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^^ Right there. The real Vicki was sucked into the blackboard and... I guess trapped inside the case? What emerged from the blackboard was Mary Lou disguised as Vicki.
They have the street fight because Tommy had the gall to punch Paulie. Rocky was having none of that.
Also, doubles as stealth genius from Rocky: he and Tommy have a fight... and George Washington Duke gets no money out of it.
Mary Lou is burned to a crisp when she emerges from Vickie's body at the prom. She then slowly transforms her body back to normal. When she starts beating up Craig on the stage, she still has a little burn damage which continues to go away as the ending progresses.
I legitimately find the street fight in "Rocky V" far and away more exciting than the listless "real" boxing match from "Rocky IV."
Good to hear some kind words about the film.
"Rocky V" starts in December of 1985 and slowly works its way up to December of 1990. By the end of the Tommy Gunn montage, magazine covers say "December 1990" on them. The movie was released in November of 1990, so those had to be specially made with the intent that at that point in the movie, it was the close of 1990.
"Christmas Vacation" isn't a goof. They put that there on purpose. In the director's cut, they were watching... "It's a Wonderful Life"? I think. It wasn't "Christmas Vacation," though.
It wasn't even originally part of the movie!
They were beginning to shoot the movie in late 1990. One of the producer heads of Paramount said, "If you guys can get me a trailer next week, I'll put it before 'The Godfather, Part III" (despite how you may feel about the film now, in 1990, GF3 was one of the most highly-anticipated movies and your trailer playing before it would have been a huge deal). So since his brother had just made "Ghost," David Zucker created a teaser trailer with Frank and Jane in place of Sam and Molly that wasn't meant to have anything to do with the real movie. However, the response to the trailer was so great that they decided to put a version of that teaser trailer in as a scene in the movie itself.
Before he lands in the ocean, Hoagie mentions that he's calling in their position so they can be rescued. And he does, so you're to assume that's how they got back to land.
Supposedly, the shark in "Jaws 2" is the sister of the first shark. The shark in "Jaws 3-D" is their mother and the shark in "Jaws: The Revenge" is the father. So, it becomes a family of sharks against a family of people.
This was not in the screenplay (I have a copy of it). That was an invention of the writer of the novelization. But it does not originate from the script.
They show the shark in the ocean coming to follow Ellen and Mike down to the Bahamas. It's pretty obvious it's the same shark throughout the entirety of the film.
When is Hendricks referred to as "Len" or "Lenny" in the first "Jaws"? It doesn't matter what his name is in the novel. I only remember him being referred to as "Hendricks" in the first film.
Interjecting "oh, please! This movie makes me laugh" for no good reason isn't humor either.
The movie was written and made by Italians and their storylines tend to be a little crueler than most.
The screenwriters were Luciano Vincenzoni, who co-wrote "For a Few Dollars More" and "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly," and Sergio Donati, who co-wrote "The Big Gundown," "Once Upon a Time in the West," and "Duck You Sucker."
"wasn't he warned in one of the earlier films that he'd go blind if he boxed again, yet he did and that issue was never brought up again?"
Even if that hadn't been briefly attended to in "Rocky III," that doesn't really have any baring on what Stallone had written and shot and intended for "Rocky Balboa."
Mr. T was filming his reality show at the time and was not available to do it. No, seriously.
MGM didn't put any force behind it for Oscar nominations. Stallone tried to get some attention from them but without the studio's help, it was a lost cause from the start (I have seen several "for your consideration" Oscar promos for the film).
I do legitimately feel Stallone's performance in "Rocky Balboa" is his best performance as the character. And while probably not a popular opinion, I feel his direction of "Rocky Balboa" is better than John Avildsen's Oscar-winning direction of the first movie.
As far as I'm concerned, Rocky did win the fight.
Notice who got in the last punch...
It is a mistake. Until "Balboa" came along, Apollo Creed was supposed to take the place of Ali in Rocky's universe.
"Balboa" has a couple of problems like that. Like Adrian's tombstone says she was born in 1950, making her five years younger than Rocky. But the first movie makes a big deal out of how Rocky and Adrian are both 30 years old in 1975.
Sly was not paying attention.
Originally, "Rocky Balboa" ran about 2 1/2 hrs. This was the run time when Stallone had a preview in Philadelphia in March 2006. MGM said "We're not releasing a 2 1/2 hr Rocky movie. Cut it down to an hour forty-five." One of the many parts of the story removed (that never showed up on any of the home video release extras) was where they dealt with the brain damage problem from "Rocky V." The battery of tests done to Rocky (which is mentioned during his hearing scene) with newer, current technology reveal that Rocky's brain is fine and he was just suffering a severe concussion at the beginning of "V."