Movies: Creed II

[alko]

Pause the video at 2:07

Do they not have weight classes in the Rocky universe?

Common, forget the realism. Would a normal boxer hold all this hits, as Rocky in his movies? He would be at least 5-times dead.

 

[Outofbodyinhungary]

 

[Outofbodyinhungary]

Early screenings having postive results, lots of praise for Michael b Jordan and also Florian Munteanu (dragos son) for very emotional performances.

 

[NJDevs26]

The lack of Dolph displeases me.

Without giving away spoilers in this part, he was definitely a presence in the movie.

Saw it tonight, it was actually quite good. I'll try to work up a little synopsis for the spoiler part without giving up the whole story

Spoiler

Before getting to the Drago stuff I was kind of wondering how and if they would pay off the Stuntman Wheeler stuff from the first film, they did that early in a satisfying, if really rushed way before they get to the meat of the movie which is the Drago-Creed confrontation. Actually they introduced the Dragos the scene before you see Adonis. Ivan was disgraced from the Soviet Union - and his wife walked out on them after his loss to Rocky which also gets paid off in the film with her as the villain in their arc - he and his kid now live in the Ukraine and Drago trains him to be a champion both to regain family honor, and out of anger over the wife's casting them aside.

Eventually they go to Philly to taunt him and Rocky into fighting the kid, a bit like Clubber or Tommy Gunn in some previous Rocky movies, culminating in a terse meeting between Rocky and Ivan in the restaurant. There's some elements of Rocky III in the middle of the movie with how the story arc goes, but obviously the events of Rocky IV are what hangs over every main character in some way or another and lead to some emotional confrontations all around.

Away from the ring it's definitely a father-son themed movie - from Ivan and Victor to Adonis with both Apollo and his impending newborn and even Rocky and his kid to a degree, plus obviously the Rocky-Adonis quasi-father/son relationship. It does keep Bianca involved as they now have a newborn and wind up moving to LA in part because of her career, and Adonis's mom has even more of a role in this film as does Duke's kid. The climactic fight definitely manages to pull on the emotional strings of following not just Adonis but the Dragos as well. While they definitely come off as villains in certain situations, you also understand where they're coming from emotionally given the backstory.

 

[Better Call Sal]

I, like a few here, forgot how much I liked the first Creed. Rewatched it the other night and loved it even more. I can't wait for this one.

 

[Baby Punisher]

Without giving away spoilers in this part, he was definitely a presence in the movie.

Saw it tonight, it was actually quite good. I'll try to work up a little synopsis for the spoiler part without giving up the whole story

Spoiler

Before getting to the Drago stuff I was kind of wondering how and if they would pay off the Stuntman Wheeler stuff from the first film, they did that early in a satisfying, if really rushed way before they get to the meat of the movie which is the Drago-Creed confrontation. Actually they introduced the Dragos the scene before you see Adonis. Ivan was disgraced from the Soviet Union - and his wife walked out on them after his loss to Rocky which also gets paid off in the film with her as the villain in their arc - he and his kid now live in the Ukraine and Drago trains him to be a champion both to regain family honor, and out of anger over the wife's casting them aside.

Eventually they go to Philly to taunt him and Rocky into fighting the kid, a bit like Clubber or Tommy Gunn in some previous Rocky movies, culminating in a terse meeting between Rocky and Ivan in the restaurant. There's some elements of Rocky III in the middle of the movie with how the story arc goes, but obviously the events of Rocky IV are what hangs over every main character in some way or another and lead to some emotional confrontations all around.

Away from the ring it's definitely a father-son themed movie - from Ivan and Victor to Adonis with both Apollo and his impending newborn and even Rocky and his kid to a degree, plus obviously the Rocky-Adonis quasi-father/son relationship. It does keep Bianca involved as they now have a newborn and wind up moving to LA in part because of her career, and Adonis's mom has even more of a role in this film as does Duke's kid. The climactic fight definitely manages to pull on the emotional strings of following not just Adonis but the Dragos as well. While they definitely come off as villains in certain situations, you also understand where they're coming from emotionally given the backstory.

Does Creed die or what?

 

[irunthepeg]

Just saw it. Really liked it. They did a great job of making you feel for both sides.

 

[xtra]

I loved the movie and actually would love to see something from dragons POV, I feel there’s a great story that could be told from his side

 

[Morozov]

Great movie, the fight scenes feel so real and strong, good mix of cheesy Rocky moments too.

Always appreciate an Avon sighting.

 

[missingmika]

Awesome movie!!!

 

[silverfish]

Feel like these Creed movies, more than any movies recently, besides Marvel maybe, really get the crowd into it. The dude sitting next to me was literally shadowboxing during the fight scenes. It was annoying as hell, but, I respect the passion.

 

[Danko]

Went and saw this the other day, was surprised it wasn't actually about Creed Bratton.

 

[Neutrinos]

I thought it was kinda boring