Will the villain be papery in nature? This was my first thought as I began to finally watch Rocky from 1976. Turns out, the movie had NO VILLAIN! Apollo Creed was an opponent (that was human and therefore not made out of paper * Editors Note: I good at deductions), but there was no actual villain for Rocky to defeat. Arguably, Rocky’s boss could be considered a villain who is neither emphasized nor stopped in his dastardly ways. Our protagonist doesn’t really defeat any bad guys and appears to be heavily involved in crime himself. Wait, is HE the villain? Does he defeat himself in the end? Dis Drawma Kingg just realized that my tardiness to watching my first Rocky movie is likely to make me sound painfully ignorant to the average person, as almost everyone but me has already seen one or more of these. It’s been 50 years since release! Rocky did all that training, and I couldn’t even get off my couch and rewind a VHS tape and put it into my VCR? Something is wrong with this picture. My life, not the movie.
Rocky was genuinely a good movie, however I’m gonna start talkin’ about somethin’ else now. There was this one time, what feels like oh so long ago, where I was in an argument with the local shop employee of Products Inside. I can’t remember what started the interaction, though my instinct is that it was a disagreement on price of a Surrealdreamcaster video game console.
Drawma Kingg: Why are you making it so difficult for me to accomplish anything today?
Products Inside Employee: I am sorry, Mr. Dramatic Sir, we cannot sell you this miscellaneous product for this miscellaneous price.
Drawma Kingg: I saw you sell one to Sharon last week for this price.
PIE: You’re making that up! I don’t even know any Sharons!
Drawma Kingg: Saw you sell one to Jon a few days ago fer even lower.
PIE: Which John? There are 46 Johns in our town!
Drawma Kingg: Jon No H 17. Everyone ‘round here knows JNH17.
PIE: Argh! It’s true! Take the miscellaneous product for the miscellaneous price! I will not admit to offering a discount to Sharon though! Her infant son beat me at a game of Go Fish last November!
Drawma Kingg: Sharon is not the problem. The problem is you keep repeating that story to people.
I hope this little anecdote helps illustrate barely anything. I literally dropped a mic as I spoke that final sentence. Unfortunately, it was a store product I hadn’t paid for sitting on the impulse buy rack near the checkout counter. They ended up making me pay for the broken microphone, so my total bill that day was ultimately higher than the original cost of the product I was trying to negotiate.
Is It Worth Watching?: Yes (I’m talking about the movie now). I enjoyed Rocky very much! It was significantly better than my expectations!
Final Thoughts: 7.5/10 Crowns, give or take. I could see myself potentially adjusting my rating on a second viewing. Dis Drawma Kingg was worried that I would dislike Rocky, and then readers would be mad at me when I gave my honest opinion. I didn’t expect to like the movie so much! Adrian was an amazingly acted character with so much depth! Rocky’s disposition (at least in this first movie) was also complex and human feeling. Other characters such as Apollo and Adrian’s brother felt refreshing in a somewhat realistic way too. Gotta go — I can’t tell if I am awake or asleep right now, yet I feel compelled to go play Hedgehog Quest on my Surrealdreamcaster video game console.
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