Sunday, November 5, 2017

Best Picture of 1976: Rocky

The World Heavyweight Championship is an honor in boxing that only a handful have achieved. Many spend years working their way to be able to compete for such a title. When Apollo Creed puts his championship on the line his contender can no longer fight due to an injury. When he finds that all other fighters are unable to compete he announces that a unknown local will have the opportunity to fight for the belt. Rocky Balboa is the lucky boxers that gets the chance to step into the ring and face Apollo Creed. He has five weeks to go from second rate boxer to one of the greatest of all time.


Rocky is a film that was lovingly put together by Sylvester Stallone. He wrote the screenplay in about three days and sold the script to United Artist. Taking up after he character Rocky Balboa, Stallone had to fight for his movie to be made how he saw fit. United Artist wanted to cast someone like Robert Redford or Burt Reynolds for the part of Rocky. Stallone wanted the role for himself. It ended up paying off. Rocky made Stallone a huge star almost over night, was the highest grossing film in 1976, and went on to produce six sequels for the franchise. Rocky knocked out United Artists' own Bound for Glory; Warner Brothers' All the President's Men; MGM's Network; and Columbia's Taxi Driver. In 2006 Rocky also had the honor of being selected for preservation by the National Film Registry.


I am just going to think I hate all 70's movies. I don't think I have liked any of the Best Picture Winners so far in the 70's except The Sting. Other than that nothing. This film I felt was just a boring as the rest of them. I know that is a film that people totally love and totally relate to but I don't. I don't see the appeal in this film. I don't see why it's so loved by many. I also can not tell you if I thought it was just the movie as a whole or the acting. With The Godfather I can tell you that I did not like how the movie was set up. I loved the acting and the actors but I did not like the screenplay. This movie I think it was just all of it. I am not fond of Stallone to begin with and the fact that he wrote it really shows. I don't think it was a well put together film and I do not think it should have won this award.

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