My first time… watching action monstrosity The Expendables

The Expendables take their action with extra cheese.

There was a period during the 1980s when the movie business was utterly dominated by action flicks and dude-heavy audiences that loved them.

Seemingly every weekend saw the arrival of another explosive entry to the filmographies of Sylvester Stallone or Arnold Schwarzenegger or Bruce Willis. If it wasn’t one of the A-listers, it was the B-team putting out flicks that passed through theaters quickly but set up shop on cable for years: Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Charles Bronson. Yes, it was a very pale genre in addition to being male-centric, save

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