Sly Stallone

Has anyone seen the new Rocky Balboa and John Rambo trailers?

I personally think that Sly is past it now and I can't imagine going to see a "rocky" movie starring great grandpa Stallone. Mind you the Rambo trailer looks pretty good.

Sylvester must have thought no one remembered him or he has run out of money so its sequel time again for a whole new generation..

caution - the Rambo Trailer is gory

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DttxKIA_AxU
Rocky Trailer Above

http://www.firstshowing.net/2007/05/...ature-trailer/
Rambo Trailer

I never got into those films, I like to understand what someone is saying.... :D

I think he mumbles even more in Rambo now.. it must have something to do wioth avoiding cracking the facelifts.

or that much botox and steroids his face is frozen

It is the antithesis of a "chick flick", us guys love those type of shoot-em-up movies. I guess it is true that the male of the species never really grows up... Welcome back, Mayet!

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It is the antithesis of a "chick flick", us guys love those type of shoot-em-up movies. I guess it is true that the male of the species never really grows up... Welcome back, Mayet!

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Yeah, the most we ever mature is to the point where we say what a horrible movie that is while a little voice in our heads goes, "hehehe, yay, explosions!"

Lest we forget, a good steamy shower scen can sometimes catch our attention..

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Yeah, the most we ever mature is to the point where we say what a horrible movie that is while a little voice in our heads goes, "hehehe, yay, explosions!"

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Oh I am all for that kind of movie - I just like to be able to understand the lead character! Even Arnie is easier to understand.

I am with NooNoo, I love action I have the total Arnie collection, Total Bruce Willis in fact most of my hundreds of movies are action.... I need to releax with the shoot em ups after a stressful day, something we all need..

but.. I never "got into" Stallone.. he mumbles and he just hasn't got "it"

I mean Harrison Ford makes a better action man than him.. even now today at their ages...

stallones just all wrong.... hes dumb

Hey guys, long time no speak!

I've seen Rocky 6, it was ....disturbing but I'm a fan of Rocky 1 - 4 (note I left out 5 on purpose)

As for Rambo, well I will watch it but I doubt I'll enjoy it, I think he is a bit over the hill, going through a bit of a crisis and trying to regain his youth maybe

WB, Philski! Agreed that Arnie, Willis and Sly are over the hill, but who is going to replace them? I can't see Orlando Bloom or Toby McGuire bulking up and shooting off bazookas...

I thought Rocky Balboa was a very good movie, imho. It had a good story line.

The Rock was supposed to be the next Arnie but he ain't done much lately

Being a fan of Boxing and MMA I have always been a Rocky fan.
I think this movie was Stallones final attempt to set straight the Rocky legend after Rocky V.

To me the plot seemed to basically be the Goerge Foreman story, so as far believability it's been done by more than one champion. As for a rating, if you were a fan of the the Rocky's movie you'll like it.

what we need is a hero, pleasant looking, big build with nicely bulked muscles, sense of humour, sexy and with a decent voice... none mentioned above can speak proper like on screen...

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what we need is a hero, pleasant looking, big build with nicely bulked muscles, sense of humour, sexy and with a decent voice... none mentioned above can speak proper like on screen...

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That's just the thing, Rocky and Rambo movies aren't about the speaking. Although the last one does have a nice meaning/message to it.

Dang, Mayet! This fantasy is getting pretty hard to satisfy, since I don't act. I'm guessing Harrison Ford my not cut the muscle requirement, so might I humbly suggest Vin Diesel, Wesley Snipes, Denzel Washington, or (if your are into older burnouts) Mickey Rourke v 2.1?

Oh, I've got it! How about Mark Ruffalo?

[edit] Well, that "sense of humor" requirement might still present a stumbling block.

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what we need is a hero, pleasant looking, big build with nicely bulked muscles, sense of humour, sexy and with a decent voice... none mentioned above can speak proper like on screen...

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I meet MOST of these requirements ... :devil:

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Originally Posted by slgrieb

Dang, Mayet! This fantasy is getting pretty hard to satisfy, since I don't act. I'm guessing Harrison Ford my not cut the muscle requirement, so might I humbly suggest Vin Diesel, Wesley Snipes, Denzel Washington, or (if your are into older burnouts) Mickey Rourke v 2.1?

Oh, I've got it! How about Mark Ruffalo?

[edit] Well, that "sense of humor" requirement might still present a stumbling block.

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Vin Diesel isnt attractive.. he makes a better villian
Wesley snipes is tooo black.. the man glistens and shines and all you can see is his eyeballs.. not attractive and makes a terrible leading man.. horrid in a sex scene wouldnt wet anyones panties
Harrison Ford was great almost perfect.. the thinking womens hero.. bumbling, nerdy but strong handsome and resourceful
Mickey rourke is as ugly as a hatful of buttholes ..he was kewl in harley davidson and the marlboro man though
don johnson was ok as the hero but too old now
and densel washington can't act out of his "standard role". I've watched him and he can't adapt characters very well, he basically plays the same character over and over

and who the heck is mark buffalo? :D

Thank you Mayet! That last post was the best laugh I've had in days! Well, what attracts people to each other often just isn't logical, and there really isn't any accounting for tastes.

For fun, you might want to look at some old work by a couple of these actors. Major League for a very young, skinny, and funny Snipes. The Pope of Greenwich Village may be Rourke at his best, and I promise you'll be surprised if you haven't seen it. Mickey Rourke v 1.0. He also has a small but excellent role in Body Heat which is certainly worth watching for its own sake. Over and over in fact. I'll be right back after the cold shower.


Ruffalo has been in lots of productions, and maybe gets less credit than he deserves. I think you would be most interested in his performance opposite Meg Ryan in In The Cut.

Funny enough I am a hollywood head and movie buff but I dont know of Buffalo... I haven't seen In the Cut though..and there ain't too many movies I havent seen.. I'll have to hire it

I tell you something I watched the departed last week.. it made me laugh when it seemed the author ran out of storyline so he killed off most of the main characters in a gory way...I like those movies though with cameo's by other stars and many major players....

I will concede snipes was ok in passenger 57 but just not sexy

It's hard to put a finger on "sexy". Metaphorically speaking, of course. Take a look at Viggo Mortensen (pre Lord of the Rings) with Diane Lane is in A Walk on the Moon Maybe I should turn this thread over to my spouse, since she might be in a better position to comment.

Nah! That wouldn't be any fun! Never mind. I'll just hang in no matter how tough it gets.

Now Diane Lane had screen appeal...loved her in streets of fire with Michael Pare.. now he was gay as pink..but he was still sexy and played a good leading man.. a true hero.. and once again he mumbled... he was great in the Philadelphia experient with that dumb blonde chick who I would have to slap everytime she opened her mouth near me

Jake Gyllenhall has the potential to be the next Harrison Ford...

but then see ....I dont like Brad Pitt... not my type at all

and Tom Cruise is a dweeb..has anyone ever seen him in The Outsiders? he ruined a perfectly good movie.. he is soo gay and soo non testosterone supported I'm sure he got no gonads whatsoever

Nah Hollywood lacks leading men....

Most actors, whether male or female, don't look terribly good in everyday life. Without their makeup, hairpieces, and/or "enhancements" they're nothing, and with them they look plastic.

I'll stick with real people.

I liked Viggo Mortenson in "A History Of Violence".

A long way removed from Aragorn.

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Most actors, whether male or female, don't look terribly good in everyday life. Without their makeup, hairpieces, and/or "enhancements" they're nothing, and with them they look plastic.

I'll stick with real people.

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Spiffy you would make a great hero... disguised by day as a mild mannered nuclear containment physicist but by night.. Spaceman Spiff...

One day deep in the dark dark forest.. one of the mild mannered nuclear containment device physicist 's containment devices went horribly wrong.. exposing him to deathly gamma rays .. That day the mild mannered nuclear containment device physicist was deep deep in the jungles on mongomongoblabla, setting up his containment devices to capture the energy of a total eclipse of the sun inside a large modified block of pure radium.

The experiment began as the Earth dipped into the shadows of the eclipse, the mild mannered nuclear containment device physicist opened his device and activated his radium but Just as the shadows crept towards the device an extremely large meteorite with krypton like properties smashed into Earth totally obliterating the device and everything within a 100 mile radius. The Radium, eclipse and strange krypton like meteorite fused with the mild mannered nuclear containment device physicist creating SPACEMAN SPIFF

Funny you mention Gyllenhall. My wife refused to watch Brokeback Mountain for months because she worried that she might have two of her favorite fantasies damaged. Now in our household, I'm the only one who actually rents movies. See, if you rent the movie, you pay the late fees. So, if you return the empty box for Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and then find the actual DVD under the kids bunk bed 2 weeks later...

Anyway, when she finally decided to take the plunge, she tried the subtle approach. "You know, Anne Hathaway is naked in this." I said I knew that but I had already seen Havoc which was far more explicit. After a moment of silence, she said, "Buster, you're renting this!" Doggone if she wasn't right. Hey, I don't just know "roll over", I can also sit up and speak on command. Begging? Got that one down cold too!

Anyway, after some discussion, Heath, Jake, and Viggo got two thumbs up (euphemistically speaking), as did Luke and Owen Wilson. My daughters (9 and 12) allowed as how the Jonas Brothers were really cute.

Ah now the WIlson boys..

Luke makes a great hero maybe a tad too quiet
Owen is fantastic I love his movies .. he makes me laugh

There was a movie I was watching last week and danged if I can remember what it was now but the lead was terrible and I was thinking how much better owen wilson would have been doing the lead....

man now I am going to be wracking my pea brain until I remember

and another movie that p*ssed me was Fantastic Four.... the rubber dude should not have been there.. he did not suit the role of hero in any way shape or form.. he wasn't "nice" he did not have the on screen personality for the role.. hence he stuffed up the whole ambience.. he didn't fit, the other stars bounced so well off each other and he was just dead in the water partnered with Alba..... that kinda role Gyllenhall would have done better.. he can play the nerdy dude as well as the strong hero...

I still say that the dude from Sweet Home Alabama was great as the hero.... he played the best role in that movie...

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Spiffy you would make a great hero... disguised by day as a mild mannered nuclear containment physicist but by night.. Spaceman Spiff...

One day deep in the dark dark forest.. one of the mild mannered nuclear containment device physicist 's containment devices went horribly wrong.. exposing him to deathly gamma rays .. That day the mild mannered nuclear containment device physicist was deep deep in the jungles on mongomongoblabla, setting up his containment devices to capture the energy of a total eclipse of the sun inside a large modified block of pure radium.

The experiment began as the Earth dipped into the shadows of the eclipse, the mild mannered nuclear containment device physicist opened his device and activated his radium but Just as the shadows crept towards the device an extremely large meteorite with krypton like properties smashed into Earth totally obliterating the device and everything within a 100 mile radius. The Radium, eclipse and strange krypton like meteorite fused with the mild mannered nuclear containment device physicist creating SPACEMAN SPIFF

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HAHAHAHAHAHA! You're got a wonderful imagination!! :)

My older kids learned to read late because I never read them stories I make up stories to tell them.. i think they sound boring but the kids love them.. they have a set of charcters.. a baby dragon who has no name. Natasha the fairy with a set of gold wings.. and the bestest.. the obbly goblin... the obbly goblin stole all the oranges in the land a couple of weeks ago and turned the country blue.. the kids had to fly with Natasha to the land of the smurm to beg the obbly goblin to give back the oranges...

I should write them down sometime.. the older kids are funny, quite often if im busy doing something i see them sitting down with the younger ones telling them stories now..

heck it keeps em quiet .. even if i have to wrack my brain for new tales

Yeah, I've done the same thing with my kids...make up stories on the fly when they were young and wanted a bedtime story. I made the mistake of telling about a fox and a bear in the woods. They wanted that story over and over again, but with different variations. I got so tired of trying to figure out new situations that I said one day: "There was a fox and a bear in the woods. The bear ate the fox. The end."

They didn't ask about the fox and the bear after that... :)

Yep thats it the same story.. if i vary it though i get yelled at for changing it.. it doesnt go like that mum....

I suppose I could teach them some nifty limericks.

There once was a man from Nantucket...

The best path would be to have THEM tell you the story - lots of laughs and they actually begin to develop story-telling skills.


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nah my kids like hearing to the story for bedtime.. gives them nice dreams..if i got them to tell the story they would get an adrenilin rush an dnever go to sleep

My 9 year old shows considerable literary promise. She is also a big film buff, and Tim Burton is her favorite director. Pretty sure that Big Fish is the only Burton flick we don't own. In second grade, her class had to write a Halloween story about either a black cat, a spider, or a Jack-o-Lantern. This is the Bible Belt, so we don't suffer witches to live.

To get them started, the teacher provided a beginning for each choice. My child went with the spider story, and the opening provided was "I went to visit my Grandmother on Halloween. I knocked on the door. When it opened, there was the biggest spider I had ever seen!"

I was asked for some story ideas, and I suggested that the huge spider might be the new maid because she could do so many things at once. My daughter nodded, then went off and wrote the tale of "Spiderina the Devourerer" . Lots of puns, lots of devouring. Only the spider survived. We framed it.

Mayet, the actor you're groping for in Sweet Home is Josh Lucas. Patrick Dempsey (Grey's Anatomy) played the betrothed. Consulted the support group, two thumbs up both times.

way to go to your daughter.. tell her conrats from down under.. great storyline and great imagination.. Imagination = innocence

yeah Josh Lucas.. i have seen him in another movie where he was an agent or something.. ill have to go look on IMBD database..

*Edit Later * Poseidon
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0524197/

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I just feel like I really want to be someone who literally disappears in the role. I want to be so strong as an actor that people wouldn't say [for example] 'Oh, that's Ben Affleck.' To me, that's just boring. It doesn't interest me. My goal is to always have the ability at hand where I can be really good, as opposed to, eh, that's Josh Lucas." Interview with Steve Head, September 24, 2002.

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he was hot, strong, quiet, handsome, not gay looking, did i mention hot, and he was unobtainable.. that was the thing that made him hot, the way he played the unobtainableness. He is the sort of guy you can depend on, that is strong out in the bush but at home in the city, protective but loving, able to work with his hands but still be romantic .. ahh sigh the perfect guy.. thats why he did it so well... fantasy, the perfect guy that doesn't actually exist.. well not to my knowledge anyhows..

and funny enough.. patrick dempsey plays a nice brother role.. or maybe a good sicko psycho.. but he would be hopeless as the hero romantic lead.. cos he doesn't give off man genes....