RIP Apollo Creed

[MisterCreosote]

I missed Creed III in theatres but the reviews appear to be decent.

Creed III is pretty well made and acted, but is every bit as implausible as anything in the series.

I grew up in Philly, and the original Rocky came out a few months after I was born. It’s as big a part of my identity as Eagles/Sixers/Phillies fandom. I listen to “Gonna Fly Now” on a loop before every race I run.

I defy you to not get the feels when Apollo finally drops a beaten-to-hell Rocky late in the fight as Adrian finally makes her way out of the locker room, and hers and Apollo’s look of utter disbelief when Rocky gets up and yells, “C’mon!”

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Creed III is pretty well made and acted, but is every bit as implausible as anything in the series.

I grew up in Philly, and the original Rocky came out a few months after I was born. It’s as big a part of my identity as Eagles/Sixers/Phillies fandom. I listen to “Gonna Fly Now” on a loop before every race I run.

I defy you to not get the feels when Apollo finally drops a beaten-to-hell Rocky late in the fight as Adrian finally makes her way out of the locker room, and hers and Apollo’s look of utter disbelief when Rocky gets up and yells, “C’mon!”

I’ve always loved the first round of the fight. Nobody is giving Rocky a chance; Apollo’s dancing around and hitting him at will; the announcers are talking about how he’s trying to put on a show for the fans, and then in one punch, Rocky knocks him down, and the bar goes crazy with the bartender throwing down the towel.

Love that scene because imagining it was a real fight and even if Apollo had destroyed Rocky and KOed him, the story would have been about the one guy who did something nobody else had ever done and knocked the champ down:

 

[justgladtobehere]

Creed III is pretty well made and acted, but is every bit as implausible as anything in the series.

I grew up in Philly, and the original Rocky came out a few months after I was born. It’s as big a part of my identity as Eagles/Sixers/Phillies fandom. I listen to “Gonna Fly Now” on a loop before every race I run.

I defy you to not get the feels when Apollo finally drops a beaten-to-hell Rocky late in the fight as Adrian finally makes her way out of the locker room, and hers and Apollo’s look of utter disbelief when Rocky gets up and yells, “C’mon!”

****ing Rocky is your hero. The whole pride of your city is built around a ****in guy who doesn’t even exist. You got ****in Joe Frazier is from there but he’s black so you can’t ****in deal with him, so you make a ****ing statue for some 3 ft ****in Italian you stupid philly cheese-eatin ****ing jackasses.

 

[poindexter]

Carl Weathers deserves better than this Stallone thread-jack.

 

[BTExpress]

That's what he gets for not dropping him in three.

 

[MisterCreosote]

Burr is usually a funny dude, but he’s been telling this joke for 20 years and it’s still clear that he’s never spent any appreciable amount of time in Philadelphia. His knowledge of the city and its inhabitants is as deep as a puddle.

 

[Octave]

low-lying fruit, maybe try an original bit.

I'll guess that his backup joke is airplane food sucks.

 

[garrow]

Carl Weathers deserves better than this Stallone thread-jack.

Here's an interview he did from 1979. Very charismatic and thoughtful. RIP.

 

[justgladtobehere]

low-lying fruit, maybe try an original bit.

I'll guess that his backup joke is airplane food sucks.

It was 20 years ago, but he hasn't been doing it since then. It was completely off the cuff and goes on for 12 minutes in front of an angry, uninterested crowd. Never gets old.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Honestly, that Bill Burr clip is hysterical. It had been an all-day, outdoor comedy festival near Philadelphia, and it had some pretty big name comedians for the time. The crowd was getting drunker and drunker and more and more beligerent as the day went on. They were booing the comedians, and several of the comedians just gave up and put the microphone down and walked off the stage before their time was up.

That was what Burr walked out to. He started to do his act, and they started booing and he just said **** it and started to go off on them. The jokes aren't all that deep, but I am amazed that someone can go off the cuff like that for 15 minutes straight without prepared material and be that good. He kept telling them that he was going to do every second of the time he was given and they could all suck a bag of dicks. It was funny.

 

[MisterCreosote]

Carl Weathers deserves better than this Stallone thread-jack.

One could say he even deserves to have his real name in an RIP thread title, but here we are.

 

[justgladtobehere]

Burr had them cheering by the end

 

[DanOregon]

I don't know how it happened that he was cast in Happy Gilmore, but whomever thought it up was genius.

And now we have the answer.....

How ‘Happy Gilmore’ Landed Carl Weathers by Accident | Cracked.com

 

[MisterCreosote]

Burr had them cheering by the end

I mean, it’s fine as a generic roast.

But he loses the thread early on, not even getting into the Rocky stuff, when he starts talking about Philly only having one bridge. It has four major bridges — five if you count the Commodore Barry, which is 10 or so miles south of the city proper.

 

[Octave]

Philadelphia's sore ass dates to an 8-month occupancy during the Revolution and now it appears in a Carl Weathers RIP thread. This site continues to be a marvel.

 

[User 149557]

I mean, it’s fine as a generic roast.

But he loses the thread early on, not even getting into the Rocky stuff, when he starts talking about Philly only having one bridge. It has four major bridges — five if you count the Commodore Barry, which is 10 or so miles south of the city proper.

I…think you’re overthinking this.

 

[User 149557]

If people cry about thread drift, I’ll just make it worse.

I’ll smush peas in your perfectly organized plate, just because Type A’s are insufferable.

STAY ON TASK AT THE MEANINGLESS WEBSITE. RESPECT APOLLO CREED ON THE MEANINGLESS WEBSITE.

This is not his memorial service. You don’t know him, however many times you saw Rocky. God isn’t keeping a tally of you respecting Carl Weathers’ RIP thread on sportsjournalists
com. He was discussed. It petered out. Do you understand how you get a stew going?

 

[MisterCreosote]

I…think you’re overthinking this.

Making fun of a city for something that isn’t true is hardly brilliant comedy.

It’s like making fun of Miami for how it handles snowstorms.

 

[User 149557]

Making fun of a city for something that isn’t true is hardly brilliant comedy.

It’s like making fun of Miami for how it handles snowstorms.

Or that Cleveland’s river was on fire. I know. But comedians do it because they know those city’s protest too much and they get you. I had to tell a person from Cleveland that the fact that the river was cleaned up and it was a major key in getting America’s waterways cleaned is not a great comeback when someone is trolling you.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

It was heart disease for Carl Weathers. Story I saw said it had been an ongoing issue. But with his work on “The Mandelorian” and in a Super Bowl commercial, it didn’t seem his death was expected when it happened.

If you gotta go, slipping away peacefully in your sleep seems like the way for it to happen.