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Summary: A unique, quality film
Review: I came into this movie expecting a typical, narrow, but well-told story of one man's training and his battle against all odds to triumph in boxing, as it is advertised. However, I was surprised that 85% of this movie focuses on the human story, not a story of trying to be the best boxer. Instead it is a story of people, and how they deal with their problems, and how they try to change. This only makes the ending far more meaningful.So it all builds up the same theme, but much more effectively than relying purely on shallow feel-goodism. At the same time, I've never seen a film that has focused so well around the theme of struggle, and striving to achieve one's goals against all odds. Surely a breakthrough film.
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Summary: John G. Avildsen's Rocky
Review: This was one of the best Action/Drama movies ever made. John G. Avildsen(The Karate Kid) did a good job with this movie. It is about a boxer named Rocky "The Itallian Stallion" Balboa(Sylvester Stallone), who never got along with his trainer Mickey(Burgess Merideth). Then when Rocky is chosen to fight the Heavyweight Champion Apollo Creed(Carl Weathers), it is up to Mickey to train him. During that time, Rocky falls for shy girl Adrian(Talia Shire) and during the time while Rocky trains, their relationship grows. Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Carl Weathers and Burgess Merideth give great performances, while Bill Conti, who also did The Karate Kid, gives a great musical score. I recommend this to people from Georgia to New York to Los Angeles!!!
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Summary: Best Sports Movie Ever!!!
Review: Rocky is a beautifully written script about a man who has nothing and gets the chance of a lifetime. The beauty of this movie is it's not about winning. Rocky just wants to proove to himself that he is not a bum. The Quintisential line of the movie is when Rocky after not being able to sleep walks down to the Spectrum where the promoter essentially tells him that this is a show and it's not about him, and he realizes he can't win. When he comes back to his apartment he tells Adrian that he can't win, but "no one has ever gone the distance with the champ. I want to go the distance, cause at the end of the fight when I hear that bell and I am still standing, I will know for the first time in my life, that I wasn't just another bum from the street." If that line doesn't get you fired up to see this movie, nothing will. I recomend this movie to everyone, not just sports fans.
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Summary: Rocky Rocks
Review: Rocky is one of the best motion pictures made.Sylvestor Stallone's acting was excellent. Stallone wrote the screenplay for Rocky in just a few days and the producers offered him a hundred thousand dollars for the rights to the screenplay but he turned them down because he wanted to be play Rocky. The producers even went as high as three hundred thousand dollars but his philosophy was that he had managed poverty like a science so to continue living the way he was living didn't matter, but playing Rocky did. On the disc I bought there is a Sylvestor Stallone video commentary and on it he states that originally the producers wanted either Burt Reynolds, Ryan O'Neal or Robert Redford to play Rocky. I think if one of those actors did play Rocky and Sly didn't, I feel that they would've only played him once for some reason and the next time around the producers would have had to find alternate actors for the sequels and that would have reduced the impact of the films.
The characters in Rocky are great too. Adrian (Talia Shire), Paulie (Burt Young), Mickey (Burgess Meredith, now unfortunately dead). I suppose I should mention Carl Weathers as Apollo but I liked Tony Burton his trainer more, especially after Stallone mentioned that in an audition with Weathers he said that the producers should get a real actor.I think that not too many films have interesting characters like Rocky.The fight scene in the end is great.
Rocky is the story of an underdog who boxes and works for a loan shark as a leg breaker. He pays an extremely shy woman in a petshop visits regularly and eventually they go out on a date and later become man and wife. The woman's brother and Rocky are best friends as they grew up together.
Apollo Creed is the World Heavy Weight Boxing Champion of the World and instead of fighting another top ranking boxer he decides to give Rocky, the Italian Stallion a shot at an exhibition bout. Rocky intended on training himself but Mickey, a trainer at the gym where Rocky trains wants to be his manager. Rocky gets a little upset about this at first because he asked for Mickey's help years before but Mickey wasn't interested. But Rocky now agrees to let Mickey manage and train him. We see Rocky getting up at four o clock in the morning and drinking raw eggs out of a glass before going for a run on the mean streets of Philadelphia.When the fight does come he does not win but at least he triumps in the sense he went the distance, lasted all the rounds and gave the champion a good fight.
Rocky, the story about a million to one shot who becomes one in a million.
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Summary: Chills down the spine
Review: I don't know what it is about this film, but everytime I watch it, I get shivers down my spine. It is a great film especially on DVD in Widescreen. The one scene that always sticks out in my mind and makes me stand up in amazement is when Rocky runs up the steps to the Philadelphia Art Museum with Bill Conti's amazing score playing Gonna Fly Now. What an amazing piece of filmmaking that stands the test of time. This film started a slew of sequels that would never match the original. This one is the best.
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Summary: Dreams Come in Many Forms
Review: A two-bit fighter from Philadelphia gets a shot at Apollo Creed, the World Champion. While he trains for his fight, in very economic and unorthodox fashion, Rocky Balboa finds and courts his true love, Talia Shire. Sylvester Stallone gambled just about everything he had, at the time, on this film. This gamble paid off, in both a career for Stallone and a movie for every dreamer, of every kind. Rocky Balboa has almost nothing when he starts, except what is inside of him - determination, willingness to sacrifice, heart, tenacity, and creativity (in a very crude form). He shows the world that those attributes are enough for him to equal the World Champion, with all of his money, training facilities, entourage, etc. There is no complex story here. There is a very simple story that is very well done. Oh, and the musical score ain't bad either! This film won the Oscar for Best Picture, and deserved it. The only negative about the film is that it sets your expectations high for the sequels, which never quite reach this level.
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Summary: Great Commentaries of Rocky
Review: The DVD contains 28 minutes of Sylvester Stallone which is worth the price alone. In addition, you get a commentary from all the actors about the making of the movie. Even if you don't like the movie, just the commentaries alone are worth the price of the DVD. These commentaries explain why certain scenes are shot they way they were--mostly because of budget restraints. If you are a movie buff, the creative process is very interesting. Also, the commentary explains the motivation(s) of each scene which is interesting.
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Summary: "Yo, Adrian"
Review: I feel that "Rocky" is the best damn underdog movie ever made. It's also the best feel-good movie ever made. With and exceptional cast and a brilliant score "Rocky" is one of the best movies ever made.
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Summary: fake widescreen... save your money
Review: I got this movie on DVD at a store today thinking I had made a good buy at a good price for a movie I really loved. Unfortunately checking some widescreen scenes on this dvd and comparing them to some pan&scan scenes have led me to believe that this movie is in FALSE widescreen format (just pan&scan with black bars covering parts of the top and bottom; nothing extra on the sides... you actually lose some of the actual picture because of it). The widescreen of this movie on tape is the same as the dvd... It's a shame, because you'd think people who produce movies on dvd would actually care about retrieving the actual footage, instead of giving customers this manufactured garbage. There should be some law against this. We lose our money, and they get to falsely advertise about a bogus product and get away with it (reminds me of similar complaints of "Point Break" and "Stargate" also being in fake widescreen; who knows what else). The extra's on this dvd can be seen by renting the dvd at your local store. That might be all it's worth. Rocky (movie) = 5 stars. DVD = 0 stars.
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Summary: Why??
Review: This has got to be the worst film I have ever seen in my life. I cant believe that there is more that one in the series. I absolutly hated it. I have never liked a film with Sylvester Stallone in it. Have you seen his mother, You cant tell them apart when there standing next to each other.
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