Quote Originally Posted by Mark TKO View Post
You are talking bollocks. Fact

V aside each hold its own when considered against the era it was made in.

How many other character franchises are still going strong after 43 years?
Still going strong? (:

I don't think being a franchise is a merit for a film. For me even the best boxing films like Raging Bull, fail precisely because there is enough drama in 12 rounds that no film can really do it any justice. The fight scenes always fail miserably, however well the drama outside the ropes is handled.

Yes they have some charm (though not as much as Paradise Alley) and Stallone can act a bit (Copland) but the Rocky films don't really hold up and just feel like cartoon like dumbfests for casuals now in 2019.