Sylvester Stallone: 4 Film Favorites

Tango & Cash Demolition Man The Specialist Over The Top

Four Times The Action

My two absolute favorites in this set are on the flip-side of each other: Demolition Man and Tango & Cash. They're action-packed and have touches of humor.

One being Kurt Russell dressed as a woman and wearing spike heels in Tango & Cash. The combination of Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell was right on the money. They play well off of each other. Their characters are direct opposites but both are good and effective cops. In fact, too effective because they're both set up by the same criminal whose business they keep busting up. They both get jail sentences and are supposed to go to a minimum security facility but the crime boss works it so they go to a grungy maximum security prison where he owns the guards and where there are a lot of guys that Tango and Cash have put away. They escape and do their own investigating and clear their names while getting "the gov'nor" who set them up.

Stallone as the good "mad man" going after the bad "mad man" Wesley Snipes in Demolition Man was a good hate-hate relationship and led to many great action fights and pursuits. It takes place in the future where society is devoid of violence and people have "joy-joy" feelings above ground where anything deemed not good for you is outlawed - like salt on food. But, the people who choose to live with all the unhealthy things are living underground and have to forage for their food. Jesse Ventura has a small part as one of Snipes' thawed-out criminals.

The Specialist has a lot of explosive action with a bit of romance between the assassin Stallone and the calculating, vengeful Sharon Stone. The two share a very hot shower scene.

Over The Top is not as action-packed but it's a good story about a disconnected father and son who are put together after the wealthy mother dies and it's her last wish that the trucker/arm wrestler father get to know his son, so they go on the road together. It took some time for them to get along because the son was a spoiled rich kid whose grandfather did not like his father and greatly objected to the father (Stallone) having anything to do with his own son. The son's knowledge of his father was greatly influenced by his grandfather's viewpoint. But, in the end, the father/son become a duo as the grandfather pushes a little too hard against Stallone, in addition to under-estimating the bond that occurred by the two being together. October 9, 2008

Everything except the Specialist is a great buy...

I personally love to collect awful B movies like Over The Top and Tango & Cash. The only one in this collection not worth watching is The specialist but I assure you Demolition Man, Over The Top and T&C are gems. If you want you like ROBERT LOGGIA, the bad guy from Scarface, Frank, then you'll will laugh out loud during the arm-wrestling movie starring Stallone in Over The Top. September 29, 2008

pretty good

these are pretty good movies as far as sylvester stallone goes. over the top and the specialist are my favorit two here. worth the price September 5, 2008

Tango & Cash not formatted for widescreeen TVs.

While Demolition Man, The Specialist, and even Over the Top are in the 16:9 format for widescreen TVs, Tango & Cash is not. The video quality is pretty lousy as well. I feel like I'm watching this movie on VHS. June 12, 2008

Demolition Man

Nothing wrong with the movie, just my copy had full narration throughout the whole movie from the director and producer, hopeless. May 9, 2008

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