THE EXPENDABLES 3 (Patrick Hughes, 2014)

[Jox]

Cool interviews with bits of trivia that aren't discussed anywhere else
http://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepe ... a=19547417
Where you learn that Terry Crews begged Sly to keep him alive...
(thank you Terry, that really makes the spectator to have gone through whole movie for almost nothing.)

Opens today in France in 627 theaters.

EDIT:
http://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepe ... a=19547415

[bomaz]

French parody for a well know fruit juice (but I don't which fruit is Dolph )

[savagesketch]

Cool interviews with bits of trivia that aren't discussed anywhere else
http://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepe ... a=19547417
Where you learn that Terry Crews begged Sly to keep him alive...
(thank you Terry, that really makes the spectator to have gone through whole movie for almost nothing.)

Opens today in France in 627 theaters.

EDIT:
http://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepe ... a=19547415

Agreed completely. It makes the entire film seem almost pointless. It's amazing to me that not one character has bitten the bullet after all of their various missions, etc. I understand that Crews couldn't commit to the entire film due to other filming commitments, but still... Add some more emotional gravitas to the proceedings by killing off either Crews or Jet Li. Having them barely in the film feels like a waste...

[Jox]

I understand that Crews couldn't commit to the entire film due to other filming commitments, but still...

Actually of all the stars in it I don't think Crews had other commitments.

Terry Crews and Dolph Lundgren Talk THE EXPENDABLES 3, Their Freedom to Blow Up Anything While Shooting, Deleted Scenes, and More
http://collider.com/terry-crews-dolph-l ... interview/

They talked about what they remember most about filming, making the movie in Bulgaria and how they could blow up anything, deleted scenes, Jason Statham‘s on-set car accident, and more. Hit the jump to watch.
Terry Crews and Dolph Lundgren:
Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
What do they remember most about making The Expendables 3.
How they could blow up anything including a bridge.
Crews talks about Jason Statham’s car accident and how dangerous it was.
Deleted scenes talk.

http://collider.com/terry-crews-dolph-l ... interview/

Radio interview
http://www.wedg.com/common/page.php?pt= ... &is_corp=0
http://stationcaster.com/stations/wedg/ ... 545091.mp3





Stills from deleted scenes:






Not sure if deleted moment or behind the scenes

[dolphage]

I think EX 3 is the best film in the series - with EX 1 a close second. Sadly Dolph does nothing in the third installment but almost everyone else gets their "moments", both with dialogue and action.

The third act is just insane - in a good way.

I really like it - even though there are PLENTY of things to complain about.

[Travis]

A lot of people are talking about the gay relationship between Arnold and Jet. Supposedly in the first draft, one of the new recruits came out as gay in the movie. I wonder if Stallone has some new gay agenda.

[Jox]

Supposedly in the first draft, one of the new recruits came out as gay in the movie.

That was in an early draft of the first movie. The character, Richard, was a youngster (Sly had already met with Kellan Lutz and Liam Hemsworth before he scrapped the role) who came in to replace Gunnar in the team.

First shows in Paris (yesterday at before 2PM) took more than 30% less than EX2 (which had the higher score in France) with 1403 admissions (2105 for EX2). It's still the higher score of the new releases but we'll see if it can get the first spot of the week all releases included (with LUCY and GARDIANS OF THE GALAXY still taking names) which less likely...

So, past my boredom and disappointment of the first viewing (and knowing what you're in for), the second time gets much much better and it feels less like a movie in "fast forward". But it still does everything wrong (especially after the first two action sequences). I can take it for what it is but even as such, I find the last battle to be tasteless and edited horribly. The problem is they try so hard making it "fast paced and furious" that there is no dramatization or storytelling of the action (which any good action film will have) and the fights so it's a mishmash of random stuff all over the place so it doesn't matter (even more when you see the anti-"payoff" of the end).

Another big flaw is to have pasted Brian Tyler's music of the previous movies instead of having new cues (or at least re-orchestrated) composed over each bit of action (that is not gonna fit as well if you just lift a cue that was made for another movie). The worst is that Patrick Hugues had a new theme composed by Tyler when they were still filming it, and he was playing it over playback to get an idea of how it edit together (and I quite liked it). So I assume much more new music was composed, yet apart from a few cues (notably for Banderas scenes and the museum takeover) most of the new material was trashed (as were a lot of the stars big moments) during post-production and most of the remaining score was lifted from the previous movies (which feels old and lessens the impact of the action scenes)...

[Jox]

Taken by the Brazilian distributors at the Cannes party

[dude hallenbeck]

Supposedly in the first draft, one of the new recruits came out as gay in the movie.

That was in an early draft of the first movie. The character, Richard, was a youngster (Sly had already met with Kellan Lutz and Liam Hemsworth before he scrapped the role) who came in to replace Gunnar in the team.

The intention was that Richard's sexuality would help them blend in at a gay bar owned by a rogue arms dealer they intended to rob. I believe I still have that script buried somewhere in my computer, it's a very different movie. The second lead of the movie was actually a CIA agent on the hunt for the Expendables and Mr. Church was an entirely different character.

[Jox]

Some situations and characters were different, some roles had a sex change (Monroe was a woman and was not tied to the general if I remember correctly) but overall the intention and most sequences were almost the same or had the same intentions.

So 121,143 admissions on French opening day for 585 screens (168,000 for EX1, 213,000 EX2).

[bomaz]

Well, that's a huge drop quite everywhere. The big thing that can change the game is China. If it doesn't work even there, I doubt there'll be an Expendables 4 :s
I haven't seen it yet, probably next week.

[Jox]

The big thing that can change the game is China. If it doesn't work even there, I doubt there'll be an Expendables 4

You never know, especially with Nu Image/Millennium, they're capable of producing sequels of movies that weren't hits. What I really wonder in this case is if they had managed to get profit from their pre-sales (which is what they did with low budgets: make $5 or 6 million in pre-sales and make the film for $3-4 million for instance), and in that case they probably will make EX4 (Lionsgate may risk and loose more than them in this).

[dude hallenbeck]

I would be very interested in a low budget VOD/DTV continuation actually. Something that would retain the stripped down approach of the original (I'm seeing 3 tomorrow night BTW).

[Jox]

Japanese press book

[Jox]

James Cameron told Sly he liked the INFERNO making of more than EX1 (from the German press conference):