Thing with Stallone is that he is trying to be in movies what people want him to be in movies. For instance, Sly noted how after making Rocky he also made a movie called "Paradise Alley" and during the filming of Rocky 2 he went out to the cinema to see that movie of his, "paradise Alley", and noticed how there was nobody in the cinema, he was completely alone. And indeed, that movie completely bombed because nobody watched it. And then quickly after that, Rocky 2 came out and it was a blockbuster smash hit.
He himself doesn't like war or guns, but people see him as Rambo and he tries giving them what they want.
He himself doesn't like war or guns, but people see him as Rambo and he tries giving them what they want.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
