Burt Young was also trained as a fighter by Angelo Dundee, who was also Ali trainer.

That is fascinating-didn’t realize that Mr. Young has such a history.

Another fun fact....Dolph is a trained chemical engineer

@@pelbertmyronman yep, built like a superhero and extremely smart. And here I am eating cheetos lol

@@xtremejay2000 was created by Robert Doornick CEO of international robotics, he also did the voice - there's plenty of articles around rocky 4 - mainly for the reasoning why the robot was dropped from the directors cut of 2021

Touching, maybe, but imo still not reason to put it in a movie you are hoping to be taken seriously. Not to mention, I don't see how the robot's portrayal in the movie would introduce him to the people who could benefit from him; I mean, it's portrayed as basically being a servant/toy (and later a creepy toy). Most people watching the film would think "okay, this is a weird, fictional robot in a movie", much like Simone and George did. I don't know that anyone's first thought would be "Wow - I bet that robot's real, and I can get one for my child (if I can afford it)." It would have made more sense to me (and made a better film) if they just spent a few minutes having Rocky visit a center for children with autism, and have the robot there, showing off what it can do to help the kids. Then the movie wouldn't be saddled with trying to fit it into the story.

@@tomflorio3639 for sure, it was done weirdly in the film, most likely why it was removed in directors cut, it hasn't aged well

The Golden Ratio for movie success: 50% montage, 25% flashbacks, 25% musclebound oafs punching each other in the head

Fuckin legend

I still miss Carl Weathers. Was so upset to hear that he died this past winter. Just seemed like such a fun actor to be around, and always he seemed to appreciate his fans.

I kinda wish they hadn't killed off Apollo, even though it was a memorable death.

people who met daulph in real life all said that he's 6'3 max

@@achrafslama997People also shrink with age though, and he’s getting up there.

@@masamune2984 good point man .. very true

He went to MIT as a chemical engineer and was a fulbright scholar.

with severe conviction

Duke was telling himself along with Rocky. Everyone doubted the Russian could be damaged. His excitement and hope in that line is so powerful.

NO PAIN ! NO PAIN !

YOU CUT HIM! YOU HURT HIM! YOU SEE! Absolutely. Just Awesome.

Which is followed immediately by Drago's corner saying "he's not human. He's like a piece of iron."

In Fallout 2, you can become an... "adult performer", and, you get to choose a stage name from a list of hilarious options. One of the options is "The Count of Monte Fisto".

@@ExUSSailor I've been trying to get the motivation to start Fallout 2 and I think you just gave me it XD

these , Goggles do nothing, my eyes Burn.

​@@cassu6 you can also kill an old man, marry his daughter at gunpoint and then sell her to a p0rn studio. you can also join a mafia family, and impregnate his wife and his daughter. 😁game's wild.

@@cassu6 you can also kill an old man, marry his daughter at gunpoint and then sell her to a p0rn studio. you can also join a mafia family, and impregnate his wife and his daughter. 😁game's wild.

Me too, with a group of friends. The theater was packed and people were losing their minds by the end of the movie. To this day it is still one of the rowdiest, craziest movie going experience of my life.

Agreed.

"He took my room!"

“No guys ain’t no pie eating contest” funniest insult joke yet also protecting them at the same time line ever. 🤣🤣🤣

Exactly! All are mandatory

Absolutely agree even tho Rocky V was not the greatest

Right

Merca....fuck yeah

This and Rambo 2 or 3. Stallone was big in getting America's patriot boner fully erect in the 80s

Yeah, you’re right.

I don't know about that.... "Red Dawn" has lots of guns and explosions....

I’ve used the stairclimber to the soundtrack

And on Christmas Day

As long as you use a wide variety of machines, you get better results than free weights BECAUSE of their specificity. If you don't, then you will get uneven development and set yourself up for injuries when a relatively weak muscle is recruited into a complex exercise. For example, if you only ever use a pectoral machine, then try doing a barbell lift using your trapezius, you could easily tear it if you try lifting the same weight you can move on the pec machine.

Machines are safer. Free weights work stabilizer muscles. It's best to use both styles.

@@hulkslayer626 Yes machines are safer _during the act of exercise_ . That safety comes at the price of your body not recruiting all the stabilizing muscles it would if you were lifting a free weight or anything normally in the real world. Think of it like building a wall out of bricks but using chewing gum instead of mortar. Despite the strength of each individual brick it's not going to be a strong wall is it?

@@fredfredburger5150 I know... I said that. ?

@@hulkslayer626 Actually I've heard that you are more likely to injure yourself on a machine, because it makes you go through a forced range of motion rather than your body's natural movement. Either way, you have proven the OP's point.

Just for information in case u don’t know (u meaning the people watching Rocky) Sly’s speech (non Rocky) is the way it is because he was injured at birth. The doctor used forceps and cut a nerve on the left side of Sly’s face. It why his lip droops a bit and his speech is affected because part of his tongue is paralyzed. He eventually had to have a doctor do work on the left side of his face cause he lost so much weight for Rocky and Rambo that it drooped more so he had a doctor bring it up level to the right side.

Those robots were an actual thing when I was a kid! I remember walking past one, in Toys R Us, shortly after seeing this movie, and BEGGING MY MOTHER to buy one for me! She of course took one look at the price tag, then looked at me, and said: "You'll get over it." And dragged me out of the store, even as I wailed at the top of my lungs (as 8 year olds, who don't get what they want in the moment do, lol).

fair enough! what threw us off about the robot is that anytime it was on screen, it felt like like a scene from a different movie. to paraphrase someone else with the same thought, "yes guns exists in the harry potter universe but it would feel really jarring if in one of those movies a death eater pulls out an uzi, just because it existed doenst mean it fits the tone".

I was 11 when Rocky 4 came out. I CRIED way back then. It's still a hard movie for me to watch!

M.T.V.

This was at the height of the MTV era, so it's as if the movies throws in several segments that are little more than Music Videos.

@@trekkiejunk As I said, a lot of people do, but not all, and that's fine, but let's face it, culture, fashion, music, political stands , all are very much present in this movie, and to be fair not a single of those things actually define an 80s movie, it is the feel of the 80s , the cringe, the over the top everything, the americanism, the absurdity that actually characterize an 80s movies, some of my favorite movies from the 80s like Aliens or back to the future, or Raiders of the lost ark, etc... are amazing movies, but not 80s movies at all, they are timeless and could be inserted in pretty much any decade with slight changes, 80s movies could have almost everything from music, to fashion, to culture changed , up to a point of course, and still be obviously an 80s movie, and this is one of those movies, probably the most 80s of these movies , even though Ferris Buller's day off or Goonies for instance or some other movies would be absolutely good picks.

​@@trekkiejunkThink about it from the standpoint of 1985.... This was the age of the Cold War when the "free world" was largely united in opposition to the communist East. The 70's and 80's were decades in which the consensus was that the Capitalist West had much greater cultural and political freedom than the communists of the East.

Rocky 5's main issue is the antagonist isn't very good. Creed, Clubber Lang and Drago were all not only impressive from a fighting point of view, but could be held up as mirrors to the issues in Rocky's life at the time. Tommy is neither of those things, and his biggest impact on Rocky is to make him neglect his son, which feels out of character for Rocky. It's certainly not the worst movie, just not as good as it's esteemed brothers.

@@dmore Interestingly enough, Thomas Morrison (Tommy Gunn) was an actual boxer and not a pretend one like the rest of the people you mentioned lol.

@@dmorebut was Tommy the antagonist or was it the Don King act like guy?

@@shawnmiller4781 That's a good point, Duke is every bit the antagonist alongside Tommy. The way he's able to drag Rocky away from his values is just as bad and while it's satisfying to see him get knocked down, I don't feel like Rocky grows in the way he does in the other movies. Rocky's opposition to Duke doesn't tell us anything we didn't already know about him.

The thing about Rocky V that I mentioned in another post is that large chunks of it were basically ignored/wrtten over for Rocky VI. Its not a horrible movie, but it one of the weakest along with II, and parts of it are almost non-canon. VI is a banger though, and brings kind of a mature wisdom to close things down. Makes me wonder if Creed will ever learn that your main character has to actually lose/be expected to lose if you want to create the hero's arc.

yep, it really really surprised us and what threw us off about the robot is that anytime it was on screen, it felt like like a scene from a different movie. to paraphrase someone else with the same thought, "yes guns exists in the harry potter universe but it would feel really jarring if in one of those movies a death eater pulls out an uzi, just because it existed doenst mean it fits the tone".

@@CineBingeReact I can see that. Since I watched it as a kid, critical thinking wasn't that big a part of my movie experience. I just thought, "Remote control 🤖! Cool gift!" And didn't spare it another thought.

And Stallone's insurance almost wouldn't cover it, thinking no human could hit that hard.

The crazy thing is why he went to the hospital. It wasn't just that he hit him hard. He hit him so hard it made Stallone's heart swell up and almost caused cardiac arrest. That's insane.

if i'm not mistaken after those 4 days in the ICU...the line "I must break you" was added in the film to mark solidity to what happened to Sylvester

I might be getting the stories mixed up, but didn't the doctors first assume Stallone had been hit by a car? I dunno.

@@phj223 It was the insurance company.

I just looked up Burgess Meredith, can't believe he lived 12 years after this film came out. (I know he was killed off in the earlier films.) And jeez, Burt Young looked almost 83 in 1985. He (Burt Young) was 44/45 here!!??👀

And Tony Burton (Duke) passed several years ago too

@@johnsmith-nn2hs added Duke's death... But I was surprised Carl Weathers who was in the best shape of all of them died the youngest

@@johnsmith-nn2hs NO he was born 1907 so he was 69 in Rocky 1 (1976) & 72 in Rocky 2 (1979) Mickey died in Rocky 3 was 75 (1982) & (he wasn't in Rocky 4 but would've been 78 (1985) then died in 1997 at 89

I edited my comment for clarity. Pauly/Burt Young was 44/45 in Rocky IV but looked much older (jokingly 83, his age when he died in 2023).

I still prefer the theatrical version of Rocky IV. The Directors cut had some good moments but they cut way too much out of the theatrical cut for my liking.

Agreed, thou I did like at Apollo's Funeral that Duke gave the main Speech than Rocky as it made more sense, plus more screen time for Duke is always a good thing. Personally I never had a problem with the robot was of its time 😂

not to mention for all his flaws, to have a friend willing to walk into a Russian arena with the American flag draped around himself in the hight of the cold war...thats a brother

@@80snead right, he'd follow Rocky into hell if he had to, and he'd complain the whole time haha

Of course he would…rocky is the breadwinner so to speak. Paulie didn’t lift a finger to help Rocky in his boxing career until Rocky started fighting in championships.

@@marvymarv959 yeah it's almost like Paulie is a complete ignorant screwed up drunk only the two nicest most forgiving people could ever love

Doesn't change the fact that Paulie's still a piece of shit. Speaks volumes about Rocky & Adrian being suuuuper nice and tolerant, but Paulie is just a walking fail. I mean, for fuck's sake he's the reason why shit falls apart for the family in the next movie lol.

Not just kind of a genius - an actual genius. He had a full scholarship to MIT but got into modeling and then acting instead.

Also sent Stalone to the hospital

4 years of clown college

Also, smells crime and walks around on all fours.

@@JeffKelly03 A Fulbright scholarship is indicative of ambition and academic prowess, absolutely, but says nothing about whether or not you're a "genius", whatever that nebulous term is taken to mean. There are orders of magnitude more Fulbright scholars than there are geniuses, in the currently employed definition of the word. He has a master's degree in chemical engineering and and speaks two languages fluently (Swedish and English, which wasn't super uncommon even in the 80s) as opposed to the 6-7 which have often been tossed around. He's an ambitious, bright, academically inclined person with a more "cerebral" background than most action stars of the time, which was then inflated over the years because it sounded cool and interesting.

My dad drove haulage trucks through eastern europe in the early 90s and said that the best currency for getting shit done over there was either Deutschmarks or Marlboros. You want your trailer unloading fast just jump out of the cab with a carton of Marlboros and you'll get ten guys unloading you as fast as they can for two packs of cigs each.

@@daved2352 LOL Marlboro reds costed me about 3 dollars a pack back in the early 90's. That's some cheap labor cost. 😁

Rocky 5 is my guilty pleasure, is not a great film, but there are very good moments

“Not great” is one way of putting it. 😂😂

Rocky/Creed is Rocky's life story..... can't skip out in the middle!

100% agree. There's important back story with his son that plays into Rocky's motivations in Creed, plus his son's problems in Rocky Balboa.

@@gohan3366 It's the weakest Rocky movie, but still pretty good.

And "Showdown in Little Tokyo" !

That’s rather terrifying.

I think they mention his character in The Expendables 2 having a bunch of advanced degrees and chemistry knowledge. Probably a nod to his academic achievements.

@@Replicaate And thats only half his lifes story..the rest is equally nuts

@@ravensdark99 Like how Grace Jones followed her own advice from “Conan the Destroyer” and indeed, grabbed and took him.

In the history of Sweden? Let’s not go overboard here. Dude got a Masters degree. Thousands of people got Fulbright Scholarships. Lundgren is a smart guy no doubt. But Sweden has a ton of historically important scientists.

@@dnish6673 So how did you get your Fulbright?

Well, he did punch Stallone for real and hospitalized him. It's a bananas story.

I think you could skip 5, but I'm also not gonna say you should or or shouldn't. I do think it is referenced, tho.. but I wouldn't blame anyone for skipping it. I feel like a lot of the people who recently reacted to the whole series were confused by it... and that it took away from Rocky Balboa with his Son's development.. I really don't know how much is lost by skipping it.

Yes. Plus, 5 sets up alot as to what the franchise is now with the Creed movies. So bad or not, it still matters.

absolutely. even if you dont like it, it is very important to the continuation

Agreed, even though i HATE Rocky 5, it does matter to the series!

@@prollins6443 yea, i understand skipping Rocky V for some people if the series had ended, but since they made more, I think you need it now to progress through

Rocky Balboa firmly returns to it's roots at least.

Secret Russian movie bunker sounds like a great venue to watch 80s action cheese in!

@@Replicaate yeah, it was exactly what it sounds like!

Big difference between having developed muscles and being strong.

@@eXpriestTotally agree. And “strong” to do what? If it’s to keep lifting on that machine, then fine. But the micro muscles mean everything.

dont boxers usually try to block or dodge too?

Not if you're pro or on juice