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Rocky Balboa finds Jesus!
Posted on Monday 8 January 2007 by Jeanie @ 2:51 pm
Filed under: Stuff I actually think
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!