re: Just started the Rocky movies (update page 3)

Rocky is a legitimately great film. Crazy to think Stallone actually wrote that movie, but he was a genius to hold out on selling it until he finally got a studio to agree to let him play the lead role. Obviously it made his career.

Rocky III and Rocky IV are more or less the same movie, only in one of them he beats Mr. T, and in the other he beats the Soviet Union. Obviously both of these are stupid awesome, with emphasis on the “stupid” part. Turn your brain off and enjoy.

I haven’t seen Rocky II in quite a while, but I remember it being both boring and touching at different times. It suffers from being a bit of a retread of the first movie, except that in this one [spoiler alert] they let him win in the end, which honestly destroys the entire theme of the original, but I digress.

I’ve never seen any of the movies past the fourth. There was nowhere to take the series past that point that would have made any sense, unless he competed in the Space Olympics for the fate of the solar system or something.