Seriously, has there been a bigger Us vs Them story ever? One where it almost seems to be what the entire story is based on? One side vs another all embodied by two men, one man on each side in a boxing ring? Even the opening of the movie has two big boxing gloved stone fists, one emblazoned with the American flag, the other Russian crashing into each other. Heres the lodown on this movie made during the height of 80's coldwar. Russia has petitioned to have it's … more
Rocky, on the verge of stupidity (which he achieves in the next film) over comes adversity (yet again) to fight a muscled bounded, steroid fueled monster Ivan Drago. The big question in this movie is why does Rocky risk his health and the few brain cells he has left to try and challenge a lab made genetic freak like Drago. By this time in the franchise Rocky has more guts than brains (a lot more). If I was Rocky's wife I would've put him in a sanatorium (didn't he see what Drago did to his … more