Sly Stallone’s battle with Apollo Creed in the first Rocky movie won second place in an online poll to determine America’s favorite Fourth of July movie moment. To see the other choices, click here.
Category: Honors
LA Times Covers Sly
On June 24, 2010, Mark Olsen for the LA TImes Entertainment Section wrote an excellent piece about Sly’s event at the LA Film Festival. Here are some highlights:
- In conversation lasting a little over an hour that was engaging, freewheeling and candid, Stallone charmed the sold-out crowd…
- …Stallone entered to the first of three standing ovations he would receive through the night.
- …the night was squarely on the bigger arc of Stallone’s stardom, moving from the dual-edge of optimism and pessimism represented by Rocky and Rambo to other characters of his career.
- A brief question-and-answer period with the audience simply underscored how meaningful a figure like Stallone — so easy for some cinephiles to ridicule or dismiss — is to his faithful fans.
- At the end of the evening, LAFF Director Rebecca Yeldham presented Stallone with a small statuette honoring him as a special guest of the festival. “I don’t do this very often,” Stallone said, accepting the award. He then addressed the audience directly: “No man is an island. I’ve realized as long as I’m in touch with people like you then I can always be able to write stories about people like you. So I want to thank you very much, because as much as you got from me, I got from you.”
To read the full piece click here.
“Rocky” Rated Top Film Franchise
On June 22, 2010, We Are Movie Geeks.com posted their selections for the Top Ten Film Franchises. Back to the Future; Planet of the Apes; Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter; Rocky; Alien(s); Lord of the Rings; James Bond; The Godfather and Star Wars all made the list. Here’s some of what they had to say about the Rocky series:
…you cannot dismiss the genius of the character of Rocky Balboa.
Rocky was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Screenplay that Stallone wrote, and won 3, including Best Picture and Best Director.
Rocky stole the heart of America and reminded us why we should always root for the underdog.
“Rocky” Selected: Top Movie Fight Scenes
Recently Moviephone posted their selections for the Top 25 Movie Fight Scenes. There were a lot of great choices and one of them was Rocky Balboa vs Apollo Creed from the very first Rocky movie! You can go here to see all of the choices and watch the fight scenes!
Sly on SPIKE Awards Show Tonight
The photo above should serve as reminder that Sly will get an award tonight on SPIKE TV’s Guy Awards. The show will air at 10pm EST. In the mean time, you may want to check out these backstage photos taken at the awards and hosted by Zimbio.com.
Sly Wins Visionary Award
The photo above, of Sly receiving his 2010 Hollywood Reporter Visionary Award, is a cropped version of the pic sent out last night by The Hollywood Reporter on their twitter account. The Visionary Award is presented to the filmmaker who inspired movie marketers.
Life Ain’t All Sunshine and Rainbows…
Recently the DVD rental firm Lovefilm put together a poll of the most motivating speeches given in movies. The top 10 choices, as selected by film fans have been sent to manager Fabio Capello to help motivate England’s world cup team. Rocky’s speech to his son from Rocky Balboa placed fifth on the list.
You can see the entire article here.
Sly & Arnold
This is just one of five photos that The Examiner.com posted of Sly receiving his Guy’s Choice Award from Arnold Schwarzenegger. You can see all of the photos here.
“Escape to Victory” vs “Mean Machine”
In honor of the World Cup, Metro.co.uk decided that the two best soccer movies should face off to determine the absolute fan favorite. So, Escape to Victory and Mean Machine were matched up and here are two of the comments about Victory...
Escape To Victory has passion, power and genuine pace… Escape To Victory… has an ending worthy of a World Cup final.
To read all of the comments, go here.
Sly Receives Award
Actor Sylvester Stallone accepts the Guycon Award onstage at the Spike TV ‘Guy’s Choice’ awards in Culver City, Calif., on Saturday, June 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)