Bad Dad’s Essential Sylvester Stallone Collection

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