10 Movies Everyone Skips In A Franchise

10. Rocky V

Rocky V is basically that One Miserable Entry most fans would prefer to forget ever happened.

Originally envisioned as a finale to the beloved boxing franchise, Rocky V brought Rocky Balboa's (Sylvester Stallone) story to a depressing crescendo by making him broke and brain-damaged, before having him battle his former protege in a street fight.

It's a bleak coda to Rocky's journey, and one which was critically panned and commercially disappointing. 

In fact, it was loathed enough that Stallone decided to return for a sixth film 16 years later, Rocky Balboa, which gave Rocky a far more fitting final bout in the ring. And with the Rocky franchise now totalling a whopping nine movies, including the Creed trilogy, Rocky V remains the single bummer, dud entry - a catastrophic creative miscalculation on Stallone's part, albeit one which he eventually remedied.

If you skip straight from Rocky IV to Rocky Balboa on a watch-through, you've missed basically nothing worthwhile.