I’m not much on pride but I can say with some satisfaction that I haven’t tossed so much as a penny in the Disney or Amazon pots for the past several years. No, my few bucks didn’t make a mouse turd of difference to either company but if more people started putting their money where their mouths are it would.
The soundtrack is one of the best workout albums of all time
I wish you guys would print these goddamned things again. I love the feature, but would far rather read it. I’m a very good reader, old-fashioned as that may seem.
It is one of the oddest things about film that the original Godzilla is mediative movie about Japan’s relationship to nuclear power/weapons somehow became franchise that produced children’s toys.
Well put, Breihan. You nailed it with this one.
“He doesn’t know it’s a damn show, he thinks it’s a damn fight!”
Tony Burton as Creed’s trainer (and later sort of Rocky’s) never got a lot to do, but he was SO good with what they gave him. Just utterly believable and watchable.
We first see that in Rocky Balboa, though.
I know we’ve effectively canonized Ali these days... but if you read some of the awful things he would regularly say about his opponents, particularly Joe Frazier, you might understand why he came across as a self-aggrandizing heel, even a mean-spirited bully.
Creed does a great job of shrinking Rocky back down to a recognizable human being. Scenes like Rocky pulling out the folding chair in the cemetery to read to the gravestones is the kind of dopey touch that made the first movie so approachable.
William Goldman wrote a book on the making of A Bridge Too Far, and in it he has a brief aside about great screenwriting. He singles out the scene where Rocky discovers his locker has been given away - Rocky comes in, works the combination on the lock, it doesn’t open. Without hesitating, he takes off his hat and…
In the proud tradition of Rocky sequels, it’s just OK but can’t live up to the original.
I grew up with Rocky and the sequels and I remember when Creed came out watching the entire series (including Rocky V for the first time) before seeing the new movie. It really hit me hard, watching both the character and actor rise out of nothing and become a genuine force to be reckoned with, all throughout my…
Gotta agree that Creed is indeed a basically perfect movie. It’s the first of the Rocky sequels to feel anything close to what the first movie felt like.
Sylvester Stallone has done a lot of dumb movies, but my god, he is such a lovable figure as Rocky Balboa. It’s a perfect combination of actor and role.
If you don’t well up when Rocky pulls himself up after the vicious uppercut from Apollo late in the match, you are not a human.
I love that scene where Rocky is being interviewed on TV while he’s working out in a slaughthouse, pummeling the hanging sides of beef. Apollo Creed is in his office, wheeling and dealing and making telephone calls, while his manager watches Rocky on TV and sees how hard he can hit and the hunger in his eyes, and a…
Love, love, love this movie. I used to watch Rocky marathons when I was a severely bullied teen. And even if he became cartoonishly shredded in the sequels, watching a good guy like Rocky working his ass off and going the distance was really inspiring for me. And yes, I hate Rocky V. I loved the 2007 movie, and Creed…
This would be an interesting read.
Can you please return to Random Roles being written articles? I have no interest in watching these videos. This whole industry wide “pivot to video” is nonsense.