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Rocky Balboa (2006)
Fans of 'Rocky' will find a sense of closure here.
'Rocky Balboa' is as much about closure as it is about telling a new story, and to that extent, this sixth and final (?) installment works extremely well. Fans of the series will notice after the first thirty minutes that this movie uses the formula of the first movie to draw (ie Rocky is pulled into the ring for what is largely a publicity stunt). More than that, the story is not based around Rocky's actual fight, but the struggle that Rocky faces as time begins to catch up with him. Though it may be less glamorous than the souped up, grandiose characters that brought 'Rocky III' and 'Rocky IV' to life, the characters and their struggles make this installment a far better film than movies II-V.
The film is, of course, not without its flaws. Stallone seemed to have a tough time crafting the story around extraneous characters, while certain characters were criminally underused to the point that their presence was really unnecessary. Yet if you consider yourself a fan of the Rocky series, you really owe it to yourself to watch this movie. Easily the second best film in the franchise, it adds a sense of closure to not only a character, but really a staple-pin of a generation that has since passed on.
WWE Saturday Night's Main Event (2006)
Welcome to Saturday Night's Main Event!
Most fans of wrestling these days have no clue how important or big Saturday Night's Main Event was in its heyday. The prototype for both RAW and SmackDown! today, SNME was the once mighty, flag ship show for a booming then-WWF in the 1980s. By 1992, it was merely a shell of its former self, relegated to FOX for a final episode before being canned just a year before the debut of RAW.
And now, after fourteen years, fan boys of "old school" got a trip down memory lane with the return of Saturday Night's Main Event to NBC.
The show felt like a breath of fresh air when compared to the rather stale atmospheres of RAW and SmackDown! these days. Though the personalities have changed, that special aura was still in the air for SNME on NBC (as was advertised all over the arena). The wrestling was only fair -> bad, like most SNME episodes from the past. But its the feeling of watching a prime time, network broadcast... it makes it feel bigger than a plain old RAW or SmackDown! episode. For fans of the Attitude Era and beyond, this was a slice of something different. For fans of the old school generation, this was a slice of Heaven from our wrestling past.