"70's Month" rolls on and today's movie is 1976's Rocky.
A Best Picture winner, #57 of the American Film Institute's top 100, and the highest grossing film of 1976, Rocky is simply one of those all-time great films. For anyone who doesn't know the plot of this iconic film, it's the story of Rocky Balboa (played by Sylvester Stallone), a down-on-his-luck boxer from Philadelphia who gets the chance of a lifetime to fight the Heavyweight Champion of the World, Apollo Creed (played by Carl Weathers). Even though Rocky narrowly loses the big fight at the end, he proved to himself that he "could go the distance".
I almost didn't want to write anything up about this film because anything I could say most people already know; It's a great underdog story, with memorable characters, it has an amazing musical score, and the training montage that ends with Rocky running up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art is one of the most famous scenes in cinema history.
Rocky would end up spawning a whole series of movies of varying quality (I did a ranking of all the Rocky films a while back that you can check out buy clicking HERE) and they're not all 'must-see' films, but the first one is still great.
5 out of 5
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