# Rocky VI and Rambo IV - Seriously **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 14, 2005, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocky-vi-and-rambo-iv-seriously/326159 "2005-10-14T02:33:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocky-vi-and-rambo-iv-seriously/326159/1 "2005-10-14T02:33:24Z")
I don’t think we needed any more comformation that Hollywood has bored a couple thousand feet below rock bottom. But alas, I am wrong: [Stallone dons gloves for ‘Rocky 6’](http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Artists/S/Stallone_Sylvester/2005/10/13/1260895-ca.html). > [@](#): > > Stallone will also reprise his role as John Rambo in the fourth installment of the action franchise “Rambo,” scheduled for release in September 2006. What was the last Stallone film to make money, Cliffhanger? How much clout does he have to be able to keep turning out crappy movies that were old 15 fucking years ago? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocky-vi-and-rambo-iv-seriously/326159/2 "2005-10-14T02:47:05Z")
Another Rambo movie doesn’t sound too far-fetched, an in-shape 60 year old firing a machine gun isn’t that hard to believe. But a 60 year old in the ring boxing the current heavyweight champion? Paris Hilton playing a physicist nun is more believable. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocky-vi-and-rambo-iv-seriously/326159/3 "2005-10-14T07:09:58Z")
Sly’s almost old enough for the Burgess Meredith role now. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocky-vi-and-rambo-iv-seriously/326159/4 "2005-10-14T11:38:03Z")
We’re gettin’ closer to that poster in the background of **Airplane 2** , aren’t we? And that throwaway line in **Spaceballs** : “Rocky 12…Thousand.” ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocky-vi-and-rambo-iv-seriously/326159/5 "2005-10-14T11:55:20Z")
Come on, Sly, it’s over. You wrote one kickass script and acted one kickass role, but Rocky has proven all he tried to prove. He’s had his peak. Let him walk away with dignity. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocky-vi-and-rambo-iv-seriously/326159/6 "2005-10-14T11:56:19Z")
Charles Bronson did a decent enough job in the Death Wish franchise, so there’s hope for Rambo 4. I just wish they’d make Rambo 2. I mean, _First Blood_ —\> _Rambo: First Blood part II_ —\> _Rambo III_??? I don’t think so, guys :dubious: For Rocky 6, I’d expect him to be a coach or boxing instructor or whatever they call them. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocky-vi-and-rambo-iv-seriously/326159/7 "2005-10-14T14:09:54Z")
> [@](#): > > For Rocky 6, I’d expect him to be a coach or boxing instructor or whatever they call them. Yeah, it was heading that way at the end of the series way back when, so SLy probably isn’t going to be the one up in the ring. As for Rambo, well, your guess is as good as mine. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocky-vi-and-rambo-iv-seriously/326159/8 "2005-10-14T14:10:56Z")
I predict that’s we’ll be seeing this about the same time that Indiana Jones 4 comes out. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocky-vi-and-rambo-iv-seriously/326159/9 "2005-10-14T14:24:31Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > For Rocky 6, I’d expect him to be a coach or boxing instructor or whatever they call them. I always figured that if they were going to do a Rocky VI, he’d be training his son. As for Rambo IV, I once heard that he wanted to do a movie where Rambo wend and killed Bin Laden. Right… ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocky-vi-and-rambo-iv-seriously/326159/10 "2005-10-14T14:29:16Z")
> [@Priceguy](#): > > Come on, Sly, it’s over. You wrote one kickass script and acted one kickass role, but Rocky has proven all he tried to prove. He’s had his peak. Let him walk away with dignity. I don’t know. Maybe Rocky could get in the ring with some lean, hungry 25-year-old. The first forty five minutes would be the setup. The next half hour would be the fight, in real time, with Rock getting his ass kicked round after round before biting the canvas. The Mr T and Dolph Lundgren come into the ring, stand over him and laugh. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocky-vi-and-rambo-iv-seriously/326159/11 "2005-10-14T14:30:23Z")
Read an interview with Stallone a few months ago where he referenced the upcoming Rambo and Rocky movies. Rocky will, indeed, be functioning as a trainer rather than boxing. Rambo will be called upon to train and help a much younger group of commando-types. They will be properly astonished at what this guy they think is just a burned out old man can do. Why is it that Stallone is always so charming, self-deprecating and funny on talkshows and in interviews, but so lifeless on screen? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocky-vi-and-rambo-iv-seriously/326159/12 "2005-10-14T14:44:12Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > But a 60 year old in the ring boxing the current heavyweight champion? Paris Hilton playing a physicist nun is more believable. How old was George Forman when he last fought? 56? ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocky-vi-and-rambo-iv-seriously/326159/13 "2005-10-14T14:59:09Z")
I loved \*‘The Critic’\*s version of “Death Wish 10”: _Bronson in a hospital bed with IVs hooked up:_ “I wish I was dead!” > [@Diceman](#): > > (snip) Charles Bronson did a decent enough job in the Death Wish franchise (snip) _Forty_-six, and, IMO, no one that age is likely to do that again. > [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > How old was George Forman when he last fought? 56? ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocky-vi-and-rambo-iv-seriously/326159/14 "2005-10-14T15:00:51Z")
Foreman was 46 when he won the title, which is what I was opining will never happen again – I’m not sure how old he was when he last set foot in the ring. ---
**Author:** ![SlyFrog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@SlyFrog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlyFrog)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocky-vi-and-rambo-iv-seriously/326159/15 "2005-10-14T17:41:59Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Read an interview with Stallone a few months ago where he referenced the upcoming Rambo and Rocky movies. Rocky will, indeed, be functioning as a trainer rather than boxing. Rambo will be called upon to train and help a much younger group of commando-types. They will be properly astonished at what this guy they think is just a burned out old man can do. Why is it that Stallone is always so charming, self-deprecating and funny on talkshows and in interviews, but so lifeless on screen? Agreed, and I find that somewhat sad. If you see him speak in interviews, or engage in other activities (I really liked his Saturday Night Live hosting gig), it seems that he is a really bright man. I did not see _Copland_, but heard he had a very good acting performance there. But he’ll be forever known as the stupid muscle-actor. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocky-vi-and-rambo-iv-seriously/326159/16 "2005-10-14T19:36:40Z")
Stallone ditched his first plan after seeing how Schwarzenegger’s been faring in California… 😉