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One of the Best flicks
Who ever doesn't like this movie, doen't understand what it is about! It is a great flick about the start of Pro Wrestling. Like "The Gangs of NY" it shows the side of the city that the wealthy "Tadamy Hall" people don't like you to see. Not only is it factual about a time after WWI but before WWII, it shows how people really lived. It was a tuff life and you did what you could do to make a buck! Anne Archer is as hot as can be. Sly plays a great role in Cosmo, and Victor, the big brother is super. A great flick, I wish they would bring it out in widescreen DVD. Remember, the critics hated this flick which usually means it is a good movie, unless you like artsy fartsy junk. This is a man's flick a belongs in the catagory "Movies for men who like movies"!

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Not Baker's or Haas' Movie
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SYLVESTER STALLONE stars in a comedy about NY life in the 1940's. Three brothers, stooges, fail at multiple attempts to make it out of the slums of Hell's Kitchen. In trying to make the big bucks, they neglect the one thing that matters, Love. In realizing this, the little brother makes a decision that might jeopardize their big Blue Heaven.

I thought the movie was funny in every scene, but it wasn't so funny as a movie. If that makes sense. I thought this may have been due to poor direction, STALLONE'S debut. It would make a very good Theatre production. Cutting a few scenes out of the picture, would have made it a better movie (example: ice cream scene).

A few things about the movie stand out. Firstly, this is legendary singer/songwriter TOM WAITS' Hollywood debut. Any TOM WAITS fan will want to get this movie, just to watch those few glorious moments over and over again.

Secondly, SYLVESTER STALLONE sings the theme song. This is priceless. If you've watched his career blossom, and are able to observe the contradiction in his newly found intellectualism, then you will appreciate hearing him sing a theme song for a movie. I rank this action second to hearing WILLIAM SHATNER'S rendition of 'Rocketman'. Very nice.

Thirdly, the lines spoken by a thug mentioned in a previous review are truely classic.

So it's a great picture, however, the optimum enjoyment for this movie is to be experienced in parts, by previewing one scene, before that evening's alternate DVD is queued.

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Yo, don't waste your dough on dis moofy, know what I'm sayin
There are a couple of inspired scenes in this movie, one in which Sly is carrying a large block of ice up the stairs of his apartment building and he drops it and it shatters, and the inspired climactic fight sequence in which the ring is out in the open and the contestants are wrestling during a thunderstorm. There are the obvious parallels to ROCKY and one scene of animal cruelty which I found disturbing (in NZ this movie is R16 despite being PG everywhere else. Stoopid huh?) but otherwise this is a rambling incoherant mess. Still, Sly has made far worse.