Episode #719: Expend4bles
Added 2024-01-23 05:00:03 +0000 UTC“Kill any of these people! Is it possible for any of them to die?” - Steve on the titular Expendables
On this week’s episode, after we figure out how to pronounce the title, we’re chatting about the fourth, and likely final, film in the franchise, Expend4bles! Is it time to wrap up the franchise when the casting ‘gets’ keep getting smaller and smaller? Why can’t Jason Statham and Tony Jaa get some buddy action film instead? Why did the film team rely on so much wretched CGI? And how are we rooting for Sly’s character after he straight-up murders a (more or less) innocent man? PLUS: Larry the Cable Guy joins the next Expendables line-up!
Expend4bles stars Jason Statham, Curtis ’50 Cent’ Jackson, Megan Fox, Dolph Lundgren, Tony Jaa, Eko Uwais, Andy Garcia, Randy Couture, Jacob Scipio, Levy Tran, Lucy Newman-Williams, and Sylvester Stallone as Barney; directed by Scott Waugh.
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Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.
Comments
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Jan
2025-08-09 07:22:41 +0000 UTCAh, that takes me back! - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2024-01-26 17:29:20 +0000 UTCCame to say the same thing lmao
Wesley Hall
2024-01-25 17:05:10 +0000 UTCOh man, this inspired me to go back and listen again to the original Expendables conversation and THAT was the origin of Steve explaining to the rest of the guys about the Stalked by my Doctor series. Just a taste: Andrew: There's a SERIES of WHAT THE HELL? Steve: There's at least three ... Eric: He's in every one? Steve: He's the doctor who stalks!
Paul DeCoursey-Clark
2024-01-25 16:05:42 +0000 UTCI gotta go back and watch the movie. This was one of those I thought I could get away with not watching.
Ray
2024-01-25 08:17:57 +0000 UTCWas only able to make it through the first half hour and gotta admit, I assumed Sly truly wanted out of this series and with the plane crash and then body parts on the bar I figured he was truly dead. To hear he lived?! I had a sincere “wow!” in my head hearing you guys announce that. So all in all gotta say not a bad flick
RJ Cunningham
2024-01-24 17:37:19 +0000 UTCThis episode was so good that I just had to finish the movie after initially quiting 5 minutes into it. Because there was no way this could be as shitty as you described. But oh boy. This is even worse that I thought. And what happened to Andy Garcia?? Doesn't even look or sound like him.
John Locke
2024-01-24 16:56:58 +0000 UTCHow’s your balls hanging? Erik is thinking of Clackers, 2 glass balls the size of an egg connected by a string. You hold the string at its half length and let the glasses balls clack together. A 70’s toy outlawed due to the glass fragmenting and putting out somebody’s eye.
Catboyslim
2024-01-24 14:52:24 +0000 UTCAndrew’s delivery, as Arnold, of “Now you are driving straight through and not stopping on your way to heaven” had me cackling.
Derek Baxter
2024-01-24 14:37:31 +0000 UTCYeah I'll never watch it. The guys are funny as usual, but man, some movies just sound like a shitstorm of mediocrity that constantly threatens to infect an episode.
Mark Ibarra
2024-01-24 14:31:36 +0000 UTCI think you dudes may have summoned a demon with that intro
Chris Rose
2024-01-24 13:45:01 +0000 UTCI'll wait for "EXPENDABLE5."
Mark Ibarra
2024-01-24 13:38:50 +0000 UTCThere's a chance I was too stoned but I counted 9 minutes of credits. Just 4wful
Hard To Gwil
2024-01-24 02:29:13 +0000 UTCI liked this movie. To thy self be true.
Mark D Myers
2024-01-24 01:08:22 +0000 UTCKa4tin Ca4bin 👌
Darcy
2024-01-24 00:39:14 +0000 UTCI always chuckle at the tough-guy nicknames. Do people really have these movie-dude nicknames? I don't think I've ever met anyone that has been like here's my boys: Drop-foot, Pud, and Slow Jams.
Jason
2024-01-23 23:01:05 +0000 UTCAndrew the Fat guy you are thinking of is Mike Busey. The article about him and his parties at his house he calls the Sausage Castle was in Vice.
Kyle Reeder
2024-01-23 21:01:23 +0000 UTCProbably because I usually don’t see it till I wake up but I was up partying late! My bad, sir
Billy Jay
2024-01-23 18:10:27 +0000 UTCIn what way? It dropped at midnight/est like always. - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2024-01-23 18:06:59 +0000 UTCAlright. I'll just listen to the episode.
John Locke
2024-01-23 17:57:54 +0000 UTC"Hey kewl I have no feet!"
Matt
2024-01-23 17:51:34 +0000 UTCYou're better off. Movie was terrible. And not the good kind.
Frank Grimes
2024-01-23 17:50:20 +0000 UTCPlease tell Steve I miss the VHS trailer game dearly, his work as the Jame Master is beloved by this man. Also, Eric's Schwarzenegger EZ Pass joke is my favorite of 2024 so far
Smaug
2024-01-23 15:30:24 +0000 UTCI'm 5 minutes into this movie and I already hate it. Maybe I'll just listen to the episode blind.
John Locke
2024-01-23 15:19:32 +0000 UTCSTONEHOUSE!!
James C Harris
2024-01-23 14:58:06 +0000 UTCNow I need Felipe to draw them as 4 anthropomorphized letter "A"s
Smaug
2024-01-23 14:40:06 +0000 UTCMore Toll Road riffs! Toll! Toll! Toll!
Dominic Kovell
2024-01-23 12:27:39 +0000 UTCgod what a shitshow of a film. I generally liked the franchise (part 2 being the best of them)...but this was the definition of phoned in. Lots of the scenes looked green screened (those boat scenes looked so fake)....and my mind was boggled when they played a 50 Cent song in film...like is there a 50 Cent equivalent in universe, who also looks like the character 50 plays? This was basically a handoff to Statham, but was done so bad. To cleanse your pallet, watch the Bee Keeper for a better Statham film
Frank Grimes
2024-01-23 11:17:23 +0000 UTC4ndrew, C4bin, Szyszk4 and S4jd4k
Felipe Sobreiro
2024-01-23 10:52:23 +0000 UTCToll road is by far my favorite character having only experienced theses movies through whm episodes
gavin
2024-01-23 08:27:54 +0000 UTCAn actual toll road has a bigger fan club
T wilk
2024-01-23 07:11:15 +0000 UTCLarry with that horrific Liefeldian toothy grimace is certainly an image.
Felix Forrester
2024-01-23 06:37:54 +0000 UTCI know "Larry the Cable" is likely just a typo, but I'm imagining Larry as drawn by Rob Liefeld and cackling my head off.
John Edwards
2024-01-23 06:30:35 +0000 UTCToll Road fan club rise up
Luke Witherell
2024-01-23 06:15:13 +0000 UTC"Pussy Christmas" is absolutely my new drag name.
Felix Forrester
2024-01-23 05:49:38 +0000 UTCWe H8 Movies
Paul
2024-01-23 05:26:23 +0000 UTCWow!! Weird release time
Billy Jay
2024-01-23 05:03:31 +0000 UTC
