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Posted by Michael Coate (Member # 757) on 11-21-2011, 11:42 AM:
 
Released on this day in 1976...


 

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Posted by Claude S. Ayakawa (Member # 1401) on 11-21-2011, 12:14 PM:
 
I saw ROCKY at the Waikiki #2 (Twins) about a week after it had first opened. I have seen it many times on VHS, laserdisc, DVD and about three months ago when I got all of the Rocky movies in a Blue Ray collection

-Claude
 

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Posted by Kenneth Wuepper (Member # 1174) on 11-21-2011, 12:21 PM:
 
This film started a great series of "boxing films" that will probably never be equaled.

It was also the last film that Butterfield Theatre Company showed at the Temple Theatre, SAGINAW MI in 1977. Butterfield leased the Temple from its construction by the Elf Khurafeh Temple in 1927 until Butterfield closed it in 1977.

The Temple Theatre is operated today by the Temple Theatre Foundation. It has undergone an 8 million dollar restoration and is the home for the symphony, choral society, concert association and theatre organ club.

Two of the original projectionists worked there the entire time. Harold Sager and Irwin Lutz, two of the nicest people you will ever meet.

KEN
 

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Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 11-21-2011, 04:23 PM:
 
This was the first movie to open up at the newly remodeled former Carrol Cinemas in my home town.

United Artists bought the twin and split the two houses to make a crackerjack box 4plex out of a real nicely laid out twin.
 

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Posted by Bill Gabel (Member # 1105) on 11-21-2011, 04:27 PM:
 
Sylvester Stallone is launching "Rocky: The Musical". It is slated to open in Hamburg in Nov. 2012.

Rocky: The Musical
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 11-21-2011, 08:49 PM:
 
As long as he's not singing in it, it should be OK.

It's really amazing to look at the first Rocky and then look at #4 or #5 and compare the fight scenes.

The first movie had a pretty believable boxing match (outside of Rocky's super-human endurance) that lasted around 25 minutes of screen time. In the later movies, the match is much shorter and gets more and more far-fetched as the series goes on.

I think the fact that Rocky

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doesn't win

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