That movie about Jason Statham and some old guy from '80s throwing knives at Cubans

Magus · 08-14-2010, 01:28 AM

or maybe they weren't Cubans but it was basically supposed to be like Cuba, except it was led by Detective Angel from Dexter instead of Castro and Salvatore Maroni from The Dark Knight was his secret boss.

I couldn't understand anything anyone said in this film. There was this scene where the old fat guy spoke in some kind of weird guttural English and had a conversation with Jet Li in this truck about how Jet Li needs more money because he's shorter (that was about all I could figure out) before they started getting chased by Dolph Lundgren for some reason and I couldn't understand anything anyone said.

Actually even when people in this movie spoke plain English I couldn't figure out what they were talking about. Like I heard a lot of lines that sounded suspiciously like they might be jokes or one-liners but they either didn't make sense or were really awful. Some of them made absolutely no sense at all, I don't know if the director is American or not. If you see the movie you'll know what I mean, there are entire conversations that go around in circles between this elite fighting team and then they just sort of end out of nowhere when Jason Statham says something like "maybe you should've polished your shoes better!" and everyone starts laughing like the other guy totally just got told.

Like there was some scene where Bruce Willis was talking to Arnold Schwarzzenagger and this old guy and I could understand what Bruce Willis was saying but without the context of what the other two guys were saying I was a bit lost. Also there was this point where both Schwarzzenagger and the old guy said "That's right" (I think) because they both knew it was right, but then Willis said, "That's right" too, even though he WOULDN'T know. It was really weird.

Anyway, this is one of the more exciting foreign films I've seen this year (at times, a lot of the action was actually not very good if it didn't involve Jet Li or Jason Statham) but I wish it had subtitles so I could understand what people in it were saying, especially that old guy with the beard. He kinda looks like that guy from Rocky but if that guy aged about 40 years and failed to attend even one speech therapy class in all that time, which I find unthinkable.

Anyway, this movie is called The Expendables, I think. I wouldn't recommend seeing it in theaters, I think we should wait until the DVD is available so we can watch it with English subtitles.

08-14-2010, 01:28 AM	#1
Magus Archer and Armstrong vs. the World Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 7,164	That movie about Jason Statham and some old guy from '80s throwing knives at Cubans or maybe they weren't Cubans but it was basically supposed to be like Cuba, except it was led by Detective Angel from Dexter instead of Castro and Salvatore Maroni from The Dark Knight was his secret boss. I couldn't understand anything anyone said in this film. There was this scene where the old fat guy spoke in some kind of weird guttural English and had a conversation with Jet Li in this truck about how Jet Li needs more money because he's shorter (that was about all I could figure out) before they started getting chased by Dolph Lundgren for some reason and I couldn't understand anything anyone said. Actually even when people in this movie spoke plain English I couldn't figure out what they were talking about. Like I heard a lot of lines that sounded suspiciously like they might be jokes or one-liners but they either didn't make sense or were really awful. Some of them made absolutely no sense at all, I don't know if the director is American or not. If you see the movie you'll know what I mean, there are entire conversations that go around in circles between this elite fighting team and then they just sort of end out of nowhere when Jason Statham says something like "maybe you should've polished your shoes better!" and everyone starts laughing like the other guy totally just got told. Like there was some scene where Bruce Willis was talking to Arnold Schwarzzenagger and this old guy and I could understand what Bruce Willis was saying but without the context of what the other two guys were saying I was a bit lost. Also there was this point where both Schwarzzenagger and the old guy said "That's right" (I think) because they both knew it was right, but then Willis said, "That's right" too, even though he WOULDN'T know. It was really weird. Anyway, this is one of the more exciting foreign films I've seen this year (at times, a lot of the action was actually not very good if it didn't involve Jet Li or Jason Statham) but I wish it had subtitles so I could understand what people in it were saying, especially that old guy with the beard. He kinda looks like that guy from Rocky but if that guy aged about 40 years and failed to attend even one speech therapy class in all that time, which I find unthinkable. Anyway, this movie is called The Expendables, I think. I wouldn't recommend seeing it in theaters, I think we should wait until the DVD is available so we can watch it with English subtitles.