A hyperviolent action movie that Sylvester Stallone was hoping would launch a franchise also quietly remade Clint Eastwood's ...

Stallone was, it is worth remembering, arguably the biggest movie star on the planet at the time the movie was made. Cobra was very much a vehicle built around that. Back to Cobra, though.

The movie is more "Dirty Harry" than "Rambo," and according to Stallone, it's one he doesn't look back on too fondly. "'Cobra' to me, was half-baked," Stallone admitted during a talkback at the ...

Stallone groused to Cinema Papers. “If each one of my movies makes only $50 million, I’ll go to my grave a happy man.” Gritty as it might have been, the overall quality of Cobra suffered due ...

Meyer wanted the movie ... sort of. Cobra didn’t beat Top Gun at the box office, obviously, but it did make $160 million on a budget of $25 million. The violence tracks with other Stallone ...