"Rocky Balboa" (Rocky VI is being made)

[Phoenix1010]

You guessed it...

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Screenwriter William Goldman notes, in his sequel to Adventures in the Screen Trade(I forget the name), that Stallone isn't a hair over 5'6. That's where I remember reading it specifically.

A dark rainy early winter’s night reveals an out of shape despondent Rocky Balboa, living alone in a shitty studio apartment looking out the window reflecting on the death of his beloved wife, and his glory days. This should take about a half-hour to catch everyone up to speed.

A new hotshot champion is questioned if he’s the best ever, and Rocky’s name eventually gets thrown in. After 15min, Rocky’s frail ego takes him to a local gym. He’s laughed at, as he can’t even beat their top amateur.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, and Rocky starts to train real hard and get a new trainer who starts to believe in him, and essentially becomes his new Adrienne. This should take about 30min.

Next, we get to watch Rocky get the [censored] beat out him for a good while, and perhaps for dramatic closure, die in the ring. Whatever… I’ll wait for HBO to show it.

[tek]

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...leaving him with the sneer and slurred speech.

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He doesn't sneer so much and he actually speaks pretty well these day. He also seems to have upped an octave.

This is based on his Contender appearances plus his cameo last season in Las Vegas on NBC.

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...leaving him with the sneer and slurred speech.

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He doesn't sneer so much and he actually speaks pretty well these day. He also seems to have upped an octave.

This is based on his Contender appearances plus his cameo last season in Las Vegas on NBC.

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Yeah, definitely. He's probably worked with a speech therapist, and was perhaps even able to get the paralyzed portion of his face helped surgically.

A friend of mine told me a story about watching Stallone tell a story in an interview. Stallone talked about meeting a fan who sounded like Rocky Balboa, and how this fan came up to him and said, "Hey, yo, Sly, ya know, lotsa my pals, dey say I talk like youse!" Stallone looked at him for a moment and answered in his best, clear-as-day current diction: "My friend...they lied."

He was also asked (perhaps in a different interview), what was your favorite and least favorite movie you have made. Stallone answered "Rocky" as the favorite, for all it meant to him then and since. When pressed on the one he really didn't like, he said, "Well, 'Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot' is like a bleeding ulcer that I wake up with some mornings that won't go away."

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A dark rainy early winter’s night reveals an out of shape despondent Rocky Balboa, living alone in a shitty studio apartment looking out the window reflecting on the death of his beloved wife, and his glory days. This should take about a half-hour to catch everyone up to speed.

A new hotshot champion is questioned if he’s the best ever, and Rocky’s name eventually gets thrown in. After 15min, Rocky’s frail ego takes him to a local gym. He’s laughed at, as he can’t even beat their top amateur.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, and Rocky starts to train real hard and get a new trainer who starts to believe in him, and essentially becomes his new Adrienne. This should take about 30min.

Next, we get to watch Rocky get the [censored] beat out him for a good while, and perhaps for dramatic closure, die in the ring. Whatever… I’ll wait for HBO to show it.

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Thats terrible my friend...

[bernie]

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I liked lots of Judge Dredd too. And I definitely respect how Stallone came out of nowhere with Rocky. I thought it would be crap, but it was impossible not to like. It was definitely solid.

Oh, and I think Burt Young not winning the Oscar the first time around was a big mistake. He was great, and better than Burgess Meredith.

I'm not sure about a 55 year old Rocky or whatever. I mean, hooray for dreams and all, but Rocky (and Stallone) are closer to geriatric age than they think. I'm not ready for Rocky with man-tits, and the thought of him taking steroids makes me more sad than admiring. It's time for Rocky to be a trainer, getting the drama from trying to change somebody else into a winner, and come by his own victories indirectly. A little reflection on how great warriors age and try to pass the mantle on to others could have been nice, if Stallone were a little better writer maybe. There's an incredible amount of drama, triumph, and heart ache in boxing without Rocky himself having to win while draping himself in a flag again. Stallone may have slipped, but his vision can be trite and narrow, too, perhaps leading to his own undoing here.

We'll see, I guess. We didn't need to see Eastwood fight in Million Dollar Baby, and I don't think we really need to see Rocky fight now, to make a good boxing movie, and to even gain a newfound affection for Rocky. I think he's heading down a dead end.

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I tend to agree. Rocky is my all time Fav flick. But when Rocky first fought Creed he was in his 30s. It's getting a little long in the tooth now.

fwiw, I think they did try that reflective trainer thing in Rocky 5. It could've obvoiusly been done much better.

Million Dollar Baby kicked ass.

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[bernie]

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"Mason 'the line' Dixon"?!

that's just embarrassing. here's hoping the movie goes up from there.

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Yeah, that is kinda lame.

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[samjjones]

Boxing nicknames are pretty terrible in real-life nowawdays, too.

[bernie]

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Roy Jones Jr.

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thats good work. i am feeling better about this.

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Thats pretty damn sweet they are getting Jones to do this. I cant wait now.

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So Jones gets to get knocked out.....again?

Typecasting? haha

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