Rocky IV - Corny now but great 20 years ago

Rating: 8/10 (5 November 2005)

I cannot believe so many people hate this movie. When I was an 11 year old kid at a movie theater with my Dad in 1985, it was the single craziest movie going experience of my young life. I had never been to a movie where people were screaming at the screen and calling one of the main characters a "commie." Sure its predictable and the speech at the end is corny, but its Rocky for God's sake, not Shakespeare. Some of the best and most random things occur in this movie: (1) Rocky making the fight on Christmas, (2) anything Drago says, (3) you cannot watch the training montage and not get fired up, (4) when Drago gets cut and the announcer starts going crazy "He's cut!!!! The Russian is cut!!!! and (5) when Drago is in his corner saying that Rocky is not man, he is like a piece of iron. Great stuff and a true 80's classic.