# The Expendables **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 13, 2010, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-expendables/539250 "2010-05-13T01:37:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-expendables/539250/1 "2010-05-13T01:37:35Z")
Could this be potentially the most awesome action movie of all time? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/C6RU5y2fU6s/hqdefault.jpg "'The Expendables' Trailer HD") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6RU5y2fU6s) Stallone Mickey Rourke Jason Statham Jet Li Bruce Willis Schwarzenegger :eek::D:cool: There’s so much testosterone in this film, only with modern cinematographic technology can prevent all the macho from collapsing into a quantum singularity. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-expendables/539250/2 "2010-05-13T04:31:28Z")
They’re missing Norris!!!11 Arguably Seagel and Van Damme too. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-expendables/539250/3 "2010-05-13T04:46:19Z")
One drop of Chuck Norris’s testosterone can cure cancer. Unfortunately, Chuck Norris has never had any testosterone. Ever. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-expendables/539250/4 "2010-05-13T05:09:44Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > They’re missing Norris!!!11 Arguably Seagel and Van Damme too. They’re trying to make a _good_ movie. As in, the opposite of bad. ---
**Author:** ![Alpha\_Twit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpha_twit/32/265_2.png) [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-expendables/539250/5 "2010-05-13T16:15:31Z")
Oh boy, I can’t wait to not see this movies. I wonder which will be more prevalent, explosions or plot holes? ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-expendables/539250/6 "2010-05-13T16:50:51Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > They’re missing Norris!!!11 Arguably Seagel and Van Damme too. Both Seagal and Van Damme were offered parts and declined. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-expendables/539250/7 "2010-05-13T16:51:49Z")
This is already locked in as one of my choices for Movie Night this summer. I may have to see 5 chick-flicks as penance but it will be worth it. Love the line from the trailer: "What happened to you? Stallone: “What does it look like? I got my ass kicked!” ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-expendables/539250/8 "2010-05-13T17:06:57Z")
> [@Enola\_Straight](#): > > There’s so much testosterone in this film, only with modern cinematographic technology can prevent all the macho from collapsing into a quantum singularity. Have you seen the Predator? ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-expendables/539250/9 "2010-05-13T17:07:25Z")
I like that in what may be the most testosterone laden film of the year Stallone is so heavily into the mascara that he looks like he was getting ready for his one-man drag show but got distracted by an action film. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-expendables/539250/10 "2010-05-13T20:47:55Z")
> [@obfusciatrist](#): > > Both Seagal and Van Damme were offered parts and declined. Wow. Wadda buncha jerks! ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-expendables/539250/11 "2010-05-13T22:06:10Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I may have to see 5 chick-flicks as penance but it will be worth it. That’s hilarious. In our household, he’s the one who’s more likely to see the girly chick flicks. He’s seen several that I haven’t (that one with Rene Zellweger in a cold climate, that one with Sandra Bullock as a bitchy boss, uh…that one with that one actress I can’t remember, uh, a bunch more that I can’t remember because I absolutely do not pay attention to them. I have seen The Back-Up Plan, and he hasn’t (I loved it, btw). Give me an action movie, any day. Give me an action movie with Jason Statham and I am so there, so first in line, so front row. I don’t care who else is in the movie, I’ll be there and will only have eyes for Jason. (Edit to add, he, my husband, not Jason, is most definitely straight too. I assume Jason is too though) ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-expendables/539250/12 "2010-05-14T13:54:42Z")
> [@obfusciatrist](#): > > I like that in what may be the most testosterone laden film of the year Stallone is so heavily into the mascara that he looks like he was getting ready for his one-man drag show but got distracted by an action film. Yeah, the otherwise good _[Rocky Balboa](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479143/)_ was nearly ruined by Stallone’s carefully plucked eyebrows. It went way beyond “metrosexual” to “are you trying to tell us something Sly?”