Adrienne!

What will they think of next? Another Rocky movie? Brilliant. Another Rocky movie with Sylvester Stallone? Brilliant * 2. Did you catch the sarcasm there? I hope so. I ran across this article from thestar.com and was just about floored. In the back of my head I am sure I heard this through other sources a few weeks ago, but I probably just dismissed it as stupid people saying stupid things. If only I'd pay attention to people when they're actually saying something that I'll laugh at.The new Rocky movie, currently titled Rocky Balboa, will feature Sylvester Stallone as a geriatric patient who beats up the orderlies in the old folks home after they refuse to give him the bowl of Ben & Jerry's that he's worked so hard to get. Adrianne, his wife, is long dead, yet he still screams out her name every time the male orderlies pass his room without a bowl in their hand.Okay, so that's not really going to happen. Here's the plotline from IMDB:

Rocky comes out of retirement to go in the ring once again this time he is taking on an old foe in the shape of Clubber Lang.

And that's about all the information they'll give. Good thing they're not letting the Sylvester out of the bag. We don't want them to ruin the ending for us. Who wins? I forget. Is it the Russian guy? Apollo? Hrrrmm.. I just can't figure it out. This guy, who should know better when he announces a new Rocky movie, should stop his whining.

Enough with the Rocky jokes already, complains Joe Roth, who heads Revolution Studios, which along with Sony Pictures and its new banner, MGM, is producing the new Rocky picture. "You can't turn on television without someone making fun of it," he said. "Jokes like, `Who's he going to fight, Alan Alda?' ... It's very easy to be cynical."

Well of course people are going to make jokes. I see a very small crowd who will actually love this movie. These are those boxing guys who just can't get enough. Half of them think they're Rocky and the other half wish they were. The rest of the viewing public might just go see it because the notion of sending a 60 year old man into the ring to fight the current heavy-weight champion is pretty priceless.In better Stallone news -- he also announced this:

Stallone, 59, has also revealed that he will reprise his role as former Vietnam vet and one-man army John J. Rambo in Rambo IV, which is scheduled to begin production sometime in the spring.

A new Rocky movie and a new Rambo movie in the same year?!?! Could we be so lucky?

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