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acid · Local time: Jul 11, 2006, 10:10 PM

Originally Posted by NovaX

Why the Rocky V hate? Rocky III was clearly the worst. Clubber (Mr. T) was the worst and most disinteresting opponent Rocky has fought, although I did like how Apollo trains Rocky after Mickey died.

Clubber is arguably the second best villian (Drago is the best. There is no contest. I must break you.) in the whole damn series.

I mean Mr. fucking T. Taunting Rock out of retirement. Trying to fuck Adrian. Pushing down Mickey causing him to have a heart attack and die.

I mean this is where he launched the best saying in the history of anything. "I pity the fool!".

My prediction?! PAIN!"

Jam it back in, in the dark.

acid · Local time: Dec 21, 2006, 12:57 AM

As a huge Rocky fan, I was both highly anticipating this, and a little skeptical.

Too be honest, I havent had this much fun at a movie in quite some time. The final bout is absolutely everything that you'd expect from a Rocky movie, and Sly worked his ass off.

Thematically it's much more similiar to the first movie than any of the sequals. You could even go as far as to call it a direct sequal to Rocky. Not that it pretends that the other 4 (except for Rocky V) didn't happen, it just very closely resembles the tone of the first one much more than any of the others.

Spoiler:

The ending was actually very similiar to the first. Rocky goes the distance with Mason and it winds up a split decision. Mason wins the fight by a point, but with the crowd on it's feet chanting for Rocky, and earning the respect of everyone Rocky "wins". Very close parellels to the first and his defeat against Apollo, but still earning the respect he feels he deserves.

I really enjoyed the nods to the earlier films. The egg drinking, staircase running, meat boxing, and the training montage. Thank god there was a training montage.

Overall I enjoyed it. It's not the best film in the series (that's Rocky I), but it's probably number 2. Definately reccommend.

There's nowhere I can't reach.