I'd argue that those two movies were made more as a response to the success of Aliens.

And two cast members of M*A*S*H.

He did a lot of great voiceover work too. Including being the "In a world…" guy for a couple of trailers.

It doesn't matter if you're blue or white.

Thunderbird. And the Japanese guy.

Meanwhile, Dylan McDermott and Dermot Mulroney wait for America to apologize to them.

Did Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs ever apologize for calling that guy Dick Poop?

I doubt Rambo III had any agenda whatsoever for the Mujahideen. I'd be surprised if Sly did more than ten minutes of research on the culture ("They play hockey with a dead goats body as the puck? Fantastic! Put that in the script. Give me the winning goal.")
The studio just saw them as your standard 'rebels fighting…

Perception is changed by real life developments. Have you watched "Rambo III" lately? When it first came out it was all about Sly Stallone teaming up with heroic Afghan insurgents to righteously kick commie ass. Nowadays, it's hard not to see him arming Al-Quaida.

Weisberg brought up McCarthyism. I just pointed out the irony of which political party is looking for "reds under the bed" these days.

Bullshit!!. The Americans was never "just a fun, pulpy period piece". It always had pretensions of political and social commentary. Look at interviews with Weisberg from four years ago. Unfortunately this year he's lost control of his allegory. Viewers are going to look at his heroes Philip and Elizabeth and see the…

So Weisberg does not believe there are card-carrying Russian agents planted in our highest levels of government, and any rumors of such is hysterical fear mongering?

And the next generation of Latinos and Asians are going to start getting whiter….metaphorically speaking.

Even now, he'd make a more plausible high school student than Lucas Till.

The reference point for this flick feels more like early 1970s Live-Action Disney. Just replace the leads with Kurt Russel, Dean Jones and Hayley Mills.

Rhodes has two things in his favor.
1. He was a prominent character years before anybody spoke the words "War Machine". He's more than just a suit of armor.
2. He's Don Cheadle. The MCU is the tail that wags Marvel Comics dog these days. And Rhodey has been a player in most of the biggest films so far.

Of course you can. Look at the "China Syndrome"/Three Mile Island incident. It's called foresight.

An eerie coincidence, yes. But it validates the gun-control interpretation of the story, if one chooses to see it.
I'm not saying it's the only analogy present in the story, but it is a legitimate one.

The editors needed to move from the Stamford accident to an actual "civil war" all in the space of one comic. Therefore Cap and Tony both had to suddenly be arrogant assholes to explain the rapid escalation of hostility.
I wonder if the story might have been better if the igniting incident happened several months…

Also he had to star in a blockbuster motion picture.