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Is Sylvester Stallone Still Relevant as an Action Hero?

BuzzSugar — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:30:20 -0800

In 2006, he returned for Rocky Balboa. Now Sylvester Stallone has dredged up another of his old action hero roles with the latest installment of Rambo. Do you enjoy seeing Sly revisit the old action roles that helped to make him a household name? Or is enough enough?

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Link Time! 11/29

BuzzSugar — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:34:53 -0800

TV Squad rounds up TV-based comic books, just in case you want to read while the writers are on strike.
Cinematical's weekly list laments the seven good actors who have subjected us to terrible accents in films.
Popwatch has an early review of Wu-Tang Clan's next album 8 Diagrams.
TV with MeeVee is impressed that the Family Friendly Programming Awards actually went to some pretty good shows.
The MTV Movies Blog has a new photo of Sylvester Stallone looking mean (and kind of gross) as John Rambo.
Give Me My Remote has photographic evidence of a possible Prison Break spoiler.
Stereogum has a video preview for Bjork's "Declare Independence."
TV Filter tries to figure out who should win Beauty and the Geek.

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Grumpy Old Action Heroes

BuzzSugar — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:26:07 -0700

Perusing Cinematical and ComingSoon recently I came across these on-set photos from the next installment of the Rambo series, yet another action series I considered long dead (not dead meaning "irrelevant," dead meaning "completed"). For a 62-year-old man, Sylvester Stallone looks pretty good, but beyond that I find myself perplexedly asking the same question I wondered when Sly's old-man Rocky Balboa movie came out last year: Do we really need another one of these?

Between Rambo, Rocky, the most recent Die Hard movie, and now even Indiana Jones, it’s like these action heroes who were played by the young and spry versions of these men in the 1980s just want to keep their series gasping along (and, of course, want to keep getting paid), but at what point does this all become an embarrassing joke? When their wrinkles are distracting? When they can’t get around without a cane?

Is it worth resurrecting these characters and story lines in order to relive some nostalgic sentiment we might still have toward these movies? Why can't we just let the action heroes live on in our memories, rather than have them make endless quips about how much harder it is to disarm a bomb with arthritic fingers or run away from a giant boulder with a heart murmur?