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The easiest and most obvious way to figure out which of his fellow action stars Sylvester Stallone<\/a> respects the most is to check if they\u2019ve been in an Expendables movie or not.<\/p>\n Steven Seagal wasn\u2019t in any of them and claimed that he didn\u2019t want to be, but since most of the people who\u2019ve worked with him have acknowledged that he\u2019s one of the most cavernous arseholes<\/a> in Hollywood history, it wouldn\u2019t have been worth the hassle to bring him into the fold anyway.<\/p>\n Jackie Chan also said no because he didn\u2019t want to play a supporting role, while Kurt Russell wasn\u2019t interested in trading on nostalgia and winking toward his past, although it may have also had something to do with the fact that he\u2019s adamant he technically came up with the idea first<\/a> and nobody was interested.<\/p>\n Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jet Li, Jean-Claude Van Damme, \u2018Stone Cold\u2019 Steve Austin, Bruce Willis, Chuck Norris, Wesley Snipes, Scott Adkins, Mel Gibson, Antonio Banderas, Harrison Ford, Tony Jaa, and Iko Uwais are just some of the big-name ass-kickers who swung by across the franchise\u2019s four instalments, and we\u2019ll just ignore that Megan Fox and Liam Hemsworth are in there, too.<\/p>\n If someone had either headlined a semi-successful action flick at any point in the last three decades, had shown themselves capable of roundhouse kicking an extra in the face, or was proficient with guns of both the bicep and firearm variety, then they were in. As for everyone else? They were mere pretenders to the throne, and one of them got especially under Stallone\u2019s skin.<\/p>\n When the veteran dusted off his other iconic role for a legacy sequel, 2008\u2019s Rambo, it was the first time he\u2019d taken top billing in a straightforward shoot \u2019em up since 1995\u2019s Assassins, since we\u2019re not including Daylight because it doubled as a disaster flick, and D-Tox had a whiff of the serial killer thriller about it. That, and Sly would much prefer if you forgot the latter even existed<\/a>.<\/p>\n The old gunslinger was back in town, and when he looked across the horizon at the current crop of whippersnappers, he wasn\u2019t exactly thrilled with what he found. \u201cI\u2019m still in my prime, and I look forward to showing fans the real action hero again,\u201d he said. \u201cToday\u2019s idea of an action hero is Orlando Bloom. Orlando Bloom? Give me a break.\u201d<\/p>\n Further reading: Cutting Room Floor<\/p>\n Taking shots at Bloom was a bit harsh and a little unnecessary, since he was never really an action hero, not even in his early-to-mid-2000s pomp. Pirates of the Caribbean? He was the straight man and romantic male lead. Troy? He played a coward<\/a>. Lord of the Rings? He fired a few arrows, and that was about it. Ridley Scott\u2019s Kingdom of Heaven might be the exception, but as much as the director\u2019s cut improves the historical epic, he was easily the worst thing about it.<\/p>\n Apart from that, the closest he\u2019s come to a run-of-the-mill actioner would probably be 2024\u2019s Red Right Hand, long after Stallone had farted in his general direction and dismissed the relatively slight Bloom as being qualified to inherit the vascular mantle of a genuine action star.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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