But I just wanted to take this time to provide my favorite things associated with the Rocky series, as a way of trying to cheer me up.
A note: Rocky himself is not included on this list because...well, he is Rocky. If he were, he'd be, unquestionably, #1. How could he not be?
Here's my top ten:
10) Thunderlips
-- Two words: Hulk. Hogan.
9) Mickey Goldmill
-- Who doesn't like Mickey? One of the great characters in sports movies, and his death inspired one of the most unintentionally funny scenes in the history of movies. "HE'S A WRECKING MACHINE!"
8) Duke
-- At first, he was Apollo Creed's trainer. Then, he became Rocky's. Either way, I like him just a bit more than Mickey. Also said one of my favorite lines in the series, "He doesn't know it's a damn show. He thinks it's a damn fight."
7) The Gayest Scene In Movie History
-- If you've seen Rocky III, you know EXACTLY what i'm talking about.
6) The Rocky II Training Montages
-- The Rocky series made the montage cool. But it was the second movie's training montages that I love the most. Not only do they feature the now famous ending of Rocky and the kids running up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the first one features my favorite moment in any of the Rocky montages, when Rocky catches the chicken and Mickey celebrates. It's just so absurd and out of place with everything else that it has become one of my favorite scenes in any movie, ever.
5) Clubber Lang
-- The greatest villain in the Rocky series(well, other than an entire country). Mr. T was tremendous and a lot of his dialogue in this movie became catchphrases overnight.
4) Rocky/Creed I
-- The second fight is good, but the first one is the one that everyone talks about to this day. The shot of Rocky getting up and then beckoning Creed to give him some more, followed by Creed slumping his shoulders and looking at Balboa in disbelief is another of my favorite scenes in the Rocky series.
3) "Eye Of The Tiger"
-- The defining song of the series not done by Bill Conti. I mean, what else can you say? It's one of the most universally recgonized songs of the 80s.
2) Rocky/Drago
-- Unquestionably, my favorite fight in the series. Even with the absurdness of the russian fans all of a sudden cheering on Rocky in RUSSIA, the fight itself was as good as any fight in any boxing movie, ever. Drago was an awesome villain, especially after the bastard killed my favorite character in the series(more on that later), but it was the entire country of Russia that was the greatest villain Rocky ever faced. And he smashed them right on the chin. Rocky Balboa, mother****ers.
#1 is a tie...sorry, I can't put one over the other...
1) Bill Conti's "Gonna Fly Now"
-- The greatest movie song of all time. Just an incredible piece of uplifting and powerful music that is often imitated but never duplicated.
1) Apollo Creed
-- The best part of the entire series not named Rocky Balboa. The ultimate showman, a great fighter, an even better trainer and the most hard to deal with death of all of the characters to die in the Rocky series. And the most important thing of all: If this part falls into the wrong hands, the entire series collapses. Luckily, Carl Weathers got the part and ran with it.
Yeah, i'm way too bored right now.