D.A.F.C Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 Rocky 3, whilst not the strongest in the canon has a wonderful training montage in about 5 mins. Inspiring, uplifting, homoerotic.Go get that one dimensional Clubber Lang Rocky.PS RIP Micky Goldmill xThe boxing in that is loltastic. An entire round of one boxer hooking another on the head. Alrighty then. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pittsburgh phil Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 Rocky IV up now on ITV4. Where to start with this one? RIP Apollo, heavyweight Soviet juicers, possibly the best montage in cinematic history, Robert Tepper's mighty song No Easy Way Out, Paulie being his usual dickish self, a robot butler, and the power of sport to unite two diametrically opposed nations. Recording it as I'm watching the real boxing, ironically featuring a Russian juicer. ETA, also featuring James Brown's Living In America. This film is high class shit. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 Rocky IV is on ITV4 just now. As correctly stated earlier, it's clearly the best Rocky. Best soundtrack and best training montages as well, plus Rocky ends the Cold War. I just saw a trailer for Creed 2. Creed was good. Creed 2 has Creed junior fighting Drago junior with Rocky and Drago senior in the respective corners. Comes out next month. Oh and shockingly @Chicken Wing disagrees that Rocky IV is the best. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 2 minutes ago, pittsburgh phil said: Rocky IV up now on ITV4. Where to start with this one? RIP Apollo, heavyweight Soviet juicers, possibly the best montage in cinematic history, Robert Tepper's mighty song No Easy Way Out, Paulie being his usual dickish self, a robot butler, and the power of sport to unite two diametrically opposed nations. Recording it as I'm watching the real boxing, ironically featuring a Russian juicer. How could you miss James Brown's brilliant appearance? What a soundtrack. Burning Heart, Heart's On Fire, No Easy Way Out, Living In America, the training montage and the music during the fight; all exceptional. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pittsburgh phil Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 How could you miss James Brown's brilliant appearance? What a soundtrack. Burning Heart, Heart's On Fire, No Easy Way Out, Living In America, the training montage and the music during the fight; all exceptional.I've turned over just to watch it. They must be the most elaborate ring entraces ever, although I remember Nazeem Hamed coming in on a 'magic carpet' for one fight [emoji4] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 Just now, pittsburgh phil said: I've turned over just to watch it. They must be the most elaborate ring entraces ever, although I remember Nazeem Hamed coming in on a 'magic carpet' for one fight Such entrances should be mandatory and all rings should ascend from below 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pittsburgh phil Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 This quickly goes south for Creed here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 Aye that's him away. Why didn't Rocky throw the towel in? Duke told him twice! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 I've always wondered if the portrayal of the Russians in this film is just a bit racist or if they're actually satirical stereotypes of the usual racist portrayals of Russians 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pittsburgh phil Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 Rocky was negligent in not throwing the towel in, in a meaningless fight as well. Tepper!!!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pittsburgh phil Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 Powerful, compelling stuff. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 (edited) There's no shortcut home Edited September 22, 2018 by DA Baracus 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 Why is Paulie even in Russia? He brings nothing. He just falls over and complains about them not having his comics (which comics I wonder?). Anyway, cracking montage here with a banging tune. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 I love the punch sound effects. Utter nonsense which just makes it better! Fight montage coming up! Brilliant tune as well! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pittsburgh phil Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 There's no shortcut homeWhen my closest friend got punched to death by a robotic steroid abusing Russian I found the best release was to argue with my wife then take the old Lamborghini Countach out for a high speed drive with some tremendous 80's power ballads on my sound system. After that I was fine. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 3 minutes ago, pittsburgh phil said: When my closest friend got punched to death by a robotic steroid abusing Russian I found the best release was to argue with my wife then take the old Lamborghini Countach out for a high speed drive with some tremendous 80's power ballads on my sound system. After that I was fine. Nonsense. You thought you were fine but it wasn't until your wife flew out to your remote Russian training retreat and you then started working out in a barn and running up hills that you were really fine. Admit it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pittsburgh phil Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 It's true. I started feeling OK only once towed a cart up a snow covered mountain with my wife and her alcoholic abusive brother that I truly started the healing process. After that I was fine.I also built some powerful bridges between the US and communist Soviet Union, which was nice. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ah-dee Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 i bought the dvd of "rocky balboa" and despite being a very poor film the dvd extras were brilliant. theres a great bit with antonio tarver where he was talking about the fight scenes in the movie and he says stallone insisted they actually punched each other, but not too hard, so on camera it looked as realistic as possible. this is a previous world champion yet he says he struggled to keep up with stallones schedule and thought about dropping out. shame it was a shite film. the first was the best by far. also little known fact that when stallone wrote the first rocky script he was offered $365,000 by united artists to buy the screenplay and cut him out. they thought he was a terrible actor. he refused as he wanted to star in it. turned out ok for him! also thats why he wrote the sceen in rocky 2 where hes shooting the commercial. they told him he couldnt speak properly or act. edited as i had put $1 millon dollars but after having a quick check it was actually only $365,000 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pittsburgh phil Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 Hearing Helen Skelton telling a young boy he earned a solid 69 on Countryfile just sounds wrong. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverton End Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 Killing Eve BBC 1, Saturdays. Great 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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