{"id":3991,"date":"2011-11-06T10:54:03","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T14:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=3991"},"modified":"2011-11-06T23:03:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T03:03:57","slug":"top-25-threequels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/06\/top-25-threequels\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 25 Threequels"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On November 3, 2011<\/strong>, Crave Online<\/strong> posted their choices for the Top 25 Movie Threequels<\/strong>. Coming in at 23 <\/strong>was Rambo 3<\/strong><\/em> and here’s why…<\/p>\n

By the third film in the franchise, John Rambo<\/strong> had gone from a tragic figure \u2013 a man so scarred by the Vietnam War that living amongst quote-unquote \u201cpeaceful\u201d folks was now an impossibility \u2013 to a musclebound all-American hero for the Reagan era. But even so, Rambo III<\/strong> is still a kick-ass action movie. Once again, John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) is called out of retirement, this time to aid Afghan rebels in fighting off Communist invaders from the Soviet Union and save his kidnapped former colonel, Sam Trautman (Richard Crenna) in the bargain. If you can overlook the unfortunate-in-hindsight political subtext, director Peter MacDonald made a killer, over the top action extravaganza, which once owned the Guinness World Record for \u201cMost Violent Movie Ever Made.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sylvester Stallone makes his second (and final) appearance on our list with Rocky<\/strong> III<\/strong>, the last good film in the Rocky<\/strong> franchise until Stallone concluded it (we assume) with Rocky Balboa<\/strong> in 2006. The third time out, Rocky Balboa doesn\u2019t start the film as the underdog. In fact, the new champion has gone so soft that he\u2019s easily beaten by young, upstart boxer Clubber Lang, played by 1980s icon Mr. T in his film debut. After the death of his former mentor he\u2019s forced to turn to his old nemesis Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) for guidance, creating an iconic \u201cbromance\u201d for the ages, and culminating once again a grand fight sequence that once again proves Rocky to be the greatest boxer of the age. The Rocky <\/strong>movies started to get a little hokey here, but if Rocky III<\/strong> had been the last film in the series it would have been a fine send-off to a classic franchise.<\/p>\n

You can see the list<\/strong><\/span><\/a> here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On November 3, 2011, Crave Online posted their choices for the Top 25 Movie Threequels. Coming in at 23 was Rambo 3 and here’s why… By the third film in the franchise, John Rambo had gone from a tragic figure \u2013 a man so scarred by the Vietnam War that living amongst quote-unquote \u201cpeaceful\u201d folks […]<\/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":[93,41,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-93","category-rambo-3","category-rocky-3"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-12n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991","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=3991"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4009,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991\/revisions\/4009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}