VoxSphere74
Banned
All Rocky films have a certain degree of fantasy. The most grounded ones were Rocky 1, 6 and Creed, the rest are basically Saturday morning cartoons. I was fine with Dame getting a title shot fresh out of prison, I just wish the film spent more time developing his character further so the final fight would have felt more earned, organic, and satisfying, This is one film I felt could have benefited from a longer runtime.
The Rocky franchise itself is a fantasy for cacs. Because in what world does a random cac get randomly selected to fight the heavyweight champion of the world? And defeat them?
Also the franchise was rooted in a white male besting Black men for three straight movies to prove that Rocky, as a generic cac, could somehow defeat the best boxers in the world who just so happened to be Black and also over the top and flashy in their behavior
Then in the 4th once he had proven how good he was vs Black men, he fought a Russian cac. But because they were both white he had respect for him and made a big speech about it. So it wasn't about pure domination but respect and possible international peace between two cac countries.
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