The Expendables 2

Oh dear, this was about as cringeworthy as it gets. The problem is that it never pretended to be anything else! I doubt anyone going to this movie doesn't already understand the 80's action genre. You would have to be pretty dumb not to understand that, and those movies were cringeworthy then too. The difference is that I was in grade school then and thought these muscle-bound gun-toting tough guys were totally cool and the personification of manliness. SO, what you get is exactly what you should expect going in to the theater: one-dimensional characters, horrible one-liners, gratuitous blood and sky high death count all wrapped in a plot that has more holes than swiss cheese. I know the people making this movie were ALL making fun of themselves and the genre, so the entire thing is light and tongue-in-cheek. The bad one-liners are infinitely worse then your standard one-liners because they KNOW they have to make everyone groan. This is a girlfriend's worst nightmare. On a scale of 1-10 for romantic, this scores a -400. All in all, it delivers the stupidity everyone is expecting faithful to the old school vibe. I probably shouldn't have wasted my money but I was stuck in a small town with time on my hands.