Sylvester Stallone tipped for Oscar nod for his performance in Creed

I don’t watch all of his movies but the fact that he’s just in movies, gives me a sense of happiness. When you see these relationships, sometimes, you see women who support their dudes in this thing, even though it is something that can go wrong in a big way.

Stallone is now 69, and “Creed” wisely doesn’t attempt to get Rocky Balboa back into the boxing gloves. It was a movie about a guy who was trying to make his way in the world. ” ‘What have you done?’ ‘Well, I was the fourth lead in “The Lords of Flatbush”. To this end, Donnie seeks out the help of Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), aged and retired boxing champion, and formerly the greatest opponent of Apollo Creed.

The clash between Rocky’s old-school ways and Adonis’ modern existence is immediately apparent.

Rocky has become as much a Philadelphia institution as the Liberty Bell, and Stallone is always greeted with a frenzy normally reserved for its real-life sports heroes. Rocky wins the title back.

The fight at the Thanksgiving box office has begun with “Creed”, which is in theaters right now. “At that time it was Rocky II, repeated on TV all the time”.

Adonis is just a fascinating character, in a way that’s independent of the entire Rocky tradition. He runs a restaurant and visits the cemetery, plodding along in life while inhabiting a character that is the antithesis of the musclebound meathead of the later “Rocky” films (and “The Expendables”). Putting aside the lazy crutches (and the Botox), he returns to Rocky Balboa as a man wise enough not to waste this late chance to again be a contender. I expected very little, but this film blew me away. When a computer simulation shows that his younger self would beat the reigning heavyweight champ, he comes out of retirement for an exhibition match to prove that he can still go the distance.

With “Creed”, Coogler takes an existing mythology and lovingly turns it into something new and very real, while Jordan takes a character who could easily be seen as unsympathetic, and turns him into someone exceedingly relatable. Bouncing from foster homes to juvenile detention, Johnson has no one to call his own. Once in the City of Brotherly Love, Adonis tracks Rocky (Stallone) down and asks him to be his trainer. Reluctantly, he agrees and the two come to depend on each other to get through challenges tougher than anything they might face in the ring. You were probably curious about this one anyway, but let us tell you, it is a powerful effort highlighted by supporting performances from Phylicia Rashad and Tessa Thompson that is one of the year’s best. And I’m thinking, like, Man, when are they going to play the songs? (Or will there be more?) Together with director Coogler, you could say this trio knocks it outta the ring.

Stallone, who had written all six films in the “Rocky” series and directed four of them, had a hard time wrapping his head around Coogler’s out-of-left-field pitch. Stallone’s Rocky performance, which gradually slips into the Mickey role from the original movies, could tap the nostalgia of Oscar voters.

It’s pretty clear that this is set up to be the beginning of a franchise. And the reality is that boxing is a damaging sport, it’s a sport with great consequences, but at the same time, a lot of things are that way.