No Blood ’n’ Guts...No Vainglory!

Welcome back, ITbeast. For awhile there, I feared I'd have to face the onslaught alone.

Reluctant as I am to quote Bible, a verse from Ecclesiastes comes to mind: Perhaps someone should put it on a billboard on some well traveled ingress to Hollywood:

What has been is what will be,
         and what has been done is what will be done;
         there is nothing new under the sun.

Response from Head RAZZberry: If there were only one quote from the Bible I'd be willing to bet every Heathen in Hollywood could quote, that'd be the one... 
 

Now you're implying that I am a drug addict of some kind?? As if there's no other explanation for my being a Stallone fan! If that were true, then the world, with its tens of millions of us Sly Lovers around the globe, must have an abundance of drug addicts...

You people have no shame!

I'm quite confident that ITBeast's post was meant as a joke* (see definition below). Incidentally, the world is, in fact, chuck full of drug addicts. In reality, they grossly outnumber Stallone fans. Many of them are hopeless wretches who spend their days begging for pennies or commiting terrible crimes to support their habits. In other words, there are more people that would rather pollute their minds and bodies with terrible chemicals than go to see a Stallone movie. Perhaps they have a point. 

From Webster's Dictionary:

^*joke
Pronunciation: 'jOk
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin jocus; perhaps akin to Old High German gehan to say, Sanskrit yAcati he asks
1 a : something said or done to provoke laughter; especially : a brief oral narrative with a climactic humorous twist b (1) : the humorous or ridiculous element in something (2) : an instance of jesting : KIDDING <can't take a joke> c : PRACTICAL JOKE d : LAUGHINGSTOCK
2 : something not to be taken seriously : a trifling matter <consider his skiing a joke -- Harold Callender> -- often used in negative constructions <it is no joke to be lost in the desert>

If I thought you were sincere, I might accept your apology. But since almost every person who posts on this site is a wise-ass Stallone-hater, how can I??

As for your slurring my good name, no one knows who I am, so what damage has really been done? But in slandering the name of a world-class movie star and role model like Stallone, you have stepped over the line.

It's one thing to make fun of a famous person's public persona. You Razzie people and I simply disagree: While I find Stallone's movies compelling and his off-screen behavior admirable, you don't care for him and apparently never have.  But it's quite another thing to make groundless accusations about a celebrity's personal life and private habits.

When you are ready to apologize to both myself and my idol, maybe then I'll be willing to listen...

Geez, where do these people come from?!

#1 Sly Fan, this forum doesn't hate Sylvester Stallone as a person. We just happen to think that most of his work is dreck at best. (You can't honestly tell me ALL his movies are good...) 

As for the "slander" bit, I believe saturnwatcher was simply making an observation on the amount of drugs Sly had. I have my own thoughts about the incident, but I guess I can't say them without getting accused of libel. 

And your explanation for how he's a *snerk* "humanitarian"? You're saying all his movies were inspiring?  

Yeah...I was REAL inspired by Spy Kids 3-D...

Yo, Artgirl: I never said ALL of his movies were good, just that they're nowhere near as bad as you Razzie people have made them out to be, and that he was an inspiration to me and millions of others by creating characters like Rocky.

As for the newest accusation, that Sly is some kind of international drug smuggler on the side and takes movie roles because he's black-mailed into doing so by his suppliers, I assume this is another of your "jokes"... 

Response from Head RAZZberry: As the #1 Defender of Hiz Sly-Ness on this Forum, this will probably upset you no end, but I can't resist, given Artgirl's mention of SPY KIDS 3-D. When I was preparing that year's RAZZIE Nominating Ballot, I considered listing Stallone individually for each of the 5 characters he played in that film, just to see if Stallone alone could fill the entire category of Worst Supporting Actor all by himself. I eventually decided, funny as the idea was, it would be unfair to four other sucky actors who'd otherwise get the "recognition" they so badly deserved. Listed once for those five wretched impersonations, he still "won" his 28th or 29th RAZZIE nomination, and his 10th Award, cementing his place as our Awl-Time Cham-Peen (LINK)...

Just this morning I came up with this thought for a 5th film in this series should they decide for whatever reason to keep it going:  RAMBO VS. BILLY JACK (after all, what could be more amusing than perhaps the 2 most negative characters in screen history tearing away at each other?).  The premise:  Billy's Freedom School Schizophrenics uncover some big and absurd government cover-up in the Pentagon.  Colonel Trautman convinced Rambo to go shut down the investigation for them.  Our two leads meet up and spend the next 3 hours pointlessly beating, strangling and otherwise trying to violently incapacitate each other, taking time every now and then to wax prophetic about their nihilistic philosophies.  Eventually with 10 minutes to go, they realize the Evil Establishment has been using them and react with extreme prejudice, wiping out the entire government and army and half of Washington in the pursuit of "equity," then close with pandering speeches.