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October 17, 2005
Rocky five... thousand!
The day of reckoning is upon us. They're making a sixth Rocky movie!
In the new installment, Rocky, lonely and retired in Philadelphia, comes out of retirement, intending to fight a few low-profile local fights. He's approached to fight a match with reigning heavyweight champ Mason "The Line" Dixon, and soon his comeback ignites a media firestorm.
" 'Rocky Balboa' is about everybody who feels they want to participate in the race of life, rather than be a bystander," Stallone said in a statement. "You're never too old to climb a mountain, if that's your desire."
Shooting is scheduled to begin in December in Los Angeles and Philadelphia.
A villain named Mason Dixon? Are you kidding me?
For me, Rocky IV is still the greatest of all Rocky movies. It has it all: heartbreak, disappointment, adversity, and ultimate triumph, not to mention an awesome training montage. There are the unexplained things, like why Rocky's son is a teenager in Rocky IV but a first-grader in Rocky III.
It was also shocking. Don't tell me you knew Apollo Creed was going to die at the hands of Ivan Drago the first time you watched the movie. That sure took me by surprise!
Ivan Drago. Now this was a villain. The complete opposite of Rocky: tall and blonde, with an unmatched boxing pedigree, unless you count their shared inability to speak English intelligibly.
Their differences were emphasized in the training montage, when Rocky runs through Siberian snowdrifts, benchpresses stacks of yak bones and warms himself with a fire fueled by wood chopped with his own hand, motivated only by wallet-sized snaps of his family and Drago tucked inside a mirror. Drago, on the other hand, does all his training in a futuristic climate-controlled lab, getting steroid injections and nutrient shakes.
It's no surprise when Rocky wins. There is a mythical list floating around, purporting to show which movie scenes it is perfectly acceptable for a man to cry: most notably the death scene in Old Yeller and the catch scene in Field of Dreams. I am certain Rocky's victory speech in Rocky IV should be on that last. Rocky IV, you must break me!
Posted by oz115 at October 17, 2005 11:50 AM
Comments
I'm not sure how I feel about a sixth Rocky movie...I mean, isn't Stallone getting a tad bit old for this kind of thing?
Posted by: Anita at October 17, 2005 01:55 PM
I'm so confused. I feel like you are speaking in a foriegn tongue. Thou, I've never seen a single Rocky movie, and I don't really intend to either... but yea, ok, another movie...
Posted by: Lovely Lady Friend at October 17, 2005 09:11 PM