When I was 16, I was one of many who entered a radio contest timed to the release of Sylvester Stallone’s “Rocky V.” Our challenge? Sit through all five"Rocky" movies in a row — the entire odyssey of Rocky Balboa, Philadelphia’s Italian Stallion — without leaving our seats. There would be no bathroom breaks. Just Rocky, Adrian, Apollo, Paulie and the gang for almost nine hours.
I'd won a gold chain with a boxing glove dangling from it. Yes, the gold was as fake as Stallone’s boxing prowess, and it turned my neck green within two weeks. But it was worth it. To me, the"Rocky" films had it all: pathos, violence, an underdog story and, perhaps above all, a plucky “great white hope” as a protagonist. In 1990, I took in that aspect of the Rocky movies far too easily and uncritically.the ninth film in the Rocky series, hits theaters Friday.
As Rocky said to his son in “Rocky Balboa,” the sixth film in the series, “You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.”follows the travails of Adonis Creed . He's the son of the late Apollo Creed, whom Rocky fought in the first two films.
Every movie is having the actor be a minority to satisfy the minority population from whining
Because is all about skin color 🙄
Stop
If you think Rocky was a 'great white hope' story then you shouldn't be reviewing films
Holy Christ, MSNBC can turn anything into a race based story of oppression.
You guys are absolutely obsessed with race. Morgan Freeman said it best “just stop talking about it” in regards to race and racism. You don’t need to be the same race or gender to understand or identify with someone in movies, TV, or comics.
Racism run amuck at MSDNC. Cant you see how they want to divide us? The media is NOT your friend.
No one: Not a single person: Racist Liberals: this new movie from the racist franchise Rocky is changing its stance
People watch Creed for 2 reasons 1) They were huge Rocky fans 2) Women who think Michael B Jordan is hot Not some weird political statement
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I imagine MSNBC writers sitting around a big table every morning, sifting through a pile of possible stories, trying to decide which one's can be spun into social grievance blather. Pretty sure they could easly turn a story about newly adopted puppies into racial commentary.
It was actually a movie showing that ANYONE can succeed if they try hard enough. Back when they made Rocky they didn't know that in 2023, there'd be a propaganda newspaper that makes everything about race to divide the nation.
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You liberals are the most racist people I’ve seen in history. Wow 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
You mean they stole the concept.
Great white hope?
Race hustlers can’t help themselves
Copy cats again. Everyone wants to be White!
If you can't make everything about race. What would you talk about.
They've all been a super fairy tale but to compare it with modern day affairs, it's still the equivalent of a Disney movie or marvel or something like it. Good movies but don't pretend it's anything other than that. It's pretend
Thanks to western liberal scum MSM and their promotion of Black people for votes.
Remember when Rocky made a speech that ended the cold war, and then msnbc made the franchise about race?
It’s called evolution of a story. What MSNBC’s obsession with race? Couldn’t you just it’s a good franchise? Other than Rocky 5, that truly did suck.
It had nothing to do with a ''great white hope' story.' It had everything to do, in terms of inspiration, with the Ali vs Wepner fight and Wepner just happened to be white.
This is what MSNBC is afraid of.
Like MSNBC noticed ?
Lmao wtf is this garbage. Youv become an absolute joke
Rocky had several White opponents you lying scumbags! TheSlyStallone
Another. low iQ comdey writer for MSNBC. Career goals with your writing ability and company lol.
Leftists are obsessed and consumed with skin color. When a leftist looks at a man they don't see just a human like them, they only see a skin color. Then they separate that person into their proper box for different treatment. The demand for racism outstrips the supply today.
Racist, left wing Hollywood is black washing white stories and erasing our culture.
Cultural appropriation
The USSR criticized the first Rocky movie. Their main point was that the story is to give hope to the forgotten man at the bottom of society and that this was a capitalistic myth. There was no mention of race.
Why is everything about race. Great hope story for anyone. Instead you write great white hope. MSM is the problem promotion of racial division
are you all high (or just race hustlers)? The Rocky movies had ZERO to do with race. If you remember (and you've probably never actually watched the movies) Rocky & Apollo end up becoming friends with shared experience.
Go on, keep this marketing campaign up. They’re only 13% of the population but 50% of violent crime and the poorest demographic plus the Mexicans don’t like em. You’re on a losing side here with this racist shit against white people.
Yep, now the boxing, plot and acting have all taken a backseat to liberal race baiting.
Does he get paid?
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What a racist article
Rocky was a great boxing movie not a moniker for white hope, Sly didn’t write it for that. He and Apollo became brothers it’s a story of unity in the midst of White Leftist Dogma. CREED is a decent spinoff but in no way close to the cinematic lure of the original, Thanks Sly.
Rocky and creed are completely different ....
Is this tweet really necessary? Come on now fam
My goodness the left has a one-track mind.
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