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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: Sony EAN: 0043396161900 Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Item Dimensions: Label: Sony Pictures Languages: Manufacturer: Sony Pictures MPN: TM2631 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Sony Pictures Region Code: 99 Release Date: March 20, 2007 Running Time: 102 minutes Studio: Sony Pictures Theatrical Release Date: December 20, 2006 Accessories: Editorial Review: Product Description: Rocky Balboa' examines one of America's greatest icons at a vulnerable period in his life--middle age. A former heavyweight boxing champion, known and renown throughout the world for going the distance, Rocky finds a new venture: giving back to his community. This is where he, once more, finds himself at the opposing side of opportunity, not unlike the one he has seen decades ago. Heavyweight champ Mason Dixon and his representation offer Rocky a shot for the title. For Balboa, it'll be one last hurrah he'll never forget.....but with his glory days far behind him can he withstand the inevitabilities of what's to come? A look at going full circle and wanting more, when life turns out how you least expect it and then some. Amazon.com:
The sixth installment of the Rocky series picks up the story of the Italian Stallion 16 years after the morose Rocky V. And sure, at his advanced age, Sylvester Stallone now looks like one of those sides of beef his character used to pound on. No matter. Somehow you buy the premise after all these years, even if it takes forever for Rocky Balboa to stop wallowing in self-pity (Adrian is dead, his old haunts are demolished) and get down to the business of drinking raw eggs and running up staircases. The business at hand is an unlikely exhibition fight with champion Mason Dixon (Antonio Tarver), which the near-sexagenarian Mr. Balboa has no business accepting. Of course, just as sure as the horns of Bill Conti's theme music are even now trumpeting through your head, the ol' Rock might have a punch or two left in him. Stallone wrote and directed, and there isn't much to say except that the movie steps in its pre-determined paces with a canny sense of what has come before (it's practically an homage to all the previous Rocky pictures, complete with fleeting flashbacks). Burt Young is around again, and Geraldine Hughes makes an appealing, rather chaste female companion for Rocky. Stallone's Rocky has gotten suspiciously articulate over the years, but he still knows how to slouch. If Stallone never forgets that, he can probably keep the franchise rolling. --Robert Horton Stills from Rocky Balboa (click for larger image)
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 Rating:  - Everyone can change!Growing up, the classic series of Rocky boxing films use to be a piece of Americana. After a sixteen year sabbatical from Rocky V in 1990, the latest film, Rocky Balboa, was released last Christmas to theatres. Rocky Balboa is played by Sylvester Stallone, and the film takes place well over a decade since Rocky V and a few years after Rocky's wife, Adrian passes away. Rocky is having trouble living life after boxing; he cannot connect with his son, and is still coming to terms that ... Read More Rating:  - Best Rocky Movie of the Last DecadeExcellent movie if you go into it with zero expectations. It should really be terrible, but it's mostly entertaining. Rating: - Great fun, and not as corny as I thought it would beI went into watching this thinking it would be pure, implausible corn, but I was strangely surprised at how good this film was. Surprising, too, was how similar this film was in feel and spirit to the original Rocky film. Fascinating too is that this film, of all the Rocky films, seems to have the LEAST actual focus on boxing. The film is all about character development, relationships, and longing for the past. Some great material being told here. I loved seeing Rocky's continuous obsession ... Read More Rating: - Exit with PrideWhen I first heard this movie was going to be made, I groaned in agony. But then a good friend of mine stated, `I think he still has something to say'. And you know what? He actually did. Don't get me wrong, I knew Stallone had talent. After all, he scribed all the Rocky movies (the first won an Oscar), and directed 2, 3 and 4. Leaving the fifth to the director of the original. I can't blame him for wanting to make one more movie (lets hope it's only one more) after the travesty of ... Read More Rating: - THIS is a must have!!!!!Just saw this final installment of the Rocky series. Can't say that I'd been entirely happy about the fact that a new one was going to hit the market. The last one was abysmal at best. But this is the best way to end the seminal Rocky series. The poorer side of Philly is back (and takes a good chunk of the film). The Rocky we knew as a REAL underdog is back. Paulie is back. Hell, even the egg drinking is back. The best part of this film is that it actually ... Read More |
