If for any reason a fundraiser is ever held on my behalf I want a public screening of Rocky IV. Think of the possibilities: The Rocky IV-er Picture Show.
Without my computer this week I found myself watching this movie and rolling on the floor in laughter with Chef, the two of us endlessly mocking the music (Survivor), the themes (good ol’ America vs. the evil Russian communists), the dialogue (”Adrienne, I’m a fighter. You can’t change me.”). I swear one of Reagan’s cronies commissioned this script.
Rocky, you’re a fucking animal!
When I was little one of my first crushes was on Dolph Lundgren in Universal Soldier. I am not ashamed.
I did outgrow the attraction to beefcake Swedes, but I still have a little piece of my heart dedicated to this man.
Don’t ask. I can’t even explain it. But this may be the greatest movie of all time.
Wow. That. Was. Amazing. I love the way the evil Soviet has all the high-tech equiqment, complete with digital read-outs of numbers that apparently mean nothing, while Rocky is just training in a barn with like a net full of rocks and chopping woods and lifting his friends in an old cart. Oh, and running from KGB agents driving a car that personally belonged to Lenin. If I remember, isn’t there a scene where they’re having a press conference, and Drago punches some maching designed to measure the force of your punch…and he destroys the machine!
DRRAAAAAAGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
DRRAAAAAAGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
re: hot swedes
To me the most attractive man ever is Rutger Hauer circa Bladerunner.
Although he’s Dutch isn’t he?
Never mind.
Lauren, one of my friends at Sydney Uni roomed across the hall from Dolph when he was doing his postgrad studies there (several years before Grace Jones plucked him from obscurity). We used to listen to his weights clanking while we studied and gossiped, and make a point of following him down to dining hall when we heard him leave his room.
He always made a polite wave, but then totally ignored us. Sigh.
Alien Drug Dealer: “I come in peace!”
Dolph Lundgren: “You go in pieces!”
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I still have my massive crush on Dolph. It won’t go away! Dammit!