Day 11
(Careful for spoilers)
Lets do another classic. Im thinking the greatest fighter ever. (Well non-cartoon). He took down a russian gaint. He has an iconic theme song. He lives in Philadelphia. Im talkin about Rocky.
I should just review the first movie but that movie is just the start of a saga. What im going to do is guve snippets of each movie and tell you which movies to watch and which to skip.
Lets start at number 5. Or Rocky V. Why start there? Cuz it crap. Garbage. A waste of your time. The only good part is it countines the night of rocky IV. After that. Shut off the movie. Why was it so bad? Well the creater slyvestor stallone even said that it was made just so he could make it. He hated the film and hated how he had rocky as a loser at the end of the film. But wuth the failure of rocky 5 the studio didnt want to give him a redemption film.
Now lets go to rocky 6 or rocky balloba. This film came about almost 2 decades after rocky 5 and u can tell. Slys not lookin to good. But uk im still scared of him. The 70 year old man....
In this film it has been decade sense rocky returned to philly and things are going pretty good, not great. His wife has died from cancer, he lives alone with his dog, and his son is some hotshot. But he has his own restaurant, he is a town hero, and can be friends with just about anyone.
I guess there was this popular thing on espn where they would pin modern day fighters to living/nonliving legends (in their prime) of the sport to see who would win? Well they pin rocky to an modern undefeated fighter (who has never fought anyone)( similar to flyod Mayweather) and claims rocky wins. This got alot of attention becuz the fighter said no, I can win. And rocky is still alive, so rocky got alot of attention as well. Remember how rocky only has a few things in his life? Well fighting was one thing he could get back that he lost.
(Side note) there is a very powerful speech in the fighting commitee scene and thats a message we should all believe in. " it not about how hard u can hit, its about how hard u can get hit and keep fighting back!"
This is the only movie with two endings. One where he loses and one where he wins. Im not going to say which they used but both are satisfing.
Okay how about rocky 3? In rocky 3 he is the champ. Livung large and in charge. He does this to the point he doesnt know what a real fight is anymore. He has lost his roots. First he fights MR. T and loses. Then he wait wait did I just say mr. T? First he fights a wrestler named hulk hogan and shows that he is a monster! It took rocky, the crew, and some security , to take this guy down. Theeeen he lost to mr.t after the loss he teams up with good old apollo creed to show that he can get back to the way he was. There is some monatages and eye of the tiger then he fights again in the rematch of the century....like theu dont say that all the time. Rocky wins and Ig learns nothing??? Eh idk not the best one.
Now to the best one!
Rocky IV! Oh man I cant even o this film. It should have just stopped here. Wow. So this was released In the 1980s at the height of the U.S.S.R and U.S.A tensions and they pin americas golden boy up with a russian monster.
To start off the russian came to the U.S.A for a exhibition match against then retired apollo creed. But he had a famous I think 2000psi punch. Which for those of u who arent nerds its basically death. Oh btw apollo dies! He taunted the russian to the point that he didnt care anymore so he killed him. Of coarse rocky wasnt going to take this so he wanted his match, but he had to do it in russia.
So uk rocky gets alot of songs in this one. Passionate driving. Training. The whole nine yards. But understand in the 80s it wasnt corny it was B.A. and he was fighting for america so buzz off! So they get to the fight and rock is ready thw russia gets a few punches in but then sees that rocky is made of iron he is mot going down! They go almost all round rock and ivan drago (the russian) are almost dead. They start and rocky take down the russian no ifs ands or but rocky is the champ. Im not giving it justice becuz of how short it is. The shortest of all.
Lastly rocky and rocky II these go back to back. We are introduced to rocky an average joe fighter. But he has a heart. The actual events that lead to the fight are better seen than descibed. But he does his famous training and gets to the fight. The fight is close the whole time. They go all rounds and unfortunately the Italian stallion lost. But income rocky 2. He is famous! And his whole life is changed. Becuz of how the fight appeared the medua made it look like it was staged so they wanted a rematch. They are set for a rematch and rocky is better than ever. But apollo is slacking a bit. They fight and rocky does the Impossible K.O.s apollo creed!
Now that I got 6! Movie out of the way lets jump to recommendations and stuff.
In order best to worst :
Rocky 4
Rocky 1/2
Rocky balloba
Rocky 3
Rocky 5
Now there is 7th coming out but its not all rocky. Just the characters.
Im waiting for a preview but it looks promising. Its about apollo creeds grandson becoming a fighter.
Final verdict: as a whole its a 9/10 individually its all over the place. Im not one for sports movies but this one is great. It gets you psyched and has a great sound track for running. I suggest you buy all but rocky 5.
Random recommendations:
Grudge match, remember the titans, we are marshal, rookie of the year, grid iron gang.
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