"The Expendables" and "Transformers" have many similarities. When these two major series of movies first came out, they all played the signs of the past and sold the "feelings" of the past.
Needless to say, "Transformers" can bring Optimus Prime and Bumblebee and his brother to life on the big screen, it is enough to let a large number of generations born in the 70s and 80s buy tickets frantically to enter the show. "The Expendables" is the same. You can see Stallone, Schwarzenegger, and Bruce Willis standing side by side. Rimbaud and the Terminator form the same line, and a movie ticket is worth the money.
It's just that the old "feelings" can only be consumed once. The audience is very realistic, and no one will buy it if you play too much of the same trick. When "Transformers" came out to 4 and "The Expendables" came out to 3, just relying on iron heroes and human tough guys is not enough to attract audiences to buy tickets.
In this way, in order to find a new selling point, Michael Bay began to sell iron, and Stallone began to sell meat.
The former has continuously added special effects shots in movies, so that there are fewer and fewer plot elements and more and more fighting scenes. "Transformers" is longer than the other, and the added time is all thrilling battle scenes. So when it came out to the fourth part, almost except for the overwhelming placement of ads, it was the battle scene of tin cans in darkness.
Stallone continued to seek new muscle elements, almost wanting to sell all the old muscle heroes who are still alive on the screen. The new heroes are "Zorro" Antonio Banderas, "Blade Warrior" Snipes and the great "Indiana Jones" Harrison Ford. Of course, this approach is still effective so far. When the government agent played by Harrison Ford appeared on the screen, I couldn't help but sigh, "Oh, isn't this Captain Thoreau who is playing soy sauce?"
However, the selling point of these two films is limited to this. "Change 4" doesn't need to be said any more, the overwhelming bad reviews on the Internet have sprayed all the vomiting slots seventeen or eight times. And "The Expendables 3" is not much better, the whole story has little plot at all, and all that is left is the almost overflowing male hormones-1. Characterization of facial makeup: all the members of the Expendables team and the newly added " "Death Squad Youth League", there is no sense of disobedience to change the name other than the Spaniard; 2. The storyline is flat: there are few foreshadowings and foreshadowings, and no emotional sublimation, the climax of the plot depends entirely on firefights and explosions; 3. The villain Mentally weakened: The enemy's combat effectiveness is extremely weak, and the entire large number of live target squadrons; the big boss is also extremely retarded, and there have been countless opportunities to put people to death, but they refused to start, and were finally wiped out.
Continue to shoot according to this routine, I am afraid the "Expendables" series will come to an end. "Transformers" can at least continue to sell thanks to its wonderful special effects. Anyway, everyone just spends money to watch the robot pinch a picture for fun. No matter how bad the plot is, it won't lose a ticket for more than 160 minutes. But what about "The Expendables"? The action scenes are even far less exciting than the Indonesian "Assault" series-after all, this group of people have reached the age of Lianpo, and their skills are not as good as before.
Time is not forgiving, and you must obey the old when you are a man. Apart from fame, this group of elderly death squads has little left. In short, "Transformers" can still go to the dark with special effects, and Stallone and his late heroes have not enough capital to continue the story.
In my opinion, if Stallone still wants to make "The Expendables 4", it's time to find a good screenwriter to grind the plot.
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PS: I have seen many bean friends who think that action movies don’t need a plot, as long as the scenes are exciting enough. . In fact, I very much agree with this point of view, but the action scene of "The Expendables 4" is not much better than the pale plot in my opinion. Especially in the climax part, it was completely a one-sided victory of the righteous side, which made people look dull.
For example, watching a boxing event where Tyson fights Holyfield, which is called wonderful; if it is Tyson Haibian Xiao Shenyang, this is not worth seeing. Another example is watching a football game, Germany and Argentina meet on a narrow road, this is worth seeing; if it is replaced by a German chariot smashing the national football, I am afraid it will be boring, right?
A movie can have no plot, but it can't be without a climax. Either you push it with subtle plots or exciting scenes to inspire it, either. But if you don't have both, then nothing is justified.
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