Sylvester Stallone is a famous American movie star, famous for his roles in the Rocky film series about boxing, and the Rambo film series about a super soldier. Although he did not win many awards, Stallone is still one of the familiar names to people who love Hollywood blockbuster action movies.

In 1992, Sylvester Stallone starred in the movie Stop or my Mom Will Shoot . This terrible movie grossed just over $70 million with a 7% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 4.3 IMDb score.

With comments like “extremely silly and completely unfunny”, “worst nightmare”, “half star rating because at least the content lives up to the movie title”, Stop or my Mom Will Shoot ranked first by Sylvester Stallone in the movies the actor wishes he hadn’t acted in.

The most interesting thing about this movie is probably why Stallone decided to take the role. It’s all because of “terminator” Arnold Schwarzenegger.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone were two of the most famous names in action movies. Because both actors play the same muscular hero motif, they often compete for roles.

The peak of this competition is that the two people often criticize each other in the media, even without looking at each other in real life. When recalling memories of this period, Arnold said:

We used to constantly attack each other in the press. We talk about each other’s weaknesses. Things got so silly that we had a competition to see who had the most muscular body.

So I told him, ‘Sly, forget it. Because there is only one person who has won the title of Mr. Olympia _{(world bodybuilding championship)} seven times, and that is me!” So he switched to using larger weapons.

So we competed again to see who had the biggest gun and then the biggest knife.

Remember the knife in Rambo that became so big that it looked like a sword? No one would use a knife like that!

But Stallone had someone make it, so I had to make an even bigger knife. We fought each other like that.

Who has the most unique murders? Who kills more people per movie? Who makes more money at the box office?

Who had less body fat when they started filming? It just keeps happening and it can’t be stopped! Unbelievable.

Arnold Schwarzenegger gave an interview at the Beyond Fest film festival (2017)

Predator movie (1987)
When he heard about the script for the movie Stop or my Mom Will Shoot and knew that this movie would be very bad, Arnold pranked Stallone by spreading rumors that he was very interested in participating.

And sure enough, Stallone fell into the trap.

Sylvester Stallone immediately contacted the film’s producer and took the male lead role. Later, Stallone bitterly answered in an interview:

I heard that Arnold wanted to make that movie and after hearing that, I spoke up that I wanted the lead role. He tricked me! He’s always been a smartass.

Luckily, the feud between the two actors gradually cooled down after they both participated in a high-end movie-themed restaurant project called Planet Hollywood .

Later, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone also starred in many films together, including Escape Plan , a film in which both were the main actors.