The Expendables 2 Review

Yeah, about the "actor one-liners" thing? Look at it this way - when you watch a movie with Sylvester Stallone that isn't Rocky, a movie with Bruce Willis that isn't Die Hard or a movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger that isn't The Terminator, do you call these characters by their given names?

If an actor's role has enough unique characteristics, you will remember their movie names, but if they're playing the same characters, you just call them "Stallone", "Bruce Willis" or "Arnie". That's all you'll ever remember them by.

Barney Calhoun? Who's he? All I'm seeing is Stallone kicking terrorist ass with the help of Jason Statham and Dolph Lundgren among hundreds of other ass-kickers.

So why did they bother to call that guy "Booker" when he's clearly Chuck Norris?