Rocky, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Rocky V, Rocky Balboa. Let's get ready to rumble! Reviewed by Casey Broadwater, November 2, 2. As anyone who's seen the films knows, the Rocky series is not about boxing, just as. Field of Dreams is not really about baseball. With few exceptions, sports films in general are.
Watch And Download Movies Online for Free, Watch Movies with English Subtitles, Streaming Free Movies Online, New Movies, Hot Movies, Drama Movies, Lastest Movies. Champion 3: Odkupienie (2010) - G Directed by Isaac Florentine. With Scott Adkins, Mykel Shannon Jenkins, Mark Ivanir, Hristo Shopov. This time he is fighting in the first ever inter. In this way, Rocky is just as archetypal. Star Wars, offering up a near- mythological tale of the underdog, an everyman of the. Century Fox is now bundling all six Rocky films. Blu- ray in this excellent . The seven- disc set also includes a. Bonus Features disc and is housed in a suitably sturdy case with a classy slipcover. I think. I know what I'm giving my dad for Christmas. Rocky (4. 5/5)Even if you've never seen Rocky, you could probably guess the plot. The Italian Stallion is. The against- all- odds story is as old as narrative itself, and the. Rudy to The Bad News. Bears. Where Rocky differentiates itself, however, is in its devotion to character over. There are two boxing matches in the film, one at the beginning and one at the end. The. two fights bookend Rocky, giving it context, but the rest of the film is an exploration of. Rocky himself, a man with very real fears, insecurities, and sensitivities. Some of my favorite. Rocky has toward animals, for. Adrian (Talia. Shire), the pet shop clerk who is herself a caged bird in need of freeing. The two share an unlikely. When Rocky confides. Adrian that all he wants to do is . And you. get a sense, in watching his performance, that Stallone knew that Rocky was his. He carries the character with a dim- witted eloquence, loping through the. Even his voice, a laconic and lobotomized intonation, has. Stallone has certainly had his share of. Rocky, instead of veering into action- hero territory. Still, it's hard to ignore the. Rocky, and in its can- do, stand up and. American. film. Rocky II (3/5)Second verse? Not too much different from the first. After a recap of the first film's final fight. Rocky II opens with both contenders, post- bout, being wheelchaired into the lobby of a. Apollo Creed is seriously. P. O.'d. With Rocky cast as the underdog hero. Creed is anxious for a rematch. Rocky, however, simply wants to settle down. Thanks to the. proceeds from the fight, he marries Adrian and the two go on a massive and frankly irresponsible. Trans Am, gold watches for one and all, and some. When Rocky realizes he isn't. The rematch is set for Thanksgiving Day, and despite the objections of Adrian and Mick. Burgess Meredith), Rocky's cranky old trainer, Rocky readies for the fight. The Rocky series has many implausible moments. When he mounts the stairs of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Naturally. the montage ends with an awesome freeze frame. The first film works so well because it's more of a character study than a sports film, and while. Rocky II tries to delve deeper into the boxer's relationship with himself and others, the. Seeing how Rocky reacts to his sudden influx of money is. I really enjoyed Talia Shire's performance in the first. Rocky, where she was gradually pulled out of shyness, but here she's just a glum Gus. There's little to propel the plot. He's. defended his heavyweight title ten times, his face has appeared on the covers of magazines. Philadelphia has. At the unveiling ceremony, where he. T, in the role that. Rocky out and demands a shot at the title. Rocky agrees to a fight. Later, Mick confesses that Rocky's challengers have, up until now, all been cherry picked. Rocky obviously feels the need to prove himself and reluctantly. Mick to help him train for the bout. When Mick suffers a fatal heart attack before the. Rocky gets K. O.'d in the second round, things look hopeless for the Italian Stallion. In. a bizarre turn of events, Rocky's former rival Apollo Creed offers to train him for a rematch. Clubber. Apollo sees that Rocky has lost his fighting spirit and helps him. First up. we get appearances by two superstars of the 1. Mr. A boxer going toe- . And, it goes without saying, we have Mr. T muttering the now- . With his patent mohawk and feather earrings, Mr. T is a brutal beast. On the topic of performances, Sylvester Stallone brings a new dimension to Rocky Balboa. The tailored suits help, but in Stallone's mannerisms and phrasings, we see that Rocky has. Philly. There's an attempt at. Rocky before. Of course, Mick's death gives the film some dramatic weight, and the motivations for Rocky. It's the age- old battle of. Add to that the unexpected friendship that's struck up between Rocky and Apollo. Creed and you have a sequel that's surprising and tense, with one of the better climactic. Rocky IV (3. 5/5)I would say that Rocky IV is a guilty pleasure, but I have no shame whatsoever in. Rocky. canon. Granted, it's an admittedly ironic love, but it's love nonetheless. Having grown up in the. Cold War, Red Menace paranoia that. I mean, it seems like every other war- themed videogame at the time. In 1. 98. 5, Rocky IV tapped into the stream of anti- Soviet sentiment. It's hilarious. When the film opens, hulking Russian boxer Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren) arrives in the U. S. They've come to. America on a . And they do appear to have the upper hand. Drago, a steel tank of a man, is aided by. Apollo Creed, who believes this is an . While Drago looks on, dumbfounded, Creed enters the arena wearing an Uncle. Sam costume (. Of course, Creed's pal Rocky won't. Russian wilderness for a grudge match to be held on. Christmas Day, in Moscow. There's no way I can list all the ways in which Rocky IV is absolutely preposterous. First of all, before even. Russians, Rocky buys his brother- in- law Paulie (Burt Young) a robot for. Paulie like a discontented. Then we have Dolph Lundgren, who looks more dopey than menacing, and. Likewise, Brigitte Nielsen. Throughout Rocky IV. Russians are presented as being emotionally cold, eugenics- obsessed militants, but Rocky. Rocky IV is. neck- high in absurdities, but it does capture the popular polemic of its time. As. if that weren't enough, Adrian's none- to- bright brother Paulie has accidentally given power of. Rocky's accountant, who blows the champs accumulated dough on a real- estate. The Balboa's are forced to sell their palatial estate and move back to the po'. Philly, where Adrian takes up her old job at the pet store and Rock reopens Mick's gym. With someone to live vicariously through, Rocky starts. Tommy like a son, much to the chagrin of his actual son Robert (Sly's actual son. Sage Stallone), who is problematically pubescent and isn't adjusting well to the move. When. Tommy sells out and takes up with shady fight promoter and Don King stand- in George. Washington Duke (Richard Gant), Rocky feels betrayed but also realizes he's been neglecting his. Tommy can't stand living in the shadow of his mentor, though, and challenges Rocky. Before you know it, a televised street brawl has broken out, with . And, in some ways. Rocky and Adrian are back to square one, and though the arc is improbable, it fits with. Rocky has always been more myth than man. Only, the script sags and the actors who play that next generation. I understand Sylvester casting his son. It's Tommy Morrison, though. He has an awesome mullet. It doesn't help that Tommy Gunn is the single most annoying character in the. Rocky universe. In a way, this chapter doesn't really feel like a Rocky film. Bill Conti's score is largely replaced by ill- advised and now seriously dated hip- hop. MC Hammer and others. The street fight that replaces the usual professional bouts is an. Rocky character. Which brings us to.. Rocky Balboa (4/5)Our current decade has had a serious case of nostalgia for the pop icons of the '7. Joe, and now even The A- Team is getting a. Sylvester Stallone, one of the biggest stars in the action- hero age, is not. Rambo is laughably violent. Rocky Balboa, his coda for the saga of the. Italian Stallion, is a fitting end to the series and an inspirational film in its own right. Some sixteen years after the events of the fifth film, Rocky Balboa lives an unassuming life in the. Philly neighborhood where he first got his start. His darling wife Adrian has passed away some. Well into middle age, the. Rocky is simply trying to reconnect with his son Robert (Milo. Ventimiglia) and help those around him, including Marie (Geraldine Huges), the wayward trollop. When a computer- simulated. Rocky and current heavyweight champion Mason . Allured by. the prospect of a nostalgia- fueled payday, Dixon's managers set up a charity match between the. Everyone thinks he's crazy, but Rocky once again feels like he has to prove to. There's a lot of mourning in this film, a lot of heartbreak, not only for Adrian, but also for the. Sylvester. Stallone is better here than he's been in a long time; he embodies a personality that's been. Rocky who can't let go of the good times but acknowledges that while the past will. I was most surprised, though, by. Burt Young. His Paulie character has been in all six films, and he's always been a screw- up, a. In Rocky Balboa, we really feel Paulie's pain. He's the man. that Rocky would be if Rocky never got a shot, an even break. His admiration for Rocky is deep- . Yes, the film is. Rocky's relationship with Adrian from the previous films, but if you're a fan of the series, then. Rocky Balboa brings the satisfying closure that was so obviously missing from Rocky. V. Don't get me wrong, Rocky looks better than. Rocky back in fighting form. Dull is a good way to describe the. This is a hard film to judge, however, as a lot of these traits do seem to. That said, as it was filmed on location in Philly's sagging south. Rocky has a wonderful late 1. Director John. Avildsen also uses some pleasingly shallow depth of field in many scenes, giving the picture a. Rocky II (3. 5/5)Those hoping for a proper restoration of Rocky II may be disappointed here, but the film's. AVC- encoded transfer easily beats the MPEG- 2 treatment of the first Rocky. It's definitely distracting at times, and I feel. I almost had to train my eyes to overlook them.
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