{"id":3694,"date":"2011-06-19T10:06:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T14:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=3694"},"modified":"2011-06-19T10:06:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T14:06:03","slug":"slys-hard-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/19\/slys-hard-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Sly&#8217;s Hard Times?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2011\/feb\/021711bullet_head.png?resize=475%2C729\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"729\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On<strong> June 13, 2011<\/strong>, <strong>Mike Sragow<\/strong> of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.baltimoresun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The Baltimore Sun<\/span><\/a><\/strong> wrote a piece titled, <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.baltimoresun.com\/entertainment\/movies\/blog\/2011\/06\/a_sylvester_stallone_film_im_l.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;A New Sylvester Stallone Film I&#8217;m Actually Looking Forward To.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 The movie turns out to be <strong><em>&#8220;Bullet to the Head&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> and here are some of <strong>Mr. Sragow&#8217;s<\/strong> reasons for anticipating the film&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">What perked me up was not the plot, but the news that Walter Hill (&#8220;48 HRS.,&#8221; &#8220;The Warriors&#8221;) will be directing.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">No director has displayed keener instincts when it comes to showcasing American men of action &#8212; even self-styled icons like Stallone, who don&#8217;t usually work with strong directors.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stallone is in his mid-60s. Charles Bronson was in his mid-50s in 1975. That&#8217;s when Hill guided him through &#8220;Hard Times&#8221; and came up with a haunting period adventure that boasts Bronson&#8217;s most pungent star turn.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 13, 2011, Mike Sragow of The Baltimore Sun wrote a piece titled, &#8220;A New Sylvester Stallone Film I&#8217;m Actually Looking Forward To.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The movie turns out to be &#8220;Bullet to the Head&#8221; and here are some of Mr. Sragow&#8217;s reasons for anticipating the film&#8230; What perked me up was not the plot, but [&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":[93,97,20,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-93","category-bullet-to-the-head","category-celebs","category-headshot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-XA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694","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=3694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3695,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions\/3695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}