"Come on champ you aint so bad, you aint nothin"

12/20/2006 12:09:02 PM

Quality flick.

There were a number of ways that this could've gone way cheeseball by accident and it never did. Sure, the dialogue got a little clunky at times (excluding the characterization-intensive choices made with the dialogue, it's just a bit not-preachy-but-speechy here and there) but the relationships are all pretty well developed and everything fits together well. There were some nice stylistic flourishes during the fight scene that I wasn't expecting.

If you're a fan of Rocky or the inspirational sports film genre, you'll like this one. If you go in expecting something different, you might be disappointed, but I'd say it's better than at least half of the movies you could go see in the same multiplex today.

12/20/2006 5:09:56 PM

^hahahha

you fucking copied that synopsis.

I've already read it.

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"multiplex"

yeah, thats what we call them.

AHAHAHHAHA

12/20/2006 5:24:15 PM

Umm...okay?

I didn't copy the synopsis, but it's pretty hard to say something original about a film with few outright flaws that we knew the plot of 30 years ago.

Plus, "multiplex" is fun to both say and type. Just like "fanciful" and "Yakostonisian."

I mean, on RT there are two reviews that use the same bad joke right next to each other, but one has hyphens and the other's in parentheses. It's not like we're talking about 2001 here and one person think it's brilliant while the other fell asleep during the overture.

I also refuse to believe that any writer with gainful employment of the sort that would facilitate internet publication would actually write "not-preachy-but-speechy."

[Edited on December 20, 2006 at 6:01 PM. Reason : 3]

12/20/2006 5:42:05 PM

If it doesn't fit, you must acquit, Panthro....

Unless you have a ....... link?

12/20/2006 6:45:39 PM

12/20/2006 8:06:46 PM

wait so who got pwnt here?

12/20/2006 9:57:09 PM

The guy who got pwnt was















you guessed it





















FRANK STALLONE

12/21/2006 12:32:59 AM

how does he fit in this?

12/21/2006 8:16:35 AM

I saw it last night. Wasn't bad. It was pretty slow in the beginning, and the lead up to the fight wasn't nearly as long as it was in the other movies. Seemed like it all happened too quickly at the end. Either way, its better than Rocky 5.

If you're a Rocky fan, go check it out. Man, now I really want to go see the other ones...

12/21/2006 9:45:20 AM

^ It wasn't as long as the second Clubber fight in Rocky 3? That lasted THREE rounds. And didn't his first fight with Clubber only last 2?

I haven't seen it yet, so I don't know.

And maybe you meant it was 6-7 rounds but they sped through it.

All I know, is that looking at some of the pictures online, that is one man I never want to see with his shirt off again, lol

12/21/2006 4:53:44 PM

^yeah...but that is one 60 yr old man that can kick my ass....

12/21/2006 6:07:36 PM

kinda funny, a Mike Tyson appearance

12/22/2006 8:03:51 AM

^why do you have to spoil that for everyone who hasn't seen it? That caught me totally off guard. It was fucking awesome.

Loved the movie. Great fight, up the the high standards of III and IV. Adrian being dead was great, I'd rather have constant visits to her grave than listen to all her whiny shit. Fitting end to the series( FUCK ROCKY V).

12/22/2006 11:43:22 AM

i give it my highest recommendation


i thoroughly enjoyed it

12/24/2006 11:46:03 AM

it was decent, a bit too much garbled dialogue, but in general it is worth a watch

12/26/2006 5:54:10 PM

it was ok...he still looked old as hell.


I am watching Rocky 4 right now...still the best in the series.


"YOU WILL LOSE."

"ha...alriiight!"

12/26/2006 6:03:18 PM

Quote :

" 9. For the love of all that is good and Holy. How do you use the 3 seashells?! Louis Saucedo Dallas, Texas OK, this may be bordering on the grotesque, but the way it was explained to me by the writer is you hold two seashells like chopsticks, pull gently and scrape what’s left with the third. You asked for it…. Be careful what you ask for, sorry."

had to find it...

12/26/2006 6:08:59 PM

^? What are they doing with 3 shells?

12/26/2006 6:12:25 PM

judge dred

12/26/2006 7:16:27 PM

no. It was from Demolition Man.

12/26/2006 8:11:55 PM

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"I am watching Rocky 4 right now...still the best in the series"

LOL

12/26/2006 10:56:04 PM

why's that funny ?


4 was the best

12/26/2006 11:16:11 PM

3 was the best

"You should have NEVAAH came back" Mr. T

then right before the first bout when Mr. T wispered

"Deeeeaaaad Meeeeaaat" I died laughin at that and the expression on Rocky's face.

12/27/2006 12:52:54 AM

without having seen the 3rd one, these are my rankings:

1a. Rocky 4
1b. Rocky Balboa
3. Rocky 2
4. Rocky
5. Rocky 5

from talking to a friend, i'd probably wind up putting 3 somewhere between 1st and 3rd, but i know rocky balboa has to be in the top 3

12/27/2006 8:36:44 AM

^That is a horrible list

12/27/2006 11:20:27 AM

3 had the best trash talking
4 had the best training, best fight sequence, best score (Vince DiCola, FTW), and least dialogue.

12/27/2006 11:25:51 AM

^^ fuck you

12/27/2006 9:53:07 PM

i've seen them all and am a movie guru...

1. IV
2. III
3. II
4. VI
5. I
6. V

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"Adrian being dead was great, I'd rather have constant visits to her grave than listen to all her whiny shit."

it's a shame his son couldn't have joined her. he's been whining for a while too.

12/28/2006 10:12:09 AM

what's with all this II ahead of I stuff? Rocky II absolutely blew until Adrian came out of the coma(with the notable exception of "In the afternoon, I put it on, to go out with the guys, for a rendezvou). Is this all just the difference between beating Apollo and "going the distance"?

12/28/2006 10:41:10 AM

^that's the only reason i did it.

12/28/2006 1:15:44 PM

you are insane to think VI was better than I. Part V did suck worse than VI though. This movie was horrible.

12/28/2006 2:06:24 PM

^i'll give you that. i just put it above the other one because i like adrian better in VI.

12/28/2006 2:50:43 PM

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"i've seen them all and am a movie guru... 1. IV 2. III 3. II 4. VI 5. I 6. V"

hmmm might have to call you out on that one.

12/28/2006 2:56:49 PM

your list?

12/28/2006 3:01:15 PM

it was very meh, i probably would have been ok never seeing it but i'm not enraged by the waste of time watching a movie like i was with the mothman prophecies..

12/28/2006 3:01:58 PM

III, IV
I, II, VI
V

12/28/2006 7:39:13 PM

This was on par with the V. Pretty inspirational and brought life lessons to the forefront but other than that this movie wasn't all that great. I thought it was great to see the clashing of the generations. I hate alot about our generations attitude towards things though.

II
I
IIII
III
VI
V

[Edited on December 28, 2006 at 10:58 PM. Reason : rankings]

12/28/2006 10:57:37 PM

5 brought no life lessens and the acting was terrible even for a movie of that ilk. 5 is not in the vicinity of any of the other 5 rocky movies

12/28/2006 11:02:24 PM

i liked it, but Mason wasn't ANYWHERE near the awesomeness of Apollo Creed, Ivan Drago, or Clubber Lang

they should have gone with an actor, not a boxer to make the character better

12/29/2006 1:43:26 AM

My rankings as of yet:

IV
II
III
I
V

I have yet to see Balboa but I will probably see it this weekend.

12/29/2006 2:06:16 AM

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"your list? "

oh i don't give two shits about rocky movies, i just really doubt your self-proclaimed movie guru status.

12/29/2006 5:17:24 AM

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"oh i don't give two shits about rocky movies"

to which i'd ask why the hell are you in a thread entitled "Rocky Balboa"

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"i just really doubt your self-proclaimed movie guru status."

to which i'd ask if you were another young punk wolfwebber trying to make an e-name for himself by "pwning" someone on the internet and contributing dick to a thread? also, you doubt it based on what?

12/29/2006 10:26:40 AM

I doubt it based on the fact that you have no posts about non-Rocky movies in Entertainment.

12/29/2006 12:46:08 PM

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"II I IIII III VI V"

haha

I like all of them more than III except V which is at the bottom.

12/29/2006 12:49:58 PM

^^i don't have any posts about what comes out of my anus when i'm sitting on the toilet. i guess i'm not an expert on that either. because i've made no posts about it. on the wolfweb.

[Edited on December 29, 2006 at 12:51 PM. Reason : tag team?]

12/29/2006 12:51:39 PM

no i'll give you that one. you probably are an expert at spewing shit.

my point was: you don't just proclaim yourself a movie guru. it will rightly just end up getting you harrassed.

i guarantee you there are MANY people who know far more about movies on this board (hell probably even in this thread) so don't act like you're something special. it won't make your opinion any more valid.

[Edited on December 29, 2006 at 12:56 PM. Reason : .]

12/29/2006 12:54:33 PM

Now children. . .

12/29/2006 12:57:47 PM

I don't know any gastroenterologists who are movie gurus.

FWIW.

12/29/2006 1:12:37 PM

you'd be surprised

12/29/2006 1:28:16 PM