A Rather Expendable Trailer for 'The Expendables'

Sylvester Stallone will bring The Expendables to theaters next August (originally April), and the thing I'm most interested in seeing is not the movie itself or even the rag-tag collection of talent, which you'd hardly call A-list across the board, but rather whether or not this movie really scores with audiences. I really don't know what the response will be. Rambo did OK, none of Jason Statham's movies are hits, Jet Li is hardly bankable, and on and on it goes. To a large degree, these guys draw the same crowd, so it's hard to look at the ensemble and think it's going to be a $100 million movie or anything. But let's say it does put up that kind of number; how many copycats will this one inspire? So there's finally a trailer for The Expendables and you can form your own opinions. Feel free to share it, by the way. I'm genuinely curious about what audiences will do with this movie. The official release date is August 20th, and that's the Inglourious Basterds weekend from this year. As a trailer, I have to say this one is incredibly disjointed. Bad, bad editing, and man, are they trying to find some catchphrases. The opening bit is really good, but everything else seems awfully unfocused.

Comments

[Nick C.]

The trailer should have been cut to 1:15 instead of 3:04.
They basically just showed us the entire movie.
Thats probably why it comes off as unfocused, they put way too much into the trailer, hard to keep it short and sweet when it runs almost a minute longer than most academy worthy film's trailers =P

[knives]

Terrible, terrible trailer, but the movie at least looks funny in a so bad its good way. I'd watch it as a Black Dynamite for war movies thing.

[craig]

Sly Stallone looks like the Madame Tussauds version of himself. Sly...lay off the nip and tucks bro. After seeing this trailer I can now say Stalloe would have been better off making a sequel to Tango and Cash.

[Emo]

I can't watch the trailer.....it now says "This video is not available in your country due to copyright restrictions"

[Get The Big Picture]

Should be working now.

[sammydb]

"your hairdresser!" man, i can hardly wait to never ever watch this film.

[Asana]

Oh this looks to be crap-tastic!

[mdamien13]

I kept waiting to see the names Golan/Globus pop up there. This looks like pure 80's schlock - the type that would have been on the video shelves from Trimark or Cannon back in the day w/ an awesome oil-painted box cover.

In the spirit of being an over-the-top 80's action movie it's nice that they gave us a clunky, 80's style trailer.