BS: Stallone films - best and worst?

Subject: BS: Stallone films - best and worst?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 12:28 PM

There's definitely a meat-headed quality to most Sylvester Stallone films, but a few of them are not bad...and a few others are at least a fun way to spend an hour and a half just enjoying some sheer escapism.

"Rocky" will probably stand as his finest film. "Over The Top" may be his worst. "First Blood" was quite good. "Cobra" was tacky and ridiculous...but fun if you're in the mood for a barrage of that sort of unreal exaggerated mayhem. And he definitely looked good in that one.

So, what are your nominations for his best and his worst?

Subject: RE: BS: Stallone films - best and worst?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 12:44 PM

Scale of 1 to 10

Rocky                  9
All other Rocky films 3
First Blood            4
All other of his films 2
Except "F.I.S.T.       1

Subject: RE: BS: Stallone films - best and worst?
From: olddude
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 12:50 PM

I am with Jack, the original Rocky and I would add the original first blood were great.

Subject: RE: BS: Stallone films - best and worst?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 12:50 PM

That's pretty brutal, Jack. ;-) Careful! Yer gonna get the big man upset runnin' him down like that. You don't wanna get him upset. Like he said in the recent "John Rambo"...

"This is who we ARE! This is what we DO. Live for NUTHIN'...or die for....SOMETHIN'!"

Boy, what eloquence. Sheer poetry, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Stallone films - best and worst?
From: Becca72
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 01:31 PM

Best - The Expendables

Worst - Over The Top

Subject: RE: BS: Stallone films - best and worst?
From: gnu
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 01:37 PM

I was 25 in 1982 and STILL young and stupid so I would have said First Blood. But it's 2011 and I wouldn't care for any of them. Maybe at 3AM on one of THOSE nights.

Subject: RE: BS: Stallone films - best and worst?
From: Big Ballad Singer
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 01:42 PM

'Rocky' is quite a moving film; it has almost an indie quality to it. My wife can't stand Stallone or any of his films, and I really don't like any of his other work much. Rocky, however, is a great movie. The emotional interplay between Stallone's stubbornly underachieving Balboa and the swearing-like-a-sea-cook Mickey, played by the inimitable Burgess Meredith, is deep and meaningful. It's a clear picture, to me, of the interplay and conflict between our animal instinct to be opportunistic and survive by scraping by (Balboa) and the HUMAN instinct that drives many of us towards transcendence, greatness and higher purposes.

That, and the boxing is pretty alright, too. I've always loved how much more aggressive and brawl-ready so many of the fighters in the 60s and 70s were, compared to the slow-as-molasses mastodons of the modern era. 'Rocky' clearly demonstrates boxing as both battle and athletic endeavor.

The rest of Stallone's stuff, eh. If I wanted to spend two mindless hours watching things and people blow up, maybe.

Side note: Paulie (Burt Young) was at a Lakewood, NJ BlueClaws baseball game this past weekend. Too bad I didn't get to go see him.

Subject: RE: BS: Stallone films - best and worst?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 01:46 PM

The Expendables    3

Subject: RE: BS: Stallone films - best and worst?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 03:13 PM

Like Dan I go with Rocky and First Blood. Anybody like Paradise Alley?

Subject: RE: BS: Stallone films - best and worst?
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 03:34 PM

Best--"The Lords of Flatbush"
Worst--everything else

Subject: RE: BS: Stallone films - best and worst?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 03:41 PM

Look, it could be worse. A lot worse. We could be talking about Steven Seagal movies.

Subject: RE: BS: Stallone films - best and worst?
From: GUEST,Punkfolkrocker
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 03:54 PM

"Cop Land" serious heavyweight corrupt cop drama.

Vanity project to prove he could still 'act' and a decent enough movie by any standard.

It's also one of a few good thinly disguised modern day 'Westerns'.

Subject: RE: BS: Stallone films - best and worst?
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 04:47 PM

Old Blood: The film in which Stallone plays Truman Capote.

Subject: RE: BS: Stallone films - best and worst?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 05:01 PM

Is that a nomination for "best" or "worst"?