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xiphiasResolved: ROCKY II and RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART 2 are the first Rocky and Rambo movies; ROCKY and FIRST BLOOD aren't part of the series.
Because the Rocky series is perceived to be about a tough American icon, and Rambo is perceived to be about an all-American super-soldier. And that's not what ROCKY or FIRST BLOOD are.
Discuss, if you like.
Because the Rocky series is perceived to be about a tough American icon, and Rambo is perceived to be about an all-American super-soldier. And that's not what ROCKY or FIRST BLOOD are.
Discuss, if you like.
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Date: 2015-08-12 05:46 pm (UTC)ROCKY *is* the first movie in the series.
ROCKY II-V are a 15 minute montage at the beginning of ROCKY BALBOA.
In this case, the ROCKY series is about an American icon who everyone poured their hopes and dreams into, and he came out the other side broken and bruised, with one small chance to actually be his own man.
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Date: 2015-08-12 07:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-08-12 08:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-08-13 02:06 pm (UTC)To me, Alien is a movie about a strong, competent professional woman facing a genuinely creepy and genuinely alien predator, and Aliens is about putting her back in a conventional box by giving her a gratuitous nuclear family, with repulsively blatant heartstring pulling, opposed by an enemy whose principal characteristic is fecundity, at which point it becomes hard not to see subtext in the aliens being black. Killing off said nuclear family as the start of the third movie is something I admire tremendously.
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Date: 2015-08-13 04:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-08-12 10:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-08-12 10:56 pm (UTC)