OK, yes, I saw the movie (see the trailer here: www.mgm.com/rocky_balboa). I hate to say this, but I liked it because we all want to think that even though we're old and wrinkly and have started slurring our words again like when we were kids, that we could still kick some butt if we had to.
Newspaper articles and interviews are reporting that Rocky/Stallone has found faith (which ultimately will bring him forgiveness for his late-80s love affair with that Brigitte Nielson -ick). All of his movies, at the moment of victory, did seem a lot like some sort of energetic and triumphant church service, except that everyone was cheering for Rocky and not Jesus. But alas, Sylester says it is different now.
"The more I go to church, the more I turn myself over to Jesus," Stallone told a reporter. "Church is the gym of the soul. Pastors are the trainers," he says. I wonder how many people would stay at a church where the pastor was like his old trainer, Mick?
Nonetheless, yeah, Rocky, my brother in Christ! Gonna fly now!
Hope you are having a great new year! Blessings! Jeanie
NOTE TO SELF: Call my son, "Rocky" (and yes, Rocky Balboa was the inspiration for this name), and tell him I still think he is a champion!
Hi sis
I submitted a whole dialogue on this particular Rocky thing last week…you site did not pick it up…I cannot reiterate, sorry. Nice article, though
I bet it was interesting…perhaps I have been saved..t-hee
Hey Sis – from yet another sibling … Ok, so I'm finally commenting (and I can't believe my first one is regarding The Italian Stallion!) So, did you hear Sylvester "testifying" on Trinity? I don't know; a few of his words made me go " ? ". hmmmmm. I just want to know he found Jesus, not just a higher power. But, for heaven's sake, I sure hope he has!!!! Lord knows, his light could so shine before more men than mine can! :0)
Ok, darn it, I just commented & lost it like Joe did, so I'll begin again. Hey Sis – from yet another sibling… So I'm finally commenting and I can't believe my first one is regarding The Italian Stallion! Did you hear him "testifying" on Trinity? I don't know. Some of his words made me go "?". Hmmmm. I just want to know he really found JESUS, not just a higher power. But for heaven's sake, I sure hope he has! Lord knows, his light can so shine before a lot more men than mine can!!!! I'm anxious to hear more from him.
Well, with age a constant kidnapper, I must admit I do not recall what I had said…perhaps you were saved afterall.
Yeah – I am getting some comments on a really delayed basis. I shall have to ask Tristan about that. He knows everything. I didn't see Stallone on Trinity, but caught a few minutes of him on Daystar. I can believe that God is at work in him (because He is in me), but yeah – you start to wonder if Hollywood has finally recognized the Christian segment for the cash cow it can be? Sometimes if we are told a movie has Christian values or whatever, we support it even if it stinks. I have waited with great anticipation for several years for the Christian-produced movie "One Night with the King" because we were promised that it would be the best Christian thing ever produced. I still haven't seen it, but some one whose opinion I greatly trust (Tredessa) says it is a disappointment. Not only did they take liberties in the story, the heroine more closely resembles a modern Western woman than a woman of Esther's time and it just isn't very engaging. But how many TBN diehards spent $9 or $10 bucks to go to support it and won't admit they were disappointed? Who knows? Love ya, sister!