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The Expendables (2010) - Stallone's unification of action legends is great fun





2 Film Excess nominations:

Best Director: Sylvester Stallone (lost to Sofia Coppola for Somewhere)
Best Practical Effects (lost to Inception)
 
+ Best Action Movie of the Year
+ Best Ensemble of the Year



The fierce, gun-crazed poster for Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables

The Expendables are a team of mercenaries, about four older guys and one Chinaman (Jet Li (War (2007)), and they get hired by a man named Mr. Church to take down a South-American dictator.

The Expendables, written by Dave Callaham (Doom (2005)) and co-writer-director-star Sylvester Stallone (Rocky II (1979)), is an event in and of itself. It brings together the heaviest artillery in the American action genre in a way that hasn't ever been seen before: Stallone, Li, Arnold Schwarzenegger (The Terminator (1984)), Bruce Willis (Die Hard (1988)), Dolph Lundgren (The Punisher (1989)), Mickey Rourke (Bullet (1996)), Jason Statham (The Transporter (2002)) and more. In a movie that - for a fan of the genre mind you - really works. Just about everything explodes, while the dialog is sharp and the rock rumbles on the soundtrack.
"Looking for wörk?", as Arnold asks at one point in the film. - And 'hell yeah', we might respond as grateful, action-loving audiences!

Related posts:

Sylvester Stallone:  The Expendables 3 (2014) - Unique, bizarre, largely entertaining third action fireball
The Expendables 2 (2012) - An over-packed action hot-air balloon
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2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
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Cop Land (1997) - Stallone faces corruption and turns in some good acting in fine crime drama 
Demolition Man (1993) - Romantic sci-fi popcorner from the good ol' action days of yore
Cobra (1986) - Stallone and Nielsen glitter in lowbrow action fare
Death Race 2000 (1975) - AIP's dystopic car smash






Here are the stars of the film at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con to promote it

Cost: 82 mil. $
Box office: 274.5 mil. $
= Box office success
[The Expendables premiered August 3 (Hollywood) and runs 103 minutes. The film is a reworking of a 2005 script by Callaham titled Barrow. Filming took place from April - July 2009 in Brazil, Louisiana and LA. The film opened #1 with a 34.8 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it stayed on top for another week with about half as big a take, grossing 103 mil. $ (37.5 % of the total gross). The film's 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were China with 31.7 mil. $ (11.5 %) and the UK with 15.9 mil. $ (5.8 %). The Expendables is rotten at 41 % with a 5.2 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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