I finally watched The Expendables. I found the movie to be not as interesting as I thought it’d be. Kinda sappy, really. The plot line was sleazy; a bunch of macho, alpha males running into a battlefield to rescue a girl? I think The New York Post Lou Lumenick gave the best description to it: “the brain-dead male equivalent of Sex and the City 2″.
Overall, it was somewhat a disappointment.

On the other hand I also went to see Avatar: The Last Airbender. Amazingly, it wasn’t as crappy as everybody says it was. In fact, I thought it actually turned out to be just fine. Sure there were a couple of things that are different from the cartoon series; like how they mispronounced Aang’s name (that was hilarious), the Fire Nation’s battle outfit looking like Roman military wargear and Sokka for once, actually melt my heart (the actor was good-looking!). I guess all the negative feedbacks were made because the movie didn’t turn out the way how the audiences want it to be. They thought the movie would stay true to the cartoon series and they should know that. I myself think that had there was no animated series of the Last Airbender, I believe the movie would be well-received.