"Cowboy the fuck up," says Lt. A.K. Waters (Bruce Willis) to the scared Navy SEALs he leads on a mission to rescue a doctor (the gorgeous but miscast Monica Bellucci) treating patients in Africa. It's a John Wayne line in a John Wayne movie — think The Green Berets — that should have added up to more, given the timely subject of U.S. intervention in the Third World. A.K.'s orders are to save only the doc, a U.S. national, but she spurs his conscience (and libido) to rescue her Nigerian charges.

Director Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) can stage action, but he can't save a trivializing, reactionary script featuring a Hollywood star (read America) as a global savior out to teach us all how to cowboy the fuck up.

“The Pretender”

This song wasn't part of the planned track listing for 2007's Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, and was put together in a day. "It happened after we recorded a lot of stuff," said Dave Grohl. Yet it ended up as the album opener and the lead single. Grohl called it "a stomping Foo Fighters uptempo song with a little bit of Chuck Berry in it." The singer hinted at the lyrics' political overtones: "Everyone's been f---ed over before and I think a lot of people feel f---ed over right now and they're not getting what they were promised."