- Posted by Rusty
That's the trailer for next year's The Expendables, and just look at the roster of people here: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Dolph Lungren (Rocky IV reunion!), Jet Li (who finally gets to do more than his usual silent badass-glaring), Terry Crews, Mickey Rourke, and, although the trailer doesn’t show it, expect some cameos from Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger (more about that here)! That may just be the best group of cinematic tough-guys ever assembled. Looks silly? Yep. Over-the-top and ridiculous? Hands down. But fun, in that cheesy, '80's, few-dudes-take-down-armies-of-bad-guys way? You bet. Plus, Stallone wrote and directed this, and he’s actually quite an underrated filmmaker—just look how he brought the Rocky franchise back to glory with Rocky Balboa.
Check out that trailer above—you get lots of one-liners and explosions, and Statham (my favorite current action hero) looks like he’s relishing sharing the screen with a legend like Stallone (himself looking relaxed and very funny in kicking-ass home territory). The story’s as simple as can be: the Expendables are a group of mercenaries led by Stallone, and they’re sent to South America to dispatch some evil dictator. Cue the fistfights and streams of bullets, and expect piles of anonymous dead bad guys (who still haven't learned to shoot at the heroes, instead of around them). Definitely a must-see for me—this macho-guys-on-a-mission movie will hit theaters in August of 2010.
What do you guys think of the trailer? It won’t win any Oscars…but it looks like a big, loud, old-fashioned good time at the theater. [end of post]
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