Here's to Action Heroes!

The recent action extravaganza The Expendables is pretty much what you'd expect from an action movie, if it was the action movie to end all action movies! Kind of light on story, but with some subtle and not so subtle layers of subtext thrown in, just to make you smile a little and feel like a ponce about getting older. Then there's the action. Holy damn! It's been a while since I got wound up watching the action scenes of a movie, but this one hits you like that. While all the gunshots, kicks, and punches are slamming you from all sides, you get this brief moment of thinking..."So that's what it would look like if Rocky IV's Ivan Drago took on any of the number of bad asses Jet Li has played in movies for the the last several years. Good to know."

Cops and Comedy.

The movie The Other Guys is your basic buddy cop movie that I had a fun time viewing. I don't know if Mark Wahlberg is cut out for comedy but he did a reasonable job playing the straight man next to Will Ferrell. They both cracked me up, which is what you want when you go watch a comedy, right? The biggest laugh of the movie didn't come from them, however, that honor goes to Samuel L. Jackson and Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson. Spoiler! Their death scene had me almost pass out from laughing so hard. That alone was worth my $12 bucks.