![]() 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.
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![]() 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.
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