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ZariusTwo
08-30-2021, 12:44 PM
Action stars never say die, they just reload.

Lionsgate and Millennium Media are bringing back their gun-toting, testosterone-throbbing action franchise The Expendables for another go-around.

Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture and Sylvester Stallone, who have appeared in the previous three installments, are set to reprise their roles for what will be the fourth movie.

Joining the quartet are Curtis “50” Jackson, Megan Fox and Tony Jaa for a feature to be directed by stuntman-turned-helmer Scott Waugh (Need for Speed), with production to begin October.

Spenser Cohen wrote the script with revisions by Max Adams and John Joseph Connolly. Details are being kept in the lockbox but it once again will focus on a group of veteran mercenaries. And while the initial movies that were released in the early 2010s had Stallone as the focal point, sources say in this outing Statham will be the one with the biggest gun. Fox is the female lead.

Statham is also producing along with Kevin King Templeton as well as Millennium’s Les Weldon, Yariv Lerner, Jeffrey Greenstein and Jonathan Yunger.

“It’s so much fun to bring these stars together for a no-holds-barred action film,” said Jason Constantine, president of acquisitions and co-productions for the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, in a statement. “The new film will raise the stakes and be the biggest, most badass adventure yet.”

“Popcorn entertainment is guaranteed,” said Millennium president, Jeffrey Greenstein, noting that the new additions to the roll call were meant to “keep it fresh and fun.”


Stallone directed the first movie and wrote the script with David Callaham, now one of the big action scribes in the comic book realm, focusing on characters with names such as Lee Christmas (Statham), Gunner Jensen (Lundgren) and Toll Road (Couture). The initial movie, released in 2010, gathered up the biggest names in action movies from the 1980s — Stallone, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger –—and paired them with wrestling stars, international martial arts stars and newer action stars. It was a formula that worked, with the three movies (the others hit theaters in 2012 and 2014) generating more than $829 million worldwide. A sequel had been in the works since the mid-2010s but hard targets proved to be elusive, with changing writers and directors.

Executive producing for Millennium are Avi Lerner, Boaz Davidson and Trevor Short with Christa Campbell and Lati Grobman on behalf of Campbell Grobman Films. Co-producing is Abby Mills.

Eda Kowan and Jonah Leach are overseeing the film for Lionsgate.

Statham has appeared in all three Expendables outings and is also a player in the Fast and Furious franchise. He recently starred in action thriller Wrath of Man and is due to reteam with director Guy Ritchie for an untitled thriller. He is repped by Patrick Knapp of GGSSC.

Stallone, repped by CAA, can currently be heard as the voice of scene-stealing DC character King Shark in The Suicide Squad and next has superhero thriller Samaritan for MGM.

Lundgren is shooting Aquaman 2, reprising his role as Atlantis’ King Nereus, and will be heard in the upcoming Minions: The Rise of Gru. He is repped by Gersh, Wonder Street and Bloom Hergott.

Couture, also repped by Gersh as well as Xtreme Couture Management, has several action flicks in post, including one called Blowback.

As for the newcomers, Jackson is one of the big names in the roster Lionsgate’s division of Starz, where he and his G-Unit Film & Television are one of the executive producers of the network’s top show, Power, and its many spinoffs. The actor-turned-TV mogul also has hit For Life on ABC and is developing a feature horror slate with Eli Roth. Jackson is repped by APA and attorneys Eric Feig and Stephen Savva.

Fox, a recognizable worldwide figure whose films have grossed more than $1 billion, recently starred in thriller Till Death, which proved to be a hit on iTunes, and next stars in Netflix thriller Night Teeth as well as indie Big Gold Brick opposite Andy Garcia and Oscar Isaac.

International martial arts master Jaa recently starred with Mila Jovovich in Monster Hunter as well as the Chinese blockbuster, Detective Chinatown 3. He is repped by Gersh, manager Michael Selby, Wonder Street and Brecheen Feldman.


https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/jason-statham-sylvester-stallone-50-cent-megan-fox-new-expendables-movie-cast-1235004992/

Andrew NDB
08-30-2021, 12:47 PM
The first one took itself too seriously. The second one was OK, but tacked on the R-rating in post production, when they went back and added in digital blood. The third one wasn't even R-rated. R-rated from jump or don't bother with part 4.

joe-eyeball
08-30-2021, 02:31 PM
These are fun movies even if they’re far from perfect, but the one thing all of them got completely wrong was their horrible misuse of their respective villains! Both Van Damme and Gibson especially were wasted opportunities!

Leo656
08-30-2021, 11:00 PM
I forgot there was even a Part III.

First one was okay.

This seems mostly like "Let's get everybody together for One Last Round before everybody's too old and it becomes impossible to suspend any disbelief."

Andrew NDB
08-30-2021, 11:08 PM
I forgot there was even a Part III.

First one was okay.

This seems mostly like "Let's get everybody together for One Last Round before everybody's too old and it becomes impossible to suspend any disbelief."

Unless they do something awful like a passing of the torch, defeating the entire premise of the series.

Leo656
08-31-2021, 12:11 AM
Unless they do something awful like a passing of the torch, defeating the entire premise of the series.

Yeah, that's all we'd f*cking need. Sly and Arnold getting bailed out by Vin Diesel, John Cena and The Rock. :roll:

I might just give up on movies altogether at that point. I'm like halfway there already, anyways.

Andrew NDB
08-31-2021, 12:16 AM
Vin Diesel and The Rock were supposed to be the new Arnold and Stallone like 20 years ago. Never really happened, and now they're too old.

But I could see them debating about making like Statham in charge of a bunch of new guys, like 50 Cent and so on.

Sumac
08-31-2021, 02:14 AM
I think it is more tied to the classic action movie (as understood in 80s and early 90s) genre dying out.

IMJ
08-31-2021, 08:43 AM
I love these movies. Mindless fun. The third one suffered in theaters because at the time I think it was the most pirated movie of all-time pre-release.

I'm glad they are making another one. But, like Indiana Jones 5, I just hope it's not a $#!( show of old men. "The Irishman" really put the stamp on that one for me.....

Vin Diesel and The Rock were supposed to be the new Arnold and Stallone like 20 years ago. Never really happened, and now they're too old.

But I could see them debating about making like Statham in charge of a bunch of new guys, like 50 Cent and so on.

The Rock made some solid "tough guy flicks". "Faster" was awesome....

Andrew NDB
08-31-2021, 09:26 AM
The Rock made some solid "tough guy flicks". "Faster" was awesome....

Faster was awesome. But nobody saw it.

frank_one
08-31-2021, 12:21 PM
Vin Diesel and The Rock were supposed to be the new Arnold and Stallone like 20 years ago. Never really happened, and now they're too old.Even Diesel and The Rock can't bring the 80s back.

Andrew NDB
08-31-2021, 12:43 PM
Even Diesel and The Rock can't bring the 80s back.

I could make an argument that they never really tried to.

The Rock came in the door with like two or three completely toothless PG-13 movies, then wanted to cut into comedies before he ever even became a big R action star like Arnold or Stallone. And then he just sort of hovered around comedy/comedic action stuff and still is (whether it's Jungle Cruise, San Andreas, Jumanji, etc., he's just playing himself, or a version of his jokey wrestler self). That's not the way to go about it. Imagine if Arnold began his career in the 80s with like a watered down PG-13 "Raw Deal," then leapt straight into "Junior." His career would have floundered. Arnold was smart... he cultivated his image and chose the right actioners until he was that guy. Then, and only then, did he branch out into comedic stuff, testing out his chops and playing with audience expectation of his image.

Vin Diesel came in the door with Fast & Furious and Pitch Black. Both spawned franchises. But Diesel was never a larger than life personality, not a big bodybuilder, and didn't have much personality or charm. Just ego, really. So he didn't really go anywhere surprising.

sdp
08-31-2021, 01:47 PM
80s action movies will never come back, their equivalent is superhero movies and those will die as well for the next trend, that is if theaters survive

IMJ
08-31-2021, 01:50 PM
Faster was awesome. But nobody saw it.

His size in that one was ridiculous. I remember when he first comes out the cell on release day. I described his size to a buddy of mine by saying that "dude he had to turn sideways to get through the cell door - he's like 'three head's wide". We still laugh our asses off about that - 'three heads wide' like you could fit three full necks with heads on his body in that shot, lmao!

The movie itself was really well done. I liked the Rundown when it first came out too. But I don't ever go back to watch it again.

I remember sometime back he did an interview about doing an Expendables flick. He said he'd do it, but that he'd want to be the guy who hunted the Expendables, IIRC. I also remember some talk some years back about an "Expenda-belles" spinoff with people like Milla Jovovich, but to this day I don't know if that was just pop culture fandom talking or a seriously considered thing....

Andrew NDB
08-31-2021, 02:46 PM
His size in that one was ridiculous. I remember when he first comes out the cell on release day. I described his size to a buddy of mine by saying that "dude he had to turn sideways to get through the cell door - he's like 'three head's wide". We still laugh our asses off about that - 'three heads wide' like you could fit three full necks with heads on his body in that shot, lmao!

The movie itself was really well done. I liked the Rundown when it first came out too. But I don't ever go back to watch it again.

Compared to, like... "Commando" or "Predator," you know?

But "Faster" was great. Like a "Samoan John Wick," where he's like this vengeful walking urban legend. There was some very puzzling marketing there. I never even saw it in the theater, just afterward (most people seemed to think it was some kind of wannabe Fast & Furious movie, when it was anything but).

I also remember some talk some years back about an "Expenda-belles" spinoff with people like Milla Jovovich, but to this day I don't know if that was just pop culture fandom talking or a seriously considered thing....

I've heard Stallone talk about the Expendabelles so that was definitely real. But then I think a bunch of "grrl power!" type movies came out and failed hard right about when they were sniffing around for financiers on it... so there suddenly wasn't a huge push to put a bunch of washed up ones in the same movie together, Expendables 1-3 or not (plus 3 did BAD... only 39 million domestically).

Sandra Bullock, Cynthia Rothrock, Jovovich, Weaver, maybe Kathleen Turner, etc.... there could have been something there, sure.

CyberCubed
08-31-2021, 03:16 PM
I'm glad that never happened. While men can age gracefully and look distinguished as they get old, all those women basically became old hags. Nobody is going to get interested watching a 60 year old grandma spout one-liners and shoot with a gun. This isn't Terminator: Dark Fate.

40 is already over the hill in hollywood, let alone 60+

IMJ
08-31-2021, 07:33 PM
But "Faster" was great. Like a "Samoan John Wick," where he's like this vengeful walking urban legend. There was some very puzzling marketing there. I never even saw it in the theater, just afterward (most people seemed to think it was some kind of wannabe Fast & Furious movie, when it was anything but).

Yessssss, yes and yes.

plus 3 did BAD... only 39 million domestically).

A DVD quality copy leaked a week before it's release IIRC, and it became the most pirated movie ever up until that point. Ironic, because in some ways if that could've translated into money, it would've been incredibly successful.

Stream of consciousness here from Mel Gibson in that one, but did you ever see "Get the Gringo"? That was a good flick....

I'm glad that never happened. While men can age gracefully and look distinguished as they get old, all those women basically became old hags. Nobody is going to get interested watching a 60 year old grandma spout one-liners and shoot with a gun. This isn't Terminator: Dark Fate.

40 is already over the hill in hollywood, let alone 60+

:lol::lol:

I remember when Galaxy Quest came out and I couldn't believe how hot Sigourney Weaver looked in that, given I hadn't seen her in some time on film. And then Avatar came out and I felt like she aged 25 years between that and Galaxy Quest. She's an awesome actress though.

CyberCubed
08-31-2021, 07:36 PM
It's a well known fact female actress age much faster than men. I don't know why that is, especially when you realize all these people are millionaires and can afford plastic surgery or cosmetics to make themselves look much younger than regular people can.

Look at any female actress in their prime in old movies and tv shows and then look at what they look like now. I'd say less than 10% have aged well.

IMJ
08-31-2021, 07:44 PM
It's a well known fact female actress age much faster than men. I don't know why that is, especially when you realize all these people are millionaires and can afford plastic surgery or cosmetics to make themselves look much younger than regular people can.

Look at any female actress in their prime in old movies and tv shows and then look at what they look like now. I'd say less than 10% have aged well.

Have you ever heard the term "Skinny fat"? It's basically used to describe someone who maybe looks like they are in great shape, but on the inside their organs are all fatty and basically falling apart under what looks like a well-kept body. That state of being is also akin to anti-aging and plastic surgery currently. It's a smoke-screen that some people are in for and many don't want any part of.

We need "chemicals" to truly reverse aging. Biological chemicals rather than saws, saline and silicone inserts....

ZariusTwo
10-20-2021, 11:08 AM
Stallone will exit the franchise with this film

https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a38004883/sylvester-stallone-the-expendables-series-exit/

joe-eyeball
10-20-2021, 03:00 PM
Well if Stallone only filmed for a couple of weeks that means he likely won’t be in it for more than 10 minutes at most! Most likely he dies in the opening action piece is my guess! Very disappointed if this is true but oh well, it’s not like there will be an Expendables 5 anytime soon after this one sees similar results as 3.

Andrew NDB
10-20-2021, 03:05 PM
Stallone will exit the franchise with this film

https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a38004883/sylvester-stallone-the-expendables-series-exit/

Stallone exits? LOL... how can he do that and these movies still happen?

Well if Stallone only filmed for a couple of weeks that means he likely won’t be in it for more than 10 minutes at most! Most likely he dies in the opening action piece is my guess! Very disappointed if this is true but oh well, it’s not like there will be an Expendables 5 anytime soon after this one sees similar results as 3.

Jeeze. Probably yeah, something like that. It will be so moving to see his Expendables character die in battle, after such a great character arc throughout the first three movies.

NOT! wtf. The only reason for these movies to exist is to see 1980s and 1990s action stars battling each other spouting one liners.

Sumac
10-20-2021, 03:44 PM
And who they invite to the team?
AFAIK, aside from Rock and Statham and Diezel, there are no other charismatic and cool action stars from the last decade.

oldmanwinters
10-20-2021, 03:46 PM
And who they invite to the team?
AFAIK, aside from Rock and Statham and Diezel, there are no other charismatic and cool action stars from the last decade.

Matt Damon, Keanu Reeves, and Daniel Craig?

Andrew NDB
10-20-2021, 03:47 PM
Matt Damon, Keanu Reeves, and Daniel Craig?

Yeah, I can't imagine any of them turning down the 5th movie in a white hot action franchise whose last movie only made 39 million domestically... 7 years ago.

Andrew NDB
10-06-2022, 06:30 PM
Come outs next September:

https://www.darkhorizons.com/expendables-4-set-for-september-2023/

Vegita-San
10-06-2022, 07:23 PM
1-3 any good?

this and the Kingsman movies I've been meaning to check out, just never got around to it.

Andrew NDB
10-06-2022, 08:08 PM
Mostly wasted opportunities. 2 is decent. That one "got it," that they shouldn't take things too seriously.

IMJ
10-06-2022, 09:24 PM
1-3 any good?

this and the Kingsman movies I've been meaning to check out, just never got around to it.

I love 'em. It's like a supergroup of actors doing their take on some alternative version of G.I. Joe somewhere. They aren't high art cinema, don't get me wrong but for ensemble films they do it well.

My biggest complaint are things like using Van Damme as a villain (although he did a great job - you should see the scene where he's beating his knife on his neck while deciding to kill a guy or not, it's so over the top); or how Gibson was great but really needed more screen time.

Andrew NDB
10-06-2022, 09:29 PM
And 3 wasn't even R rated. 1 was fine but they needed like an 80s/90s big name to be the bad guy. There wasn't any notable bad guys there beyond Stone Cold, and he doesn't even do much.

IMJ
10-07-2022, 09:55 AM
And 3 wasn't even R rated. 1 was fine but they needed like an 80s/90s big name to be the bad guy. There wasn't any notable bad guys there beyond Stone Cold, and he doesn't even do much.

Well Eric Roberts was a C-Movie 80's Karate-flick icon, man so he fit pretty well. I do think instead though that they should've put Van Damme or Seagal on the team instead of those three whoever's in part 3. Having Ronda Rousey there felt against the grain instead of Seagal, Michelle Yeoh or even Sigourney Weaver somehow.

joe-eyeball
10-07-2022, 03:50 PM
This friggin movie has DTV written all over it! I mean when the new additions are Megan Fox, Andy Garcia, 50 cent, and Tony Ja (whom most people in the American audience doesn’t even know) then it’s likely going to suck balls! Oh and only four of the guys from the previous flicks are showing up for this one and Sly likely has a cameo type role.

The first movie was fine as an over the top nostalgia ride. The second movie was on many levels even better because it embraced the 80’s campiness a bit more than the first. And the third one was mostly awful with the new kid additions and an absolute waste of what had the potential to be a great villain in Mel Gibson. In fact all three movies have wasted the villains. Vane Damme should have had a better role and more to do in the second one.

Not one of the first three movies were perfect but I am 100% willing to bet the farm that this 4th one will be total DTV trash something on the level of the Escape Plan sequels!

Andrew NDB
10-07-2022, 04:27 PM
And again, Stallone himself only did a couple of weeks on it. So this is not a sequel so much as it is a repurposing of the series and handing it off to new people (both behind and in front of the camera), with probably even less budget. A little like Escape Plan 2 and 3.

Andrew NDB
06-07-2023, 12:26 PM
DhlaBO-SwVE

Looks a little less cheap than I expected but not much. And look, there's Megan Fox.

oldmanwinters
06-07-2023, 12:41 PM
And look, there's Megan Fox.

I guess she did sorta turn into an action movie star in the past decade or so.
Never thought I'd see her in Expendables though!

Andrew NDB
06-07-2023, 01:33 PM
I guess she did sorta turn into an action movie star in the past decade or so.
Never thought I'd see her in Expendables though!

Seems to have not-so-subtly replaced Charisma Carpenter.

TMNTFanatic4Life
06-07-2023, 01:42 PM
50 Cent is in this?


I’m sold and in!

TheCanadiandrome
06-09-2023, 08:19 PM
Trailer looks good. So exited this is coming soon, been a long time coming

IMJ
06-10-2023, 11:20 AM
I feel the same way, but also like this one lacks real starpower. There is no shortage of 80's and 90's icons and although I love these flicks, I'm a little disappointed with the cast. It was like when they put Rhonda Rousey and Glen Powell in the Expendables - it's fine but.... huh? And I am always down for watching Megan Fox prance around on screen, but in the Expendables? But no Milla Jovavich?

This is one of those franchises that I have a lot of observations or mini-complaints about because, ironically, I love the movies and can't help but get into the "what ifs" about them. Also they have pretty much come out and said that Jason Statham "carries" this movie, so I think Stallone's role in it will probably be about as big as Schwarzenegger's role in the previous ones.

Andrew NDB
06-10-2023, 01:57 PM
The producers have forgotten what these are supposed to be about. There isn't supposed to be (much) new blood or torch passing, these are supposed to be a celebration of 80s/90s icons teaming up and fighting similar baddies.

IMJ
06-10-2023, 04:44 PM
The producers have forgotten what these are supposed to be about. There isn't supposed to be (much) new blood or torch passing, these are supposed to be a celebration of 80s/90s icons teaming up and fighting similar baddies.

Yeah and the first movie truly delivered on that and the second did fairly well. I liked the 3rd movie although the box office was hampered by leaked piracy unfortunately. But it was the 3rd movie that had a handful of awkward "young people" in it that weren't even really "action stars in their own right".

That's probably the biggest failure of the Expendables franchise - in ability to truly get all of these guys into one movie for a great "Avengers moment", but rather cameos here and there while punctuated with filler cast.

The Expendables team could literally be G.I. Joe with a full roster - everyone we've seen in all of the movies, minus the weird filler people and plus say Segal, the Rock, and a few others.

I'll definitely see the new one, but this really seems more like a "Jason Statham movie" with a bunch of untested actors in an action role.

TheCanadiandrome
06-10-2023, 09:31 PM
The producers have forgotten what these are supposed to be about. There isn't supposed to be (much) new blood or torch passing, these are supposed to be a celebration of 80s/90s icons teaming up and fighting similar baddies.

Agreed, which is why it’s said Chuck Norris ain’t around again, or hell where’s Steven Seagal ffs?!

Andrew NDB
06-10-2023, 09:35 PM
Agreed, which is why it’s said Chuck Norris ain’t around again

Chuck Norris was barely even in 2. And you could tell they only had him for 1 day because all of his scenes/shots are either just with Stallone, or quick isolated shots of him up in the rafters shooting people.

I could live without Jet Li (they were just giving us less and less of him anyway) but Snipes and Banderas should have been around. Or bring back Rourke.

Sumac
06-11-2023, 07:58 AM
where’s Steven Seagal ffs?!
He is fat and use stunt doubles for even walking.
He is basically an embarrassment of an action star even at his age.

IMJ
06-11-2023, 11:52 AM
He is fat and use stunt doubles for even walking.
He is basically an embarrassment of an action star even at his age.

Personally I think he should appear as a 2nd in command villain and get killed.

Sumac
06-11-2023, 01:32 PM
Personally I think he should appear as a 2nd in command villain and get killed.
He won't do that, since his ego won't handle it.

TheCanadiandrome
06-13-2023, 07:51 PM
Chuck Norris was barely even in 2. And you could tell they only had him for 1 day because all of his scenes/shots are either just with Stallone, or quick isolated shots of him up in the rafters shooting people.

I could live without Jet Li (they were just giving us less and less of him anyway) but Snipes and Banderas should have been around. Or bring back Rourke.

Ye true but was still entertaining imo

He is fat and use stunt doubles for even walking.
He is basically an embarrassment of an action star even at his age.

Meh you’re opinion lol

Sumac
06-13-2023, 09:28 PM
Meh you’re opinion lol
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Andrew NDB
09-20-2023, 07:04 PM
https://fandomwire.com/an-embarrassment-for-all-involved-sylvester-stallones-expendables-4-is-the-weakest-movie-of-the-franchise-receives-awful-reviews-despite-a-100-million-budget/

"Weakest of the franchise." And its apparently being billed as the final movie? What's the point of passing the torch, then? So, so stupid.

XERO
09-20-2023, 07:08 PM
I'm not expecting anything breathtaking. I got tickets for this Saturday so I'm excited, mostly for Iko. The Raid movies are my jams.

IMJ
09-20-2023, 10:07 PM
https://fandomwire.com/an-embarrassment-for-all-involved-sylvester-stallones-expendables-4-is-the-weakest-movie-of-the-franchise-receives-awful-reviews-despite-a-100-million-budget/

"Weakest of the franchise." And its apparently being billed as the final movie? What's the point of passing the torch, then? So, so stupid.

I love these movies - and that love makes you pay attention which in turn is why I see so many lost opportunities in them. The cast could have been filled with true action stars, but instead they fleshed out the team with the guy from Top Gun Maverick and Rhonda Rousey. And now we get.... ummm... rapper guy in the new one.

I dunno. I'm going to go see this one in the theater - but.... lots of missed ops and strange casting in each of these that didn't fit the thesis. I mean - even some of the harder-to-argue-with casting is weird - Randy Couture is great in these flicks as Tollroad, but given what these movies are, why is he even in them?

And now.... Megan Fox? Seriously? No Sigorney Weaver somehow, or Milla Jovavich, but Megan Fox??!?

Sumac
09-21-2023, 08:12 AM
Weakest? Previous entries were not particularly strong either. Are E4 some sort of C level schlock with special effects from cardboard?

In general, I feel they should have left concept "making old school action movie with guts and blood and old farts" as it is. Instead they decided to tone it down for modern audiences. Result, is well, obvious. Old fans have no interest in seeing watered down crap, since it is 99% of what you can see on TV and in cinemas, new generations are not interested in watching old dudes pretending to be action stars.

oldmanwinters
09-23-2023, 08:57 PM
So given the box office performance, are they now the Expiredables??

MikeandRaph87
09-23-2023, 09:27 PM
The producers have forgotten what these are supposed to be about. There isn't supposed to be (much) new blood or torch passing, these are supposed to be a celebration of 80s/90s icons teaming up and fighting similar baddies.

That is why I appreciated the 2rd film. The new blood didn't cut it so the old guys had to go in and save them. This installment came too late and was unnecessary m as the 3rd one served as a decent conclusion without any dangling plots.

Andrew NDB
09-23-2023, 11:21 PM
That is why I appreciated the 2rd film. The new blood didn't cut it so the old guys had to go in and save them. This installment came too late and was unnecessary m as the 3rd one served as a decent conclusion without any dangling plots.

"New blood! A new beginning for the Expendables!" "Oh... early word is that everyone hates the movie and it's going to bomb. Er, OK folks, now it's the FINAL CHAPTER! Tune into the FINAL CHAPTER of the Expendables!"

It's just crap. Misguided crap.

If anything, they should've just gather up whoever they had left from Expendables 3 and could afford, then find some other big 80s/90s guy that hasn't been used yet and might be unexpected (Peter Weller, maybe? Nicholas Cage?) to play the villain, and go. No "new blood" or other nonsense. These aren't supposed to be about that.

XERO
09-24-2023, 01:45 AM
Jackie Chan is still probably the biggest missed opportunity for a role in these movies.

Andrew NDB
09-24-2023, 01:59 AM
Jackie Chan is still probably the biggest missed opportunity for a role in these movies.

Mmm... I guess so. He generally doesn't show up for anything that's R-rated though. And these need to be. Like, with every fiber of what this franchise was created to be, that can't be a concession that's ever made. F*** Expendables 2 for shooting it in PG-13 and then clumsily having to make it R in post, and f*** Expendables 3 for just plain going PG-13.

MikeandRaph87
09-24-2023, 12:05 PM
Mmm... I guess so. He generally doesn't show up for anything that's R-rated though. And these need to be. Like, with every fiber of what this franchise was created to be, that can't be a concession that's ever made. F*** Expendables 2 for shooting it in PG-13 and then clumsily having to make it R in post, and f*** Expendables 3 for just plain going PG-13.

Jackie Chan starred un Rumble In The Bronx in 1995, R-rated action low budget film. It's decent. I do believe he was the biggest miss. Expandable 3 gets hate for being PG-13,but I liked it. However, I believe the second film is the best.

XERO
09-24-2023, 04:57 PM
Jackie Chan starred un Rumble In The Bronx in 1995, R-rated action low budget film. It's decent. I do believe he was the biggest miss. Expandable 3 gets hate for being PG-13,but I liked it. However, I believe the second film is the best.

Supercop was rated R as well. Not only that, Jackie actually got bodies in that one. Haha. One of the rare movies where he actually murks people with guns.

If you put THAT Jackie in an Expendables movie, then that's all there is to it.

My idea would've been in the second one, have Jackie and Jet Li be some sort of rivals, and they start off fighting each other so they can have their fight scene, then have Sly break it up and talk Jackie into helping them kill Van Damme. Simple, but I think effective.

TheCanadiandrome
09-26-2023, 03:13 PM
This was pretty good imo. Maybe not the best of the 4, but it was a nice way to end things

XERO
09-26-2023, 07:49 PM
I liked it. 2 is still my favorite, though.

TheCanadiandrome
09-26-2023, 09:46 PM
I can’t wait to add it to my collection