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ZORAN BABIC, a councilman in the Serbian village of Zitiste, where a 10-ft. (3 m) bronze statue of Rocky Balboa, Sylvester Stallone's famous movie character, was revealed...
...film's script (by Jamie Linden) makes it clear that a few people never did buy into Lengyel's gung-ho ways, and the director (McG), for the most part keeps the rah-rah spirit in decent check. This is a nicely muted comeback story - definitely not Rocky Balboa in shoulder pads - and it is the better for that restraint. Maybe We Are Marshall is not quite a thinking man's sports tale, but, on the other hand, you don't have to be a moron to enjoy...
...inevitable pain that you’ll feel when you have to sit through the build-ups to the punchlines in the interviews. Just enough to entice, not so much as to disgust. Just like the full-body Speedo that Borat wears in one shot of the trailer. Rocky Balboa CELLULOID GOLD What can I say? The theme music alone exists in a space beyond all critical judgment. It sets the plot up for you, gives you shots of Stallone in a porkpie hat, and has big slabs of meat getting punched in a freezer. A movie that should...
...Adrian! The Philadelphia Museum of Art last week restored to its grounds a statue of the movie icon Rocky. It will also be seen in Rocky Balboa, the film's sixth installment...
...more to the point, the setting is exactly the same: We are once again in Philadelphia and the grimy streets - or are they, perhaps, the stations of the cross? - through which Vince Papale runs every day in order to condition himself, bear an inescapable resemblance to the ones Rocky Balboa chugged through in search of his improbable apotheosis. OK, Vince doesn't end his daily ordeal on the steps of the local art museum and what he gets for his troubles is not a shot at the heavyweight championship, but three seasons as a more or less anonymous defensive specialist...