Okay, Now I Just Have an Action Movie Boner
And you know what that means — there’s a new Expendables 2 trailer out. It doesn’t reveal anything other than the cast, which we already knew, but goddamn. If you like action movies I don’t know how you can see a line-up that include Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Dolph Lundgren, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Chuck Norris, Jet Li, Jason Statham, and all those other guys, and not come away with a massive manly movie erection. Now, I know some of you guys didn’t care for the first Expendables, but I genuinely enjoyed the hell out of it. Hell, I watched it twice in two days. I’d honestly like to know why you think it sucked, because I truly don’t know how a movie where Dolph Lundgren fights Jet Li and Stallone and Statham empty their plane’s fuel on a bunch of bad guys, then turn around and light it on fire is anything less than awesome.
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