Rumble in the Media Jungle: Robertson squares off vs. Stallone
First published on Cattlegrazing., RB's musings on... well whatever.
"On an average day when I don't have to go make pizzas or manage the peons at work, I found myself (by myself) watching The Pat Robertson Brainwash Hour (aka The 700 Club.) while eating a bowl of generic frosted mini-wheats and sipping some anti-oxidant fortified green tea. Who should appear on the screen with the hyper-conservative psuedo-pontif but Sylvester Stallone. You can watch the full interview on that link provided. Who knew that ol' Sly would ever appear on 700? I didn't. I also didn't expect that the new Gosh Rocky... Apparently I've been living in a a cave. Close enough I suppose considering that I live in Montana, without cable or satellite, and the only way I get online is because my neighbors are too lazy to secure their wireless. (I often imagine how their bandwidth dips when I watch streaming video, and then I laugh and laugh). To paraphrase the interview, this new Rocky is more of the old rocky with more godliness. It would have been awesome to have gone to a Catholic high school wherein I would have been able to make the enormous critical leap from Rocky to allegorical Philadelphian Christ. Apparently the new Rocky is more like that. Apparently the new Stallone is more like that too, with a crooked-er nose. Publicity stunt? Stunt, probably not, but any news is good news for a movie that's opening, I wonder if it really was Stallone's idea, Robertson's, or some Sly handler (sic). I guess that's a long cry from the days when Rambo 2 had two locations in it's film: Jungle and Coke Machine. When do we get to hear that Rambo 2 is an allegory for Heart of Darkness.
The horror."
"On an average day when I don't have to go make pizzas or manage the peons at work, I found myself (by myself) watching The Pat Robertson Brainwash Hour (aka The 700 Club.) while eating a bowl of generic frosted mini-wheats and sipping some anti-oxidant fortified green tea. Who should appear on the screen with the hyper-conservative psuedo-pontif but Sylvester Stallone. You can watch the full interview on that link provided. Who knew that ol' Sly would ever appear on 700? I didn't. I also didn't expect that the new Gosh Rocky... Apparently I've been living in a a cave. Close enough I suppose considering that I live in Montana, without cable or satellite, and the only way I get online is because my neighbors are too lazy to secure their wireless. (I often imagine how their bandwidth dips when I watch streaming video, and then I laugh and laugh). To paraphrase the interview, this new Rocky is more of the old rocky with more godliness. It would have been awesome to have gone to a Catholic high school wherein I would have been able to make the enormous critical leap from Rocky to allegorical Philadelphian Christ. Apparently the new Rocky is more like that. Apparently the new Stallone is more like that too, with a crooked-er nose. Publicity stunt? Stunt, probably not, but any news is good news for a movie that's opening, I wonder if it really was Stallone's idea, Robertson's, or some Sly handler (sic). I guess that's a long cry from the days when Rambo 2 had two locations in it's film: Jungle and Coke Machine. When do we get to hear that Rambo 2 is an allegory for Heart of Darkness.
The horror."
posted by RB @ 2:07 PM
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