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I butchered it even more than that, I had typed "expandles."
...and a Chuck joke was thrown in the movie. Sly 'I heard you were bitten by a King Cobra' Chuck 'yeah I was and after 5 days of agonising pain the Cobra died' :))
It appears that even Stallone was an expendable part of production.
Where's the exit? I'll see myself out.
I'd prefer to get a fourth, simply because 'The Expendables 3' was so awful, they need to redeem themselves if they can. Shouldn't be too tough making a movie better than that third one, thankfully.
As these movies have a habit of bringing older action movie stars in to the fold, I'd love to see Pierce Brosnan get a role. I'd also love to see the likes of Jeff Wincott, Jeff Speakman and Michael Dudikoff get some sort of role as well. Plus, heartily agree on Jackie Chan.
I saw the world premiere at TIFF. It's not very good unfortunately. I hope they re-edited the movie for wide release, because the version I saw felt like a TV movie with the soap opera script and distracting accents from Oscar Isaac. Charlotte Le Bon, Christian Bale, and Shohreh Aghdashloo add gravitas with their presence, and there's even Jean Reno with a cameo. The cinematography is lush at times, and strangely cheap-looking during some action scenes. I really wanted to like this movie, and I still hope it does well. It's not even close to Hotel Rwanda though. And on a side note, it's curious how serious Turkey's attempt has been to discredit The Promise. As soon as IMDB opened up voting after the TIFF premiere, tens of thousands of trolls or bots gave the film a "1" rating. I don't think any movie has faced such a smear campaign before... almost 100K votes before its wide release!
Looks fantastic :-). The only problem I have is that I find Sofia Boutella much more attractive than the blonde chick who seems to be intended as an object of sympathy.
I'm partial to blondes, so Annabelle Wallis works for me.
It does look way more action geared than horror, which is not my preference for a Mummy revamp. Cruise has his M:I films for expensive exercising, let the Classic Universal Monster renaissance be its own thing. We'll see how it all shakes down though.
A wise decision. Dracula: Untold was an ambitious film with moments that worked, but ultimately the film didn't come together for me.
An interconnected Universal Monster universe has great potential for either failure or success. The concept alone of "Marvelizing" a classic horror canon is pretty mouthwatering. But I'd prefer if the tone were predominantly horror, which I fear may not be the case. A lot is resting on the shoulders of The Mummy here. I'm very interested to see just how it turns out.
Yes, I think Universal course-corrected on that decision when the film didn't work out the way they'd hoped. Are we to assume that they're just recasting and rewriting another Dracula project for later release?
Hollywood needs to move away from these "sexy" approaches to depicting vampirism and just get back to how it's supposed to be: super gothic, super creepy, super atmospheric. Dracula shouldn't look like he's just shot the Victorian equivalent of a fireman's calendar with his bulging abs and twinkling eyes (no offense to Luke Evans). Make it like the old black and white film, haunting and spooky. Dracula is a character to get a lot of mileage out of, as he can have real depth.
In a world where films with low budgets can profit in the millions even with an R-rating, you could take Dracula to that darker place that Twilight and others like it have sapped from him. Stoker's haunting figure has been suffocated by modern depictions that feature a bunch of pale model-looking vampires that are about as intimidating as James Bond is a Puritan. People have had their ideas of what vampires are tarnished by all these fluffy teen-baited projects that choose to focus on poorly realized "romance," losing focus of all the gothic mystery and tradition of those figures.