On May 7th I celebrate 10 years with my best friend and wifey. We’ve done so much together in just a decade its amazing. I love you Melissa.
A Decade Together
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Category Archives: Nostalgia
Rocky Balboa (Theaters)
When the Rocky theme song started playing the nostalgia instantly took over. To this day, I still love watching all the Rocky films and its theme song instantly takes me back to my years growing up as a child.
I had originally planned to watch Rocky Balboa during its premiere release a few days ago, but after watching Rocky V, I was very skeptical about this addition to the series. After hearing alot of positive comments about the film, I just had to check it out for myself.
Rocky Balboa is story and character driven much like the original Rocky that won a Oscar and Golden Globe. It focuses on the life of Balboa after boxing and the difficulties both physically and mentally when “human beings” begin to decline with their age. The script itself is written fairly simple like most of the series, but you can sense the genuine emotion that Stallone put into his final Rocky film. Thats what really made this film great.
Thanks for the sixth and final round Sly. You pulled this film off and ended a epic boxing story on a extremely positive and fulfilling note. The Italian Stallion will forever be remembered as being ALL HEART.
Rocky Balboa is now a fifty-something widower running a small restaurant in Philadelphia. Meanwhile, the World Boxing Heavyweight Champion, Mason “The Line” Dixon is the dominant force within his sport. Lonely, Rocky feels the ring beckon him once more and he knows he must return to the sport that he loves.
Miami Vice (DVD)
This film was a huge disappointment for me. I was never a big fan of the Miami Vice television series, but I had expected a far better movie from Michael Mann. Anyone remember The Last of the Mohicans, Heat, and Collateral? All great Mann films.
This film however was totally the opposite of those film’s I previously mentioned. There was no character development, hardly any action sequences worth noting, and it dragged in so many areas it practically put me to sleep on the couch. I have always enjoyed good action movies, even B-rated ones, but this one was just terrible. I can’t believe that with a cast of Colin Farrel and Jaime Foxx, this film ended up this bad.
If your a huge fan of the Miami Vice television series, I would recommend that you skip this film altogether. I think you’ll come out more disappointed than I was. Save your five bucks for a happy meal at McDonald’s. The toys included with your meal will entertain you far more than this film. It is a serious waste of two hours of your life.
Ricardo Tubbs is urbane and dead smart. He lives with Bronx-born Intel analyst Trudy, as they work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders. Sonny Crockett is charismatic and flirtatious until – while undercover working with the supplier of the South Florida group – he gets romantically entangled with Isabella, the Chinese-Cuban wife of an arms and drugs trafficker. The best undercover identity is oneself with the volume turned up and restraint unplugged. The intensity of the case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge where identity and fabrication become blurred, where cop and player become one – especially for Crockett in his romance with Isabella and for Tubbs in the provocation of an assault on those he loves.