Plot Details of Rocky Balboa

Sunday's Philadelphia Inquirer has a nice look at some of the details from the next chapter in the Rocky saga:

Here's how it goes: The long-suffering Adrian - the girl Rocky met in the Kensington pet shop in the original - is dead. Rocky owns a restaurant in South Philadelphia. He's pals with Adrian's brother Paulie (Burt Young), but he's distant from his son, Rocky Jr. (played by Milo Ventimiglia), who goes by Robert as he lives the yuppie life in Center City.

He's friendly with Marie - played by Geraldine Hughes - who was a kid in the first Rocky. She's a single mother living on the edge of poverty.

The world has changed, but Rocky hasn't.

The line from the article that is begging for riducule: "If 1976's Rocky was a story for the ages, Rocky Balboa is a story for the aging."  I feel like Rocky Balboa is begging for the Internet to rip the new film, but I can't find it in me to make fun of Rocky.  He ended the cold war single-handed for Christ's sake.

Here's to hoping the movie is decent and if all else fails it sure seems like they are doing a lot of the filming in Philly.  There is a new photo up over at the Rocky blog, not nearly as exciting as the last one of Rocky in the ring.

Comments

[uberangie]

so, i hear the restaurant is called adrians, what a surprise, and they are filming it at victor's cafe in south philly. cool. i like that place. a friend was there this weekend, and apparently there were stallones everywhere.

[Paul]

yeah i heard they filmed at victor cafe. i ran into Frank Stallone in center city last month and talked to him for a few minutes. he was a nice guy and he couldn't stop talking about the fight scene in the new rocky movie. he said it's better than the rocky/ivan drago fight. personally, i'm a drago fan. there's a funny parody about Ivan Drago on the Rob Bloom website at www.robbloom.com/popculture.html