creed thawts

watched creed, somehow. Not gonna divulge but if I could have seen it in theaters I would have. It's certainly everything the critics called it.

My biggest issue with it though as a life long rocky nut is that Rocky steals the movie in every scene he's in. I felt for Creed and his journey but as soon as stallone steps into frame it's his movie and solidifies this as a welcome final chapter in the rocky legacy. If indeed it is. Didn't expect rocky to still be alive at the end of the movie. What is that supposed to mean? We'll see rocky train adonis in the sequel too as he goes up against Drago's son? Who da fuk knows...

Nice little movie ya can watch and never really have any idea it belongs to the older film series. But it definitely has the same spirit and plays the same notes as the originals, creating an atmosphere of somewhat comic bookish quality to the film like in the original movie. Tall tale kinda feel like it's not about playing it straight, it's about going for the bigger picture. I liked that.

Word was that Rocky died in it and indeed he's severely ill at the end of the film and is on his last legs. That's my problem with the movie. It guts and disassembles a legendary hero right in front of our eyes for no good reason I can figure out, but at the start of the movie, Rocky's in decent health. At the end he's limping and pale and sickly. So now I have to have that image in my head when I watch rocky 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. I have to prepare for the elderly half dead rocky. That's unacceptable. I know that's life, but definitely not something I think should become a norm, seeing young prime heros grow old and feeble. It's just not proper.

I'm not saying I want film making to never tread foot into the reality of life, but this is Rocky, not fucking million dollar baby or a documentary. Rocky is almost a mythological story. You will NEVER read a story about myths in their twilight years.

The film is fine the way it is and plausible. What the fuck does rocky do after he retires? Probably trains a new fighter, duh. So we get to see that. And it properly re-injects creed into the rocky story after he was missing from RB. But yeah like I said, they damn fucking tried their hardest you could tell, but as soon as Stallone uttered one word, he stole the film from everyone else. And he's the side character in this movie, that's not good for the film in the end. And all the shots of rocky getting sick and throwing up and seeing him as an aging old man, way too over the top. Wow. Why go and sweep the rug from under that happy ending we saw in Rocky Balboa. Oh by the way, after Rocky triumphs and proves age can't beat him, he's an old feeble vomiting blood and slowly dying man after all's said and done... So horrible to watch. And it's just sad really. Rocky is supposed to embody the pure power of the underdog spirit. To see him have all that power drained and in one scene he basically says he's fucked, nothing he can do now about his aging. Well yeah, but don't show us this shit.

But yeah, very quality movie. It's more of a character piece and good compliment to Rocky Balboa, in fact it's basically a better version of Rocky Balboa. If I had it my way I'd fuse the two films into one so we remove the steps character and replace him with Adonis and after Rocky meets him and gets his last fight, he starts training Adonis for his career, works for me.

But like I said, its biggest glaring flaw is that it's got Rocky hanging out in it. How could they have fixed this giant elephant in the room? Shit. I guess have Rocky be long dead, but Dukes trains apollo's son and constantly reminiscences about rocky. No mention of Dukes in the movie. So he's probably dead, not like Tony Burton couldn't have showed up would have made the movie have some kick to it...