I suddenly saw why we needed another movie, after the hideous finale that would have been Rocky V. ![]() What struck me about watching the original, a movie I hadn't actually seen in years, was how strong a movie and how inspiring a story it truly is. T as the brutal Clubber Lang, Dolph Lundgren as the Soviet Giant Ivan Drago and even Hulk Hogan as the over-the-top wrestler Thunderlips. We watched him do the impossible and go the distance against Apollo Creed before becoming a superhero of sorts and fighting Mr. So over the course of the last three weeks, Dan and I have sat through the whole Rocky saga. came to my rescue, they screened all 5 Rocky movies on Boxing Day which I recorded onto my Sky Plus player. What do I do? Well cable television here in the U.K. But the movie wasn't coming out in the U.K. I wanted to see him go "toe to toe, saying I AM". I started to believe in Slyvester Stallone. "Best movie since the original" they were all saying. ![]() Then the movie came out in the States and the critics are going mad over this thing. "Wow, Stallone sure looks in great shape for a guy pushing 60". Then the trailers came out and we were all saying. No one cares about Stallone in the 21st century, he is an icon of days gone by. When I first heard that Sylvester Stallone was to reprise his character of Rocky Balboa for one last outing a good 30 years since he first hit our screens, I was extremely skeptical and honestly.who the hell wasn't? This felt like such a desperate attempt for Stallone to re-live the glory days of the past for an actor/director who hadn't had a hit movie in years.
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