Rocky (1976) | A 50% Facts Review

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

Jim McDonald

Fitness, Entrepreneurship, Tv & Film, Business, Health & Fitness, Film Reviews

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

You don’t have to be wearing a pair of American flag boxing shorts to get that Rocky is a 4th of July flick (Even though it’s set in February and was released in December.) Why was Creed wearing those shorts anyway? (It was a Bicentennial gimmick.)

How did this film set the template for a thousand Cinderella sports movies to come, and launched one of the most successful franchises in movie history on a shoestring budget? How does a too-old, never-was fighter, mafia enforcer, kinda creepy guy on the spectrum end up fighting the heavyweight champ AND going the distance?

Our frequent media review collaborator, Dean Saddoris (@deansaddoris.ck) joined us to break down these questions. Sebastian Brambila (@sebastian_brambila) ran the board.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome.
0:09.0	Welcome to America.
0:12.0	Welcome to America.
0:13.0	America.
0:15.0	Hell yeah.
0:16.0	We got Dean Stadores back with us today for the first time in a while.
0:20.0	I know, I missed you guys.
0:21.0	Yeah, we missed you too.
0:22.0	We just, we're not finding a bunch of stuff that we wanted to watch was I think maybe the big problem.
0:26.2	Yeah, you know also people are everybody's busy. Yeah, we sort of dug into the bag here and came up with with rocky and there's a couple reasons why I
0:36.2	want to do rocky this this episode's going to go up around the 4th of July okay
0:40.1	yeah what's more American than fucking.
0:42.6	Well, I was wondering, I was wondering,
0:44.8	why Rocky, but now I'm finding out now.
0:46.8	Why not?
0:48.0	That's a better question.
0:48.9	That's a good question.
0:50.0	Why not?
0:50.9	Um, Rocky came out in 76.
0:54.2	The time period shown in the movie is late 75 to early 76.
1:00.6	Yeah.
1:01.9	Bicentennial 76. that was a whole big thing like you guys didn't live through it, but I sure did.
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