Which Rocky movie is the best and why?

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Rocky 3 (*sigh*)
Eye of the Tiger, Mr T, Hulkster, Training Montage on the beach.
Thats what I look forward to when I go to the movies.

Seriously, how did Rocky beat Ivan Drago in IV. Apollo and Rocky fought twice for 15 rounds nearly killing each other (Rocky 1 + 2).
Drago destroys Apollo in 1 round plus 10 secs.
Rocky takes round after round of hits from Drago and never looks like being beaten thanks to a 10 round montage.

Please Explain??????????????????????????????????????????
 

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Rocky 3 (*sigh*)
Eye of the Tiger, Mr T, Hulkster, Training Montage on the beach.
Thats what I look forward to when I go to the movies.

Seriously, how did Rocky beat Ivan Drago in IV. Apollo and Rocky fought twice for 15 rounds nearly killing each other (Rocky 1 + 2).
Drago destroys Apollo in 1 round plus 10 secs.
Rocky takes round after round of hits from Drago and never looks like being beaten thanks to a 10 round montage.

Please Explain??????????????????????????????????????????

Apollo was old and hadn't trainined, whilst Rocky was in the best condition of his career.

Also in Rocky 1 and 2 Rocky wasn't half the fighter he became under Apollo's tutorage.
 

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Rocky 4 easily. And i didnt even vote so add 1 to the rocky 4 option! Ivan Drago(the russian) was the biggest and best opponent out of all of his 6 opponents. He was like a machine, a robot, superhuman almost! It is this reason that rocky 4 was the best.
 

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i think it's a bit sad really that people are voting for no 4. People should read reviews of that movie, it got slammed b/c it was a really average movie. in hindsight i don't understand why Rocky was even so mad at Drago. I mean he didn't mean to kill Appollo. It's just that Appolo continually taunted and insulted Drago and he thought he was so great that he could beat Drago with one hand tied behind his back. So when it was time to fight Drago just did what he had to do which was keep punching him to he was knocked out. Stubborn Apollo didn't want to end the fight after the first round. Even though he was outmatched he just had to keep going. anyhow Drago wasn't meaning to kill him but he obvioulsy wanted to show the world he wasn't the chump Apollo was making him out to be by giving his best performance in the ring.

anyhow Rocky 1 was the best movie. I look back on Rocky 4 and the whole Russina crowd starts barracking for Rocky as if that would ever happen in the real world. Then Gorbachev gets up and applauds his speech. there are just two of several very cringeworthy moments in that movie.

In sum though let me just say i do love the stroy of rocky, i just think that Stallone lost the plot after the second one. Rocky Balboa was a good film to finish of the series
 

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anyhow Drago wasn't meaning to kill him but he obvioulsy wanted to show the world he wasn't the chump Apollo was making him out to be by giving his best performance in the ring.
Did you miss the part where Drago kept punching after the ref tried to intervene?
 

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Did you miss the part where Drago kept punching after the ref tried to intervene?
Good point, i admit i did not consider that when i posted my reply. It still doesn't mean that Drago was trying to kill him however. more likely he just got a bit excited as many fighters tend to do when their on a roll. We often saw Creed and Rocky go at after the bell had rung or when the ref's where trying to intervene. Also Drago could be forgiven for being a bit angry given the lack of respect that Creed showed him. I'm not saying that Creed deserved to die but when you get in the ring you take your chances. The way i see it Drago did nothing wrong in that fight. If he setout to kill Creed then that would be diffrent but i don't think that was his intention
 
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i think it's a bit sad really that people are voting for no 4. People should read reviews of that movie, it got slammed b/c it was a really average movie. in hindsight i don't understand why Rocky was even so mad at Drago. I mean he didn't mean to kill Appollo. It's just that Appolo continually taunted and insulted Drago and he thought he was so great that he could beat Drago with one hand tied behind his back. So when it was time to fight Drago just did what he had to do which was keep punching him to he was knocked out. Stubborn Apollo didn't want to end the fight after the first round. Even though he was outmatched he just had to keep going. anyhow Drago wasn't meaning to kill him but he obvioulsy wanted to show the world he wasn't the chump Apollo was making him out to be by giving his best performance in the ring.

anyhow Rocky 1 was the best movie. I look back on Rocky 4 and the whole Russina crowd starts barracking for Rocky as if that would ever happen in the real world. Then Gorbachev gets up and applauds his speech. there are just two of several very cringeworthy moments in that movie.

In sum though let me just say i do love the stroy of rocky, i just think that Stallone lost the plot after the second one. Rocky Balboa was a good film to finish of the series
I think your nick says it all. How you can think Rocky IV was no good is amazing. It's rightly in the lead in the poll. Think you have rocks in your head nutta. ;) R1 & R4 the best.

GO TIGES!!!
 

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I think your nick says it all. How you can think Rocky IV was no good is amazing. It's rightly in the lead in the poll. Think you have rocks in your head nutta. ;) R1 & R4 the best.

GO TIGES!!!
sorry mate, but the consensus in the film industry was that Rocky 4 was a dud. If you don't believe me you should go and read some of the reviews which were generally scathing. ROcky 1 by far the best IMO.
 

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Hired 1 to 5 to watch over the weekend
Did the same thing before I went and watched six ... Gotta love that seen in in Rocky II when Adrian wakes up and says ...

"Come here.........I want you to do somthing for me ........come here, come here................WIN!'
 
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I haven't seen Rocky Balboa yet so I'll rate them like this:

1st - Rocky IV. Stallone kicks Lundgren's arse in front of a tense and hostile Russian crowd and Paulie comes up with some of his funniest quotes.

"I'm the unsilent majority, big mouth!"

"This is below the human standard!"

2nd - Rocky III is memorable for the bout against Mr T and Balboa's new friendship with Apollo. Mickey says to Rocky, "He ain't gonna kiss ya! He gonna kill ya." Who could forget the "I pity the fool!" line from Mr T? Hulk Hogan as Thumderlips was awesome. "The Ultimate Male vs the Ultimate Meatball." When Rocky's statue is revealed, Mr T asks Adrian for a bit of company. Here's an indirect quote:

"Hey woman! I bet you stay up all night waiting for a real man! How about you bring you pretty little self to my apartment and I'll show you a real man?"

3rd - Rocky. The original does more slowly but the fight's ending result was a let down. Balboa may have lost on points but I would have preferred to have seen a win. Maybe the sequels wouldn't have been made.

Fav quote: "Take her to the zoo! I hear ******s like the zoo."

4th - Rocky II. The first hour is crap until the press conference is on. Needless to say, the part when all those kids follow Rocky was very memorable.

Here's a bit from the press conference:

Paulie: "His lungs he needs to punch out."

Apollo: "Who's that guy? Al Capone?"



Rocky V sucked but the street fights were cool. The priest's ramblings were funny.
 

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Adrian would have to be the most annoying character ever.

But I love the series.

3 is the best IMO.

5 sucked for one reason: Apollo Creed wasn't in it.
 

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Is anybody here actually rating the movies based on their quality as FILMS, rather than just on the fights?
 
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Rocky IV, simply for the cheese factor alone....."If he dies, he dies" (Drago announces whilst standing over the crumpled body of Creed) :D
 
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Rocky 3 (*sigh*)
Eye of the Tiger, Mr T, Hulkster, Training Montage on the beach.
Thats what I look forward to when I go to the movies.

Seriously, how did Rocky beat Ivan Drago in IV. Apollo and Rocky fought twice for 15 rounds nearly killing each other (Rocky 1 + 2).
Drago destroys Apollo in 1 round plus 10 secs.
Rocky takes round after round of hits from Drago and never looks like being beaten thanks to a 10 round montage.

Please Explain??????????????????????????????????????????

He can do it becasue he is Rocky. All the fights are unrealistic but still entertaining.
 
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Saw Rocky Balboa the other day. Was a real closure film. Sad to see the aging characters with unfulfilled lives. Rocky was a sad character and I don't think one last fling did much to change his life.

I liked the acting but the movie didn't thrill me as much as the write ups had suggested.

I would go 1, 2, 3, 6, 4, 5.
 

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I've gone with III....simply as I was around 11 when that came out and saw it first at the movies. Then went back and watched 1 and 2 after to see what I had missed.

The birth of a song that to this day is used for motivation, and Mr T's character was menacing (while also being unintentionally funny now watching the film again over the years as an adult).

Second for me is Rocky IV, again I love the Drago character and some of the background tones in the movie.

Then I and II.....

Have to admit I is probably the best production of the 5 I have seen, but a movie like these are about suspending belief and just pure entertainment, and III and IV got me in more than the others.
 
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