Rocky Balboa

[Valadius]

That's right. You read correctly. No, I'm not making this up. Sylvester Stallone is making the sixth "Rocky" movie, titled "Rocky Balboa". Still don't believe me? Check it out:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051017/en_nm/stallone_dc

He's actually goddamn doing it.

[Willets Point]

Yes, because boxing ignites media firestorms in this day and age.

There's no way this movie can end with Rocky winning and still being a good movie.

[Benjamin Grimm]

It's already starting with a bad title.

After Rocky, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV, and Rocky V, how can he not call the next one Rocky VI?

[Valadius]

The same way the third Die Hard movie wasn't Die Hard 3.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

When I told D-Dad about this movie, without missing a beat he brought up this Weird Al classic, which is sung to the tune of The Eye of the Tiger -



Weird Al Yankovic Lyrics

Theme From Rocky XIII Lyrics


Fat and weak, what a disgrace
Guess the champ got too lazy
Ain't gonna fly now, he's just takin' up space
Sold his gloves, threw his eggs down the drain

But he's no bum, he works down the street
He bought the neighborhood deli
Back on his feet, now he's choppin' up meat
Come inside, maybe you'll hear him say

Try the rye or the kaiser
They're on special tonight
If you want, you can have an appetizer
You might like our salami and the liver's all right
And they'd really go well with the rye
Or the kaiser

Never eats while on the job
He heard it's good to stay hungry
But he makes a pretty mean shish kabob
Have a taste, they were made fresh today

Try the rye or the kaiser or the wheat or the white
Maybe I can suggest an appetizer
Stay away from the tuna, it smells funny tonight
But you just can't go wrong with the rye
Or the kaiser

So today, his deli comes first
Still he dreams of his past days of glory
Goes in the back and beats up on the liverwurst
All the while you can still hear him say

It's the rye or the kaiser, it's the thrill of one bite
Let me please be your catering advisor
If you want substitutions I won't put up a fight
You can have your roast beef on the rye
Or the kaiser

The rye or the kaiser
The rye or the kaiser
The rye or the kaiser

[Guest Edgy DC]

As outlandish as it is for him to return to the character, I always thought the real over-the-top move would be for him to do a movie called Rocky VI: Rambo IV. He could play Rocky as a genial old shlub of a former champ on a good-will tour in a mosquito-ish part of the world, confused in his punch drunk mind about when he became a man of all symbol and no substance.

While on tour, he'd get kidnapped by a bunch of generic olive-skinned guys who need shaves and say "chit" when things go bad.

John Rambo, trip-wire vet, is tired by bad news rolling in from Iraq. He happens to be a boxing fan, and sees the kidnapping as the final affront on the dignity of the country he gave so much for, even though they can't get their act together, train an army that can kick ass as well as he can, or find him a dignified place in their society. So he ties on an anachronistic headband, oils himself up, and starts a one-man war to rescue the champ.

During the rescue, Rocky does something redemptive, saves a little girl or something. Rambo gets his country's respect and a cushy reality TV show gig. One moves from beloved symbol to substance, the other moves from substance to beloved symbol, and Survivor gets to put on their berets and cut another crappy single. Stallone puts both of his beasts to bed in one crappy film.

[metirish]

Edgy that's freaking brilliant...I'm laughing my arse off after reading that...

[Willets Point]

Delete that post now! Hollywood execs have their robots out crawling the web for crappy film ideas.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Actually, the real over-the-top move would be for him to work in his character from Over the Top.

[MFS62]

Remember the tv show Alien Nation?

http://www.angelfire.com/pa2/trekker/aliennation.html

It takes place in the "future" (from when it was made in the 90's).
If you remember the intro every week, they show the main street of the city. The marquee (sp?) of the local movie house shows that Rocky VI is playing. I think they were trying to be funny. The fact that there really will be another in the series might be funnier than they intended.

Later

[Guest sharpie]

During the ALDS they ran a graphic that said that of Chone Figgins' favorite movie ever is Rocky V. At least Chone should be excited for the first sequel to his favorite movie.

[Guest cooby]

Rocky's getting pretty old, maybe he should fight Roberto Duran. They could start a Seniors Circuit for boxing

[Elster88]

The sad part is that I'll probably be there opening night.

[metirish]

Stallone wants Roy Jones Jr to play the current World Title holder that Rocky fights, in a twist Adrian is dead , Burt young will be back to play his brother, he must be 80.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Paulie is Adrian's brother.

Did you just actually miss a plot detail from the Rocky films?

More importantly, why does Adrian spell her name like a guy? shouldn't it be Adrienne?

[metirish]

My bad, I forgot that Paulie is Adrians brother....Yo Adrian

[Guest Edgy DC]

Just bustin'.

Perhaps you've taken a few too many punches yourself.

[metirish]

nah not me....here's the plot...

BY BILL HUTCHINSON DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER He was thought to be down for the count, but Rocky Balboa is ready to rise from the mat one more time for a big-screen comeback. Sylvester Stallone, who created and starred as the street-smart brawler with the eye of the tiger, confirmed reports yesterday that he's raring to get back in the ring. The sixth installment in the boxing saga will be simply titled "Rocky Balboa" and Stallone will play the aging pugilist yearning to recapture his glory days. "'Rocky Balboa' is about everybody who feels they want to participate in the race of life, rather than be a bystander," Stallone said. "You're never too old to climb a mountain, if that's your desire." Shooting is scheduled to begin in December in Las Vegas and Philadelphia, where Rocky got his start. The movie, which is backed by MGM, Columbia Pictures and Revolution Studios, is scheduled to be released on Thanksgiving 2006. Stallone, 59, who will also write and direct the film, has already revealed one of the biggest twists in the upcoming movie: Adrian is dead! In the earlier films, Rocky always leaned on his wife, Adrian, for support, crying out "Yo, ADRIAN!" in the famous scene from the first film after a bloody battle with then-reigning champ Apollo Creed. And while Adrian is dead, it is yet to be determined whether Talia Shire, the actress who played her, "might appear in a flashback" scene, said Stuart Herriot, a spokesman with Revolution Studios. But, he said, Burt Young will return as Adrian's brother, Paulie. In the new film, Rocky, now a lonely 60-year-old widower, gets a chance to prove himself again when he is offered a bout with fictional reigning heavyweight champ Mason (The Line) Dixon. "The champion's management says let's do this for real, for charity. Rocky says no but decides to be true to himself even though he's going to be berated by everyone. Just to compete, not to win," Stallone told Daily Variety. The actor revealed that he's trying to get the real former heavyweight champion Roy Jones Jr. to play Dixon. "I am drawing on a lot of my feelings that are in synch with many people's feelings about facing the last chapter of their lives and how they want it to be written," Stallone said. "Rocky goes through the skepticism of trying to go against the tide, to go against common sense." The "Rocky" franchise has grossed $495 million in the U.S. alone and the first movie, released in 1976, won three Oscars - including Best Picture.

he's doing it for Charity...figures

[MFS62]

Y'mean they wrote my ex-relative (Talia Shire) out of the script?
Oh well, in real life she divorced my cousin. So I can't get too bummed about her lack of a payday.

Later

[Willets Point]

One of the plot points of the original movie is that Rocky was getting too old for boxing.

[Guest Edgy DC]

In 1976.

Wow.

[metirish]

The makeup people will have it all to do, Sly will be 60 for Christ's sake, what's he thinking,I guess a sequel to Cobra wouldn't be as appealing.

[MFS62]

Willets Point wrote: One of the plot points of the original movie is that Rocky was getting too old for boxing.

Its been so long since then, they think we forgot.

Later

[Elster88]

MFS62 wrote: Willets Point wrote: One of the plot points of the original movie is that Rocky was getting too old for boxing. Its been so long since then, they think we forgot. Later

It was one of the plot points in all of the other Rocky's except, oddly enough, Rocky V, where he quit because of brain damage, not age.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

From David Letterman

Top Ten Signs Sylvester Stallone Is Too Old To Play Rocky

10. "Instead of triumphantly bounding into the arena, rides in on a Rascal"

9. "Constantly saying, 'Yo, Adrian, get my Lipitor'"

8. "Love interest played by Carol Channing"

7. "The only thing 'Rocky' about him are his kidney stones"

6. "Instead of getting knocked out, Rocky keeps lying down for a nap"

5. "His stunt double: Wilford Brimley"

4. "Constantly complaining 'Rocky' theme is too loud"

3. "After tapping hands with other fighter, says, 'Not so hard!'"

2. "Opponent in 'Rocky VI' is a guy with a cloak and a scythe"

1. "Keeps getting asked out by Anna Nicole Smith"

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Edgy DC wrote: Actually, the real over-the-top move would be for him to work in his character from Over the Top.

Yes.

More than 80% of the special-effects budget of OVER THE TOP II is spent in the first 2 minutes, showing a spectacular highway accident involving an 18-wheeler which ends when the screen goes black and the opening credits roll. When we return, 11-time arm-wrestling champ (truckers division) Lincoln Hawk awakes from a coma in a hospital bed, only to realize doctors have amputated his right arm just below the elbow (maintaining this illusion blows the rest of the effects budget) and his estranged son Mike, now in his early 30s, at his bedside!

The reunion is not a happy one, as it refires tensions between Mike and his stepmother, a Southerner who purports to live like a Christian and supports her husband but whom to others comes off as vindictive, paranoid, stubborn and backbiting. She made a poor stepmother during those long stretches of Mike's teenage years when Lincoln was out on the road. Needless to say, she also strongly disaproves of her stepson's, um... lifestyle and, like her husband, is jealous of the inheritance he received from his maternal grandfather, whom we all remember, wanted nothing to do with the boy's father. Neither Lincoln nor his wife had seen Mike since he took that dough and fled to San Francisco, his stepmom warning him of eternal damnation as he went.

Now, Mike has to learn to reconnect with his dad, and patch things up with his stepmom. Stepmom needs to learn to accept her son and help her husband recover. Lincoln Hawk needs to reconnect with his son and learn to live as a handicap whose arm-wrestling career is over!

Or is it? During a cross-country trip to San Francisco via Las Vegas in an 18-wheeler, we learn that "meet me halfway" is not a song about Lincoln's stump, but about compromises we all have make in life. Climaxing with Lincoln's toughest challenge yet -- arm-wrestling left-handed -- OVER THE TOP II is a touching film about love, redemption, and arm wrestling.

[Frayed Knot]

Rocky needs to fight someone his own age ... like maybe Rambo!

[Guest Edgy DC]

The trailers for this are on the internet. My stars, they shot the damn thing.

[Elster88]

Is Wilford Brimley still alive?

[dgwphotography]

Edgy DC wrote: The trailers for this are on the internet. My stars, they shot the damn thing.

Here's a link to the trailer