Sylvester Stallone
Special Edition: First Blood, 1982; Rambo: First Blood Part II, 1985; Rambo III, 1988; Rambo, 2008. Spoiler alert: Rambo has difficulty re-adjusting to civilian life.
Centuries from now visiting aliens will come across humankind’s 2008 film catalogue and think that the most powerful warriors among us were chosen by the length of their ear-hair.
They will have discovered The Age of the Late Sequel – an era of elderly Indiana Joneses, Rocky Balboas and John Rambos – and they will pity earthlings for it.
“No wonder they didn’t see that meteor coming,” they will say.
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Tango and Cash, 1989. Spoiler alert: Tango and Cash start out hating one another but become friends.
The Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell film Tango & Cash was the last of the great ampersand films of 1989, following hot on the heels of Turner & Hooch and Milo & Otis.
For all of that landmark year filmmakers had been experimenting with various human/animal combinations in an effort to find out what audiences would most respond to. In Milo & Otis they tried using two animals, in Turner & Hooch they tried a human and an animal and in Tango & Cash they used a human and Sylvester Stallone.
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Garth says:
Eddie Murphy drives the convertible because his friend at the art gallery lends it to him. He shows up in the same crappy blue chevy nova he used to have when they hung out years before. Otherwise, tops review! Read more »
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Finally, somebody gets it. I think i’ll sleep quite soundly tonight. Read more »
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