I'm completely with this take on the two movies. (Though I like Taxi Driver and Goodfellas more than Raging Bull.) Rocky is only good in the sense that an eat-some-candy, try-to-finger-your-date movie can be good. But so far as quality film goes, I'm sure I'd take Scorsese's old home movies over everything Stallone has ever done.
Stallone is obviously very limited: I've heard that Pacino was offered the role in First Blood/Rambo, declined, then it was given to Stallone. That made pretty much Sly's fortune. Now "Rambo" was honest entertainment. Pure 70's-solid-stuff. Like Deliverance, for example... stuff new generations have guiltily forgot.
I graduated from a film-school (technically a Bachelor of Arts, with a branch in "movie-and-TV-directing"...), and a professor had us watching Taxi Driver: that's how important it can be, and, as far as I'm concerned, it's objectively Scorsese's best movie, as well as the most defining, of course (with all due respect for the rest).
I enjoyed very much Goodfellas, of course, how could any adult human being not do?
Don't see Al doing the job in Rambo that Stallone did. He was the perfect fit.
I feel that the only issue with Al Pacino playing Rambo would've been merely physical: Pacino' s a rather small guy, while any army's special forces are made by quite big guys, very muscular and fit.
Stallone rendered fairly-enough the character's emotional climax and final catharsis.
Nick Nolte also could've done great as Rambo, for example...
Stallone is obviously very limited: I've heard that Pacino was offered the role in First Blood/Rambo, declined, then it was given to Stallone. That made pretty much Sly's fortune. Now "Rambo" was honest entertainment. Pure 70's-solid-stuff. Like Deliverance, for example... stuff new generations have guiltily forgot.
I graduated from a film-school (technically a Bachelor of Arts, with a branch in "movie-and-TV-directing"...), and a professor had us watching Taxi Driver: that's how important it can be, and, as far as I'm concerned, it's objectively Scorsese's best movie, as well as the most defining, of course (with all due respect for the rest).
I enjoyed very much Goodfellas, of course, how could any adult human being not do?
Don't see Al doing the job in Rambo that Stallone did. He was the perfect fit.
I feel that the only issue with Al Pacino playing Rambo would've been merely physical: Pacino' s a rather small guy, while any army's special forces are made by quite big guys, very muscular and fit.
Stallone rendered fairly-enough the character's emotional climax and final catharsis.
Nick Nolte also could've done great as Rambo, for example...
As long as he's sober, lol. Maybe Ray Liotta as well.
Nile4000 wrote: ↑29 Dec 2018, 20:41
Don't see Al doing the job in Rambo that Stallone did. He was the perfect fit.
I feel that the only issue with Al Pacino playing Rambo would've been merely physical: Pacino' s a rather small guy, while any army's special forces are made by quite big guys, very muscular and fit.
Stallone rendered fairly-enough the character's emotional climax and final catharsis.
Nick Nolte also could've done great as Rambo, for example...
As long as he's sober, lol. Maybe Ray Liotta as well.
Saw it over the Holidays, Liked it. It was good entertainment....and "infotainment" to some degree, and helps put in perspective the outcome of the Second Duran Leonard event, without making excuses, or whining.
