As bad as the last one was, at least you got Harrison Ford and Mel Gibson. Now we have 50 Cent and Megan Fox?! This is going to be a flop at the box office and kill the franchise for sure.
shareYOU ASSUME IT WILL BE RELEASED IN THEATERS...THAT IS PROBABLY A MISTAKE.
shareThe 3rd one did that. So did the 1st one.
2 was the only good entry in this geriatric half-way house.
Yeah agreed. I think people forget how hit-or-miss this series always had been. I think even Lionsgate pretty much gave up on this franchise and is just leaving it out to die. Especially now given that the John Wick movies proved to be so successful for them. And honestly is what 'Expendables' should had been more like.
shareI loved Ex2 (the only one I bothered to see in the cinema), simply because of Van Damme. Best thing I've seen him do (well, apart from his Coors commercials)!
shareI dunno how this franchise even came to be, given that the first film was crappy on its own. Usually franchises start off with a decent film, and progress towards shite - not start off with shite and stay there.
shareWhatever franchise this might be, it was always gonna die with Stallone. Statham doesn't need these movies. He's still a real action star. I think the trailer looks fair enough. Regrettably these were always pretty cheeseball direct to video level action flicks. It was never gonna be the Contra meme were always fantasizing about.
shareYeah even Stallone doesn't want a part in it.
shareWe live in an age infected with sequelitis. If money can be milked, the sequels, reboots, remakes, prequels, and retellings will come.
Maybe Disney will start buying all the old action IP's and make Commando 2. Arnold's granddaughter is about to graduate high-school. Her mother died from (insert car accident, cancer, etc. Here). The some guy from Arnold's past, who we know nothing about, kidnaps him. She has to take the skills and old tools from grandpa's house to kill everyone. She's totally strong and badass taking out giys left and right. At the end, she drives a steampipe through badguy's crotch. Cameo from Rae Dawn Chong.
You jest, but the sad part about it is that I can literally see this becoming a real thing (in some ways it already is with that show FUBAR, which borrows heavily from the description you just laid out).
shareLol. I'd love to write it ironically and submit it to the studios. I may just do that. Lol.
Should I add Pete Davidson and Jada Pinkett Smith?
Pete Davidson as the comical side-kick and Jada Pinkett Smith as the "stronk wahmen" who offers the main character advice and beats up 300 lbs men with her bare hands like she's taking out the trash? Sure. It would go over really well with the EGS groups 😂
shareSo...it's still alive? 😂
shareGood. The franchise was, well let's be honest, a piece of shit from the start and just keeps getting worse.
shareWell after this weekend it's going to be the last one to get a theatrical release. They'll probably just keep chunking out straight to DVD sequels after this with glorified cameos from Stallone and co.
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