Hi, if you spend any time hanging around the User Reviews you probably know me as that impossibly arrogant reviewer who specializes in movies that came out before I was 10, usually before I was born. Well I just saw The Expendables (not in theaters, on...dvd, if you catch my drift) and oh god was it awful.
But it got me thinking: Most of these people have been horribly miscast, no one's at the height of their career (okay, maybe Mickey, but he's in the middle of a second wind) and it's the worst thing most of them have made. So I got to thinking: What if you could cast your own "Expendables." So I did. Here's my list, requirements are: 10 people minimum, have to be alive. That's it. All of mine are links to their wikipedia entries. Don't need story, don't need roles, just 10 people you'd rather see in a movie than these guys. If you like you can explain what your theme is.
Bruce Campbell [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Campbell]
Edward James Olmos [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_James_Olmos]
Isiah Mustafa [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isiah_Mustafa]
David Caruso [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Caruso]
Tahmoh Penikett [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahmoh_Penikett]
Dwayne Johnson [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwayne_Johnson]
Eliza Dushku [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza_Dushku]
Steven Seagal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Seagal]
Jean-Claude Van Damme [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Van_Damme]
Nathan Fillion [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Fillion]
Anywho, my list consists mostly of struggling actors from TV who can do solid hardass but still have range backed up by some old school extremely B-Movie actors. This list lends itself to some in jokes (like Bruce Campbell's character using a chainsaw, having Nathan Fillion wear a brown trenchcoat or having David Caruso make a pathetic quip and then have a character respond under their breath "Yeahhhh.")
Oh, guess what some of my favorite tv shows are. Go ahead guess, you'll never figure it out.
But it got me thinking: Most of these people have been horribly miscast, no one's at the height of their career (okay, maybe Mickey, but he's in the middle of a second wind) and it's the worst thing most of them have made. So I got to thinking: What if you could cast your own "Expendables." So I did. Here's my list, requirements are: 10 people minimum, have to be alive. That's it. All of mine are links to their wikipedia entries. Don't need story, don't need roles, just 10 people you'd rather see in a movie than these guys. If you like you can explain what your theme is.
Bruce Campbell [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Campbell]
Edward James Olmos [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_James_Olmos]
Isiah Mustafa [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isiah_Mustafa]
David Caruso [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Caruso]
Tahmoh Penikett [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahmoh_Penikett]
Dwayne Johnson [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwayne_Johnson]
Eliza Dushku [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza_Dushku]
Steven Seagal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Seagal]
Jean-Claude Van Damme [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Van_Damme]
Nathan Fillion [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Fillion]
Anywho, my list consists mostly of struggling actors from TV who can do solid hardass but still have range backed up by some old school extremely B-Movie actors. This list lends itself to some in jokes (like Bruce Campbell's character using a chainsaw, having Nathan Fillion wear a brown trenchcoat or having David Caruso make a pathetic quip and then have a character respond under their breath "Yeahhhh.")
Oh, guess what some of my favorite tv shows are. Go ahead guess, you'll never figure it out.