e actor that played Creed's trainer beat Stanley Kubrick in a game of chess while on the set of the Shining, Kubrick got pretty upset as he was a good player.
I enjoyed 5 more then I did 4. Ivan Drago is basically a villain from a Saturday morning cartoon.
he wasn't in the shining was he? are you sure you aren't talking scatman crothers? either way, it's impressive, kubrick had a pretty high iq. i guesse he was in it, i can't remember him and i saw the movie fairly recently, i watch too many movies though.
He played the guy who crothers contacts from the hotel room to get a vehicle to get up to the hotel.
the third was really good but I think after the first two there was a huge dropoff in the quality of story and they took on a more ridiculous air. four was not a hit at the time I don't think, five wasn't either I don't believe. One thing that kinda bothered me about the series was how inconsistent rocky's speech and demeanor was, in 1 and 2 he was a streetguy who couldn't really talk all that well, in 3 he all the sudden became more articulate and by five, he was a slurring streetguy again. Sly had issues with people confusing him with the character though, he hated how people thought (and think) that he's stupid.
Clubber Lang was still more believable than Ivan Drago. He was basically a 1970's George Foreman
maybe, but I think stallone the man was undergoing changes too. i've seen interviews of him in the early years and he's softspoken and sensitive, by the mid eighties he was pretty egotistical. the director of the first rocky has stated that also. i think maybe he was trying to revamp his image, even today, people think he's a dummy which for a man of his talent and intelligence has to be frustrating. he went through a phase where he was trying to play a smarter guy, wearing glasses and such but the public wasn't really buying it. He's stated a million times how his speech issue is from forceps lacerating some nerves during his delivery but people see what they want to see. anyway, it's an inconsistency, not a big deal but noticeable. the only fighter I can think of off hand who actually became bourgeois like that was sugar ray leonard, he was pretty normal in the early years but he became a pretentious prima donna after his first retirement. It was like he wanted to be considered better than all the other fighters.
