Rented Rocky the other night thought Stallone ruined the Rocky Series by having him lose the fight.But I did get a big laugh my son is the one who bugged me to rent it and when, I asked him why he said were else do you get to see a 60 year old white man beat on a 25 year old black man.
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I think it was a excellent movie and I personally got alot of inspiration out of that movie and some good life lessons from some of the things that Rocky said in that movie. Besides Rocky II, this was the best one of the sequels.
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In the alternate ending on the DVD he wins the decision, but to be honest I didn't really care for that ending. Overall it was a really good movie, easily the best since the first.
Maybe you have to be older to understand how silly it is for a 60 year old man to lace on some gloves and go 15 rounds with the heavyweight champion of the world, get punched like a speed bag, and walk away alive. After a certain age it's difficult to get out of bed in the morning. Bones are brittle, muscles are tired, veins don't work so well. For the Rockey chararcter to do all that is just so preposterous that it is hard to buy into it. Stallone was in good shape but the obvious steroid build he has, the bad hairpiece, the plastic surgury.....
I also thought it was ridiculous he befriended the half-breed kid, and the loser woman who was the kids mother. Why didn't she want anything to do romantically with Rocky? An unattractive single mother who is poor and lives in a slum does not want to get busy with a guy that is still in shape, famous, and a restaraunt owner, that also treats her little monster good? Didn't make sense.
I also thought it was ridiculous he befriended the half-breed kid, and the loser woman who was the kids mother. Why didn't she want anything to do romantically with Rocky? An unattractive single mother who is poor and lives in a slum does not want to get busy with a guy that is still in shape, famous, and a restaraunt owner, that also treats her little monster good? Didn't make sense.
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I'm glad I didn't go see it.
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I saw the movie I like the part when the loser mother says the father was from Jamaica and Rocky says so he's european? I had to leave the theater I laughed so hard for five minutes.
The half breed wanted to name his dog Flea bag that was kinda funny.Edited by: Baseball Fan
The half breed wanted to name his dog Flea bag that was kinda funny.Edited by: Baseball Fan
Baseball Fan said:
The half-breed wanted to name Rocky's dog "Punchy" as an insult directed at Rocky being "punch drunk". It was an obvious put down that Rocky handled like most white people handle rude, undeserved insults from blacks nowadays and instead of cuffing the punk ass mulatto upside the head he brushed it off and embraced it. The message: go ahead and insult us, we don't care, we'll still treat you nice no matter what a sh@thead you are.
Typical message that Hollyweird loves to send: treat the minorities nice and when the inevitable insults and ingratitude comes your way, just ignore it and continue to treat them nice. It is the recipe for appeasement that has given us our sorry society. I hated that moment in the movie and only comforted myself knowing that a REAL old school Italian guy would never have put up with that crap from a punk.
Personally, I think the funniest thing Rocky ever said was in part I. It was after the fight was over and he was standing there screaming over and over "ADRIAAAAN, ADRIAAAAN." And when Adrian finally got to the ring, the first thing he says to her is "Adrian...where's your hat?"
The timing of the question was brilliantly absurd. I laugh now just thinking about it.
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The timing of the question was brilliantly absurd. I laugh now just thinking about it.
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C'mon guys, how about Burt Young as "Paulie." Boy did he have some funny lines.
"Who's the kid, looks like a criminal." -Referring to the mullatto.
Do you have have a reservation?
"Do I look like an Indian to you?"-
I liked the fact that they paid tribute to the original Superfight b/t Rocky Marciano and Ali. However, I disliked the sterotype of Rocky as slow with a big punch and Tarver's character as fast and athletic. And that sterotype wasn't just bc he was old. It was perpetuated in Rocky III where he had to learn how to fight like those "fast colored boys."
Stallone def looks like he has juiced and boy could he lift. He was squatting 5 plates and incline benching over 300 pounds.
Stallone, ever obsessed with exercise, just wanted to make a movie where he could lift weights on screen, and that he did.
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"Who's the kid, looks like a criminal." -Referring to the mullatto.
Do you have have a reservation?
"Do I look like an Indian to you?"-
I liked the fact that they paid tribute to the original Superfight b/t Rocky Marciano and Ali. However, I disliked the sterotype of Rocky as slow with a big punch and Tarver's character as fast and athletic. And that sterotype wasn't just bc he was old. It was perpetuated in Rocky III where he had to learn how to fight like those "fast colored boys."
Stallone def looks like he has juiced and boy could he lift. He was squatting 5 plates and incline benching over 300 pounds.
Stallone, ever obsessed with exercise, just wanted to make a movie where he could lift weights on screen, and that he did.
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jaxvid said:
LMAO!
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Hey Jaxvid,
Being 60 ain't that bad. I do not have any trouble getting out of bed and I work a reuglar job ,still backpack, canoe, and play old man fatpitch softball ( 55 and older ). True , I am not ready to go 12 round with Vald Kitchko. But honestly I was not ready for anything like that when I was 20 either.
Being 60 ain't that bad. I do not have any trouble getting out of bed and I work a reuglar job ,still backpack, canoe, and play old man fatpitch softball ( 55 and older ). True , I am not ready to go 12 round with Vald Kitchko. But honestly I was not ready for anything like that when I was 20 either.
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Alpha Male said:
I'll never forget that scene. Apollo is playing some soul music while he and Balboa are training, and Paulie goes, "You can't train him like a colored fighter, he ain't got no rhythm."
But yeah, Stallone was defintely roided-up for this movie. However, you know my motto: Juicers are cheaters.
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Good old Paulie. "I don't sweat you!"