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re: BRANTLEY on ROCKY: a disingenous joke of a review

Posted by:	jon_sense 06:07 pm EDT 03/14/14
In reply to:	BRANTLEY on ROCKY: a disingenous joke of a review - BroadwayLouBlaze 05:14 pm EDT 03/14/14

Lou, you've written a long impassioned post because a critic didn't like a show. You've seized on a sentence to justify your anger. I was there at a press preview as well and I admit there seemed to be fans of the movie who screamed approval any time a movie moment was evoked. And the staging seemed to impress the house. The material itself didn't seem to connect. No song or situation generated much electricity. Of course, like all opinions, this is subjective. Do you really think he felt the show was a bomb worthy of being placed beside Into the Light and its brethren as all-time top what-were-they-thinking disasters? Or are you just upset the show is in danger of being a financial flop? For my quick take on the show, here's what I tweeted: Rocky has the '76 film's story, the song from III, & the soullessness of IV&V. As kinetic spectacle though, it's the season's main event. The movie's strongest suit was Rocky's underdog status. As hard as he works and as well as he does, Andy Karl is a strapping hunk who doesn't read as someone whom everyone has written off. There's a parallel here between Rocky beating the odds to become a contender and Karl becoming a star. Like Rocky, he's still standing by the curtain call. But I wished I'd felt the surging heart that Stallone brought to the role.
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