I thought Rocky V was awesome. It was definitely a much more well made movie than Rocky III or IV. It became cool to hate on V for some reason. Even Stallone doesn't like it. I've always enjoyed it just as much as the others.
"Yo, you knocked him down, now why don't you try knocking me down now?" When Rocky finally has enough, gets pissed, and says that to Tommy I still get so pumped!
I get just as fired up watching the street fight as I did for any of the other Rocky fights. It was badass, with the exception of Sage Stallone's character's "he took my room" and "go for it" shouting, but overall it was a well put together movie.
I love ALL the Rocky movies, as corny as some of them are, but you CANNOT tell me that the 90min music videos that are Rocky III and Rocky IV are better made films than Rocky V.
I don't care what the trend is, or which movie it's cool to hate.
It's funny, I've heard the EXACT same lines used a million times for why people didn't like Rocky V, and its mainly "Rocky doesn't fight in the ring" or "He never would have lost all his money." That's been regurgitated so many times it's laughable. No professional athlete has ever gone broke, lol.
If you don't like a movie at least come up with your own original reason for not liking it.
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Ldlamb (639)
6 years ago
When lots of people have the same reason for disliking something.....maybe that just means it’s a pretty good reason.
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sut6432 (2908)
6 years ago
No, it's a trend. People like to agree about things, and people like to take someone else's reasonings and pass them off as their own.
It became cool to dislike Rocky V from people who loved the cartoonish style of Rocky III and Rocky IV, because Rocky V went back to a dramatic style of filmmaking, and wasn't a full on action movie with a hour and a half of training montages like III and IV.
Trend or not, NOBODY will ever tell me that III and IV are more well made films than V.
And this comes from someone who loves all the Rocky movies, but III and IV are outlandish, and V was more real.
If people just liked III and IV better, that's fine, but when those films exist, but ROCKY V is considered the biggest insult to the franchise, then that is hysterical.
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