I cannot help it. I cannot tell a lie.
One of my favorite movie theater experiences in the past few years was watching the new RAMBO at AMC Burbank with one of my best friends in a theater that was 98% testosterone. I was filled with adrenaline flavored awesomeness as Stallone pumped up the body count with such gleeful abandon that my one regret is that there wasn’t a DVD featurette about squibs, carnage, and evisceration. I felt like a kid again.
Now that I’ve finally seen the trailer for THE EXPENDABLES, it looks like this film will rupture my heart from all the testosterone-induced manliness it will provide me.
This is what I know. Stallone wrote, directed, starred and produced a movie that also stars Jason Statham, Jet Li, Randy Couture, Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts, Danny Trejo, Steve Austin, and Terry Crews. They blow a lot of shit up and make a lot of jokes. Charisma Carpenter and Brittany Murphy are in it as well, although they may only be in it to look super hot. I’ll live.
Oh. One other thing. Stallone, Bruce Willis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger will all appear in an extended scene together. For the first time ever.
I loved it when DeNiro and Pacino appeared together for the first time in HEAT. However, I’m sorry, Michael Mann – but you wasted the opportunity by making that pairing a ‘talking-heads’ thing, and rarely had the two of them in the same shot (something Soderbergh avoided in the OCEAN movies).
This…. this is an action fan’s Holy Grail. If I get to see a few shots of all three of them in one frame… and if Arnold gets to say ‘I’ll be back’ like he had to for every film he was in, and if he has to explain his accent to his European background, and if Sly gets to make some sort of ‘Rambo was a pussy’ comment like he did in TANGO & CASH, and if Arnie and Sly get to smack hands together, which will cause their muscles to flex, and they get to have a ‘muscle-off,’ and then Bruce gets to wisecrack on screen with ‘Ode To Joy’ in the background and say ‘Yippee-Kay-Yay Motherfucker’ or even ‘come to the coast, we’ll get together, have a few laughs….’
I might actually cry tears of joy. And then those tears will beat each other senseless and say something cool like “Get your ass back to Mars.”
Clink on this link and watch it well.
The goodness will arrive April 23, 2010.
Also agree with #1. Every single time First Blood is on TV I watch it (which has been happening a lot on AMC). Just a damn good movie. Really original protagonist and some really good antagonists too.
Yup I agree. Even though THE EXPENDABLES didn’t match my enthusiasm for the hype… it was still just a nice fun throwback to what I grew up with….
Very glad you agree, There’s not enough Stallone love nowadays us there? Did you know that in the books, John Rambo is half-Native American?