Following on from my blog last week (or maybe the week before... apologies for the lack of blogging) about how incredible The Expendables IS going to be, I’ve not been able to stop thinking about poorly acted explosive blockbusters. So far this week I’ve watched the whole Rambo collection, Minority Report, Iron Man, Kickboxer, Total Recall, Terminator 1 &2 (T3 really is waste of time) and Live or Let Die. It’s been a busy one.

During this week of man takes on the world and wins for glory action film marathon, I began thinking if I were to put together an action film and had the pick of past action heroes, who would be in my specialist elite team of soldier’s soldiers?

Now this question has reared its steroid enhanced head before. What seems like a life time ago when I used to work at GAP in Carlisle, me and fellow Gappers to kill time would pose questions to one another over those radios we all had to wear. You would think they were there to help serve customers and technically they were, but we found they were much better used when used for entertainment and recreational purposes. Sorry GAP.

One of the questions that was posed by our Ste (aka The Guv), was of all the action heroes in the world, who would be in your hand picked special forces team? I think I’ve managed to perfect it, developing a team of specialists whose skills contrast yet complement each other's depending on the dilemmas and turmoil I, as the director, would put them in. The cast list is as follows:

Sly Stallone... he was Rocky, Rambo and Demolition Man to name but a few, anyone else more qualified please let me know.

John ‘Hannibal’ Smith... as second in command, because no one loves it more when a plan comes together.

Chuck Norris... martial arts expert. (Jean Claude Van Damme would be second choice, sorry)

Serge from Beverly Hills Cop 3... weapons expert.

 Predator... definitely covert opps specialist.

Arnold Schwarzenegger... well he is the Governor after all.

Mickey Rourke... anyone with a face like his has got to be hard as nails!

Charlie Townsend and John Bossley... every team of mercenaries needs a good agent.

Dolf Lungdren – Ivan Drago was the first prototype and Universal Soldier has weaknesses, they must have perfected him by now.

Branscombe Richmond... not many people will know this guy. But those who know of the hit 90s TV Series 

Renegade will know that no matter where Reno ‘Renegade’ Rains went, this guy eventually turns up to lend a hand even though he’s not been called for. That kind of spidy sense intuition will be invaluable should McLeod’s Marauders ever come unstuck. Sorry, I couldn’t help give them a name. Cheesy Cheesy Cheesegills!