![]() ![]() ► Rocky: Heavyweight Collection (Limited Edition) → Rocky balboa speech to board movie#įull Scene in HD from the movie Rocky Balboa (2006). “Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. ![]() How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now if you know what you’re worth then go out and get what you’re worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain’t you! You’re better than that! I’m always gonna love you no matter what. But until you start believing in yourself, ya ain’t gonna have a life.Rightly ranked by IMDB voters as the best of the “Rocky” sequels (with a 7.2 rating), “Rocky Balboa” (2006) is a beautiful grace note to the fighting portion of the Italian Stallion’s career. (His training career appears to continue in “Creed.”) While the film makes few bones about the fact that a 50-something former champion can’t beat a current champion in his prime, it does show that people get better at other things with age. Sylvester Stallone has always been a good, naturalistic actor, especially in this role. While not a flawless writer, he kept us interested in the lives of the Balboa clan for five films. But on “Rocky Balboa,” he delivers his most polished script and most seasoned direction without too much glitz or gimmickry (admittedly, there is some spectacle when the climactic fight takes place at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas). The film’s pacing – especially in the early going - lets a viewer soak up and enjoy the world, and the cinematography (by series newcomer J. Clark Mathis) should be framed in a museum. The most lump-in-your-throat sequence of “Rocky Balboa” finds Rocky – dragging along the less enthusiastic Paulie – revisiting the sites of big moments from his life such as his old apartment stoop where he just wanted Adrian to trust him and the skating rink (since torn down) where they had their first date. Rocky has done this “Adrian tour” every year since her death four years earlier of breast cancer. Not many people in the real world have the time or inclination to be so nostalgic, but it sure is a nice idea.Īs I noted in my reviews of “Rocky” and “Rocky V,” I love looking at north Philly. I personally wouldn’t want to live there, but I can see why the films’ characters are attached to it. Rocky and Paulie (working at the meat-packing plant again, now as a night watchman) both note that after a while, people become the places they live. ![]() Paulie is incapable of being happy, but he does note that he has nothing else, which in Paulie-speak means … well, something meaningful. Being the place you live isn’t a good thing for everyone, though, as it illustrates what rough shape Little Marie (Geraldine Hughes) finds herself in. (She’s the “Screw you, creepo!” girl from the first film.) The home she shares with her son, Steps, abuts a burned-out husk of a building on a Philly street that was dropped from the bus route 20 years ago. In a series of vignettes that also provides delicate through-lines, we see Rocky’s interactions with Marie and Steps. ![]()
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