Post by leesilm on Nov 28, 2017 18:59:44 GMT
I'd love to see a fourth, I liked the additions of Snipes, Banderas, and Ford (okay, esp. Ford since I can't get a Han Solo fix out of LAST JEDI), and Lutz wasn't too bad as he seemed like a young-Barney Ross. And I love the old crew. Honest to goodness, would probably pass up seeing F&F, Avengers, etc. to see EXPENDABLES 4 with just the original gang of Stallone, Couture, Crews, Lundgren, Schwartszenegger, and Statham. They remind me of the best of the movies these guys used to make in the 80s/90s plus some of the world-weariness that other movies attempt but don't quite capture the way these movies do. I think you need guys that are seemingly past their prime, haggard, and having to adjust to a world they don't fit into anymore (like in E3 where the 'kids' were using high tech guns and such while Christmas and Gunner are using knives & Barney is flying a rickety old plane), in order to pull off that feeling correctly.
I think part of it though, with the EXPENDABLES movies in general, is that feeling that these characters are lived in and these guys have known each other forever. The whole cast just have a really good chemistry with each other. I could watch them all day. Heck, I'm half-convinced the movies didn't even have all the dialogue written in just outlines for what had to happen in the scene. [Similar to how in the show GOLDEN GIRLS they didn't always script the entire conversations had at the kitchen table, they'd just write, "The girls can fill in from here" with some notes about stuff that needed to be brought up before the scene was over. And in M*A*S*H the same was done with some of their scripts.] And they let each person have a real character, no two alike and no one feels like a place holder.

