I decided to come full circle and finish the Rocky franchise. I wasn't all that satisfied with the Rocky V ending, and this one solved that problem. It seemed to go back to the roots of Rocky--a well meaning, yet lonely man just doing the best he can. The first act of the film really establishes Rocky as a lonely character, with Adrian passing and his son acting distant. He decides to fight one last time, just to prove to himself that he can and to get the beast out from inside of him. Besides for the strange fight editing and cinematography, it was a beautiful ending for one of my favorite film characters of all time. However, Rocky is gonna be in the spin-off sequel Creed, and Sly didn't write it--leaving me skeptical. In any case, Rocky Balboa was a great bookend to the franchise, really harkening back to Rocky 1, where it tells the story of a man who happens to box, rather than the rest of the franchise which were straight up boxing movies.
Why not just keep going with the Stallone stuff? First Blood Part II was all kinds of badass. It still had some of those cheesy 80's one liners, but I thought it was fun. The thing that bugged me was how the female lead of the film spoke broken english, but had absolutely no accent. Other than that, it was what it was--an action movie--and there isn't much to say besides it was fun, masculine, and explosion-filled.
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