Hollywood isn’t interested in always making blockbuster films. They will bury a film out of spite or even write the losses of a “protected” film off against a successful modestly budgeted film (burying it and it’s production team).
They have 75 years of film to sell/lease on cable and home video to remain solvent.
Stallone did a fund raiser for Obama. F Him
The only one in that movie who is not a lib is Mickey Rourke.
Hollywood can go to h*ll.
The Expendables is being reviewed better than Eat Pray Love (barf) by the critics.
Eat Pray Love review: Self-indulgent... a talky travelogue — like riding a tour bus with a passenger who won’t shut up about her inner journey.
The “paint by numbers” line was so worth reading this article.
Expendables, A-Team, Red Dawn. Is it time to wallow in 80s nostalgia already? I thought we’d have a few more years. What next? Sixteen Candles with Megan Ringwald?
Saw it and loved it.
I would rather have another Dark Knight than another Expendables, but maybe that is just me.
I understand the sentiment of the author. However, I doubt that this movie is the one to make that point with. It seemed to me like an Oceans 11 for 80’s action stars.
Crap. I haven't seen a Stallone film since Spy Kids 3, but now I might have to.
Hollywood is stupid, but not suicidal. They will continue to make stupid movies to soothe their political passions, but they will never stop making movies that make money. They have to have money to promote their agenda in the theaters, after all.
Silly Stallone. You’re not allowed to have masculine white male heros!! We’ll claw your eyes out!
Expendables didn’t do that well. 35 million is nice, but with an $82 million it’s going to be hard pressed to make it to profitability. And I think the critics savaged it largely because they hate action movies, there’s that big “old school” art movie worshiping of “critics” who will give the thumbs down to pretty much any movie where something blows up.