Poll of the Day > God, Rocky 2 is so goddamn boring

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How did it do well enough for it to get sequels? Rocky had a lot of build up to the fight, but they kept things interesting by introducing new characters, motivation, etc...
Rocky 2 just has the "this is the reason why poor people stay poor" plot that's been done a million times already, and doesn't do anything interesting.

I had to stop watching the movie about halfway in because it was just so bad. Not sure if it gets better, but I doubt it. Any movie that's 2 hours long, but still has to pad its run time by playing the previous movie for the first 5 minutes is bound to be bad.
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Rocky succeeded because it was art. Rocky 2's issue was that it kept trying to be art while it didn't really have anything new to say.

Then Rocky 3 and 4 succeeded because they were ridiculously over-the-top lunacy.

Then Rocky 5 stopped being fun, so everyone hated it.
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Rocky 6 was awesome again though