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Aug. 18th, 2012 02:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geebsWeird, so the trailers in front of Expendables 2 were mostly action movies starring aging movie stars- Cruise in Jack Reacher and Willis in Looper with JGL, I was aware of. And of course, Taken 2 with Liam Neeson. But I did not know both Stallone and Ahnuld had new movies coming out. Wasn't the whole point of Expendables that these guys are kinda over the hill? I mean, the movie makes several jokes about it. But yeah, Stallone has this new movie "Bullet to the Head", where somehow a tatted-up Sarah Shahi is his daughter (how does that work? I guess she's kinda mixed). I totally didn't recognize the bad guy as Ronon Dex/Khal Drogo. I swear he looks totally different without the mustache and beard. I kept thinking, I know that guy, but I had to look it up on imdb to see it was him.
The Ah-nuld movie is called "The Last Stand", where he plays an aging sheriff trying to stop a cartel running to the border through his town. Looks like Jaime Alexander is the chick in it. I guess there was one action movie that at least had young blood in it, the Red Dawn remake with Thor and Peeta and hot Decepticon girl and Tyra from FNL.
Anyways, onto the movie. If you don't expect anything from it, I think its entertaining enough. Its just a good "bad action movie". Simplistic plot, dialog that gets so clunky it goes from bad to hilarious, and of course, an orgy of over the top violence.
Jet Li's role is basically a cameo in this, he kicks ass in the beginning, then he parachutes their client into China, and isn't heard from again for the rest of the movie. He gets replaced by some Asian chick to fill both the female and Asian roles in the movie.
Gale from Hunger Games is the rookie on the team, and you know he's basically toast as one of the first non-action scenes in the movie is a "dramatic" one where he tells Sly that he'll stay with them til the end of the month, but then he's getting out of the biz. Stallone gives him his blessing of course, saying it prolly is wise to get out while he can. Which of course but a bullseye on the poor kid's back at that point. Van Damme (who's name is hilariously "Villain", pronounced Vill-ayne) captures the Expendables and kicks a knife into Thor's brother's chest.
And for an old dude, Van Damme has still got the moves- he can still do the helicopter kicks! As for the other old dudes, with Willis its not a big deal because he was always supposed to look like Joe Everyman, he wasn't particularly big or built. Stallone looks old, and Ah-nuld looks even worse. It does work for Lundgren though, because the Frankenstein nickname is apt, he looks way old in the face, but the guy is still built. Like Stallone and Schwarzenegger they look like guys who used to be built, Dolph is still a friggin scary looking guy. Oddly enough, they ported over Lundgren's real life chemical engineering degree to his character.
Getting back to the kid, I understand they were going for the whole, "why does the nice good kid die, while these old, hard men who've done such dark shit get to live". The problem is the audience doesn't know him! We were just introduced to him, so killing him just half an hour later is sad and tragic, but doesn't give that much of an emotional impact.
Owel, I do kinda wish I wasn't spoiled for Chuck Norris, because that was an amusing cameo. I mean, I know this prolly stems from the Chuck Norris memes (and they even make one of them in the movie), but its kinda weird that they act like Norris is the baddest out of all of them. He doesn't need a team!
Anyways, the movie was enjoyable enough, just entertaining/cheesy action fare.
The Ah-nuld movie is called "The Last Stand", where he plays an aging sheriff trying to stop a cartel running to the border through his town. Looks like Jaime Alexander is the chick in it. I guess there was one action movie that at least had young blood in it, the Red Dawn remake with Thor and Peeta and hot Decepticon girl and Tyra from FNL.
Anyways, onto the movie. If you don't expect anything from it, I think its entertaining enough. Its just a good "bad action movie". Simplistic plot, dialog that gets so clunky it goes from bad to hilarious, and of course, an orgy of over the top violence.
Jet Li's role is basically a cameo in this, he kicks ass in the beginning, then he parachutes their client into China, and isn't heard from again for the rest of the movie. He gets replaced by some Asian chick to fill both the female and Asian roles in the movie.
Gale from Hunger Games is the rookie on the team, and you know he's basically toast as one of the first non-action scenes in the movie is a "dramatic" one where he tells Sly that he'll stay with them til the end of the month, but then he's getting out of the biz. Stallone gives him his blessing of course, saying it prolly is wise to get out while he can. Which of course but a bullseye on the poor kid's back at that point. Van Damme (who's name is hilariously "Villain", pronounced Vill-ayne) captures the Expendables and kicks a knife into Thor's brother's chest.
And for an old dude, Van Damme has still got the moves- he can still do the helicopter kicks! As for the other old dudes, with Willis its not a big deal because he was always supposed to look like Joe Everyman, he wasn't particularly big or built. Stallone looks old, and Ah-nuld looks even worse. It does work for Lundgren though, because the Frankenstein nickname is apt, he looks way old in the face, but the guy is still built. Like Stallone and Schwarzenegger they look like guys who used to be built, Dolph is still a friggin scary looking guy. Oddly enough, they ported over Lundgren's real life chemical engineering degree to his character.
Getting back to the kid, I understand they were going for the whole, "why does the nice good kid die, while these old, hard men who've done such dark shit get to live". The problem is the audience doesn't know him! We were just introduced to him, so killing him just half an hour later is sad and tragic, but doesn't give that much of an emotional impact.
Owel, I do kinda wish I wasn't spoiled for Chuck Norris, because that was an amusing cameo. I mean, I know this prolly stems from the Chuck Norris memes (and they even make one of them in the movie), but its kinda weird that they act like Norris is the baddest out of all of them. He doesn't need a team!
Anyways, the movie was enjoyable enough, just entertaining/cheesy action fare.
