TLOTA (V.O.): The ROCKY movies and its continuation movie series CREED have been quite a solidly entertaining story. With the ROCKY movies it told the tale of an underdog boxer named Rocky Balboa played by Sylvester Stallone as he was given a chance to go for the World Heavyweight Championship against Apollo Creed played by Carl Weathers and the sequels in real-time showed Rocky’s Rise, Fall, and Redemption with who he is and, in the interim, becomes a champion, celebrity, and ultimately Robert “Rocky” Balboa. The continuation movie series CREED tells the tale of Adonis Johnson, a child born of wedlock to Apollo Creed, and his tale of trying to discover who he is by going into the ring and seeing if he is his father’s son or if Adonis is his own man as he should be. The Sequel to Creed sees him dealing with demons of his dad’s and Rocky’s past in the form of the son of Ivan Drago, Viktor played by Florian Munteanu. (Cut to James physically)
TLOTA: And Ivan was the challenge that sealed the fates of so many in ROCKY IV! (Cut to the title card from the trailer of Rocky IV then to clips of the movie as James does a voiceover.)
TLOTA (V.O.): While critically it did not do as well as the first three, Rocky IV remains to this day the most commercially successful movie in the entire Rocky franchise. And to celebrate the success of Creed II, Sylvester Stallone decided to release a director’s cut of the film. Interesting choice seeing as how Stallone was the Writer and Director of Rocky IV. But after both the pandemic and other delays in 2021 Rocky IV: Rocky vs Drago was released on digital and it is one of the best directors’ cut of a movie I have seen since The Lord Of The Rings Special Editions. And that is a statement I don’t make lightly. (Cut to James physically) TLOTA: And today, we’re going to decide which movie is the better cut in the four rounds.
The Sylvester Stallone Classic Rocky IV vs The Director’s cut. See who goes the distance here
I still haven’t seen the new cut of Rocky IV, but I hope to some time in the future. Everything I’ve heard about it makes it sound very interesting.
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Of course one thing Rocky IV did right was its soundtrack. ‘No Easy Way Out’, ‘Burning Heart’, and ‘Hearts on Fire’ are all big highlights of the film.
Absolutely and the fact that the same guy who did the music for this movie Vince DiCola also did the work for the 1986 Transformers movie means he had a whopper of a good year!
And trust me the Rocky IV: Rocky Vs Drago Cut is awesome.