Why were some disappointed with the film Rocky Balboa?

[amat]

The film was a HUGE success for me. No matter what criticisms you have after the fact, before the fact, this was an impending disaster. Rocky 5 was awful and now Sly was 105 years old. Then we find out that the opponents name is Mason Dixon. That was enough for most.

I liked the novelty of it but expected it to be painstakingly bad and cheesy. That's how everyone felt, it was very widely poked at, and it turned out to be good.

Look at expectations before the movie and no one expected it to be good. Then it was very good.

[Gandalf]

It was a decent film. Much better than the recent few and a return to more of a character driven style of the first two. I also think it was somewhat brief and could have been padded out with a little more depth but it could have been a lot worse.

[Kev]

The film was a HUGE success for me. No matter what criticisms you have after the fact, before the fact, this was an impending disaster. Rocky 5 was awful and now Sly was 105 years old. Then we find out that the opponents name is Mason Dixon. That was enough for most.

I liked the novelty of it but expected it to be painstakingly bad and cheesy. That's how everyone felt, it was very widely poked at, and it turned out to be good.

Look at expectations before the movie and no one expected it to be good. Then it was very good.

Completely agree, Stallones attempted comeback as a box office star and the revival of the Rocky and later the Rambo series looked on paper to be even more futile than Evander's 5th title quest.

Against all the odds he made them not just respectable but decent.

And Rambo was just badass

[Dark Lord Al]

IM LOOKING FORWARD TO THE SEQUAL .

Rocky vv11 the coffin bout lol
Rocky vv11 Battle at the old folks home

[Tins06]

Ah I thought it was pretty good. I really liked the fight between balboa and dixon aswell, Dixon breaks his hand so can't really fight properly and what not. The build up to rocky wanting to fight again...

But what hapened to his brain tumour?...They just wrote that out.I mean we all thought rocky 5 was shit but we were obviusly going to remember Balboa had a dangerous brain tumour that would clearly kill him if he started taking punches to the brain again.

[ICB]

I liked it i knew it was going to be totally unbelievable with the fight scenes and etc, and i wern't expecting it to be good i was expecting another cheesy Rocky film but it was actually pretty good, not great but still good. I like how they brought back a few old characters as well so it gave you that old nostalgia feeling of the other older Rocky films, i also liked how they brought in HBO to give it more realism. Even though the fight scene was cheesy as hell and etc. It was still good and it ended the Rocky saga in a good way and thats what it deserved unlike Rocky 5. The only thing i don't like about Rocky is the lazy writing, Rocky was supposed to have a bad eye in the 2nd Rocky film or something ?? and when Micky tested him he couldn't even see the old man's slap coming, now in Rocky 3 when he takes a brutal beating from Lang, and in 4 when he takes inhuman punishment from Drago etc, you never ever hear anything about that again, its almost like the 2nd film didn't exist. But overall i still like all the Rocky's.

[The Fightfan]

I liked it i knew it was going to be totally unbelievable with the fight scenes and etc, and i wern't expecting it to be good i was expecting another cheesy Rocky film but it was actually pretty good, not great but still good. I like how they brought back a few old characters as well so it gave you that old nostalgia feeling of the other older Rocky films, i also liked how they brought in HBO to give it more realism. Even though the fight scene was cheesy as hell and etc. It was still good and it ended the Rocky saga in a good way and thats what it deserved unlike Rocky 5. The only thing i don't like about Rocky is the lazy writing, Rocky was supposed to have a bad eye in the 2nd Rocky film or something ?? and when Micky tested him he couldn't even see the old man's slap coming, now in Rocky 3 when he takes a brutal beating from Lang, and in 4 when he takes inhuman punishment from Drago etc, you never ever hear anything about that again, its almost like the 2nd film didn't exist. But overall i still like all the Rocky's.

I hear that about the eye,but he did turn orthodox and not southpaw which supposedly protected his bad eye.I am ashamed I actually said that.Well anyway good stuff.