{"id":1329,"date":"2007-01-18T23:22:33","date_gmt":"2007-01-18T22:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2007-01-19T01:26:28","modified_gmt":"2007-01-19T00:26:28","slug":"review-rocky-balboa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/?p=1329","title":{"rendered":"Review: Rocky Balboa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sherlock once said that if you excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be it. One last sequel. Pretty improbable, grandpa in the boxing rings, but it&#8217;s finally here. And whatever Stallone wanted, he got it. Main reason must&#8217;ve been a dignified ending to the saga, and to my feeling, even never disliking any chapters from before while also thinking the last one was okay for an ending, I actually think he nailed it (as far as the inspirational underdog story and the Rocky character goes). I think most fans will like, if not love this one too. And for non-fans, it&#8217;s not as rock solid as the first Rocky, but it&#8217;s almost there. Some here and there feels a bit too rushed, while there are also some blunt edges in the script. But for the effort and the result, it&#8217;s definitely two thumbs up, while Bill Conti does an updated score worthy of nostalgia.7\u00c2\u00bd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sherlock once said that if you excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be it. One last sequel. Pretty improbable, grandpa in the boxing rings, but it&#8217;s finally here. And whatever Stallone wanted, he got it. Main reason must&#8217;ve been a dignified ending to the saga, and to my feeling, even never disliking any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}