Thomas Milano

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Term Paper Title	Thomas Milano
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Thomas Milano
    WFL 3
       The "Rocky" movies allow their titles to stand alone, but here's a suggestion for a
subtitle to the latest  "Rocky V: The Well Has Gone Dry."
Suggesting screenwriter-star Sylvester Stallone has gone to the well once too often is
perhaps about four films late, but "Rocky V" is so shrill, so over-the-top, so annoying that
one wonders why director John G. Avildsen bothered taking the assignment.
To say "Rocky V" is heavy-handed is to understate, with every actor getting an
opportunity to look foolish and none to develop any dimension.
When, early on, Rocky says, "Ahhh, yo!" it sounds like self-parody.
The climactic bout of "Rocky IV" is reprised under the credits, reminding us that
Rocky Balboa (Stallone) knocked the stuffing out of a Russian boxing machine (Dolph
Lundgren) in the Soviet Union last time around.
"Rocky V" picks up the story the moment the fight ends as Rocky demonstrates motor
damage and, sure enough, later has doctors confirm the fear that he has suffered a few too
many blows to the head and has brain damage.
Another fight will surely kill him, we're told.
Rocky's wife Adrian (Talia Shire) shrieks at him each time he's approached by a
loud-mouth promoter named Duke (Richard Gant), who is sort of Don King without the
hair. And she wonders if Rocky isn't trying to relive his life through someone else when he
agrees to manage another fighter, Tommy "Machine" Gunn...

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