Pick Only One: Rocky movie

the end of Tommy Morrison's life was pretty weird and tragic. years of allegedly denying he was HIV positive, until he finally progressed to AIDS, and his own wife denied that he had it until he died.

If you want to see Rocky's ten-year-old son engage in roughly 3x more fights than Rocky himself does, then this is the Rocky for you!

and *that* actor (Sage Stallone, his real life son) is also dead, and died tragically a year before Morrison! movie is cursed!

I know Richard Gant (the Don King stand-in) mainly from Jason Goes to Hell so I spent the entire film expecting/hoping that he would eventually graphically feast on someone's heart.

I only learned about Tommy Morrison (and was reminded about Sage) after watching the movie. Was wondering why I never saw either of them in anything else.

i mean they didn't die five minutes after the movie

not literally

first 3 Rockys are v enjoyable, i love going back and rewatch

Rocky IV is what happens when a studio does not understand its franchise. Rocky V is ok but i feel like it’s not as good as I ~want~ it to be

i dont like Balboa

i heartily recommend Creed

Creed 2 is fine but it aint no Creed :/

I'm plowing through the whole shebang! Couldn't get my gf onboard for the straight-up Rocky installments (even though Karate Kid is like her favorite movie ever and I was all 'But Avildsen! And underdogs fulla heart fightin' their way to glory!') but I think she's gonna give the Creeds a shot.

Maybe Creed will be the thing that gets her to go back & give the Rockys another chance

Karate Kid 3 = Rocky IV but with like 50% ~less~ reason to watch. God it’s so terrible.

mr veg likes the rocky movies but cant get with the karate kid movies - but he does enjoy Cobra Kai

Rocky Balboa is the alternate universe Force Awakens of the franchise, featuring an aged Luke mooning around Tatooine and, because they couldn't manage to snag Carrie Fisher, they settled on bringing back...oh, let's see...Wuher the cantina-keep and Momaw Nadon Hammerhead? Which is to say its insistence upon referencing the past maybe outpaces its ability to reconstruct a past worth referencing. When it stops trying to shoehorn tertiary characters from the original film into the narrative and allows itself to be Rocky: The Retirement Years, it's fine if nothing to write home about. The fight at the end suffers a bit from being more obviously staged.

'That PS2 cutscene has got people curious!'

rocky 1 is s great film. the sequels cheapen it, but rocky iv is notable in itself as, like, definitive cold war kitsch

its insistence upon referencing the past maybe outpaces its ability to reconstruct a past worth referencing

Lyfe man

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All right, respect to Stallone, I read up and discovered that all the boxing was in fact real and not staged at all. I guess you have to stage a cinematic fight to make it look real.