Do not diss Dolph Lungren. He's a badass, and Syd is right. Rocky IV is the most Rocky of the Rocky movies, being primarily montages and so hyper patriotic that he topples communism in the process of beating this giant monster that would dwarf even a normal sized person much less five foot six inch Stallone.

We may look at this as cheezy now, but there was a point where beating up commies in the cold war was profoundly cathartic, relieving the tension that comes with a planet-wide mexican standoff for 40 years. Rocky embraced the 80's and became what it was becoming instead of what it was, and thus achieved a quality all its own.

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Ba'al wrote: What was the problem with using Mandarin again? I heard they thought he was out of date, but come on. I think they might want to go what's more 'believable' in the real world. Since Madarin uses 'magic' rings for a lot of his powers I think they figured it would be too ridiculous. But that's easily fixed by just eliminating the magic part of his powers and sticking with his ass-kicking abilities. Or is it just too cliched to have yet another villian that's an Asian guy who's a master at martial arts?

Master of martial arts is not a real threat to man with supersuit.

In any case he doesn't really fit thematically, where the current iron man villain is the military industrial complex as represented by a giant robot piloted by the big Lebowski.