Sylvester Stallone was still one of Hollywood's biggest movie stars in 1987, but he spent most of the year smarting from the embarrassing failure of "Over the Top." The Menahem Golan-directed film aspired to be the "Rocky" of professional arm wrestling, but failed to take into account that no one watches professional arm wrestling because it is dreadfully boring. The at-the-time Soviet Union was undergoing a political transformation thanks to the reformist leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev, and he was determined to get his nation's troops out of Afghanistan.
Author: staff@slashfilm.com (Jeremy Smith)
Published at: 2026-02-14 19:30:00
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