This is the same formula that caused Rocky to lose to Clubber Lang in the first fight. He repeatedly ignored his trainers when they tried to tell him to take Rocky seriously. The modern day equivalent of that would be Floyd Mayweather entering the ring dressed as with Justin Bieber. I mean he dressed up like Uncle Sam, alongside the Statue of Liberty. Apollo, at the time was the ultimate showman, his goal was always to put on a show. Why did Apollo agree to fight Rocky in the first place? He liked the public relations gimmick that stemmed from fighting someone named “The Italian Stallion”. Here is the ultimate irony and I will dig back into the first two Rockys briefly. It was the first time since he fought Apollo that he had been humbled. It is Rocky III where he rebuilt himself. Without the aforementioned man-hug and what it represented, which may or may not have changed the course of race relations in our country forever, Rocky never would have even been able to step in the ring against Drago.
SINGLES SOUNDTRACK BETTER THAN MOVIE MOVIE
* The most inspiring movie song ever by the way. Which, between loss and death, had been stripped from Rocky’s soul.ĭon’t lose your grip on the dreams of the past I mean, it brought back The “Eye of the Tiger”. This hug was the culmination of the new Rocky. Speaking of the man-hug, it did more for race relations in this country than Rocky IV ever thought of doing for The Cold War (is ‘the’ supposed to be capitalized?). Rocky ignores his advice to both his and Mickey’s detriment. Further proven by this amazing montagse of Clubber Lang. Mickey (RIP, by the way, but we’ll get to the dead mentor part later) warned him that Lang is a young, hungry “wrecking machine” and that he can’t beat him. In the beginning we see a “fat, content” Rocky Balboa that is all show and no substance. Rocky III brought us one of the greatest renaissances of a sports figure in cinematic history. Instead, we get some meaningless garbling from him about “change”.
But him yelling “Adrian” after his victories is part of the essence of Rocky. One good thing was that Adrian wasn’t there.
I imagine them unleashing FIM 92 Stinger Missiles as if it were the Communist translation of a “Turkey shoot”. I wish they would have showed what the Soviet Army did to the crowd after the match. The Cold War ended in what? 1991? I would give Stallone credit for ending the Cold War, but in Rambo III (w a tip of the cap to Colonel Sam Trautman). As Brigitte Nielsen says in the film, “They’re sportsmen, not soldiers.”