6/12/2023 0 Comments Arnold movie theaterOriginally, “ Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot was supposed to be like Throw Momma From the Train with the mom as this really nasty piece of work,” Sly explained, referencing the 1987 comedy starring Billy Crystal and frequent Schwarzenegger comedy collaborator Danny DeVito. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Stallone points his finger at a few different sources for the movie’s failure. The ensuing comic high jinks were enough for the movie to make decent money, but only further solidified Sly’s reputation as a lesser comedy star than Arnold. In 1994, Sly added to that list of unsuccessful comedies with Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot, in which he starred as tough cop Joe Bomowski, whose life gets turned upside down after his mother Tutti ( Golden Girls‘s Estelle Getty) comes to live with him. That latter problem came to particularly gall Sly when Arnold won over audiences in comedies Twins and Kindergarten Cop, while Stallone’s forays into the genre, Rhinestone and Oscar, were critical and financial flops. While Sly had the greater dramatic and creative chops, as demonstrated by his nuanced turns in the first Rambo and Rocky movies, Arnold tended to score bigger box office hits. Throughout their careers, the pair had an epic rivalry, one that began with an argument at the 1977 Golden Globe awards and continued as the two battled for box office dominance. From their humble cinematic beginnings as Hercules in New York or Joe “Machine Gun” Viterbo in Death Race 2000, the two came to rule cinemas of the 1980s and 90s in action classics such as The Terminator and Rambo: First Blood Part II. Olympia Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Italian Stallion Sylvester Stallone. Gather ’round young ones, listen to my tale of titans of old! Long before our action heroes were handsome men like Hemsworth or Evans, bodybuilders ruled the silver screen, like Dolph Lundgren and Carl Weathers and Jessie “The Body” Ventura.
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