Category: Oscar

Sly and the Family Stallone News for the Week

Craig / / 2022, Family, Get Carter, Honors, Oscar, Rambo, Rocky Balboa, Tulsa King, TV

Sly and the Family Stallone News for the Week:

Sly and the Family Stallone News for the Week

Craig / / 2022, Celebs, Cliffhanger, Cop Land, Creed, Creed III, Death Race 2000, Demolition Man, Expendables 4, First Blood, Nighthawks, Oscar, Rambo, Rambo: Last Blood, Rhinestone, Rocky, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Rocky V, Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot, Suicide Squad, Tulsa King

Sly and the Family Stallone News for the Week:

FAN2FAN Podcast: Craig Zablo Talking Stallone Interview Part 1

Craig / / 2022, Antz, Bananas, Capone, Celebs, Cobra, Daylight, Death Race 2000, Expendables, Expendables 3, Expendables 4, Expendables II, First Blood, FIST, Get Carter, John Rambo, Lords of Flatbush, Nighthawks, Oscar, Over the Top, Rambo, Rambo II, Rambo III, Rambo IV, Rhinestone, Rocky, Rocky Balboa, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Rocky V, Sly Fan, StalloneZone, Staying Alive, Tango & Cash

The Fan To Fan (F2F) podcast with hosts Bernie Gonzalez, Peter Charbonneau and Doug Ziegler takes a simple idea and does it well.  Each episode of F2F features a conversation between fans.  The subject could be movies, comics, TV, video games, toys, cartoons, or anything pop culture! Bernie, Peter and Doug pick a fan with a love and/or knowledge of the episode’s topic and then do a deep dive.

Recently, the F2F team spoke with me about Sly Stallone.  When I was approached to be a guest, I explained that there are Stallone fans with greater knowledge and bigger collections than mine.  Still, they were interested in how I became a Stallone fan, the creation of StalloneZone and more.  I was already a fan of  Bernie’s Midnight Mystery, so I checked out F2F and became a fan of it as well.

Talking to Bernie, Pete and Doug was a blast.  It was truly fans hanging out.  Here’s part one of the conversation.  I hope you enjoy it half as much as I did.

Sly Stallone’s Most Underrated Acting Scenes

Craig / / 2021, Cop Land, Creed II, First Blood, FIST, Get Carter, Oscar, Rocky, Rocky Balboa, Rocky III, Rocky V

Tom at TV Over Mind came up with a list of Five Underrated Acting Scenes from Sylvester Stallone.  While the list or the presentation isn’t the best. (The used the photo above for heading <I added the text for my post> and it isn’t their number one choice.  Also some of the example that they picked were not the best choices for Sly most underrated acting scenes.  With that said, using just his top five, I’ll rank those same picks and then give you what I think are some much better choices.

Tom at TVOM

Craig

5. Talking to Adonis in Creed II during the fight

5. The final fight in Rocky V: Since this is more of a physical scene than an “acting” scene I rated it lower.

4. The final fight in Rocky V

4. The atrium scene in Oscar: Oscar is underrated. Sly’s performance is good but there are many scenes in other movies that should have made the grade.

3. The atrium scene in Oscar

3. Talking to Adonis in Creed II during the fight: Sly has better scenes in Creed II than this one.

2. PTSD scene in Rambo: First Blood

2. The Rocky Balboa speech: This is a good choice and it became so popular I can see why Tom listed it in his first spot.

1. The Rocky Balboa speech

1. PTSD scene in Rambo: First Blood: Sly gives a classic performance and shows that Rambo isn’t all blood and guts.

Other scenes that should have made the cut:

Rocky: So many to choose, but since I am going to limit it to one from each additional film, I’ll go with the scene where Rocky tells Adrian if he is just standing when the final bell sounds…

FIST: Again many to choose from, but this time I’ll go with the scene where Sly is talking to the men about the trucker that was hurt and although the company won’t take care of him., their union will.

Rocky III: The scene on the beach with Talia Shire where she asks Rocky what he’s afraid of and he answers…

Cop Land: So many great scenes… For me it is a toss up between Sly’s scene with Annabella Sciorra or his scene with DeNiro.

Get Carter: Sly’s rooftop scene with Rachel Leigh Cook is one of his best.

Rocky Balboa: Any scene where he is talking about Adrian.

Creed: The scene in the locker room when Rocky explains to Creed why he isn’t going to get treatment for his cancer.  One of Sly’s all-time best scenes.

Sly and the Family Stallone News for the Week

Craig / / 2021, Celebs, Cliffhanger, Cobra, Cop Land, Creed II, Demolition Man, Family, First Blood, Jennifer Flavin-Stallone, Nighthawks, Oscar, Over the Top, Rocky, Rocky Balboa, Rocky V, Sly Fan, Suicide Squad

Sly and the Family Stallone News for the Week:

Sly and the Family Stallone News for the Week

Craig / / 2021, Celebs, D-Tox, Daylight, Demolition Man 2, Driven, Family, First Blood, Get Carter, Oscar, Rambo, Rhinestone, Rocky Balboa, Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot, Suicide Squad

Sly and the Family Stallone News for the Week:

Sly and the Family Stallone News for the Week

Craig / / 2020, Antz, Cliffhanger, Cop Land, Creed, Creed II, Daylight, Death Race 2000, Family, Fan Art, First Blood, FIST, Lords of Flatbush, Nighthawks, Oscar, Paradise Alley, Rambo, Rambo 5, Rambo II, Rambo III, Rambo: Last Blood, Rocky, Rocky Balboa, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Rocky V, Ultimate Beastmaster

Sly and the Family Stallone News for the Week:

“OSCAR” With Sly Stallone is Awfully Good

Craig / / 2019, Celebs, Oscar

Jason Adams at Joblo.com profiled one of Sly Stallone’s most under-rated movies in AWFULLY GOOD: OSCAR WITH SYLVESTER STALLONE.  Here are a few tidbits before you click over…

  • OSCAR should’ve been a homerun back in 1991. A madcap comedy was right in the wheelhouse of director John Landis, who was coming off the back-to-back success of COMING TO AMERICA and THREE AMIGOS. Landis perfectly cast Al Pacino in the lead role… (which ultimately went to Sly Stallone)
  • Stallone particularly gets an undeserved bad rap for this movie.
  • Stallone is more fun in OSCAR than Pacino ever would’ve been.