Bad Dad’s Essential Sylvester Stallone Collection
February 14, 2008
The Freakedout Father down under issued a challenge to craft an “Essentials” list. Here’s my take:
Bad Dad’s Essential Sylvester Stallone Video Collection
- Lords of Flatbush (1974) — Dark, gritty and the end of an era.
- Rocky (1977) — Bloody brilliant. “Rock, Ya gonna Eat Lightning and Crap Thunder.”
- Nighthawks (1981) — Probably the first buddy cop film I ever saw. Rutger Haeur was the quintisential Euro-bad guy terrorist, Wulfgar, until Alan Rickman in Die Hard.
- First Blood (1982) — “I don’t think you understand. I didn’t come to rescue Rambo from you. I came here to rescue you from him.” ~ Col. Trautman
- Tango and Cash (1989) — Just plain stupid fun with Kurt Russell. This was when Sly started wearing suits and eyeglasses to makeover his image.
- Demolition Man (1993) — Does Sly ever figure out where to stick the 3 sea shells? Thankfully he had a cooler uniform than that nut buster in Judge Dredd.
On the flip side, I will never, ever, watch the following:
- Rhinestone
- Staying Alive
- Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
- Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over — Actually I’ve seen it and I swear I’ll never watch it again.
- Over the top — Isn’t it time Hollywood made another arm wrestling movie?
Agree? Disagree? Let me know.
-BD
In Tango & Cash, doesnt Russell say to Stalone: “Who d’ya think you are? Rambo?” Great movie.
And Spykids 3D was excrutiating to sit through … until the last scene where there’s that twist and it ends with a very positive message for kids. (Just sucks we had to sit through 90 minutes of trash to get to it!)
I’ve never seen a couple of these and now I will!
But dude, where’s Cop Land? I reckon it’s his best film, mainly because he actually acts in it.
Thanks , Pete. Honestly, I never got around to watching Cop Land entirely. I’ll give it a shot.