February 24, 2008

Sylvester Stallone Deserves a Special Academy Award

By Michael Margolies
Don't you just wish that at this years Academy Awards Show either Chuck Norris or California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, would appear on stage and say the following: "And the winner for this years Special Recognition Award goes to Sylvester Stallone for‘Rambo' -- a model of how to effectively deal with genocidal governments."  Alas, there doesn't appear to be much chance of that!There are better films this year than Rambo, but there is no better movie.If you were too embarrassed to see it at the Twelve Plex on a Friday night, apparently enough high school and college kids, plus a few Appalachian and Southern hicks with a few front teeth missing (or so they see them in Hollywood), made it a financial success without your business. Here's the film broken down to its essence:Approached at his home in southern Thailand, Rambo is cajoled into taking a group of non violent missionaries in his boat into Myanmar, (formerly Burma), where a village of poor rural...(Read Full Article)