Oh man... did i ever have nostalgia today

I re-watched Rocky III and forget how much i adored the hell out of the Rocky movies when i was a youngin. Back when i was doing martial arts/boxing i got into all those 80's & 70's sports movies.

And while Rocky I & 2 are still great films and i rank them highly... number 3 is for sure when the series became a little over the top. But i still love Clubber Lang & the music is the shit to Sylvester Stallone, Mr. T & Carl Weathers where 3 of my heroes when i was young.

Rocky IV is insanly over the top & more of an Chuck Norris film than a Rocky but it's a HUGE guility pleasure & the soundtrack is pure 80's orgasm

Number 5 is shit & number 6 was a good finale

I should rent them for the kids.

You can't go through life without watching Rocky.

PurpleJedi said:

I should rent them for the kids.

You can't go through life without watching Rocky.

I Agree imo they are as important as Star Wars.

Gunsnhalen said:

PurpleJedi said:

I should rent them for the kids.

You can't go through life without watching Rocky.

I Agree imo they are as important as Star Wars.

HERESY!!!!!

Don't particulary care for the last two. Love the rest, however.

PurpleJedi said:

Gunsnhalen said:

I Agree imo they are as important as Star Wars.

HERESY!!!!!

You wanna start this war again? if you die.. you die

No i mean it! i feel Rocky the first 2 have a lot of good life lessons in them... i feel i learned a little from them

Now Rocky 3 & 4 Taught me to never give up & believe in yourself yada yada. but mainly it taught me to workout to 80's music & say i pitty the fool a lot.

Gunsnhalen said:

PurpleJedi said:

HERESY!!!!!

You wanna start this war again? if you die.. you die

No i mean it! i feel Rocky the first 2 have a lot of good life lessons in them... i feel i learned a little from them

Now Rocky 3 & 4 Taught me to never give up & believe in yourself yada yada. but mainly it taught me to workout to 80's music & say i pitty the fool a lot.

Actually in all fairness, yes I suppose that there are underlying messages to be had from Rocky.

But while Star Wars is intergalactic GOSPEL, Rocky is inner-city pep talk.

Azz said:

Don't particulary care for the last two. Love the rest, however.

ugh.. i know. While i do like Balboa i will never get over how bad rocky V is

PurpleJedi said:

Gunsnhalen said:

You wanna start this war again? if you die.. you die

No i mean it! i feel Rocky the first 2 have a lot of good life lessons in them... i feel i learned a little from them

Now Rocky 3 & 4 Taught me to never give up & believe in yourself yada yada. but mainly it taught me to workout to 80's music & say i pitty the fool a lot.

Actually in all fairness, yes I suppose that there are underlying messages to be had from Rocky.

But while Star Wars is intergalactic GOSPEL, Rocky is inner-city pep talk.

Shoot you want REAL messages. Show the kids Rambo.. that is the street talk

I enjoyed the last movie. But man, it is tough to forgive 3-5

I thought that we all unanimously agreed that Rocky V did not exist.

Rocky

Rocky II

Rocky III

Rocky IV

Rocky Balboa.

We agreed on this.

NDRU said:

I enjoyed the last movie. But man, it is tough to forgive 3-5

what's wrong with part 3 ?

AsherFierce said:

I thought that we all unanimously agreed that Rocky V did not exist.

Rocky

Rocky II

Rocky III

Rocky IV

Rocky Balboa.

We agreed on this.

yes! this proves we need to be homeboys in real life

The first Rocky was an all-time classic. After that, it was downhill.

I really enjoy Rocky & Rocky 2, particularly the first film, mostly b'cuz of the nostalgic connection I have with it.
I remember watching the first installment of the Italian Stallion series as a very young kid, & even at an age when I held the firm belief that the female sex was rife with cooties, I found my young pimp-ass simply adoring the love story between the two "loser" types of Arian & the original Rock. And, TBH, this was probably the first time that I actually began jumping up & down at the end of a movie (as a kid, I really ate up the over-the-top boxing styles depicted in the match).
At the time, Rocky's plot just seemed to be able to pull at all the right heart-strings for a boy with almost no experience in romance or overcoming obstacles, to the extent that even to this day, I still feel a slight jitter in my chest whenever I watch this flick.
Either that,
or maybe I'm developing some kind of heart murmur.

I dunno.

AsherFierce said:

Drago was the bomb. When he killed Apollo I was .

The Rocky movies are incredible. However, I love the first two how they concentrate on the love story between two interesting charactors. The rest are good but are more Hollywood-ised. One is by far the best.

Sly is an underrated writter. There is so much heart, warms and humor is his scripts.

andykeen said:

The Rocky movies are incredible. However, I love the first two how they concentrate on the love story between two interesting charactors. The rest are good but are more Hollywood-ised. One is by far the best.

Sly is an underrated writter. There is so much heart, warms and humor is his scripts.

Seems Sly got this idea from a real boxer and never really gave him any credit.

IMO, Sly is hit and miss with his scripts. The first two Rocky's were pretty good, but even though I do like Rocky III and IV, the writing got pretty corny and only got worse with V.

As with "The Expendables"..you have a superior cast of action stars, but the script was horrid. Some of the lines made me cringe. And why the hell was somebody forever saving Jet Li from getting hurt? Urgh that just irked me to no end. Jet don't need no damn help. Now they are going to have this sequel. The only reason why I want to see it is because of the cast, and maybe, JUST MAYBE the script will be better this go 'round.

missfee said:

IMO, Sly is hit and miss with his scripts. The first two Rocky's were pretty good, but even though I do like Rocky III and IV, the writing got pretty corny and only got worse with V.

As with "The Expendables"..you have a superior cast of action stars, but the script was horrid. Some of the lines made me cringe. And why the hell was somebody forever saving Jet Li from getting hurt? Urgh that just irked me to no end. Jet don't need no damn help. Now they are going to have this sequel. The only reason why I want to see it is because of the cast, and maybe, JUST MAYBE the script will be better this go 'round.

It's just good old ass kicking fun...............who cares about the script? I'll bet that is what they were thinking filming this.

Even though I know that the last one was, at least on the surface, a bunch of rehashed ideas and practically a remake of Rocky I, I still love it and it is easily one of my all time favorite movies. I never would´ve thought he´d manage to save that franchise and end it gracefully but he did. Rocky Balboa is a great movie about aging, mourning, loss, death, love, growing tension between father and son, the bad economy, the changing times.....I could go on and on. The last thing the movie is about is boxing.

I really love that last one, and Rocky I,II, III and VI are must-see movies.

I owe a lot to those movies. If it wasn´t for them, I´d be a different person.

Graycap23 said:

andykeen said:

The Rocky movies are incredible. However, I love the first two how they concentrate on the love story between two interesting charactors. The rest are good but are more Hollywood-ised. One is by far the best.

Sly is an underrated writter. There is so much heart, warms and humor is his scripts.

Seems Sly got this idea from a real boxer and never really gave him any credit.

I thought so too, but that's apparently not the case:

In the ninth round Wepner knocked down Ali, though Ali later contended that Wepner had stepped on his foot. Wepner went to his corner and said to his manager, "Al, start the car. We're going to the bank. We are millionaires." To which Wepner's manager replied, "You better turn around. He's getting up and he looks pissed off."^[5]

In the remaining rounds, Ali decisively outboxed Wepner and opened up cuts above both Wepner's eyes and broke his nose. Wepner was far behind on the scorecards when Ali knocked him down with 19 seconds left in the 15th round. The referee counted to nine before calling a technical knockout.^[6]

It is rumored that actor Sylvester Stallone watched the fight at home on television and was inspired to write the script for Rocky, based on Wepner's gutsy challenge, but Stallone subsequently denied that this was true.^{[citation needed]} It is more likely that Stallone was influenced by Rocky Graziano's autobiography "Somebody up there likes me", and the movie of the same name. It's also interesting that Graziano's real name, Rocco "Rocky" Barbella is similar to the name Rocky Balboa. Wepner filed a law suit which was eventually settled with Stallone for an undisclosed amount.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...uck_Wepner

As for the movies themselves, I think "Rocky III" is one of the greatest movies ever made!

I love that movie.

I've never seen "Rocky Balboa". I guess I should.

Sly can be a good writer when he wants to. But he also can make duds....... Judge Dread, Locked Up, The Specialist

Cop Land was a HUGE Retrun to form for Sly. The biggest he had till Rocky Balboa & Rambo IV & one of his best performances.

RodeoSchro said:

Graycap23 said:

Seems Sly got this idea from a real boxer and never really gave him any credit.

I thought so too, but that's apparently not the case:

In the ninth round Wepner knocked down Ali, though Ali later contended that Wepner had stepped on his foot. Wepner went to his corner and said to his manager, "Al, start the car. We're going to the bank. We are millionaires." To which Wepner's manager replied, "You better turn around. He's getting up and he looks pissed off."^[5]

In the remaining rounds, Ali decisively outboxed Wepner and opened up cuts above both Wepner's eyes and broke his nose. Wepner was far behind on the scorecards when Ali knocked him down with 19 seconds left in the 15th round. The referee counted to nine before calling a technical knockout.^[6]

It is rumored that actor Sylvester Stallone watched the fight at home on television and was inspired to write the script for Rocky, based on Wepner's gutsy challenge, but Stallone subsequently denied that this was true.^{[citation needed]} It is more likely that Stallone was influenced by Rocky Graziano's autobiography "Somebody up there likes me", and the movie of the same name. It's also interesting that Graziano's real name, Rocco "Rocky" Barbella is similar to the name Rocky Balboa. Wepner filed a law suit which was eventually settled with Stallone for an undisclosed amount.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...uck_Wepner

Have u seen that ESPN documentary on Chuck?

I Was watching this review of rocky V... And tons of people think it's underrated i mean look to each his own But there is so many issues

First off it was an attempt to be more... ''realistic'' like the first 2. So why is Rockys son like 7 years older in this movie? How did they let Paulie screw over all there money AND THEN they let him live with them FUCK THAT kick his ass to the curb

That obvious Don King character that street fight at the end helped nothing. Rocky whooped Tommy Gunns ass but he is still the champ and he is still making that dough!!

Basically the movie is beyond flawed.

missfee said:

AsherFierce said:

I thought that we all unanimously agreed that Rocky V did not exist.

Rocky

Rocky II

Rocky III

Rocky IV

Rocky Balboa.

We agreed on this.

Exactly. I thought the shitty fifth one was non-existent to us. Guns, you know my take on this, we've discussed this in detail previously. My ranks: Rocky IV (for Sly's black tight training pants and the training montages alone ) Rocky Rocky III Rocky II Rocky Balboa Had Sly not written Apollo off in IV, I'd love to had seen a street fight between Clubber Lang and Apollo in Rocky Balboa. Now who would had won that one?

omg that would have been something!

I thought it would have been cool if Clubber or any of the other guys he fought. Had made a cameo... didn't spider from the 1st one make a cameo in Balboa?

Graycap23 said:

RodeoSchro said:

I thought so too, but that's apparently not the case:

In the ninth round Wepner knocked down Ali, though Ali later contended that Wepner had stepped on his foot. Wepner went to his corner and said to his manager, "Al, start the car. We're going to the bank. We are millionaires." To which Wepner's manager replied, "You better turn around. He's getting up and he looks pissed off."^[5]

In the remaining rounds, Ali decisively outboxed Wepner and opened up cuts above both Wepner's eyes and broke his nose. Wepner was far behind on the scorecards when Ali knocked him down with 19 seconds left in the 15th round. The referee counted to nine before calling a technical knockout.^[6]

It is rumored that actor Sylvester Stallone watched the fight at home on television and was inspired to write the script for Rocky, based on Wepner's gutsy challenge, but Stallone subsequently denied that this was true.^{[citation needed]} It is more likely that Stallone was influenced by Rocky Graziano's autobiography "Somebody up there likes me", and the movie of the same name. It's also interesting that Graziano's real name, Rocco "Rocky" Barbella is similar to the name Rocky Balboa. Wepner filed a law suit which was eventually settled with Stallone for an undisclosed amount.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...uck_Wepner

Have u seen that ESPN documentary on Chuck?

No, is it any good?

Graycap23 said:

missfee said:

IMO, Sly is hit and miss with his scripts. The first two Rocky's were pretty good, but even though I do like Rocky III and IV, the writing got pretty corny and only got worse with V.

As with "The Expendables"..you have a superior cast of action stars, but the script was horrid. Some of the lines made me cringe. And why the hell was somebody forever saving Jet Li from getting hurt? Urgh that just irked me to no end. Jet don't need no damn help. Now they are going to have this sequel. The only reason why I want to see it is because of the cast, and maybe, JUST MAYBE the script will be better this go 'round.

It's just good old ass kicking fun...............who cares about the script? I'll bet that is what they were thinking filming this.

Well yeah of course the action in it was on point...but I still cringed. Rocky III and IV were still watchable even though the script was kind of "lazy"...but The Expendables is along the lines of Rocky V to me, a completely shitty script. But still I go see them movies because I love Sly too damn much.