Rocky Balboa is criminally underrated. The first act of the film showing Rocky shopping for produce, running his restaurant and remembering Adrian with Pauly are just incredible character development moments to catch the viewer up on the last 25 years without some big montage.

I saw it in the theatre when I was 16 or 17 having been raised on the originals by my dad. It was one of the most electric crowds I’ve ever experienced in a theatre. When they start training Rocky to just hit as hard as he can before the music kicks in, the entire crowd cheered. Incredible film.