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25 Jul 11 - 12:28 PM (#3195023) Subject: BS: Stallone films - best and worst? From: Little Hawk 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? |
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25 Jul 11 - 12:44 PM (#3195034) Subject: RE: BS: Stallone films - best and worst? From: Jack the Sailor 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 |
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25 Jul 11 - 12:50 PM (#3195038) Subject: RE: BS: Stallone films - best and worst? From: olddude I am with Jack, the original Rocky and I would add the original first blood were great. |
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25 Jul 11 - 12:50 PM (#3195039) Subject: RE: BS: Stallone films - best and worst? From: Little Hawk 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? |
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25 Jul 11 - 01:31 PM (#3195073) Subject: RE: BS: Stallone films - best and worst? From: Becca72 Best - The Expendables Worst - Over The Top |
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25 Jul 11 - 01:37 PM (#3195077) Subject: RE: BS: Stallone films - best and worst? From: gnu 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. |
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25 Jul 11 - 01:42 PM (#3195082) Subject: RE: BS: Stallone films - best and worst? From: Big Ballad Singer '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. |
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25 Jul 11 - 01:46 PM (#3195085) Subject: RE: BS: Stallone films - best and worst? From: Jack the Sailor The Expendables 3 |
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25 Jul 11 - 03:13 PM (#3195149) Subject: RE: BS: Stallone films - best and worst? From: fat B****rd Like Dan I go with Rocky and First Blood. Anybody like Paradise Alley? |
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25 Jul 11 - 03:34 PM (#3195165) Subject: RE: BS: Stallone films - best and worst? From: John on the Sunset Coast Best--"The Lords of Flatbush" Worst--everything else |
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25 Jul 11 - 03:41 PM (#3195175) Subject: RE: BS: Stallone films - best and worst? From: Little Hawk Look, it could be worse. A lot worse. We could be talking about Steven Seagal movies. |
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25 Jul 11 - 03:54 PM (#3195194) Subject: RE: BS: Stallone films - best and worst? From: GUEST,Punkfolkrocker "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'. |
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25 Jul 11 - 04:47 PM (#3195237) Subject: RE: BS: Stallone films - best and worst? From: Donuel Old Blood: The film in which Stallone plays Truman Capote. |
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25 Jul 11 - 05:01 PM (#3195247) Subject: RE: BS: Stallone films - best and worst? From: Little Hawk Is that a nomination for "best" or "worst"? |