[CaptainCrunch]

I would love that.


I mean I look at how the Rocky Movies started and ended, and what made Rocky 1 and 2 special was that they had really intriguing antagonists.


Rocky 1 - Apollo, the cocky champion, probably build around a combination of Ali and Leonard in that they were so good in their sport that they considered themselves un beatable. But at the same time there was this great story of a champion trying to stay relevant in a sport where he no longer had interesting challenges or opponents.


Rocky 2 - Apollo again. His legacy is being threatened. He didn't even believe that he had really won that fight and he struggles to be able to capture that feeling of invincibility. While he was cocky on the outside, you could see a man on the verge of not believing his own hype.


Rocky 3 - Clubber Lang. They tried with this but it wasn't great. Clubber was supposed to be the mirror of Rocky, or a Rocky without the humanity. Clubber was portrayed as angry and extremely driven. "I train alone, I fight alone". They could have done so much more with Clubber. Not just as a physical specimen and a killer. But a guy that was maybe even a fan of Rocky's who was disappointment that Rocky wasn't the everyman to look up to, but a shielded and protected establishment champ.



Rocky IV - I loved this idea, but they went too 80's in this movie. I know they wanted Ivan to be a mystery, but there's a great story that Ivan was really a slave to his state. That he was abused, and injected with Steroids, and forced to train 20 hours a day to be an extension of the concept of the New Soviet Man. That in the end he broke those chains of soviet slavery and fought as a individual for himself. Instead we got a lot of meaningless training montages.


Rocky V - Again so much wrong with this movie. But they could have had a great villain in a naive formerly abused kid in Tommy Gun. But halfway through the movie they forgot about that storyline and tried to make him just another bad guy. Again Tommy Gun was the anti-rocky who was created by his environment, and then suckered in by a shady manager who was supposed to be Don King.



Rocky Balboa - I actually really liked the story line in this one though it was the most unlikely storyline of all the rocky movies. But Mason Dixon as a champ that wanted his respect. He really was what Tommy Gunn was supposed to be, and it really worked because their main interactions took place in the ring.