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80’s throwbacks making explosive returns

Unless any of you Agent blog fans have been living in a cave, under a rock or on a desert island, you won’t have been able to escape the proliferation of resurgent 80’s classics hitting our cinema screens this month. To name but a few we have Predators, The A-Team and The Expendables. Now as you would expect with any big budget/ guilty pleasure movie, they have been panned by the more serious and well respected critics. Some of the more common themes coming through include: there is no plot; the actors are wooden; somewhere there is an underlying metaphor for modern living which will only serve to explode your cheese-gills. Erm, have I missed something or is that not the point of an 80’s action thriller?
A film like The Expendables is going to split opinion with the devotees of classical cinematography calling it a travesty, young gun film bloggers saying they enjoyed it (probably just to wind up the old guard critics) and then there’s people like me who will call it for what it is. This about a gang of aging blokes, wanting to bookend their careers as action heros with one final and very expensive bang. If you’ve ever been in a situation where your Dad comes through to the living room and casually drops into conversation he’s going paintballing at the weekend with the lads, you’ll get what I mean. All of them will take it ever so seriously, come up with code names for anything and everything imaginable and regress to being a child... and I love all that me!
When it comes to an action film I want to see a million bullets fly through the air and not hit anything. I want to see a guy strike the smallest of sparks next to an innocent looking pile of sticks for them to suddenly explode with the power of an atomic bomb. I want to see the hero stitch his own hand back on using a finger nail and strands of hair from the back of a badger. The more ridiculous the better because that’s what actions films are, ridiculous! They are supposed to excite, enthral and leave you with a feeling that if you so wished, you too could take on an invading enemy force and win! August the 16th cannot come soon enough!

06/08

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