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has anyone listened to the commentary on the Expendables DVD. It's funny to listen to Stallone act like he knows what he's on about lol

Plus the outtakes on that DVD are actualy very very funny.
(As is the terrible quality of the script of the actually movie)

I'm up to Tomb of the Cybermen but it's taken me nearly two years so you'll be over-taking me pretty soon.

I find classic Who is much more ideas-driven than nu-Who. It's the slow pace that took me a while to get used to.

well I'm a big fan of film noir and older westerns etc so the slow pace was no problem to me lol

Interesting that you're doing this, as my friend karen has recently done the same thing (she's currently up to the sunmakers) and she's loving them. Im an old fan, i grew up with it (earliest memory of the series being planet of the spiders pt 6), but dont watch it any more. While i still enjoy the proper series, especially hartnell and mccoy, i lost interest with the new version soon after that gurning arse david tennant took over, and from what ive seen of it under moffat it'll just make me angry.
My 'favourite bits'- hartnell up to the dalek invasion of earth, season seven, final tom year and seasons 25 and 26, along with the virgin New Adventures range, will always be amongst the things that please me the most, but i would no more go out of my way to watch the thing that goes out under a dr who logo now, than i would sit down and watch 80s and 90s Star Trek.
Enjoy the marathon. Karen tells me it's been great fun!
SBT

I think a few fans tentatively knock the idea about for a while - but the logistics and cost etc often get in the way - but since I've been 'subscribing' to lovefilm then the idea has become more viable i guess, plus I don't mind alot paying out for the audio/recons etc for the missing episodes (though I may change my mind when it comes to the 2nd doctor series as most of his are flipping missing!).

I actually started early on last year doing this, but lost interest when I stumbled on missing episodes. So I've restarted, and I have to say I'm only on 'the daleks' lol Its a daunting task to be honest since I watch perhaps 2 'epsiodes'/dvds a week and it'll probably take me until I'm in my late 30s to watch all the series lol (well that may be an exageration...maybe until I'm 32).

As for new Who;
I loved Eccleston as the Doctor, and still think that initial series was the best of the new series. But I too wasn't a huge fan of tenant, nor am I a fan of having a Doctor who gets progressively younger and younger - my favorite doctors are 1sr-2nd-4th-7th and 9th - so basically I don't know exactly the runing trend in those particular Doctors, but in my mind the Doctor should be in his late 30s/40s at least lol I do think that Smith will get better with age, but since the doctor has a 1 - 4 year shelf life these days, and Smith's doctor is basically a carrying on of tenants 10th in his character, then audiences may get bored of smith quicker and before he gets really good in the role. I am a fan of steven moffatt and especially his writing for the 10th doctor, and the Sherlock series, but his Doctor Who writing seems dumbed down sometimes, primarily targeting the kids auidence, and verging on Harry Potter territory. of course, the latter points do mean more new and younger fans tune in,and more chance of a movie being financed - and i guess Doctor Who has always straddled the divide between Kids-TV and sci-fi Drama.

I like the look of this very much!
When is it released???

Does look distinctly Dredd-like! with Karl Urban in it to boot in a sort tale of the dead man walking garb - film looks like it has some great casting and great sfx as well...I guess the director must have shovelled some money used on Legion (relatively lower budget) onto Priest maybe.

And Paul bettany is definately shaping up to be a great action star.

I love Doctor Who, I guess because of the nostalgia it contains for me, it's legacy as the longest running most successful scifi series, and probably it's innovative origins.
Currently I've started watching every episode and series of Doctor Who starting from the 1960s Hartnell beginning era onwards in consequetive order - I guess this is a  quite obsessive task to take on - lol - but watching the old (and first) series of doctor who and I find them more entertaining and interesting compared to the new series.

So are there any WHO fans or Whovians on here - that are also watching past episodes - or have an opinion on the new series, or the future of doctor who? Speculation and Spoilers are fine , up to you guys if you want to blank them out.

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Ok,
A) My own personal Expendables team/'Deadmen Ten' (catchy ey?!) so far are:
01. Sylvester Stallone
02. Mickey Rourke
03. Jason Statham
04. Jet Li
05. Dolph Lundgren
06. Tom Hardy
07. Liam Neeson
08. Terry Crews
09. Bruce Willis
10. Nicolas Cage

With Standbys:
Paul Bettany
Sam Worthington
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Jean Claude Van Damme
Vin Diesel
Wesley Snipes
Gerrard Butler
Ray Stevenson
and Mel Gibson would definately be in there if he wasn't such a racist as maybe other cast members maynot work with him.

B) My Bruce Campbell team of expendable Expendables are:
01. Bruce Campbell
02. Robert Englund
03. Tony Todd
04. Ken Foree
05. Fred Williamson
06. Mr T.
07. Bill Paxton
08. Grand L. Bush
09. William Shatner
10. Jesse Ventura
11. Lee Majors
12. Marc Singer
13. Lou Ferrigno
14. Jan-Michael Vincent
15. Eric Estrada

is jet li actually threatening in the expendables?

Not really, but the fight between him and Dolph Lungren had the best line in the film.

"Bring it, Happy Feet!"

well it was more a problem with the way it was directed...and by proxy the screenplay...that Jet Li didn't come off as lethal as the others, his brand of action hero didn't mix well with the testosterone drivel driven muscled bravado of the rest of the Expendables.

Chuck Norris is so badass he accidently punched his cameo in the original film out of existence

lol I have a whole book full of those!

is jet li actually threatening in the expendables?

I think we should continue to come up with Stallone's action hero Expendables mark2, as well as bruce Campbells alternate 80s horror /action film expendables lol

Apparently Bruce Campbell is going for a horror expendables vibe for My Name Is Still Bruce, dunno who he'll have in it though. He's mentioned Robert Englund, other than that I'd imagine folks like Tony Todd and Gunner Hansen will be in it. Might be a laugh.

now that would be cool - if they actually script it well that'd be better.

No - my question is in regard to Sly Stalones Expendables movie -
I was looking at the lineup that may have been in that movie if sly had pulled it off and how it had to be changed etc

I'm not a fan of the movie - though it does 'what it says on the tin' - but it got me thinking who I'd cast in an 'expendables' movie i.e. a men-on-a-mission semi-homage to 1980s action movies.

Winona Ryder told an anecdote recently where she met Mel in '95 at some party and he off-handedly referred to Jews as "oven-dodgers", which is pretty much as horrifying as racial slurs get.

That's crazy - like many ahve said, Gibson clearly has issues.

But again, I agree with the few chaps who set apart the personal from the career - although, if I was a director on a project thinking about getting Gibson, I certainly wouldnt want a holcaust denyer or someone pro-holocaust, or a nazi for that matter - plus i'd be worried that this guys issues would leak onto set or that other actors would refuse to work with him.

"Coming soon... Mel Gibson in Jodie Foster's Beaver".

I have never been happier than i am now.

SBT

lol isnt Jodie Foster a lesbian?

Who would your Expendables be!? i.e. a group of 7 to 10 of the greatest, or your favorite action (movie) stars?

Watched Apocalypto last night.  Nonsense, but rather fabulous nonsense - terrificly tense last hour.   The man clearly still has talent to burn.

Got to say I really enjoyed that film. On a similar theme, have you seen Aguirre, the Wrath of God? I haven't seen it for many years but I did buy it for someone for Xmas as part of a box set. Compelling stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q3D0h4xCro

Mel Gibson is quite the paradox to me;
He's good onscreen in most stuff he's done, and yet he's a complete moron in personal life so it seems - obviously i'd see no problem with that, if it didnt have an impact on other actors decisions to work with him.
His movies that he's directed are also quite good, though I wasn't a fan of The Passion at all really.

This may be controversial - But I'd like to see Gibson direct his own version of a Mad Max sequel to rival George Miller and Tom Hardy's -like when a roger moore bond movie and a sean connery bond movie were released the same year.

Oh yeah, and the werner herzog/klaus kinski boxset is well worth thebuy!