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Posted: Feb 01 2007 02:12 am

Syd Lexia wrote:

Also, they completely ignored the whole "Rocky has permanent brain damage from fighting Drago and should never ever box again" thing.

No, Rocky still showed the brain damage in the film. Europe, huh?

Posted: Feb 01 2007 02:27 am

Tebor wrote:

Syd Lexia wrote:

Also, they completely ignored the whole "Rocky has permanent brain damage from fighting Drago and should never ever box again" thing.

No, Rocky still showed the brain damage in the film. Europe, huh?

That wasn't necessarily brain damage. Rocky was never exactly the smartest guy to begin with. Remember the scene in Rocky II where he's trying to do the commercial?

Posted: Feb 01 2007 02:40 am

Syd Lexia wrote:

That wasn't necessarily brain damage. Rocky was never exactly the smartest guy to begin with. Remember the scene in Rocky II where he's trying to do the commercial?

I'm glad someone else remembers that scene. Man, I would have cut that in half... so painful...

But, Rocky seemed brain damaged in VI. It's just how Stallone was playing it; at least that was the sense I got.

2010 SLF Tag Champ Joined: Jun 07 2006 Posts: 12294

lets not think about the beating my hero apollo gave rocky in the first movie, ok?

if the beating made him blind in one eye, it's entirely possible that he got a bit retarded from it.

Posted: Feb 01 2007 09:25 am

Also, he wasn't experiencing any Mickey-related dementia in VI.

Joined: Feb 24 2006 Posts: 2578

Ugh, the brain damage thing -- another reason I loathed V. Syd, you mentioned Rocky not being the smartest guy to begin with. Totally true, but the thing was that he improved dramatically between II and III, which was one of the things I found so fascinating. Remember in the montage at the beginning of III, Rocky's doing American Express commercials and appearing on the Muppet Show?

By III, Rocky had learned worlds, and it was awesome to see the character grow so much. The "brain damage" plot device was total bullshit. That plus the losing-his-fortune thing reeked of Stallone desperately trying to bring the character back to the way he was in Rocky I. And that's not how the movies had gone up to that point -- each movie was, more or less, a logical progression from the previous one.

2010 SLF Tag Champ Joined: Jun 07 2006 Posts: 12294

rocky III was actually my favorite.