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Why all the Razzies?!?!

posted 10 years ago by ReceveurReviews
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I was beyond appalled at how many it won and was nominated for. There had to have been way worse movies than this. Rocky IV is a classic.

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[–] ReceveurReviews 9 years ago

This is Rocky IV not Rhinestone.

[–] rjsf96 9 years ago

I gave it a 4.5. It repeats too many of the same story beats to stand apart from the series. Stallone looks half asleep, the music is screechy and it all falls rather flat with atrocious lines and cringeworthy scenes to boot. Nevermind the blatant jingoism littered throughout, honestly Rocky Iv is hard to watch.

[–] ReceveurReviews 9 years ago

Only thing I really dislike is the robot. It's nowhere as good as Rocky I but I still like Rocky IV thanks to its montages and I just like Stallone personally.

[–] rjsf96 9 years ago

That's cool. I just really enjoyed the first half hour up until the fight with Apollo Creed against the Russian. The song by James Brown worked really well, but the editing in that fight felt really odd and just gave less of an impact to Creed's death, which should have filled me with tears. Instead I was rather baffled. I like Rocky I to III. But if I am being honest I like Creed way more than any of the Rocky films. I just think it had a better director behind the camera, furious fights and much more powerful acting. Still for the most part I enjoy the Rocky series, but I have yet to view Rocky V and Balboa.

[–] ReceveurReviews 9 years ago

I understand. I'd probably go Rocky, Rocky II, Creed, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Rocky Balboa and way way way below Would be rocky v. If they make a creed II I hope is as awesome as the first.

[–] residentevil6901 9 years ago

Rocky IV is my favorite of all the Rocky movies, I don't get the Razzies either other then we have to share a world with lots of really, really stupid people. And it's funny how so many of the stupid ones don't know that they're stupid so that doesn't help either.

[–] llll2000 9 years ago

This movie was more like a cartoon than anything. You must have a peabrain to like it.

[–] ReceveurReviews 9 years ago

Way to assume something like that! I'll have you know my brain is the size of a walnut actually thank you very much. Also yeah cartoons are gay.

[–] crypticanomaly73 9 years ago

The Razzies pick safe targets. Simple as that.

Stallone regardless if you love or hate him is one of the most iconic actors around and has played 2 of the most memorable characters in film.

Sometimes a movie or tv show plot is so stupid that only the stupid can understand it.

[–] TMC-4 (20490) 7 years ago

Rocky IV is among the movies in the series, the closest thing to an out and out action-adventure movie than a gritty drama. Rocky III was already drifting away from the grounded reality of the first two into something more flashy.

I think people are hard on Rocky IV (even though it's the most commercially successful at the box office) it really didn't deal with real, natural interpersonal turmoil for Rocky to overcome. At least in #3, we still had Rocky being spoiled by his success (and thus losing his competitive edge, losing in humiliation fashion to Clubber Lang, and to top it all off, losing his mentor Mick in succession). Rocky IV really wouldn't have much of a plot had Apollo not first issued the challenge to fight Drago, to prove America's superiority over this commie Russians.

Rocky IV is when you get right down to it, a Cold War era revenge movie that's cut like an MTV-style music video.