“Rocky” movies Back when boxing still mattered to most American sports fans, including me, Sylvester Stallone wrote the screenplay for and starred in “Rocky.” Over the next 30 years, Stallone would make a total of six movies in the series. Take a look back at the ranking of the six “Rocky” movies. 6. “Rocky V” ...
Whether you’re a huge Rocky fan or a boxing fan in general, you will probably end up seeing this movie. Rocky is a historic series of movies that pretty much everyone knows about. When Rocky first started he was a nobody. He got the chance of a lifetime to prove everyone wrong. He worked in ...
The American Film Institute ranksRocky as one of the 100 greatest movies of all time. In my book, it’s always been number one. I love boxing movies, and no film from this genre has managed to combine the heart, storytelling, and character drama quite like Rocky (although 2010’s The Fighter came closest yet.) Here is ...
Be honest. Your first reaction to the news that Sylvester Stallone was releasing yet another installment of his Rocky series was one of disbelief. You wondered how this was going to work at all. “Isn’t Stallone, like, sixty now?” you asked a friend. And the next question to come was, why? Do we need another ...
It’s odd that a movie about two guys beating the hell out of each other would open during a season of peace and goodwill to men. Even stranger is that one fellow is a young heavyweight champ, and the other is a few years away from being eligible for Social Security. Yet this film is ...
Located in eastern North Carolina, Rocky Mount is referred to as “Remarkable Rocky Mount.” It is an apt description of this city. It has certainly proved that it can rise above any hardship that comes its way. In 1999 Hurricane Floyd swept through, leaving nearly a third of Rocky Mount flooded by the Tar River. ...
