50 Stallone Movies Ranked From Best To Worst

9) ROCKY (1976)

Looking back they were going to cast someone else in the role, offering Sylvester Stallone $250,000 for the script.  Stallone turned this down and insisted he play the title character.  What a decision, not just for Stallone, but for the movie.  In too many ways ‘Rocky’ is just the embodiment of Stallone himself, from where he was in his career down to the droop affable nature of his character.  Y’see, Stallone is such a likeable person that no-one else would have worked.  Can you imagine Burt Reynolds or, worse, Robert Redford in the role?

But John Avildsen should also not be forgotten.  While Stallone is the engine room of the movie, Avildsen is the director who is was no stranger to giving lamentable screen underdogs a push (see: Save The Tiger, or Ralph Macchio’s 100lb outcast in The Karate Kid), the man played no small part for sure

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