The first one is the best, and a great film on its own. My favorite scene - the ice skating rink (2 more minutes!).

Rocky III is also very good, and you have to love Sly and Carl Weathers running on the beach -and the close-ups of those thigh muscles!!

As far as the Rocky theme, did anyone ever read the inside of the original album? There's something in there from Stallone about how he was so afraid that Bill Conti would never capture the passion of his characters properly and be able to put them to music, but then how impressed he was when he first heard it. The last line is, "I should have known better. Bill Conit is, after all, Italian."


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