Sylvester Stallone had a very successful year in 1985 with Rocky IV and Rambo Part 2, which achieved a bizarre $600 million box office feat.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Sylvester Stallone had an incredible year in 1985 with his Rocky and Rambo sequels, which achieved an almost impossible $600 million box-office feat. Stallone had once been touted as the next Marlon Brando, following the success of Rocky.
For Stallone, the muscular physique he crafted for movies like Rocky, Rambo and Cobra became selling points, while his rival Schwarzenegger had The Terminator and Commando. Their particular brand of testosterone and one-liner-filled blockbusters spawned a generation of action stars like Jean-Claude Van Damme, while Bruce Willis acted as more of an everyman variation on the same premise.
Rambo: First Blood Part 2 earned $300.4 million following its May 1985 release, while Rocky IV scored slightly less with $300,373,716 later that year. That's a $600 million tally for Stallone - which is approximately $1.7 billion when adjusted for inflation in 2023 - which is doubly impressive for two movies that were essentially sold on his name alone.
Why 1985 Was Stallone's Best Box-Office Year Ever Stallone's $600 million feat with his Rocky and Rambo movie franchises was essentially a case of right place, right time. The '80s was a decade of gloss and excessive, with action movies becoming bigger and bolder in every way. 1985 just happened to be the year Stallone hit the zeitgeist in just the right way, with his and Arnold Schwarzenegger's films essentially being the superhero movies of their era.
Sylvester Stallone himself was uniquely attuned to pop culture during this period in a way he would never quite recapture in the years that followed. His $600 million year with Rocky and Rambo was by far his biggest at the box office, but subsequent entries in both franchises would score significantly less. Rambo 3, for instance, cost far more to produce than its predecessor but only earned $189 million worldwide three years later.
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