The story of the Rocky balbao

 

After rocky 5 nobody could have ever

imagined a rocky 6 and stallone denied

any plans for it

in the 90s the series was laid to rest

but during the first half of the 2000s

it became apparent

that things change ideas mature and it

ain't over till it's over

what's that from the 80s that's probably

the 70s

as soon as rocky 6 was announced it

immediately became the subject of

ridicule and parody

i have to admit i was skeptical as

anyone was but at the same timei was

thrilled to be able to see a new rocky

on the big screen and with an adult

perspective

one minor disappointment is that up to

now every rocky movie began with a

from the last movie it was like a

tradition but noW

he throws it out the window and calls it

rocky balboa so it could stand on its

own

it's as if stallone was spitting out

rocky 5 like a bad taste in his mouth

he even shows flashbacks from all the

movies except five

as the movie begins adrian is dead which

brings rocky back to basics

he's also growing distant from his son

now played by milo ventimiglia

who's caught up in his own work and

sOcial life having his son work in one

of the new

modern buildings in philadelphia is no

coincidence it's an appropriate choiceso rocky opens a restaurant in

dedication to his late wife and spends

the rest of his time wandering around

his old stomping grounds

reflecting on the good old times not

like he didn't already do that in rocky

5

but according to stalone that movie

never happened

anyway it's difficult to start a movie

emotional right off the bat

but it works because the canon of the

series if you have any nostalgia for the

rocky movies it draws you in right away

you feel sentimental the same way he

does so it totally puts you in the

character's place

bert young as always is fantastic as the

bitter brother-in-law paulie

you're living backwards rocco change the

channel from yesterday

tony burden's back is duke and is just

as great as ever

every time you hit him with his shot

it's got to feel like he tried kissing

the express train

yeah let's start building some hurting

bombs

and charlene hughes is very natural and

lovable as marie from the first movie

it's kind of disturbing if you think

back to the first movie what does he ask

her

hey you've got a boyfriend now okay

well there is a romantic overtone but

it's downplayed a lot and she brings him

a picture of adrianclearly stating that rocky is still

committed to adrian and that nobody can

replace her

so back to the plot when a

computer-generated fight is staged

between rocky and the current

heavyweight champion mason dixon

people get curious and rocky decides to

go back to fighting which his son

disapproves of

in the same way the audience disapprove

rocky hasnt stepped in the ring since

rocky iv

which was 20 years ago everything about

retiring no you think about it

yeah well im officially retired now

i should uh step down

maybe and retire

excuse me my husband is retired he has

nothing

he's nothing more than happy are you

gonna retire or not

now 16 years later there's no mention of

the bad eye or the brain damage and he's

stepping back into the ring

i'm only giving you this little history

to put you in perspective of how

unlikely it seemed that rocky 6 would

ever see him fighting again

in fact many people ignorantly dismisssoros how do you feel about that

don't you think you're too you know old

yeah stallone is not pretending to be

young and the age factor is actually a

big part of the movie in fact it's the

main driving power

yeah buti ain't interested in getting

like mangled and embarrassed here

the same way that the first movie was

about an underdog trying to rise up

this movie is about a has been trying to

make a comeback and ignoring the

laughter

those around him realizing that life is

it's profound as well as it's depressing

but ultimately

it picks you up and makes you feel good

in the end

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let's face it why do sequels get made

because the first one was successful

but this is a movie that fills a 16-year

gap it wasn't made to ride on the

SUCceSS

it was made because stallone reallywanted to make this movie and he put

genuine feelings into it

it came from the heart not from the

money-grubbing hands of a studio

executive in fact he didn't even have an

easy time getting this movie made

i just never knew it was supposed to be

this hard the scene where he argues to

get his boxing license back

i again believe is no coincidence he's

relaying his real-life

experiences into this movie often

constructing them into passionate

monologues

i mean maybe some of you guys got

something you never finished something

you really want to do some something

you

never said to somebody something

one last thing that disappointed me was

that there's no music by survivor

rocky and survivor go together like

bread and butter in rocky

ii there is eye to tiger and rocky four

there's burning hearts

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their music carries the passion vibe

that make the series so great and they

hadn't released an album in about 19.