Stallone Broke Neck During Fight Scene

[Nickdfresh]

Sly broke neck filming fight scenes

(UKPA) – 1 hour ago

Hollywood hardman Sylvester Stallone has said the fight scenes in his new movie were so realistic that he broke his neck during filming.

Stallone stars in upcoming action film The Expendables, which boasts some of the acting world's biggest tough guys, including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke and British actor Jason Statham.

The 63-year-old said a fight scene with wrestling star Stone Cold Steve Austin became so "vicious" that he needed an operation for a hairline fracture and had a metal plate inserted in his neck.

Stallone, a writer and director on the testosterone-charged movie, told this month's FHM Magazine: "Man, it was seven guys, kicking each other's ass, one guy tougher than the next. No joke, our stunt guys were begging for mercy.

"Actually, my fight with Stone Cold Steve Austin was so vicious that I ended up getting a hairline fracture in my neck. I'm not joking. I haven't told anyone this, but I had to have a very serious operation afterwards.

"I now have a metal plate in my neck."

The film centres around a team of mercenaries who embark on a mission to overthrow a dictator. It also features actress Brittany Murphy, who died last month after collapsing at home.

Stallone previously starred with Lundgren in Rocky IV - when he also suffered similar injuries.

He told the magazine: "Dolph Lundgren and I always went for it. I gave him orders to try to knock me out while the cameras were rolling. At one point, he hit me so hard on the top of the head I felt my spine compress. He then hit me with an almighty uppercut.

"That night my chest and heart started to swell, and I had to be helicopter-ambulanced from my hotel to a nearby emergency room. I was told that Dolph had punched my rib cage into my chest, compressing my heart. If it had swollen any more, I would have died. After that, I was like, 'Dolph, it's only a movie, bro...'"

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[Dan]

Bottom Line Is,"Dont Fuck With Stone Cold Steve Austin".

[Golden AWe]

Break a leg!

Break a neck!

[chefcraig]

Chuck Norris could sweep the floor with all of these so-called bad asses, without breaking a sweat. Mr. Norris offers these words of encouragement to Mr. Stallone...

[ThrillsNSpills]

That's why they call it acting.

So they can destroy each other.

[bueno bob]

I get the feeling that The Expendables is going to be the coolest thing I've seen in a while. With a cast like that and based on how really awesome Rocky Balboa and Rambo were? I expect GREAT things. Who'd have though Stallone would have hit such a high mark into his 60s?

[Dan]

The Expendables - Trailer (HQ)

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[Hardrock69]

I suggested this 10 years ago...that they needed to create a movie with all the biggest names in Action Hero history, and have them fight every bad person/entity you can imagine.

The "Bad Guys" could be currently: Al-Qaida, The Taliban, North Korea, Iran, Dick Cheney, George Bush, and the son of Ernst Blofeld with a minor supporting role of "chauffer" played by Muammar Gaddafi.

Jason Statham? Who the fuck is that? They got some nobody to be in the film as one of the greatest action heroes of all time? Who is the idiot that came up with that idea?

[Blackflag]

With a cast like that and based on how really awesome Rocky Balboa and Rambo were?

Those last two movies were the best movies this cocksucker has ever made.

[Seshmeister]

Do people really think that?

He could hardly even get Rambo distributed over here because people thought it was so shit. I saw Balboa and it was ok, fucking brilliant compared to the last 2 Rocky films though...

When you look at his list of work there are a huge number of turkeys. For me his best by a mile was Cop Land. First Blood and Rocky were quite good and some of their sequels were good kids entertainment but there isn't much else. Cliffhanger was a decent thriller.

# Rambo (2008) .... John Rambo
... aka John Rambo (Germany) (USA: working title)
... aka Rambo 4 (India: English title) (Singapore: English title)
... aka Rambo 4: John Rambo (Singapore: English title)
# Rocky Balboa (2006) .... Rocky Balboa
# "Las Vegas" .... Frank the Repairman (2 episodes, 2005)
- To Protect and Serve Manicotti (2005) TV episode .... Frank the Repairman
- When You Got to Go, You Got to Go (2005) TV episode .... Frank the Repairman
# Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003) .... Toymaker
... aka Spy Kids 3: Game Over (USA: video title)
# Shade (2003/I) .... Dean 'The Dean' Stevens
# Taxi 3 (2003) (uncredited) .... Passenger to Airport
# Avenging Angelo (2002) .... Frankie Delano
... aka Mafia Love (France)
# D-Tox (2002) .... Jake Malloy
... aka D-Tox (Australia)
... aka D-Tox - Im Auge der Angst (Germany)
... aka Eye See You (USA: video title)
# "Liberty's Kids: Est. 1776" .... Paul Revere (1 episode, 2002)
- Midnight Ride (2002) TV episode (voice) .... Paul Revere
# Driven (2001) .... Joe Tanto
... aka À toute vitesse (Canada: French title)
# Get Carter (2000) .... Jack Carter

# Antz (1998) (voice) .... Weaver
# Cop Land (1997) .... Freddy Heflin
# The Good Life (1997) .... Boss
# Daylight (1996) .... Kit Latura
# Assassins (1995) .... Robert Rath
... aka Assassins (France)
... aka Day of Reckoning
# Judge Dredd (1995) .... Judge Dredd
# The Specialist (1994) .... Ray Quick
... aka El especialista (Peru)
# Demolition Man (1993) .... John Spartan
# Cliffhanger (1993) .... Gabe Walker
... aka Cliffhanger - l'ultima sfida (Italy)
... aka Cliffhanger, traque au sommet (France)
# Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992) .... Sgt. Joe Bomowski
# Oscar (1991) .... Angelo 'Snaps' Provolone
# Rocky V (1990) .... Rocky Balboa

# Tango & Cash (1989) .... Lt. Raymond Tango
# Lock Up (1989) .... Frank Leone
# Rambo III (1988) .... Rambo
... aka Rambo: First Blood Part III (Malaysia: English title)
# Over the Top (1987) .... Lincoln Hawk
... aka Meet Me Half Way (USA: alternative title)
# Cobra (1986) .... Lieutenant Marion 'Cobra' Cobretti
# Rocky IV (1985) .... Rocky Balboa
# Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) .... John J. Rambo
... aka First Blood Part II (Australia: TV title)
# Rhinestone (1984) .... Nick Martinelli
# Staying Alive (1983) (uncredited) .... Man on Street
# First Blood (1982) .... John J. Rambo
... aka Rambo (USA: TV title)
... aka Rambo: First Blood
# Rocky III (1982) .... Rocky Balboa
# Victory (1981) .... Captain Robert Hatch
... aka Escape to Victory (UK)
# Nighthawks (1981) .... Det. Sgt. Deke DaSilva
... aka Night Hawks (USA)

# Rocky II (1979) .... Rocky Balboa
# Paradise Alley (1978) .... Cosmo Carboni
# F.I.S.T (1978) .... Johnny Kovak
# Rocky (1976) .... Rocky Balboa
# Cannonball! (1976) (uncredited) .... Mafioso
... aka Carquake (UK)
# "Kojak" .... Detective Rick Daly (1 episode, 1975)
- My Brother, My Enemy (1975) TV episode .... Detective Rick Daly
# "Police Story" .... Caddo (1 episode, 1975)
- The Cutting Edge (1975) TV episode .... Caddo
# Farewell, My Lovely (1975) .... Jonnie
# Mandingo (1975) (scenes deleted) .... Young Man in Crowd
# Death Race 2000 (1975) .... Machine Gun Joe Viterbo
# Capone (1975) .... Frank Nitti
# The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975) .... Youth in Park
# The Lord's of Flatbush (1974) .... Stanley Rosiello
... aka The Lords of Flatbush (USA: poster title)
# Klute (1971) (uncredited) .... Discotheque Patron
# Bananas (1971) (uncredited) .... Subway Thug #1
# No Place to Hide (1970) .... Jerry Savage
... aka Rebel (USA: reissue title (video title))
# The Party at Kitty and Stud's (1970) .... Stud
... aka Italian Stallion (USA: reissue title)

[binnie]

Jason Statham? Who the fuck is that? They got some nobody to be in the film as one of the greatest action heroes of all time? Who is the idiot that came up with that idea?

He was in the 'Transporter' movies...

[bueno bob]

I very much enjoyed the last Rambo. Gritty, dirty, ugly, brutal, gory and a perfect representation of the fucking shithole that is known as Burma...and on top of that, the action and the portrayal of the Rambo character were actually realistic. Best Rambo movie first First Blood.

[thome]

Well, I am pissed!! Jenna Jameson is the greatest action hero in the last 30 years.

U fukk'n Homos!

[BITEYOASS]

I am most DEFINITELY seeing this movie! My wife probably wouldn't.

Plus that crazy mofo from "White Chicks" will be in the film:

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[TAKIN WHISKEY]

This movie looks kick ass.

[Nickdfresh]

He was in the 'Transporter' movies...

He was also in The Italian Job.

[binnie]

I very much enjoyed the last Rambo. Gritty, dirty, ugly, brutal, gory and a perfect representation of the fucking shithole that is known as Burma...and on top of that, the action and the portrayal of the Rambo character were actually realistic. Best Rambo movie first First Blood.

I agree entirely. Rocky Balboa was a really good movie, IMO. Under-stated and pretty powerful in places....

[Dan]

Jason Statham Is A Great Actor.

[Kristy]

I very much enjoyed the last Rambo. Gritty, dirty, ugly, brutal, gory and a perfect representation of the fucking shithole that is known as Burma...and on top of that, the action and the portrayal of the Rambo character were actually realistic. Best Rambo movie first First Blood.

He signed up to do one more for around a $40 million payoff upfront. The last Rambo I actually enjoyed simply because it was the most brutal film he ever did AND where he pretty much shut up and let the CGI do most of the talking for him. But I'll agree that a high majority of his films are duds. Stone seems so lost in his movies trying to be somewhere a "serious Shakespearean actor" and a second-rate Steven Segul.

[Dan]

What?

[Coyote]

This movie has potential to be EPIC!

[Dan]

What?

[sonrisa salvaje]

Jason Statham was also in War with Jet Li which was pretty cool. Another good Statham flick was The Bank Job. If you didn't see that one you need to catch it.
I agree about Rambo being good. What a brutal, bloody movie that was.

I heard Stallone actually offered Jean Clod Van Dummy a part as well but he turned it down. Guess he and Steven Segal are too busy filming straight to dvd masterpeaces.

[chefcraig]

I heard Stallone actually offered Jean Clod Van Dummy a part as well but he turned it down. Guess he and Steven Segal are too busy filming straight to dvd masterpeaces.

Seagal has a reality tv show in which he's a police officer in Louisiana. I'm not kidding! Steven Seagal: Lawman

[kwame k]

Seagal has a reality tv show in which he's a police officer in Louisiana. I'm not kidding! Steven Seagal: Lawman

Wow, just plain wow!

[jacksmar]

I very much enjoyed the last Rambo. Gritty, dirty, ugly, brutal, gory and a perfect representation of the fucking shithole that is known as Burma...and on top of that, the action and the portrayal of the Rambo character were actually realistic. Best Rambo movie first First Blood.

Agreed.

And just a side note for all vampire movie fans, there ain't no such thing and if there were, Schoolboy would turn a vampire's head into a canoe.

[Nickdfresh]

...
I heard Stallone actually offered Jean Clod Van Dummy a part as well but he turned it down...

Maybe the part was entitled "the fluffer?"

[Baby's On Fire]

I suggested this 10 years ago...that they needed to create a movie with all the biggest names in Action Hero history, and have them fight every bad person/entity you can imagine.

The "Bad Guys" could be currently: Al-Qaida, The Taliban, North Korea, Iran, Dick Cheney, George Bush, and the son of Ernst Blofeld with a minor supporting role of "chauffer" played by Muammar Gaddafi.

Jason Statham? Who the fuck is that? They got some nobody to be in the film as one of the greatest action heroes of all time? Who is the idiot that came up with that idea?

Jason Statham is a fucking badass...Watch the Transporter movies, for example....He's fucking cool and makes great movies.

He's a bona fide martial arts expert...If you haven't seen the Bank Job do yourself a favour and rent it...Great fucking movie.

[Seshmeister]

I heard the Transporter movies were very homoerotic.

Half naked men wrestling in oil and so forth.

It's very big in the gay community, I gave them a miss.

[Baby's On Fire]

What the fuck are you talking about? There's nice pussy in all 3 of them.....is that homo enough for you?

[Seshmeister]

You're joking right?

I think it's cool you are willing to explore your sexuality but it's just not my bag.

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http://mediacommons.futureofthebook....7/12/05/slick-

There’s something queer about Corey Yuen’s fight choreography in this scene from The Transporter (2002).

By “queer,” I primarily refer to this choreography’s counternormativity – its imaginative, unusual, and critical approaches to the action genre’s same-sex brawl – and the political readings that such slick moves make possible. Yuen’s inventive choice to add oil to the proceedings literally destabilizes this fight, and in so doing, upends conventional masculinity. Hard-men tumble and flail, gracelessly scrambling to adapt to a changed environment where muscle, swagger, and sheer numbers are no longer enough. Only Jason Statham’s character, Frank, has the wherewithal to think his way out of a rough situation: through the cunning use of footwear, his masculinity-with-a-difference ensures stability and victory.

Though most fights in the action genre rely on the exchange of punches and kicks from an asexual distance, Yuen’s choreography, which features prolonged touch and lingering bodily contact, further unsettles orthodox masculinity. Yuen refigures the physical relationship between combatants, and frequently choreographs Frank locked in an embrace with one assailant while he fights others. This, coupled with Frank’s code-of-honor refusal to simply kill those who get in his way, suggests a sort of queer intimacy or tenderness absent from most cinematic violence. The Transporter’s queer choreography is, of course, augmented by the homoerotic aspects of its mise en scène: Statham’s oil-slicked torso, the pulsing techno soundtrack common to gay porn, etc.

I contend, however, that though sometimes they intersect, queer fight choreography is something different than choreography that merely provides gay spectatorial pleasures. Fight choreography can offer more than just spectacle (or eye-candy) – it can contribute substantively to a film’s theme. Yuen’s innovative choreography repeatedly throws masculinity off-balance. I choose to read it as quietly subversive, especially in a PG-13 film aimed at a teenage boy audience. What kind of potential, I wonder, might queer fight choreography hold for films (like the X-Men series, for example) with more ambitious and explicit queer political agendas?

[Seshmeister]

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[Baby's On Fire]

Sesh has just cum out of the pink closet!!!....Not surprising since Scot "men" wear skirts......

Only an obsessed homo would think faggotry while watching a movie....No worries Sesh...it's perfectly normal.... You FAG

I'll leave you and your right hand alone now....Happy hunting

[Seshmeister]

Quite a weak effort to wriggle out of this.

Maybe you need to cover yourself in baby oil?

[Seshmeister]

'The Transporter,' gay action hero? | Hero Complex | Los Angeles Times

from the LA Times...

'The Transporter,' gay action hero?

November 28, 2008 | 4:17 pm

Alas, the Transporter is gay no more.

In the trailer for “Transporter 3,” Jason Statham (in character as the tactiturn commando-turned-courier Frank Martin) is very clearly seen making out with sexy costar Natalya Rudakova –- a stunning development for anyone intimately acquainted with the car-chase-crazy, karate-tastic French-financed action franchise.

In 2005, Louis Leterrier, the director of “Transporter 2” (and also credited as "artistic director" of the first “Transporter”) told me he created a gay subtext for the character so as to avoid making a “Steven Seagal kind of movie.”

"If you watch the movie and you know he's gay, it becomes so much more fun," Leterrier said then. "It's so great -- the first gay action movie hero!” He continued: “Action fans in general are pretty homophobic. You see these tough guys who say, ' "The Transporter," that's such a great movie!’ If they only knew they're really cheering for a new kind of action hero.”

And to drive his point home, he mentioned a scene in “Transporter 2” in which a drug czar's wife, played by Amber Valletta, makes romantic overtures toward the Transporter. Martin rebuffs her, explaining, "It's because of who I am."

Letterrier's take on that? “That's him coming out!”

At the time, Jason Statham, who plays the Transporter, dismissed the director's claims.

“It’s just Lou-Lou trying to be funny,” Statham said, using his private nickname for Leterrier. “Although he did say, ‘In Part 2, you will become the gay icon.’”

I e-mailed Leterrier a few days ago to get his take on “Transporter 3” and director Olivier Megaton’s choice to make the character heterosexual. “Haha, I haven’t seen it. I can’t wait,” Leterrier wrote back. But wasn’t he just a little disappointed Megaton had changed the character’s sexual orientation? Leterrier seemed to back off the gay Transporter theme he embraced three years ago.

“I was sick over the weekend and my 2 Transporters were on, so I watched them and in fact they aren't that gay,” Leterrier wrote. “But it makes for fun movie legends.”

[Seshmeister]

I win!

I'm the king!

[Hardrock69]

Thanks for the info on Jason. I have seen none of those films...guess I need to get caught up, eh?

I have been falling further and further behind on catching good movies, just due to the sheer number of them coming out.

Oh, and I have watched every episode of the Steven Seagal series.

I have a lot more respect for him these days. Kinda like Uncle Dave, he is actually doing something to give back to this world by helping people in need.

[Golden AWe]

I heard the Transporter movies were very homoerotic.

Half naked men wrestling in oil and so forth.

It's very big in the gay community, I gave them a miss.

How about "300"?

[binnie]

I heard the Transporter movies were very homoerotic.

Half naked men wrestling in oil and so forth.

It's very big in the gay community, I gave them a miss.

Didn't realize that you were such a homophobe. Oh, wait, I forgot, you're Scottish......

[Seshmeister]

From the clips I've seen its not just gay it's very stupid gay.

Like Brokeback Mountain if the story had been the same but without the shirt lifting I wouldn't have wanted to see it so why go and see it when it is?