Rocky Balboa - Rocky 6

We all seem to forget that the first rocky got a shitload of oscars, well three, and was nominated for a shit load more.

Best Picture (Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler) (won)
Best Director (John G. Avildsen) (won)
Film Editing (Richard Halsey and Scott Conrad) (won)
Best Original Screenplay (Sylvester Stallone)
Best Actor (Sylvester Stallone)
Best Actress (Talia Shire)
Best Supporting Actor (Burt Young)
Best Supporting Actor (Burgess Meredith)
Best Music, Original Song (Bill Conti, Carol Connors and Ayn Robbins for "Gonna Fly Now")
Best Sound (Harry W. Tetrick, William L. McCaughey, Lyle J. Burbridge and Bud Alper )

I may point out that Sylvester was nominated for Best Actor, and Best Screenplay.

Then again, a beautiful mind also won oscars.

and now a shameless repost that was off topic somewhere else, but not here:

Man, the rocky 4 soundtrack is the best album ever easily beating anything the beatles made or pink floyd.

Just look at this!
1. Burning Heart - Survivor
2. Heart's On Fire - John Cafferty
3. Double Or Nothing - Kenny Loggins & Gladys Knight
4. Eye Of The Tiger - Survivor
5. Training Montage - Vince DiCola
6. War - Vince Dicola
7. Living In America - James Brown
8. No Easy Way Out - Robert Tepper
9. One Way Street - Go West
10. The Sweetest Victory - Touch

Living in america! BURNING HEART! And EYE OF THE TIGER!...

And we have a duet from kenny loggins and some chick..

just WOW!!!

And rocky 4 is also the best movie ever made. He kicked that russian's ass despite that the Russian had better resources! He had fancy stuff, while rocky trained with ROCKS!!

You would think that america had more facny stuff, but no...the USSR was technologically more advanced. Great documentary!

And then Rambo 3 showed us the mujahideen were sophisticated freedom fighters!!! Great movie. I don't understand how the mujahideen could have become terrorists. Clearly these people were good and not evil. I think it's a conspiracy by the french government.

Can't remember rocky V for some reason...

And I have to admit I am still having nightmares of having seen Cobra.
An example of the poor quality films that made big money in the 70's and early 80's. Standards were rock bottom. Anyone that believes today's films and music are bad, hop in that time machine and go back to 1975.
Not all movies were bad but there were ALOT of them. Much more bad than today.
 
An example of the poor quality films that made big money in the 70's and early 80's. Standards were rock bottom. Anyone that believes today's films and music are bad, hop in that time machine and go back to 1975.
Not all movies were bad but there were ALOT of them. Much more bad than today.

What do you mean? I saw 'Rocky' and 'First blood' a thousand times. They were excellent! I love the lack of dialogue in 'First blood'. That must have saved quite a bit of money on hiring writers.
 
There's a time for talking and a time to be a hero.

Indeed, and why hasn't congress done something about the sorry state of the national guard which was clearly depicted in the excellent historical document 'First Blood', known among in uninformed masses as 'Rambo' although this is not correct.

A lone special ops guy gives the national guard the run around. A perfect simulation of the insurgent enriched environment of Iraq. Still! Nobody in the American Government did something after seeing this depiction of truth!

In the end the only thing that helped was shooting up the sherrif (but not the deputy) and diplomacy.

And still the government did not take notice.

Did they train a bunch of local redneck sherrifs in Iraq? No.

Did they try diplomacy with the insurgents and return them to the comforts of Fort Bragg? No.

We can learn a lot from John Rambo.

He just wanted to go into town and the sherrif turned him down.

You can kill a wild boar with a spear.

You can kill a pig with a M60.
 
What do you mean? I saw 'Rocky' and 'First blood' a thousand times. They were excellent! I love the lack of dialogue in 'First blood'. That must have saved quite a bit of money on hiring writers.
Stallone's exaggerated grunting and phony NYC/Boston or whatevah accent was unbearable. Predictable cheesy storyline and Stallone's utter inability to act really shows when you go back and look at them now, not that I would recommend that! Never saw a Stallone film that didn't suck llama balls.
 
Genji:

You do know he is partially paralyzed in his face, yes? It isn't a "fake accent".
 
Rocky 1, 3 & 4 were fantastic. Very much looking forward to seeing what this new one is like. As kids, my brothers and I re-enacted the scene where Mickey dies and Rocky cries, then proceeds to retrain himself with Apollo to best Clubber Lang. And so many memorable lines from 4, "I must break you."-->"Go for it." Yeah!! "The Russian is cut! The Russian is cut!"-->"See? He's not a machine!" <referring to Rocky>"He is like a piece of iron."
 
And so many memorable lines from 4, "I must break you."-->"Go for it." Yeah!! "The Russian is cut! The Russian is cut!"-->"See? He's not a machine!" <referring to Rocky>"He is like a piece of iron."
You forgot: "If he dies, he dies..."

Seriously, I'm also excited about the new Rocky. I heard Stalone do an interview about it, and it sounds good. Anyway, I've seen all the rest, why miss this one.

Also, the George Foreman comeback makes the whole thing somewhat plausable.

Rocky! Rocky! Rocky!
 
I could see how it could be either an amazing comeback type of movie, or a shit sequel to a series that went downhill after 1, though overall it was good, with the exception of 5. Sorry but Rocky 5 sucked shit.
 
Don't worry. Rocky 6 finishes with a wizened old Native American witchdoctor bringing Rocky back from the dead and sprinkling him with the Dust of Invincibility. Then he battles it out with General Zod from Superman.

Disturbingly, I'd actually pay good money to see that. Well, I say pay good money, what I actually mean, obviously, is rip the DVD when it comes out on rental - but Terrence Stamp in full on General Zod mode... Always worth the celluloid.
 
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