Category: 2010

Sly Gets Hollywood Lifetime Achievement Award

Craig / / 2010, Celebs, Honors, Sly Fan

Sylvester Stallone, center, hides behind his ‘Hollywood Career Achievement Award’ as he poses with actor Bruce Willis, left, and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger backstage at the 14th Annual Hollywood Awards Gala in Beverly Hills, Calif., Monday, Oct. 25, 2010.

AP Photo/Chris Pizzello

Sly a Great Choice to Direct…

Craig / / 2010, Unmade Films

Film School Rejects posted their choices for who should direct the movie adaptation of Halo.  Guess who is listed as their first choice?  Here’s what they had to say…

The Pitch: It’s really quite simple. Does Halo have guns? Is Halo a “Mature” rated video game? Is there the equivalent of military personnel? Well, then who better to helm what should be a considerably violent picture than the man who would arm his actors with tank cannons that produce Tom Savini-esque destructive results?

Truth be told this pick is based on my experience with the multi-player aspect of the first game, as that is the extent of my exposure with the Halo series. I never played through the single player mode and therefore cannot justify Sly’s selection on any kind of storytelling match. What I do know is that the game has blood, brutes and bullets, and no active director does the combination of the three with as much gratuitous enthusiasm as Stallone. Any writing issues you may have with Rambo or The Expendables are irrelevant as the Halo script has already been written by someone else. Sly would just need to come in and do what he does best, which is to paint the town red. – Adam Charles

For the full list click here.

Sly & DeNiro in a Grudge Match?

Craig / / 2010, Celebs, Unmade Films

Earlier today Slashfilm reported on a rumor that Sly Stallone and Robert DeNiro may team up for “Grudge Match.” Sly and DeNiro would play…

… “retired boxers Billy “The Kid” McGuigan and Henry “Razor” Sharp, lifelong bitter rivals who are coaxed out of retirement and into the ring for one final grudge match — 50 years after their last title fight.”

Although fans would love to see Rocky take on The Raging Bull, I’m not sure now is the time for this type of movie.  Sly has Expendables II on deck and then hopefully something like Hunter or even Expendables III.  And let’s face it, according to the synopsis of Grudge Match, Sly and DeNiro were supposed to have fought 50 years ago in a title fight — so they’d have been what 14, 15 years old? Perhaps when Sly and DeNiro have aged a bit, Grudge Match would be right.

You can read the full report here.

Sly and His Toys

Craig / / 2010, Celebs, Expendables, Fan Art, Sly Fan

SZoner, Hideo is back with some cool new photos of Sly in Japan. Take it away, Hideo:

  • Hi, Craig! It’s HIDEO!
  • I found an interesting interview of SLY.

http://www.hottoys.jp/magazine/celeb/175.html
http://www.hottoys.jp/magazine/celeb/175_2.html

Please enjoy!

    • P.S. I translated those articles for English speaking persons. But, my English is very poor. Sorry. You can correct my wrong English, please. Take care!

    -About Barney Ross

    “The figure released before was well-done, and this Barney Ross is well-done, too!
    It becomes better and better, unbelievable! By the way, how about the tattoo? “

    （Costume unclothed and Sly saw tattoo.）

    “Wow! It is the very movie image. “

    -Watching Rocky3 figure

    “This is a figure of Rocky 3, I have this one! “

    （Comparing a figure of Rocky balboa with Barney Ross）
    “Uuum, I get old, the figure gets old. “

    （Toward the staff）
    “Hey! Watch, guys! The position of Barney’s hairline is higher than Rocky!
    Oh, my god! Thank you, HOT TOYS! For such a real reproduction!”

    -About HOT TOYS

    “Thank you for making wonderful figures of Rocky, Rambo, and this “The
    Expendables”. I think HOT TOYS is a world’s best toymaker.”

    -About The Expendables

    “I wrote the script, supervised it, and played the leading part. And
    this time, I was able to act with my wonderful friends.
    I am sure it is the best movie of my works, and I want to say to Japanese fans, “please
    enjoy”. And I thank for HOT TOYS having done splendid support that released
    this figure.”

    -The time limit for interview was planned until here, but Sly was satisfied with the figure of Barney, and continued talking more.

    ” I have one idea. I want to propose HOT TOYS, if you can make products with all these quality, to make costumes and replicas of the prop on 1/1 scales! One more. If a figure of Barney is completed, I will sign ten figures and will exhibit at charity auction for underprivileged children. I have exhibited a boxing glove of “Rocky” to charity before.”

    -Dolph Lundgren appears.

    （Sly invites Dolph, and showing the figure of Rocky.)
    Sly: “Have you ever seen this?”

    Dolph: “Yeah, my Drago is like that, too”.

    Sly: “The muscles grow well! “

    Dolph: “That’s true! “

    （Toward the coverage staff ）
    Sly: “Why don’t you make his latest figure?”

    Dolph: “Make my thing again! Ha-ha! “

    Thanks to Hideo, once again for the great find! – Craig

    6 Stallone Movies Crack Top 100

    Craig / / 2010, Honors, Over the Top, Rocky, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Victory

    On October 13, 2010, Matt King, a senior analyst at BleacherReport.com posted his choices for the 100 Greatest Sports Movies of All Time.  Not surprisingly, Sly had six movies that made the grade.  Here are Matt King’s choices and commentary.

    #79   Over the Top

    You can thank Sly Stallone for knowing why you turn your hat around when you arm wrestle somebody. That’s valuable information there.

    Seriously, though—it’s a movie about arm wrestling. How awesome is that? It’s Stallone right around the time he discovered steroids, facing off against some guy with more neck rolls than a pug. As a man, you just have to love this. It’s man law.

    #62 Victory

    What’s this? It’s a sports movie and we’re playing the Germans during WWII? Yes, please.

    You could make a water polo movie where a team faces off against the Germans during WWII and I would be all in. It’s too easy. The villain is built in. You don’t need to build them up or give them any depth. It’s cool. We hate them. Let’s move along.

    I also have a soft spot for sports movies ending a ridiculous note. Sly Stallone catching a penalty kick pretty much fits that bill.

    #46 Rocky IV

    It’s hard to rank the Rocky movies. Usually when a sports movie comes out with a sequel, it sucks. But Rocky managed to make not one, but three sequels that are extremely watchable.

    Somebody has to bring up the rear and, while I do have a special place in my heart for Ivan Drago and Rocky IV, it can’t compete with the others.

    It does however give us some amazing lines (I must break you) and a training montage that set the gold standard for cheesy goodness. I’ll always be thankful to Rocky and the fourth installment for singlehandedly winning the Cold War.

    #32 Rocky II [and if you take a look at their original post, notice where they got the Rocky II photo]

    At the end of Rocky, Apollo tells him that there won’t be a rematch and Rocky says that he doesn’t want one.

    Good ending, but that’s hard for us sports fans to accept. We need some kind of resolution.

    It’s the same reason most Americans hate soccer for three out of every four years: we hate ties.

    Thankfully, Rocky II gave us that rematch and managed to do so without seeming like a horrible cash grab and was a really solid movie.

    #24 Rocky III

    Rocky III is probably the most entertaining Rocky movie. It’s got over-the-top characters like Hulk Hogan and Clubber Lang, Mickey dying, and a great final fight.

    Mr. T really did kick ass as Clubber. With the first two Rockys, you always liked Apollo at least a little bit. He was mouthy, but it came with charm. Clubber Lang was just big, scary, and mean.

    #6 Rocky [and don’t ask me why the photo for Rocky is from Rocky Balboa]

    The ultimate underdog story.

    The first Rocky was the ultimate everyman. He’s just an unassuming, humble guy from Philly who ends up getting a shot at the champ through a series of events and making the most of it.

    Eventually, Rocky turns into this super fighter in later movies, but in this one he’s just your average guy with a bigger than average heart. Nothing special.

    Stallone will never be considered a great actor, but he’s terrific in the movie. He nails the “aw shucks” attitude.

    And who could forget Mickey. That gruff voiced little troll is one of my favorite sports movie characters of all time.

    *****

    I was happy to see that Over the Top easily made the top 100.  I was surprised that Rocky Balboa didn’t appear on the list.  What’s up with that?  It should have been right there along side Rocky.

    If you’d like to see Matt King’s entire list of 100 Greatest Sports Movies of All Time, you know what to do.