ROCKY IV (Sylvester Stallone, 1985)

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Re: ROCKY IV (Sylvester Stallone, 1985)

Postby Jox on 05 Jun 2018, 11:17

French "daybill" poster (@laurentbonetti)

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Re: ROCKY IV (Sylvester Stallone, 1985)

Postby Krom on 08 Jun 2018, 01:09

EPIC!

Meanwhile check the Teaser Trailer again here:

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Re: ROCKY IV (Sylvester Stallone, 1985)

Postby Jox on 08 Jun 2018, 17:25

I realised director of photography Bill Butler had shot the original JAWS for Spielberg, as well as Coppola's THE CONVERSATION...
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Re: ROCKY IV (Sylvester Stallone, 1985)

Postby Jox on 08 Jun 2018, 19:29

They're selling newly-made t-shirts and hoodies of the original cast & crew t-shirt on the official Sly Stallone Shop
https://slystalloneshop.com/item/57555

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Re: ROCKY IV (Sylvester Stallone, 1985)

Postby Jox on 13 Jun 2018, 10:16

Jox wrote:A documentary (52 mins) called ROCKY IV: LE COUP DE POING AMERICAIN (Dir: Dimitri Kourtchine) to air October 11 on French/German channel Arte
https://www.facebook.com/RockyDocu
http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/048622-000/ ... rte-header
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The documentary is now available on Amazon Prime as ROCKY IV: THE AMERICAN PUNCH (52 min)
https://www.amazon.com/Rocky-IV-America ... B01N4MEZE9
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rocky-IV-Ameri ... 01N0Z6NQ0/

Sales trailer (3 min):
http://sales.arte.tv/fiche/3668/ROCKY__ ... AMERICAIN#

Rocky IV is an emblematic movie, and constitutes a chapter in popular culture. When it was released in 1985, audiences from all over the world flocked to movie theatres. Rocky IV hits the spot, hard.
Rocky IV is dually symbolic - it embodies both the victory of the American boxer over the Soviet one and the victory of neo-liberalism over a dwindling socialism. The film fed a global popular culture that steamrolled everything in the US, in Europe and in the Eastern bloc countries.

Still today, Rocky is held up as a model by some and is a subject of derision for others. An emblem of the 1980s, its culture and its heroes, the film will be the subject of an entertaining analysis of popular culture - which in itself is highly political.

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Re: ROCKY IV (Sylvester Stallone, 1985)

Postby Jox on 26 Jun 2018, 03:07

Screening in Tampa, Florida this Friday
http://tampatheatre.org/movie/rocky-iv/
https://www.facebook.com/events/1734982476589040/

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Tampa Theatre’s Summer Classics this year include a couple different movies about Cold War. The Manchurian Candidate and Dr. Strangelove were both brilliant artistic products of the paranoia and dread in the zeitgeist at the time. But a couple decades later, we had a slightly different relationship with the USSR – and so REWIND is proud to present the greatest documentary of America’s struggle with the specter of Russian Communism: Rocky IV, a movie in which Sylvester Stallone punches an entire ideology to death.

Has any movie franchise turned away from its original premise more drastically than Rocky? The first movie is a serious, composed story about dignity, taking your opportunity and defining success on your own terms. Rocky II is an underwhelming follow-up about how you measure yourself against your biggest challenges. Rocky III is the film debut of both Mr. T and Hulk Hogan. Rocky IV is 40% montage, features a James Brown performance and has a B plot with a comic-relief domestic robot. Aside from the spectacle side-dishes, though, obviously the point of the piece is crass jingoism – Rocky Balboa boxes a Russian steroid monster (Dolph Lundgren) to avenge the death of his friend Apollo Creed and prove the value of good ol’ American hard work. But reader, here’s the real moral: Rocky IV is the most financially successful film in the whole series. It was the single highest-grossing sports movie until The Blind Side came out decades later. It’s undeniable; this is what the people wanted. The invisible hand of the free market threw a knockout punch, and capitalism retained its title. So if you’re mad that this is the direction film culture went, well … if Tampa Theatre can change, and you can change, then maybe everybody can change. Join REWIND and the best fake Gorbachev ever to grace celluloid for Rocky IV.

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Re: ROCKY IV (Sylvester Stallone, 1985)

Postby Jox on 29 Jun 2018, 01:26

Circa 1996-1997?
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Re: ROCKY IV (Sylvester Stallone, 1985)

Postby Jox on 04 Jul 2018, 15:05


Miguel A. Insignares @Monsterholic2
Had a blast watching a one-night revival of #Rocky 4 tonight at the historic & stunning #TampaTheatre ! Great time cheering ROCKY! ROCKY! Looking forward to #CreedII #IvanDrago #SylvesterStallone @CraigZablo @TheSlyStallone @Dolph_Lundgren #RockyBalboa

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Re: ROCKY IV (Sylvester Stallone, 1985)

Postby shooby on 19 Jul 2018, 08:54

Is anybody get this pic in HD ?
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Re: ROCKY IV (Sylvester Stallone, 1985)

Postby shooby on 19 Jul 2018, 09:20

Oh yes, I don't think to view in moviestillsdb, thanks
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Re: ROCKY IV (Sylvester Stallone, 1985)

Postby Jox on 26 Jul 2018, 15:39

Custom Gi Joe style action figure

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I didn't know one of the editions had Drago on the disc

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Re: ROCKY IV (Sylvester Stallone, 1985)

Postby Jox on 04 Aug 2018, 23:56

I didn't know there was a board came!

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EDIT:
Rare high quality res of still photographs from ROCKY IV by Joe Lederer
https://www.joelederer.com/rocky-iv

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Re: ROCKY IV (Sylvester Stallone, 1985)

Postby Jox on 21 Aug 2018, 22:52

Apparently he and Kerry Von Erich were the other two runners up in the final audition / screen-test






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Kerry Von Erich (died in 1993)

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