What is the best Rocky movie of all time?

[Sempuukyaku]

Well I just saw the trailer for "Rocky Balboa"....the brand new Rocky film coming out next month, and it looks pretty awesome.


So my question to you all is, which Rocky film is the best of them all? My personal favorite is Rocky IV, hands down. Even with the cheesy Cold War connotations, I think it had the most emotion and intensity of any of the others.


Discuss!

[Matt in the Hat]

"2"

It was written and filmed like the first one but it had a better ending. IMO, 1 and 2 are actually the same movie broken in half.

[Val1]

II was certainly one of the better sequels out there, but nothing in any of them holds a candle to the impact of Rocky squaring off in the meat locker or running to Gonna Fly Now. Nothing...

[Real Ray]

I think it's #1 by a mile. What I liked about #2 was that Stallone actually tried to write Rocky's coping with his new-found fame in a real and human way. Oddly enough, that's what seems to rub people the wrong way about this film-that he's not this fantasy hero that people seem to have wanted. My sense from talking about his movie with my friends is that they didn't like to see the warts.

I think the reaction to this caused him to turn Rocky into a ridiculous cartoon figure, and made him write #3 in the manner that he did, with the Mr. T role. I think #2 is underrated due to this-though the ending is a bit too much.

Can't say I care for the rest of the lot.

[taosjohn]

1. The Rocky Horror Picture Show

2. The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle

[Monarch Bay Beachbum]

This is a trick question...right?

[Ringo]

I loved part IV and is really the only Rocky movie that I've been excited about. It's not a great movie, maybe --- but it sure as hell is entertaining.

[Dolemite]

in college my intramural soccer team would scrimage this team made up of dudes from Russian and former Soviet territories. we were good friends with them. but before every scrimage (they were in a lower division so my team never played them in competition) i would gather my team around and say something along the lines of "never forget Apollo! Never forget Rocky 4!" and we'd go out and beat them by several goals. good times

[superdave]

I loved part IV and is really the only Rocky movie that I've been excited about. It's not a great movie, maybe --- but it sure as hell is entertaining.
It's entertaining if you're really really stoned and you want to laugh at the most ridiculous movie ever made.

Or so I'm told.

[Ringo]

you're wrong. that moves is part of the fabric of america. john mellencap is writing a song about it, I believe.

[Motterman]

Thunderlips has spoken!

http://www.nating.com/HulkHogan_files/hogan-hulk09.jpeg

Here we go!!! Lights out Meatball!!!!!!

[Auriaprottu]

The best Rocky would have been called "Muhammad", and featured the star administering a Biblically-proportioned beatdown to an up-to-that-point undefeated boxer named "Rocky". Sadly, the real Rocky was born a bit too early to face the Greatest.

[TheSlipperyOne]

Slapshot

[TheSlipperyOne]

Ah, I thought this was for the best Hockey movie of all time.

[Col Mustard]

The Last One !

[otterulz]

The first one by a mile. II was a good one, but not nearly as good. It slowly goes downhill from there. I never understood why so many people loved IV. I'm guessing it's because you had to "LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT RUSSIAN!". Then again, he did end the Cold War as well in IV so I dunno. I guess if I can change and you can change.......we all can change.

[Goodsport]

I'm guessing it's because you had to "LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT RUSSIAN!".

The irony is that the character Ivan Drago isn't even Russian (the name Drago is most likely from either Latvia, Lithuania or Estonia), though it was more plausible for him to be representing the Soviet Union back then as all the now-former Soviet Republics officially fought under the same banner in those days.

Not to mention that Dolph Lundgren, the actor who played him, is Swedish. :p


-G

[Nanbawan]

Rocky n Cher...:rolleyes:

Or Rocky is le back

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