What I liked about the movie ROCKY BALBOA...

Christmas night I went to the movies with Stephanie and her friend Megan. It was a tossup between Night at the Museum, which I had seen Saturday or Rocky Balboa. We decided to see the later. Rocky Balboa - is the latest and I am sure LAST addition to the Rocky films. Yeah, there were some really cheesy things and at times it was even borning. And it isn't as good as the original (which is true in MOST film sequels), but there were a couple of scenes I really enjoyed.

1. Rocky chewing out his son - Rocky's son is moping around life feeling that he is living in his father's shadow. Rocky lays into him telling him to suck it up. It was a pretty good father-chewing-out-son-for-his-own-good monologue. Way to write, Syl!

2. Training hardbody Rocky - Like with all of the Rocky movies (most noteably the first one) Rocky has to get his old fart body into shape. The montage of his training was wonderfully entertaining. The only thing missing was the "Eye of the Tiger" song which should have played during it. And for a guy Sly's age, he is in great shape. Go SLY!

3. The BIG FIGHT - Rocky is walking into the arena and we can hear Frank Sinatra singing "High Hopes" in the background. Rocky asks his brother-in-law Paulie about the song. Paulie tells him that he picked it out himself. It was just a really funny moment because of Rocky being such the old man in the fight and most likely to lose (but then we wouldn't have a movie, would we?) and the song is so peppy and light hearted in an intense part of the story (intense for the characters, at least.) The fight scene itself was predictable, but I couldn't help cheering Rocky on outloud. Lucky for me, there were only about 10 of us in the theater. Go ROCKY!

Entertaining and so much better than at least #3-5!