I think so.
They brought (and continue to bring) new fans to this great sport - people that would not ordinarily be interested in boxing.
Stallone's story is great - down on his luck actor, sees the Ali/Wepner fight and three days later cranks out the first draft of what would become an icon in Hollywood history, as well as turning him into the stuff of Hollywood legend and a multimillionaire. Got to love America.
From a movie standpoint, they are all A class movies, extremely well made, with a lot of heart as well as commercial value.
They also foreshadowed events in actual boxing history.
Clubber Lang in no.3 was a precursor to Mike Tyson. Look at no.4 with Ivan Drago and look at the heavyweight division today.
Rocky 5 culminated with two heavyweight champs, Rocky and Tommy Gunn, going at it in the streets. The year of its release, Holmes and Berbick did exacty that in a parking lot in Vegas
December sees the release of 'Rocky Balboa', the 6th in the franchise
Can't wait
2006-10-23 03:21:21 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Boxing
Native New Yorker - 'Somebody Up There Likes Me' is about Rocky GRAZIANO.
2006-10-23 03:58:31 · update #1
Brent - the studio wanted Ryan O' Neal for Rocky. Apparently he's a pretty good boxer. Stallone held out for the lead, even though they offered him half a mil and he was down to his last 100 bucks, I think it was. The rest is history.
For my money, the best of the five was number three, with Mr T.
2006-10-23 09:58:09 · update #2
Another interesting tidbit - going back to my points about the series foreshadowing real events in boxing; 'Rocky Balboa' has an aged Rocky coming back to fight Mason Dixon, played by Antonio Tarver.
Tarver just recently got his a** kicked by an aged (41) Bernard Hopkins.
2006-10-23 10:03:45 · update #3
Another tidbit - has anyone seen the shape that a sixty year old Stallone is in for this movie? It's phenomenal.
2006-10-23 10:10:12 · update #4
Brad ~
Everything you add after you ask the question is right on the money. It's hard to add to what you've already wrote. The main thing is that the Rocky series inspires young and not so young would be fighters. Anything that brings new fighters to the gym I'm in favor of.
I think each one of the movies had major flaws, but being a former boxer I tend to over analyze all boxing movies. For example "Cut me Mick" or Micky telling Rocky "He had a nail shoved in his glove and every time he hit me he put holes in my face, where the blood was squirting out"
The whole idea of the movies was to inspire and it did exactly that. Do you know how many days you (anybody) can drive by the Art Museum on Ben Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia and see someone run up the stairs and hold their hands up in triumph? 365 days, if that isn't inspiration, nothing is.
Yeah, Rocky Graziano, played by Paul Newman in 1956, Sal Mineo played Romolo, Rocky's best friend.
2006-10-23 03:44:30 · answer #1 · answered by Santana D 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Brad - The first I thought was the best. How can you beat a Best Picture Ocsar? A true Cinderella story for Sly. The thinking was that the studio didn't want Sly to play the lead. Can you imagine anyone else playing Rocky? Nothing more to add than that, you and Santana covered it pretty well.
2006-10-23 15:42:09 · answer #2 · answered by Brent 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I like Rocky 4 the best
2006-10-24 09:41:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love Stallone but the Rocky movies were too fake looking. I agree with kingstubb.
2006-10-23 17:41:56 · answer #4 · answered by smitty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rocky movies are not good for boxing, NO movie is good for learning any boxinf or martial arts because alot of it is done for show not to teach, All rocky did in the movies is get punched like 185 times and he still wouldn't go down, I wouldn't recommend you do the same. go to a trainer or something.
2006-10-23 10:24:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes...and I like all the Rocky movies.
2006-10-23 10:28:16 · answer #6 · answered by fatladyvan 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, they are awful...the fight scenes are absurd.
As for the movies, other than the first, they were awful, with the higher the number, the more awful they were.
I hear in number 6, Balboa fights Enid Bertram, the lady who always throws away 5 pieces of the puzzle so no one in the nursing home can finish the jigsaw with the adorable kittens. He takes in 13 rounds.
2006-10-23 16:38:23 · answer #7 · answered by kingstubborn 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
ROCKY AND ROCKY II
IF YOU WANT TO SEE A GREAT BOXING MOVIE RENT
''SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME'' - THE
STORY OF ROCKY MARCIANO
AND, OF COURSE, RAGING BULL.
2006-10-23 10:30:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the rocky movies where great for boxing of course everything was bit ova done if u where in real match u get knocked out if u boxed like dat but that film inspired loads of people to try boxing and if dats not good for boxing i dont know wat is. oh yeah ur points are all vaild.
2006-10-24 10:15:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes all of them
2006-10-23 16:14:25 · answer #10 · answered by Mr. Pizza Man 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋