Sylvester Stallone spends press tour complaining that Arnold Schwarzenegger tricked him into doing a bad movie
Sylvester Stallone says "prankster" Arnold Schwarzenegger duped him into doing Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
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Sylvester Stallone is currently on a press tour to promote his new Paramount+ series Tulsa King, but he’s clearly got another project on his mind. That project is, improbably, Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot, a misbegotten buddy cop comedy about a man (Stallone) and his mother (Golden Girls’ Estelle Getty) solving a murder together. Stallone’s involvement in the 1992 film (which sits at a rough 14% on Rotten Tomatoes) is infamously the result of a prank by his rival Arnold Schwarzenegger, a fact Stallone himself will be quick to remind you.
“We couldn’t stand to be in the same galaxy together for a while. We truly, truly loathed each other,” he said in an appearance on The Jonathan Ross Show (via Entertainment Weekly). Regarding Stop!, he explained, “He’s quite clever. He goes around town saying, ‘I can’t wait to do this film.’ I go to my agent, ‘Get that thing away from him. Get people options on me.’ I got it and I said, ‘What a piece of s—- this is.’ He goes, ‘Ha ha ha!’ At least I wasn’t pregnant in a film, Arnold. We’re even.”
“Schwarzenegger tricked me to do that piece of junk. That’s one of those things that you go, ‘Why am I in this?’ There’s a scene they say, ‘Would you mind wearing diapers?’ I’m going to kill Arnold. I am going to find him and track him,” he also said on Fox & Friends, saying he believed Schwarzenegger “desperately” wanted to do Stop! “And I go, ‘Well, I’m not going to let that happen.’ So, I snatch it. I said, ‘I want this film desperately.’ And once I got it, I realized, ‘I’m in such a turkey and it’s not even Thanksgiving—it’s not even Thanksgiving, folks.’”
To be clear, Stallone has been railing against this injustice for years now, but it’s obviously not enough to go on the record about it just once. He mentioned it again in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter: “Also, I had heard Schwarzenegger was going to do that movie and I said, ‘I’m going to beat him to it.’ I think he set me up,” he reiterated.
For his part, Schwarzenegger confirmed to the outlet that he did, indeed, set Stallone up. “It’s 100 percent true,” he said in a statement to THR. “In those days we did all kinds of crazy things to get ahead in our rivalry. Luckily for us and everyone else, today, we root for each other. Thank God, because we sure don’t ever need another Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot.” Please, Governor, this wound clearly does not need re-opening!
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I assume Schwarzenegger also tricked him into doing Staying Alive, Reach Me, An Alan Smithee Film, Backtrace, Escape Plan 2, The Specialist, Get Carter, Oscar, Avenging Angelo and Driven, all of which have lower tomato scores than Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot.
Just from a very quick glance at both of their filmographies, I think Arnie blows (“work the shaft…great!”) Sly out of the water. You could argue that Arnie doesn’t have anything as legitimately profound as First Blood or the original Rocky, but pound-for-pound entertainment Arnie had an absolute murderer’s row of movies from the mid 80s until the early 90s.
I don’t know that Arnold has ever turned in an acting performance worth writing home about (maaaaybe True Lies?) but yeah his roster of action flicks is unassailable, and he did himself a big favor not taking himself too seriously.
That’s some good research. I remember liking Get Carter. The rest I…haven’t seen.
He’s Stallone’s own personal Lucy Van Pelt and bad movies are his football.
D0n’t forget a 1/3rd of the Planet Hollywood pie!
Those movies probably suck but the tomato score is actually an indicator of wokeness and not necessarily quality of the content.
They made an Escape Plan 2? I saw the first one. They escape.
They made 3.So far.(Also remember the TV show Prison Break? Lots of escaping places and then being put in other places they also had to escape from.)
Oscar is an underrated comedic gem. I don’t get the hate for it.
I will tolerate no smack talk about Oscar, that movie slaps.
That’s almost as bad as the time Arnold tricked Michael Ironside in a tragic prank that resulted in Mr. Ironside losing both his arms.
See you at the party, Richter!
Who tricked Estelle Getty
Dreyfuss.Not Richard.
He also called it “maybe one of the worst films in the entire solar system, including alien productions we’ve never seen”
“We couldn’t stand to be in the same galaxy together! So’s I goes and gets my intergalactic spaceship and fly to Glorbulon-7 for a while, then my agent gives me a call…”
That film was one of the worst things I’ve ever seen, and I watched my mother eat two of my siblings.
As bad movies go from that time period, that one is barely worth mentioning.
Classic ArnieHe used to do that in the gym, too, taunt and goat his rivals before Mr. Universe competitions.
well, at least he didn’t trick Stallone into eating tablespoons of salt every day in increasing amounts.
Sly: “Yo Arnold, I’m going to bang your maid.”Arnold: “No, I’m going to bang her first!”
“Haha! Take that, Stallone! Enjoy your failure while I make unimpeachably great movies – what’s this? They need someone to play a Batman villain? Opposite George Clooney? Sign me up!”
Anybody else think Stallone is coming off a little bitter lately?
I never realized Sylvester Stallone has no free will.
“Which films?”“Well, not Rocky.”“Right. Which films?”“…all of them?”