Quote Originally Posted by wacko3205
In closing...I thought that it was'nt the best of the series...but I liked it.

It's hard to say you liked this one best for sure...the first will ALWAYS be the best...but u also have to take it for what it is..."Rocky Balboa" is a great closer to a great saga. It is more of a movie than a brainless action flick as was the fourth one and it has more heart than most of them barring the first. I really liked Rocky III because of the fact Mr. T played such a great villain, because Apollo Creed comes back to train Rocky to actually box (and switch stances) instead of coming straight ahead tank-style, brawling and blocking with his face (apparently he forgot this in Rocky's IV, V, and VI; maybe it was the brain damage) so I cant say I liked it more than III. I do however rank it as my third favorite Rocky film after I and 3. I thought Tarver did a good job playing his role; granted playing a boxer isnt much of a stretch for him but i thought he did fine. And as far as being a not-so-good bad guy, he wasnt supposed to be a bad guy. He is a man fighting for his own respect and as one of the promoters who talks Rocky into fighting says, "respects the hell out of [Rocky]". In this film, the main villain is life and the moral of it is; you can't let life beat you down. You have to take what hits it lands on you and roll with the punches and keep coming forward. Regardless of what others think, you have to be who you are inside. Rocky has a great monologue about this in the movie. I thought it was a really good movie and a great way to end the series. A lot of people will disagree...but you know what they say about opinions and buttholes...