Tag: Sylvester Stallone

First Blood 

Whilst I intensely dislike the jingoistic and increasingly ridiculous sequels, I have a soft spot for Sly Stallone’s original Rambo movie (before he became an indestructible one-man army).  Here, he is portrayed more as a vulnerable and disturbed Vietnam veteran – not so much fighting to try rewrite the result of the Vietnam war as…


The Expendables

I’ve written before about how I don’t much care for the lazy photo-shopping of most modern movie poster designs, but this poster for The Expendables is one of the more striking images from recent years, I think. Sly Stallone’s knowing 80s action hero team-up is a lot of fun (before the 2 sequels began to…