Just like Terry Crews so enthusiastically promised in yesterday's preview of a preview, the full theatrical trailer for The Expendables 2 has made its ostentatious online debut. 

As you'd expect, the sequel to 2010's The Expendables looks like a quiet drama focused on subtle, telling interactions between complex, nuanced characters in a world not of their own making. 

Nowadays, little teases for trailers – ads hyping ads – are increasingly common, but perhaps none has more succinctly encapsulated the appeal of the product its hyping than this new The Expendables 2 trailer tease.  

The only actual bits from the sequel included are a series of explosions which sort of blend together into one bit generic mega-explosion.  Most of the trailer tease, though, is Terry Crews yelling at the audience in a most aggressive manner.  Crews, who reprises his role as the amusingly named Hale Caesar, is wearing a tank top and shouting about the imperative importance of watching The Expendables 2 trailer this Thursday.  Explosions, muscles, shouting, and zero subtext.

In his career as an actor, Jason Statham has quite frequently played unstoppable tough guys, and whether out of revenge, profit, or self-preservation, Staham characters have perpetrated violence against innumerable bad guys, good guys, and assorted anonymous henchmen.  In this Friday's Safe, written and directed by Boaz Yakin, Statham stars as a former NYPD cop and cage fighter who kicks ass in order to protect a helpless a young girl.

See, Catherine Chan plays a little girl who knows the numerical code to a safe containing an invaluable MacGuffin, meaning that Statham must safeguard her from corrupt cops, Triad gangsters, and the Russian mafia, all of whom would happily dispose of the child once they opened that safe.

The story of Safe had us thinking about the tried-and-true trope of serious cinematic tough guys whose primary goal is the protecting of otherwise helpless youths.  We're not talking about guys like Superman or Spider-Man, who rescue different kids on a daily basis.  Instead, this latest Rogue 10 lists, in no particular order, ten onscreen heroes who dedicate themselves to their youthful charges.

2010's The Expendables had just as much over-the-top violence and expletive-filled language that you'd expect from a movie so masculine that the film itself reeked like a locker room.  Everyone waiting for an equal or greater amount of f-bombs, bone-snaps, decapitations, and arterial spurts from this summer's The Expendables 2 had their hopes dashed earlier this year when word bubbled out that the sequel would be PG-13. But now Sylvester Stallone has apparently issued a contradictory statement that The Expendables 2 will indeed carry a rating that starts with an "R" and ends with "estricted."

You may have read the recent story that Bullet in the Head is having a little behind the scenes trouble, with star Sylvester Stallone taking over the editorial process from Walter Hill.  You may have read that rumor all over the place, including right here.  Naturally, it seemed unfortunate and potentially unlikely that the director of The Warriors, 48 Hrs., and Streets of Fire would lose control of his first feature film in a decade.  It seemed that way for a reason, according to distributor Warner Bros. and Hill himself, as a press release denies the rumor in no uncertain terms.

Though he hasn't been behind a feature since 2002's Undisputed, as a director, Walter Hill is responsible for films that include The Warriors, Streets of Fire, Southern Comfort, Last Man Standing, 48 Hrs., and the way-underappreciated The Driver.  So it's only natural to be excited for Bullet to the Head, his new directorial endeavor starring Sylvester Stallone.  Apparently, however, the version of the film that eventually hits theaters might be a bit more Stallone's style and a bit less Hill's, as a new rumor asserts that Stallone is overseeing a new edit of Bullet to the Head.

Judge Joseph Dredd, a character who has been kicking ass since writer Carlos Ezquerra and artist John Wagner introduced him in the pages of 2000 A.D. thirty-five years ago, didn't get a fair shake at cinematic representation in 1996's Judge Dredd.  Now, though, a new effort to capture the Judge's authoritarian greatness is on the way, and it will hopefully wipe out the memory of Sylvester Stallone and Rob Schneider as a comedic duo.  It's been a few months since we've heard anything from Dredd, but today four new images show off Karl Urban and Olivia Thirlby as judges.

Standard Sequel Operating Procedure dictates that, though the filmmakers can mix up certain elements in order to keep things fresh, some other elements that audiences responded to must be kept firmly in place.  2010's The Expendables was a testosterone-fueled shakey-cam actionter with no shortage of foul language and arterial blood spurts, and as such bore an R-rating for, in the inimitable words of the MPAA, "strong action and bloody violence throughout, and for some language."  Turns out, The Expendables 2 won't repeat the rating of its predecessor, and will instead be rated a more tame PG-13.

Two new images from this summer's hetero-testosterone-fest The Expendables 2 have made their way online, and both should inspire some feelings of emasculation.  Both images include Chinese actress Yu Nan, a new addition to the Expendables crew who no doubt shoots, eviscerates, decapitates, and generally harms bad guys just as well as her Y-chromosomal cohorts.  That Nan could no doubt beat most of the audience silly isn't the principal reason for emasculation, though.  It's Sylvester Stallone's forearms.  Sly is now 64 years old (he'll be 65 by the time the sequel hits theaters), and his huge, veiny arms would be crazy on someone half his age. 

On Wednesday, we saw the very first teaser trailer for The Expendables 2, an introspective arthouse drama focused on a group of professional men grappling with their own mortality.  Just in time for the weekend, Lionsgate has released a new teaser poster to go with that.  You may remember an alleged teaser poster making the rounds a few weeks back, with everyone in the cast holding a big gun, but Lionsgate immediately and officially disavowed all knowledge of that one, saying they didn't know where it cam from.  This, though, is the uncut dope, straight from the source.  Unlike the trailer, which was a procession of names and teeny tiny snippets of action, this poster focuses on one clean image and one even simpler message, one that has something to do with the number two.  Still trying to figure it out.