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Sylvester Stallone

Also referred to as Sly Stallone, Stallone, Slash the Lone, Sly

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Episodes featuring their films
14
Movies in this archive
16

Rewatchables episodes featuring Sylvester Stallone’s films

Rocky IV

1985 film

Bill Simmons · Cousin Sal · Kyle Brandt

Aired October 27, 2020

Creed

2015 film

Bill Simmons · Wesley Morris · Sean Fennessey · K. Austin Collins

Aired March 14, 2018

Displaying episodes 13 - 14 of 14 in total

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Rambo: First Blood Part II The Rewatchables

Best Double Feature

Rambo: First Blood Part II
First Blood
Cobra
Rocky IV
In the discussion (2)
Approx. transcript time · 01:36:13Read transcript
  • First Blood is the main Double Feature recommendation, praised for its wounded protagonist, thematic substance and nuanced Teasle before the sequel’s popcorn excess. — Bill Simmons
  • Cobra is another Double Feature choice; Rocky IV is also floated as part of a larger Stallone run. — Kyle Brandt
Rambo: First Blood Part II The Rewatchables
Rambo: First Blood Part II

Probably Unanswerable Questions

Stranding Trautman with Rambo; Murdock’s future; Rambo’s romantic history; Stallone versus Schwarzenegger

In the discussion (7)
Approx. transcript time · 00:37:29Read transcript
  • A question brought forward from Unanswerables imagines an injured Trautman stranded with Rambo. The idea is rejected because Rambo already has the POWs to protect and Trautman needs to confront Murdock back at base. — Bill Simmons
  • An unanswerable asks what happens to Murdock; the answer imagines him failing upward into more powerful government positions rather than receiving justice. — Kyle Brandt
  • Another unanswerable speculates about Rambo’s romantic and sexual history, with his quick attraction to Co offered as evidence of continued interest. — Kyle Brandt
  • Stallone is preferred over Schwarzenegger. — Bill Simmons
  • The other preference leans slightly Arnold; both stars are described as formative figures whose legacies are linked like Bird and Magic. — Kyle Brandt
  • The hosts report Stallone tied with De Niro on thirteen Rewatchables films, behind Cruise at eighteen and Pacino at fourteen; Denzel has twelve and Schwarzenegger eight, from a stated total of 454 films. This is a short ranking, not a ten-item list. — Bill Simmons
  • The hosts appreciate both aging stars continuing to work but object to Stallone recutting Rocky IV; Daylight and Lockup are discussed as future possibilities and movie selection is described as partly personal lobbying. — Bill Simmons
Rambo: First Blood Part II The Rewatchables
Rambo: First Blood Part II

Apex Mountain

Sylvester Stallone in 1985; Ronald Reagan; Uncle Sam/America; Julia Nickson; the Cold War

In the discussion (4)
Approx. transcript time · 01:14:18Read transcript
  • Stallone receives affirmative Apex for 1985, jointly represented by this film and Rocky IV. — Bill Simmons
  • Vietnam movies do not receive Apex here: late-1970s quality and Platoon’s Oscar-winning period are preferred, with Full Metal Jacket and Casualties of War also discussed. — Bill Simmons
  • Reagan, Uncle Sam/America, Julia Nickson and the Cold War’s 1985 pop-culture moment receive affirmative answers; the lack of nuclear-weapons discussion slightly weakens the Cold War argument. — Bill Simmons
  • Martin Kove is placed at Karate Kid instead, and movie knives are placed a year later with Cobra and Crocodile Dundee, alongside knife advertising. — Kyle Brandt
Rambo: First Blood Part II The Rewatchables
Rambo: First Blood Part II

Half-Assed Internet Research

Filming locations, fatal effects accident, video sales, Soviet ban, unverified on-set pranks and body count

In the discussion (5)
Approx. transcript time · 01:11:58Read transcript
  • Craig is said to be traveling and absent, so he has no flex selection. The first name alone does not independently identify a credited producer. — Bill Simmons
  • Half-Assed Internet Research reports Mexico and Thailand locations, the fatal accident involving special-effects worker Cliff Wenger, 425,000 opening-day video units, high video prices and a Soviet ban. — Bill Simmons
  • A claim about remaining Vietnam POWs is read from research, followed by explicitly unverified accounts of Crenna pantsing Stallone, a retaliatory cream pie and cast mud fights. — Bill Simmons
  • The on-set prank story is suggested as a Steven Seagal unbelievable-on-set-story candidate, with doubt that Crenna would behave that way. — Bill Simmons
  • The stated body count is 85 total and 74 attributed to Rambo; helicopter weapons are suggested as padding his tally. — Bill Simmons
Rambo: First Blood Part II The Rewatchables
Rambo: First Blood Part II

Casting What-Ifs

Dolph Lundgren; Lee Marvin; local extras; John Travolta as Rambo’s partner

In the discussion (2)
Approx. transcript time · 01:09:12Read transcript
  • Casting What-Ifs includes Lundgren reportedly removed because of his Drago role, Lee Marvin declining roles across both films, and local Chinese-restaurant workers recruited as extras in Mexico. — Bill Simmons
  • The producers reportedly wanted John Travolta as Rambo’s partner, an idea Stallone vetoed; the hosts enthusiastically imagine buddy banter and a Quarter Pounder and metric-system exchange. — Bill Simmons
Rambo: First Blood Part II The Rewatchables
Rambo: First Blood Part II

Pete Berg Award for Underacting, a.k.a. the Ambien Award for the Sleepiest Actor

In the discussion (2)
Approx. transcript time · 00:17:00Read transcript
  • Both suggest a Stallone underacting award for the monosyllabic delivery, saying Cobra goes even further and Tango & Cash shows that greater expressiveness was available. — Bill Simmons
  • The overacting category is repurposed as the Rambo II underacting award, returning to the earlier Stallone critique. — Bill Simmons
Tropic Thunder The Rewatchables
Tropic Thunder

Steven Seagal shitting on himself award for most unbelievable anecdote from the actual film shoot

Stallone legend and losing daylight

In the discussion (3)
Approx. transcript time · 01:11:25Read transcript
Rocky The Rewatchables
Rocky

Who Won the Movie?

In the discussion (3)
Approx. transcript time · 01:44:56Read transcript
  • Sylvester Stallone wins emphatically, with a suggestion this might be the greatest movie win ever. — Bill Simmons
  • Writing and starring as an unknown, then building a long franchise, makes the achievement unusually difficult to repeat.
  • Tarantino, Palminteri, Roberts, Pacino and Welles are discussed as comparisons, with prior visibility limiting several parallels.
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Films in the archive

Cliffhanger

1993

Cobra

1986

Cop Land

1997

Creed

2015

Daylight

1996

First Blood

1982

Last Action Hero

1993

Over the Top

1987

Rambo: First Blood Part II

1985

Rocky

1976

Rocky II

1979

Rocky III

1982