Rocky (1976) Movie Review
The iconic classic tale of the down-and-out boxer who made good after a once-in-a-lifetime chance to fight the champ. More than a mere sports movie, this movie is a romantic drama that strikes a chord with the human spirit and inspires us to fight the good fight.
The Genuine Approach
It’s hard to believe this iconic American movie was created 47 years ago in 1976, three years before I was even born. It is also hard to believe how well the movie has stood the test of time as one of the best American movies ever made.
The entire Rocky series of movies, including 6 movies directly about Rocky Balboa (not counting the two Creed movies which have him as a secondary character), are amazing movies that inspire the viewer and represent the American dream of working our way up from the bottom to become a success. Although the subsequent Rocky movies are great in their own right, none of them compare to the original Rocky movie.
What makes the original Rocky movie one of the best of all time isn’t one thing, rather it is a culmination of a myriad of factors that combined at the right time to give us a genuine, humble, and ever-relatable story that still inspires us today.
Above all, the main ingredient that made this movie stand out is the writer and main actor Sylvester Stallone. The fact that…
