Anti-Productivity: The Expendables Trailer That Sells the Movie RIGHT

Topic started by Alex on July 13, 2010. Last post by HattieSandelson 2 years, 10 months ago.
Post by TrueEnglishGent (195 posts) See mini bio
Brilliant trailer :D
Post by HODGEY3000 (9 posts) See mini bio

just awsome
Post by danimal_furry (148 posts) See mini bio
This isn't sexist. It says what everyone is thinking. I know 3 women that are going with me to see this opening day. They'd rather see every action hero ever blow stuff up in massive explosions and kill hundreds of nameless badguys. Of course, I watch Die Hard every Valentine's Day. Take me the way I am.
Post by TheHT (297 posts) See mini bio
@Martin_Blank said:
" Chick flicks always win. 
  "
Oh geez, who the hell is that?
Post by Steve (38 posts) See mini bio
You gain a full deck of man cards by seeing this movie
Post by gla55jAw (176 posts) See mini bio
Putting aside that this is the best trailer and trailer music ever, I just realized the Old Spice guy is in the movie!
Post by johnnydamage (348 posts) See mini bio
@SnakeEyes327: those are fucking sissy ass pussy's that this trailer was actually made to weed out.  As Fidel Castro once said "We don't need them, We don't want them"  Let them go watch the Notebook.  Still, this is a popcorn movie and has HUGE chance of just being ridiculously horrible, or just a lot of fun in a Desperado/Once upon a time in Mexico kind of fun.  Man I hope it's good.
Post by CherryBomb (1,262 posts) See mini bio
Women rule this world.  [:  men just don't know it yet.
Post by MarkWahlberg (464 posts) See mini bio
@Ohvee: Oh , no, the trailer was fucking great, I'm just annoyed that, for a movie that's supposed to be all about 80's action flicks, they have a bunch of people with careers that started in the 00's and aren't even action stars, yet they try to pretend they are. It's weird.
Post by Adam (7 posts) See mini bio
This is how you do a trailer.  SO HYPED.
Post by Turtlefuzz (54 posts) See mini bio
That was the best thing ever created by man.
Post by Beomoose (74 posts) See mini bio
Dude, YES!
Post by BaneFireLord (137 posts) See mini bio
Now I actually want to see this.
Post by RipTheVeins (47 posts) See mini bio
I got wet. (without even trying).
Post by Jesus (315 posts) See mini bio
OK now I want to see this,
Post by TheMathlete (32 posts) See mini bio
Looks like the video was pulled.  Didn't even get a chance to see it...
Post by agassyoldman (1 posts) See mini bio
Post by HattieSandelson (86 posts) See mini bio
MPAA filed a copyright claim and now I cannot watch the trailer on YouTube. So, now that I cannot see a good trailer for the movie I am not enthusiastic or interested about it and I won't bother seeing it. Congratulations MPAA, you have once again succeeded against your own interests.
 
edit: After watching the "official" trailer, I'm even less excited. That trailer told me almost nothing about the movie and was totally boring. From reading the comments on here it seems like the trailer posted in the article was much better. So, whatever mega-conglomerate studio made this expendable movie  is more concerned about controlling the marketing for the movie its own way than about marketing the moviie in a way that will make people want to actually see it. All movie studios are idiots about marketing their own movies. Yes, this is painting with an extremely broad brush. No, I don't care.
 
 
edit2: Okay, now I have seen the trailer everyone's talking about on another site. And that trailer actually succeeds as a trailer in giving me a reason to go to a theater and watch this movie. It is also approximately 10000000000x better than the official trailer. The only question is, why are movie studios such asshole nimrods at marketing? Dude, seriously, jeez.
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Name The Expendables
US Release Aug. 13, 2010
UK Release Aug. 20, 2010
AUS Release Aug. 12, 2010
Runtime 103
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    Domestic $103,068,524
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  • = total worldwide gross $274,470,394
  • - a reported budget of $80,000,000
  • = a 243.1% net profit of $194,470,394
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