drip in his arm. He tells Christmas that Munroe, Vilain and Stonebanks where all under the command of Achilles Dracos, a rogue ex-CIA assassin, hand to hand expert and tactical genius who became overly critical of the agency during the late 80′s/early 90′s and finally went off grid during the late 90′s during an early attempt to assassinate Jean Vilain.

Church’s protégé, Agent Barca had learned that a civil war erupted in South East asia, by separatists known as the Asian Dawn Movement, led by Hēi’àn de fùqīn and his four man squad of enforcers are actually a front by Dracos in order to goad U.S. intervention into the area leaving it susceptible to Dracos’ plans of domestic terror attacks. However, when Barca went to the jungles of Thailand to investigate, he disappeared. Christmas is teamed with Phil, the adopted son of Trench Mauser and Ying Yang, Hadrian Caeser, brother of the dead or missing Hale Caesar, retired secret service agent MIKE BANNING and Agent Dillon a hard ass CIA liason to neutralise the Asian Dawn Movement, extract or execute Agent Barca and terminate the command of Achilles Dracos.

Starring

Jason Statham as Lee Christmas
Dwayne Johnson as Phil Mauser
Gerard Butler as MIKE BANNING
Michael Jai White as Hadrian Caesar
Gina Carano as Agent Dillon
Vin Diesel as Agent Barca
Jackie Chan as Hēi’àn de fùqīn
Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Tiger Chen and Cung Le as the Asian Dawn Movement higher ups.
Daniel Bernhardt as The Point Man, a CIA agent who went missing with Barca
Also Bruce Willis as Mr. Church
With Michelle Rodriguez as Opi’a, a mysterious woman the team continually encounters

And Steven Seagal IS Achilles Dracos.

 

[kguillou]

So.....basically the cast of Fast and Furious 7?

 

[Necrosis Boy]

I'd just make it violent with lots of action with a simply but witty script and no further ambitions, be it "passing the torch" or "having mainstream appeal". That was partially realized in part 1. Or something like "The WIld Bunch".

 

[Lord]

Considering the appeal was to see the old school actions stars, they should have probably given each character the characteristics of each actor's most famou role, Stalone's character for example would behave like Rambo, Arnold's would be like Terminator.

A film franchise where the main trio would pretty much be Rambo, T-800 and John McClane, with the casual new member now and then, i think it would have been more interesting than what these films ended up like, where the characters are frankly kinda boring.

 

[kguillou]

I think the series hit its peak during that epic final battle in #2 where Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Willis stood side by side kicking ass amd taking names. And that classic exchange between Schwarzy and Willis was just gold. Thats what the entire series should have been like.

 

[SlamAdams]

I think the series hit its peak during that epic final battle in #2 where Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Willis stood side by side kicking ass amd taking names. And that classic exchange between Schwarzy and Willis was just gold. Thats what the entire series should have been like.

If you're talking about when they use each other's catchphrases, that was one of my least favorite moments in the series

 

[kguillou]

But...but...

 

[dude stannis]

So.....basically the cast of Fast and Furious 7?

Yep! But in 20 years they'll need a franchise to stay out of the bargain bin!

I'd just make it violent with lots of action with a simply but witty script and no further ambitions, be it "passing the torch" or "having mainstream appeal". That was partially realized in part 1. Or something like "The WIld Bunch".

The only torch passing this franchise needed was from Sly to Statham and the latter has been relegated to glorified extra status.

 

[Necrosis Boy]

I agree. But they have failed with these movies.

 

[E.NormusJohnson]

They should had done something in the vein of the dirty dozen... or at least I had hoped they would. The 80's cheese thing was a bad choice from the start imo.

 

[KenK]

Harrison Ford sounded like he did that movie high off his @$$!!! And Ronda Rousey was profoundly awful. Folks say Carano can't act?!?! She makes Gina look like Meryl Streep!

 

[dude stannis]

They should had done something in the vein of the dirty dozen... or at least I had hoped they would. The 80's cheese thing was a bad choice from the start imo.

No way, the 80's cheese definitely needed to be there. The productions where unfortunately too rushed, and the ever meddling Avi Lerner kept making idiotic decisions.

I agree. But they have failed with these movies.

The first one had the best shot. It was Sly fighting for it all the way. The second two...

 

[Quasimod0]

Saw this tonight. I was pleasantly surprised. My expectations were very low. I actually enjoyed the movie.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

Saw it in theater with my father ( like the two first movies ), it was OK but it is the last one I will saw in theater.

 

[E.NormusJohnson]

No way, the 80's cheese definitely needed to be there.

Why? I think it was a mistake. They ramped it up in the sequel and I enjoyed the sequel less than the first. Maybe I'm old school but they increased the cheese factor in the 2nd film and that killed the series for me.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

And Ronda Rousey was profoundly awful. Folks say Carano can't act?!?! She makes Gina look like Meryl Streep!

I find her pretty when she's smiling but her other expressions in the movies were not great, that's true, on the other hand I don't expect first class acting from a wrestler.

 

[Kane52630]

*MMA fighter.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

For the layman that I am it's the same thing
Thanks for the correction though.

 

[kane9321]

It was ..entertaining....I'd gladly watch it again