Posted on 08/28/2010 9:58:46 PM PDT by This Just In
Stallone: ‘America Apologizes Too Much’
Posted By AWR Hawkins On August 26, 2010
Recently, FOX NEWS’ Bill O’Reilly interviewed Sylvester Stallone [1] about his immensely popular movie, “The Expendables.” As I watched the interaction between O’Reilly and Stallone, it was readily apparent that Stallone was cut from a different cloth than many inside Hollywood: he loves this country and he’s proud to be an American.
The interview took place because the L.A. Times took a critical stance against “The Expendables,” reporting that Stallone created it to promote “apple-pie patriotism” among movie-goers. When O’Reilly asked Stallone if exploiting such patriotism was the intention behind the film, Stallone laughed and said no. He said it was a movie where “good guys…take out the trash.” After pausing he then said: “It’s pretty simple, [if] you’re bad you’ve got to go.” Other than this, Stallone said the move emphasizes a redemption of sorts, inasmuch as “The Expendables” ultimately risk their own lives (on screen) to do something good for somebody, and by so doing, get “their morality back.”
As O’Reilly reiterated other criticisms that have been aimed at “The Expendables,” Stallone said he didn’t mind people focusing on the fact that the characters in the movie “are patriots” and “are proud to be Americans.” Stallone did say he had read some criticisms where people tried to say the movie communicated a veiled disapproval of our military and CIA actions abroad, and that it put the “focal point on our intrusion into other countries around the world” and how “we tend to over-extend our boundaries.” But Stallone shot all that blather down by saying “I don’t believe that at all.” (i.e., he doesn’t believe our armed forces and intelligence ops are running around the world making things worse rather than better.)
“My better half supported Bill Clinton during his first presidential bid (definitely liberal).”
If your spouse is liberal AND supported Clinton, then perhaps YOU are the “better half”.
I empathize and identify.
LOL. No empathy needed.
My better half is now so far to the right that the earth may rotate of its axis.
Exactly!
I’ve seen the same thing done in either a show or another movie, fairly recently.
Do you recall the movie?
I need to think on it. It’s bugging me, lol.
“LOL. No empathy needed.
My better half is now so far to the right that the earth may rotate of its axis.”
Aren’t you the lucky one! How’d you do it?? Mine seems more left every day. Most likely was always that way, but I feel really jipped that he lied about it for so long.
Big differences in our outlooks - we both had dads who were successful entrepeneurs but his dad wasn’t ethical (mine was and is!), they were at odds (I’m close to mine!) so he thinks money/capitalism is evil and I don’t (though he likes what it can buy!) and he’s worked most of his adult life for the Government as did and does his ex-wife, while I’ve always either worked for entrepeneurs or (later) become an entrepeneur myself.
Intellectually, he’s very smart, but...any ideas or suggestions on how to get him to see the light?
Works for me...
Ok, just happened to see it again. It wasn’t a movie, but an episode of CSI: NY, called ‘Criminal Justice’, from 2010.
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