{"id":294,"date":"2008-05-18T14:31:29","date_gmt":"2008-05-18T06:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=294"},"modified":"2008-05-18T14:31:29","modified_gmt":"2008-05-18T06:31:29","slug":"stallone-vs-the-reds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2008\/05\/18\/stallone-vs-the-reds\/","title":{"rendered":"Stallone vs The Reds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were three big huge Hollywood actors in the mid 80s, and whichever movie they appeared in, it&#8217;d be a big hit at the box office, even if the movie was a turkey. The three were <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arnold_Schwarzenegger\">Arnold Schwarzenegger<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bruce_willis\">Bruce Willis<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sylvester_Stallone\">Sylvester Stallone<\/a>. I have this vague recollection of efforts by Hollywood agents to get the three megastars to appear in the same movie together, but I guess there were just too many problems getting their schedules in sync and an agreeable budget to work within.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Stallone is famous for two movie series: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rambo\">Rambo<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rocky\">Rocky<\/a>. Interestingly, three of his biggest movies in the 80s were all regarded as anti-communist, anti-red, anti-Soviet Union etc. The movies were Rambo II and III, and the very slightly lesser known <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rocky_iv\">Rocky IV<\/a>. One of the most memorable songs in the latter was by a rock band, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Survivor_%28band%29\">Survivor<\/a> (no relation to the TV series), and its MTV had a montage of the movie&#8217;s memorable moments. It&#8217;s one of the more &#8216;manly&#8217; songs to have shown up in the 80s, and for us who remember Rocky IV, it sure brings back nostalgia.:)<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R1cdI69zopA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were three big huge Hollywood actors in the mid 80s, and whichever movie they appeared in, it&#8217;d be a big hit at the box office, even if the movie was a turkey. The three were Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis,<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2008\/05\/18\/stallone-vs-the-reds\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Stallone vs The Reds<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[563],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-music","wpcat-10-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}