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.
― Looks like I'm gonna be the filling in a missile sandwich! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 03:18 (three years ago) link
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.
― Looks like I'm gonna be the filling in a missile sandwich! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 03:20 (three years ago) link
i mean they didn't die five minutes after the movie
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 03:28 (three years ago) link
not literally
― cerebral halsey (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 03:31 (three years ago) link
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 bei dont like Balboa i heartily recommend Creed Creed 2 is fine but it aint no Creed :/
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 03:48 (three years ago) link
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.
― Looks like I'm gonna be the filling in a missile sandwich! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 04:05 (three years ago) link
Maybe Creed will be the thing that gets her to go back & give the Rockys another chanceKarate Kid 3 = Rocky IV but with like 50% ~less~ reason to watch. God it’s so terrible.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 04:15 (three years ago) link
mr veg likes the rocky movies but cant get with the karate kid movies - but he does enjoy Cobra Kai
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 04:22 (three years ago) link
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!'
― Looks like I'm gonna be the filling in a missile sandwich! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 January 2021 02:14 (three years ago) link
rocky 1 is s great film. the sequels cheapen it, but rocky iv is notable in itself as, like, definitive cold war kitsch
― treeship., Thursday, 14 January 2021 02:22 (three years ago) link
its insistence upon referencing the past maybe outpaces its ability to reconstruct a past worth referencing
Lyfe man
― Ole Blueyes Solskjaer (darraghmac), Thursday, 14 January 2021 02:46 (three years ago) link
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― Looks like I'm gonna be the filling in a missile sandwich! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 January 2021 03:00 (three years ago) link
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.
― Looks like I'm gonna be the filling in a missile sandwich! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 January 2021 03:16 (three years ago) link