{"id":219,"date":"2007-01-20T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-20T21:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=219"},"modified":"2007-01-20T17:56:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-20T21:56:00","slug":"empires-review-of-rocky-balboa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/20\/empires-review-of-rocky-balboa\/","title":{"rendered":"Empire&#8217;s Review of &quot;Rocky Balboa&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2007\/012007empire_rb_review.jpg?w=640\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><strong>SZoner<\/strong>, <strong>Brett Dexter<\/strong>, sent in a copy of <strong>Empire<\/strong> magazine&#8217;s review of <strong>&#8220;Rocky Balboa.&#8221;<\/strong> Overall they gave it a <strong>three star rating<\/strong> and seemed to really like it despite the fact that they really didn&#8217;t want to&#8230; Here are some excerpts:<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">* <strong>&#8220;Rocky Balboa&#8221;<\/strong>&#8230; pulls off the unique cinematic feat of being totally terrible and completely brillant at the same time. <\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">* There have been no <strong>&#8220;Casino Royale&#8221;<\/strong> style re-inventions here but, in some senses, this is equally smart. <\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">* Completely understanding the level on which the movie needs to work, <strong>&#8220;Rocky Balboa&#8221;<\/strong> is bold, broad and magnificently big-hearted. <\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">* <strong>Stallone<\/strong> clearly loves his character and knows that we feel the same. As a director he is not afraid to commit to the material&#8230; as an actor he has an inate dignity and hangdog charm that can make the corniest dialogue palatable&#8230; <\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">* And the final showdown with <strong>Mason Dixon<\/strong> [<strong>Antonio Tarver<\/strong>], with its full-bloodied, hyper-real, toe-to-toe pugilism is up there with the <strong>Apollo Creed\/Clubber Lang<\/strong> fight nights of old.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><strong>&#8211; Craig Zablo<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SZoner, Brett Dexter, sent in a copy of Empire magazine&#8217;s review of &#8220;Rocky Balboa.&#8221; Overall they gave it a three star rating and seemed to really like it despite the fact that they really didn&#8217;t want to&#8230; Here are some excerpts: * &#8220;Rocky Balboa&#8221;&#8230; pulls off the unique cinematic feat of being totally terrible and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21","category-rocky-balboa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-3x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}