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re: ROCKY - An Alternate View

Posted by: enoch10 01:22 pm EDT 03/15/14
In reply to: re: ROCKY - An Alternate View - TGWW 12:51 pm EDT 03/15/14

who said anything about attendance in a cinema? i was talking about critical reception - the kind we had been discussing re: brantley. not the same thing. at all.


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re: ROCKY - An Alternate View

Posted by: TGWW 03:01 pm EDT 03/15/14
In reply to: re: ROCKY - An Alternate View - enoch10 01:22 pm EDT 03/15/14

I wasn't talking to you. I was answering Epenthesis.


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re: ROCKY - An Alternate View

Posted by: enoch10 04:33 pm EDT 03/15/14
In reply to: re: ROCKY - An Alternate View - TGWW 03:01 pm EDT 03/15/14

i though you wrote this:

>> Any critical acclaim? Well according to an ad in the December 13 1976 edition of the Village Voice. Gene Shallit of NBC says "Rocky Is One of The Best Movies Of The Year" and Kathleen Carroll of The New York Daily News awarded "Rocky" Four Stars (Highest Rating). Not to mention the 10 Academy Award nominations with 3 wins including Best Picture or The Golden Globe Best Picture or Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Picture. Does that count?

not talking about awards. not talking about how many butts it put in the seats in cinemas. i was talking about critical reception.


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re: ROCKY - An Alternate View

Posted by: TGWW 09:13 pm EDT 03/15/14
In reply to: re: ROCKY - An Alternate View - enoch10 04:33 pm EDT 03/15/14

And I provided you with TWO notable NY critic's opinions direct from a NY newspaper ad. Pay attention. Rotten Tomatoes wasn't in existence then, but they have compiled reviews of the time and "Rocky" receives a 92% positive. And too bad if you don't consider TWO Best Picture Awards better than any critic's view.


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re: ROCKY - An Alternate View

Posted by: enoch10 11:39 pm EDT 03/15/14
In reply to: re: ROCKY - An Alternate View - TGWW 09:13 pm EDT 03/15/14

pay attention to what? since someone else had noted that gene shalit was pretty much the definition of "middlebrow" i didn't feel the need to repeat an observation that had already been made twice.

of course one man's middle is another man's peak.


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re: ROCKY - An Alternate View

Posted by: MikeR 11:54 am EDT 03/17/14
In reply to: re: ROCKY - An Alternate View - enoch10 11:39 pm EDT 03/15/14

I posted elsewhere in this thread that Roger Ebert (and has there ever been a more highly regarded movie critic?) raved - I'll post a link to his review below. And others have posted that it won the best Picture award from the LA critics. So obviously, it must have had a decent critical reception, even if the critics weren't unanimous (when are they?).

Link http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/rocky-1976

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re: ROCKY - An Alternate View

Posted by: AlanScott 06:22 pm EDT 03/15/14
In reply to: re: ROCKY - An Alternate View - enoch10 04:33 pm EDT 03/15/14

I may be wrong but I think the critical reception was mostly favorable and was very favorable in some quarters. Winning the Los Angeles Film Critics Award for best picture suggests that at least some critics liked it a lot.


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re: ROCKY - An Alternate View

Posted by: enoch10 12:06 am EDT 03/16/14
In reply to: re: ROCKY - An Alternate View - AlanScott 06:22 pm EDT 03/15/14

i'll attend to this once i have sufficiently recovered, assuming of course i ever do, (and that such a recovery is even possible - i have my doubts) from the emotional turmoil inflicted by a cruel, senseless, dare i say abusive post about a revival of FOLLIES which raised my heart - all too briefly - only to then dash my dreams until they resembled josette after hurling herself onto the jagged, craggy, rocks in the turbulent waves crashing beneath the peak of widow's hill.

oh, josette and i, we know from heartbreak.


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re: ROCKY - An Alternate View

Posted by: AlanScott 07:02 pm EDT 03/16/14
In reply to: re: ROCKY - An Alternate View - enoch10 12:06 am EDT 03/16/14

Oh, dear.

Now I'm trying to cast Follies with members of the Dark Shadows cast, several of whom, of course, were known for musicals. And one of whom famously played Sally a long time later.


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