{"id":1215,"date":"2009-03-08T11:40:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T15:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2009-03-08T11:40:44","modified_gmt":"2009-03-08T15:40:44","slug":"sly-has-4-on-00-favorites-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/08\/sly-has-4-on-00-favorites-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Sly Has 4 on !00 Favorites List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Phil Villarrea<\/strong>l is the <strong>movie critic<\/strong> for the <strong>Arizona Daily Star<\/strong>.  He recently posted his <strong>100 Favorite Movies of All Time<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>Sly<\/strong> was in four of them.\u00a0\u00a0  Here&#8217;s what <strong>Mr. Villarreal<\/strong> had to say about his<strong> Stallone<\/strong> choices:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>90.  &#8220;Over the Top&#8221; (1987) In one of action great Sylvester Stallone&#8217;s many appearances on this list, he plays a trucker who must arm-wrestle his way to the respect of his estranged son. I could watch this one every week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>65.  &#8220;Rocky Balboa&#8221; (2006) Stallone goes back to the well for a movie that re-energized his tired persona and served as a requiem for the fall of a once great sport.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>50. &#8220;First Blood&#8221; (1982) People think &#8220;Rambo&#8221; and tend to refer to the nonsensical mayhem of the sequels. But the disgruntled war vet&#8217;s first outing was a poignant and gripping tale of alienation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>06. &#8220;Rocky&#8221; (1976) Many deride the Academy for choosing &#8220;Rocky&#8221; over &#8220;Taxi Driver&#8221; for best picture, but watch the films back-to-back and then ask yourself which one you&#8217;d rather watch again. For me it&#8217;s &#8220;Rocky&#8221; every time.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Mr. Villarreal<\/strong> has some interesting choices on his list.  He&#8217;s not afraid to speak his mind and go with his favorites as opposed to movies critics are &#8220;supposed&#8221; to like.\u00a0\u00a0  Check out his <strong>100 favorites<\/strong> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azstarnet.com\/sn\/caliente\/282679.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>clicking here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Villarreal is the movie critic for the Arizona Daily Star. He recently posted his 100 Favorite Movies of All Time.\u00a0 Sly was in four of them.\u00a0\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what Mr. Villarreal had to say about his Stallone choices: 90. &#8220;Over the Top&#8221; (1987) In one of action great Sylvester Stallone&#8217;s many appearances on this list, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-jB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1230,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions\/1230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}