Oh, you don't say. We all watched it at the cinema because "Final Flight of the Osiris" played with it.

I watched John Carter last night, whilst not an amazing film it shouldn't have been the biggest flop of recent memory. It was pretty enjoyable and I rather liked how the ending felt like an ending.

I know the plan was to come back and do 12 more but it was nice not to end on godzillas egg hatching or what have you.

Amen, Doty. I fucking loved that movie for the exact same reasons.

I dunno, I remember seeing that finale from Rambo in a packed theater when it came out, and it was incredible. The audience lost their minds. You're focusing on the gore aspect, but the awesome thing about the Rambo finale is just the degree to which it stacks multiple levels of violent action. You've got this squad of ultimate badasses, and they're all bloodily scraping by fighting for every inch, and it's all happening very fast and cross-cutting. No slow motion, as soon as one of them takes down an enemy, they're diving behind cover and taking the next guy down, and it's relentless. I don't think it got enough credit for how fresh that was, certainly no american action movie had done anything like that off the top of my head, though admittedly you did see that stuff in Korea and HK.

The movie as a whole is too bleak and exploitative in my opinion, but the last half an hour kills. It's kind of disappointing though that he rehashed basically the same ending/editing-style/concept for all 3 expendables movies' finales, to diminishing and increasingly watered down results with each.

*looks at writers*

*no Lindelof*

I might give it a chance.