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THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN MOVIE TRAILER.ENJOY IT
The Magnificent Seven is the all time Greatest Western movie made in 1960,and now 50 years later Sylvester Stallone/Rocky and Rambo the crusaders of the West/ has made the best cult movie of our time the Expendables.Those muscle bound stone cold modern day cowboys are without mercy destroying the enemies of the West,just like their predecessors did in the Magnificent Seven in their times by destroying the ruthless Mexican bandits and saving the peaceful village thereby ensuring the reign of good and defeating evil.The character of Calvera/Eli Wallach-must be an evil Jew/ the leader of the bandits is eternal,it represents all dictators from History,and likewise the characters of Chris and his bodies are representing the Heroes of History.Yul Brunner/the symbol of the glorious American power-the pax Americana/ and the rest of his company were some of the biggest stars of their time and now in the Expendables Stallone has managed the same the biggest action movie heroes are working together in this outstanding piece of work.Behind the action packed story defeating a deranged thirdworld banana republic dictator the movie has 4 Universal messages.First when Arnold Schwarzenegger Hollywood Greatest Star appears in the church and Stallone declare it to the world He wants to be the President in front of Bruce Willis.After that Arnold leaves the church in a blaze of glory disappearing in the heavenly light.Second when Jason Statham /the best white fighter to face up to the darkie challenge/introducing himself and Stallone to Sandra by saying Im Buda and pointing his finger towards Stallone say it and he is Pest.then Stallone noods and murmuring in a deep voiceBudapest nice./no kidding its beautiful/.Third when the fanatic darkie dictator screams out in vain kill this American disease.thereby declaring the point of view how the third world universally hates the White West,and by feeling its growing weakness are now openly challenge it.And fourth when at the beggining of the movie the Expendables are facing up to the Musli Somali Negro pirate Terrorists ,Whom are just about to slaughter a bunch of Whiteys and while Stallone and his crew are trying to negotiate a deal with the savage pirates offering a huge ransom in return for the release of the hostages,but the leader of the dark animals are trying to be a smart ass he wants the millions of dollars but he couldnt resist his animal instinct his eyes are red bulging his mouth is foaming he have to slaughter those helpless white bookworms cut them to pieces and like a true negro cannibal drink their blood eat their brain with his stinking finger chew their guts and feel the victory of the wild beast which he is.Than suddenly a White Hero Dolph Lundgren/Gunner-a blond Aryan Hardrock junkie/gives a swift solution to the problem by blowing the faithless nigger animal with his shotgun into two pieces thereby indicating that the enemies of the White Christian West are going to be dealt with the appropriate measures.So its a huge feat for Stallone directing work,not only has he managed to make the most violent and real legendary cult movie but hes succeded to put a much deeper meaning into his blockbuster.The good news now we just have to wait for The Expendables 2.
The Magnificent Seven the all Time Greatest Wild West Cult Movie from 1960 Featuring Yul Brunner Steve McQueen Horst Buchholz Charles Bronson Robert Vaughn Brad Dexter James Coburn. All those guys were the Heroes of the West in their Time. The Magnificent Seven (1960) appears at a crossroads in the Western and reflects changes that were occurring in the genre--as well as likely influencing further developments. Besides being a Western, this film is a precursor of the vigilante film, where the corrupt and/or ineffectual law leads citizens to look elsewhere. Director John Sturges made The Magnificent Seven in between his two Earp-Holliday films, Gunfight at the OK Corral and Hour of the Gun, expanding his portrayal of an uneasy friendship to this brotherhood of misfits. Many of the misfits from The Magnificent Seven worked again with Sturges on The Great Escape, while Yul Brynner went on alone to The Return of the Magnificent Seven (1966). The Magnificent Seven belongs to an era when Hollywood strived to create bigger and bigger movies--to compete with television. This, of course, was the time of How the West Was Won and The Alamo, two huge Westerns, filmed in widescreen format with all-star casts. The Magnificent Seven is the all time Greatest Western movie made in 1960,and now 50 years later Sylvester Stallone/Rocky and Rambo the crusaders of the West/ has made the best cult movie of our time the Expendables.Those muscle bound stone cold modern day cowboys are without mercy destroying the enemies of the West,just like their predecessors did in the Magnificent Seven in their times by destroying the ruthless Mexican bandits and saving the peaceful village thereby ensuring the reign of good and defeating evil.The character of Calvera/Eli Wallach-must be an evil Jew/ the leader of the bandits is eternal,it represents all dictators from History,and likewise the characters of Chris and his bodies are representing the Heroes of History.Yul Brunner/the symbol of the glorious American power-the pax Americana/ and the rest of his company were some of the biggest stars of their time and now in the Expendables Stallone has managed the same the biggest action movie heroes are working together in this outstanding piece of work.Behind the action packed story defeating a deranged thirdworld banana republic dictator the movie has 4 Universal messages.First when Arnold Schwarzenegger Hollywood Greatest Star appears in the church and Stallone declare it to the world He wants to be the President in front of Bruce Willis.After that Arnold leaves the church in a blaze of glory disappearing in the heavenly light.Second when Jason Statham /the best white fighter to face up to the darkie challenge/introducing himself and Stallone to Sandra by saying Im Buda and pointing his finger towards Stallone say it and he is Pest.then Stallone noods and murmuring in a deep voiceBudapest nice./no kidding its beautiful/.Third when the fanatic darkie dictator screams out in vain kill this American disease.thereby declaring the point of view how the third world universally hates the White West,and by feeling its growing weakness are now openly challenge it.And fourth when at the beggining of the movie the Expendables are facing up to the Musli Somali Negro pirate Terrorists ,Whom are just about to slaughter a bunch of Whiteys and while Stallone and his crew are trying to negotiate a deal with the savage pirates offering a huge ransom in return for the release of the hostages,but the leader of the dark animals are trying to be a smart ass he wants the millions of dollars but he couldnt resist his animal instinct his eyes are red bulging his mouth is foaming he have to slaughter those helpless white bookworms cut them to pieces and like a true negro cannibal drink their blood eat their brain with his stinking finger chew their guts and feel the victory of the wild beast which he is.Than suddenly a White Hero Dolph Lundgren/Gunner-a blond Aryan Hardrock junkie/gives a swift solution to the problem by blowing the faithless nigger animal with his shotgun into two pieces thereby indicating that the enemies of the White Christian West are going to be dealt with the appropriate measures.So its a huge feat for Stallone directing work,not only has he managed to make the most violent and real legendary cult movie but hes succeded to put a much deeper meaning into his blockbuster.The good news now we just have to wait for The Expendables 2.Brynner is the charismatic leader who recruits under-employed gunfighters for the low-paying, high-risk mission of saving an isolated Mexican village from a gang of bandits, led by Calvero, a scenery-chewing Eli Wallach. (Wallach built his early career on Hispanic roles, often as the villain, in films such as The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.) The film marked the early screen appearances of Steve McQueen and James Coburn, who were joined by Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, and Horst Buchholz. Elmer Bernstein’s score may actually play the largest role in the film, as the movie's theme and attitude is more important than dialogue--a style later exemplified by Sergio Leone.
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN STORY.ENJOY ITChris: Well, the graveyards are full of boys who were very young, and very proud. »
Chris Adams: No enemies?
Lee: Alive.
The Magnificent Seven marks the interesting intersection of the Western and directors Akira Kurosawa and Sergio Leone. Kurosawa cited John Ford as an influence on his work and the adaptation of Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai notes Hollywood’s appreciation of his work. Sturges also demonstrates with The Magnificent Seven the narrative possibilities with moving the Western below the Mexican border and presenting a multi-ethnic story. Not only did Leone pick up this challenge, he followed Sturges’ example and adapted Kurosawa’s Yojimbo as Fistful of Dollars--which was originally a short story by Dashiell Hammett that has most recently appeared as Walter Hill’s Last Man Standing.
The Magnificent Seven differs significantly in tone and outlook from Leone’s films or the work of Sam Peckinpah. There is little that is cynical or fatalistic in this film. The Mexican villagers actively participate in their defense. They are neither as helpless or as corrupt as the citizens of later Westerns or the vigilante films of Bronson and Eastwood. In many ways, their characterizations are more complex and interesting than the Seven. This is a Western that insists on believing in heroism and its victory--and that heroism is available to all men, not just the "professionals." 
Vin: We deal in lead, my friend. »
Vin: What you gonna do when Calvera comes?
Old Man: At my age, a little excitement is welcome. Don't worry. Why would he kill me? Bullets cost money. »
Vin: You elected?
Chris: Na. I got nominated real good
The Seven are magnificent as much for their ability to inspire as for their courage and ability with a gun. Chris Adams (Brynner) and Vin (Steve McQueen) first come to the attention of the villagers when they agree to drive the body of an Indian to Boot Hill. The riff-raff of this American border town have threatened to shoot anyone who would try to bury him. With nothing better to do, Chris and Vin take the opportunity to put the prejudiced yokels in their place--and then easily recruit pallbearers to place the Indian in his grave. The young Luis (Horst Buchholz) is drawn to Chris’ style and bravado, but he is denied full admittance to the brotherhood until he delivers a rousing speech to the villagers regarding their responsibilities: Chris listens to Luis, and then he says, "Now we are seven." (You may hum the theme song here if you wish. Dum, dum, da-dum ...) Old Man: At my age, a little excitement is welcome. Don't worry. Why would he kill me? Bullets cost money. »
Chris: Na. I got nominated real good
That is the magic of The Magnificent Seven. It manages to be a feel-good, hokey Western--during an increasingly cynical time. At the same time, it was well-made and complex enough to influence a score of filmmakers.
--by Elizabeth Abele
The Magnificent Seven Filmed in Mexico
The Magnificent Seven was filmed on location in Cuernavaca, Mexico, from March to April 1960. Yul Brynner was actually married on the set – to wife number two, Doris Kleiner – with props from the fiesta scene used in the subsequent reception.
A rivalry developed on the set between Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen, with the latter – nicknamed “Tricky Dick” because of his constant machinations – engaging in a covert campaign of scene stealing. After Brynner had built up a small mound of dirt in order to make himself look taller, the crafty McQueen gradually began kicking it away while speaking his lines, making Brynner look smaller
and smaller.
Steve McQueen: We Deal in Lead, Friend
Steve McQueen’s classic line – “We deal in lead, friend” – aptly sums up the plot in The Magnificent Seven. When Mexican villagers tire of the constant raids conducted by Calvera and his bandits, they enlist the help of Chris Adams, an American gun for hire.
The Magnificent Seven is packed with plenty of action and gunplay, with the body count eventually numbering 55 souls. One of the most memorable scenes is the gem introducing Britt, who is challenged to a fast-draw contest by a belligerent cowboy who pits his six-shooter against Britt’s knife. The man
loses, with the lightning-quick Britt planting his blade in the cowboy’s chest.
Charles Bronson, paid a modest $50,000 for his services, also has a good scene. Playing the half-Mexican, half-Irish Bernardo O’Reilly, Bronson lectures a young Mexican boy on the true nature of courage.Chico: Ah, that was the greatest shot I've ever seen.
Britt: The worst! I was aiming at the horse.
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN SECOND MOVIE TRAILER.ENJOY IT
The Magnificent Seven Filmed in Mexico
The Magnificent Seven was filmed on location in Cuernavaca, Mexico, from March to April 1960. Yul Brynner was actually married on the set – to wife number two, Doris Kleiner – with props from the fiesta scene used in the subsequent reception.
A rivalry developed on the set between Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen, with the latter – nicknamed “Tricky Dick” because of his constant machinations – engaging in a covert campaign of scene stealing. After Brynner had built up a small mound of dirt in order to make himself look taller, the crafty McQueen gradually began kicking it away while speaking his lines, making Brynner look smaller
and smaller.Steve McQueen: We Deal in Lead, Friend
Steve McQueen’s classic line – “We deal in lead, friend” – aptly sums up the plot in The Magnificent Seven. When Mexican villagers tire of the constant raids conducted by Calvera and his bandits, they enlist the help of Chris Adams, an American gun for hire.
THE LEGENDARY CLASH PERFORMING THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN.ENJOY IT
Chris methodically recruits six other gunslinging mercenaries. The last to be accepted is the youngest member, Chico, who was initially turned down after failing a test to measure his nerve and quick-draw skills.The Magnificent Seven is packed with plenty of action and gunplay, with the body count eventually numbering 55 souls. One of the most memorable scenes is the gem introducing Britt, who is challenged to a fast-draw contest by a belligerent cowboy who pits his six-shooter against Britt’s knife. The man
loses, with the lightning-quick Britt planting his blade in the cowboy’s chest.Charles Bronson, paid a modest $50,000 for his services, also has a good scene. Playing the half-Mexican, half-Irish Bernardo O’Reilly, Bronson lectures a young Mexican boy on the true nature of courage.Chico: Ah, that was the greatest shot I've ever seen.
Britt: The worst! I was aiming at the horse.
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN SECOND MOVIE TRAILER.ENJOY IT
Arnold Schwarzenegger Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis modern day Heroes of the West.
THE EXPENDABLES BASKETBALL FIGHT CLIP.ENJOY IT
The mostly all-male cast of “The Expendables” is led by star/writer/director Stallone as Barney Ross, the leader of a motley crew of super badasses who do super badass things like kill Somali pirates while cracking jokes and other super badass stuff. The crew includes Barney’s right-hand man, Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), Ying Yang (Jet Li), Toll Road (Randy Couture), and Hale Caesar (Terry Crews). (These are not, in case you haven’t figured it out by now, their real names.) Gunner Jensen (Dolph Lundgren) was a member of the gang, until the nose candy made him, ahem, expendable. There is a sixth pseudo member of the group, Barney’s old buddy Tool (Mickey Rourke), who has since retired and spends his time doing tattoos and acting as a go-between for Ross and future employers.
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In reality Jet wons the fight. But since this is a american movie and Stallone's movie Stallone needed the spot light (Stallone's film), so Stallone had to save him. It called PIS = Plot induced stupidity. Jet could've easily counter when he was held up in the air (We've seen him do it so many times in his other movies) He'll he could have just grappled and snapped Doplh's hand (Like in fist of legend). This movies= lacks good hand to hand fight scenes.Downplayed their hand to hand specialist
Why downplay their hand to hand specialist? So the other cast would be on the same level. Jet Li literally won 15 gold metals/ martial arts tournaments in real life. If he gave it his all it would be stealing the lime light. The other casts are great no question. Everyone have their unique talents in action, but Jet overwhelm them in the fighting coordination department. He had to tone it down.
The reason Chuck Norris was not in the expendables was because if he was they would have to fire everybody else, change the name of the movie to the invincibles, and the movie would just be Chuck Norris having sex with your mother and killing off all the terrorists with only round house kicks while shaving his pet dragons beard! 
No Joke: Steve Austin Nearly Killed Sly During The Expendables |
In an interview with FHM magazine (you respectable types won’t know what that is, so don’t you go Googling it now and get caught by the old lady, you’ll never be able to convince her you were doing it for research), Sylvester Stallone says that the fights on “The Expendables” were so realistic, he nearly died during one of them. No joke. Actually, it happened during one of the film’s fight scenes the star/director of the movie had to perform with former wrestler Steve “Stone Cold” Austin.‘Man, it was seven guys, kicking each other’s ass, one guy tougher than the next. No joke, our stunt guys were begging for mercy.
‘Actually, my fight with Stone Cold Steve Austin was so vicious that I ended up getting a hairline fracture in my neck. I’m not joking.
‘I haven’t told anyone this, but I had to have a very serious operation afterwards. I now have a metal plate in my neck.’
Craig Ferguson Funny Political Jokes about Schwarzenegger and The Expendables
"In 'The Expendables,' Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger beat up Sylvester Stallone for convincing them to invest in Planet Hollywood." –Craig Ferguson"Schwarzenegger was only in the movie for five minutes, but during that five minutes, he achieved more than in all his years as governor." –Craig Ferguson
"When Schwarzenegger heard the title 'The Expendables,' he thought it was in reference to California's teachers." –Craig Ferguson HALL OF FAME-THE EXPENDABLES
Imagine an street fighter, sitting on a couch for a week in the same clothes since his brutal UFC championship victory, with a lifetime supply of roast chicken and beer, and nothing to do but switch between the NFL, amateur porn and a gory FPS on the playstation. Now take the total amount of testosterone in that image, multiply it by 10^200 and then divide it by zero (call chuck norris if you need help with that).
That is approximately how much manliness oozes out of the new upcoming movie "The Expendables".
Before you destroy your computer in frustration of having been lured into reading 110 (now 113) words of a wildly exxagerated, fantastical lunatic ranting, just allow for one simple justification of the above-said analogy.
The Expendables, scheduled to release in 2010, stars Rambo (Sylvester Stallone), the Terminator (Arnold Schwaznegger), the Transporter (Jason Statham), the Monkey King (Jet Li), the Wrestler (Mickey Rourke) and He-Man (Dolph Lundgren), all in the same movie.Supporting this mind blowing cast are 'Smooth Criminal Salvatore Moroni' Eric Roberts, former NFL player Terry Crew, ex-convict and San Quentin prison lightweight and welterweight boxing champion Danny Trejo, 4 time UFC Heavyweight champion Randy Couture, former karate and kick boxing champion Gary Daniels and the greatest WWE wrestler of all time, Stone Cold Steve Austin
Predictably, things go awry for Barney and Lee almost immediately after they arrive on the island and meet their contact, the saucy and feisty local (are there any other kind?) Sandra (Giselle Itie), who harbors a secret from the boys. Sandra also acts as a love interest and moral compass for the directionless Barney. (Lee’s own love life is fulfilled by “Angel’s” angelic Charisma Carpenter.) The stage is set for Barney and company to return to the island in the film’s Third Act to, as the kids say, blow shit up and take names. If by “names” you mean rack up an impressive, if incredibly ridiculous bodycount, then that’s exactly what they do. Hey, did you really expect more than this? Sucks to be you, then.
It’s not hard to like “The Expendables”. If you ever watched any of Stallone’s ‘80s or ‘90s action films, then this movie was made specifically for you. The only person who stands out in the cast is Jet Li, who isn’t exactly known for shooting people in his movies. The only film that I recall of Li’s where he even uses a gun was one of his earlier titles, the “Bodyguard” rip-off “Bodyguard from Beijing”. So while casting Li as one of the mercenaries is an intriguing concept, it does feel incongruous with the bulging biceps and macho tough guy talk from the rest of the Western cast. Then again, casting Li and giving him third billing is a shrewd business move on Stallone’s part, since it will ensure some major box office returns for the production when “The Expendables” opens in Asia.
On the other hand, “The Expendables” does pretty much everything it sets out to do – get a bunch of well-known action movie guys together and blow shit up like there’s no tomorrow. The script is reminiscent of all those ‘80s and ‘90s direct-to-DVD action movies where Predictable Plot A leads to Predictable Plot B culminating in Predictable Ending C. And let me just make it clear: that’s not a knock on “The Expendables”. The fact is, I didn’t expect a whole lot more than that, and I was pleasantly surprised by, well, not being surprised. The film progresses exactly as you would expect, and never really deviates from the formula. Heck, towards the end of the film, bad guy Eric Roberts even keeps dragging the feisty damsel-in-distress around even as the entire world is exploding around him. You’d think he could get away faster without having to haul her everywhere fighting and screaming, but then you wouldn’t get the dramatic scene where Stallone faces off against the bad guy with the girl standing between them at gunpoint.
Predictably and shitty editing are downsides to “The Expendables”. The upside? It’s the movie that gave us a great scene involving three of the biggest legends of Hollywood action movies of all time. If just for those brief few minutes, “The Expendables” is a must-see. The rest is still worth watching for fans of the genre. And if you ever find yourself thinking something along the lines of, “Wait, so they slap all those C4 bombs all over the mansion, and not a single bad guy ever runs across a single C4 pack during the entire night?”, just remember, it’s an ‘80s action movie that somehow got made in 2010. The awesome acting work of Jet Li Dolph Lundgren Jason Statham and Mickey Rourke has helped Stallone to create a real modern day cult movie.That will solve pretty much any problems you might have with “The Expendables”. Sylvester Stallone (director) / Sylvester Stallone, Dave Callaham (screenplay)
CAST: Sylvester Stallone … Barney Ross
Jason Statham … Lee Christmas
Jet Li … Ying Yang
Dolph Lundgren … Gunner Jensen
Eric Roberts … James Munroe
Randy Couture … Toll Road
Steve Austin … Paine
David Zayas … General Garza
Giselle Itié … Sandra
Charisma Carpenter … Lacy
Gary Daniels … The Brit
Terry Crews … Hale Caesar
Mickey Rourke … Tool
Sylvester Stallone made it his business to go out and produce the manliest film of all time. The Expendables is a huge balls-to-the-wall production filled with bullets, fists, and fire. He takes some of the top action stars of yesterday and today and creates an elite team of deadly “good guys” who have no problem ripping out someone’s throat if the occasion calls for it. This film is over the top, extremely violent, and has some of the cheesiest eighties dialogue written 20 years too late — and you’ll love every minute of it! has been handed a lifeline by pal Sylvester Stallone as he battles legal woes and his divorce - the chance to revive his movie career.
I was not disappointed. It had the simplest plot this side of "Ass" in Idiocracy... the longest multisyllabic word in the script was, fittingly, "expendable"... and there were enough explosions to entertain the illegitimate love child of Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay.
Anyway, the movie featured 10 famous action stars... and Eric Roberts. Each one participates in various levels of ass kicking throughout the movie. In lieu of a review, I decided to put together this Power Rankings-esque summary of the stars of the movie.
There are spoilers here, although this movie is like the anti-"Wild Things" (or its highbrow equivalent "The Departed") in terms of plot twists, so there's not all that much to spoil. CHARLIE SHEEN
Sylvester Stallone Visits Bill O’Reilly To Talk About How He’s Not An ‘Overtly Political GUY Sylvester Stallone has a brand-new film out about macho men blowing stuff up. Unfortunately, some film critics have interpreted The Expendables as a subliminal propaganda film to sell “apple pie patriotism,” and last night Stallone appeared on The O’Reilly Factor to dispel the rumors: No, his film has no complex hidden messages– it’s really just about blowing stuff up. Many in the media world complain about August because most of the big newsmakers go on vacation, and the ones that don’t give us this. But the flip side to a slower news cycle is that many in the media get to explore issues or interests that they normally wouldn’t have time to in a more loaded news cycle. This is how you end up with stories like this comically slow car chase, or this topless alien protest, or, uh, yeah, guilty as charged. Last night, Bill O’Reilly indulged by talking to Stallone about action movies, and the result was one of the most fun and least combative cable news interviews in a while (for what it’s worth, it seems last night was “fun night” at The Factor, as he also did a segment on Justin Bieber).
Stallone reportedly wants Sheen to play a C.I.A. agent chasing Bruce Willis' slippery crime lord character in The Expendables sequel.
And it could be just the role the actor needs to turn his fortunes around - after fighting with his wife Brooke Mueller on Christmas Day, 2009, Sheen has endured a rough 2010, which culminated with an alleged hotel meltdown in New York last month when the star trashed his suite.
Stallone met with Sheen over the weekend and reported his old friend is "looking good". Director: Sylvester Stallone
Genres: ActionTHE EXPENDABLES BUDA=PEST CLIP.ENJOY IT
An all-star cast of action-movie icons headline Sylvester_Stallone's explosive action thriller about a group of hard-nosed mercenaries who are double-crossed during a treacherous mission. Approached by the shadowy Church (Bruce Willis) to overthrow tyrannical South American dictator General Gaza (David_Zayas) and restore order to the troubled island country of Vilena, stoic soldier of fortune Barney Ross (Stallone) rounds up an unstoppable team that includes former SAS soldier and blade specialist Lee Christmas (Jason_Statham); martial arts expert Yin (Jet_Li); trigger-happy Hale Caesar (Terry_Crews); and cerebral demolitions expert Toll Road (Randy_Couture). Traveling to Vilena on a reconnaissance mission with his old pal Christmas, Barney meets their local contact, a cagey guerrilla fighter named Sandra (Giselle_Itie), and together the trio scopes out the landscape.. It isn't long before Barney and Christmas have discovered that their actual target is not General Gaza but James Monroe (Eric_Roberts), a former CIA operative who has recently gone rogue. Monroe won't be easy to get to either, because his hulking bodyguard Paine (Steve_Austin) is a force to be reckoned with. When their mission is compromised, Barney and Christmas are forced to flee, leaving Sandra behind to face almost certain death. But Barney isn't the kind of soldier to abandon a mission, or a hostage, and now in order to get the job done he'll need the help of his old crew. Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Sylvester Stallone is trying to persuade his pal Bruce Willis to play a supervillain in The Expendables sequel.
Willis had a small cameo role in the summer blockbuster and now Stallone wants him to lead the cast in an all-action follow-up.
Despite initially claiming a sequel would be too expensive, Stallone appears to have been fired up by the film's success - and he's now considering a second installment.
He says, "I am thinking what would be the most dangerous places in the world to set the sequel? I had dinner with Bruce Willis... I want him in Expendables II as a supervillain. What do you think?"
Jason Statham & Jet Li Happy To Redeem Themselves In 'Expendables'
The British movie hunk previously starred alongside Li in the movies The One and War, which were widely panned by critics.
Statham was disappointed in their previous collaborations but jumped at the chance to work with Li again in Sylvester Stallone's new blockbuster - so the pair could finally be proud of their big-screen partnership.
"It's coincidental that we were doing this film together - not that we tried to beat Sly up, hold him down and say we want to do another film together, so make sure we're both in it!
"You do a couple of bad films and you're on the scrap heap. So you just have to try to be smart with your choices - that's the hard part!"
Arnold Schwarzenegger has confirmed he is in talks to make a return to the big screen and is currently reading through a number of scripts.
The Terminator star stepped away from Hollywood to pursue a career in politics and served as California Governor from 2003 until he relinquished the role earlier this month. Schwarzenegger made a number of small movie appearances during his time in office, in films such as Terminator Salvation and The Expendables, and speculation has been mounting that he will return to Hollywood now he is no longer a serving politician.
The action man has now revealed he is in talks for three different film projects, which will take him away from the "extreme fighting" which catapulted him to fame.
He tells Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung, "Currently I'm reading three scripts. In the future I have to adapt to roles (for) my age. Clint Eastwood also has done it in the same way. Extreme fighting is not possible anymore."
And there is one film Schwarzenegger is particularly interested in - World War II movie With Wings As Eagles, in which he would play a Nazi commander.
He adds, "In it I would play an older soldier, who gets the order at the ending of the war to kill a bunch of kids. But he doesn't do it and get(s) them to safety at the risk of his life and it has all kinds of adventure."
Eric Roberts' Insomnia Ended When He Kicked His Weed Addiction Recovering pot addict Eric Roberts is enjoying the most peaceful nights' sleep he has had in years after discovering his marijuana habit had done nothing to cure his long-running problems with insomnia.
The Expendables star, who is Julia Roberts' brother and the father of actress Emma Roberts, entered a drug rehabilitation facility over the summer in a bid to kick his 16-year weed addiction once and for all. His treatment was documented for the new season of celebrity counselor Dr. Drew Pinsky's reality show Celebrity Rehab and Roberts has now been sober for over two months.
He says, "I started smoking pot at 13 years old and I took a hiatus from it for 10 years when I did cocaine. Then I started smoking pot about 16 years ago and I smoked pot pretty much every day since (until rehab)."
And Roberts admits he has already seen a dramatic difference in his lifestyle - because he hasn't had a sleepless night since kicking the drug: "I started smoking pot for anger management and for sleep and it ends up getting in the way of sleep and it ends up making you cranky, so, yes, I'm sleeping now and I'm a lot sweeter."
“The word is certainly used and used in the title of the film: Retired Extremely Dangerous,” Willis said. “It’s commented on a couple of times, but when you see the film it’s right now. It’s hip. Karl [Urban] and I went at it in one of the toughest fights I’ve ever fought in my life and contact was made. I wasn’t going, ‘I’m a little too old, I can’t fight this hard.’ It was definitely crafted along the lines of mixed martial arts. We were throwing each around, I mean literally, and doing things that are very cool and very right. I don’t see anyone who’s is reported to be retired in this film that wasn’t sexy and hot and romantic and funny.”
After four Die Hards, some Last Boy Scouts, Fifth Elements and Unbreakables, Willis is everyone’s fearless hero. Yet he says he still shows up each day with a little bit of healthy fear.
“It’s my favorite part of making movies. I’m scared every day. I keep thinking that somebody’s going to throw me the ball I’m going to go, ‘Oh wow, oh god, I just messed that up.’ It’s not fear so much as excitement and not that thrill of you have to create something out of 115 typewritten pages and make it be human and lifelike. I think I’m much more afraid of making a mistake in raising my daughters than I would be of any work that I do as an actor. It’s a much higher scale of fear, raising kids.”
The RED gang also includes Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich. Maybe they could face off against The Expendables, although Willis was in that too, so they’d probably be on the same team.
“I’m still a fan of films. I still go to movies all the time. I like to see what’s out there. I never think there’s any competition between films. I hear it said but I root for everybody’s film.”
Red opens Friday.
Jean-Claude Van Damme Refused To Lose To Jet Li In 'Expendables' Fight
Sylvester Stallone
Sylvester Stallone (pronounced /stəˈloʊn/; born July 6, 1946), nicknamed Sly Stallone,[2] is an American actor, filmmaker, screenwriter, film director and occasional painter.[3] Stallone is known for his machismo and Hollywood action roles. Two of the notable characters he has portrayed include boxer Rocky Balboa and soldier John Rambo. The Rocky and Rambo franchises, along with several other films, strengthened his reputation as an actor and his box office earnings.
Stallone's film Rocky was inducted into the National Film Registry as well as having its film props placed in the Smithsonian Museum. Stallone's use of the front entrance to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the Rocky series led the area to be nicknamed the Rocky Steps. Philadelphia has a statue of his Rocky character placed permanently near the museum, on the right side before the steps. It was announced on December 7, 2010 that Stallone was voted into boxing's Hall of Fame.[4]Rocky, Rambo and new film roles, 1978–1989
Stallone in 1983The sequel Rocky II, which Stallone had also written and directed (replacing John G. Avildsen, who won an Academy Award for directing the first film) was released in 1979 and also became a major success, grossing $200 million.
Apart from the Rocky films, Stallone did many other films in the late 1970s and early 1980s which were critically acclaimed but were not successful at the box office. He received critical praise for films such as F.I.S.T. (1978), a social, epic styled drama in which he plays a warehouse worker, very loosely modeled on James Hoffa, who becomes involved in the labor union leadership, and Paradise Alley (1978), a family drama in which he plays one of three brothers who is a con artist and who helps his other brother who is involved in wrestling. Stallone made his directorial debut directing Paradise Alley.In the early 1980s, he starred alongside British veteran Michael Caine in Escape to Victory (1981), a sports drama in which he plays a prisoner of war involved in a Nazi propaganda soccer game. Stallone then made the action thriller film Nighthawks (1981), in which he plays a New York city cop who plays a cat and mouse game with a foreign terrorist, played by Rutger Hauer.
Stallone had another major franchise success as Vietnam veteran John Rambo, a former Green Beret, in the action-war film First Blood (1982). The first installment of Rambo was both a critical and box office success. The critics praised Stallone's performance, saying he made Rambo seem human, as opposed to the way he is portrayed in the book of the same name, in First Blood and in the other films. Three Rambo sequels Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985), Rambo III (1988) and Rambo (2008) followed. Although box office hits, they met with much less critical praise than the original. He also continued his box office success with the Rocky franchise and wrote, directed and starred in two more sequels to the series: Rocky III (1982) and Rocky IV (1985). Stallone has portrayed these two characters in a total of ten films. In preparation for these roles, Stallone embarked upon a vigorous training regimen which often meant six days a week in the gym and further sit ups in the evenings. Stallone claims to have gotten his body fat percentage down to his all time low of 2.8% for Rocky III.[19]
It was during this time period that Stallone's work cultivated a strong overseas following. He also attempted, albeit unsuccessfully, roles in different genres when he co-wrote and starred in the comedy film Rhinestone (1984) where he played a wannabe country music singer and the drama film Over the Top (1987) where he played a struggling trucker who, after the death of his wife, tries to make amends with his son who he left behind years earlier. His son does not think too highly of him until he sees him compete in a nation-wide arm wrestling competition. For the Rhinestone soundtrack, he performed a song. These films did not do well at the box office and were poorly received by critics. It was around 1985 that Stallone was signed to a remake of the 1939 James Cagney classic Angels With Dirty Faces. The film would form part of his multi-picture deal with Cannon Pictures and was to co-star Christopher Reeve and be directed by Menahem Golan. The re-making of such a beloved classic was met with disapproval by Variety Magazine and horror by top critic Roger Ebert and so Cannon opted to make Cobra instead. Cobra (1986) and Tango and Cash (1989) did solid business domestically but overseas they did blockbuster business grossing over $100 million in foreign markets and over $160 million worldwide.
After starring in the critical and commercial disasters Oscar (1991) and Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992) during the early 90s, he made a comeback in 1993 with the hit Cliffhanger which was a success in the U.S., grossing $84 million, but even more successful worldwide, grossing $171 million for a total over US$255 million. Later that year he starred with Wesley Snipes in the futuristic action film Demolition Man which grossed in excess of $158 million worldwide. His string of hits continued with 1994's The Specialist (over $170 million worldwide gross).
In 1995, he played the comic book based title character Judge Dredd, who was taken from the British comic book 2000 AD in the film of the same name. His overseas box office appeal saved the domestic box office disappointment of Judge Dredd, which cost almost $100 million and barely made its budget back with a worldwide tally of $113 million. He also appeared in the thriller Assassins (1995) with co stars Julianne Moore and Antonio Banderas. In 1996, he starred in the disaster film Daylight which was not very successful in the US but still grossed $126 million overseas.
That same year Stallone, along with an all-star cast of celebrities, appeared in the Trey Parker and Matt Stone short comedy film Your Studio and You commissioned by the Seagram Company for a party celebrating their acquisition of Universal Studios and the MCA Corporation. Stallone speaks in his Rocky Balboa voice with subtitles translating what he was saying. At one point, Stallone starts yelling about how can they use his Balboa character, that he left it in the past; the narrator calms him with a wine cooler and calling him, "brainiac." In response, Stallone says, "Thank you very much." He then looks at the wine cooler and exclaims, "Stupid cheap studio!"[20]
Following his breakthrough performance in Rocky, critic Roger Ebert had once said Stallone could become the next Marlon Brando, though he never quite recaptured the critical acclaim achieved with Rocky. Stallone did, however, go on to receive much acclaim for his role in the low budget crime drama Cop Land (1997) in which he starred alongside Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta, but the film was only a minor success at the box office. His performance led him to win the Stockholm International Film Festival Best Actor Award. In 1998 he did voice-over work for the computer-animated film Antz, which was a big hit domestically.
In 2000, Stallone starred in the thriller Get Carter — a remake of the 1971 British Michael Caine film of the same name—but the film was poorly received by both critics and audiences. Stallone's career declined considerably after his subsequent films Driven (2001), Avenging Angelo (2002) and D-Tox (2002) also underachieved expectations to do well at the box office and were poorly received by critics. NEW BE AN AUTO TRAFFIC TYCOON JUST LIKE DONALD TRUMP-YOU CAN GIVE IT A TRY.TO FIND OUT MORE JUST CLICK HERE
Following several poorly reviewed box office flops, Stallone started to regain prominence for his supporting role in the neo-noir crime drama Shade (2003) which was only released in a limited fashion but was praised by critics.[21] He was also attached to star and direct a film tentatively titled Rampart Scandal, which was to be about the murder of rappers Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. and the surrounding Los Angeles Police Department corruption scandal.[22] It was later titled Notorious but was shelved.[23]
In 2005, he was the co-presenter, alongside Sugar Ray Leonard, of the NBC Reality television boxing series The Contender. That same year he also made a guest appearance in two episodes of the television series Las Vegas. In 2005, Stallone also inducted wrestling icon Hulk Hogan, who appeared in Rocky III as a wrestler named Thunderlips, into the WWE Hall of Fame; Stallone was also the person who offered Hogan the cameo in Rocky III.[24]
[edit] Revisiting Rocky and Rambo, 2006–2008
Stallone's fourth installment of his other successful movie franchise, Rambo, with the sequel being titled simply Rambo. The film opened in 2,751 theaters on January 25, 2008, grossing $6,490,000 on its opening day and $18,200,000 over its opening weekend. Its box office was $113,244,290 worldwide with a budget of $50 million.
Asked in February 2008 which of the icons he would rather be remembered for, Stallone said "it's a tough one, but Rocky is my first baby, so Rocky."[27] HERE ARE THE LIST OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS FROM THE MOVIE THE EXPENDABLES:Dolph Lundgren
Mickey Rourke
Hans "Dolph" Lundgren (born 3 November 1957) is a Swedish actor, director, and martial artist.
Well known for his tall stature and level of fitness, at peak, Lundgren stood at 196 centimetres (6 ft 5 in) and weighed 111.5 kilograms (245 lb 13 oz). He belongs to a generation of film actors who epitomise the movie action hero stereotype including Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, and Jean-Claude Van Damme, all of whom he has worked with in his career. Lundgren's breakthrough came when he starred in Rocky IV in 1985 as the imposing Russian boxer Ivan Drago. Since then, he has starred in more than 40 pictures, all of them in the action film genre.[1] He portrayed He-Man in the 1987 film Masters of the Universe, and Frank Castle in the 1989 film The Punisher. In the early 1990s, he also appeared in films such as Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991), alongside Brandon Lee, Universal Soldier (1992), opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme, Joshua Tree (1993) opposite Kristian Alfonso and George Segal, and Johnny Mnemonic (1995) opposite Keanu Reeves. 2010 marked his return to theaters with The Expendables, an on-screen reunion with Sylvester Stallone, alongside an all action star cast which included, among others, Jason Statham and Jet Li.
Lundgren made his directorial debut with The Defender in 2004, and subsequently helmed The Mechanik (2005), Missionary Man (2007), Command Performance, and Icarus, in which he also starred.
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Philip Andre "Mickey" Rourke, Jr. (born September 16, 1952)[1] is an American actor, screenwriter and retired boxer, who has appeared primarily as a leading man in action, drama, and thriller films.
During the 1980s, Rourke starred in Diner, Rumble Fish, and the erotic drama 9½ Weeks, and received critical praise for his work in Barfly and Angel Heart. In 1991, Rourke, who had trained as a boxer in his early years, left acting and became a professional boxer for a period.[2] He had supporting roles in several later films, including The Rainmaker, Buffalo '66, The Pledge, Get Carter, Once Upon a Time in Mexico and Man on Fire.
In 2005, Rourke made his comeback in mainstream Hollywood circles with a lead role in Sin City, for which he won awards from the Chicago Film Critics Association, the Irish Film and Television Awards and the Online Film Critics Society. In the 2008 film The Wrestler, Rourke portrayed a past-his-prime wrestler, and garnered a 2009 Golden Globe award, a BAFTA award, and a nomination for an Academy Award.[3]
In 2010, he appeared in the blockbusters Iron Man 2 and The Expendables.Jason Statham MICKEY ROURKE PROMOTING THE EXPENDABLES.ENJOY IT IF YOU ARE A FAN OF MICKEY ROURKE THAN YOU CAN CHECK OUT HIS SITE JUST CLICK HERE
Jason Statham
Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955), better known as Bruce Willis, is an American actor, producer, and musician. His career began in television in the 1980s and has continued both in television and film since, including comedic, dramatic, and action roles. He is well known for the role of John McClane in the Die Hard series, which were mostly critical and uniformly financial successes. He has also appeared in over sixty films, including box office successes like Pulp Fiction, Sin City, 12 Monkeys, The Fifth Element, Armageddon, and The Sixth Sense.
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger[1] (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian-American former professional bodybuilder, actor, model, businessman and politician who served as the 38th Governor of California (2003–2011).
Schwarzenegger began weight training at 15. He was awarded the title of Mr. Universe at age 20 and went on to win the Mr. Olympia contest a total of seven times. Schwarzenegger has remained a prominent presence in the sport of bodybuilding and has written several books and numerous articles on the sport.
Schwarzenegger gained worldwide fame as a Hollywood action film icon, noted for his lead roles in such films as Conan the Barbarian, The Terminator, Commando and Predator. He was nicknamed the "Austrian Oak" and the "Styrian Oak" in his bodybuilding days, "Arnie" during his acting career and more recently the "Governator" (a portmanteau of "Governor" and "Terminator").[2]
As a Republican, he was first elected on October 7, 2003, in a special recall election (referred to in Schwarzenegger campaign propaganda as a "Total Recall") to replace then-Governor Gray Davis. Schwarzenegger was sworn in on November 17, 2003, to serve the remainder of Davis's term. Schwarzenegger was then re-elected on November 7, 2006, in California's 2006 gubernatorial election, to serve a full term as governor, defeating Democrat Phil Angelides, who was California State Treasurer at the time. Schwarzenegger was sworn in for his second term on January 5, 2007.[3]
Schwarzenegger wanted to move from bodybuilding into acting, finally achieving it when he was chosen to play the role of Hercules in 1970's Hercules in New York. Credited under the name "Arnold Strong," his accent in the film was so thick that his lines were dubbed after production.[12] His second film appearance was as a deaf mute hit-man for the mob in director Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973), which was followed by a much more significant part in the film Stay Hungry (1976), for which he was awarded a Golden Globe for New Male Star of the Year. Schwarzenegger has discussed his early struggles in developing his acting career. "It was very difficult for me in the beginning – I was told by agents and casting people that my body was 'too weird', that I had a funny accent, and that my name was too long. You name it, and they told me I had to change it. Basically, everywhere I turned, I was told that I had no chance."[5]
Schwarzenegger drew attention and boosted his profile in the bodybuilding film Pumping Iron (1977),[11][12] elements of which were dramatized. In 1991, Schwarzenegger purchased the rights to the film, its outtakes, and associated still photography.[34] Schwarzenegger auditioned for the title role of The Incredible Hulk, but did not win the role because of his height. Later, Lou Ferrigno got the part of Dr. David Banner's alter ego. Schwarzenegger appeared with Kirk Douglas and Ann-Margret in the 1979 comedy The Villain. In 1980 he starred in a biopic of the 1950s actress Jayne Mansfield as Mansfield's husband, Mickey Hargitay.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's star on the Hollywood Walk of FameARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER CONFIRMS ROLE IN THE EXPENDABLES.ENJOY IT IF YOU ARE A FAN OF THE GREATEST ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER THAN YOU CAN CHECK OUT HIS SITE JUST CLICK HERESchwarzenegger's breakthrough film was the sword-and-sorcery epic Conan the Barbarian in 1982, which was a box-office hit.[11] This was followed by a sequel, Conan the Destroyer in 1984, although it was not as successful as its predecessor.[35] In 1983, Schwarzenegger starred in the promotional video "Carnival in Rio".
In 1984, he made the first of three appearances as the eponymous character and what some would say was the signature role in his acting career in director James Cameron's science fiction thriller film The Terminator.[11][12][36] Following The Terminator, Schwarzenegger made Red Sonja in 1985, which "sank without a trace."[35]
During the 1980s, audiences had a large appetite for action films, with both Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone becoming international stars.[12] Schwarzenegger's roles reflected his droll, often self-deprecating sense of humor (including sometimes famously bad puns), separating his roles from more serious action hero fare. His alternative-universe comedy/thriller Last Action Hero featured a poster of the movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day which, in the fictional alternate universe, had Sylvester Stallone as its star.
Following his arrival as a Hollywood superstar, he made a number of successful films: Commando (1985), Raw Deal (1986), The Running Man (1987), and Red Heat (1988). In Predator (1987), another successful film, Schwarzenegger led a cast which included future Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura (Ventura also appeared in The Running Man and Batman & Robin with Schwarzenegger) and future candidate for governor of Kentucky Sonny Landham.
Schwarzenegger had a brief foray into directing, first with a 1990 episode of the TV series Tales from the Crypt, entitled "The Switch", and then with the 1992 telemovie Christmas in Connecticut. He has not directed since.
Schwarzenegger's commercial high-water mark was his return as the title character in 1991's Terminator 2: Judgment Day, which was the highest-grossing film of 1991. In 1993, the National Association of Theatre Owners named him the "International Star of the Decade."[4] His next film project, the 1993 self-aware action comedy spoof Last Action Hero was released opposite Jurassic Park, with the box office suffering accordingly. His next film, the comedy drama True Lies (1994) was a highly popular spy film, and saw Schwarzenegger, reunited with James Cameron, appearing opposite Jamie Lee Curtis.
Arnold Schwarzenegger at the 2003 Cannes Film FestivalShortly thereafter came the comedy Junior (1994), the last of his three collaborations with Ivan Reitman and again co-starring Danny DeVito and also for the second time featuring Pamela Reed. This film brought Schwarzenegger his second Golden Globe nomination, this time for Best Actor – Musical or Comedy. It was followed by the action thriller Eraser (1996), the Christmas comedy Jingle All The Way (1996) with Arnold playing the main character, Howard Langston, and the comic book-based Batman & Robin (1997), where he played the villain Mr. Freeze. This was his final film before taking time to recuperate from a back injury. Following the critical failure of Batman & Robin, Schwarzenegger's film career and box office prominence went into decline.
Instead, he returned after a hiatus with the supernatural thriller End of Days (1999), later followed by the action films The 6th Day (2000) and Collateral Damage (2002) all of which failed to do well at the box office. In 2003, he made his third appearance as the title character in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, which went on to earn over $150 million domestically.
In tribute to Schwarzenegger in 2002, Forum Stadtpark, a local cultural association, proposed plans to build a 25-meter (82 ft) tall Terminator statue in a park in central Graz. Schwarzenegger reportedly said he was flattered, but thought the money would be better spent on social projects and the Special Olympics.[37]
His film appearances after becoming Governor of California include a 3-second cameo appearance in The Rundown (a.k.a., Welcome to the Jungle) with The Rock, and the 2004 remake of Around the World in 80 Days, where he appeared onscreen with action star Jackie Chan for the first time. In 2005 he appeared as himself in the film The Kid & I. Schwarzenegger voiced Baron von Steuben in Episode 24 ("Valley Forge") of Liberty's Kids.
Schwarzenegger had been rumored to be appearing in Terminator Salvation as the original T-800 model, alongside Roland Kickinger. Schwarzenegger denied his involvement,[38] but it was later revealed that although he would appear briefly he would not be shooting new footage, and his image would be inserted into the movie from stock footage of the first Terminator movie.[39][40]
Schwarzenegger's most recent appearance was in Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables, where he made a cameo appearance alongside Stallone and Bruce Willis. Stone Cold Steve Austin
Austin held nineteen championships throughout his professional wrestling career, and is recognized by WWE as a six-time world champion, having held the WWF Championship on six occasions, and the fifth Triple Crown Champion. He was also the winner of the 1996 King of the Ring tournament, as well as the 1997, 1998 and 2001 Royal Rumbles. He was forced to retire from in ring competition in early 2003 due to a series of knee and neck injuries sustained throughout his career. Throughout the rest of 2003 and 2004, he was featured as the Co-General Manager and "Sheriff" of Raw. Since 2005, he has continued to make occasional appearances. In 2011, Steve Austin returned to WWE to host the reality series. Tough Enough 
Eric RobertsEric Anthony Roberts (born April 18, 1956) is an American actor. His career began with King of the Gypsies (1978), earning a Golden Globe nomination for best actor debut. He starred as the protagonist in the 1980 dramatisation of Willa Cather's 1905 short story, Paul's Case. He earned both a Golden Globe and Academy Award nomination for his supporting role in Runaway Train (1985). Through the 1990s and 2000s he maintained dramatic film and TV-movie roles while appearing in TV series. His television work includes three seasons with the sitcom Less Than Perfect and a recurring role on the NBC drama Heroes. His sisters Julia Roberts and Lisa Roberts Gillan, and daughter Emma Roberts, are also actors Randy Couture
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Randy Duane Couture (pronounced /koʊˈtʊər/; born June 22, 1963) is an American mixed martial artist, Greco-Roman wrestler, actor, a three-time former heavyweight champion and a two-time light-heavyweight champion of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Couture is the first fighter to hold two UFC championship titles in two different divisions (heavyweight and light heavyweight). Couture has competed in a record 15 title fights. He, along with Chuck Liddell, has the second highest amount of fights in the UFC at 23, behind Matt Hughes' 24. Couture is one of the first members of the UFC Hall of Fame and many consider him to be one of the greatest in MMA history.[4] Couture is currently ranked as the #10 Light Heavyweight fighter in the world by Yahoo! Sports.[5]
Couture was an Olympic wrestling alternate and has lived in Corvallis, Oregon, throughout much of his career, where he served as an assistant wrestling coach and a strength and conditioning coach for Oregon State University.[6] He established Team Quest with Matt Lindland and Dan Henderson, a training camp for fighters, based out of Gresham, Oregon, and headed by coach Robert Folis. In 2005, Couture moved to Las Vegas, where he opened his own extensive chain of gyms under the name Xtreme Couture. He currently trains at his Las Vegas-based gym. Couture also partnered with Bas Rutten in the opening of Legends Gym in Hollywood, California.
Li Lian Jie (born April 26, 1963), better known by his stage name Jet Li, is a Chinese martial artist, actor, film producer, wushu champion, and international film star who was born in Beijing, and has taken up Singapore citizenship in 2009.
After three years of intensive training with Wu Bin, Li won his first national championship for the Beijing Wushu Team. After retiring from wushu at age 17, he went on to win great acclaim in China as an actor making his debut with the film Shaolin Temple (1982). He went on to star in many critically acclaimed martial arts epic films, most notably the Once Upon A Time In China series, in which he portrayed folk hero Wong Fei-hung.
A lot of big names have a slasher movie in the early part of their resume. Kevin Bacon (Friday the 13th) and Tom Hanks (He Knows You’re Alone) are some of the more commonly cited examples, but the list is pretty long. Jason Alexander and Holly Hunter both pop up in The Burning, Vanna White can be seen as a cheerleader in Graduation Day, and who can forget David Caruso’s turn as the hero’s ill-fated and annoying buddy in the rather terrible Without Warning? Oh, and Sylvester Stallone starred in the followup slasher from the guy who directed I Know What You Did Last Summer.
So we meet the fellow junkie/alcoholic/suicidal/etc cops and small staff of the facility, nearly all of whom are played by character actors you love like Robert Patrick, Tom Berenger, Robert Prosky (!), Stephen Lang, etc. And then folks start turning up dead, so Sly (rightly) assumes that the killer has shown up, and he has to figure out who it is before he wipes out everyone who isn’t him. This is part of what ingrains the film into slasher-ville; the killer has a beef with Stallone, but for some reason kills everyone BUT him, just like, say, Urban Legend or Happy Birthday To Me. Unfortunately the mystery is quite botched; there are too many goddamn characters in the movie (I think there are 15 people at the facility), which means a lot of them don’t have enough screentime to become viable suspects (Lang literally has one closeup in the entire movie), and others try too hard to be memorable. Robert Patrick, for example, is such an unflinching asshole right from the start, you know he can’t be the killer; he’s too “open”.
I also would have loved to see other action heroes doing horror movies. Seagal fought vampires in one of his direct to video pieces of shit (Against The Dark), but he’s barely in it and his scenes just seem like leftover action bits from any of his other films (the end of the movie even involves a ticking bomb/race against the clock scenario). And Dolph did a sort-of serial killer thriller called Jill The Ripper, but again, it was more like a traditional Dolph Lundgren action movie with some random serial killer shit tossed into it. However you feel about D-Tox, you have to admit that they catered more to a slasher/serial killer fanbase than Stallone’s, which is probably why no one had any faith in it. But had the film been a hit? Maybe Ben Affleck would have forgotten about Phantoms and pursued the male lead in Valentine. Or Jason Statham would find himself in the woods with nothing but his fists and a pack of cannibal mutants, instead of making twelve thousand movies in which his character has uncanny skills with a moving vehicle. Vin Diesel and The Rock occasionally do something different (Find Me Guilty and Southland Tales, respectively), but neither have really explored the horror genre for a while – Diesel’s first big starting role was Pitch Black, but in the sequel the horror elements were completely abandoned, and the less said about Doom, the better.
Then again, even if they were all smash hits, you can probably see why they’d be reluctant to do too many other horror films. These guys built their careers on playing tough guys, but horror; particularly slasher movies like this – usually requires a lot of vulnerability on the part of the hero; they need to be scared or it doesn’t work. Let’s face it; there are two types of male characters in 99% of horror movies; the masked killer, or the doomed boyfriend of the heroine. Neither of which are exactly enticing roles for a guy used to being the big showy star (indeed, look at Judge Dredd; Sly takes a role of a guy whose face you never see, and then makes it so he wears the helmet for about 9 seconds in the movie). But that’s more the fault of the genre than the actors; they don’t make enough movies that would require the badassery that a guy like Sly or his Tango & Cash buddy Kurt Russell brings to the table.
However, there are still male hero-heavy horror films like The Wolfman, not to mention “Men on a mission” type films that deal with the supernatural such as Season Of The Witch. Maybe if Season‘s team was all familiar guys like Nic Cage and Ron Perlman, it would have been a bigger hit; as Expendables proved, folks like to see a bunch of their heroes in one place. All we need is for another guy on Sly’s level to take another chance on a big genre project (hopefully one the studio has some faith in this time), and his peers will likely follow suit. And thus, we may once again see our beloved badasses appearing in the pages of Fangoria in something besides retrospectives or “Skeletons In The Closet” style pieces.
*Don’t make any fucking “What about Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot?” jokes. You’re all better than that.
"Stone Cold" Steve Austin. Really rough showing for Stone Cold. After following around Eric Roberts like a puppy all movie long he can barely beat a 64-year-old man in a fight... and then he makes pro wrestling's biggest insecurity come to light when Randy Couture easily MMAs him to death. Frankly, the only solid punch Austin lands all movie is on a woman.
Bruce Willis. He was in one scene. He did not fight a single person. But he beat out the other two high-profile cameos below because at least his character was the impetus for all the violence in the film (and he doesn't cry about it in the process).
Mickey Rourke. Here's what Mickey Rourke does in this movie. One: Inks some tattoos. Two: Throws a few knives at a target. Three: Delivers a heartfelt monologue where he cries. Cries. I wanted Tom Hanks to make an even more shocking cameo at that moment, walk on screen and yell at him: "Are you crying? Are you crying? There's no crying! There's no crying in underground mercenary guerrilla warfare!"
Arnold Schwarzenegger. At this point in his acting career, I think he's more skilled at governing.
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“The Expendables” is essentially a movie about Barney and Lee, where a bunch of other guys show up every now and then when people need killing. The gang’s latest job takes them to a small South American island currently under the despotic iron fist of General Garza (“Dexter’s” David Zayas), a cartoonish bad guy who is himself under the cruel thumb of ex-CIA scumbag James Munroe (Eric Roberts). Ol Munroe has strong-armed the General and his country on the strength of greed and able assists from his own two muscle-bound meatheads, Paine (Steve Austin) and The Brit (Gary Daniels). And if you’re wondering how Munroe and his two henchmen have managed to keep the entire country in line, keep in mind that Barney and his four guys have just been hired to kill the whole regime. So yeah, we’re not exactly dealing with the Iraqi Republican Guard here.Predictably, things go awry for Barney and Lee almost immediately after they arrive on the island and meet their contact, the saucy and feisty local (are there any other kind?) Sandra (Giselle Itie), who harbors a secret from the boys. Sandra also acts as a love interest and moral compass for the directionless Barney. (Lee’s own love life is fulfilled by “Angel’s” angelic Charisma Carpenter.) The stage is set for Barney and company to return to the island in the film’s Third Act to, as the kids say, blow shit up and take names. If by “names” you mean rack up an impressive, if incredibly ridiculous bodycount, then that’s exactly what they do. Hey, did you really expect more than this? Sucks to be you, then.
It’s not hard to like “The Expendables”. If you ever watched any of Stallone’s ‘80s or ‘90s action films, then this movie was made specifically for you. The only person who stands out in the cast is Jet Li, who isn’t exactly known for shooting people in his movies. The only film that I recall of Li’s where he even uses a gun was one of his earlier titles, the “Bodyguard” rip-off “Bodyguard from Beijing”. So while casting Li as one of the mercenaries is an intriguing concept, it does feel incongruous with the bulging biceps and macho tough guy talk from the rest of the Western cast. Then again, casting Li and giving him third billing is a shrewd business move on Stallone’s part, since it will ensure some major box office returns for the production when “The Expendables” opens in Asia.
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As for the movie itself, it’s probably ironic that “The Expendables” is exactly just that – a pretty expendable action movie. Take away the cast and budget, replace them with some other muscle-bound meatheads, and the film would go straight to DVD. It’s not as if Stallone and co-writer Dave Callaham actually gives anyone besides Barney and Lee anything to do that doesn’t involve shooting or stabbing people, though there are a couple of really amusing scenes with Jet Li’s Ying Yang, who may or may not have a kid, and who wants more money because, well, he’s shorter than everyone else. Crews and Couture both get their heroic moments, and Couture, like Li, gets an amusing moment where he whines about his ear. Crews, meanwhile, gets to brag about the power of his shotgun, and later, probably has the film’s signature action moment when he literally obliterates an entire squad of goons with that same shotgun.THE EXPENDABLES JET LI.ENJOY IT
Alas, there is one big problem with “The Expendables” that I hadn’t anticipated: the editing is horrific from start to finish. There’s no coherent flow to any of the fight scenes thanks to rapid-fire editing that takes the logic out of every kick, punch, and shot. As a result, there are multiple sequences where the bad guys have the good guys surrounded one moment, cut to a series of gunshots and stabbings and voila, it’s over and all the bad guys are dead. You have absolutely no idea how that happened or how it got to that point, but you just know that there was a lot of gunshots and inserts of knives stabbing flesh and then it was all over. I wish I could tell you that the fight between Jet Li and Dolph Lundgren was one of the highlights, or that the fight between Jet Li and Gary Daniels bordered on awesome, but honestly, I couldn’t even tell you with a straight face if it were actually the actors doing the fighting or some stuntmen.
On the other hand, “The Expendables” does pretty much everything it sets out to do – get a bunch of well-known action movie guys together and blow shit up like there’s no tomorrow. The script is reminiscent of all those ‘80s and ‘90s direct-to-DVD action movies where Predictable Plot A leads to Predictable Plot B culminating in Predictable Ending C. And let me just make it clear: that’s not a knock on “The Expendables”. The fact is, I didn’t expect a whole lot more than that, and I was pleasantly surprised by, well, not being surprised. The film progresses exactly as you would expect, and never really deviates from the formula. Heck, towards the end of the film, bad guy Eric Roberts even keeps dragging the feisty damsel-in-distress around even as the entire world is exploding around him. You’d think he could get away faster without having to haul her everywhere fighting and screaming, but then you wouldn’t get the dramatic scene where Stallone faces off against the bad guy with the girl standing between them at gunpoint.CAST: Sylvester Stallone … Barney Ross
Jason Statham … Lee Christmas
Jet Li … Ying Yang
Dolph Lundgren … Gunner Jensen
Eric Roberts … James Munroe
Randy Couture … Toll Road
Steve Austin … Paine
David Zayas … General Garza
Giselle Itié … Sandra
Charisma Carpenter … Lacy
Gary Daniels … The Brit
Terry Crews … Hale Caesar
Mickey Rourke … Tool
Sylvester Stallone made it his business to go out and produce the manliest film of all time. The Expendables is a huge balls-to-the-wall production filled with bullets, fists, and fire. He takes some of the top action stars of yesterday and today and creates an elite team of deadly “good guys” who have no problem ripping out someone’s throat if the occasion calls for it. This film is over the top, extremely violent, and has some of the cheesiest eighties dialogue written 20 years too late — and you’ll love every minute of it! has been handed a lifeline by pal Sylvester Stallone as he battles legal woes and his divorce - the chance to revive his movie career. After revisiting Rocky and Rambo,
The Plot:
The Expendables centers on a team of “guns for hire” who are commissioned to take down a corrupt South American dictator. Instead of going after the native government, they take on a fallen CIA agent (Roberts) who’s gone all Marlon Brando circa Apocalypse Now by becoming a part of the problem he was sent in to solve. These 5 men, each proficient in their own style of killing, whether it be guns, knives, martial arts, or wrestling put their skills to the test when they take on an entire country of brainwashed soldiers.
The Good:
- The Action: With The Expendables, the action is what you want and the action is what you get. Within the first 10 minutes you find out just how violent and bloody this movie is going to be. Torsos get blown off with one bullet, heads are decapitated with the single stroke of a knife, and necks are broken and bent with a swift kick to the throat.
- The Tone: This movie doesn’t take itself seriously. Stallone set out to make the biggest action homage known to man and he did. It’s nothing more and nothing less. You immediately know what you’re in for.
- Jason Statham: A lot of people love Jason Statham and for years I couldn’t figure it out — until now. Out of this pumped up group he sticks out because he oozes charisma. When he’s on screen you can’t take your eyes off of him. His character is an amazing knife thrower, who doesn’t just stab people to death, he slices their face, kicks them in the stomach, and shoots them in the leg all in the time span of 3 seconds. He’s that damn good!
- Eric Roberts: As the villain, Roberts embodied everything you love and hate about villains in action movies. He fit every cliche known to man. He was the white, power hungry American who came in to a foreign country to take over their drug trade. Not only that but he had the slicked back hair, the styling suit, and a ruthless bodyguard (Austin) to fight his battles. Despite all that he was entertaining to watch and had some of the wittiest and hilarious lines in the movie, which he delivered with finesse.
- The Humor: There were so many intentional and unintentional funny moments in this film. A lot of times the script would try to give us something dramatic but the set up or the wording would be so ridiculous that you’d have no choice but to laugh. That goes back to the idea of the film not taking itself too seriously. There are many underlying puns that take jabs at the stars long running careers especially in the scene with Bruce Willis, Stallone, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, they’re a regular Three Stooges!
Overall:
The Expendables is hardcore. When you leave the theater you have no idea what you just saw but you want to see more. Not only would I recommend seeing this movie once, you should see it twice. It’s pure nostalgia for the eighties action fan. You know the acting is going to suck, you know the story is going to be non-existent, but you also know that people are gonna get their asses kicked 7 ways from Sunday!
I was not disappointed. It had the simplest plot this side of "Ass" in Idiocracy... the longest multisyllabic word in the script was, fittingly, "expendable"... and there were enough explosions to entertain the illegitimate love child of Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay.
Anyway, the movie featured 10 famous action stars... and Eric Roberts. Each one participates in various levels of ass kicking throughout the movie. In lieu of a review, I decided to put together this Power Rankings-esque summary of the stars of the movie.
There are spoilers here, although this movie is like the anti-"Wild Things" (or its highbrow equivalent "The Departed") in terms of plot twists, so there's not all that much to spoil. CHARLIE SHEEN
Sylvester Stallone Visits Bill O’Reilly To Talk About How He’s Not An ‘Overtly Political GUY Sylvester Stallone has a brand-new film out about macho men blowing stuff up. Unfortunately, some film critics have interpreted The Expendables as a subliminal propaganda film to sell “apple pie patriotism,” and last night Stallone appeared on The O’Reilly Factor to dispel the rumors: No, his film has no complex hidden messages– it’s really just about blowing stuff up. Many in the media world complain about August because most of the big newsmakers go on vacation, and the ones that don’t give us this. But the flip side to a slower news cycle is that many in the media get to explore issues or interests that they normally wouldn’t have time to in a more loaded news cycle. This is how you end up with stories like this comically slow car chase, or this topless alien protest, or, uh, yeah, guilty as charged. Last night, Bill O’Reilly indulged by talking to Stallone about action movies, and the result was one of the most fun and least combative cable news interviews in a while (for what it’s worth, it seems last night was “fun night” at The Factor, as he also did a segment on Justin Bieber).
O’Reilly interprets The Expendables as a film about “macho guys like you killing bad guys,” but notes that it has received some criticism for having a pro-America subtext. O’Reilly asks, “Do you have a secret agenda?” Stallone laughs and responds earnestly: “I wish I was that clever.” Instead, he defines the not-so-subtle message of the film as “you’re bad, you got to go” and, later, adds that “there’s nothing jingoistic… it’s just guys blowing stuff up and having a good time.”
Surprisingly, this is not the first time Stallone has come under fire for similar issues. He tells O’Reilly that, in particular, Rambo II received “the same kind of scrutiny” while having the same response.
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Stallone reportedly wants Sheen to play a C.I.A. agent chasing Bruce Willis' slippery crime lord character in The Expendables sequel. And it could be just the role the actor needs to turn his fortunes around - after fighting with his wife Brooke Mueller on Christmas Day, 2009, Sheen has endured a rough 2010, which culminated with an alleged hotel meltdown in New York last month when the star trashed his suite.
Stallone met with Sheen over the weekend and reported his old friend is "looking good". Director: Sylvester Stallone
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An all-star cast of action-movie icons headline Sylvester_Stallone's explosive action thriller about a group of hard-nosed mercenaries who are double-crossed during a treacherous mission. Approached by the shadowy Church (Bruce Willis) to overthrow tyrannical South American dictator General Gaza (David_Zayas) and restore order to the troubled island country of Vilena, stoic soldier of fortune Barney Ross (Stallone) rounds up an unstoppable team that includes former SAS soldier and blade specialist Lee Christmas (Jason_Statham); martial arts expert Yin (Jet_Li); trigger-happy Hale Caesar (Terry_Crews); and cerebral demolitions expert Toll Road (Randy_Couture). Traveling to Vilena on a reconnaissance mission with his old pal Christmas, Barney meets their local contact, a cagey guerrilla fighter named Sandra (Giselle_Itie), and together the trio scopes out the landscape.. It isn't long before Barney and Christmas have discovered that their actual target is not General Gaza but James Monroe (Eric_Roberts), a former CIA operative who has recently gone rogue. Monroe won't be easy to get to either, because his hulking bodyguard Paine (Steve_Austin) is a force to be reckoned with. When their mission is compromised, Barney and Christmas are forced to flee, leaving Sandra behind to face almost certain death. But Barney isn't the kind of soldier to abandon a mission, or a hostage, and now in order to get the job done he'll need the help of his old crew. Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Sylvester Stallone Wants Bruce Willis As Bad Guy In 'Expendables' Sequel
September 5th, 2010 10:00am EDT 
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2 comments Sylvester Stallone is trying to persuade his pal Bruce Willis to play a supervillain in The Expendables sequel.Willis had a small cameo role in the summer blockbuster and now Stallone wants him to lead the cast in an all-action follow-up.
Despite initially claiming a sequel would be too expensive, Stallone appears to have been fired up by the film's success - and he's now considering a second installment.
He says, "I am thinking what would be the most dangerous places in the world to set the sequel? I had dinner with Bruce Willis... I want him in Expendables II as a supervillain. What do you think?"
Jason Statham & Jet Li Happy To Redeem Themselves In 'Expendables'
Jason Statham was grateful for the chance to reteam with Jet Li in The Expendables - so the action duo could redeem themselves for their past movie flops. NEW BE A DAREDEVIL JUST LIKE THE EXPENDABLES AND HIJACK YOUR COMISSIONS.TO FIND OUT MORE JUST CICK HERE
The British movie hunk previously starred alongside Li in the movies The One and War, which were widely panned by critics.
Statham was disappointed in their previous collaborations but jumped at the chance to work with Li again in Sylvester Stallone's new blockbuster - so the pair could finally be proud of their big-screen partnership.
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He tells Britain's OK! magazine, "All the movies I've done with Jet, apart from this one, have been no good. It's difficult because the first movie I did with Jet wasn't what it was supposed to be, but it gave me the opportunity to work with Corey Yuen, which was instrumental in me getting the Transporter films."It's coincidental that we were doing this film together - not that we tried to beat Sly up, hold him down and say we want to do another film together, so make sure we're both in it!
"You do a couple of bad films and you're on the scrap heap. So you just have to try to be smart with your choices - that's the hard part!"
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Confirms Movie Comeback
Arnold Schwarzenegger has confirmed he is in talks to make a return to the big screen and is currently reading through a number of scripts. The Terminator star stepped away from Hollywood to pursue a career in politics and served as California Governor from 2003 until he relinquished the role earlier this month. Schwarzenegger made a number of small movie appearances during his time in office, in films such as Terminator Salvation and The Expendables, and speculation has been mounting that he will return to Hollywood now he is no longer a serving politician.
The action man has now revealed he is in talks for three different film projects, which will take him away from the "extreme fighting" which catapulted him to fame.
He tells Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung, "Currently I'm reading three scripts. In the future I have to adapt to roles (for) my age. Clint Eastwood also has done it in the same way. Extreme fighting is not possible anymore."
And there is one film Schwarzenegger is particularly interested in - World War II movie With Wings As Eagles, in which he would play a Nazi commander.
He adds, "In it I would play an older soldier, who gets the order at the ending of the war to kill a bunch of kids. But he doesn't do it and get(s) them to safety at the risk of his life and it has all kinds of adventure."
Eric Roberts' Insomnia Ended When He Kicked His Weed Addiction Recovering pot addict Eric Roberts is enjoying the most peaceful nights' sleep he has had in years after discovering his marijuana habit had done nothing to cure his long-running problems with insomnia. The Expendables star, who is Julia Roberts' brother and the father of actress Emma Roberts, entered a drug rehabilitation facility over the summer in a bid to kick his 16-year weed addiction once and for all. His treatment was documented for the new season of celebrity counselor Dr. Drew Pinsky's reality show Celebrity Rehab and Roberts has now been sober for over two months.
He says, "I started smoking pot at 13 years old and I took a hiatus from it for 10 years when I did cocaine. Then I started smoking pot about 16 years ago and I smoked pot pretty much every day since (until rehab)."
And Roberts admits he has already seen a dramatic difference in his lifestyle - because he hasn't had a sleepless night since kicking the drug: "I started smoking pot for anger management and for sleep and it ends up getting in the way of sleep and it ends up making you cranky, so, yes, I'm sleeping now and I'm a lot sweeter."
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Bruce Willis: 'Fear Is My Favorite Part Of Making Movies'
There was a funny action movie many years ago where a heroic sidekick, nearing retirement age, would say, “I’m too old for this shit.” They made four of those movies and he never got too old for that shit. In his new movie Red, Bruce Willis plays a CIA agent who actually was retired, until he has to spring back into action.“The word is certainly used and used in the title of the film: Retired Extremely Dangerous,” Willis said. “It’s commented on a couple of times, but when you see the film it’s right now. It’s hip. Karl [Urban] and I went at it in one of the toughest fights I’ve ever fought in my life and contact was made. I wasn’t going, ‘I’m a little too old, I can’t fight this hard.’ It was definitely crafted along the lines of mixed martial arts. We were throwing each around, I mean literally, and doing things that are very cool and very right. I don’t see anyone who’s is reported to be retired in this film that wasn’t sexy and hot and romantic and funny.”
After four Die Hards, some Last Boy Scouts, Fifth Elements and Unbreakables, Willis is everyone’s fearless hero. Yet he says he still shows up each day with a little bit of healthy fear.
“It’s my favorite part of making movies. I’m scared every day. I keep thinking that somebody’s going to throw me the ball I’m going to go, ‘Oh wow, oh god, I just messed that up.’ It’s not fear so much as excitement and not that thrill of you have to create something out of 115 typewritten pages and make it be human and lifelike. I think I’m much more afraid of making a mistake in raising my daughters than I would be of any work that I do as an actor. It’s a much higher scale of fear, raising kids.”
The RED gang also includes Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich. Maybe they could face off against The Expendables, although Willis was in that too, so they’d probably be on the same team.
“I’m still a fan of films. I still go to movies all the time. I like to see what’s out there. I never think there’s any competition between films. I hear it said but I root for everybody’s film.”
Red opens Friday.
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Jean-Claude Van Damme Refused To Lose To Jet Li In 'Expendables' Fight
Jean-Claude Van Damme refused to appear in Sylvester Stallone's all-star action film The Expendables, because he would have to lose a fight to Jet Li.
Stallone corralled a hit-list of Hollywood hard men to appear in the film, but Universal Soldier star Van Damme turned him down, because the Belgian martial arts expert failed to get the movie's satirical undertones.
Stallone tells Britain's Sunday Times, "I wanted to set Jean-Claude against Jet Li, but he didn't want to lose to Jet. He didn't think that was cool. But that's why it would be cool; to have Jean-Claude beaten by the other man. Hey, they could have a rematch. But Steven Seagal and Van Damme, they weren't really into our gallows humor."
Van Damme may well be regretting his decision to star alongside Stallone, Jason Statham, Li, Dolph Lundgren and Mickey Rourke in The Expendables - the movie shot to number one in America last weekendSylvester Stallone 'Plotting' An 'Expendables' Sequel
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In the old days, when me and Stallone were fighting in the ring, everything was real. It was all us. There was nobody else in there. Stallone, with no shirt on, getting hit while he was directing the movie. That doesn't happen much anymore.
From Ivan Drago to The Expendables: Dolph Lundgren talks about his career, action cinema, and working with Sylvester Stallone...
Published on Aug 10, 2010
It's been too long since we've seen Dolph Lundgren on the big screen, a man who kicked off his movie acting career with two major franchises.Firstly, he appeared in the Bond movie A View To A Kill. And then? He landed what arguably remains his most iconic role, as Ivan Drago, for star/writer/director Sylvester Stallone.Now, things have come full circle for Lundgren, as he takes his place amongst The Expendables. And he spared us some time to talk about it, and his career to date...Let's start in the obvious place. I really liked The Expendables, a film that's beautifully out of its time. How was it pitched to you, though? Stallone rang you?Yeah. He just said that he's got this script that he wrote. And it's a script with a character in it for me. Of course, to me, that was just a bit like a dream. Because, for me, I was like, "Am I ever going to work with Sly again?" We stayed friends for 25 years...You nearly killed him once?Yeah, we almost killed each other!The script I read a few pages and I loved it already, and my character was kinda cool and fun and he was friends with Stallone, and had this falling out. It had complexities to it. Immediately I thought I'd do it.It's yours more than any other character in there that's got an element of journey to it?I think so, thanks!At the point that he pitched it to you, were you aware of the rest of the cast? I was aware of Statham, I believe. Jet Li was about to sign, I think. And then everyone else came in later. Mickey Rourke came in, they just kept piling up. I was like, "Woah!"The casting announcements kept on coming for a while...I know! I thought it was just me and Stallone and Statham, and then suddenly it never stopped. But it's cool...!From the outside looking in, when you get so many action stars in one film, we like to think that it's very competitive, and you're all doing the one-upmanship thing. It is competitive, but in a good way. It's like, if you're in a sports team, you want to be as good as your mates. But you're still playing the other guys. So, in our case, the film still has to be great, and you can't be bickering over a load of stuff.But sure, if I know I'm going to be in a scene with Stallone, and I see him on the net in great shape, I'm gonna think, "Shit, I'd better hit the gym twice a day instead of once a day!"As more and more of those names come in, did you find yourself checking them out? Yeah, I did! Because I wasn't aware of what people were doing in their careers necessarily, and yeah, a lot of the time you show up on the set and you're seeing people. I'm like, "Hi, I'm Dolph." He's like "Hi, I'm Jason." And you're like, "Shit", you're getting starstruck...Do you stare each other out? That's what I'd like to think you all do...No! You kind of think, ‘shit', when everyone's on the set that day, and you get everybody lined up. You got Stallone, you got Jet Li, you got Mickey Rourke, you got whoever it is. You know you'd better know your lines, be in good shape and deliver.Did you not even have an arm wrestling competition on set?[Laughs] No, but we did train in the gym together, so there's a little bit of competition there!When it actually came to the shoot itself it looked like it had none of the usual luxuries...No! Stallone, you know, he leads from the front. He trains hard, he does his own stunts, he gets injured all the time. He's not going to send in his double to do hardly anything.So, obviously, everyone feels the same way, and yeah, you're going to suffer. That's part of the game, it was a tough shoot. You've said in the past that with your career, you became the movie star first, and then you got to explore being an actor, and here you're coming a little full circle with this. Is there any reason why you're doing it like that...Backwards [laughs]! Everything is backwards!Because you've been exploring your own career as a writer and director recently, and then this high profile project comes out... Yeah, I know. And this kind of takes me back to the beginning, with Stallone, with being an actor in a big movie.I guess it's a bit of a new charge in my career. I'm more of a mature man now, and people haven't seen me so much since Rocky IV. Maybe a few times in Universal Solider. It's kind of fun to confront that, the public, with a few more skills than before.Is it refreshing to go back to that now, having directed films yourself and written them yourself? That it's more relaxing?Much more relaxing, it's easy! Stallone's the one sitting there checking all the trailers, checking out the art, looking at every picture. Getting copies of your interview. He's the guy. I've done that on my small movies, but I'm glad I don't have to do it with this. It's a lot of work!Was there not a bit of you that wanted to grab the camera at any point, and do a bit of second unit work?No. But I do like storytelling, so when Sly was working on the script, he likes to rewrite and rewrite and rewrite, I did have a few comments on this and that, and he thought exploring our past relationship was cool. But look, he had some very good people on that crew. I focused on my job.How's he changed as a director in all that time?Well, I think he takes a little more time to talk to the actors. I've found he's very... well, I even heard Bruce Willis say that he wanted to work with him as a director, because he realises he's got this wealth of knowledge. I think he's been in more action movies than anyone else in the world, perhaps apart from Clint Eastwood.So, he took his time to discuss the emotions, even little things like how to grip a steering wheel in a car chase. It may seem trivial, but on the other hand, it's a visual art form, so that makes a difference. He has a lot to offer.
ACTION ICON-TURNED DIRECTOR SYLVESTER STALLONEis "plotting" a sequel to his hit film The Expendables after the movie muscled its way to number one at the U.S. box office.
The movie features Stallone alongside a host of stars including Jet Li and Jason Statham, with cameos from action icons Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger. It debuted with earnings of $35 million this weekend, and even Stallone is shocked The Expendables managed to beat Julia Roberts' feel-good film Eat Pray Love to the top of the box office chart, admitting his film was "up against some tough competition."
Now, the veteran tough guy wants to build on the unexpected success by turning it into a franchise, and he's already working on a planned follow-up.
He tells the Hollywood Reporter, "It's plotted out in my mind's eye. I believe this group has to continue to evolve; it just can't become the same people. So how do you get new people introduced into the group, and how do you have some of the other people leaving? Those are the challenges." 
From Ivan Drago to The Expendables: Dolph Lundgren talks about his career, action cinema, and working with Sylvester Stallone...
Published on Aug 10, 2010
It's been too long since we've seen Dolph Lundgren on the big screen, a man who kicked off his movie acting career with two major franchises.
Firstly, he appeared in the Bond movie A View To A Kill. And then? He landed what arguably remains his most iconic role, as Ivan Drago, for star/writer/director Sylvester Stallone.
Now, things have come full circle for Lundgren, as he takes his place amongst The Expendables. And he spared us some time to talk about it, and his career to date...
Let's start in the obvious place. I really liked The Expendables, a film that's beautifully out of its time. How was it pitched to you, though? Stallone rang you?
Yeah. He just said that he's got this script that he wrote. And it's a script with a character in it for me. Of course, to me, that was just a bit like a dream. Because, for me, I was like, "Am I ever going to work with Sly again?" We stayed friends for 25 years...
You nearly killed him once?
Yeah, we almost killed each other!
The script I read a few pages and I loved it already, and my character was kinda cool and fun and he was friends with Stallone, and had this falling out. It had complexities to it. Immediately I thought I'd do it.
It's yours more than any other character in there that's got an element of journey to it?
I think so, thanks!
At the point that he pitched it to you, were you aware of the rest of the cast?
I was aware of Statham, I believe. Jet Li was about to sign, I think. And then everyone else came in later. Mickey Rourke came in, they just kept piling up. I was like, "Woah!"
The casting announcements kept on coming for a while...
I know! I thought it was just me and Stallone and Statham, and then suddenly it never stopped. But it's cool...!
From the outside looking in, when you get so many action stars in one film, we like to think that it's very competitive, and you're all doing the one-upmanship thing.
It is competitive, but in a good way. It's like, if you're in a sports team, you want to be as good as your mates. But you're still playing the other guys. So, in our case, the film still has to be great, and you can't be bickering over a load of stuff.
But sure, if I know I'm going to be in a scene with Stallone, and I see him on the net in great shape, I'm gonna think, "Shit, I'd better hit the gym twice a day instead of once a day!"
As more and more of those names come in, did you find yourself checking them out?
Yeah, I did! Because I wasn't aware of what people were doing in their careers necessarily, and yeah, a lot of the time you show up on the set and you're seeing people. I'm like, "Hi, I'm Dolph." He's like "Hi, I'm Jason." And you're like, "Shit", you're getting starstruck...
Do you stare each other out? That's what I'd like to think you all do...
No! You kind of think, ‘shit', when everyone's on the set that day, and you get everybody lined up. You got Stallone, you got Jet Li, you got Mickey Rourke, you got whoever it is. You know you'd better know your lines, be in good shape and deliver.
Did you not even have an arm wrestling competition on set?
[Laughs] No, but we did train in the gym together, so there's a little bit of competition there!
When it actually came to the shoot itself it looked like it had none of the usual luxuries...
No! Stallone, you know, he leads from the front. He trains hard, he does his own stunts, he gets injured all the time. He's not going to send in his double to do hardly anything.
So, obviously, everyone feels the same way, and yeah, you're going to suffer. That's part of the game, it was a tough shoot.
You've said in the past that with your career, you became the movie star first, and then you got to explore being an actor, and here you're coming a little full circle with this. Is there any reason why you're doing it like that...
Backwards [laughs]! Everything is backwards!
Because you've been exploring your own career as a writer and director recently, and then this high profile project comes out...
Yeah, I know. And this kind of takes me back to the beginning, with Stallone, with being an actor in a big movie.
I guess it's a bit of a new charge in my career. I'm more of a mature man now, and people haven't seen me so much since Rocky IV. Maybe a few times in Universal Solider. It's kind of fun to confront that, the public, with a few more skills than before.
Is it refreshing to go back to that now, having directed films yourself and written them yourself? That it's more relaxing?
Much more relaxing, it's easy! Stallone's the one sitting there checking all the trailers, checking out the art, looking at every picture. Getting copies of your interview. He's the guy. I've done that on my small movies, but I'm glad I don't have to do it with this. It's a lot of work!
Was there not a bit of you that wanted to grab the camera at any point, and do a bit of second unit work?
No. But I do like storytelling, so when Sly was working on the script, he likes to rewrite and rewrite and rewrite, I did have a few comments on this and that, and he thought exploring our past relationship was cool. But look, he had some very good people on that crew. I focused on my job.
How's he changed as a director in all that time?
Well, I think he takes a little more time to talk to the actors. I've found he's very... well, I even heard Bruce Willis say that he wanted to work with him as a director, because he realises he's got this wealth of knowledge. I think he's been in more action movies than anyone else in the world, perhaps apart from Clint Eastwood.
So, he took his time to discuss the emotions, even little things like how to grip a steering wheel in a car chase. It may seem trivial, but on the other hand, it's a visual art form, so that makes a difference. He has a lot to offer.
They might be expendable, but they sure are durable: The Expendables is crammed with well-traveled action heroes, called to a summit meeting here to capture some of that good old ultraviolent '80s-movie feel. Star-director Sylvester Stallone rides herd as the leader of this mercenary band, which includes Jason Statham, Jet Li, and Stallone's old Rocky V nemesis Dolph Lundgren. Mickey Rourke, looking like a car wreck on Highway 61, plays the tattoo artist who communicates the gang's assignments to Stallone; throw in Terry Crews and Ultimate Fighting champ Randy Couture, and you've got a badass crew indeed. The specifics here involve a Latin American island where US interests have mucked up the local politics beyond repair--but when Sly's eye is caught by the feisty daughter (Giselle Itie) of the local military jefe, a simple job gets complicated. Adding to the B-movie flavor of the enterprise, we've got Eric Roberts and Steve Austin bouncing around as badder-than-the-bad guys, plus Bruce Willis popping in for a one-scene bit, and… well, perhaps another unbilled cameo. The violence doesn't reach the frantic pace of Stallone's last Rambo picture, but it builds to a pretty crazy crescendo in the final reels, during which each cast member gets to show his stuff. Although Stallone's face looks younger than it did in the first Rocky movie, his line delivery is more sluggish than ever, and what lines! The dialogue is stuck in the '80s, too. Although it's pretty ham-handed throughout, The Expendables is likely critic-proof: the audience that wants to see this kind of body-slamming throwdown isn't going to care about the niceties. Let the knife throwing begin. --Robert Horton
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Sylvester Stallone stars as Barney Ross, leader of The Expendables, a tight-knit team of skilled combat vets turned mercenaries. Hired by a powerful covert operator, the team jets off to a small South American country to overthrow a ruthless dictator. Once there, they find themselves caught in a deadly web of deceit and betrayal. Using every weapon at their disposal, they set out to save the innocent and punish the guilty in this blistering action-packed thriller.
At one point I leaned over to one of my buddies and said, "Best. Movie. Ever." Really. Actually, it probably isn't the best movie ever. But it was a nice throwback to the good old days of 80's movies that I grew up watching with the cheesy Schwarzenegger one-liners and over the top violence where the good guy wins and the bad guy meets his maker in some ridiculous way.
There are some over the top visuals that make it worth seeing and hearing; the sound was pretty amazing. And by amazing, I mean loud. Explosions you can feel in your bowels and that's not just the beef and bean burrito from lunch talkin' either. Better than they could do in the Eighties.
They missed out on a rematch w/ Lundgren and Stallone. I kept waiting for Lundgren to say, "I will break you" to someone but it never happened. The Schwarzenegger cameo was cool, but he should have thrown someone out of a window or something. Not happening these days. Same w/ Willis; he really has no part in this and didn't seem too menacing to me which was also disappointing. However, the rest of the cast delivered cases of canned butt-whoopin' as if they were FedEx.
Here's a typical scene. Statham kicks the tar out of a bunch of knuckleheads: in front of his ex-girlfriend who is dating one of said knuckleheads who, predictably, smacks her around. Too bad for Knucklehead that her ex has more than a passing interest in her and happens to be in a bad mood when he learns of the abuse. Bam. Pow. Smack. Insert one-liner, get the girl back, ride off unharmed w/ hottie on the motorcycle. I think people actually cheered at the fight choreography. I mean, the whole movie is like this. It's brilliant.
There are some good comic bits but really, it is simply a throwback movie done with bigger, badder explosions and a lot of your favorite tough guys from the era when action actors were immensely rugged dudes. Muscles ruled, brains, not so much.
5 stars because I can't imagine that they could have recaptured the fun from the Eighties in a better way than they did here. Don't take it seriously and enjoy it for what it is. The Magnificent Seven of the modern male action movie,August 13, 2010
The Expendables isn't a great film by any stretch of the imagination but it knows exactly what it is trying to be and doesn't pull any punches. It tries to be the The Magnificent Seven of the modern action movie but doesn't quite hit its mark. It's more like the Magnificent Four and a Half (Stallone, Statham, Lundgren, Austin, and Li). The rest of the ensemble more or less being, ahem... expendable. My friend and I once had a similar idea for a movie that would pit all of our favorite 80's action stars into one no-holds-barred-royal-rumble-of-epic-manliness which we appropriately called "Cajones" but that was back in the mid-90's when there was still a chance to see most of these larger-than-life-nut-swingers together onscreen in their prime. The fact that Stallone, now 64, can prove that he still has what it takes and show the younger generations how to make an action movie proper after two successful comebacks with his acclaimed Rocky Balboa and Rambo is a testament that there is still not only a demand but a primal need for REAL movie star icons like Stallone that are legends who defy their generation and age.
There is only one thing you need to know about the paint-by-numbers plot and that is this: These titans of manliness have all come here to chew bubble-gum and kick ass, and there is a whole lotta bubble-gum to go around. When the blood and guts start flying it makes Peckinpah look like Walt Disney. If that is the kind of movie you are expecting to see you won't be disappointed. Perhaps the biggest fault with The Expendables is that it never quite lives up to itself. Arnold Schwarzenegger's cameo feels like it was thrown in just for the sake of having the three biggest 80's action icons together at last onscreen for a Hard Rock Cafe Kodak moment. It just feels like 'The Guvinator' shows up to give his quick endorsement before going back to the office. Fortunately Sly has much better things to do these days than bankrupting the state of Culifornia. I was never particularly a fan of so-called "professional" wrestling for all of its phoniness so guys like Stone Cold Steve Austin never really appealed to me but I'll take him and UFC's Randy Couture any day over any so-called leading male action star in Hollywood today just on sheer testosterone levels alone. At least Mickey Rourke showed that not all of professional wrestling is fake with "The Wrestler" but "Iron Man 2" hardly qualifies him as a bona fide action-star, more like Harley Davidson without the Marlboro Man. One look at his fugly face and you can see that his days of "9 1/2 Weeks" with the ladies are long over. Jason Statham is apparently the most masculine male action star Hollywood currently has to offer up and that's not saying too much with a resume consisting of "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels ," "Crank" and "The Transporter" series but I guess baldness apparently qualifies him in the testosterone brigade along with Bruce Willis whose days of headlining as an action star were washed up with the last "Die Hard." The truly expendable were those 80's action icons who didn't quite make the cut like Chuck Norris who for whatever reason was unable to attend Sly's little shindig. As a kid I probably watched every action film that Chuck starred in like "The Octagon," "Good Guys Wear Black," "Lone Wolf McQuade" and "A Force of One." You can't think of the 80's without bringing up Chuck Norris, or the poseurs like Jean-Claude Van Damme or Steven Seagal, all of whom are conspicuously MIA. Apparently Van Dammage was offered a part but he thought the script should have catered to his ego as well as a bigger paycheck so Sly made his part "Expendable."
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Oh man was this a fun movie! At one point I leaned over to one of my buddies and said, "Best. Movie. Ever." Really. Actually, it probably isn't the best movie ever. But it was a nice throwback to the good old days of 80's movies that I grew up watching with the cheesy Schwarzenegger one-liners and over the top violence where the good guy wins and the bad guy meets his maker in some ridiculous way.
There are some over the top visuals that make it worth seeing and hearing; the sound was pretty amazing. And by amazing, I mean loud. Explosions you can feel in your bowels and that's not just the beef and bean burrito from lunch talkin' either. Better than they could do in the Eighties.
They missed out on a rematch w/ Lundgren and Stallone. I kept waiting for Lundgren to say, "I will break you" to someone but it never happened. The Schwarzenegger cameo was cool, but he should have thrown someone out of a window or something. Not happening these days. Same w/ Willis; he really has no part in this and didn't seem too menacing to me which was also disappointing. However, the rest of the cast delivered cases of canned butt-whoopin' as if they were FedEx.
Here's a typical scene. Statham kicks the tar out of a bunch of knuckleheads: in front of his ex-girlfriend who is dating one of said knuckleheads who, predictably, smacks her around. Too bad for Knucklehead that her ex has more than a passing interest in her and happens to be in a bad mood when he learns of the abuse. Bam. Pow. Smack. Insert one-liner, get the girl back, ride off unharmed w/ hottie on the motorcycle. I think people actually cheered at the fight choreography. I mean, the whole movie is like this. It's brilliant.
There are some good comic bits but really, it is simply a throwback movie done with bigger, badder explosions and a lot of your favorite tough guys from the era when action actors were immensely rugged dudes. Muscles ruled, brains, not so much.
5 stars because I can't imagine that they could have recaptured the fun from the Eighties in a better way than they did here. Don't take it seriously and enjoy it for what it is. The Magnificent Seven of the modern male action movie,
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When I was a kid, heroes were larger than life. They still are today only with just one exception albeit a pretty significant one... in those days, Men were Men. They weren't pretty but they exuded their God-given male born testosterone with every ounce of testicular sweat dripping on celluloid. For a boy growing up in the 80's they were the male role-models and father figures that inspired impressionable pre-adolescent boys into shaping their adult manhoods. Those were the days of yore. THE EXPENDABLES DOLPH LUNDGREN-JET LI FIGHT.ENJOY IT
The Expendables isn't a great film by any stretch of the imagination but it knows exactly what it is trying to be and doesn't pull any punches. It tries to be the The Magnificent Seven of the modern action movie but doesn't quite hit its mark. It's more like the Magnificent Four and a Half (Stallone, Statham, Lundgren, Austin, and Li). The rest of the ensemble more or less being, ahem... expendable. My friend and I once had a similar idea for a movie that would pit all of our favorite 80's action stars into one no-holds-barred-royal-rumble-of-epic-manliness which we appropriately called "Cajones" but that was back in the mid-90's when there was still a chance to see most of these larger-than-life-nut-swingers together onscreen in their prime. The fact that Stallone, now 64, can prove that he still has what it takes and show the younger generations how to make an action movie proper after two successful comebacks with his acclaimed Rocky Balboa and Rambo is a testament that there is still not only a demand but a primal need for REAL movie star icons like Stallone that are legends who defy their generation and age.
There is only one thing you need to know about the paint-by-numbers plot and that is this: These titans of manliness have all come here to chew bubble-gum and kick ass, and there is a whole lotta bubble-gum to go around. When the blood and guts start flying it makes Peckinpah look like Walt Disney. If that is the kind of movie you are expecting to see you won't be disappointed. Perhaps the biggest fault with The Expendables is that it never quite lives up to itself. Arnold Schwarzenegger's cameo feels like it was thrown in just for the sake of having the three biggest 80's action icons together at last onscreen for a Hard Rock Cafe Kodak moment. It just feels like 'The Guvinator' shows up to give his quick endorsement before going back to the office. Fortunately Sly has much better things to do these days than bankrupting the state of Culifornia. I was never particularly a fan of so-called "professional" wrestling for all of its phoniness so guys like Stone Cold Steve Austin never really appealed to me but I'll take him and UFC's Randy Couture any day over any so-called leading male action star in Hollywood today just on sheer testosterone levels alone. At least Mickey Rourke showed that not all of professional wrestling is fake with "The Wrestler" but "Iron Man 2" hardly qualifies him as a bona fide action-star, more like Harley Davidson without the Marlboro Man. One look at his fugly face and you can see that his days of "9 1/2 Weeks" with the ladies are long over. Jason Statham is apparently the most masculine male action star Hollywood currently has to offer up and that's not saying too much with a resume consisting of "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels ," "Crank" and "The Transporter" series but I guess baldness apparently qualifies him in the testosterone brigade along with Bruce Willis whose days of headlining as an action star were washed up with the last "Die Hard." The truly expendable were those 80's action icons who didn't quite make the cut like Chuck Norris who for whatever reason was unable to attend Sly's little shindig. As a kid I probably watched every action film that Chuck starred in like "The Octagon," "Good Guys Wear Black," "Lone Wolf McQuade" and "A Force of One." You can't think of the 80's without bringing up Chuck Norris, or the poseurs like Jean-Claude Van Damme or Steven Seagal, all of whom are conspicuously MIA. Apparently Van Dammage was offered a part but he thought the script should have catered to his ego as well as a bigger paycheck so Sly made his part "Expendable."
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The Expendables is a fun salute to the 80's and a throwback to the days when action films weren't trying to be politically correct and were all about blowing stuff up, flexing their muscles, delivering the one-liners, kicking ass and looking cool. To that end, The Expendables is a blast, but not a slam dunk. It's worth a matinee out of pure sake of nostalgia or a rental. If The Expendables accomplishes one thing it should be this: To send a message to the studios that there is a hunger for masculine male action icons who are on the endangered species list and to ensure their survival in the 21st century which has been corrupted by forgettable momma's boys and blood sucking vampires of the Twilight generation. 
Sylvester Stallone (pronounced /stəˈloʊn/; born July 6, 1946), nicknamed Sly Stallone,[2] is an American actor, filmmaker, screenwriter, film director and occasional painter.[3] Stallone is known for his machismo and Hollywood action roles. Two of the notable characters he has portrayed include boxer Rocky Balboa and soldier John Rambo. The Rocky and Rambo franchises, along with several other films, strengthened his reputation as an actor and his box office earnings.
Stallone's film Rocky was inducted into the National Film Registry as well as having its film props placed in the Smithsonian Museum. Stallone's use of the front entrance to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the Rocky series led the area to be nicknamed the Rocky Steps. Philadelphia has a statue of his Rocky character placed permanently near the museum, on the right side before the steps. It was announced on December 7, 2010 that Stallone was voted into boxing's Hall of Fame.[4]Rocky, Rambo and new film roles, 1978–1989
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Apart from the Rocky films, Stallone did many other films in the late 1970s and early 1980s which were critically acclaimed but were not successful at the box office. He received critical praise for films such as F.I.S.T. (1978), a social, epic styled drama in which he plays a warehouse worker, very loosely modeled on James Hoffa, who becomes involved in the labor union leadership, and Paradise Alley (1978), a family drama in which he plays one of three brothers who is a con artist and who helps his other brother who is involved in wrestling. Stallone made his directorial debut directing Paradise Alley.In the early 1980s, he starred alongside British veteran Michael Caine in Escape to Victory (1981), a sports drama in which he plays a prisoner of war involved in a Nazi propaganda soccer game. Stallone then made the action thriller film Nighthawks (1981), in which he plays a New York city cop who plays a cat and mouse game with a foreign terrorist, played by Rutger Hauer.
SYLVESTER STALLONE INTERVIEW ON FOX.ENJOY IT
IF YOU ARE A FAN OF SYLVESTER STALLONE YOU CAN CHECK OUT HIS SITE JUST CLICK HEREIt was during this time period that Stallone's work cultivated a strong overseas following. He also attempted, albeit unsuccessfully, roles in different genres when he co-wrote and starred in the comedy film Rhinestone (1984) where he played a wannabe country music singer and the drama film Over the Top (1987) where he played a struggling trucker who, after the death of his wife, tries to make amends with his son who he left behind years earlier. His son does not think too highly of him until he sees him compete in a nation-wide arm wrestling competition. For the Rhinestone soundtrack, he performed a song. These films did not do well at the box office and were poorly received by critics. It was around 1985 that Stallone was signed to a remake of the 1939 James Cagney classic Angels With Dirty Faces. The film would form part of his multi-picture deal with Cannon Pictures and was to co-star Christopher Reeve and be directed by Menahem Golan. The re-making of such a beloved classic was met with disapproval by Variety Magazine and horror by top critic Roger Ebert and so Cannon opted to make Cobra instead. Cobra (1986) and Tango and Cash (1989) did solid business domestically but overseas they did blockbuster business grossing over $100 million in foreign markets and over $160 million worldwide.
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[edit] 1990–2002
With the then recent success of Lock Up and Tango and Cash, at the start of the 1990s Stallone starred in the fifth installment of the Rocky franchise Rocky V which was considered a box office disappointment and was also disliked by fans as an unworthy entry in the series.After starring in the critical and commercial disasters Oscar (1991) and Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992) during the early 90s, he made a comeback in 1993 with the hit Cliffhanger which was a success in the U.S., grossing $84 million, but even more successful worldwide, grossing $171 million for a total over US$255 million. Later that year he starred with Wesley Snipes in the futuristic action film Demolition Man which grossed in excess of $158 million worldwide. His string of hits continued with 1994's The Specialist (over $170 million worldwide gross).
In 1995, he played the comic book based title character Judge Dredd, who was taken from the British comic book 2000 AD in the film of the same name. His overseas box office appeal saved the domestic box office disappointment of Judge Dredd, which cost almost $100 million and barely made its budget back with a worldwide tally of $113 million. He also appeared in the thriller Assassins (1995) with co stars Julianne Moore and Antonio Banderas. In 1996, he starred in the disaster film Daylight which was not very successful in the US but still grossed $126 million overseas.
That same year Stallone, along with an all-star cast of celebrities, appeared in the Trey Parker and Matt Stone short comedy film Your Studio and You commissioned by the Seagram Company for a party celebrating their acquisition of Universal Studios and the MCA Corporation. Stallone speaks in his Rocky Balboa voice with subtitles translating what he was saying. At one point, Stallone starts yelling about how can they use his Balboa character, that he left it in the past; the narrator calms him with a wine cooler and calling him, "brainiac." In response, Stallone says, "Thank you very much." He then looks at the wine cooler and exclaims, "Stupid cheap studio!"[20]
Following his breakthrough performance in Rocky, critic Roger Ebert had once said Stallone could become the next Marlon Brando, though he never quite recaptured the critical acclaim achieved with Rocky. Stallone did, however, go on to receive much acclaim for his role in the low budget crime drama Cop Land (1997) in which he starred alongside Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta, but the film was only a minor success at the box office. His performance led him to win the Stockholm International Film Festival Best Actor Award. In 1998 he did voice-over work for the computer-animated film Antz, which was a big hit domestically.
In 2000, Stallone starred in the thriller Get Carter — a remake of the 1971 British Michael Caine film of the same name—but the film was poorly received by both critics and audiences. Stallone's career declined considerably after his subsequent films Driven (2001), Avenging Angelo (2002) and D-Tox (2002) also underachieved expectations to do well at the box office and were poorly received by critics. NEW BE AN AUTO TRAFFIC TYCOON JUST LIKE DONALD TRUMP-YOU CAN GIVE IT A TRY.TO FIND OUT MORE JUST CLICK HERE
[edit] 2003–2005
In 2003, he played a villainous role in the third installment of the Spy Kids trilogy Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over which was a huge box office success (almost $200 million worldwide). Stallone also had a cameo appearance in the 2003 French film Taxi 3 as a passenger.Following several poorly reviewed box office flops, Stallone started to regain prominence for his supporting role in the neo-noir crime drama Shade (2003) which was only released in a limited fashion but was praised by critics.[21] He was also attached to star and direct a film tentatively titled Rampart Scandal, which was to be about the murder of rappers Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. and the surrounding Los Angeles Police Department corruption scandal.[22] It was later titled Notorious but was shelved.[23]
In 2005, he was the co-presenter, alongside Sugar Ray Leonard, of the NBC Reality television boxing series The Contender. That same year he also made a guest appearance in two episodes of the television series Las Vegas. In 2005, Stallone also inducted wrestling icon Hulk Hogan, who appeared in Rocky III as a wrestler named Thunderlips, into the WWE Hall of Fame; Stallone was also the person who offered Hogan the cameo in Rocky III.[24]
[edit] Revisiting Rocky and Rambo, 2006–2008 
After a three year hiatus from films, Stallone made a comeback in 2006 with the sixth installment of his successful Rocky series, Rocky Balboa, which was a critical and commercial hit. After the critical and box office failure of the previous installment Rocky V, Stallone had decided to write, direct and star in a sixth installment which would be a more appropriate climax to the series. The total domestic box office came to $70.3 million (and $155.7 million worldwide).[25] The budget of the movie was only $24 million. His performance in Rocky Balboa has been praised and garnered mostly positive reviews.[26]
Stallone's fourth installment of his other successful movie franchise, Rambo, with the sequel being titled simply Rambo. The film opened in 2,751 theaters on January 25, 2008, grossing $6,490,000 on its opening day and $18,200,000 over its opening weekend. Its box office was $113,244,290 worldwide with a budget of $50 million.
Asked in February 2008 which of the icons he would rather be remembered for, Stallone said "it's a tough one, but Rocky is my first baby, so Rocky."[27] HERE ARE THE LIST OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS FROM THE MOVIE THE EXPENDABLES:Dolph Lundgren
Mickey Rourke
Hans "Dolph" Lundgren (born 3 November 1957) is a Swedish actor, director, and martial artist.
Well known for his tall stature and level of fitness, at peak, Lundgren stood at 196 centimetres (6 ft 5 in) and weighed 111.5 kilograms (245 lb 13 oz). He belongs to a generation of film actors who epitomise the movie action hero stereotype including Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, and Jean-Claude Van Damme, all of whom he has worked with in his career. Lundgren's breakthrough came when he starred in Rocky IV in 1985 as the imposing Russian boxer Ivan Drago. Since then, he has starred in more than 40 pictures, all of them in the action film genre.[1] He portrayed He-Man in the 1987 film Masters of the Universe, and Frank Castle in the 1989 film The Punisher. In the early 1990s, he also appeared in films such as Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991), alongside Brandon Lee, Universal Soldier (1992), opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme, Joshua Tree (1993) opposite Kristian Alfonso and George Segal, and Johnny Mnemonic (1995) opposite Keanu Reeves. 2010 marked his return to theaters with The Expendables, an on-screen reunion with Sylvester Stallone, alongside an all action star cast which included, among others, Jason Statham and Jet Li.
Lundgren made his directorial debut with The Defender in 2004, and subsequently helmed The Mechanik (2005), Missionary Man (2007), Command Performance, and Icarus, in which he also starred.
DOLPH LUNDGREN INTERVIEW ABOUT THE EXPENDABLES.ENJOY IT IF YOU ARE A FAN OF DOLPH LUNDGREN THAN YOU CAN CHECK OUT HIS SITE JUST CLICK HEREPhilip Andre "Mickey" Rourke, Jr. (born September 16, 1952)[1] is an American actor, screenwriter and retired boxer, who has appeared primarily as a leading man in action, drama, and thriller films.
During the 1980s, Rourke starred in Diner, Rumble Fish, and the erotic drama 9½ Weeks, and received critical praise for his work in Barfly and Angel Heart. In 1991, Rourke, who had trained as a boxer in his early years, left acting and became a professional boxer for a period.[2] He had supporting roles in several later films, including The Rainmaker, Buffalo '66, The Pledge, Get Carter, Once Upon a Time in Mexico and Man on Fire.
In 2005, Rourke made his comeback in mainstream Hollywood circles with a lead role in Sin City, for which he won awards from the Chicago Film Critics Association, the Irish Film and Television Awards and the Online Film Critics Society. In the 2008 film The Wrestler, Rourke portrayed a past-his-prime wrestler, and garnered a 2009 Golden Globe award, a BAFTA award, and a nomination for an Academy Award.[3]
In 2010, he appeared in the blockbusters Iron Man 2 and The Expendables.Jason Statham MICKEY ROURKE PROMOTING THE EXPENDABLES.ENJOY IT IF YOU ARE A FAN OF MICKEY ROURKE THAN YOU CAN CHECK OUT HIS SITE JUST CLICK HERE
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Jason Statham (pronounced /ˈsteɪθəm/;[2][3] born 12 September 1967)[ is an English actor and former diver, known for his roles in the Guy Ritchie crime films Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; Revolver; and Snatch. Statham appeared in supporting roles in several American films, such as The Italian Job, as well as playing the lead role in The Transporter, Crank, The Bank Job, War (opposite martial arts star Jet Li), and Death Race. Statham also appeared alongside established action film actors Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Jet Li and Dolph Lundgren in The Expendables. He normally performs his own fight scenes and stunts.[10] Bruce Willis
Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955), better known as Bruce Willis, is an American actor, producer, and musician. His career began in television in the 1980s and has continued both in television and film since, including comedic, dramatic, and action roles. He is well known for the role of John McClane in the Die Hard series, which were mostly critical and uniformly financial successes. He has also appeared in over sixty films, including box office successes like Pulp Fiction, Sin City, 12 Monkeys, The Fifth Element, Armageddon, and The Sixth Sense.
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Motion pictures featuring Willis have grossed US$2.64 billion to 3.05 billion at North American box offices, making him the ninth highest-grossing actor in a leading role and twelfth highest including supporting roles.[1][2] He is a two-time Emmy Award-winning, Golden Globe Award-winning and four-time Saturn Award-nominated actor. Willis was married to actress Demi Moore and they had three daughters before their divorce in 2000 after thirteen years of marriage. Arnold Schwarzenegger.jpg)
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger[1] (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian-American former professional bodybuilder, actor, model, businessman and politician who served as the 38th Governor of California (2003–2011).
Schwarzenegger began weight training at 15. He was awarded the title of Mr. Universe at age 20 and went on to win the Mr. Olympia contest a total of seven times. Schwarzenegger has remained a prominent presence in the sport of bodybuilding and has written several books and numerous articles on the sport.
Schwarzenegger gained worldwide fame as a Hollywood action film icon, noted for his lead roles in such films as Conan the Barbarian, The Terminator, Commando and Predator. He was nicknamed the "Austrian Oak" and the "Styrian Oak" in his bodybuilding days, "Arnie" during his acting career and more recently the "Governator" (a portmanteau of "Governor" and "Terminator").[2]
As a Republican, he was first elected on October 7, 2003, in a special recall election (referred to in Schwarzenegger campaign propaganda as a "Total Recall") to replace then-Governor Gray Davis. Schwarzenegger was sworn in on November 17, 2003, to serve the remainder of Davis's term. Schwarzenegger was then re-elected on November 7, 2006, in California's 2006 gubernatorial election, to serve a full term as governor, defeating Democrat Phil Angelides, who was California State Treasurer at the time. Schwarzenegger was sworn in for his second term on January 5, 2007.[3]
Schwarzenegger wanted to move from bodybuilding into acting, finally achieving it when he was chosen to play the role of Hercules in 1970's Hercules in New York. Credited under the name "Arnold Strong," his accent in the film was so thick that his lines were dubbed after production.[12] His second film appearance was as a deaf mute hit-man for the mob in director Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973), which was followed by a much more significant part in the film Stay Hungry (1976), for which he was awarded a Golden Globe for New Male Star of the Year. Schwarzenegger has discussed his early struggles in developing his acting career. "It was very difficult for me in the beginning – I was told by agents and casting people that my body was 'too weird', that I had a funny accent, and that my name was too long. You name it, and they told me I had to change it. Basically, everywhere I turned, I was told that I had no chance."[5]
Schwarzenegger drew attention and boosted his profile in the bodybuilding film Pumping Iron (1977),[11][12] elements of which were dramatized. In 1991, Schwarzenegger purchased the rights to the film, its outtakes, and associated still photography.[34] Schwarzenegger auditioned for the title role of The Incredible Hulk, but did not win the role because of his height. Later, Lou Ferrigno got the part of Dr. David Banner's alter ego. Schwarzenegger appeared with Kirk Douglas and Ann-Margret in the 1979 comedy The Villain. In 1980 he starred in a biopic of the 1950s actress Jayne Mansfield as Mansfield's husband, Mickey Hargitay.
In 1984, he made the first of three appearances as the eponymous character and what some would say was the signature role in his acting career in director James Cameron's science fiction thriller film The Terminator.[11][12][36] Following The Terminator, Schwarzenegger made Red Sonja in 1985, which "sank without a trace."[35]
During the 1980s, audiences had a large appetite for action films, with both Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone becoming international stars.[12] Schwarzenegger's roles reflected his droll, often self-deprecating sense of humor (including sometimes famously bad puns), separating his roles from more serious action hero fare. His alternative-universe comedy/thriller Last Action Hero featured a poster of the movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day which, in the fictional alternate universe, had Sylvester Stallone as its star.
Following his arrival as a Hollywood superstar, he made a number of successful films: Commando (1985), Raw Deal (1986), The Running Man (1987), and Red Heat (1988). In Predator (1987), another successful film, Schwarzenegger led a cast which included future Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura (Ventura also appeared in The Running Man and Batman & Robin with Schwarzenegger) and future candidate for governor of Kentucky Sonny Landham.
Twins (1988), a comedy with Danny DeVito, was a change of pace, and also proved successful. Total Recall (1990) netted Schwarzenegger $10 million and 15% of the gross, and was a widely praised, science fiction script directed by Paul Verhoeven, based on the Philip K. Dick short story, "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale". Kindergarten Cop (1990) reunited him with director Ivan Reitman, who directed him in Twins. The movie also featured actress Pamela Reed.
Schwarzenegger had a brief foray into directing, first with a 1990 episode of the TV series Tales from the Crypt, entitled "The Switch", and then with the 1992 telemovie Christmas in Connecticut. He has not directed since.
Schwarzenegger's commercial high-water mark was his return as the title character in 1991's Terminator 2: Judgment Day, which was the highest-grossing film of 1991. In 1993, the National Association of Theatre Owners named him the "International Star of the Decade."[4] His next film project, the 1993 self-aware action comedy spoof Last Action Hero was released opposite Jurassic Park, with the box office suffering accordingly. His next film, the comedy drama True Lies (1994) was a highly popular spy film, and saw Schwarzenegger, reunited with James Cameron, appearing opposite Jamie Lee Curtis.
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Several film projects were announced with Schwarzenegger attached to star, including the remake of Planet of the Apes, a new film version of I Am Legend, and a World War II film scripted by Quentin Tarantino that would have seen Schwarzenegger play an Austrian for the fourth time (after Stay Hungry, Junior and Kindergarten Cop).Instead, he returned after a hiatus with the supernatural thriller End of Days (1999), later followed by the action films The 6th Day (2000) and Collateral Damage (2002) all of which failed to do well at the box office. In 2003, he made his third appearance as the title character in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, which went on to earn over $150 million domestically.
In tribute to Schwarzenegger in 2002, Forum Stadtpark, a local cultural association, proposed plans to build a 25-meter (82 ft) tall Terminator statue in a park in central Graz. Schwarzenegger reportedly said he was flattered, but thought the money would be better spent on social projects and the Special Olympics.[37]
His film appearances after becoming Governor of California include a 3-second cameo appearance in The Rundown (a.k.a., Welcome to the Jungle) with The Rock, and the 2004 remake of Around the World in 80 Days, where he appeared onscreen with action star Jackie Chan for the first time. In 2005 he appeared as himself in the film The Kid & I. Schwarzenegger voiced Baron von Steuben in Episode 24 ("Valley Forge") of Liberty's Kids.
Schwarzenegger had been rumored to be appearing in Terminator Salvation as the original T-800 model, alongside Roland Kickinger. Schwarzenegger denied his involvement,[38] but it was later revealed that although he would appear briefly he would not be shooting new footage, and his image would be inserted into the movie from stock footage of the first Terminator movie.[39][40]
Schwarzenegger's most recent appearance was in Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables, where he made a cameo appearance alongside Stallone and Bruce Willis. Stone Cold Steve Austin
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Steve Austin (born Steven James Anderson; December 18, 1964, later and formerly Steven Williams),[1] better known by his ring name "Stone Cold" Steve Austin,[2] is an American film and television actor and professional wrestler currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment. Austin wrestled for several well-known wrestling promotions such as World Championship Wrestling (WCW), Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and most famously, the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), which later became World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in 2002. Billed as "The Most Popular Superstar in WWE History",[3] He gained significant mainstream popularity in the WWF during the mid-to-late 1990s as "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, a disrespectful, beer-drinking antihero who routinely defied his boss, Vince McMahon.[4] This defiance was often shown by Austin flipping off McMahon and incapacitating him with the Stone Cold Stunner, his finishing move.[5] McMahon inducted Austin into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2009. Eric RobertsEric Anthony Roberts (born April 18, 1956) is an American actor. His career began with King of the Gypsies (1978), earning a Golden Globe nomination for best actor debut. He starred as the protagonist in the 1980 dramatisation of Willa Cather's 1905 short story, Paul's Case. He earned both a Golden Globe and Academy Award nomination for his supporting role in Runaway Train (1985). Through the 1990s and 2000s he maintained dramatic film and TV-movie roles while appearing in TV series. His television work includes three seasons with the sitcom Less Than Perfect and a recurring role on the NBC drama Heroes. His sisters Julia Roberts and Lisa Roberts Gillan, and daughter Emma Roberts, are also actors Randy Couture
THE EXPENDABLES ERIC ROBERTS INTERVIEW.ENJOY IT IF YOU ARE A FAN OF ERIC ROBERTS THAN YOU CAN CHECK OUT HIS SITE JUST CLICK HERERandy Duane Couture (pronounced /koʊˈtʊər/; born June 22, 1963) is an American mixed martial artist, Greco-Roman wrestler, actor, a three-time former heavyweight champion and a two-time light-heavyweight champion of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Couture is the first fighter to hold two UFC championship titles in two different divisions (heavyweight and light heavyweight). Couture has competed in a record 15 title fights. He, along with Chuck Liddell, has the second highest amount of fights in the UFC at 23, behind Matt Hughes' 24. Couture is one of the first members of the UFC Hall of Fame and many consider him to be one of the greatest in MMA history.[4] Couture is currently ranked as the #10 Light Heavyweight fighter in the world by Yahoo! Sports.[5]
Couture was an Olympic wrestling alternate and has lived in Corvallis, Oregon, throughout much of his career, where he served as an assistant wrestling coach and a strength and conditioning coach for Oregon State University.[6] He established Team Quest with Matt Lindland and Dan Henderson, a training camp for fighters, based out of Gresham, Oregon, and headed by coach Robert Folis. In 2005, Couture moved to Las Vegas, where he opened his own extensive chain of gyms under the name Xtreme Couture. He currently trains at his Las Vegas-based gym. Couture also partnered with Bas Rutten in the opening of Legends Gym in Hollywood, California.
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Couture is generally recognized as a clinch and ground-and-pound fighter who uses his wrestling ability to execute take downs, establish top position and successively strike the opponent on the bottom. Couture has also displayed a variety of skills in Boxing, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu; submitting three opponents using different chokeholds. Couture is the only athlete in UFC history to win a championship after becoming a Hall of Fame member and is the oldest title holder ever (in the UFC and MMA). Along with Chuck Liddell, Couture is widely credited for bringing mixed martial arts into the mainstream of American sports and pop culture. Jet Li
Li Lian Jie (born April 26, 1963), better known by his stage name Jet Li, is a Chinese martial artist, actor, film producer, wushu champion, and international film star who was born in Beijing, and has taken up Singapore citizenship in 2009.
After three years of intensive training with Wu Bin, Li won his first national championship for the Beijing Wushu Team. After retiring from wushu at age 17, he went on to win great acclaim in China as an actor making his debut with the film Shaolin Temple (1982). He went on to star in many critically acclaimed martial arts epic films, most notably the Once Upon A Time In China series, in which he portrayed folk hero Wong Fei-hung.
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Li's first role in a Hollywood film was as a villain in Lethal Weapon 4 (1998), but his first Hollywood film leading role was in Romeo Must Die (2000). He has gone on to star in many Hollywood action films, most recently co-starring in The Expendables (2010) with Sylvester Stallone, in The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) with Jackie Chan, and as the title character villain in The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor (2008) opposite Brendan Fraser. He also appeared in the Hong Kong film Ocean Heaven (2010), directed and written by Xue Xiaolu. Terror Tuesday: Did You Know Sylvester Stallone Made A Slasher Movie?A lot of big names have a slasher movie in the early part of their resume. Kevin Bacon (Friday the 13th) and Tom Hanks (He Knows You’re Alone) are some of the more commonly cited examples, but the list is pretty long. Jason Alexander and Holly Hunter both pop up in The Burning, Vanna White can be seen as a cheerleader in Graduation Day, and who can forget David Caruso’s turn as the hero’s ill-fated and annoying buddy in the rather terrible Without Warning? Oh, and Sylvester Stallone starred in the followup slasher from the guy who directed I Know What You Did Last Summer.
Wait, what? Didn’t that movie come out in 1997, right around the time Stallone was reigniting his acting career in the well received Copland? It sure did. And yet (not counting doing voice-over work in Antz), Sly’s next project was D-Tox (renamed Eye See You for video), directed by Summer’s Jim Gillespie, which for all intents and purposes is a whodunit slasher movie, complete with red herrings, a throat slashing or two, and an isolated locale where the protagonists are unable to call for help. The only thing it’s missing is some gratuitous nudity.
Now, those who know about the movie (it played on 78 screens in the US, averaging 400 dollars or so per screen on its opening weekend) probably remember that it came out in 2002, after Get Carter and Driven had nailed Sly’s career coffin shut for a while. But the movie was shot and scheduled to be released in 1999, by Universal Studios no less (DEJ ultimately distributed the film). Oddly, this was the same year that Sly’s Planet Hollywood buddies also tried their hand in rare genre roles. Bruce Willis of course had the most success, playing (spoiler) a ghost in The Sixth Sense, which shot past Armageddon to become his highest grossing film of all time. Schwarzenegger, on the other hand, was met with mixed results on End Of Days, which saw the big guy fighting the Devil, both in the form of Gabriel Byrne and in a big CGI demon thing that looked like the cover of Bat Out Of Hell come to life. Some of the film feels like a traditional Arnold vehicle, such as when he takes on a team of mercenary priests (!), but it’s still an anomaly in his career, much darker than anything else he had done (both literally and figuratively, thanks to Peter Hyams’ traditionally underexposed photography and a script by Se7en’s Andrew Kevin Walker, respectively).
But whereas Arnold had dealt with Fangoria material in the past (Terminator and Predator are considered horror movies by some – they are wrong, but there it is), and Willis had always jumped around in different genres, Sly had never even come close to this sort of material since making it big in his Death Race 2000 days were seemingly behind him. The closest one might consider to be a horror film* is probably Cobra, since the film’s villains were satanic cult members, but apart from the hospital scene, nothing ever really felt scary and you don’t see car chases and shootouts that seemingly engulf entire towns in too many horror movies. But in D-Tox, apart from some quick shootouts with the killer (something Scream sort of made acceptable in horror movies), there’s nothing really “action-movie” about it. It’s a grim blend of serial killer and slasher movie through and through.
Much like Arnold in End Of Days, Sly’s character is suicidal, drinks heavily, and generally looks like shit for a good chunk of the movie. But the movie begins with him in a much healthier and jovial mood, in fact he’s just about to propose to his girlfriend. She is the only good thing in his life, which is currently consumed with finding a serial killer who targets cops. When he gets too close, the killer responds by killing said girlfriend, which sends him into the aforementioned unhealthy state. So his partner, Charles S. Dutton (Charles S. Dutton), convinces him to get help, and drives him to a detox facility for cops (run by ex-cop Kris Kristofferson), which is conveniently located in the middle of nowhere during the winter.So we meet the fellow junkie/alcoholic/suicidal/etc cops and small staff of the facility, nearly all of whom are played by character actors you love like Robert Patrick, Tom Berenger, Robert Prosky (!), Stephen Lang, etc. And then folks start turning up dead, so Sly (rightly) assumes that the killer has shown up, and he has to figure out who it is before he wipes out everyone who isn’t him. This is part of what ingrains the film into slasher-ville; the killer has a beef with Stallone, but for some reason kills everyone BUT him, just like, say, Urban Legend or Happy Birthday To Me. Unfortunately the mystery is quite botched; there are too many goddamn characters in the movie (I think there are 15 people at the facility), which means a lot of them don’t have enough screentime to become viable suspects (Lang literally has one closeup in the entire movie), and others try too hard to be memorable. Robert Patrick, for example, is such an unflinching asshole right from the start, you know he can’t be the killer; he’s too “open”.
But hey; it’s a slasher movie with Stallone! He goes through a lot of the motions (finding dead friends, listening to the killer explain everything, rifling through records, etc) and even gives the killer a slasher death, tossing him on a tractor/thresher of some sort, not entirely unlike the one that impales Jason/Roy at the end of Friday the 13th 5. And the others all play along; Prosky has a good ol’ fashioned “Hello? Who’s there?” scene, and there’s a lot of peering around dark corners, seeing things out of the corner of their eye, etc.
It’s also very much a post-Se7en serial killer movie, in that the villain is super intelligent, amuses himself by taunting the police, and spouts a bunch of pretentious babble about the evils of the world and how he’s the sane one, generally making me long for the days when killers kept their mouths shut. And Gillespie follows suit, shooting the entire movie in dark, muted colors, and propping up nearly every corpse to be found by a horrified friend later (often wrapped in chains or hanging from the ceiling, and with their eyes gouged out or something equally unpleasant). The only difference is that it snows all the time instead of raining.DROWNING POOL PERFORMING BODIES LIVE.ENJOY IT
Well, obviously the film didn’t set the box office on fire. Universal sat on it for years, as Stallone’s box office clout further dwindled, and finally dumped it on DEG (whose logo remains on-screen for an exceptionally long time at the top of the film, more than likely just covering Universal’s without having to re-edit the soundtrack), who unceremoniously dumped it to DVD a short time after. Thus, it’s probably not much of a surprise that Sly hasn’t become the next Jamie Lee Curtis. Or even Bruce Willis, who followed Sixth Sense with a romantic comedy, a mob farce, a kid’s fantasy, and a superhero drama. Sly, on the other hand, retreated back to familiar territory (and later, familiar characters with Rocky Balboa and Rambo); apart from Spy Kids 3D (….) nothing has been a surprise. And that’s a shame; I would love to be in a world where a new Stallone film doesn’t necessarily mean an action movie or another Rocky. Not that D-Tox is a particularly great movie (it’s watchable and looks terrific, I’ll give it that), but perhaps if the film had been given a chance it would have inspired him to explore other genres again, instead of falling back on safe territory.I also would have loved to see other action heroes doing horror movies. Seagal fought vampires in one of his direct to video pieces of shit (Against The Dark), but he’s barely in it and his scenes just seem like leftover action bits from any of his other films (the end of the movie even involves a ticking bomb/race against the clock scenario). And Dolph did a sort-of serial killer thriller called Jill The Ripper, but again, it was more like a traditional Dolph Lundgren action movie with some random serial killer shit tossed into it. However you feel about D-Tox, you have to admit that they catered more to a slasher/serial killer fanbase than Stallone’s, which is probably why no one had any faith in it. But had the film been a hit? Maybe Ben Affleck would have forgotten about Phantoms and pursued the male lead in Valentine. Or Jason Statham would find himself in the woods with nothing but his fists and a pack of cannibal mutants, instead of making twelve thousand movies in which his character has uncanny skills with a moving vehicle. Vin Diesel and The Rock occasionally do something different (Find Me Guilty and Southland Tales, respectively), but neither have really explored the horror genre for a while – Diesel’s first big starting role was Pitch Black, but in the sequel the horror elements were completely abandoned, and the less said about Doom, the better.
However, there are still male hero-heavy horror films like The Wolfman, not to mention “Men on a mission” type films that deal with the supernatural such as Season Of The Witch. Maybe if Season‘s team was all familiar guys like Nic Cage and Ron Perlman, it would have been a bigger hit; as Expendables proved, folks like to see a bunch of their heroes in one place. All we need is for another guy on Sly’s level to take another chance on a big genre project (hopefully one the studio has some faith in this time), and his peers will likely follow suit. And thus, we may once again see our beloved badasses appearing in the pages of Fangoria in something besides retrospectives or “Skeletons In The Closet” style pieces.
*Don’t make any fucking “What about Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot?” jokes. You’re all better than that.
Brian Collins watches a horror movie every single day of the week, and he writes about each and every one of them at Horror Movie A Day.
- Jason Statham. As much as this thing was marketed as an ensemble piece, there were a few people who were clearly the leads. Jason Statham was one of them. (This isn't ass kicking related, more ass pounding related, but he's also the only character who has a romantic storyline. Or even deals with a woman on something other than a platonic level.)
He definitely kicks the most ass the movie -- he beats up several guys with his fists, kills dozens of others from close and far away thanks to his knife-throwing and -slashing skills, and uses a variety of weapons to gun down troops on the evil island of Vilena. (Yes the evil country is named Vilena. I guess Badguysland was too obvious.) No one else in the movie has that trifecta, not even the boss.
Sylvester Stallone. He wrote, directed and starred in the movie and also happens to be in basically every single scene -- meaning he had the most ass kicking opportunities of anyone in the cast.
Before I get into the explanation of why he's number two, let me just start off by saying: Say what you will about the guy, but he's in insanely good shape. Insanely good. He's the most ripped 64-year-old I've ever seen. He makes Jack Lalanne look like Dusty Rhodes.
But... I ranked him below Jason Statham for two reasons. One, he relies exclusively on guns, while Statham also uses much more badass knives. Also, in Stallone's one-on-one, hand-to-hand fight against Stone Cold Steve Austin, he gets some decent shots in, but ends up losing. (He might've been too concerned directing the scene to completely hide their height difference.) You can't lose a fight to Stone Cold and be ranked number one. Otherwise the entire McMahon family could rank on this list.- Dolph Lundgren. I personally would've preferred if he was a super-smart, super-ripped scientist and his character's name was Dr. Dolph Lundgren, but this way was good too.
He plays a member of the Expendables who goes rogue and turns on them. He chops someone in half at the waist with a shotgun blast, wins two hand-to-hand fights against Jet Li and can only be stopped when Stallone shoots him.
Terry Crews. Even though he's by far the most ripped of the Expendable crew, I can't remember him ever getting into a fistfight throughout the movie. Fortunately, he does the best weapons work in the movie, including a scene where he uses an extra-loud gun to comically massacre almost an entire Vilenese army platoon.
It was a tough call for this spot between him and Randy Couture, but I lean toward Terry Crews because his character was made out to be crazier. Kind of a mix between his characters in "Idiocracy" and "White Chicks". (For more on my longtime love affair with "White Chicks", try searching for it up in the navigation bar. I will continue to defend that movie forever.)- Randy Couture. He may seem like the least exciting of the Expendable crew -- and definitely doesn't have that many signature moments, other than talking about his cauliflower ear -- but at least he gets to murder Stone Cold when they fight by tossing him into a ring of fire.
- Jet Li. Pretty poor showing for Jet Li, considering that he's one of the three actors who were credited above the title (Stallone and Statham being the others). Yes, he does some good work during the climax, both with fighting and weapons -- but he gets overpowered by Dolph Lundgren on two separate occasions and has to have Stallone step in both times to save his life. No one above him on this list loses two fights. To his credit, Jet Li does get in a few of the funnier jokes in the movie, even if his delivery is a carbon copy of the Jackie Chan "Rush Hour" playbook.
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And if that was not enough to have your adrenaline exploding, look at who others have been approached for a role in the movie. 'Universal Soldier' Jean Claude Van Damme, 'Renegade Vampire Blade' Wesley Snipes, 'Mahatma Gandhi' Ben Kingsley, 'Idi Amin' Forest Whitaker, 'Escape from L.A.' Kurt Russell and Tae kwon do trainer 'Weapon XI' Scott Adkins.
And if the rumours are to be believed, 'Die Hard' Bruce Willis is in talks with Stallone over a possible role in the movie.
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