Is Rocky well known in your country or not really? What

>>73997204
Fairly. People think it's a dumb sports movie because that's what the sequels were and that's the legacy it left. The first movie is fucking great though, and is so far from being just a sports movie.

The fourth one where he defeats communism is also GOAT for how terrible it is.

>>73997204
yes

He's pretty well-known, but most of us prefer Bullwinkle.

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>>73997204
>>73997239
>Sylvester Stallone was a relative newcomer to Hollywood in the mid-'70s and living in poverty when he pitched his rags-to-riches script about an uneducated debt-collector-turned-champion boxer named Rocky Balboa to producers.
>Luckily, producers liked it. Unfortunately for Stallone, they didn't want him to star.
>Instead of Stallone — the screenwriter — producers wanted Burt Reynolds, James Caan, or Ryan O'Neal, who were all big stars at the time.
>So at 30 years old with just $106 in his bank account, Stallone turned down a $300,000 offer — the equivalent of $1 million today — for the rights to "Rocky." He was determined to make the film he wrote on his terms, starring himself.
>In 1976, "Rocky" won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Stallone's experience at the ceremony could have been out of the movie.
>"Literally, I was parking cars 10 months earlier and now here we are [at the Oscars]," Stallone recalled to "Today." "I rented a tuxedo and on the way to the Oscars the tie broke and the driver goes, 'You want to borrow mine?' I go 'nah, I guess it doesn't matter,' so I walk into the Oscars looking like Vinny Boom Bots, 'how you doin?' and people were like, 'oh my god, what arrogance, how dare he?'"
>Now 67, Stallone once again had to convince producers that "Rocky" could be a hit — this time in the form of a Broadway musical. Eventually, it worked, and the action star got investors to put up a $16.5 million capital investment.
>Earlier this month, "Rocky: The Musical" opened on Broadway to knockout reviews.

>Stallone had to sell his beloved dog Butkus for $40 because he had gotten to the stage where he couldn't even afford dog food.
>However, the story has a happy, yet somewhat grippingly expensive end, as he managed to buy Butkus back for $15,000 when the screenplay for Rocky sold.

How can one man be so based?

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yes

>>73997204
>Is Rocky well known in your country?
yeh
>What do people think of it?
nice movie and all that
no one saw Rocky 5 or 6 but they saw and liked Creed

>>73997302
Based af and I'm being absolutely honest.

>>73997204

yes
good 80s action films

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kinda

>>73997204
I hate most commercial movies, but Rocky is an exception. This franchise has an endearing quality to it that I like.

>>73997239
>The fourth one where he defeats communism is also GOAT for how terrible it is.
>implying it's not based af
https://youtu.be/PH9AB16Crjk?t=45

Rocky > Rocky IV > Rocky III > Rocky II > Rocky Balboa > Rocky V

>>73999622
First couple were 70s

>>73997239

Fuck you faggot IV is the shit.

>>73997204
Yes, but only because of the training sequences. I doubt most people have seen the movies.

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>>73997204
Probably a little. Not taken seriously I expect though, but it is a really great movie. Much better than Rambo, though the sequels are about the same; all shit. Creed is great though. Basically what >>73997239 said, especially agree on 4. That was fucking garbage. Made Lundgren a sovjet. Pure american-propaganda dick cheese.