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Stallone looks back and names his favourite film
Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, the veteran actor selects his favourite charcher and film of his distinguished career.
Sylvester Stallone is one of the Hollywood greats and has been gracing blockbuster movies and legendary sagas for more than five decades with the likes of ‘Rocky’ or ‘Rambo’ engrained in popular culture.
Although Stallone has his favorite film in his own filmography, it’s surprisingly the fourth installment of one of his most celebrated sagas with the 77-year-old selecting the ‘John Rambo’ picture as a personal favourite in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in which the actor looks back at his decorated career.
Sly chooses ‘Rambo’
Stallone confessed that the favorite film he has made is a sequel to one of his favorite sagas and that it served to recover a character that he had not played for two decades: John Rambo with the 2008 release ending up as the least successful at the of the five movies that make up the Rambo quintet.
Stallone stated: “A movie that I’m very proud of - it’s the best action movie I’ve ever made because it’s the most authentic - is ‘John Rambo’. ‘, which deals with Burma, where there has been a civil war for 67 years. But they criticized me because the film is very violent. And it is violent. It’s horrible. Children burned alive. That’s what makes civil war worse than anything: it’s your neighbor suddenly killing you. I was very happy with that film, and I never thought it would make it to the cinema. I thought, ‘They’re never going to screen this,’” Stallone explained.
‘John Rambo’ was released in theaters in 2008 to a rather cold reception from critics, shortly after the release of ‘Rocky Balboa’, the sixth and final installment of the boxing that would later later, result in the spin-off ‘Creed’, in which Sly appeared in the first two installments as Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan), son of the former world champion and friend of Rocky Balboa, Apollo Creed.
Stallone’s favorite Rambo film generated 113 million dollars at the boxoffice for a budget of almost 50 million and was the second last of the saga with 2019′s ‘Rambo: Last Blood’ bringing the curtain down on the grizzled war veteran John Rambo.