Rocky does go the distance !

Rating: Null/10 (29 May 2003)

It took Stallone three days to write the first draft of the Rocky movie and now, almost 30 years later, the character's appeal remains as strong as ever.
Winner of the 1976 Best Picture Academy Award, the movie, like the character, was a major underdog. Taxi Driver was also nominated that same year and should have perhaps won the Oscar but Rocky came at a time where America was recovering from Watergate and the war in Vietnam, and was looking for inspiration. Rocky gave them that and so much more. It showed everyone that winning isn't everything...it's what you fight for and the effort you are willing to put in it.
Rocky (1976) is a movie about love, courage, determination, heart...At times, it will make you laugh, at times cry...but in the end, it will do what so few movies can, inspire you !
As for my ranking of the series, Rocky is of course at #1, followed by II, V (yes V, because it's good if you truly understand what Rocky is all about), III & IV (and by that, I don't mean that IV is inferior coz it is in fact the most entertaining but surely not the best of the series !) That's my opinion !

I give Rocky (1976) an 8/10 !