How the hell can anyone keep watching this movie?
I've watched it twice since release. The last time 6 months ago to finish a Rocky Marathon and I just wanted to try and understand the movie and refresh my memory.I cried.
Upon 2nd viewing the only conclusion I could come to was that you'd have to be a sadist to revisit this movie.
The film isn't bad. But I ask myself was the film really worth it? Was it worth making just to take away Rocky's beloved? The movie isn't even entertaining. Even with Mickey and Apollo's deaths in those previous films they still managed to keep those movies entertaining and I can still go back and watch them.
This movie just felt more like a dark deep abyss of wallowing despair. Or maybe watching them all in a marathon over a few days just made it Jarring cause of how different the trajectory of the older films compared to this one and Creed.
I think Sylvester accomplished what he wanted.Emotionally.But this certainly isn't one of those films I would desire to ever revisit again. I'll probably end up keeping this one out of my marathon run whenever that happens again.