![]() this was a great movie to end with and i can see why you sid you didnt know if you should show this first or last because it is really close to the set up. this movie made me think that i was watching the set up but with different characters. This movie came back to the classic old boxing movies where the camera was from their perspective so it looked like the punches where coming right at you and you got to feel like you where in the ring with them fighting. we got to see how the fights where getting set up and all for money. The gangsters came back this movie and we got to see how bad these fights where thrown again to make a quick dollar. the managers where like all the rest there was one is it for the money and one that actually cared about the boxer. we got to see that when one wanted him to get a job and the other one wanted him to pick up wrestling to make money. these films really make you think that the worl revolves around money and the fighters health means nothing. one of the best scenes are in the end in the locker room where you see them about to kill the manager and mountain says he will do it just so they dont kill him even when he found out he was played the whole time and was just a money maker. this scene makes me thing about a mob movie and i love every second of it. in conclusion i think this movie was a great one to end off with and i enjoyed this class a lot. hopefully i take more fiml classes in the future.
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![]() Wow was this movie different from the rest. There was no boxing bus (fighting) and not for titles or really not even for pride. They were fighting to get rif of their problem they just likes the fact that they were hitting people and getting hit. the first time we saw this and when it all started was out side the bar with the main characters. they literally beat the shit out of eachother and think it is fun. I think we can all agree this is a little strange but i think faking mental and physical illnisess is even worse and that also happens in the movie before they start fight club. but intill the end we never know that edward norton does actually have a problem and was by himself the whole movie and made up that character. he was one person with two different personalities. another huge scene is the chemical burn scene i think this is where the movie is telling us that tyler really does love pain and thinks everyone should endure it and just get over the fact of pain. he says without pain and without sacrafice we would have nothing. I think this is also tyler telling norton that his pain is right here on his hand dont go to your cave or whatever else face the pain and dont try to fight it. Its real and there is no meditaion you can do to get rid of it hw contiunes to say god isnt real and they are gods unwanted children its like a scene from a scary movie. and one of the last scenes is once again looks like it is out of a scary movie the narrator becomes tyler.... thinks hes a different person the whole movie. it shows all the movie back again and you see that there was never anyone their it was all in his head and he made the character up. in conclusion this movie is one of a kind and definetly got its point across i dont think you can watch this movie and not have your head be 1000 different places at once.
![]() i want to start off by saying this was a great movie to throw into the mix. even though it was a wrestling movie it fit in very well there was alot of similarites. I found it interesting that this movie started off with him being famous young and started from when he was on top and not showing him from nothing becoming famous like all the other boxing movies we have watched. It showed him after fame and almost the washed up ages of his life. but a huge similarity was that twords the end he wasnt fighting for the fame he was simply fighting for the respect and to show people he loves to wrestle and as long as he hears them cheering that he will contiune to do his best no matter what kind of shape hes in. when he had the heart attack after having that amasing show that he went through i think the movie was showing us that he is really trying to live a life he cant anymore and his body cant phisically take. but he gets fuled off all the other wrestlers because he rermembers when he used to be on top and was the go to guy. i think another big part in the movie is where we see him buy all the steriods and drugs from the guy in the locker room because he thinks if he gets strong again he will be fine he is trying anything he can to stay in the sport. ![]() then we see what we see in all the other movies a family problem we find out that he doesnt get along with his daughter and that he left her along time ago because he could take care and support her so he thought it was a good idea to run out. we also see him dissapoint her once again when he gets drunk and forgets about dinner. this was when he was really going through a rough patch and thinks that the world is going to end without wrestling we see him try his best in the grocery store to keep happy and try to move on in life but once someone reconises him and sees what he used to be and now hes working selling meats he loses it. i think that the last part of the movie is the best part of the movie we get to see him do what he loves and push through the pain get on the ropes and do one more ram slam he is so emotional and thinks that everything is over put he proved to everyone that he had one more in him and i think made himself happy that he was able to get through the last show. in conclusion i think this was more of a movie to show you what the boxers/wrestlers feel like after they are washed up and how mujch it kills them that they cant keep doing what they love and all the money and fave measn nothing to them. ![]() i want to start off by saying these my favorite boxing movies so far. along with the rest of the series. both movies start similar showing distress and determination. rocky working for the gangster collecting money and Adonis in a group home fighting out of fear and anger.both fighters had heart and would go fight anyone to prove themselves. both fighters never had a trainer and where self taught. no one would help rocky because they didn't think he had it and was a waste of talent and no one would help Adonis because of his fathers death creed. and the same exact thing happens to both of them Micky finally agreed to rocky and rocky finally agreed to Adonis. this is where we see that rocky plays mickeys part in the movie. and then from there on wow this movie is a splitting image of rocky . both films show training montages even using training tactics that they used in rocky like catching the chicken. i found a awesome video backing up my whole reason for this blog and basically my conclusion to both of these awesome movies. with two movies like this there never needs to be a lot of words enjoy the film and i hope it brings back memories. ![]() This movie was interesting the whole movie i was waiting for him to turn his life around. He was so depressed the whole movie and kept saying he was going to get back into the ring and train. then once he did it was like he walked right back out again this paragraph from the first article posted explains boxing perfectly and almost every single movie we have watched so far in this class. "The reality of boxing is, of course, not so clean. It’s brutal, unforgiving, and easily corruptible; the runway to the ring littered with broken bodies, shattered lives, and buckets of blood. Redemption? That’s only in the pictures. Which is not to say boxing films avoid hard truths about the sport. Gangsters, hucksters, bums, schemes, and death abound, especially in the titles released in the forties and fifties. But Hollywood approaches the inherent danger and venality of the fight game cautiously, never staring too long into the abyss. To do so would be to stray too far from the formula: audiences should go home cheering, if not for a champion then for a guy who failed stoically and with class. No one wants to spend time or, more importantly, money on a downer". i also found it interesting that this movie was made so real and not some really fake scrpit to get everyone to like it. and other paragraph from the same article states this. The bleak tone is set immediately with an opening sequence, shot on Stockton’s Skid Row, of impoverished, transient hobos and laborers shuffling in and out of bars, lingering in doorways, and otherwise wasting away in a sun-bleached town crumbling around them. (None of these people are actors. Huston employed as many nonprofessionals as possible to ensure the film’s authenticity.) When we finally meet Tully, he’s in underwear and a sport shirt, lying on a bare bed in a crummy room, the only motivation for movement is to locate a match among empty bottles and crumpled cigarette packs. When he can’t find one, he decides to grab his gear, head to the YMCA, and work a punching bag, you know, since he’s up. Huston scores it all with Kris Kristofferson’s achingly morose “Help Me Make It Through the Night,” whose lyrics include, “Yesterday is dead and gone / And tomorrow’s out of sight / And it’s sad to be alone / Help me make it through the night.”its almost sickening knowing the truth. i want to focus on the last scene of the movie. i think that this scene is very sad and has a lot of meaning. ![]() i think this scene shows loss,age,and search for meaning. he is sitting there knowing that he is young and he is making himself old because he doesn't think he has it anymore. That shows you that once these boxers make it out of the ring they feel worthless and think they are not the same person. When the scene goes quite and he sees all the old people playing cards at the table he goes into like shock and makes sure his friend doesn't leave so hes not alone. in conclusion i think this movie was more of the truth about boxing after the ring and wile fighting and i think it did a very good job showing it. ![]() wow was this movie a splitting image of the rockys or what. This was the newest movies we have watched so far in the class and you can easily tell my the graphics and sound effects and all the over all picture in all the scenes. I like that you can notice of far technology has come and get to see how much the boxing movies have improved. but i also find it interesting that it almost has the same layout as the boxing movies is the 1900s. every one of the movies start with a fight scene where they are trying to prove them selves and it always contemplates with there pasts. the video below shows that creed is very angry with his past because everyone thinks of him as his father and will not give him the shot he wants. Then we get to see the anger in him when he said he was basically abandoned by everyone. ![]() the next fight scene we get to see him finally get his shot after rocky agrees to train him not Apollo creeds son Adonis Johnson the name he wants to go by . i like that he didnt want to be in his dads shadow but after the fight everyone finds out because they knew rocky wouldn't just train anyone off the street. i think that this was his biggest fight of the movie because this was where he had to prove that he could actually fight and listen to what rocky says and what does he do exactly that listens to rocky and knocks him out and wins the fight and you see how happy he gets and says we got one we got one. ![]() now the final fight scene is where he proves he not a fake he is Apollo creeds son and that if there wasn't a bell that last round he would of won he shocked the world and was the future of fighting even his opponent said that. even when he was getting beat to the ground his eye was shut and everyone wanted to end the fight he refused and said let me do this let me show them who i am. he and did that and even more in my opinion he won the fight. i like how he gave rocky hope again and pretty much brought him back to life. in conclusion i like how this was the final rocky..... but named creed it was a great ending. i want to start off by saying this is one of my favorite childhood movies along with the rest of the series. This movie starts like the rest where rocky is working for the gangster collecting money he cant read and is very un intelligent. he was a fighter who had heart he would fight for almost no money just because he loved to fight and he needed to get by. He always wanted help fighting but no one gave him the time of day in till he gets offered the title fight the Micky offers to be his trainer after all the years that rocky wanted help from Micky and he refused now he wants to train him for the tittle fight and rocky looses it. as the movie continues we meet rockys mistress adrien who works at the pet store and who happens to be Paulis sister. She is very shy and almost awkward but rocky is attracted to her and tries to makes jokes to cheer her up. you can tell she appreciates rocky talking to her but is to shy to continue the conversation back. Sylvester Stallone rocky became a huge face in acting after these movies and rambo but i found it interesting that the article listed said that they did not want Stallone to make the last rocky and thought that it could ruin the series which it didn't at all they went on to say that " before the movie was released they where calling it a ridiculous attempt". it was almost like they used the movies for fame and his name but then when he wanted to continue they didnt want him to. The final fight scene was amassing and everyone knew that rocky won the fight but they gave Apollo the decision at the end. rocky fought is heart out and everyone saw i wish we were going to watch the next one because it makes the first one that much better. in conclusion these movies will be play and be considered greats for centuries.
![]() i want to start with girl fight which i thought was awful compared to million dollar baby. the movie girl fight was based again once off anger which the film does a good job on just showing that this troubled teen has found a way to cope with her problems but at first no one thinks its right or OK so she ends up lying to her dad and steeling money from him to pay for the fighting lessons. From the first part of the movie Diana the main character has this protective state where she stands up for her friend that was getting treated poorly. at first you could of thought that she was just trying to fight but in the very next scene she does the same thing in the boxing gym protecting her brother who got cheap shoted in the ring. which the we can take away that she is a very protective person for a reason which then we find out later in the movie that her dad had beat her mom. I thought that over all the movie had bad acting also the punches didn't look real at all and the way the boxers moved was awful. ![]() on the other hand i thought that million dollar baby was a excellent movie.The actors played a huge role for this the fights didn't look fake like they did in girl fight the sound effects where better and over all the plot of the movie was a lot better. Clint Eastwood in my opinion makes the movies he is in great because he always starts off talking down on the person and wants nothing to do with them. But then finds his heart and begins to make them great in what ever it is that they are doing. Like the scene that he found out a girl was in his gym he nearly had a heart attack. one of the most powerful scenes of the movie i think is the scene he agrees to train her but after that he wants nothing to do with her and says " Then you can go off and make a MILLION dollars i don't care." She was also fighting for other reason then Diana in girl fight was when she was fighting she wasn't fighting angry she was simply fighting to win and make Frankie happy. Yes she did have some family problems but she didn't let that effect her in the ring and in the end of the movie we see her settle the family situation. the ending of this movie was very sad but it got its point across she had gotten what she had wanted and had saw the world like no one else and now she realized it was her time to go. This movie was an easy 10/10 when girl fight was a 4/10. ![]() I don't think anybody else could of played Ali better than will smith his voice and the was he moved was exactly like the documentary. If i were to close my eyes i would of thought it was actually Ali talking witch is impressive. They made the movie like the documentary but picked out certain things to show a lot more than the documentary. In the movie they showed Ali being a player and cheating on his wife a lot more then they did in the documentary which i found interesting because it was like they where trying to get there point across that he was supposed to be this mean individual. He was just one of those fighters who loved them self a little bit more than anyone else he always made sure he was OK first before anyone else. I think the making of the movie had to be really cool because you had will smith playing someone who was still alive and can show him pointers and tell him how it actually happened.I found a video that many of you might enjoy and it is actually footage of the movie being made with will smith and ALI and its amazing to see all the deduction of will smith to actually train and break his back trying to get this movie right for the legend. ![]() After watching that video like i said you can see all the hard work that went on in the filming. Going back to the movie we saw a lot more of what went on the 6 weeks of the postpone after the eye injury in the "jungle" we also saw all the doubters in the movie like we did in the documentary and his own trainers and wife not believing in him. Thinking he was going to get killed. Now this has happened in every boxing movie we have watched when the person who isn't favored to win wins the fight but in this case you could say that all the movies we have watched could somehow be based off this TRUE story. In conclusion i think that this was a great tribute to the one and only Ali. ![]() This was interesting because it was our first documentary it wasn't really a movie. It showed the king Ali overcome beating someone that no one but himself thought he can beat. So in that case it was like all the other movies we have watched there were people who didn't believe in him or doubted him. I think this has been a huge key role in all the movies we have watched its almost like the fighters kryptonite. They have so many people that are close to them that don't even think they can do it and that's what pushes them to be great. But with Ali there was something different he knew he was great and had the most confidence out of any fighter he knew he was the best and didn't think twice about getting beat by anyone and that resulted in him never loosing. He also has this caring part of him he thought he almost had to repay his country that's why he hosted the fight there. I found it interesting that george foreman didn't think of ali as anything and said he would knock him out he underestimated him he said and that was the reason he lost. In this video below he explains that he thought that after that fight he had lost everything and he went through a very difficult time after that and almost died. ![]() I think that in result this shows what we have been seeing in all the other movies as well the boxers hit rock bottom and want death this is very sad because like George said they have money cars girls and all they care about and are brain washed about is boxing and there devastating times in the ring. and we see this in all the movies but this one hit it the best because it was in real life this was no movie it was a documentary about real professional boxers. |
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