30th anniversary of ROCKY V

[Caractacus]

released November 16th 1990
Who here actually saw it at the cinema back in November 1990 ?
and old where you and in what city or town did you see it at ?

[Caractacus]

[bwu]

released November 16th 1990
Who here actually saw it at the cinema back in November 1990 ?
and old where you and in what city or town did you see it at ?

When I was 20, I saw this in Selinsgrove, PA on Thanksgiving night 1990. I thought it was a good movie then and I still think it’s unfairly maligned.

[Caractacus]

I was 30 years old and I saw it at the Mariner Mall in Pensacola Florida.
(which was a really nice mall when it opened in 1984 then when crack came around
the neighborhood went down hill by 1990.)
saw it on one dollar night,nice clean theater too,nice mall
too bad about the area it was in.

[gilgamesh]

I don't remember when I saw Rocky V. It didn't make some kinda big impression on me, but it's alright.

Not a pile of sh*t. Not up to the standard of most others in the series.

[Fray Bentos]

I was in the army doing trade training and saw it in the local cinema in Aldershot. I didn't like it all that much to be honest.

[Ambling Alp II]

By far the worst of the movies. A terrible movie. The rest ranged form decent to great.

[DrDuke]

Rocky franchise is a joke in whole. The first movie was good, but then it went stupid, like a parody of boxing.

[Flump]

Saw this in the cinema. It was watchable, but the weakest of the series. The Burgess Meredith flashback scene however always brings a tear to the eye.

[f read]

I saw it in Hamilton N.J at the twin Eric Theatre . I am in the minority because i actually am one of the few who liked it. Not a great movie by any means but i liked some of the realism except for the street fight at the end.

[AntonioMartin]

released November 16th 1990
Who here actually saw it at the cinema back in November 1990 ?
and old where you and in what city or town did you see it at ?

I did..I was 18, in Phoenix, Arizona..where I am still at...

[AntonioMartin]

I am in the minority because i actually am one of the few who liked it. Not a great movie by any means but i liked some of the realism except for the street fight at the end.

Me too! Its an underrated movie for sure!

[Caractacus]

I thought the movie was kind of a downer and not too realistic.
Rocky Balboa The famous world heavyweight champion and press darling
having to return to the sh*thole he grew up in in Philadelphia ?
he could have still made a good living still at personal appearences and autograph signings.
also what I remember is the part of the street fight,
all that strobe lighting and editing and noise almost gave me a anxiety attack there in the movie theater.
I read somewhere where it also affected epileptics and they had seizures from watching
it at the cinema.

[Caractacus]

It didn't do as well as expected at the Boxoffice.
I saw all of the ROCKY movies at the cinema
beginning in 1976 ( except for the ones after ROCKY V)
The first one was the best.

[TheGman]

I saw it the first week it came out i was 13 went with my bro who was 10 and we seen it in a cinema in Wallasey, Merseyside called Apollo 6(cause it had 6 screens)

[Mikey K]

All the Rocky movies might not be good but have interesting themes and have something to offer the viewer to contemplate.

Rocky 5 seems to be a cynical look at the boxing business of the time, the way Tommy was plucked from "the ghetto" and eventually turned against Rocky, just like how the competitive sport that is boxing was turned into something unseemly with a turbocharged degree of fake outrage in the pre-fight buildup to promote events, spurred on by that predatory Don King character.

Don King was big in the Mike Tyson era.

[milpool]

released November 16th 1990
Who here actually saw it at the cinema back in November 1990 ?
and old where you and in what city or town did you see it at ?

I saw it at the cinema on my own on a Friday afternoon.
I was 16 and I was in Hull, England.