Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Burgess Meredith

Director: John G. Avildsen

Genre: Drama

I posted on my twitter page last week that I was about to watch this movie for the first time.  I know what you're thinking, "You've never seen Rocky before!?!?"  Yeah, that was the general reaction that I got.  I've seen bits and pieces before like the famous run up the "Rocky Steps" but never the whole film.  I'm glad I finally set down and watched it.

I thought the movie was great...very inspirational.  I can tell that this story has been copied in tons of other films since 1976, it's a classic story.  I love great storytelling and it definitely delivered.  I was so hooked I stayed up till 4:00 am watching parts 2 & 3 on my netflix Roku player.  My initial reaction was "Rocky was robbed...Apollo totally lost that fight!" so I had to stay up and see how the next few fights ended.  The first was unquestionably the best but the rest were entertaining as well.

Over the last few weeks I've been thinking about how much I love films and consequently, I have been watching about 2-3 movies a day!  I've been getting lots of great ideas for scripts of my own and have been inspired to direct another short film; something I haven't done since I graduated college in 07.  I'm really looking forward to getting back into it!

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