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post #1 of 50
12/14/11 at 5:55pm
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by Rene F. Rangel: link

The Expendables II Teaser Trailer. Need I say more?
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post #2 of 50
12/14/11 at 6:15pm

Click what link? Don't hold out on me here.

 

Edit: Ah, there it is.

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post #3 of 50
12/14/11 at 6:38pm

Christmas came early!

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post #4 of 50
12/14/11 at 6:48pm

Funny seeing "Hemsworth" all up in that shit.

 

Fun little teaser though.

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post #5 of 50
12/14/11 at 7:32pm

Yeah, that was my fault. I had the link in there, but for some reason it didn't show up, but when I added the title, it came up!

 

 

That shot of Van Damme with the blade is so awesome.

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post #6 of 50
12/14/11 at 8:12pm

Excited. 

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post #7 of 50
12/14/11 at 9:11pm

It's the Norris.  It rules.

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post #8 of 50
12/14/11 at 9:29pm

So how was the first one? I never got around to seeing it.

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post #9 of 50
12/14/11 at 9:31pm

I wish this were the old days, where I would know NOTHING, then go to the movies and see this trailer. My brains would be splattered all over the wall, and no one would get to watch whatever movie was going to show right after.

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post #10 of 50
12/14/11 at 9:37pm

I think they might be secretly hoping people will see "Hemsworth" and automatically think "Chris."

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post #11 of 50
12/14/11 at 9:38pm
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Originally Posted by MoonBaseNick View Post

So how was the first one? I never got around to seeing it.



Exactly what you'd expect, which is to say awesome, especially Dolph.  Everybody was great.  Schwarzenegger and Willis had brief but fun cameos. 

 

My only reservation about this one is that a stuntman died making it.  No one should die in the making of a movie. 

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post #12 of 50
12/14/11 at 9:41pm

 

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Originally Posted by MoonBaseNick View Post

So how was the first one? I never got around to seeing it.


It is a truly horrid film. I mean, it tries to give everyone what they want, and it seems to know what people want, but it can't execute it at all. The action is shit, the one-liners are bad, every badass moment just comes off as underwhelming. Oh, and there's a lot of CGI blood.

 

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post #13 of 50
12/14/11 at 11:10pm
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Originally Posted by JMulder View Post

I think they might be secretly hoping people will see "Hemsworth" and automatically think "Chris."


This is a potential double win for them.  For now they hope people will think "Chris".  Post-March, they're going to be hoping that The Hunger Games is a hit and the ladies won't mind seeing Liam in this too with their boyfriends/husbands.

 

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post #14 of 50
12/14/11 at 11:56pm
"also Van Damme"

YES.

Hopefully Dolph and VD will have some decent fights, not just generic gunplay.
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post #15 of 50
12/15/11 at 1:12am

I'm a huge 80's action fan, but I'm not going to jizz my shorts over a teaser that does nothing but show the faces of people we already knew would be there. At least we know Schwarzenegger and Willis do more than stand around this time.

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post #16 of 50
12/15/11 at 3:04am
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Originally Posted by MoonBaseNick View Post

So how was the first one? I never got around to seeing it.



The first Expendables movie was surprisingly poorly executed. Having large parts of the movie in near pitch black darkness didn't help, nor did some particularly terrible acting by some of the participants.

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post #17 of 50
12/15/11 at 3:11am

Didn't hate it. Didn't love it. It's flawed but definitely had potential (Dolph's great). Still worth a watch.

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post #18 of 50
12/15/11 at 4:04am

Rene F. Rangel, Expendables 2, The Trailer is...EXcellent, and EXactly what I...EXpected to happen, in the sequel to the...EXplosive Action EXtravaganza, that made all other 2010 films...Expendable!

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post #19 of 50
12/15/11 at 4:20am

I have a lingering affection for the first Expendables, mainly for the concept of the film and the few scenes that play it out properly than for the film as a whole.

 

Likewise, this trailer shows us practically nothing, save the same concept only better. And dammit if I'm not in all over again.

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post #20 of 50
12/15/11 at 8:34am

Seagal should be a surprise villain.  I'm sure Van Damme would love that.

 

 

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post #21 of 50
12/15/11 at 6:45pm

http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0268988/

 

*looks at the name of JCVD's villain character

 

That is fucking amazing.

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post #22 of 50
12/15/11 at 7:03pm

The Expendables was my favorite movie of 2010.  Wow, you have some pretty low standards there.

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post #23 of 50
12/15/11 at 9:09pm

Low standards to some, high standards to me.

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post #24 of 50
12/15/11 at 10:09pm
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Originally Posted by Ambler View Post

Seagal should be a surprise villain.  I'm sure Van Damme would love that.

 

 


As fun as that would be, it will never happen.  Seagal absolutely HATES producer Avi Lerner and has vowed to never work with him again..................so no dice on The Sensei ever appearing in this franchise.

 

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post #25 of 50
12/16/11 at 12:17am

I can't wait for this one.  The Expendables was my favorite of 2010 as well. Summer 2012 is shaping up to be a hell of a great time at the movies.

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post #26 of 50
12/16/11 at 12:25am

 

Oh yes. Summer 2012 is going to be great!

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post #27 of 50
12/16/11 at 12:33am

The Teaser Poster is up on AICN if anyone is interested.

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post #28 of 50
12/16/11 at 2:18am
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The first Expendables movie was surprisingly poorly executed. Having large parts of the movie in near pitch black darkness didn't help, nor did some particularly terrible acting by some of the participants.

DING DING FUCKING DING! I couldn't see a thing!

 

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post #29 of 50
12/16/11 at 2:25am
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My only reservation about this one is that a stuntman died making it.  No one should die in the making of a movie. 

Well at least this movie. I don't want anyone to die making a movie but at least of you died making Apocalypse Now you died making a masterpiece that would live on forever. This one.....I mean his dying words would be like "but they let Dolph back into the group thats so......tell my wife I love her!".

 

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post #30 of 50
12/16/11 at 2:47pm

speaking of people getting hurt on the set of cheesy action movies:

 

www.imdb.com/title/tt0094792/trivia

 

www.imdb.com/title/tt0099399/trivia

 

Notice what the movies have in common? Is Walker fucking cursed or what?

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post #31 of 50
12/16/11 at 3:10pm

This movie looks like Assault On Retirement Home 13.

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post #32 of 50
12/17/11 at 10:32am

Aw, that's mean.  The problem is, other than Jason Statham and maybe The Rock or even Tom Hardy, who are the action heroes of today?  Shia LaBoeuf? 

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post #33 of 50
12/17/11 at 1:45pm

Vin Diesel still counts, right? Jason Mamoa and Channing Tatum are trying. Ryan Reynolds could be very fun in an Expendables type film but he doesn't really count.

 

But there's also the idea that the whole point of the film is that it's old bastards kicking ass, ain't it.

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post #34 of 50
12/17/11 at 6:02pm

I think once this Avengers stuff cools down, Chris Hemsworth could be a plausible on-screen shit-kicker. I guess changing demographics mean that badasses have to also be appealing to the opposite sex, so no more Seagals and such. Wouldn't it be awesome if his brother caught some of this Expendables heat and the duo could become a new, upscale Barbarian Brothers-type on-screen team? THE HEMSWORTH BOYZ IN... THE BROTHERS OF RETALIATION PEAK.

 

I also think there are some untapped action stars hanging around Hollywood, though Luc Besson beat a lot of people to the punch with Liam Neeson and Guy Pearce. I'd love it if Tom Jane quit trying to convince us all he's a good actor and just embrace his b-movie appeal. I was watching the kinda-bad I Melt With You the other day, where Jane, Jeremy Piven, Rob Lowe and Christan McKay are four middle aged guys doing far too many drugs to forget their lives, and I couldn't help but think - these four would make a pretty good cast for a low budget, slightly off-the-wall action movie.

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post #35 of 50
12/17/11 at 6:11pm

I think Chris Hemsworth is going to head for serious acting territory whenever he's done with Thor, mostly because he is a good actor. That is territory not a single person in the entire Expendables roster can lay claim to, with the possible exception of Willis and maybe Statham on a good day. Hemsworth's career will probably end up being analogous to someone like Christopher Reeve's (with obvious disparities).

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post #36 of 50
12/17/11 at 6:48pm

Stallone had the chance to be a really good actor (in the Rocky films, and to a lesser extent Cop Land, he definitely shows signs). When the first Rocky was released he was being called the next Marlon Brando.

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post #37 of 50
12/17/11 at 8:42pm

Stallone was/is more interested in being a Movie Star vs. and Actor. He tried the Acting route with F.I.S.T. and didn't do too badly (though that film seems designed to be a Star making vehicle). The film underperformed though, so I think he backed off the idea of walking in de Niro's footsteps. Though First Blood is actually a pretty daring film, considering the times (everyone confuses it with Rambo: First Blood Part II where Stallone goes full on Jingo).

 

I watched Copland again recently and it's really amazing how that cast elevates a blah script. And Stallone and De Niro have a real chemistry in their few mutual scenes.

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post #38 of 50
12/17/11 at 10:30pm
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Aw, that's mean.  The problem is, other than Jason Statham and maybe The Rock or even Tom Hardy, who are the action heroes of today?  Shia LaBoeuf? 



You make an excellent point. Its almost like movies today (which Hollywood isn't making) are nothing like those cheesy action films of the 80s. So there aren't really any actors to fill the void left by Stallone, Norris, Arny, et al.

 

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post #39 of 50
12/17/11 at 10:43pm

We seem to still be in a post-Die Hard spin where "average guys thrown into extraordinary circumstances" is more or less the norm. It seems like audiences are simply disinterested in making that old leap of logic where the "invincible strongman" is the "average guy".

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post #40 of 50
12/17/11 at 10:44pm

Well, Scott Adkins, Tony Jaa, The Rock and Liam Neeson might still qualify.

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post #41 of 50
12/17/11 at 11:46pm

 

 

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It was that first Batman movie. The action movies changed radically when it became possible to Velcro your muscles on. It was the beginning of a new era. The visual took over. The special effects became more important than the single person. That was the beginning of the end.... I wish I had thought of Velcro muscles myself. I didn't have to go to the gym for all those years, all the hours wedded to the iron game, as we call it. - Sylvester Stallone

 

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post #42 of 50
12/18/11 at 12:32am

There's also the factor that a lot of the tough guy actors aren't American anymore. Hell, a high percentage of them are coming from Britain. I have no problem with that, as Fassbender and Hardy are 2 actors that my man love knows no bounds for.

 

It's just really interesting that there's not a lot of actors from America right now that can be touted as homegrown action stars.

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post #43 of 50
12/18/11 at 6:58am

Isn't it funny, as well, that not just American actors but icons played by American actors have been portrayed as softer and/or more feminine. Captain Jack Sparrow, for instance, or Downey Jr.'s interpretation of Sherlock Holmes can both fight like men's men when the occasion arises, but the rest of the time they're best described as, no offense intended, "poofs". 

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post #44 of 50
12/18/11 at 8:51am

Bartleby_Scriven, Well that is because...Robert Downey Jr. is not only an...Iron Man, but by 2013, he will be an Iron Man in...Two more sequels, as well as being the best dressed...Avenger in the Assemblage!

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post #45 of 50
12/18/11 at 10:24am

Yeah, a lot of the "newer" action stars are getting more feminine. I mean, they tried to promote fucking Lautner as an action star with Abduction. Guy's a whiny voiced, hairless little shit. Whoever thought that would work should be lobotomized. At least that movie failed, so the movie going public aren't all entirely idiots.

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post #46 of 50
12/18/11 at 10:45am
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Originally Posted by Gabe T View Post

I think once this Avengers stuff cools down, Chris Hemsworth could be a plausible on-screen shit-kicker. I guess changing demographics mean that badasses have to also be appealing to the opposite sex, so no more Seagals and such. Wouldn't it be awesome if his brother caught some of this Expendables heat and the duo could become a new, upscale Barbarian Brothers-type on-screen team? THE HEMSWORTH BOYZ IN... THE BROTHERS OF RETALIATION PEAK.

 

I also think there are some untapped action stars hanging around Hollywood, though Luc Besson beat a lot of people to the punch with Liam Neeson and Guy Pearce. I'd love it if Tom Jane quit trying to convince us all he's a good actor and just embrace his b-movie appeal. I was watching the kinda-bad I Melt With You the other day, where Jane, Jeremy Piven, Rob Lowe and Christan McKay are four middle aged guys doing far too many drugs to forget their lives, and I couldn't help but think - these four would make a pretty good cast for a low budget, slightly off-the-wall action movie.



hemsworth-brothers-1001-01.jpg

 

I take that all back. Retaliation Peak may need new defenders.

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post #47 of 50
12/19/11 at 2:09am

Who cares if they're old? If I pissed off Ryan Reynolds at a bar and he wanted to take it outside, I'd laugh in his face and tell him to get his fucking shine box. If I pissed off Shia Lebouf, I'd still be laughing about it now. If I pissed off 65 year old Sly with his buldging arms and his rage face, I would crap my pants and beg for forgiveness.

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post #48 of 50
12/19/11 at 2:32am
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Who cares if they're old? If I pissed off Ryan Reynolds at a bar and he wanted to take it outside, I'd laugh in his face and tell him to get his fucking shine box. If I pissed off Shia Lebouf, I'd still be laughing about it now. If I pissed off 65 year old Sly with his buldging arms and his rage face, I would crap my pants and beg for forgiveness.



My brother actually did that. Back when Blade Trinity was being promoted, Ryan Reynolds and a couple of the other people in the movie were promoting it in a Westfield Shopping Centre here in Sydney. When my brother was walking past, he yelled out "It's that guy from the pizza place show!". RR wasn't pleased.

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post #49 of 50
12/19/11 at 3:08am

Was it Parramatta? Because I would've done the same thing, haha!

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post #50 of 50
12/19/11 at 4:12am
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Originally Posted by dude hallenbeck View Post

Was it Parramatta? Because I would've done the same thing, haha!



City Centre, I think. My brother was just making an observation (even if rather loudly and tactlessly). It was back in the days when the public didn't widely know Ryan Reynolds name, I would say.  At the time, my brother said there was virtually no-one queuing up to get an autograph. Jessica Biel (and possibly a third actor from the movie) was also there but Wesley Snipes most definitely not. I think it was all a combination of people who were not yet anywhere near as famous as they went on to be and a particularly poor movie that resulted in that awkward scenario. 

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