They're simple films, so no part of any discerning moviegoers brains should be feeling particularly "rewarded" for watching any The Expendables movies, but they come away having a good time, regardless. That's why I say they ARE definitively "fun" (not an antonym), and an absolute guilty pleasure.
I'm sorry, but I just cannot agree with this.
You have your own opinion on the film, that's okay, you liked it because of this or that, that's alright too, but don't write generalizations like this, please.
I wrote explained, specified examples. Who's the one generalizing? I'd say it's the one who says, flat-out, "[this is] an antonym for 'fun'". Not "I think it is", no, "is". Fact of the matter is, opinion aside, the movies ARE fun. Mindless fun, and that doesn't mean they're definitively boring or definitively exciting; those are separate notions to whether they're fun. You can have fun and still be bored, after all, otherwise kids wouldn't burn ants with magnifying lenses. Whether the movies bore you or not does not immediately make them unfun.
I'm sorry, I hate self-quoting, but I have to do this:
The Expendables are an antonym for "fun", if you ask me.
That's a personal opinion. My own opinion about the film. I'm not generalizing that it's not fun for everybody. I'm saying it wasn't fun for me. Either you read it wrong, or I don't know...
In the following post, I wrote that I know several more people who didn't think it was fun. And that I do. Granted, I cannot offer any substantial evidence about that at this moment, given that it is impossible since none of those people are members of this forums making it impossible for them to confirm my story, but whether you want to give me the benefit of the doubt is up to you.
As for the statement itself, that the film is not fun (again, from my perspective), that is hardly a generalization. Because, for me, it wasn't. And it's the personal opinion that matters here.
Fact of the matter is, opinion aside, the movies ARE fun.
I'm sorry, again, I think this is really wrong.
A film, any film (or any work of art for that matter), is prone and supposed to be evaluated by the personal and subjective impression of the viewers. There is not some objective matter of evaluation so that you could simply label it "opinions aside". That's just wrong in itself. If you remove the personal opinion about films, then there's nothing left.
So no, you cannot say that opinions aside, films are fun. That's a generalization, not a fact.
Not every film is fun, not for me, no. And I'm not putting this in a general context, I'm not trying to shove an opinion down a someone's throat, I'm merely pointing out that the particular film was utter shit for me and not fun. And I do not see how anyone or anybody can change my opinion about that.
Whether the movies bore you or not does not immediately make them unfun.
If a film does bore me and offers me no satisfaction whatsoever, be it in the terms of storyline, quality of cinematography, music, acting or whatever other aspect there is, then yes, I will label it unfun. Little details which may be somewhat worthy are not automatically an redeeming factor and hardly change my opinion. So yeah, when it comes to films like
The Expendables which, in my opinion, weren't supposed to be anything more that a "fun generator" to begin with, and they fail at it, yeah, there's no saving grace. They are not fun, they're pure rubbish and I hardly see a reason why I should watch them again or why I should try to pick out the good (which I find to be almost nonexistent here) from the bad.
Tastes differ. Like I've said, if you enjoyed the film, that's all right, but please, do not try to persuade me into saying it was fun or that I liked it, because, given the direction in which this conversation goes, I'm getting a strange feeling that it is exactly what you're trying to do.
