The Expendables (franchise)/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions

* How come nobody used the Disturbed song "Indestructible" either in a scene or in a trailer? Can't you just see it, though? The heavy metal song about being an invincible warrior blasting in the background as the four manliest, most muscle-bound heroes ([[And Zoidberg|and Jet Li]]) of all time wielding big fucking guns as they emerge from cover, flames in the background, shooting the crap out of the soldiers. It would be amazing.

** There's a limit to how badass they were allowed to make it. As it is, The Expendables barely fell under the maximum RBQ (Recommended Badass Quotient) for a film, and any more would have caused riots, universal testicular gigantism and a return to a lawless life of violence and explosions. Society would be unable to hold.

* Why wasn't Arnold in a bigger role i call missed moment of awesome!

** Apparently both Bruce and Arnold worked without pay for that scene as a personal favor to Stallone.

* Sad that the movie gives us so little in terms of characters for most of the team members. I mean try to describe Terry Crews' character ''without'' mentioning his gun or skin color? I'll be here waiting. I know it's supposed to be an homage to 80s action movies, but even these films gave us more characterization than that (Compare with Predator that gives us decent rounded view of each team member - and most of them die before the end!).

** Terry Crews' character was basically [[Idiocracy|President Camacho's election campaign]], end of story.

** Despite the cast the movie isn't an ensemble piece, it's just a bunch of muscular dudes shooting guns, destroying things and breaking necks. The actual story is told mostly through Sly and Statham, with Li and Rourke providing some backup. And despite all that, each character got a moment to shine regardless of screen time and lines they had. Even if you don't know much about Caesar at the end, you ''will'' remember the AA-12... [[Show, Don't Tell]] at work.

* Very disappointed that Van Damme and Seagal didn't accept the roles they were offered. It would've been the perfect 80's Action Narmtacular!

** The scuttlebutt was that Seagal had prior commitments and couldn't take a role, while Van Damme wanted top billing. When they wouldn't give it to him, he went and made ''Universal Soldier 46: Geez, That Time I Popped a Boner on Live TV Was Less Embarassing Than This'' instead.

*** JCVD refused because he didn't have a properly developed character. But at the end of the day, JCVD REFUSES to be in a movie with Seagal for some epeen-like argument they had once upon a time. Seagal has turned down the chance again so maybe JCVD will be in it if he can get over his own ego.

** Because they understand that he went evil due to a PTSD-induced psychotic break and that it could happen to any of them? They do imply he's now in therapy.

*** Also, he was on drugs. " {{spoiler|Gunnar}} you're using again." Note how it wasn't a question.

* Other than it being an 80s movie trope and therefore, had to be present: Why the screaming blue hell did Munroe and Paine drag Sandra along with them when made their escape? Had they just ditched her and ran, the probably escape with room to spare.

** Because if you've got a hostage, the heroes will hesitate to shoot you. If you don't, they'll open fire soon as they can see you. Also remember that Munroe ''didn't know'' that Ross was there for the girl. He thought The Expendables were just there to kill him, personally. If he knew that bringing Sandra along as a hostage would only ''encourage'' Ross to follow, he'd have just let her go when he made his escape.

*** Because she's a nice, peaceful girl who is invoking [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him]].

* Too bad Wesley Snipes was busy getting investigated for tax evasion. They had some chemistry going with Stallone in ''[[Demolition Man]]''. Add some shades and a [[Badass Longcoat]] (maybe a katana or two), and you got [[Blade]] again.

* This troper was a little annoyed that there was barely any specialization between the characters. Everything was either an [[Informed Ability]] or [[All in The Manual|All On The Website]]. [[Jason Statham]]'s character is a [[Knife Nut]], but he barely gets to use them. [[Jet Li]]'s character is supposed to be the best martial artist, and yet he can't beat [[Dolph Lundgren]] (admittedly, size ''does'' matter). [[Terry Crews]] likes big guns... and so does everyone else in the movie. The whole point of teamwork is that no one person is an expert in everything. That is why you have different people do what works for them.

** Possibly due to scripting. There wasn't much opportunity for them to show off anything other than basic stealth warfare and basic squad warfare. Sure there was a fight here and there but we expect that. Still, it would've been nice if the fight between Li and Lundgren had been more involved. Possibly with Li trying to, for example, attack Lundgren's KNEES or something. Since that would be how a martial artist would try to fight a guy who was two feet taller than him.

** Maybe they should make an all-female spinoff.

 

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