Basically, you already knew that we’d love this didn’t you? For one thing it’s got Statham in it, which means it’s already head and shoulders above 99% of stuff on our Lovefilm list.
Add in Stallone, Willis, and surprisingly intelligent (PHD in Biological Physics apparently…) terrible Punisher Dolph Lundgren, and you can’t really go wrong.
Can you?
Back when I was 9 years old, the A-Team was awesome man, representing a fantastic Saturday afternoon escape from the clutches of a mother hell-bent on dragging me around the town centre to purchase ill-fitting school shoes, the adventures of Hannibal, Face, Murdoch and B.A happily helped form my entire view of the Midwest, a mythical land full of villainous landowners, oppressed townsfolk, and non-murderous mercenaries who would happily defend your property and your honour –even if doing so involved building a tank that launched cabbages at heavily armed brigands. Over the years, I’ve caught a few reruns and realised that like its contemporaries, it’s actually slow, disastrously plotted mix of improbable scenarios, comedy villains and cigar-chomping, milk-drinking catchphrases. Luckily, the movie is exactly the same.
Stallone’s upcoming beefcake-fest The Expendibles has put the entire STS office into fits of full-on 80s fanboy fever, so it’s with baited breath that we snuck a peek at this extended promo reel that’s popped up online today (Unfortunately it didn’t last long before the killjoys at Lionsgate whipped it off, so here’s some top notch behind the scenes footage instead).
Packed with the kind of cheesy one-liners and bone-smashing action we’ve been praying for, it looks like this could well live up to the OTT expectations of legions of cinema-goers who feel like crazed, musclebound jungle actioners have been somewhat absent of late.
Looks like rejuvenating the 80s action genre with upcoming The Expendables isn’t enough for Sly, who’s been Jabbering to AINC about the continuing adventures of hard as nails pensioner Johnny R, and it looks like things will be taking quite a detour from Rambo’s brief delve into political expression.
We’re back.
This week the topic for debate is the sightly contrived ‘Top Characters & Supporting Characters From 80s Movies.’
We talk about Mr Strickland for Back to the Future, Howard The Duck, Weird Science – both the movie and little know TV series – Die Hard, Teen Wolf and Beverly Hills Cop 2.
We also take a weird detour into a post-apocalytic future, lorded over by cricket playing Australians.
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