If you get a chance to see “Watchmen” pay close attention to what’s on television screen. At one point in the movie you’ll see Sly as Rambo. As director, Zack Snyder explains to Larry Carroll for MTV:
What’s Rambo’s Problem Now?
Another of Veidt’s televisions plays “Rambo: First Blood Part II,” which made us wonder: If the U.S. won Vietnam so quickly and easily in the “Watchmen” reality, would the “Rambo” movies even exist? “There might be a couple M.I.A.’s still there,” Snyder said of John Rambo’s mission in the sequel. “The reason I put that shot in there was that Sly [Stallone] is walking with another character from the movie — I forget the actor’s name — but he has a [smiley-face] button on — only he has a frowning smiley face. I was like, ‘They just totally missed the point of that,’ but I thought it was really interesting that it was pop culture invading a movie that, in some ways, didn’t understand it was being mocked by [‘Watchmen’].”
The actor’s name is Martin Kove. Since I plan to see “Watchmen” today, I’ll keep an eye out of Sly’s “cameo.”
