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The old stars are really not giving up, are they? Stallone has been thick in the movie business in the past decade and not just churning out straight to DVD stuff but creating new movie franchises like The Expendables. Schwarznegger has made his comeback attempt with The Last Stand this year and has a few more action flicks lined up. But when it comes to sheer numbers, Bruce Willis is outdoing them all, fair and square. I ain't used to seeing Hollywood stars surfacing and re-surfacing every few months on the theatre screens. One is a good figure for an year, probably two. Oh, but wait, Bruce Willis cares not! In 2012, he decided to keep sleep for another time and went ahead and delivered six films in the year. Yep, freaking six! He doesn't necessarily carry the burden of the whole movie on his shoulders anymore, but still, six!? This includes a real rainbow of movies - from the unheard and direct-to-video Fire with Fire to the rather acclaimed and gripping sci-fi Looper. I haven't seen all his flicks  of the year but I am betting the furrowed brow and the bald head would have been a constant across them all. 

So it would be fair to guess 2013 would have been an year of rest, right? Wrong. There are three already slated for the year. The fifth edition of the never ending Die Hard franchise that brings back good old grumpy John McClane (ahh, a role that will never get old enough!), the 'why did they make a sequel?' G.I. Joe: Retaliation and then Red 2, the sequel to the surprise hit of 2010. When it comes to numbers, he probably would have only Nicholas Cage to compete with who has some 7-8 films lined up in 2013. But then Cage has got his tax issues and would star in anything that is anymore offered to him (why oh why, you don't do a National Treasure 3?). Willis also got money problems? I doubt it. Maybe the guy just wants to keep his guns blazing. Pushing himself. Testing himself in the current times. Whatever, the reasons maybe, I bet it would do him no harm if he started being a bit more choosy and not drown the old McClane name amidst a plethora of mediocre films which even Nicolas Cage might reject! Eh, maybe the latter part might never happen. But I still like Bruce Willis and so here's one to the bald guy, hoping that people will still remember him for the body of work he has gifted us with. So till February, when it shall be A Good Day to Die Hard. Aarghh, you better turn out to be a good flick!