The Expendables

Sylvester Stallone, fuck yeah!
Jason Statham, fuck yeah!
Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Steve Austin, Terry Crews, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis and Schwarzenegger! Fuck Yeah A macho review for a macho movie!

The Expendables 2010
Directed by Sylvester Stallone
Written by Sylvester Stallone and David Callaham

   The whole idea of ​​this film began as a continuation of the 2008 Rambo movie where the old mercenary returns to the United States and starting his own mercenary agency to fight where no one would like to go. Where old John Rambo would cut his hair, leave the goatee, and take the fake name of Barney Ross. Of course, the film became an original production where Rambo's name no longer needed to be cited. But that's Rambo, it's Rambo! Hehehe

   The film begins with the team in the Gulf of Aden, Somalia, where mercenaries have to face Somali pirates and rescue hostages. The cool thing about this movie is that despite the tense scene of bargaining with the pirates we can see how Barney (Stallone) and Lee (Statham) get on the scene! There is a whole chemistry in the friendship and rivalry between these two protagonists who are betting to see who kills more pirates faster!

   But just as there is a healthy friendship and rivalry, there is also the problem of emotional stability in Gunner (Lundgren) being extremely violent and sadistic. Which leads to direct disagreement between Gunner and Yin (Jet Li).

   Soon, Barney (Stallone) must search for a new mission and receive a service from Mr Church (Bruce Willis) to end a socialist dictator clearly inspired by Che Guevara and Fidel Castro. That they are sadistic puppets just like the real Che and Fidel. General Garza (David Zayas) rules the small island as if it were Cuba only for an unscrupulous drug kingpin James Munroe (Eric Roberts). Unlike Fidel who rules Cuba as a puppet of the Soviet Union ...
   Barney (Stallone) and Lee (Statham) decide to go to the island to gather information for the operation and encounter General Garza's daughter, Sandra Garza (Giselle Itié), who intends to beat her father and restore freedom and Democracy on the island of Vilena. But attacked, they must flee the island, killing only 47 soldiers. What they can do by making a low-flying plane shooting at will ...


 
 The respect for women
When feminists talk about machismo being about disrespect and oppression towards women; They have to completely ignore reality. Our culture is full of examples that the true behavior of a male is precisely that of respect and common sense towards women. But not only to women, but to children, to the elderly and the sick as well. Our culture has millennia of an ideal where men are taught to have virtues to be responsible, to respect other people and to protect society in general. With courage, common sense and kicking many asses.
When feminists talk about machismo, they do not fathom what the true macho's character is like.

Macho movies like The Expendables have a lot of respect for women. Carrying two key scenes that are completely about respecting women.

One of them is when Jason Statham arrives at the house of the girl that he likes (Charisma Carpenter) and discovers that she preferred to be with another guy - and that guy was beating her. At that time Jason Statham goes with him on motorcycle to the guy and breaks him and all his friends nobody beats a woman in a real macho movie. Who does this ends up having the butt kicked, a lot!

And the end of the movie is completely about rescuing a woman! Preferably killing as many thugs as possible!

Macho movies are full of examples of respect and common sense like these!

    Problems with drugs, betrayal ... ... And forgiveness.
   Gunner (Lundgren) was removed from his friends for being unstable because of the drugs. And without service, he ends up cheating on his friends and trying to kill them. Being a conflict-fighting scene that leads to a good stunt between Jet Li and Lundgren. The scene is tense and the friendship is well tested at the base of the kick in the kidney!
   But at the end Gunner ends up handing over whoever hired him and talked about the plans of the socialist-drug-thieves ...

   But the point is not just betrayal and cheerleading, but by the end of the movie we can see Gunner all broken, fucked and accepted back to the expendables bar drinking his beer.
   That is: We have to recognize that true friendship can hold on even after an ugly fight.

 
  Shots, big guns and lots of fighting!
   At the end of the film, Barney decides to join the whole gang to invade the island and kill the dictator, all his soldiers and his boss! And that's exactly to save the lady in danger. The island was then invaded by Stallone, Statham, Jet Li, Randy Couture and Terry Crews! That has two jobs and one of them is to be motha-focka expendables!

   It's a good action movie that I do not need to be describing every action scene or stunt. The recommendation is to put the movie on the TV while rolling a barbeque / beer with friends and children. The film is not meant to be too deep, but it touches on themes that we have to talk to from time to time. Like friendship, forgiveness and respect for women.
   Worth seeing

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Commando

Commando 1985
   Directed by Mark l. Lester
   Written by Steven E. de Souza, Joseph Loeb III and Matthew Weisman.


   The story of this film is more than it presents itself. It's a satire with the 80's macho movies themselves! They have earned the nickname known for their violence and strength. Popularized by films like Rambo and his clones.

   So they put together 10 million dollars, 54 stunts, insane writers and a star who did not even know how to act right.

   Yes, Arnold Schwaznegger did not even know how to act right when he starred in the movie Conan - The Barbarian in 1982! But Arnold Schwarzenegger was so charismatic that he practically took the whole film on his back even in the most absurd moments!

   He could convince the audience by laughing alongside actress-girl Alyssa Milano as well as shooting, fighting and killing bad guys in general!


   The story of the film is that Arnold Schwarzenegger is Colonel John Matrix, an elite soldier Commando thick bark and hard bone who has kidnapped daughter and is blackmailed to kill a president and friend who helped put him in power. However, he decides to rescue his own daughter and kill all the bad guys that lie ahead.

The beginning: The macho behavior of being a good father!
   To defend my point of view as a man, white, heterosexual, macho and reactionary; I will draw attention to the beginning of the film that shows John Matrix with his daughter Jenny (Alyssa Milano).

   For the scene shows exactly a genuinely macho behavior where John Matrix shows up as a good father! You see, feminists try anyway to condemn all the male behavior of a real male to the point that they can not even conceive that this behavior is also very positive!


   Being a good father is also machismo! And who defines this is us, the men!

   Feminists can not understand that a male's behavior is also loving, playful, good-natured, respectful and protective! A real male also educates, teaches to respect other people and creates his children for the world. He supports, cares, cooks, and arranges the house, yes! For none of this is really degrading, but rather legitimate demonstrations of affection, maturity and respect!


   Soon after this quiet start of the film where only two people have died so far, a military helicopter pays a visit to John Matrix to warn that his life is in danger. His good friend General Kirby who trained him comes to tell the story of the movie. And so let John Matrix warn of danger.



   Well, soon after that we have already at the beginning of the film the apex of manhood!

   As soon as General Kirby left the scene and John is attacked. Culminating the act almost unnoticed in the eyes of the great public: John Matrix grabbed his daughter Jenny, took her inside and protected her with her own body! What seems like a passing, unimportant scene, right?

   Of course not! The act of a man taking the risk to protect someone he loves is precisely the macho behavior that made mankind survive the cave era! If we have this behavior today is why millions of years ago this was the apex of manhood! With cavemen facing prehistoric predators with rocks and sticks to save the lives of the people they loved. Since the dawn of mankind men have sacrificed themselves for the good of women and children and that is machismo!


   If you are a man and can do it for the people you love, you are a true example of masculinity. And if you who are a woman, my reader and able to do the same, I have a beautiful and even romantic answer for you, because it is thanks to attitudes like yours that people were inspired to create the angels ...


   Just because of these scenes that show him as both a loving father and a tireless warrior, they put him alongside other great macho characters I stand for like Homer Simpson, Rambo, Braddock and others.

The Middle: What would you be able to do for love?

   If you are stupid and feminist, it is useless. You will not even want to understand the message of a movie.

    Now, if you want to understand the message (or you're morbidly curious to know what I'm going to write), then I'll explain. From the moment Jenny is kidnapped, the film becomes a hero's journey over what we would be able to do for love. To help someone we love.

    Our hero goes very far. He lies, he steals, he attacks innocents, kidnaps and kills!

    Starting with the son of a bitch who invented to being in front of him and try to blackmail him in his own daughter's room.


 "We kidnap your daughter and we'll kill her unless you do what we tell you to do." And you will do it, right? The violent hijacker asks.

 - Wrong! -  John Matrix answers with a shot in the kidnapper's head. A true act of love ...


   Laughing aside, we have an obligation to question what we are seeing in the film!

   After all, it is part of the question of how far we would go to save someone. What goes for both the case of someone we love being kidnapped and 'simpler' things like what we would do to get someone off drugs and alcoholism? What would we do if someone needed help for health problems or other problems. It is worth remembering that helping others is a valiant act of human behavior.

   But there are limits. For example, our hero kidnaps a girl at the airport to approach a thug. What is wrong! And fuck relativism that preaches that right and wrong are relative, kidnapping is wrong and period!


   Despite her protests, she clearly was thrilled with John Matrix after seeing him beat up a gang of armed security guards from a mall and finally joined him after seeing his macho and reactionary way of killing a thug in one of the classic scenes of the movie theater. Where John Matrix holds the thug with his weaker arm on the edge of a cliff!

  - Remember when I said I was going to kill you last? Yeah, I lied!


   Of course I will not tell the whole movie here. I recommend everyone to watch at least 50 times!

  John Matrix's journey to rescue his daughter is thrilling and ended with John Matrix killing no more than 87 thugs! Without a doubt, a wonderful film!

The End of the Journey - The Moral Lesson!
   Real macho movies are not about glorifying violence against women and this movie is no exception. So much so that the greatest icons of macho films rarely practice any violence against women. I'm talking about icones like Chuck Norris, Charles Bronson, Clint Eastwood, Stallone, Van Damme and, of course, Arnold Schwarznegger!

   Sexist movies show that violence against women and children is committed by criminals, rapists, cowards and other worms. And what real macho heroes behave very differently from criminals. They kick ass thugs, send thick lead on rapists and step on cowards' throats. Not just in the literal sense. But also the fact that they are better people, who know how to respect and guarantee the rights of the people around them.

   And this is a cultural aspect that can not be denied!


   Real macho movies show macho behavior with which men sympathize and feel close. And the fact that men identify with these films instead of films that glorify violence and disrespect for women tells a lot about real machismo!

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