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Reviews for Creed (Michael B. Jordan, Stallone, dir. Ryan Coogler)

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Arnie7

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Stallone at Premiere with his family. Some good genes there. Guy still looks good at his age.

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JB1981

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ryutaro's mama said:
That's the thing though.
He was raw as fuck, beating cans in the Mexican underground but had no legit training. When he stepped in the ring with Wheeler (Andre Ward) he got dropped and lost his car. He knew he needed training and sought Rock out. Then, he had to train his ass off to fight Sporino, a guy that was just Philly famous, not big time. The ONLY reason he even got a shot at the title was because Conlan needed a hook (no pun intended) to get one last payday before he potentially went to jail. When Sporino's manager leaked his true heritage, Conlan wanted in on that money potential. He wanted Creed on the ticket to drive up buy rates. He didn't go "straight to the title" under Rocky.
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Thought the
Conlan contrivance was kind of silly. He's a hothead who punches his opponent at the presser, gets sued and faces jail time. As an adversary I thought he was a little lame. A little cartoonish in presentation. I also thought the onscreen graphics showing the fighters histories were a little out of place.
Sort of a clashing tonally with the rest of the movie. Small nitpicks but they bothered me in a movie that was otherwise gritty and grounded. The movie delivered on the most important aspects: character, emotion, theme. It's a good movie just think it had some missteps that rubbed me the wrong way a little

The running sequence with the bikers also didn't hit right for me. Was a little cheesy.
 
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JonathanNemo

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It's great. I saw this instead of the latest Bond thing, not a single regret about that.

Fights were extremely well choreographed, characters had good chemistry. I can barely remember a thing about the Rocky movies and I didn't see the new one, but this just hit all the right notes for me.

Best movie of 2015 for me.
Granted the only other one in the running for me was Samurai Cop 2 and that's entertaining on a completely different level.
 
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Blader

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JB1981 said:
Thought the
Conlan contrivance was kind of silly. He's a hothead who punches his opponent at the presser, gets sued and faces jail time. As an adversary I thought he was a little lame. A little cartoonish in presentation. I also thought the onscreen graphics showing the fighters histories were a little out of place.
Sort of a clashing tonally with the rest of the movie. Small nitpicks but they bothered me in a movie that was otherwise gritty and grounded. The movie delivered on the most important aspects: character, emotion, theme. It's a good movie just think it had some missteps that rubbed me the wrong way a little

The running sequence with the bikers also didn't hit right for me. Was a little cheesy.
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Conlan was already
going to prison before he broke that other guy's jaw.
 
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talisayNon

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im watching this again. Next weekend.

Watching the trailers just makes me want to rewatch the shit out of it.

Also there's a Rocky marathon currently on Esquire.
 
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Glass

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Do we know what kind of numbers this is doing? This film wasn't on my radar since its not out for ages here, but has been since I watched the Jeremy Jahns review. Apparently there was a lot of anticipation for this, then you add in the rave reviews etc. Hope its a huge hit.
 
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New002

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Saw this today and I really enjoyed it. I have seen 1-4 countless times and I got a kick out of seeing little nods to the previous films. I'm glad it turned out to be a quality film.

JB1981 said:
I'm not talking about just Stallone in this movie. I'm talking about the Rocky character as he's portrayed in the original. The character just won me over and I was welled up with emotion seeing him succeed. This movie didn't have that same depth of feeling for me. It's still has affecting emotional beats but not to the same degree as rocky. Different movies with different characters but just think Michael B is a little one dimensional as an actor.
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Just wanted to say that I agree. I didn't connect with Michael B in the movie like I did with Rocky in the original, but I connected with Stallone just like I did when watching the original. I thought Rocky was handled really well in this movie.
 
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UnforgivenTwin

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I saw this last night with my two brothers and really enjoyed it. My only real complaint with it though was the romance between Creed and his girlfriend. I didn't really feel any connection between them and in my opinion,it was the weakest aspect of the film. Also,like everyone else is saying, Stallone was great and I hope he wins an Oscar for best supporting actor.
 
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Sanjuro

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The only thing that Rocky V hits home now is the father/son stuff.

Everything else...my god.

Need to figure out how to watch Balboa next.
 
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Speevy

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Rocky V is the saddest movie of the series. He's got brain damage, everyone is dead, and his money is gone.

The last scene is him getting his ass kicked in an alley until he comes back and beats the other guy up.
 
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airmangataosenai

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ryutaro's mama said:
That's the thing though.
He was raw as fuck, beating cans in the Mexican underground but had no legit training. When he stepped in the ring with Wheeler (Andre Ward) he got dropped and lost his car. He knew he needed training and sought Rock out. Then, he had to train his ass off to fight Sporino, a guy that was just Philly famous, not big time. The ONLY reason he even got a shot at the title was because Conlan needed a hook (no pun intended) to get one last payday before he potentially went to jail. When Sporino's manager leaked his true heritage, Conlan wanted in on that money potential. He wanted Creed on the ticket to drive up buy rates. He didn't go "straight to the title" under Rocky.
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Sporino was supposed to of qualified for the Olympic team if I read his blurb correctly. He indeed was supposed to be a world class athlete.
 
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Bobby Roberts

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I don't know if Sporino's ranking is really any sort of spoiler. Doesn't have much plot relevance, if any at all. But just in case:

If I remember correctly, his on-screen stat roll mentioned he was the #4 contender, didn't it?
 
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bionic77

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2nd best Rocky movie in my opinion.

As with pretty much all Rocky movies they kill the training and the actual fights. Weird how no one else comes close to this series when it comes to either of them.
 
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Speevy

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Aside from just being generally excellent, I'll give huge kudos to this movie for one thing in particular. There are zero cringe moments.

That's not true of one other Rocky movie.
 
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JTripper

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Speevy said:
There are zero cringe moments.
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The few moments
involving Bianca's music had me preparing for cringe, but that's the closest I got to one
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I thought the emotional beats of the movie were done really well actually.
I welled up at least 3 times.
 
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bionic77

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Speevy said:
Aside from just being generally excellent, I'll give huge kudos to this movie for one thing in particular. There are zero cringe moments.

That's not true of one other Rocky movie.
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Rocky is perfect.

Rocky 4 is a perfect 80s movie.

Neither movie has any cringe moments.
 
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Bobby Roberts

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bionic77 said:
Rocky is perfect.

Rocky 4 is a perfect 80s movie.

Neither movie has any cringe moments.
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Rocky 4 is a single long cringe moment made out of five different montages.

It's fucking shit.

The cringe moment in Rocky comes when he has Adrian trapped in the corner. That's kinda uncomfortable to watch.
 
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Daingurse

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Really enjoyed this one, really took me back to my teens when I was really into the Rocky films. Lots of nostalgia, had me tearing up pretty frequently. Great fights as well, really could feel the hits.

Edit: Love Rocky 4, don't care what anyone says about it. I have too much fun with movie. Used to just listen to the montage music from it.
 
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BronsonLee

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Bobby Roberts said:
Rocky's cringe moment comes when he has Adrian trapped in the corner. That's kinda uncomfortable to watch.
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Yeaaaaah, that one's really odd to watch now. I mean, you get that he just doesn't want her to go (and he even says in Balboa that all he wanted her to do was trust him), but still..
 
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JB1981

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Speevy said:
Aside from just being generally excellent, I'll give huge kudos to this movie for one thing in particular. There are zero cringe moments.

That's not true of one other Rocky movie.
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Street bikes and Adonis shadow boxing in the middle of them pointing at Rocky up in the window. Super cringe
 
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kitschbeam

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It's nice to see Michael B. Jordan bounced back after that Fantastic Four reboot disaster.

Anyway the movie is awesome and I'm planning to watch it for the second time.
 
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metsallica

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JB1981 said:
Street bikes and Adonis shadow boxing in the middle of them pointing at Rocky up in the window. Super cringe
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My audience died laughing during that scene; I kind of enjoyed it. I thought the movie was solid, was hoping to love it more than I did after those great trailers though. Still I think it's the only movie in the franchise that can legitimately contend with the masterpiece that is the first film. The final fight really tied the movie together and elevated it for me. Prior to it I was wondering what all the fuss was about, to be honest.
 
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mr2xxx

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JB1981 said:
Just watched Rocky Balboa again. Creed shit on that movie
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As did I. And yeah it did. Bolboa tried for the same sentimental moments in this one and just failed. Not sure what it was but this one definitely made me up well up a bit.

If there is a sequel they need to move on from Rocky though. He should be in it just not be a major focus. Introduce some intresting characters like a Paulie and the relationship drama can be about his girl's
hearing loss.
 
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J2 Cool

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JB1981 said:
Street bikes and Adonis shadow boxing in the middle of them pointing at Rocky up in the window. Super cringe
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This, and the PTI stuff. Taking real shows withthe actual crew, and playing up the movies characters as reality..always uncanny valley effect for me.

Good movie though, enjoyed it. Still think Stallone's the most compelling thing though, wouldn't have much interest in Creed 2 or anything.
 
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Forceatowulf

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Movie was excellent. Absolutely excellent.

Bra-fucking-vo

The fights were so God damn on point. I actually flinched during one of them, like I could feel the punch.

Fuck this Shit was good.
 
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