This was a film that I picked out on a trip to the video store(U-Can-Rent), when I was probably 7 or 8 years old. Me and my dad were bringing back a rental of Rocky IV and I was looking into the original films when I noticed a video in the mix of the series that had Stallone on the cover with the same hat he wore in Rocky IV. At the time, I thought it was another movie involving Rocky. No one else had ever heard of it. I eventually rented it and found myself tossing and turning as I watched it, waiting for a fight. I remember being bored because it didn't move like a Rocky movie and was set in a time that I knew nothing about. But I do remember eventually liking the characters and being a little sad that it was over. I often thought about that movie throughout the years and always wanted to watch it again.
Sometime in 2000, a good friend of mine sent me some odd books he had dug up. One of them was "Paradise Alley" by Sylvester Stallone. As I read this book over the course of a few nights, I started to remember parts of the movie and, at the same time, remembering things about my house at the time that I had watched it. It was a great book, one I couldn't wait to get back to and see how it ended. I couldn't help but here Sly's voice as I read it, the whole thing is written from Sly's character's point of view.
I give it a seven for the story and just for being a great movie about family, fighting and good, old-fashion memories.
Armand Assante is cool,too.
Sometime in 2000, a good friend of mine sent me some odd books he had dug up. One of them was "Paradise Alley" by Sylvester Stallone. As I read this book over the course of a few nights, I started to remember parts of the movie and, at the same time, remembering things about my house at the time that I had watched it. It was a great book, one I couldn't wait to get back to and see how it ended. I couldn't help but here Sly's voice as I read it, the whole thing is written from Sly's character's point of view.
I give it a seven for the story and just for being a great movie about family, fighting and good, old-fashion memories.
Armand Assante is cool,too.