Sylvester Stallone is currently promoting the latest and promised-final installment of the classic cinematic series that started 30 years ago. Rocky Balboa should logically be called Rocky VI, but for artistic and/or marketing reasons, opts for a ring of distinction. Everyone loves saying “Balboa.” It’s just one of those fun words to pronounce, like “amoeba,” “languid,” and “cuspidor.”
Stallone appeared in the broadcaster’s booth on Monday Night Football in Philadelphia, shocking the world – or at least my household – with his bizarre appearance: That of an aging jock with face bruised by Botox. Yesterday, he hit a Boston boxing club with the promise that “there will be no more, because I can’t do no more”. No more? Please, no! It’s entertaining to watch Stallone continually desecrate the only good thing he’s ever done in order to star in a movie. Remember in Spaceballs, when a TV movie critic reviews Rocky 5000? Yeah, it could happen.
Next up: Rambo IV: Pearl of the Cobra, to be released in 2008. What, no John J. Rambo? What the hell is Pearl of the Cobra, and how will a 62 year old action hero compellingly deal with the situation?
