Soldato
I saw the original in the theater way back when
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Rocky IV: Rocky vs. Drago | The Ultimate Director’s Cut
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I just did a rewatch of rocky films last week and still enjoyed em tho i think the first is still my fav due to him being no one and trains hard and almost wins the title.
Got up to the one where his son is grown up and just sorta felt nah they shoulda stopped at the one before. Or heck maybe the one before that even as never liked the street fight one.
Got up to the one where his son is grown up and just sorta felt nah they shoulda stopped at the one before. Or heck maybe the one before that even as never liked the street fight one.
I used to think back in the late 00s thinking it was unreal how the first was 1977 to the final of 1990. 1990 had a really nice end up on the stairs though, with the Elton John music. The Measure Of A Man.
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Rocky, Rocky II, Creed and Creed II are probably the more realistic ones.
Rocky III and IV are where it went a bit silly, but very entertaining.
Rocky V is absolute rubbish.
'Rocky Balboa' is decent but there's no way a 60 year old would do well in a fight against a a 30 something champion.
Rocky III and IV are where it went a bit silly, but very entertaining.
Rocky V is absolute rubbish.
'Rocky Balboa' is decent but there's no way a 60 year old would do well in a fight against a a 30 something champion.
Soldato
I still think its amazing how he was discovered Stallone i mean, he was homeless i think on a bench and then i think he met someone and then bam straight into rocky as a first film.
Are you sure? He was doing stuff before Rocky... Sure he would have been a nobody then. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000230/
Soldato
I remember reading what i said awhile ago and it stuck with me, tho maybe some other details were there i dunno i just remember the bench thing, homeless and then he wrote rocky and away he went.
He's been in loads of films with the first being 10 years before Rocky:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_Stallone_filmography
I think the first Rocky I saw was either 2 or 3 but it was either mid or late 90s. The first was very grungy, a dark dull grey-ish movie as you could see how low the budget was. 3 and 4 always stuck in my mind the most.
That was when I slowly started going through them all and bought the DVD collection in the 00s.
That was when I slowly started going through them all and bought the DVD collection in the 00s.
Rocky 1-4 are epic, Rocky 4 should have been the last. The rest were unnecessary, plus the movie soundtracks for 1-4 are brilliant.
By the time Rocky 3 came about, Stallone had undergone a transformation, a fair bit of work from cosmetic surgeons, which Paulie makes reference in the film, fair cop, unusual as most stars deny any work...
'The Bleeder' is a good watch as an insight into Rocky.
By the time Rocky 3 came about, Stallone had undergone a transformation, a fair bit of work from cosmetic surgeons, which Paulie makes reference in the film, fair cop, unusual as most stars deny any work...
'The Bleeder' is a good watch as an insight into Rocky.
Caporegime
Can’t wait for this.
Shows just how much footage is left on the cutting room floor.
Shows just how much footage is left on the cutting room floor.
Soldato
The Guardian hate it 
- https://uk.yahoo.com/movies/rocky-iv-rocky-vs-drago-040024062.html
Too much "USA, USA, USA" and not enough meaningful changes to an already poor script apparently, plus the reviewer has a dislike of all the Rocky films except the Oscar winning first one, even calling Rocky 3 "tacky".
- https://uk.yahoo.com/movies/rocky-iv-rocky-vs-drago-040024062.htmlToo much "USA, USA, USA" and not enough meaningful changes to an already poor script apparently, plus the reviewer has a dislike of all the Rocky films except the Oscar winning first one, even calling Rocky 3 "tacky".
Soldato
The Guardian hate it
Too much "USA, USA, USA" and not enough meaningful changes to an already poor script apparently, plus the reviewer has a dislike of all the Rocky films except the Oscar winning first one, even calling Rocky 3 "tacky".
I’d seriously question any film reviewer that gives Rocky IV in any form anything less than a panning, and that’s speaking as someone that loves it. It’s a total cheese fest and objectively a terrible film. Doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy it for what it is.
What struck me was how he held out to be the actor rather than just the writer and how things might have been so different otherwise in his life.
And the scumbag who took advantage of him after he sold his dog for $50 to make ends meet and then after landing the film contract the guy wanted $3000 to sell it back to him
he did right Rocky in 3 & half days as he was skint (had $108 to his name) and had a pregnant wife and a dog (sold it) but then he supposedly got 10% of the gross earnings from Rocky and the rest is history.
Soldato
Yeap, for me it's one of those "so bad its good" films which are usually B/C/Z-list quality like Sharknado etc but every now and again you get an A-list film like this one which is just so bad it's actually really enjoyable!