12 Reasons 1985 Was The Most Important Movie Year Ever
8. The Best Rocky Movie
Never has such a one dimensional, crudely manipulative movie inspired such a fervent reaction as Rocky IV. Is it racist? Very possibly: there certainly wont have been many Stallone t-shirts to be seen around the Kremlin. But despite all of that, it is a remarkably jingoistic movie, inspiring passion that grabs you behind the navel and insists you pay attention. Its also dangerously inspiring, suggesting that even the most terrible of underdogs (and dont doubt that Rocky is a god-awful fighter) should stand up to impossibly chiselled, oiled up Russian monsters. The reality of that situation is that you would be picking your own teeth out of the toilet for months afterwards, but by crikey would you try it if youd just watched Balboa beat Drago. And even more importantly, Rocky IV is legitimately part of the zeitgeist of cinema, because it remains the finest (and most parodied) example of the tooling up montage in the history of the medium.
