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[baumer]

Nobody has seen this or wants to comment on it?Ok. It's fucking awesome and should have won best screenplay in 85.9/10

Edited August 29, 2012 by Expendable baumer

[Master Scottb]

This movie kicked ass, one of the best pure testosterone driven action flicks ever.

[baumer]

Remember Sully when I promise to kill you last?That's right Matrix, you did.I lied.

[Jessie]

I fucking love this movie. They dont make them like this anymore. At least expendables is trying to replicate the genius of these older films.

[Master Scottb]

"Come on Bennett, throw away that chicken shit gun, you don't want to just pull the trigger, you want to put the knife in me, and look me in the eye, and see what is going on in there as you turn it, that is what you want to do, right?""I eat Green Berets for breakfast, and right now I am very hungry"

[75Live]

Just pure awesomeness. One of the most quotable movies ever with all the one liners."let off some steam, Bennett"A

[vc2002]

This film is one of the most quoteable films of all time. It got even a lot more great quotes than TDK. I fvcking love this film."Dont disturb my friend. He's dead tired.""What did you do to Sully?" "I let him go.""I love listening to your piss-ant soilders trying to talk tough. They make me laugh. If Matrix was here, he'd laught too."

[baumer]

Don't break radio silence until they see me.How will I know?Cuz all fucking hell is going to break loose.

[Master Scottb]

Matrix: Keep an eye out, they'll be coming. You're downwind, the air current might tip them off.Jackson: Downwind?Jackson: You think I could smell them coming?Matrix: I did

[75Live]

"John, I'm not going to shoot you between the eyes. I'm going to shoot you between the balls."

[baumer]

You steal my car, you rip the seat out, you kidnap me, you ask me to help you find your daughter which I very kindly do, and then you get me involved in a shoot out where people are dying and there's blood spurting all over the place, and then I watch you rip a phone booth out of a wall, swing from the ceiling like Tarzan, and then there's a cop that's going to shoot you and I save you and they start chasing me. Are you going to tell me what's going on or what? NO!

[Ozymandias]

"I'll be back, Bennet"The best part about that line is that this was made after Terminator.

[Master Scottb]

"I'll be waiting John"

[baumer]

They offered me a 100 grand.When I found out I'd be gettiong my hands on you, I said I'd do it for nothing.

[vc2002]

"I'd like you to start up your unit again, John. All it would take is your coming back. "

"This was the last time."

"Until the next time."

"No chance."

These are all very cheesy dialogues, but they just work.

[baumer]

And then of course the cheesy 80's action movie song, "Somewhere, somehow, someone's going top pay" plays over the soundtrack as Arnold and his daughter and Dong Chong take off in the plane.

[BiffMan]

"All I care about is Jenny"

It's been a while since I last saw it, but definite fond memories and this movie has that most crucial of story telling devices: Shit blows up. Often.

Arnold's movie persona really starts coming into focus here and this one is particularly fun since he's not yet become the caricature of himself he is in his later movies. There are no shortage of cheesy one-liners, but he really nails the dead pan delivery and the lines are so over the top that they really work. He's still really huge and well-built in this one and, even before he starts racking up the body count, the feeling of power he projects is palpable. Arnold just commands attention and I really can't imagine this sort of movie being made with anyone else. Arnold is becoming his own genre.

Arnold commands your attention and I find myself hanging on his every word and expression just to see what he'll do next. It's not what he does, it's not what the plot is, it's all about how he does it. Cheesy though this movie is, this is why I watched every movie he put out in the mid 80s-early 90s, and why I can clearly remember the excitement and anticipation of going to see his next movie in the theater.

The story is about as straightfworward and focused as you could ask for, and it's good to keep Arnold's motivations crisp and tight. Loves daughter. Daughter taken. Get daughter back. Done and done. Ordinarily that kind of bland story would make for a dull movie, but the aim of the movie is to give plenty of time for Arnold to chew up scenery and bad guys. Let's keep all that bothersome story complexity out of the way. Good supporting work by Rae Dawn Chong here (fond memories of her in many movies from the 80s) and the rest of the cast isn't too terribly distracting. Even Fat Eddie Mercury Guy and his oddly effeminate angst works okay, or at the very least helps you really root for him to eventually die in a particularly nasty way.

Ahnold Quotient - 9

Arnold being Arnold, but in a really good way. Line delivery is spot-on, he's menacing, but we're obviously not watching something based on a true story here. As it should be. Did I mention shit blows up? It does. Often.

Rewatchability - Every now and then

Overall this was quite fun to watch again. Not sure I need to do so again anytime soon, but I was pleasantly surprised how solid it was and how well Arnold plays it here. Definitely one to go back to for some popcorn-munching brain-dead goodness.

Edited December 3, 2012 by BiffMan

[DAR]

Let's not forget Arnold gets on a plane with one of Bennett's men. Breaks his neck. Gets up, escapes from the plane while taking off, falls a few hundred feet into a swamp and gets up like nothing happened. In other words it's fucking awesome. A

[vc2002]

It's a shame that this genre bascially died in hollywood long time ago.