Yo, Adrian, it's alright
Rocky VI is unabashedly sentimental. Just how unabashedly? Spider Rico shows up, and the actor is the original. When the love interest shows up — not full love, just a spark of feeling — we know her too. We miss Adrian, and the sadness is everywhere on the streets. But we mourn and we have a spark of life.
After watching last night … I like the movie a lot. It wants to be three different movies, one artistic, one reality, one MTV. The training sequence is too short, the hurdles too low. The dialogue gets uncomfortable sometimes. And sometimes you don't know what to say. You keep talking or keep not talking until someone understands you. "I feel like a kangaroo … all this stuff in my pocket." You wind up on the other side of the conversation with Smokey Robinson on the radio, crying, or with lyric-less Kool and the Gang slow song on the record player as you fall to the kitchen floor. One round.
June 18th, 2008 at 10:52 PM
Do you mean Rocky VI? Rocky IV was all Ivan Drago and shit.
June 18th, 2008 at 10:59 PM
Oops. Yes. Did the same thing on IM last night, and the Romans … well, they wouldn't like it either. Correction now made.
May 6th, 2009 at 5:35 PM
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