HOLLYWOOD IS SO DESPERATE IT NEEDS THREE OLD PEOPLE TO SAVE IT

I think that the fact that Hollywood has a place for three fossils like Stallone, Schwarzenegger, and Willis  reflects the poor state of the film industry today. The three actors have each made the same movie at least twenty times over. Don't get me wrong I was a fan of Rocky, The Terminator, and Die Hard when I was between the ages of eight and twelve and at that time it seemed like these guys could do no wrong. The truth is that no one is perfect and that at the end of the day Stop or my Mom Will Shoot, Last Action Hero, Color of Night, and Planet Hollywood restaurants all had to happen to prove that vulnerability is something that's less than foreign to everyone.

Sylvester Stallone came back looking like a piece of bread with one too many shots of human growth hormone while Schwarzenegger came back fat and depressed over the fact that he was a failure as Governor and he was found out as a man who would cheat on his wife with anything that had tits on it. Bruce Willis is the only person that has come back looking relatively respectable especially when you consider he has stayed fairly active.

I still think that the state of film at least here in the US is depressed at best. Every movie looks the same and requires a ridiculous budget that rarely gets covered at the box office. There are no longer actors that can really carry a movie like in previous decades when singular performances and story lines were so strong that you knew you wanted to watch a certain film because you were drawn in by something special in the previews.

I won't say that there are no good performances but it's characters, effects, and pre existing story curiosity that draws people in. The three old guys could come back simply because their styles took a long enough rest to come back and seem fresh to the newer and more grown audience. Like everything in life entertainment is cyclical so these guys are likely to go back on ice when the next inexplicable epic comes out but until then let's enjoy witnessing the Metamucil Mercenaries light up the screen.