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Why this is the best Expendables!


My opinion obviously but why I think this is the best expendables is for the following reason. I haven't seen expendables 3 as yet I admit but from the reviews I'm making the following points.

1. fights are longer and better choreographed.
2. this isn't a parody, and the actors don't keep making fun of themselves as what they do in the sequels or quote lines from past movies.
3. the score is the best, although not great but I like the instrumentals.
4. Each actor has decent screentime and backgound depth.
5. Best story

Most of all its not so much of a parody as what the sequels are, it's a serious action movie without watered down violence.

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this piece of crap!

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It's just an all-round better made film.
My favorite used to be The Expendables 2, but then I saw the extended director's cut of the first one and just... wow.
Check out the director's cut if you get a chance, it's absolutely amazing.

Yippee Ki-Yay!

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yes i can agree with all those points in the original post. i also just like the darker, edgier theme to this one more so than the others. i do prefer part 3 over than 2 though
that said.

when the second movie was released i expected it to be in tone with the first and that was a disappointment that is wasn't.

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I caught this on tv the other day and it really isn't a bad movie. It's an absolutely solid action film. Just unfortunately tame by the modern action movie standards when it was made.

The sequels are terrible, though the 3rd film has some truly amazing stunt work throughout.

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you mean it was tame at the time it was made , or seems tame "these days" , cos its not that old is it?

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I mean it's made a lot like a direct to video 90s action movie.

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well , that is those' guys' eras .probly not a lot they could do about that

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