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Post by wallsofjericho on Mar 1, 2018 20:29:41 GMT
Almost love this as much as the first. It's not perfect but there's so many things Stallone does brilliantly, the scenes with Micky in the church and Adrian telling him to win leading up to the final fight. It hits all the right notes for me without being too sentimental.
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Mar 1, 2018 21:38:58 GMT
It's just okay to me up until Adrian's coma, where it immediately turns the corner into being damn near as good as the first (Adrian telling Rocky to win as Bill Conti's score kicks in is one of the best moments of the franchise). It feels pretty aimless for much of its runtime and it's always put me off a bit just how far Stallone goes in the writing and acting to get the point across that Rocky is an idiot. We knew he wasn't the brightest dude in the first, but he was more of an average uncultured everyman. In the second, though, he's damn near a Neanderthal for about 90 minutes. I get that Rocky needed to be knocked back down to his underdog position, but it just doesn't work for me. Everything after Adrian slips into her coma, though, perfection.
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Post by countjohn on Mar 1, 2018 22:31:17 GMT
Haven't seen it in a while, but I don't really like it at all and don't have a desire to watch it again. As another poster alluded to, most the movie is just trying to give Rocky an excuse to fight Apollo again. It's super obvious that he's going to, you can tell everything that's going to happen from the first few minutes and the rest just feels like mechanical semantics. I'm a lot harder on this one too because it's still trying to take itself seriously. It's hard to be that hard on some of the other ones because they're blatantly silly hokum and don't aspire to be anything else. This one is trying so, so hard to be as good as the first Rocky and it's not happening.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Mar 1, 2018 22:34:56 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 2, 2018 1:42:48 GMT
It's just ok but there is a scene I quite like in that movie - when Rocky asks Adrian to marry him at the zoo - it's sweet and reminiscent of the tone in the first film:
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Post by getclutch on Mar 2, 2018 1:48:36 GMT
It might not be as exciting as the original film, but it is still a joy to watch Rocky Balboa in action.
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Post by Christ_Ian_Bale on Mar 2, 2018 3:03:36 GMT
it's always put me off a bit just how far Stallone goes in the writing and acting to get the point across that Rocky is an idiot. Mine and my brother's go-to line when doing Stallone impressions has always been "I can't tell time too good." |
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Post by scorpio68 on Mar 9, 2018 2:08:44 GMT
A very solid sequel, Adrian's "win" moment is genuinely stirring - while the opponents in the further sequels certainly entered pop culture lexicon(Mr T, Dolph Lundgren/Drago), and I'm sure the paychecks were great, if Stallone had stopped the sequels with this one, maybe with the exception of "Creed"(which I have not seen), the "Rocky" legacy might even be greater than it is already
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Mar 9, 2018 13:42:14 GMT
If you add it to Rocky V, you get Rocky VII: Adrian's Revenge
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Mar 9, 2018 17:01:41 GMT
Good sequel and good film. It's no Rocky IV however.
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Post by ibbi on Mar 9, 2018 20:17:56 GMT
I love this movie so much. It takes the original's urban fairytale quality, and ratchets the fairytale part of it up to 11 to the point it becomes ridiculous, but gosh darn if it isn't melodramatic, emotional manipulation at its absolute freaking best. Between 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 this is easily my favourite. That bit where Adrian wakes up, 'win!', the bell, 'WELL WHAT ARE WE WAITING FUH?', and then Bill Conti at his best. God tier sequence.
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