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Gina Carano Fights Her Way Into The All-Female EXPENDABLES!!
The Kidd here...
It only makes sense for Gina Carano to be the first shoe to drop in assembling the all-female take on THE EXPENDABLES being pushed ahead by Adi Shankar's banner 1984 Private Defense Contractors. The former MMA fighter-turned-action star proved she can more than hold her own on the big screen in Steven Soderbergh's HAYWIRE, and she's joined the mix for the coming FAST SIX, so it feels only natural for one of the few action heroines on the scene to get involved with this picture which aims to put together a group of bad-ass women capable of matching what Stallone, Statham, Li, Crews, Lundgren, etc. were able to do over the course of a pair of movies.
According to Variety, discussions are ongoing with a few other high-profile actresses who have roots in action, which would lead me to believe that Milla Jovovich is only a matter of time now. Michelle Rodriguez would also seem like a gimme, except she's already denied that she would be a part of any such femme EXPENDABLES idea due to what she claims is a lack of action film experience to qualify.
If you're putting together a female EXPENDABLES flick though, who are you making every effort to get, in order to make this work?
-Billy Donnelly
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Jolie, Diaz, Thurman, Yeoh, maybe Weaver?
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I took the headline as a joke tbh. I can't think of a single name that's the equivalent of ANY of the expendables. Not that I'm defending that film's honour or anything, it was a pile rectal leavings from start to finish, so this couldn't be any worse I suppose.
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Jolie's got Salt 2:Saltier coming up, right? Salt 2: with Pepper?
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Sept. 25, 2012, 5:44 a.m. CST
What fun is an Expendables that happens entirely in the kitchen?
by GooBoy
It's a shame Bea Arthur is dead. She would look hot with a flame thrower.
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Vásquez? Cynthia Rothrock? Sandahl Bergman?
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First is for assholes.
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... as the leaders of the pack :D
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Maybe Linda Carter or Pam Grier.
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Sept. 25, 2012, 5:51 a.m. CST
They should do one entirely with fat chicks and call it The Lunchables
by boogel
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For female expendables get Charlize Theron, Angelina Jolie, Sigourney Weaver and that drill sargeant babe from POLICE ACADEMY in the sports bra who says *Yes Maam!*
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Hollywood did try this before tho... Remember the female YOUNG GUNS? It had Drew Barrymore and someone else.. and um... someone else... no I dont remember it either.
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An all-women "Expendables" rip off sound extremely sexist and better fit for a cheap porn flick. Carano is bad ass enough for having a place in Barney's team!
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Gotta agree with Rodriguez here. Her only qualification for this appears to be a bad attitude, and dying and coming back to life in two franchises.
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And cobra--kai, if i'm not mistaken, you are refering to Leslie Easterbrook, last seen in "The Devil's Rejects" as Mom Firefly. She's 63 now.
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if her stupid husband directs....
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Hey, this movie could be fun.
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The Rock already said he's do it in an interview I saw, but he was never approached.
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Ok, I shut up.
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I know she's hot but........DAMN! She could beat me up anyday!
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Well, Bandidas was guilty pleasure ... Christina Rawwwrrrr .... errr... Hendricks as the villainous housewife turned She-Blofeld (a young Cruella DeVille). Add Jovovich, Liu, Thurman, Mitra, Beckinsale and Christopher Walken as a drag-queen Charlie. Should be fun.
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and Tracie Thoms from Death Proof.
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Sept. 25, 2012, 6:28 a.m. CST
If they include a group shower scene, I'll rent out an entire theater.
by adeceasedfan
You're all invited.
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Gabriella Reese, Holly Mangold
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The chick from starship troopers
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jeeze
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Sept. 25, 2012, 6:39 a.m. CST
They should do one about moody menopausal women and call it 'The Excretables'
by Larrylongballs
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I keep waiting for Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, Meg Ryan, and Catherine Zeta-Jones to band together for the ultimate "chick flick". I haven't come up with a name for it, but I feel like the concept is there.
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I mean, she's Lara Croft for chrissakes. She's made plenty of action films on top of the more dramatic stuff she's done. The question is whether she'd be down for sharing screentime with a whole bunch of other female leads.
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but they are not going to put her in the movie because she is an 80s b-movie action star, although she is popular among the fans of the genre and she can kick the ass of most of those so called female action stars.
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As much as I despise the Resident Evil movies for their misrepresentation of the videogames they're supposed to be based on, I have to admit that Milla does handle action films very well. She'd be a no-brainer. Seeing her kicking ass in a scene alongside Kate Beckinsale would be surreal as fuck.
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Sept. 25, 2012, 7:26 a.m. CST
Sorry, but it won't work. It's just not marketable at all. Unless they're naked. A lot.
by wcolbert
let's face it. we can create all the badass female characters in films we want. But once you have a 120 lb woman throwing around a 230 lb man, we can only suspend disbelief so much. Sure, there are women who can beat *SOME* men - but the fact remains, women like this simply are not as physically powerful as, say, a man like dolph lundgren or terry crews. What, are they going to resort to kicking guys in the balls to win every fight? Testicle kicking: the movie! I guess if you gave them guns and didn't go all charlie's angels with them it might not be totalllly horrible. But there'd always be that undertone of "girl power!" screamed at you by the very premise. I'm all for equality and all that, and I'd be furious if the one I love were treated as less than an equal...and I do looove strong women.... but realism is another thing. Now, if you have a bunch of Sarah Connor (circa T2) like characters with weapons training, that's another matter. Linda Hamilton can be the leader. Just dont expect anyone but a few women and horny teen boys to pay to see that. The testosterone fueled nature of The Expendables is WHY it worked - a lot of people are tired of today's pretty boy "action stars" pretending to be men while relying entirely on CGI and wires to make them look badass. They wanted the men's men of action films back. And so they got them. There's no such cry for a female expendables. but then again...like I said...if they're naked, a lot, that might send a lot of male asses (and a few girls I know) to the seats.
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Too late? Well how bout She-Hulk then?
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Making an action movie for mostly eye candy likely won't fly. Part of what make The Expendables fun is the nostalgia factor. Not that there hasn't been some great female action stars but the level of instant recognition and history behind some of the guys in the E1 and E2 is night and day. Anything you come up with is going to feel like a Russ Meyer flick, no matter what budget you manage to get. Not to be a Debbie Downer... I'd like to see it succeed but an 'all-female' anything instantly sounds like a sexist money grab like Magic Mike being an 'all-male' stripper film.
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...obviously...
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CAST THIS SEXY MOFO AS WONDER WOMAN NOW!
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with all the female horror movie stars from friday the 13th, halloween, scream, alien, etc. then you get women back in the roles they popularized, just like stallone and arnold got back into their roles for the nostalgia factor.
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(eeeeeiiiey-ey-ey-ey-ey-ey!)
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katie taylor...
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She's my pick for Wonder Woman. She's beautiful, statuesque, and had a screen presence in HAYWIRE that left no doubt she could legitimately kick a man's ass.
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Sept. 25, 2012, 9:16 a.m. CST
Geena Davis, Jessica Lange, Kathleen Turner, Hope Davis, and other over fifties.
by Smerdyakov
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My Requirement is they all must be nude in the picture as that was their primary role in 80's action movies, but here is my line-up: Sigourney Weaver (getting a little long in the tooth, but 80's action must maybe as the aging leader or something) Scarlett Johannson Kate Beckinsdale Keira Knightly Pam Anderson Mina Sorvino Zoe Saldana Erika Eleniak Drew Barrymore
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They make me a sandwich.....
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I was so sure it was going to be huge. I thought everyone in the world was going to worship the movie and it was going to make zillions of dollars. so therefore, even though I liked the graphic design, I decided that that piece of obsolete early nineties style "shock" girl-beats-up-boy gimmicky bullshit wasn't getting my money. but then the movie went nowhere, so I'm thinking it might have been good.
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I don't care if it doesn't make sense, that girl was in "Commando," you guys. Make her a helicopter pilot or munitions chief or something, I dunno. So here's my team, THE BAD BITCHES: Standard suggestions: Pam Grier Gina Carino Michelle Yeoh Grace Jones Sigourney Weaver Cynthia Rothrock Milla Jovovich Surprises: Rae Dawn Chong Lynda Carter! Lynda fucking Carter! That chick who played Vasquez in "Aliens" Fuck it: CHYNA.
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The *Yes Maam* babe from POLICE ACADEMY is 63? Wonder if she can still fill out a sports bra.
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Few will escape with their lives when that time of the month arrives.
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Dear Hollywood Please remember that Milla Jovovich's best acting performance was in Dazed and Confused (she didn't talk) and make her character some sort of traumatic mute who communicates with hand gestures - for the sake of us all
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Meaninglessly complicated burned-spy film with a heavily-made up unattractive female lead that shouldn't have been more that the stunt-woman for someone more attractive, who could act.
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My wife and I were discussing this as a joke idea. We called it ExpendaBelles. Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hamilton, Brigette Neilson, Michelle Rodriguez, Pam Grier, Uma Thurman. Boom.
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Between her Entourage episode and Crank 2, she's a golden, shiny lunchbox.
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Or just Expendables 3?
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Sept. 25, 2012, 11:08 a.m. CST
Of course unlike Expendables, producers WILL care about age/looks....
by john
and for that reason we won't get all the people we should (Bridgette, Rothrock, etc). We'll get Milla, Beckensale, this bitch, Uma and if we're lucky, a cameo by Sigorney Weaver. Prove me wrong, Hollywood....
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Production budget: $23 million <p> Domestic: $18,942,396 56.8% + Foreign: $14,430,210 43.2%
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UMA, LIU, BECKINSALE, MOSS, YEOH, PRESSLY,MILLA, CARANO, HAMILTON, GRIER, DUSHKU
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Gina Carano, Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Zoe Bell, Kate Beckinsale, Angelina Jolie, Uma Thurman
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Viola Davis -- team leader Anne Parrilaud (sp?) must be in this. Zac Efron -- most feminine of them all. (Okay, that's sarcasm)
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You left out Brigitte Nielsen and Linda Hamilton. Otherwise, you pretty much nailed it. Everyone on your list is actually convincing as a bad-ass, ass-kicking female, unlike say, Thurman, Moss, Beckinsale or Liu (or anybody from a Joss Whedon TV series). This doesn't need to be an action movie where we must go in with a massive suspension of disbelief (Uma Thurman, for instance could be snapped like a twig by any real trained fighter). We need to have a cast of women who all look like they could kick my ass without breaking a sweat.
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oh i forgot she is an actress.
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Sept. 25, 2012, 12:41 p.m. CST
As fun as this fantasy casting game is,
by the dolphins are in the jacuzzi
In reality, don't ask us what we think. Just hire Sylvester Fucking Stallone as your casting director. He will get it right. I guarantee it.
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Carano, Jovovich, Beckinsale, Rodriguez, Lawless, Saldana Natasha Henstridge and Gina Torres.
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Sept. 25, 2012, 1:03 p.m. CST
So whats the villain, a spider in the bath or a lightbulb that needs changing ?
by Keith Maniac
I suppose if they have to read a map to the villan's hideout, they'll be fucked ?
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Sept. 25, 2012, 1:20 p.m. CST
no point in doing it without Sigourney Weaver and Linda Hamilton
by Demosthenes2
You need the pioneers for it to really be the female Expendables.
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Sept. 25, 2012, 1:21 p.m. CST
Gina Carrano IS star material. "Haywire" flopped bcause sometimes audiences are assholes, who sometimes reward shit movies and make good ones flop. Haywire didn't deserve to flop.
by albert comin
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Sept. 25, 2012, 1:23 p.m. CST
I'd love to see a fight between Gina Carrano and stuntwoman Amy Johnston.
by albert comin
Both are superbabes and both are suberb athlets who look extremely convincing as fighters.
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Sept. 25, 2012, 1:28 p.m. CST
Weaver, Hamilton, Jenette Goldstein and Jamie Lee Curtis. Directed by Katherine Bigelow.
by albert comin
Basically, all women with connection to James Cameron. You could make a movie about badass women warriors by just casting all the actress who have been in a James Cameron movie.
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Have you seen Kathelin Turner this days? She doesn't look very athlectic, if you know what i mean. She has a lot of health problems too, and by her own account she's an unbearable person to be around. Sad but true.
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A MUST!
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Sexist--but damn funny.
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I always had a soft spot for Basset since i first saw her in "Malcolm X".
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Isn't that the whole point? All old guys plus some current guys, and the current guys are B list. So with women Jovovich and Carano are B list, who are the A list old-time women? Sigourney Weaver, yes. To the guy who said women aren't believable, Jovovich is my exhibit A, a super hot chick who believably kicks ass all over the place. And my exhibit B is.... oops... I don't have an exhibit B. I guess Carano. So... there exist exactly two women who can believably kick ass. Once, Jolie was credible but now she is a creepy, skinny freak who wouldn't be believable in an action flick any more. And there is no audience for older women in movies, that's why they go to TV. It's all about the young crowd, and the last thing they want to see onscreen is Mom.
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I think you are underestimating the MILF loving crowd. MILFs today are a phenomenom. There has never been so much love for older girls then today. MILFs shotting guns nd kicking ass? That's nirvana for many. I mean, remember how many people were turned on by the sight of Helen Mirren shooting big guns in the trailers for RED? Mirren shooting guns was what attracted half the crowd who saw that movie and made it a hit.
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....as long as her yogurt keeps helping her poop.
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Ronda Rousey Diania Lee Inosanto Look them both up. Beautiful and both can kick SERIOUS ass.
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Sept. 25, 2012, 3:10 p.m. CST
just use sly and the rest of the expendables and put them in drag. transgenderables.
by iampain
or not.
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Sept. 25, 2012, 3:12 p.m. CST
Dushku, Maggie q, lawless, liu, Rodriguez, milla, grier, hamilton and uma...
by Ebixby
That sounds like a start...
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Almost forgot them.
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part of the regular team instead. No need for an Expendables: Charlie's Angels Edition. Oh, and Stallone... please cut down on the gratuitous 'fan service' in the next one. The Chuck Norris scenes were unbearable in number 2.
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Sept. 25, 2012, 3:23 p.m. CST
Wouldn't it just be more fun to have some female action stars show up in Expendables 3?
by lv_426
Gina Corrano Sigourney Weaver Linda Hamilton Uma Thurman Michelle Rodriguez Pam Grier That makes more sense to me than doing an Expendettes spin-off or whatever this is.
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Sept. 25, 2012, 3:41 p.m. CST
Jessica Alba, Carrie Ann Moss, Angela Bassett, Katee (Starbuck) Sackhoff, and Starship Troopers' Dina Meyer would all fit into this thing
by lv_426
Maybe have Marion Cotillard and Tricia Helfer as sexy lesbian villainesses. Gillian Anderson as a politician, gov. operative, or powerful big business figure that hires the female expendables for their mission.
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I also like the suggestions of Vasquez, who was played by a Jewish woman in Aliens, Jenette Goldstein. They could have Jenette's character be a Mossad operative who joins up with the female mercs for the mission.
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provided that he survives from his uninterrupted ejaculation while filming these badass ladies in their action scenes.
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Sept. 25, 2012, 4:57 p.m. CST
what a terrible fucking idea, not Gina, just this entire idea.
by mav07
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Sept. 25, 2012, 5:22 p.m. CST
Are there any female action stars? that don't rely on wires?
by cgih8r
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Angie Dickinson
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I thought it said Carla Gugino. That's what I get for only getting 3 1/2 hours of sleep. Though more Gina Carano can't be that bad. Maybe if Carla Gugino also stared in this movie, I'd be even more excited than when I first misread this post.
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faye dunaway? diana rigg?
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Raiders of the Lost Sammiches...would be a good title.
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She was hot in that Van Damme twin movie
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Sept. 25, 2012, 8:58 p.m. CST
Linda Hamilton, Sigorney Weaver, Michelle Yeoh, Pam Grier and a half-way decent script in the mix, and this could easily trump it's male inspiration...
by ThulsaBoom
...all it needs is a story, and that's coming from a guy who enjoyed both Expendables films. Shit, get Soderbergh to direct, and have Gina Cerano reprise Mallory Kane in the film while were at it.
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Trish Stratus would be a PERFECT choice for this movie! We all know she's drop dead gorgeous, and we also know she can handle the physicality probably better then most of the choices mentioned. Trish never needed a stunt double to do HER work! Throw in Amy "Lita" Dumas, too while you're at it, and I'm there opening night!
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Sept. 25, 2012, 9:02 p.m. CST
@iampain- I would watch Transgenderbles, Expendables is already basically a spoof, and that sounds like bat-shit crazy fun...
by ThulsaBoom
...probably just a talkback punch-line, but I think that would be hilarious if you could get those guys to sign on. Expendables meets Some Like It Hot. We know Arnold could knock it out of the park, just check out his performance in Junior. TERRIFYING.
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Sept. 25, 2012, 9:56 p.m. CST
Rothrock, Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Weaver, Carano, Hamilto, Pam Grier and some young hottie; either Beckinsale or Milla
by garagons
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Sept. 25, 2012, 9:57 p.m. CST
And Linda Carter. She's still one of the most beautiful female action stars ever. She can probably rock the Wonder Woman outfit
by garagons
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Sept. 25, 2012, 10:01 p.m. CST
And Linda Carter. She's still one of the most beautiful female action stars ever. She can probably rock the Wonder Woman outfit
by iamatroll
These days, probably only if they sell the costume in the "plus size" section at Lane Bryant or wherever the "BBW ladies" as they call themselves, buy their clothes these days...
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Sept. 25, 2012, 10:02 p.m. CST
About the wording in my last post right above this one...
by iamatroll
I went to school at the Department of Redundancy Department! Ha ha...
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Sept. 25, 2012, 10:06 p.m. CST
on second thought, maybe Lynda Carter's not a good choice
by iamatroll
With the size of the star spangled panties she'd need to fit her, it would look like they were trotting out the giant American flag to the midfield at any given NFL stadium. Salute that, motherfucker!!!
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Sept. 25, 2012, 10:08 p.m. CST
But, if they wanted to cast Linda Carter as "Wondergram"
by iamatroll
Remember the old metric system song/cartoon segments from School House Rock on Saturday mornings? "Wondergram" was this Shelly Winters proportions superheroine who specialized in weights, all measured in the oh so useful metric system, of course. Linda would be a shoo in for that role! Sorry, Linda, gravity's a bitch, isnt it?
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Sept. 25, 2012, 10:46 p.m. CST
@ thulsaboom- srsly. maybe not transgenderables but maybe expendables: tranny by night
by iampain
seeing sly, ahnoold, willis and chuck norris in drag would be off the charts. b.o. $$$$. maybe eddie murphy could cameo too.
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Chicks kicking ass is like Shia LaBoeuf kicking ass.....total Hollywood fantasy and I am fucking sick and tired of the same old horseshit. And for all those fools about to tell me about how bad ass miss mma is...fuck you..she's a chick and she'd get her ass handed to her by the average bum on the street....spent 10 years in the Rangers watching female soldiers think they were soldiers and they were a FUCKING JOKE...now couch potato pussy boys..tell me how bad ass these chicks are....although I'm not suggesting they couldn't kick the living fuck out of some of the limp wristed fat fucking slobs on this site. A pre-emptive fuck you to all.
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Didja ever notice that it's usually the guys who couldnt get laid even if they walked into a female prison with a handful of signed pardons that seem to demontrate the most misogyny? Repressed much, holottamo?
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Not one vote for Zoë Bell??? She's fucking bad ass. I can't believe someone said Hilary Swank before Zoë.
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What, are they going to resort to kicking guys in the balls to win every fight? Testicle kicking: the movie!
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wcolbert said: -What, are they going to resort to kicking guys in the balls to win every fight? Testicle kicking: the movie!- Ahhh, so when are they making THAT movie?
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I own guys like you....I love your comment.
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