Sly Stooopid is better off with dialog than actual thought...
Posted on 02/04/2008 1:47:47 PM PST by decimon
LOS ANGELES - Sylvester Stallone says his latest "Rambo" film and its tag line are inspiring real-life opponents of Myanmar's military rulers. "Either live for something, die for nothing — it's your choice," the 61-year-old actor-director said Saturday in a phone call from Paris, where he is promoting the movie, the fourth in a series.
"Students have now used this film as a rallying point and are using the quote, thinking maybe the American military will intervene and save them," he said.
"Rambo" has the disaffected Vietnam vet John Rambo trying to find missionaries captured by Myanmar soldiers, who are shown razing villages and killing civilians.
Myanmar's military crushed pro-democracy protests led by students and Buddhist priests last year.
Stallone filmed "Rambo," which has yet to be released in Asia, on a river bordering Myanmar and neighboring Thailand.
He issued a challenge to the ruling military.
"If they think this movie is a fantasy, I welcome the opportunity to let me come over there and walk around the country without armed guards following me every inch of the way," he said.
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I know he’s an actor and this is a movie, but there are so many real heros in our military here and abroad in real live fire fights that I just can’t relate to Stallone.
So Sylvester is in Paris calling people in Burma to revolt against the military dictatorship because he made a movie?
Maybe if Sylvester actually went to Burma and became a guerilla, he’s have a grain of credibility.
Say what you want about Stallone, but read this first. At least he is making a true statment, and he isn’t going to other countries and kissing the buttocks of socialists and scum dictators, and extolling the virtues of communism.
Maybe if Sylvester actually went to Burma and became a guerilla, he’s have a grain of credibility.
At least he's making movies that portray the islamofacist and leftist tyrants like those of Myanmar as the bad guys rather than portraying the US military as the bad guys. For that I applaud him.
Just when you think no Hollywooder is more deluded about his importance and ablities than Tom Cruise....
As with George Clooney's activities regarding Darfur, he's at least doing something laudable.
I’m not going to applaud anybody for sitting in a luxury hotel in Paris and encouraging kids to rebel against a murderous military dictatorship just because he made a fake war movie. BTW, Sylvester is a big gun-control advocate. How are these kids in Burma supposed to overthrow a dictatorship is they’re unarmed?
Yes Stallone is one of the good guys. I went into the film not wanting to see a Rambo rehash and only went because my birthday boy teenager begged me to take him. It was a good film and I liked it.
I didn't know that about him. Funny you mention it because one of his lines in the movie is asking someone (presumably one of the missionaries - I've only heard the audio) if they plan to use weapons, they say, of course not, he says something like, then you've lost already.
I heard him talking about this on Rush and he seems genuinely concerned about the situation there and the fact that the media has largely ignored it (can't disagree with him there - the media's selective coverage is infuriating often). He expressed irritation over the fact that he's trying to bring awareness to the conflict while all the media wants to do is focus on what they presume to be his political views as espoused through the movie.
One of the few times that I had to turn Rush off. No way was I going to listen to this mumbling has been. Never did care for him or his movies.
There’s already a rebellion. The government forces have been fighting Karen rebels for almmost 60 years. It’s the longest running civil war in the world and hardly anybody knows anything about it. Stallone did good by making this movie.
Wasnt Stallone a Draft Dodger???
Or 4F. Dunno.
I know, Soldier of Fortune was doing stories on the Karen rebels 20 years ago, back when I still read that magazine. (It really went to hell with the fall of communsm)
He spent the Vietman War in a Swiss girl’s school.
I agree that he’s a pretty lame advocate for the right side, but he’s on the right side. That gets him a few points. If he gets more attention to the folks suffering in Myanmar/Burma, it’s good and welcome.
Stallone attempting to rescue his own film this time...which fell from #1 to #7 in just its 2nd week of release.
If so then he had more fun than I did.
I don't doubt this is for publicity.
Say what you want about Stallone, but read this first. At least he is making a true statment, and he isn’t going to other countries and kissing the buttocks of socialists and scum dictators, and extolling the virtues of communism.
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I agree.
Few other people let out a peep in support of freedom . . . certainly in Myanmar . . . but too few too little in our own beleagured Republic.
His folks sent him to a Swiss college, but he also had a birth defect that caused partial facial paralysis and his famously slurred speech. He might have been 4-F.
How many times have we read at FR that people in disaffected countries need to make changes to their homelands from within rather than migrate illegally to the US? How many patriots did we lose in the earliest days of the American Revolution. They have to start sometime, somewhere, somehow.
I think SOF has gotten it’s groove back. They have reported on many incredible stories of heroism and military skill that the rest of the media won’t bother to report. One of my favs is one where snipers from 5th Marines kill an insurgent and recover a remington 700 that was taken during an ambush of a Marine sniper team during the invasion of Baghdad.
Sly Stooopid is better off with dialog than actual thought...
You should revisit it, it is a good source on the War Against the Global Islmic Jihad. They have an interview with Stallone about this movie. Haven’t read it yet. Guess I need to.
The interview was done on a phone while he was in Paris. He didn’t call on the Myanmar students to rebel from his hotel room in Paris.
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