Stallone's 90’s Action Trifecta: Cliffhanger, Demolition Man, and The Specialist 

Stallone's 90’s work is very underrated, incredibly fun ideas and cool action

I was ten when my dad and I saw Cliffhanger and Demolition in the theater that year. We had such a blast. This was the era of Arnold, Sly, Willis, Van Damme, and Seagal. Anytime one of these guys had a flick out at the movies, my dad and I were there. It was a great time to be an action movie fan. I can't help but miss those days. We had cool, macho bad ass heroes we could look up to, that weren't super heroes. Just old-fashioned tough guys who were always game for saving the day.

Cliffhanger was a part of our families home video collection when I was a kid, so it got quite a few re-watches. It's certainly one of the best "Die Hard on a" films of the 90s.

I am only 22 but my aunt is a Nerd and one of my favourite movies as a kid was Stallone's Oscar! I L.O.V.E this comedy, everything in this movie is in perfectly sync with Mozart's "Il Nozze de Figaro". I have also realized a lot of hints for Pop Culture. In "Last Action Hero" Arnold Schwarzenegger say when hearing Nozze de Figaro on the Radio that "This music is lovely". And in the same movie he carried Lio the Fart the same way Stallone did with one of the hostages in the opening scenes of Demolition Man. Maby I see connections where there aren't some but I fell so thrown back into my childhood with all these movies right now.

Yes I was 14 to 16 at this time and I friggin loved it! Saw all on the big screen and was blown away! Great time to be a Sly fan!

Judge Dredd was great too, and Assassins was fantastic. Sly was on a roll during the 90's.

i loved Demolition man, it was panned by critics but so relevant today. Plus it was Rocky vs Blade. Snipes chews up the screen and gives an over the top villain performance that was on the level of jim carrey and tommy lee jones in Batman forever. Which is funny because the music for Demolition man was done by Elliot Goldenthal who did Batman Forever.

We need tango and cash 2

In all 3 films reviewed here, each one had a scene stealing villain who clearly was having a blast playing the role (Lithgow - Cliffhanger, Snipes - Demolition Man, and Woods - The Specialist). A movie's always interesting when the hero has to face an imposing antagonist

Rob Schneider's line at 13:24 sums up the majority of law enforcement agencies.

I first saw "Demolition Man" on a bootleg when I was 10 or so? (Jeez this ages me).and I still LOVE it! 1993 was a great year for clever, mindless fun. And stunts! GALORE!!!

I discovered Demolition Man almost by accident. My family had joined the Columbia House VHS subscription service in '94 or '95, and Demolition Man was one of the first movies we received. It's an homage to the dystopian novel "A Brave New World" while also a sly (hehe) satire of the action movie genre that Stallone himself had become synonymous with.

My God...CLIFFHANHER was a great movie, I still watch it to this day, John Lithgow was EXCELLENT...stole every scene he was in, what a CLASSIC!

Simply a great action movie. I really can't imagine what this would look like if it was given the 'Ghostbusters' treatment. Also, Northern Exposure. A much forgotten 'must see' series of the 90's. Peace All

Demolition man is like a documentary. Wesley snipes looks like he had a blast playing one of my favorite villain roles of all time, and i still don't know how the damn three seashells thing works

I've to admit : i liked "Oscar". Really interesting. But this trifecta as you recall it was my personnal favorite of his from the 90s... (Yes. Even "The Specialist" especially because of Mr John Barry's beautiful score)

Sandra is so beautiful and adorable in Demolition Man it’s irresistible..

Assassins is very brilliant movie,very underrated and underappreciated

Cliffhanger and Demolition Man are all time classics while The Specialist is a guilty pleasure.

I love Cliff Hanger!

Great. Looking forward to this video, I always enjoyed The Specialist.

Love the Specialist 😊great video!

another demolition man? hell yeah! good show bro.

Out of this trifecta Cliffhanger is my preferred favourite, with Demolition Man coming in a close Second and The Specialist last in 3rd Place as Sly is Michael Douglas and the eroticism doesn't really suit him. Cliffhanger has a lot of great action and is a really one of the better Die Hard clones. Also along with Tango & Cash is one of the better Non Rocky or Rambo movies. Hang On.

still have my Panasonic 3DO and this game....it is a good one!

Cliffhanger is my dad's favorite movie of Stallone

For some reason when I saw The Specialist, I thought that was the movie he did with Antonio Banderas, Assassins. I thought that was a good movie as well for Stallone in the 90's.

Oscar is one of my favorite movies

Watched them all, they're good

The 3 seashells 😆🤔

Don't care what anyone says, Judge Dredd was great. Sure, the Rob Schneider stuff dragged it down a bit. But I mostly loved it.

A Cliffhanger stuntman was paid $1M to zipline from one plane to the other--is that the same guy who jumped out of the helicopter in Demolition Man?

Is the "3 C shells" a bidet? Asking for a friend....

IT IS.....CRY-O PRISON! NOT A CAIRO PRISON! BUAHAHAHAH @12:15...... TWICE! AAHHAHAH 😂

Three good movies.

FYI, that trailer music 7:25 is not Wagner, it’s Carl Orff’s “O Fortuna” from Carmina Burana

Those three movies weren't too bad. The week went out of it was the specialist. If you're really think about the movie, there are plot holes everywhere and it doesn't really make sense on face value. But cliffhanger and demolition man. Those are two of the most underrated action movies of the '90s. I'll give Stone credit when it comes to action. He likes to be super diverse

Love this movie but climbing in Lee Haney fingerless gloves, a t-shirt, shorts and not a sign of frostbite not loss of dexterity? Not to mention, it's obvious those aren't the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

7:23 That‘s not Wagner‘s Ride of the Valkyries. It‘s O Fortuna from Carl Orff‘s Carmina Burana.

(The piece playing was O Fortuna by Carl Orff, not a Wagner piece.)

Demolition Man is great! Assassins is underrated

I played the game from cliffhanger . It was super hard

Demolition man had a great pinball machine

Bro i cant fkn wait for tulsa king season 2.

I think the three shells = buttons for a bidet

Yet when Snipes was in Major League, they had to slow down his running sequences to mask the fact that he was so slow, and they couldn't include footage of him catching or throwing a baseball, because he was terrible at both. This is the guy that literally sobbed and begged Tyson to not hit him in the face.

I was 14 when Cliffhanger came out, 15 when Demolition Man debuted, and 16 when the Specialist was in theaters. I thought Stallone had more hits in him for the rest of the decades. Sadly, Assassins bombed, he made an underappreciated Daylight, an overlooked Copland, and an ignored Driven.

They are working on Cliffhanger 2

Watched specialist in theater.

Assassins was good. Needed more action scenes in the film. 😅

I LOVE the movie Oscar.

Daylight gets no love 😓

Out of the 3 movies here, I've always hated The Specialist since I was a child.

Cryo not Cairo, thats in Egypt

John Barry carries the silly Specialist. Indeed, it was Barry's last really good score before he would fade from film scoring altogether.

what? I can't hear you. Turn up your mic.

"Demolition Man" plot hole . . . Spicy food is illegal . . . BUT . . . Taco Bell won the Franchise War.

There is upcoming sequel to Cliffhanger directed by Ric Roman Waugh and Stallone is signed up for it.And re Demolition Man I think you meant CRYO-prison, not CYRO prison.... ?!

Judge Dredd❤

Demolition Man was great. Judge Dredd too.

I like the movie Oscar.

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Does anyone know what the f*** the seashells represent? 🤔

Cairo, lmao and not Cryo

Cliffhanger was a true return to form for Stallone when it comes to action, Demolition Man was a disgrace and Specialist remains his sexiest thriller to date mostly due to Sharon, who was at her peak. The rest of the 90s was abysmal and hence he went off the radars for almost a decade before Rocky Balboa.

Assassins is better than The Specialist, there's my hill, now bring me my coffin.

Glad Jackie Chan turned down Demolition Man, Wesley Snipes was a great villain! Don't see Jackie Chan as a villain

I like the reviews, but dude you have got to work on your pronunciation. I hear several missteps and just outright missed words. Slow it down a bit. It’s cryo-prison. Not chyro-prison. And it’s tah-ko bell. Not tak-o bell. Just a couples you can do this. 👍🏼

Please don't remake cliffhanger and drag it in to the culture shitshow, let Disney be the lesson no one else needs to learn.

stalllone made more movies in the 70s 80s and 90s arnold was more 70s 80s a couple hit movies in the 90s and a couple of box office hits in the 2000s rambo rocky franchise cobra 1986 over the top 1987 tango and cash 1989 stallone made more movies not slowing down in the 90s stop or my mum will shoot having action trifecta movies box office cult classic movies cliffhanger demolition man the specialist assisians judge dredd daylight cop land get carter 2000 the expendables franchise the expendables 4 last appearence in the expendables 4 giving the rights for jason statham to take over tulsa king show for paramount plus the family stallone paramount plus cliffhanger future sequel reboot maybe a long awaited future sequel demolition man sequel and other upcoming projects sly stallone is starring in as arnold schwarzeengger made more hits 70s 80s some in the 90s some hit movies 2000s the terminator franchise conan franchise commando raw deal red heat the running man twins total recall terminator 2 judgement day last action hero true lies junior eraser flop batman and robin end of days the 6th day collateral damage terminator 3 rise of the machines arnold smart man becoming a governor mr universe did achicevments and milestones in hes life starring with stallone in the expendables franchise escape plan the last stand terminator genesis terminator dark fate and other films now arnold does supporting roles in movies fuber was ok on netflix arnold might be doing long awaited commando sequel commando retribution maybe some other films in the pipeline rivals of sly stallone and arnold action heroes in the 80s 90s were steven seagal chuck norris jean claude van dammme dolph lundrgren bruce willis harrison ford clint eastwood jet li jackie chan charles bronson jeff speakman pierce brosnan other james bond actors mel gibson nicolas cage john travolta wesley snipes antonio banderas christropher lambert tom cruise keanu reeves those 2 actors keeping the action genre going with cult classic franchises mission impossible franchise and the best franchise of time now john wick franchise jason statham vin diesel dwayne the rock johnson dave bautista john cena liam neeson also these actors keeping the action genre going

Pooping Stalone

cairo prison huh