Video: “Rocky Balboa” trailer
posted at 8:34 pm on November 17, 2006 by Allahpundit
Looks every bit as good as you’d expect a film about a 60-year-old boxer to look.
Not only is the concept retarded, he farked with the formula. You go to a Stallone movie expecting three things: violence, slurred speech, and a villain who hails from whichever group happens to the chief boogeyman of white America at that particular moment in time. Which prompts the question of why he’s fighting this guy instead of, oh, say, Prince Naseem Hamed. Granted, the Prince is a featherweight, but they’re doing amazing things with CGI these days. I’m pretty sure they could scale him up.
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Stallone claims to have been an employee at the Ecole International in Switzerland in 1966-7, but he was only hanging around the school, staying with whoever would let him crash in their dorm room , pestering the guys for favors/drugs and the women for …’dates’.
Janos Hunyadi on November 17, 2006 at 8:40 PM
Oh well, it’ll be on our Christmas “must see” list. We laughed so hard at the trailer … well … looking forward to some chuckles from the movie. Tis the season to be jolly — after all!
wytammic on November 17, 2006 at 8:41 PM
I only liked the third movie and that was because of the music and Mr. T. I never really liked the idea that they could be hit a hundred times over and still stand and keep doing it. That to me is just stupid.
zerodamage on November 17, 2006 at 8:45 PM
People want to see something like this. After all this election, wars, terrorism, we need a temporary escape into the fantasies of movies. Perhaps, one thing about going to the movies as compared to seeing it at home, we just have the movie and no channels to change to see what news we missed. We escape and get disturbed by people getting up and down, not by watching another Ben Laden tape. Not that the news doesn’t matter, but a break if possible is good for the soul.
StuLongIsland on November 17, 2006 at 8:47 PM
A washed up has been returning to the lead the fight to America’s enemies ?
I expected to see Trent Lott in that video !
William Amos on November 17, 2006 at 8:51 PM
Wait. In Rocky V, he couldn’t get a boxing licence cuz he was punch drunk and had to fight on the street. In Rocky 6, he can get a license and doesn’t show the continued effects of punch drunkedness (like Ali). Makes total sense.
lorien1973 on November 17, 2006 at 9:02 PM
Hard to believe the original Rocky came out 30 years ago. He’s probably fighting this guy to try to bring in a younger audience. I noticed he wasn’t wearing his trademark Red White and Blue shorts this time. Being patriotic these days is forbidden.
Scot on November 17, 2006 at 9:02 PM
Has he had cheek implants?
SisterToldjah on November 17, 2006 at 9:23 PM
Here’s the real movie to see:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/300/hd/
Frank Miller + 300 Spartans holding off a million or so Persians = one great film.
I hope.
Citizen Duck on November 17, 2006 at 9:25 PM
Rocky Balboa if Stallone gets beat he’ll have to change his name to Pebbles. I can respect Stallones writting abilities, I thought he captured the whole Philly Italian American thing pretty well, with ROCKY. He even got Pauley pissed by dating his sister. Thats a no no. Rocky trivia. Balboa was the name of a popular olive oil, sold in the Italian market.
sonnyspats1 on November 17, 2006 at 9:29 PM
Lemme guess: Adrian doesn’t want him to fight anymore?
Tony737 on November 17, 2006 at 9:51 PM
Isn’t Naseem Hamed in prison in the UK?
Number 2 on November 17, 2006 at 9:54 PM
Scale him UP???
Stallone is only about 5’7″ maybe 5′ 8″ . They’ve been scaling him up for decades.
shooter on November 17, 2006 at 10:19 PM
AP, what are you talking about paisan? Rocky was based on the Wepner fight against Ali – a real event Stalone watched and that you too can see almost once a month on Classic Sports. Ali happened to be black and Wepner white. Rocy II was the rematch. In Rocky III he fights Mr T, a beloved figure at the time from his A-Team series. In Rocky IV fights the Russian giant so ya, maybe a Russian was picked because in 1985 tensions were high. In Rocky V, he fight, shock, a white American he trained who betrayed him. Nice theory though….
TheBigOldDog on November 17, 2006 at 10:20 PM
I thinks she’s dead in this one.
Let it go Stallone, just let it go…
x95b10 on November 17, 2006 at 10:29 PM
Are you sure that is not his mother? I thought he fights his mother in this one.
bloggless on November 17, 2006 at 10:43 PM
Go Rocky!
OT – Saw the new James Bond flick, it’s outstanding! Best Bond since Sean Connery, best Bond film since Goldfinger.
flagwaver on November 17, 2006 at 10:50 PM
What can you say – it’s Rocky!!!
Besides, Rambo IV comes out next year.
Emmett J. on November 17, 2006 at 11:40 PM
The acting looks horrible.
Anyway, there’s no more important battle in western history. If you want a fantastic and eminently readable novel on the subject, read “Gates of Fire” by Steven Pressfield.
I can’t recommend it highly enough.
Incidentally, there were far more than 300 Greek freemen and slaves defending Thermopylae: 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians, and an indeterminate number of slaves.
Even more off topic, Ralph Peters has a thought stimulating analysis of the situation in Iraq: I think you should read it, Allahpundit (simply because it’s great food for thought).
I don’t know if he’s right, but you should read it all.
h/t tdaxp
Christoph on November 17, 2006 at 11:40 PM
I’m looking forward to the movie: James Bond. I rather think I sucked all the pleasure I’m gonna get out of the Rocky Balboa trailer.
Sorry for the visual metaphor.
Christoph on November 17, 2006 at 11:43 PM
Does Rambo 4 really come out next year?
Scot on November 17, 2006 at 11:59 PM
It was actually 600,000 Persians. This movie is about the battle of Thermopylae, the name of the 60 foot wide mountain pass where it took place. This is where the famous phrase “MOLON LABE!” (Come and get them) was said.
I hope Frank Miller does justice to the history of what happened. It should be a very good movie.
AZPatriot on November 18, 2006 at 12:00 AM
I wonder if Sly uses the make-up his wife hawks on Home Shopping Network? He could use some per ..
STELLLLAAA!!! Get me re-write.. and some money bags.
normsrevenge on November 18, 2006 at 12:20 AM
Poor poor misguided baby boomers. They think they still got it.
- The Cat
MirCat on November 18, 2006 at 12:26 AM
You all should have seen Stallone forty years ago in Switzerland: a short skinny chain-smoking greasy-haired bum ( in the old school sense: a guy with no place of his own and had no money ) whose primary skills were chugging beer and getting turned town by upper-middle-class American gals who hadn’t come to Europe for a “Year Abroad” to have some Long Island gumbah grab their ass.
The guy is maybe 5’8″ in heels; the beefcake body came later, ALLEGEDLY from steroids
Janos Hunyadi on November 18, 2006 at 12:32 AM
Don’t be hatin’ ….besides………at least he didn’t become a politician!
That would have been a real tragedy!
Emmett J. on November 18, 2006 at 12:40 AM
….Philly, not Long Island. I mentally swerved onto Joey Buttafuco for some reason….
not that it matters
Janos Hunyadi on November 18, 2006 at 12:41 AM
I don’t hate him. I’m only sharing my impression of what I saw four decades ago. He was an manipulative creep when he was 18 / 19 years old, and has not been honest about the year he spent in Europe.
I have no opinion on his movies or what he has made of his life
Janos Hunyadi on November 18, 2006 at 12:45 AM
What a bunch of fossils. I hear Burgess Meredith s making a cameo to give life to the film.
Valiant on November 18, 2006 at 5:02 AM
Does anybody remember the movie AIRPLANE?
There is a scene in the airport terminal that includes a mock poster of a movie, Rocky XXXVIII, with a picture of a scranny old man in oversized boxing trunks and huge boxing gloves held in the overhead “victory” pose, on a pilar.
You have to look sharply, though, to catch it.
That’s what this trailer reminded me of.
georgej on November 18, 2006 at 5:05 AM
Glad to hear they’re filming an updated Spartan/Persian movie. The old one is, well, OLD. It’s a great story that needs to be retold. Hey, that rhymed! Gotta see Bond, but Rocky 6? C’mon Sly, get over it already. Yup, just like the poster in ‘Airplane’!
Tony737 on November 18, 2006 at 7:08 AM
You all should have seen Stallone forty years ago in Switzerland: a short skinny chain-smoking greasy-haired bum ( in the old school sense: a guy with no place of his own and had no money ) whose primary skills were chugging beer and getting turned town by upper-middle-class American gals who hadn’t come to Europe for a “Year Abroad” to have some Long Island gumbah grab their ass. Janos Hunyadi on November 18, 2006 at 12:32 AM HEY HEY I’m readin here! LOL Yeah Janos Its called Hangin Out. I’m sure Sly had friends though. Was he robbin and stealin? Its not how far a person gets in life that counts, its what they overcome to get there.
sonnyspats1 on November 18, 2006 at 9:13 AM
What’s all this hating on Stallone? I agree most of the subsequent Rocky movies were cheesy but they were fun to watch for the most part. I haven’t heard the guy bash america or the President. Interviewed by sean hannity, he sounded a little like a normal person. This movie isn’t about America as an exploitive ugly place run by warmongers; it looks like the main character has a little bit of George Formanitis and wants to go get beat up. So what? What’s all this ’40 years ago he was a manipulative creep’? Ok, so he scammed on women when he was 19. Wow. I don’t know ANYBODY who did that. I haven’t been to the theater since 2003; we’ve had anti-military dreck, hump back mountain…finally, out of nowhere, comes this movie..and it looks like a piranha tank in here. Harsh guys. Very harsh. Well, I’m going to go see it, if for no other reason that Heath Ledger and Leonardo diCraprio ARE NOT in it.
austinnelly on November 18, 2006 at 10:23 AM
Give Hunyadi a break. He’s still pissed about Varna.
Mike Antonucci on November 18, 2006 at 10:23 AM
Remember that scene at the movie “Airplane II”, where there is a movie poster for Rocky XXXVIII with a very old and wrinkled Rocky Balboa? Well, we are getting there.
Ropera on November 18, 2006 at 1:14 PM
Come on, “They’re billing it as an exhibition so they wouldn’t have to call it an execution!” “Heavy-duty punches that’ll rattle his ancestors!” “Balboasaurus!” That’s great stuff, man. This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen, but I’m there.
Jim Treacher on November 18, 2006 at 3:02 PM
Igen, Antonucci, kedves, Varna was a Long Haul Bitch
How many Italians does it take to…….. ( never mind )
I said nothing negative about Sly’s movies or his life since 1967–again, I yam only tellin’ youse guys what I seen an’ heard, um, you know?
Janos Hunyadi on November 18, 2006 at 6:19 PM
He hasn’t been honest about the year he was 18/19 in Europe and banging chicks? Who the f
Christoph on November 18, 2006 at 6:42 PM
Exactly.
Christoph on November 18, 2006 at 6:44 PM
The 300 Spartans were King Leonidas’ bodyguard. They remained behind so the others could make their escape. Some of the Thesipians stayed with them. This is the first I’ve heard of any slaves being at the Hot Gates. I’m not suprised that I hear it today. Next year it’ll be all slaves.
The most important battle in history probably was Lepanto, which kept the world from becoming Moslem. Certainly Salamis and Plataea were more important than Thermopalae, which wouldn’t have been a suicide mission had the Greeks not been so observant of their holidays (hence the plaque at the site).
Ephialtes was a good Democrat.
Watched the trailer for “300″.
Seemed like nothing but more politically-correct, hiphop, newage garbage rewrite of history to me. I’m so tired of seeing “real” people (ie, people who lived before 1960) being portrayed just like modern folk (just with a funny way of talking.)
The Spartans would have spit on the audience for this movie (rightly so.)
Two of my favorite science fiction books are “Go Tell the Spartans” and “Prince of Sparta”, which tell of a future “low-intensity-conflict” on a faraway world. After reading them, I happily quote Leonidas, in that I would rather die for the possibility of that future Sparta, than be ruler of the U.S, or even the whole Earth.
Hiraghm on November 18, 2006 at 11:02 PM
As a native Philadelphian……C’MON Stallone! Stop beating it to death. I will go to Philly to watch it cause it’s the only place where the theaters will have someone in attendance.
danarchy on November 19, 2006 at 3:19 PM