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