The movie came out on December 20th and was a hit earing $70 million at the box office.

$146 million if you count the $76 million it made outside the US. And it only cost $24 million to make, so it turned a HUGE profit.

Hard to believe MGM/UA wouldn't let Stallone make the movie for almost 10 years. If MGM hadn't been sold to Sony, "Rocky Balboa" probably would have NEVER happened.

I was hoping they would've done something with the other movies for when this one came out.

I bought the new release of the first movie back in December.

Are the discs out of II, III, IV and V worth getting at all?

If I buy RBalboa, it's gonna look weird - having the first, and the last, and nothing inbetween.

i really hope Stallone follows through and gets the special editions for the other 4 films goin... yes, even the 5th.

-NiCK

I agree.

I think I'd appreciate it more now. I haven't seen V for a long time, but based on what I remember about it, I think it's more of a "character study" movie, like the first and Rocky Balboa, than "popcorn movies" like III and IV.

I remember very much not liking V because it was so different from the Rocky I was used to. The original came too early for me, and I probably started with II.

Sorry, but "Rocky" KNOCKED out all the other movies that year. Rocky is one of the few movies that won the award, and everyone still knows and loves after all these years.

SIDE NOTE:
The biggest Oscar "travesty" of all time is "Star Wars" not getting Best Pictures, but "Annie Hall" does get the award. How many people remember Annie now? I loved Annie Hall, it is a very good movie, but Star Wars is a GREAT movie.

Most hilarious post ever.

picked this up today and watched the deleted scenes. Anyone notice during the "breakfast" scene when Rocky goes into Paulies room and looks at the picture of paulie and apollo that apollo's face is blurred out? Anyone know why?

Got lucky and found it for under $15 at WalMart.

This was an excellent movie. Seemed like a bizarre idea at first - another Rocky movie - but the damn thing works.

Way to go, Sly!

Carl Weathers didn't allow them permission to use his likeness.

What the? He wouldn't? The guy was in four of the five films of a major motion picture franchise, and he couldn't let them use his "likeness" in a photo???

He's coming off like a prick.

where did you hear that?

Only because they refused to help him get a stew going.

I'm sure the more likely scenario is that MGM didn't want to hunt him down and get his approval to use his likeness for a DVD supplement.

If you watch the "Inside Look" featurettes on early "Seinfeld" seasons you'll notice that one of the interview participants has a TV Guide cover framed in his office and it's blurred out. In other interviews obviously conducted at the same time that appear on subsequent releases the TV Guide cover is unblurred.

It's pretty obvious that TV Guide wasn't opposed to having their cover visible in the DVD content but that Sony didn't actually get their permission until later.

From the horse's mouth:

Anyone having problems with this disc? My copy worked fine at first, then when I took it to another player, it wouldn't work, and now it doesn't work on any of my 4 players. And of course I crumpled up the receipt and pitched it!

Anybody who's ever made a romantic comedy, for starters.

You really should've said that it was a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham.

Yes, but we haven't seen THAT Star Wars since before 1997.

Yes he is coming off as a prick, that's why when they go to Vegas and show Rocky's past fights you only see Clubber Lang and Ivan Drago, no Apollo Creed, the fight that got Rocky noticed in the first place. It's too bad he had to be suck a dick.

That's really strange that Weathers wouldn't allow his likeness to be used on Rocky Balboa. Are you guys just making an assumption? Maybe that's how Stallone kept the budget of this movie small because he didn't want to give Weathers a cut or something.

Yet, I watched some of the new behind the scenes documentary on Rocky I and he seemed very pleasant with some very fond memories of working on the movies.

Interesting slip of the finger there.
Go, Rocko!

Maybe Carl is pissed that Stallone killed him off 23 years ago.

Can someone post what happens in the alternative ending in the extra features.
Is there any mention on why Mr. T didn't make an appearance?

Alternate Ending:

Can anyone make out exactly what the crowd is chanting after the decision is read in the alternate ending?