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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2742896" data-attributes="member: 14159">I don't know which is sadder, <s>Rocky Vi</s>, er "Rocky Balboa" (I guess calling it "Rocky VI" would have made it too obvious it's run into the ground, since it's been almost 20 years since the last Rocky movie), or Rambo IV (again, almost two decades since the last one.Is Stallone's career really that on-the-rocks that all he can do is reprise worn out action heroes?I can imagine Rambo IV will have an obligatory scene with a slurred monologue about America, probably about how the people who spit on him when he came back from Vietnam (First Blood) now have "Support Our Troops" magnets on their cars, the Russians and Vietnamese he fought (Rambo )are now our allies, and those brave Mujahadin he helped (Rambo III) went on to go blow up the WTC and Pentagon.Rocky is so far over the hill it's not funny.  If it's set in the modern day, there is no way Rocky is 'middle aged", he fought for the championship in '76, the whole theme of his title shot was giving a small-time boxer a chance at the big time on the Bicentennial.  29 years since he was already a washed-up boxer about to give up boxing when he won the championship, that's not a 40something folks.</blockquote>