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Yeah bunch of slack jawed British cigarettesAll of these movies were absolute shit. Tried to strike the nostalgia chords with all our late 80’s and 90’s action stars, yet only had piss poor scripts and CGI fests to offer.
Quite cringe-worthy that they got to a fourth opus. I’ll skip this pile of dogshit and watch Total Recall and then Predator instead.
I had a real problem with Expendables #2. I refuse to watch anymore
Can't believe they did Van Damme like that!
All of these movies were absolute shit. Tried to strike the nostalgia chords with all our late 80’s and 90’s action stars, yet only had piss poor scripts and CGI fests to offer.
Quite cringe-worthy that they got to a fourth opus. I’ll skip this pile of dogshit and watch Total Recall and then Predator instead.
I agree and he either got snubbed by Stallone being jealous or his body was too broken down to do a lot for it. I saw no signs of a stunt double but hoped for more scenes.I thought Van Damme was by leaps and bounds the best part of the movie.
I agree and he either got snubbed by Stallone being jealous or his body was too broken down to do a lot for it. I saw no signs of a stunt double but hoped for more scenes.
Whats crazy is the massive injuries sustained making these movies.All of these movies were absolute shit. Tried to strike the nostalgia chords with all our late 80’s and 90’s action stars, yet only had piss poor scripts and CGI fests to offer.
Quite cringe-worthy that they got to a fourth opus. I’ll skip this pile of dogshit and watch Total Recall and then Predator instead.
All of these movies were absolute shit. Tried to strike the nostalgia chords with all our late 80’s and 90’s action stars, yet only had piss poor scripts and CGI fests to offer.
Quite cringe-worthy that they got to a fourth opus. I’ll skip this pile of dogshit and watch Total Recall and then Predator instead.
It's funny to me how Cobra Kai (season 1 only) managed to hit all those marks with a much lower budget, bad writing, and a good soundtrack.
The writing in Cobra Kai wasn't so bad. It had the slight advantage of characters you knew but it did have to take advantage of that with the writing. Stuff like The Last Jedi managed to take that advantage and stick it in its own bum.
Cobra Kai has character development. That's why the nostalgia works.
The Expendables...not a lot of effort put into that.
What suckered me into Cobra Kai the most was soundtrack and set locations. I've lived in the valley so they nailed my nostalgia with hair metal AND locations. I saw the old movies back in the day and never cared much about them. But holy shit did they nail the nostalgia.
You're right though, you do need passable writing and solid direction of solid actors to pull that off.