Comments on: Might ‘The Expendables’ Actually End Up Rated PG-13???

By: Rambo 5 Has Been Greenlit! - Screen Rant

Rambo 5 Has Been Greenlit! - Screen Rant — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:12:07 +0000

[...] The Expendables may turn out to be PG-13, it’ll be nice to know we have another Stallone R-rated adult action film coming our way in [...]

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:38:56 +0000

The funny thing about this debate – how much the studio system is failing and how there is no way to stop it. Look, movie ratings are not important. We can all cite examples of good and bad PG-13 films. A PG-13 does not preclude a movie from being good or bad. Having said that, two genres have taken it on the chin as of late: Action and Horror.

The wave of PG-13 horror films have been scary. Since they cannot have any blood, there is little dread and no real fear. Have of what made R rated horror so chilling was seeing people get dispatched in horrific ways. I mean who wants to go that way? or that way? Now were left with computer generated ghosts and lame stories and pretty much every film feels like a movie you watched a week ago under a different name. Before anyone says “Drag Me To Hell”, please consider the genre as a whole and not the one or two exceptions.

Actions films have also taken it on the chin. Yes, Taken was good and so was The Dark Knight. Having said that, where is our lethal weapon or Bad Boys of this decade. Lets face it, if we EVER see another Lethal Weapon movie, it will be PG-13. I was surprised Rambo was allowed to be R Rated. For as much as I was entertained by the last Die Hard movie, it was missing the brutatlity of parts 1 and 2. There in lies the problem. PG-13 action movies tend to not be as brutal or they are full of so many quick shots you cannot follow the action very well. That did not happen much in the 80s.

While I stick to my premise that ratings do not matter, the movie matters. If the studios want to make kid friendly PG-13 movies, they have a right. It is there money. All I ask is that we do not draw so much attention to it by watering down franchises to fit the mold. Die hard is R rated, ALL Die Hard films should be rated R. If you do not have the stomach for another R rated Die Hard film, then write the script, change all the names and make it an original unrelated film. Peace!

By: It’s Official - Bruce Willis Is Expendable! - Screen Rant

It’s Official - Bruce Willis Is Expendable! - Screen Rant — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:25:29 +0000

[...] what I call good news! Now, if they can only get past this possible PG-13 Rating [...]

By: Ogre

Ogre — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:47:19 +0000

Gotta be rated ‘R’. No question.

By: aerewen

aerewen — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:34:37 +0000

Hey it’s not only guys that dig action films, chicks love them too. It would be a great shame if this movie wasn’t given the R rating that it truely deserves. Jet and Jason’s martial art moves are so good to watch cause you know that these guys are the real thing and have the background in real life in their own particular field of martial arts.

By: Meet The Expendables! - Screen Rant

Meet The Expendables! - Screen Rant — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:14:40 +0000

[...] Oh and plenty of explosions, as we’ve seen in the behind-the-scenes video clips. If this film ends up PG-13 (which is a possibility), don’t be surprised if you hear the loudest societal groan in known [...]

By: Ken J

Ken J — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:58:56 +0000

johnny-k, in SCC, that T1000 was supposed to be the same one as in the flashback.

By: LikeItMuch?

LikeItMuch? — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:03:47 +0000

I’m not even 18 and will not be able to see this if it is R rated but i WANT it to be! Seriously if they choose to make it Pg-13 then they are idiots! There would be no point! I enjoy brutal scenes where crazy things happen and massive explosions decorationg the scene and I don’t see enough of this if it is a PG-13

By: johnny-K

johnny-K — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:33:45 +0000

Well, from a being a Pg-13 to R discussion this quickly turned into more of a Terminator talk…

I will join in on this…

Skynet is one awareness, all the other terminators are programmed to do Skynet´s bidding. if the T1000 had a self awareness it could decide to not follow Skynet´s orders. pretty risky I say…

In Terminator SCC —-Spoiler alert—-

The T1000 appears to be helping John Connor, building a Ai to rival Skynet. And a T1000 in the future is asked to join the resistance but said no, I don´t know if it is the same T1000, and that it decided to join them anyway and went back in time to help or not.

In Terminator S — Spoiler alert—-

I dont see why Skynet is talking to the hybrid cyborg? It has self awareness and can decide to help the humans. As there is no further assignment for the hybrid, why fix it and wake it up before the Connor/Kyle situation is resolved?

Otherwise I liked Salvation, I also enjoyed TSCC, but the amount of time traveling and mixed timelines made it a bit confusing.

I´m all for more Terminator films and TV show, to bad it was cancelled

By: John "Kahless" Taylor

John "Kahless" Taylor — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:20:01 +0000

@KC
Dude, you’re confusing the heck out of me.

By: KC

KC — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:17:12 +0000

I don’t want ‘Expendables’ rated R!! All those action heroes and a whimpy PG-13 won’t do for me. I rather wait until the unrated version comes out on video!!!

By: KC

KC — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:15:01 +0000

I want my ‘Expendables’ R rated!!! All these tough guys and a whimpy PG-13 won’t cut it for me. I ‘d rather wait until DVD to see the unrated version!!

By: 790

790 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:24:26 +0000

It was for dramatic effect. I’ve seen the story boards of that scene. It looked pretty weird as he bends over to pick up his head.

By: Ken J

Ken J — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:11:19 +0000

Oh, and 790, don’t worry, I just misspelled absorbs lol.

By: Ken J

Ken J — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:04:45 +0000

i’ve heard about that scene. The thing is, why would he bother picking up his head? The scene where he “reabsorbes” the piece on the floor after the mental asylum escape scene was actually something that stood out because conventional human thinking is to actually pick it up. By simply walking up to it and absorbing it, it goes along better with the fact that he’s a machine, so he’s not prone to that kind of thinking. For this reason it would make more sense for him to just morph back into human form instead of actually picking up his head… But maybe they would have thought of that if they had actually filmed it. I’m kind of glad they didn’t, lol.

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:59:01 +0000

In my honest opinion these guys cant seem to make a decent PG-13 movie. With the exception of the Guy Richie films Statham did, but those werent action movies. Well and Transporter was the only exception. Just let these guys do what they do best…isn’t that why they are in the movie?

By: 790

790 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:19:44 +0000

I don’t know how we got on T2, but did you guys know that
there was a deleated scene that was never filmed?

The T-1000 ends up at Enrque’s camp as the motorcop. The hispanic family doesn’t realise he’s a Terminator until Enrque tells him to piss off and the T-1000 spikes him in the shoulder.
He manages to hobble off as his family runs for it, Enrque grabs a hand grenade and as the T-1000 walks up to him he detonates it killing himself in the process. We then see the T-1000’s feet and his head lying on the ground. The headless T-1000 then picks up his head and re-attaches it. The hispanic family. Looks on in horror, as the T-1000 then walks up to the Mom and asks again, “where did they go”
End scene.

I’m sure I mispelled Enrque.

By: chrisj

chrisj — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:56:30 +0000

@ Ken J
Yup, i agree Ken. One little other thing was the T-1000 screaming while it was melting. But then i remember reading about how the T-1000 was a prototype that was sent when it was one Skynet’s deepest hours. It mentioned Skynet was hesitant about it. Thinkin, will this new terminator obey and execute its mission or stray away on its own. I had one person say to me he understood why Reese wouldnt stay to fight for long with a terminator but asked me why the two terminator only fought for a short time. i simply said its obvious to anyone to know that the more time the T-1000 spends fighting the the T-800, the more time John has to escape. Plus it wasnt programmed to fight with other terminators and wasnt sure how to disable it for good. Only the TX was programmed for that.

By: Ken J

Ken J — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:29:02 +0000

tell, not told, realized that while hitting post, lol.

By: Ken J

Ken J — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:27:55 +0000

@chrisj

Yah, people are always surprised when I told them those things about T2.

I also like the special edition more because it got more indepth into the story, the theatrical was shortened just for the sake of time, not to help the story. The only things I agree with them deleting is the scene of the T100 “inspecting” John Connor’s room by touch, and the few clips toward the end that showed the T1000 malfunctioning after he was frozen and reformed. They were cool to watch, but ultimately I agree with their original reasoning to delete that aspect.

When they filmed it, they intended to show the T1000 malfunction a little to give the audience hope that he’s no 100% invincible. But when they were told to cut the movie shorter, they decided to cut that because they realized that it would actually be much cooler that the T1000 remains this apparently invincible killing machine right up until the point where he’s blown up and falls into the molten metal. Makes the climax that much more nerve racking that an invincible killing machine looks like he has the upper hand…

T2 was just brilliantly written and put together. It’s so much deeper than most people realize.