Rocky (1976)

Vive la Cliché! (10 movies items)

"Training episode To go with the mentor figure, there's the training montage which gives our hero unbelievable strength in a matter of minutes. But don't bother calling it a training unless there's an energetic sports song to pump you up. The first thing that training montages bring to mind is Rocky and its fabulous sequels, but I challenge every reader here to hunt down a movie called The 36th Chamber of Shaolin. Why? Cause this Shaw Brothers classic is essentially a movie-long training episod"

A classic

“I have already seen this flick a couple of times but I thought it was time to watch it with Nick, my step-son. Honestly, I think he was pretty bored during most of the duration, because, let's face it, I contrary to what Sylvester Stallone did for the rest of his career, it is not really an action flick. Indeed, expect for the last 10 minutes for the final showdown, the rest of the movie is actually a rather grim drama. Nick is not really big on dramas but I thought it was pretty good. It was also rather funny to see Stallone having some many dialogs especially compared to what he did in the last 30 years during which has been usually blowing up some stuff or demolishing someone's face. Personally, I have some mixed feelings about the whole thing. I mean, on one hand, it is indeed a pretty” read more