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Kicking off with a high-school graduation, "The Marked Ones'' centers on likably lunkheaded teenage buddies Jesse (Andrew Jacobs) and Hector (Jorge Diaz), as well as Jesse's tag-along relative Marisol (Gabrielle Walsh).

This standalone, download-only title marries Far Cry 3's cutting edge firstperson shooter tech to an old-school sci-fi pastiche complete with lunkheaded cyborg soldiers, tabletop RPG references, a shimmering synth soundtrack and, of course, Michael Biehn.

Red (Anne Hathaway) turns out to be a martial arts expert, Granny (Glen Close) is a snowboarding extreme sports nut screaming "you ready to get spanked?", the lunkheaded Woodsman (Jim Belushi) is a schnitzel seller trying to break into acting, and the Wolf (Patrick Warburton) is actually a reporter.

As one who falls squarely in the moronic walking-billboard camp, I am perhaps uncharitably biased, but it seems to me that Eskenazi's fervor is simply the intellectual inverse of getting a tattoo of the Nike swoosh, minus the rash commitment that gives the latter act a sense of lunkheaded romanticism.

That picture updated its noir icons by making them part of a lunkheaded science-fiction plot.

Kicking off with a high-school graduation, "The Marked Ones" centers on likably lunkheaded teenage buddies Jesse (Andrew Jacobs) and Hector (Jorge Diaz), as well as Jesse's tag-along relative Marisol (Gabrielle Walsh).

Another factor upsetting audiences who don't probe beneath the surface is the articulate arguments Danny puts forward for his case and, with the exception of the usual lunkheaded muscle, the reasonable nature of the neo Nazis he encounters.

Mercifully free of tongue-in-cheek meta-humor, "Escape Plan" is a likably lunkheaded meat-and-potatoes brawler that never pretends to be more sophisticated than it is, and though "Expendables"-level B.O.