Favorite Rocky Movie

The first is the best.. loses the fight but wins the girl. Second best was the last one. Just a good story with nice character developments.

As for most entertaining one (the 80's action movie syndrom), definitely number three. Rocky IV was Rocky III on steroids.

 

Rocky I
Rocky III
Rocky II
Rocky V
Rocky IV
Rocky VI

 

I like 'em all, but my favorite is probably I, followed closely by II.

I liked Rocky Balboa, too...it was weird seeing a movie in theaters that was a sequel to a series of movies that were ALL made before I was born

The only one I didn't like? V. It was a good watch (as they all are), but it's definately my pick for the worst of the entire series.

 

Rocky was among the best movies of all time. It was poignant and it inspired a nation. Countless boxers became boxers because of that movie. Among them, Vinnie Paz, my neighbor in Rhode Island. But it was a love story first before it was a boxing movie and it ended up transcending both because it became an emotional event and spiritual experience. America still cries and cheers at that movie.

Rocky II was a chick flick. And the ending gave me goose bumps as a child, but it really is ridiculous if you think about it.

Rocky III had the most action and although it veered into the hokay now and then ("The Italian Meatball" is lifted up over Thunderlips head in the ring and what does he do? He says "Adrian?"?!?! WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT? And that homosexual water dance during training was unnerving. Not even Emile Griffith would have done that). But it was a great movie. Clubber Lang took his place among the greatest nemesises of cinematic history. "Don't give this suckah a statue -give him GUTS!" -I love it. Guys in their 30s seem to choose this one because it is nostalgic and that generation was drunk on action flicks.

Rocky IV is the favorite of guys in their teens and 20s. Why? I think that Stallone's narcissism was on full display here and that generation is extremely narcissistic. No offense, but how old are the posters who chose that one? The fight was idiotic. No one takes that kind of beating by a giant. What happened on the set is closer to reality. Lunkhead Lungren gave 5'8 Stallone a concussion.

Rocky V. "My rings outside." That movie suggested that pugilistica dementia can be healed by street fighting larger, faster, younger men. And that was the only action in the whole damn film. However, I love the ghostly Mickey scenes... "I didn't hear no bell!"

Rocky Balboa. Of course I was there on the first night. I liked the commercial better. It would have been proper had he died at the end. Thank God he didn't win, because it would have tanked.

--All of us are indebted to Stallone. He gave boxing a bigger boost than Ali himself and did for the whole world what Joe Louis did for American blacks. We all cheered in cinema parking lots like African Americans did in the streets of Harlem.

 

Has to be Rocky 1 he didn't even win but proved he was great by taking the champ the distance.

 

I prefer "the Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle" above all the others.

 

My favourite Rocky movie is Marciano Charles I

 

My favourite Rocky movie is Marciano Charles I

 

Whatsamatta U is where I went to school!:good

 

Not sure which was my favourite, but I like the fight scene with Clubber Lang in the end of RockyIII, when Rocky comes out with a different fighting style, and upsets him. Loved the speed and skill of those punches, Clubber the bully just couldn't find a way around it.

Would be interesting if the Clubber and Ivan Drago characters had been 'interviewed' after the fights, to see what they thought of Rocky then.

As for some of the lines, though, I liked Rocky IV's the best:

Apollo to Drago: "Come on, get your hands up, man. Do you need an interpreter?" Then he bashes down on Drago's hands, which don't budge, and Drago says: "You will lose."

I also like the fight scene, and the quotes between rounds:

Rocky: "I see three of them out there."
Micky: "Hit the one in the middle."

And I loved this one, at the end of the round when Rocky cuts Drago's face, and smashes him with a series of punches:

Rocky's trainer (excitedly): "You cut him, you hurt him! You see, he's not a machine, he's a man! A man!"

And Drago: "He is not human. He is like a piece of iron."

 

They're all good apart from Rocky V.

I think Rocky IV is a lot better than some give it credit for. It's ridiculous but it's a fun film, it has to be viewed in context of the time it was made. As a "boxing movie" it's really silly, but as a "boxing movie" it was even SILLIER AT THE TIME !
Robotic russians fighting for heavyweight championship, that was crazy, Apollo Creed's circus-like ring entrance dressed as Uncle Sam on the elevating ring to James Brown's "Living in America".
Anyone who remembers Prince Nazeem Hamed's ring entrances (or Chris Eubank coming in on a Harley-Davidson !) can see that real life imitated and surpassed the outrageous pomp of the movie.

Rocky III is a great movie. Mr.T is awesome. Again, it's a slide away from the "realism" of the first film, and it has extremely blatant "homo-erotic" undertones (Stallone and Apollo running down the beach, muscles all oiled up, diving in the sea together is joyous climax - it's GAY AS **** !). Probably more a result of the sheers narcissism of Stallone and Weathers, rather than any genuinely ***** agenda on their part. Despite it's campness, it is still a great film.

Rocky is the best film.
Rocky II has a great fight scene, and it's "same old" plot is justified by the first film. For a simple sequel it is perfectly okay.

Rocky VI was a throwback to the first film, but also a tribute to boxing now-and-then. The fight scene is the most "real" of all the fight scenes, and shot in HBO-style, with the real TV crew.
Ironically, casting a real boxing champion has the champion didn't work well, IMO. I think Antonio Tarver was a weak link, not so much his acting but he simply didn't have the presence. He looked like the out-of-shape ordinary-looking light-heavy that he was.

 

Yeah, saw III on the big screen as a kid and loved it. Mr T. was great and really did inspire some fear the way they built his character.

I thought Tarver was a woeful choice. Not mean enough, big enough or just plain scary and fearsome enough. Terrible selection IMO.

 

I
III
II
The rest

 

I thought it was pretty hilarious how Rocky forgot how to skip every time his life was in a bit of a rut.