I don't know as many Stallone movies as I thought I did. Not too broken up about though. :-) Most sounded really familiar, but the names just weren't memorable enough.
One of Sly's early roles: young punk in the park who "bumps into" Jack Lemmon's character in "Prisoner of Second Avenue". Lemmon quickly realizes that his wallet is missing, so having finally reached his breaking point with the City, he decides to fight back. He chases down the young Stallone, wrestles him to the ground and defiantly reclaims his wallet! He goes home and proudly recounts his exploits to his wife (Anne Bancroft), who informs him that the wallet is the wrong color, and that he actually left his wallet on his dresser that morning and left without it. Turns out, Lemmon inadvertently mugged Stallone!
Cop Land is actually pretty good. It's pretty much the only one of these movies that is not just a mindless action movie, and the only one in which Stallone plays against type. He plays an overweight pushover who gets bullied by the NYPD cops that live in the town in which he is the local sheriff. Even when he finally saves the day, he does it through moral courage instead of just pummeling everyone or blasting them away with a machine gun (although I think he does shoot some bad guys at the very end). It's no masterpiece, but there's a lot more investment than in Stallone's usual fare. Good actors too. Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta, and De Niro is even in it for a few minutes.
I heard some good things about Cop Land but never saw it. I didn't mean that I wasn't a fan of those two movies I meant that I wasn't a fan of Stallone.
Over the Top was probably one of my most watched movies as a kid. :) "What I do is I just try to take my hat and I turn it around, and it's like a switch that goes on."
I was going to mention that... but it's been so long since I saw that movie. I looked up the reviews which were pretty awful and thought maybe I just liked it because I was pretty young when I saw it and also in love with young Marisa Tomei.