An outrage! This film should be on the IMDB top 250

Rating: Null/10 (19 July 2000)

What in the name of all that is honorable and decent still left in the world is going on? Rocky is not in the IMDB's top 250? Can anyone who voted below a 9 for this film please tell me with a straight face that you would rather see movies like #24 Toy Story II, #31 Fight Club or #61 A Clockwork Orange? Can you honestly tell me you think #130 A Christmas Story, #135 Die Hard or #150 The Truman Show was better than ROCKY? Impossible! It's a conspiracy I tell you. It just doesn't make any sense! This film is in my top 10 for crying out loud!
Not that there is particularly anything wrong with the other films mentioned , though I do feel none of them belong on the top 250 (as films like Keaton's classic Steam Boat Bill Jr. and the very moving Fiddler on the Roof' are nowhere to be seen) Ahhhh! I've never used so many exclamation points in all my life!!! Rocky is a truly great film, superbly written, wonderfuly cast and acted, it has a great ending and some of the best character development I have ever seen. Who doesn't feel as though they have met Rocky, Paulie, Adrian, Apollo Creed and Micky. The pacing is perfect, the fight scenes totally believable and best of all it has an enduring message of the triumph of the human will against impossible odds. This movie is so good I have heard many people remark that their lives were changed because of it. It motivated me at 15 to do something with my life and it inspires me to this day. Can that be said about #192 (Disney's) Beauty and the Beast, #198 Clerks, #201 The Player, #206 Erin Brockovich, # 211 A Fish Called Wanda, #236 A Bugs Life or #246 Groundhog Day? Am I crazy? I feel like I'm in the movie (#240) Network.