February 12, 2006

• Shame? What does that have to do with it? Movies are made as an expression of art, or to make money (or some combination thereof). Sequels are almost always done exclusively to make money. This is not exception. Maybe this isn't the right time to tell you that Stallone is also making a fourth Rambo movie, too.

• Stallone is also making a fourth Rambo movie

  <blinks> This is such a "Luke, I am your father" moment.
• its good to start again with this movie, i go back to the past with rocky and i remeber to my father , he liks the pictures of rocky, iwould like he stil life but dont . ok congratulations to silvester salon.
• Could be good with the right script. You could play it as farcical 1970s parody comedy. Or a searing piece about the tragic delusions of a 60-year-old has-been. Your spelling is coming on nicely there, Koko.
• They say if you give a million monkeys a million typewriters, someday one will write the Great AmericanCanadian Blog Post...
• "The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper, or his keeper's brother." -- Evan Esar
• You can Rocky balboa ! You are the best !
• I liked those movies, and I look forward to these. More than that, I look forward to getting stoned before even leaving the bed.
• Oh yeah.
• If you give one million monkeysHollywood screenwriter one million typewriters eventuallyimmediately you'll get the works of Shakespeareswill.
• Koko right opinions! I can Rocky Blaboa also! When he is in the fighting, and the big fist for hits, man that is on the huge.
• i love stallone and i cnt wait 4 rocky 6 but i'm scared incase rocky dies as in rocky 5 we found out e ad sumet rong with is brain coz of fighting oh i ope e dunt die "go rocky, go rocky" i'm only 13 so i've neva seen rocky at cinema so i'm gladf i can this 1
• Maybe the time is right fo Mr. T's big comeback!
• They do it because the consuming masses will pay $$$ to see it. (See also: - almost every hollywood sequel, prequel and/or many first features - most mainstream music)
• Maybe the time is right fo Mr. T's big comeback! Apparently a million monkeys at typewriters agree.
• Man, he's in good shape. What a great face, too. If they do a good job with the story (acknowledging Rocky's limitations at age 59 or whatever), it could be a good movie.
• The Rocky movies are among the select band of films I have deliberately never watched, along with E.T., the Sound of Music and that boat movie, among others. This is my protest against general stupidity and schmaltz in films. It is my opinion that the only good performance Stallone ever gave was in Death Race 2000. And possibly that porno.
• I'm probably alone on this, but I liked Oscar.
• >>If they do a good job with the story (acknowledging Rocky's limitations at age 59 or whatever), it could be a good movie. However, if the story involves boxing, it means this hasn't happened.
• i likd rokky 5 iwas 5 was i saa it and now im liddel oldr but he was fiteing avry one and he was best lik befour wan he was did it lik 3 mor tiems an avry one noes it he an
• New Rocky. New Rambo (what, he goes back to kill those Afghan rebels that he helped against the russians, when he finds out they harbor OBL?). And today, I saw a trailer for a new 'Poseidon' film. Fuck Hollywood. For every decent, imaginative, good movie they release, a ton f shit pours out of its' neon anus. Guess the only solution is to get into the popcorn concession business.
• "Fuck Hollywood. For every decent, imaginative, good movie they release..." They release decent imaginative good movies, now? That must be a new business tactic.
• Underpants Monster, you're not alone. I've seen it three times now. *♥ Tim Curry and his tuning fork*
• Flagpole, I saw a new Poseidon film a month or two ago, some awful made-for-TV thing with Jane from Serenity playing an air marshal, and a really bad-looking Steve Guttenberg. In the version I saw, terrorists tipped the Poseidon over, instead of the tsunami or freak wave or whatever it was in the original, which I've never seen. Trust me. Offal.
• They release decent imaginative good movies, now? Once in a while one slips through.
• I want to see a remake of Scary Movie 4, but only if it's tastefully done.
• New Rambo (what, he goes back to kill those Afghan rebels that he helped against the russians, when he finds out they harbor OBL?). Now THAT would be a movie! If Hollywood has any social conscience at all *waits until laughter dies down* this is the way they'll go!
• a really bad-looking Steve Guttenberg Er, as opposed to...?
• Um, police acadamy Gute? Schwing!!
• Oh sure, remake friggin Rocky, you bastards, and all the while the sequel to The Specialist languishes. There is no justice in this world.
• Ima just pick up Bambi 2 on DVD and stay in.
• Even worse.
• I saw an ad for the latest teen sex comedy, which mentions that it was written by two of the six writers who made Scary Movie. I saw this ad probably five or six times before I realized: It took six fucking people to write Scary Movie?
• "In the version I saw, terrorists tipped the Poseidon over, instead of the tsunami or freak wave or whatever it was in the original, which I've never seen." See the original whenever it shows up on late nite tv. Brilliant in its sheer awfulness. Gene Hackman has never been more Gene Hackmanesque. And Shelley Winters -- well, it's always a good time when great actors are trapped in a bad movie. "The Rocky movies are among the select band of films I have deliberately never watched..." The very first one is excellent. I held off watching it for years and years, and, like Saturday Night Fever, I found myself thinking "Hey -- this is actually a pretty good movie". To some extent, Rocky and SNF are the same movie, Italian-American loser struggling to make something of himself in a largely-nonsensical enterprise... But Rocky's better because Rocky loses. Loses the big fight, but finds what really important, yada yada yada. And Rocky-as-film is also impressive because Stallone wrote it. He doesn't strike one as a writin' man. Writing Rocky is the sole reason that Stallone being made a Chevallier of Arts and Letters not completely absurd. I'll stop now.
• They wrote Scary Movie?
• Well, they sort of pantomimed it. I suppose that counts.
• Steve Guttenberg has costarred with Laurence Olivier and the Village People.
• Wasn't Rocky itself a thinly veiled remake of On the Waterfront?
• I read about a great porn movie on the weekend, called BellaDonna: My Ass Is Haunted. I would google it, but I'm at work. BEST. TITLE. EVER.
• Better than Sex Trek: The Next Penetration?
• Better than Hannah Does Her Sisters?
• Rocky was also The Cincinnati Kid.
• I seek... The Toronto Kid!
• Better than Foreskin Gump? Tales from the Clit? The Bare Wench Project?
• Ordinary Peepholes? Splendor in the Ass? The Sperminator?
• Tighty Hermaphrodite? Raising Harry Boner? Shaggin': The Juice Lee Story?
• Titty Clitty Gang Bang?
• Searching Ryan's Privates?
• *Shaving
• I stand corrected. Or sit, as the case may be.
• Mh, scartol, I got glowing reviews and recommendations over that one by film loving friends, so I got it, and while the overall ambience is quite well done as well as the acting, in the end it was just too jumbled for me... failing neurons, I know. Then again, I also found 'Pi' interesting to look at but too cryptic. Oh well, maybe I need to go back to light teen comedies...
• it should perhaps be noted that Rocky had a great run at the oscars, golden globes, etc for 1976; it won best picture and stallone even got a nomination for 'Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen'. First Blood was pretty good, too, imho. first blood part II & III, however, are testaments to the fact that it isnt easy to make a "great" sequel. (iirc john rambo died at the end of the novel.) not to mention all that unfortunate mujahadeen business in first blood part III. and teh hardcore, astute rocky fans might be interested to see that spider rico will return for Rocky Balboa as well.
• to all those who have missed the 70s brilliance that is (the original) Poseidon Adventure, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YER MISSING!! really, its great. it has everything you could ever want in a cheesy disaster movie!!!
• I refuse to watch any further Rocky sequels until Clubber Lang returns.
• I want to see Rocky take on Soda Popinski. Man, when he starts a-blinkin' watch out!
• ...Soda Popinski. Man, when he starts a-blinkin' watch out, friend! (preview button :)
• more like vodka drunkenski am i rite laffo
• yo adrian
• Nostradamus was right, the armageddon is nigh.
• I rely only on Nostrildamus.
• Hold on, let me check my handy uberhipster quick-reference card... This looks great! Oh, wait. Sorry. Hold on... (Carry the 3... +number of sequels... republican in whitehouse -6, new Rambo movie on the horizon *3.14...) This looks lame.
• I swear, when I saw this link, I thought that maybe they were bringing back Tim Curry in drag.
• I'm disapointed that they aren't bringing back Tim Curry in drag. That man has a good set of pipes.
• I think this movie could be good.
• Maybe Balboa could fight a character played by Tim Curry in drag. Now THAT I'd pay $9 to see.
• Balboa would exhaust himself punching harmlessly into Tim Curry's flab. But still, worth the nine bucks. Which is not to suggest that there's anything wrong with Curry -- Muppet Treasure Island? AWESOME. He's just let himself go, last I saw.
• I think people are being too harsh. Although Rocky's sequels were mostly shite, the first movie was good, & I think that even though the premise of this new one looks st00pid (a near 60-yr old taking on the heavyweight champeen) given that we accept much crazier shit in movies, we should give this a chance. As a dramatic setup, it has a lot of potential. Stallone hasn't always been a hack, he has done some really good work. The original Rocky is grand, so is First Blood, & did anyone see Cop Land? I'm no big fan of Stallone, but I'll give this a chance.
• /sounding like Ebert
• I'm currently working my way through the first five, actually. The first one IS pretty good, although a somewhat uncomfortable mix of 70's style cinema-verite and hackneyed "Underdog" hollywood schmaltz. The second one, well, they sure worked awfully hard to return EVERYONE back to square one so they could refilm the first movie with a different ending. Next up, Mr T! And then Drago, the Soviet killing machine. Can't wait! (My wife, however, can certainly wait, and has already vetoed my "When we're done with this, let's watch all the Rambo's!" idea. For the better, probably.)
• Oh yeah, Apollo Creed? Worst self-publicist EVER!
• what have you done with the chyren who posted on february 13th? (i think the first rocky deserved its oscars)
• my last comment intended for the new chyren.
• And don't forget when he played the thug on the subway who busted up Woody Allen's cello... But his hosting of the Muppet show smack dab in the middle of his Rocky peak -- truly the most unnerving of the whole series.
• I liked the one where he and that moose outwitted the Russian spies.
• It looks to me like he's trying to redeem his legacy, such as it is. The man had a promising start to his career, made some good movies, and quickly turned to the shlock side of the Force, and now in the twilight of his career is looking to put a decent cap on it. So we revisit both Rocky and Rambo, both of them iconic characters that I'd be willing to bet he believes are a part of who he is, and he gets his chance to let them go to their graves with a shred of dignity. So I'm with Chyren -- these might actually not suck. And yes, Cop Land was good.
• Two fo the best movies he made were Nighthawks and F.I.S.T. The single best movie he was ever in was Deathrace 2000.
• I watched the first 3 recently at my uncle's place. He put them on, insisted. I didn't mind the first one. I had no idea Mr T was in one until then.
• I don't think Ebert would say "shite".
• Especially since he's been in the hospital for a month.
• I had no idea Mr T was in one until then. *boggle*
• Actually, he might be more likely to say "shite" in the hospital, rather than in a review. Even so, he's probably more likely to say "shit" than "shite". Get well soon Roger!
• Maynard Ferguson gonna fly now.
• I remember slapping my mom's Conquistador LP on the turntable when I was a wee-little tot. Didn't make the Rocky theme song connection until later on. Fly away...
• Maynard Ferguson was my first concert. My mom took me for my 16th birthday, and we went to the old Caravan of Dreams in Ft. Worth. What a good show! He was about ten years older than God even back then, I thought, but he still had some powerful lungs. Good times.
• Holy cuff and link, Mick! Stallion's gooned on the juice?! Although it might perhaps explain a few questionable executive decisions