{"id":2785,"date":"2010-08-01T10:55:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T14:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=2785"},"modified":"2010-08-01T10:55:27","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T14:55:27","slug":"top-10-training-montages-rocky-series-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/01\/top-10-training-montages-rocky-series-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Training Montages: Rocky Series Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When IGN.com<\/strong><\/a> decided to post their choices for The Top 10 Training Montages<\/strong>, you just knew that some from the Rocky<\/strong><\/em> series would make the cut.\u00a0 I’m happy to say that Rocky, Rocky III<\/strong> and Rocky IV <\/strong>all made the top ten<\/strong>.\u00a0 Both III<\/strong> and IV <\/strong>made the top five<\/strong> and IV<\/strong> came in at #1<\/strong>.\u00a0 Here’s a bit of why…<\/p>\n

10.\u00a0 Rocky:<\/strong><\/em> The original and most iconic, Rocky<\/strong><\/em> demonstrated how powerful and popular a movie montage could be. Set to Bill Conti’s<\/strong> rousing ‘Gonna Fly Now’<\/strong><\/em>, the locals cheer on Rocky<\/strong> as he pounds the pavements of Philadelphia<\/strong> in preparation for his David vs. Goliath battle. The final shot of Rocky <\/strong>running up the 72 stone steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art<\/strong> became so culturally significant that it’s now a popular tourist destination, was re-named ‘Rocky Steps”‘<\/strong> and has a bronze statue of Stallone<\/strong> by sculptor A. Thomas Schomberg <\/strong>at the foot of the building.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

05.\u00a0 Rocky III<\/strong>: It’s a given that any scene set to ‘Gonna Fly Now’ <\/strong><\/em>will be thoroughly enjoyable and writer\/director\/star Sylvester Stallone<\/span><\/strong> knew better than to tinker with greatness. The music may be the same but everything else is different; old foe Apollo Creed<\/strong> is now helping Rocky<\/span><\/strong> train, the ‘Rocky Steps’<\/strong> have been replaced with a beach and the cheering children have been swapped for homoerotic slow-mo shots of Rocky <\/strong>and Apollo’s <\/strong>bulging thighs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

01.\u00a0 Rocky IV<\/strong><\/em>: Rocky <\/strong><\/em>may have inspired the movie montage as we know it, but it’s Rocky IV’s <\/strong><\/em> fantastically ludicrous four-minute training sequence that gets the fan vote every time. With John Cafferty’s<\/strong> synth-tastic ‘Hearts On Fire’ <\/strong><\/em> blasting in the background, Rocky<\/strong> and his opponent Ivan Drago’s<\/strong> hardcore training sessions overlap throughout, allowing the audience to judge which is the most ridiculous. Whilst Rocky<\/strong> crumples photos of his opponent, lifts the weight of three people and does sit ups at an impossible angle, Drago <\/strong>trains the old fashioned way, with injections, a bank of hi-tech computers, and Brigitte Nielsen<\/strong>. It also has the distinction of the greatest end to a montage, with Rocky’s <\/strong>triumphant sprint up a mountain followed by a primal scream that says he’s ready to do battle. Endlessly watchable and ripped off by everyone from Family Guy<\/span> <\/strong><\/em>to fans on YouTube, Rocky IV<\/em> <\/strong>dealt a knock-out blow to the competition and remains the montage champ.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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When IGN.com decided to post their choices for The Top 10 Training Montages, you just knew that some from the Rocky series would make the cut.\u00a0 I’m happy to say that Rocky, Rocky III and Rocky IV all made the top ten.\u00a0 Both III and IV made the top five and IV came in at […]<\/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":[85,28,9,43,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-85","category-honors","category-rocky","category-rocky-3","category-rocky-4"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-IV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785","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=2785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2786,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions\/2786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}