Thread: Rocky V sucked.

As much as I loved the Rocky series, Rocky V sucked.

I hope that VI is far better.

Everyone else on board with this feeling?

its the worst one out of the existing 5, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have its moments.

the scene where he goes back to the gym and has the flashback with Micky is probably the greatest scene out of any of the movies.

but, yeah for the most part it does suck

I think at this point #6 just can not be any good. I know it is just a movie but from what I have read about it how can it be any good? Rocky comes out of retirement to fight a real fightr?!? Because of some game?!?! Come on try to be at least attached to reality, put him back in the gym as a trainer and go from there. I like my non-scifi movies to have at least some realism. I do not see this as being any good.

Originally Posted by GattiIsTheMan

As much as I loved the Rocky series, Rocky V sucked.

I hope you are being ironic

agreed its like stallone forgot how to be rocky any way had rock one win best picture but stallone not win best actor he was rocky...

The part where Adrian and Rocky have their speech on the road in rocky 5 was a tearjerker

I think the rocky series brakes down like this

1) Rocky - Clearly a four star movie on its own
2) Rocky III - I love the fact that he gets an early knockout in the final fight. It is so unrocky like(+ hulk hogan)
3) Rocky IV -The cold war, Apollo dies, good man flick
4) Rocky II - Little over the top. Adrian goes in a coma/ both fighters knocked down at the same time
5) Rocky V - Cleary the worst Rocky. Rocky does not box, and Pauly looses all of Rocky's Money? Huh?

techincally in rocky 2, when both men fell down......... Rocky's knockdown shouldn't of been counted because it was a slip, Apollo didnt touch him.

I really didn't mind number 5 because I really thought it was trying to get back to what realistically happens in the boxing world and in life. Think about all the world champions who end up broke or not much better off than when they started (Leon Spinks eaks out a living as a janitor and signing autographs for a fee). My feeling about number 5 is that Stallone was truly trying to make a realistic film.

After supposedly being about half blind in Rocky 2, totally shot and on his last legs at the beginning of Rocky 3 (remember Micky telling him his opponents were being picked because they were not man-eaters like Clubber Lang and the second fight with Apollo, in Mickey's estimation, should have killed him), he just kept getting stronger instead and beating bigger, stronger guys. Rocky 4, to me, while exciting was just about the most unrealistic of the series. Ivan Drago was supposed to be around seven feet tall and who knows how many years younger and Rocky was supposed to be totally shot. It was like Stallone just kept forgetting what was in the script in the previous films.

Then came Rocky 5 and he seemed to get back into realism. Broke and in bad health, Rocky returns to his roots and tries to make a living while training an up and coming fighter who has a falling out with him when he gets blinded by greed. I am not so sure the final street fight scene, if it were in real life, would have ended in Rocky winning. But still it was, IMO, a decent film to end the series on.

As far as Rocky 6, oy vey, I can't imagine what Stallone has cooked up for this but he did release some story ideas in his magazine a year ago but stopped short of revealing the whole plot.

Jody

In Rocky V, Rocky had that rare brain damage that shoots images of your past fights in your head.

Rocky 4 was basicly just a soft homo erotique porn film (it sits proudly on my shelf with the others I own )

Rocky 3 with Rockys special vest, baby oiled rocky and creed was bad enough... Rocky 4 just went to far and rocky 5 was embarassing.

Rocky 1-3 are good films, as comedies/an insite into what the fuck happened to our brains during the 1980s 3 and 4 are great. 5 is a good comedy but it stops there.

paulys the best

yup... stallone made rocky dumb again. which tommy morrison was a bad actor, and finally the annoying duke telling rocky "u need 2 make a comeback, america loves comebacks" thats what rocky already did the whole dman series--rocky 6 looks better.....so far. the way he lost his money was stupid---not a good way to end the rocky series---thats y there will b a # 6

in rocky 6 he fights a few small fights for money and then gets offered the chance to fight for the belt cause he never lost the belt no1 took it from him. i think rocky 1 was by far the best with 2 and 4 close behind i didn't like 3 and 5 as much but still thought they were OK films cant wait for the new 1 when he fights Traver

Originally Posted by The_One77

techincally in rocky 2, when both men fell down......... Rocky's knockdown shouldn't of been counted because it was a slip, Apollo didnt touch him.

Yeah exactly, i started a thread about that a while ago.

i luv all the rocky flicks
they just make me feel good
and i cry a lot like a lil bitch who got beat the fuck up