You could be forgiven to believe that
you have been magically transported back to the 80’s. With The Expendables 2 releasing last weekend, all that you would have heard
or seen around were the stills of men your father idolised, or maybe you did as
a kid! Old men, who should be hunched and walking with a crane, seated on a
bench in a peaceful garden catching up on reading books that youth never had
the time for. But as they say, the spirit never dies! These so called old men
are not going down, at least not any time soon. Their muscles have not flattened,
they carry machine guns and other assortments, they hit, they scream, they
fight like vicious animals, and they still get the adrenalin pumping. When
Stallone created The Expendables in 2010,
it became a raving success for the studio, a definitely unexpected one, that not
only warranted a sequel but also more oldies / action stars, more firepower and
more fun! And from what I hear, The Expendables
2 is exactly that. Talks are already doing the rounds for The Expendables 3 and names are being
thrown around with vigour, Clint Eastwood, Harrison Ford, Nicolas Cage, etc
etc. This series is not gonna go away mates! And then to top it all up, two of
the veterans are returning for more action stuff in early 2013 with the trailers
for Arnie’s The Last Stand and Sly’s Bullet to the Head coming out yesterday.
Quite exciting to see the return of the former Terminator back to the big
screen, with the teenager inside rooting for his success. And the trailer
for The Last Stand has not
disappointed yet again. His growling accent is still there, his on-screen
presence is still mesmerising and he could teach a less or two to the wannabe
action heroes (Collin Farrell, you listening?) on how you make a punch count.
Eagerly awaiting the release of this flick in January 2013.
And once you manage to take a
breather from the bodies flying around, there is further news that Marvel
Studios keeps throwing at us. They cannot stop being in the limelight anymore, can
they? So The Avengers 2 has been
given a release date. May 1, 2015. Uhhm... ok, I’ll wait! Joss Whedon is back
in the realm of things for the sequel. Yay! But what I am more intrigued about
is the buzz on the Guardians of the Galaxy.
Created in the same Marvel universe, Guardians
of the Galaxy is likely to throw more superheroes our way who could find
themselves mixing up with the original Avengers some way in the sequel. The way
Marvel has managed the integration of all the different characters in their
respective movies to finally culminate in The
Avengers has been unique and highly appealing, thus leading to the understandable
buzz about the Guardians of the Galaxy.
With standards set so high, we can only hope that the scripts for the individual
superhero movies continue to be water-tight.
But someone who is not going to be
part of the Avengers group, and is walking a solo path, which only he can do
best, is Wolverine. The initial pictures of a ragged looking Hugh Jackman as
Wolverine has already been doing the rounds and with the official synopsis
being released (summary of synopsis: Wolverine in Japan to fight with some
samurais! Crunch, wack, rip!), The
Wolverine goes in my watchlist too for next year. Wolverine, Superman, Iron
Man, Thor... hmm am I missing anyone? Gonna be another superhero year in 2013!
