American Action Movie Stars

What happened to all of the badass American action movie stars? If you look at today's cinema landscape, all of the biggest action movies are based on comic books and as of right now, almost all of the main characters are played by non-Americans. For example, the new Spider-man is British (Andrew Garfield), Batman is British (Christian Bale, however I'm OK with this, he is pretty badass), the new Superman is British (Henry Cavill), Thor is British (Chris Hemsworth), the Green Lantern is Canadian (yeah, Ryan Reynolds is not from America, so that makes me feel better that that movie sucked hard), and Wolverine is Australian (Hugh Jackman). The only movie comic book character America can really claim is Captain America (Chris Evans), but if Captain America wasn't played by an American that would be really awkward to explain.

So, let's look at this another way. all of America's biggest action stars seem to fall into one of three categories:

• Too Old or Getting Too Old - Bruce Willis (57), Sylvester Stallone (65), Kurt Russell (61), Harrison Ford (69, Han Solo is old), and Clint Eastwood (1,000,000).
• Uninterested in Doing Mostly Action Movies - Matt Damon, Will Smith (he has been all over the map with his movies lately), Brad Pitt, and Dwayne Johnson (I had to throw him in there b/c of The Tooth Fairy).
• Suck at What They Do - Tom Cruise, Shia LeBeouf, Keanu Reeves (there is talk of a new Bill and Ted movie being made, I'm not kidding), and Nicolas Cage.

Look at that list and you will come to the same realization as I did - America's biggest action movie star is.........Mark Wahlberg. That's right, Marky Mark is America's biggest action movie star. No wonder our economy is suffering.

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