I don’t care if you are a panty waisted liberal; unless you hate America you should join us in being excited for The Expendables. As Nick reported last week, that’s Stallone’s writing/directing/starring effort about a team of mercs taking down a dictator in South America. Which, in the wake of the stupidly amazing Rambo, should be the best film of 2009.
Stallone calls the movie “an ensemble for ugly tough guys” which is all you should need to hear.
Now Stallone says he also wants Forest Whitaker in the cast. Which isn’t quite the guy I expected to join Stallone, Jason Statham and Jet Li. But goddamn, Whitaker can be SCARY when he wants to be. So yes. Let’s do it. This is wishlist material only at the moment, but like Stallone I want it to happen. Whitaker would be “a devious CIA agent involved in the
operation.”
So far, this project sounds too pants-shatteringly entertaining, so there’s got to be a catch. And there is. Stallone is talking about a PG-13 rating. “It
won’t be a blood fest,” THR quotes him saying. Because apparently Rambo used up his allocation of corn syrup and digital squibs for the rest of the decade. Too bad about that. But I’m there regardless.
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PG-13?
well there goes any interest I had
i have to agree w/ octane.
Hmm. PG-13 is NOT a good idea. That is not the type of film I had in mind when picturing this. Way to knock the interest level down a couple…no, strike that, multiple notches.
Come on Stallone, you know better.
I'm there too.
Awwww man…I want my gruesome bloodfest fix. What a shame…
PG13? Oh come on man… He must be joking. Seriously. Fuck this movie if it turns out to be PG13.
I agree man. I was actually looking forward to this. Wasnt there word that Rambo was gonna be pg13 at one point though?
Maybe the PG13 will force him to take the emphasis off the gore and more on the story and character. That way we wont end up with another entertaining but empty Rambo esq flick.
I think it needs less Whittaker and more Bill Duke
pg-13? so he doesn't want to make a badass movie. He wants children to see this too?
I'll pass – this movie lost ALL credibility
For the amount of carnage in Die Hard XXV, it seemed ridiculous there was so little blood in it. It was ridiculous. This sounds like suck.
PG-13 is a deal breaker. Too bad.
So in the word you guys inhabit, the rating is what determines whether a movie is any good or not. You should let Hollywood in on this. Apparently, they no longer need good writers, directors or actors to make a good film. If you want to avoid making a bad movie, just don't rate it below R. Good to know, everyone.
Haha, Bill Duke. I was thinking the same thing. Great minds think alike. I don't give a crap if it's rated pg-13. Make the story good. Make the action good. Blood is great, but it won't save a bad film.
Hell yes on the Bill Duke suggestion, nobody can be a more intimidating hound dog. I have faith that Stallone can milk the PG-13 for all it's worth.
@ Say what?
I don't think it's that the rating makes the movie good or bad, but a PG-13 movie starring these guys as bad ass mercs is considerably less compelling than an R one. So much less compelling that I'll wait for video. R rated version most probably would have got me out to the theatres depending on the trailer.
When it comes to movies like this, yes, the rating can affect my decision. It was the promised extremity of RAMBO4 that got me to go see it in a cinema.
Whitaker, yes! PG-13, nooooooooo! Man, what a total buzzkill.
Yea, because a movie about a "team of mercs taking down a south american dictator," an "ensemble for ugly tough guys" just screams story and character. Is this just Stallone feeling bad for all the 13 year olds unclever enough to somehow sneak a viewing of Rambo back in the day?
Get Snipes out of actor jail for this one please.
PG-13? So Stallone is making his own version of the A-Team?.Looking forward to seeing Jason Stratham throwing a grenade at a bunch of guys and watching them get blown 12 feet in the air, only to get up and run away with their tails between their legs!…
Josh: I never said it screams story and character. I said that hopefully that's where the emphasis will be put considering that story and character was exactly what Rambo was lacking.
I think PG13 makes perfect sense. All of the military people I've ever spoken too are incredibly eloquent and never use foul language, ESPECIALLY not the F word. Further more, I've seen tons of murders and kills in regular videos and found them to be extremely lacking in blood. I don't see any reason you can't massacre 50-100 people and manage to not show a drop of blood. Also, I have an iq of 85 and am typing this while eating through a tube.
If Inglorious Basterds sucks, we have back up in this movie. Knowing it's a Stallone movie, you kinda adjust expectations so how can it suck?
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