Posted on 11/25/2015 1:54:57 PM PST by be-baw
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Stallone [was] nominated for Best Actor for playing "Rocky" in 1977. (Peter Finch won for "Network.") He has never been nominated since then. But his work is so good now as the boxing coach for Jordan's Adonis Creed, Stallone is very likely to sweep in and surprise everyone. (This would be bad news for the many other potential nominees from "Spotlight" and other films.)
"Creed" is a total hit, a must see movie for Thanksgiving weekend. Coogler is 29 years old and this is second movie, after the wonderful "Fruitvale Station" Not only has be brought Jordan over from that film, but he’s incorporated Stallone, Rashad, and a terrific cast in a movie that feels deceptively like comfort food but is really haute cuisine.
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Is Rocky Gay or Transvestite now ?
If there aren’t any black slave, Holocaust, or GiBLeT movies, then he has a chance.
“Is Rocky Gay or Transvestite now ?”
*****
Stallone is still a gun grabber and former porn star in real life. Hard to slip further down hill.
“Yo Adrienne.”
Rocky IV premiered 30 year ago this Friday.
to get the Oscar
Stallone is a hypocrite - I certainly won’t see this film and its over-used story line in another Rocky flick.
Rotten Tomatoes rates it very highly, but I wasn’t impressed with the trailer:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/creed_2015/
Worth noting that there are very few actors who can claim TWO iconic characters. Maybe Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones and Han Solo), Stallone (Rocky, Rambo), Charleton Heston (Ben Hur, Moses-—but Moses was real) but I have trouble thinking of too many.
I am such a Rocky fan! I can’t wait to see this!!
Dirty Harry and the Man with No Name.
(Peter Finch won for “Network.”)
And I’m mad as hell about it.
"I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself.
But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world,
and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question:
Do I feel lucky?
Well, do ya, punk?"***
"Dirty Harry" 1971
“Stallone is still a gun grabber “
One of the worst in the country.
Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes.
Even the best rendition of “Rocky Balboa” doesn’t kill the bad taste of “Judge Dredd”
I’m sorry, what was the name of the man with no name.
" The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared,
and now we have a bunch of teenage twits."Clint Eastwood
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