The Expendables (..waiting with some concern..)
It’s with caution that I sit and anticipate this film. It looks great, but a few little “clues” in the trailers have me a bit worried. For one, I saw one trailer where they are getting on a sea plane or something to that effect (it was a quick cut) that has some sort of ecological organizations logo on it. (are the bad guys ruining the environment?) And the other thing, in the clip above, Eric Roberts character seems as though he’s going to be another cliched CIA bad guy or something, as he’s shown waterboarding the female lead. (is this so they can rub it in as to how evil we have been to use waterboarding?)
I don’t know Stallone’s politics, but I’ve heard over the years that he may be conservative in some political areas. I hope so, and I hope my concerns with the flashes I’ve seen in the trailers are unfounded. But until I find out for sure, I remain skeptical.
July 26, 2010 at 9:57 pm
I don’t believe Stallon’s politics have ever been nailed down. He was extremely right wing (or at least played same in movies like “Cobra”) when he was doing the Rambo series, then as his career tailed off and things like demolition man and Dread bombed he went out of his way to bash the right and took movies that that either a centrist or leftish slant.
IOWs, his politics depends on who’s paying the ticket price.
We’ll just have to wait and see.
August 1, 2010 at 12:56 am
UPDATE: Big Hollywood has a short piece quoting Stallone “And once again America will have its cinematic heroes reflect the incredible honor it is to be defending the most extraordinary country the planet has ever known.”
Seems like a definitive answer wrt “The Expcendables”.
August 12, 2010 at 7:56 pm
Was let down today as I read a review over at Big Hollywood regarding “the expendables”. They loved the movie, and while it didn’t seem to bother them, the villain is the typical Hollywood evil rich white American who gains control of a small South American island.
Why could they not have tried to save the island people from an evil South American dictator? (Chavez?) Why did they go with the cliche’d hollywood stereotype again?
Now I don’t know if I’m paying to see it or not.
August 19, 2010 at 10:05 pm
Finally saw the Expendables. Review is live on the blog now.