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Film
FilmPG1979
Rocky II
Directed by Sylvester Stallone
After Rocky goes the distance with champ Apollo Creed, both try to put the fight behind them and move on. Rocky settles down with Adrian but can't put his life together outside the ring, while Creed seeks a rematch to restore his reputation. Soon enough, the "Master of Disaster" and the "Italian Stallion" are set on a collision course for a climactic battle that is brutal and unforgettable. From TMDB
112 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, TMDB reviews, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Sep 26, 2026 · last updated Oct 13, 2026 · How this works
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Rocky II is a 1979 drama action film, directed by Sylvester Stallone, starring Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire and Burt Young.
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60 of 112 · most liked firstRocky II (1979) Directed by Sylvester Stallone
neutral · AI labelView post →Q: If you had to bury 5 DVDs on a desert island, which would they be? DF: Breakfast Club, Taika Waititi's Boy, Tinā (Anapela's new movie!), Rocky I and Rocky II. RQ: My Neighbor Totoro, The Matrix, True Stories, American Psycho, In the Mood for Love
neutral · AI labelView post →The Gold Rush A Beautiful Mind Rush Rocky II After seeing Rush and Ford v. Ferrari in consecutive weeks, I never need to see another racing movie again. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
neutral · AI labelView post →Favorite first-time watches of May: The Lusty Men Lonely Are the Brave Who Killed Teddy Bear? Friendship Rocky IV (Director’s Cut) Final Destination Bloodlines Posse (1975) Rocky II Mute Witness Go Fish Rocky III Hang ‘em High Man with a Movie Camera Forever a Woman The Joy Luck Club
neutral · AI labelView post →Started Rocky III with the kid. Easily the Rocky movie I’ve seen the most. First I saw in the theaters. That pre-credit sequence with the Rocky II fight slamming into Eye of the Tiger…🤌🏽
neutral · AI labelView post →ICYMI, CREED turns 10 this week. "Our movie, it’s like a weird baby of Rocky, Rocky II, and Rocky V. But it’s about Apollo Creed, so obviously, III and IV have to be in there, right? It’s like this amalgamation of all the movies before it." www.theringer.com/2025/11/25/m...
neutral · AI labelView post →Someone Walking or Running a Great Distance in a Movie: Rocky II (1979) #FilmSky #OctoberMovieChallenge #Day5
neutral · AI labelView post →Also, Rocky II is the only film where he directly addresses his lifelong disability status: “I’m not punchy, this is just how I talk” Imagine you’re just another kid growing up in Hell’s Kitchen, only with facial paralysis and slurred speech. Studying martial arts begins to make all kinds of sense.
neutral · AI labelView post →Also on the ballot: Alien, Apocalypse Now, The Muppet Movie, Life of Brian, Mad Max, Rocky II, Meatballs, The Warriors, North Dallas Forty... ...what a year for movies
neutral · AI labelView post →This is the church where Rocky and Adrian got married in Rocky II. I don’t have any great affection for that movie, but it’s nice looking and I can see it from my rooftop.
negative · AI labelView post →ROCKY II has aged incredibly well. Stallone didn't just use the film as an excuse to finally give Rocky the W, he made a serious and solid drama about how life goes on after (what he thinks is) his fifteen minutes of fame. Excellent film.
positive · AI labelView post →Showing ROCKY II to my wife (she's never seen it) and having to pause the film to get out a map of Philly to explain the wonderful geographic ludicrousness of the training montage
neutral · AI labelView post →#JulyMovieChallenge 07/06 Favorite Silvester Stallone movie: Rocky II.
positive · AI labelView post →if you haven't seen Rocky II, the entire film is pretty much about how this staged US birthday boxing match was a farce put on by a rich man
neutral · AI labelView post →One for the Hey, It's That Guy! all-stars: in ROCKY II, the young patient in the full body cast outside Pennsylvania Hospital is Paul McCrane in his film debut, before portraying Montgomery MacNeil in the film FAME and, with less-protected arms, Dr. "Rocket" Romano on ER.
neutral · AI labelView post →🗣DOJO ANNOUNCEMENT Me, @zombbeans.bsky.social , and a few other friends are gonna be doing a ROCKY II film commentary track live on stream at 7pm Pacific Time! Join us for fun and inspiration! twitch.tv/syteal youtube.com/@syteal
neutral · AI labelView post →Aliens is quite possibly the most perfect sequel to any movie ever. Rocky II, Terminator 2, Godfather Part 2, Empire Strikes Back, it's up there with the best of the best. What makes Alien/Aliens special is that they are entirely different movies. Different styles, different feel, and almost an entirely different cast. All those other excellent sequels were continuations of the story, using characters and settings established in the first film. You start with Godfather Part 2, and you'll…
neutral · AI labelView post →Rocky II was released in movie theaters 46 years ago today. This is my favorite movie from the Rocky series and this is my favorite scene. youtu.be/4iMgZ_Nxxmc?... #Movies #Filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →Celebrating Christmas Eve by drinking strawberry and cream moonshine and watching Rocky II with my step-dad as he rambles about how he always hated this movie because he thinks the only reason Rocky lost at the end of the first one was so they could make a sequel and the whole thing is a load of BS
neutral · AI labelView post →In no particular order: The Warriors Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas Alien The Muppet Movie Rocky Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Halloween Taxi Driver Escape from the Planet of the Apes Star Trek: The Motion Picture Rocky II Sorcerer Dog Day Afternoon Superman Monty Python and the Holy Grail
neutral · AI labelView post →There are a few parts of CREED that still give me the feeling of watching it for the first time in the theatre. Donnie throwing up Apollo/Rocky II on the projector and shadowboxing AGAINST his dad. Coming out to “Hail Mary.” The way he jumps up from the mat with that gasp. What a fuckin movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Is Rocky II the most predictable movie ever made? Like, there's no universe in which the ending goes the other way after the first one
neutral · AI labelView post →Rocky II - similarly unprepared by how hard these movies go on the poverty/work politics front, which admittedly is not actually all that hard and it sort of gets swallowed by The Fight by the end, but it's the early pre-fight bits that feel like the most compelling parts of the movie to me.
neutral · AI labelView post →This was the first film made by John Avildsen after 1976's Rocky won Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director. He later expressed regret at turning down Rocky II in favor of making this film.
neutral · AI labelView post →The stories behind the making of Rocky are as famous as the movie itself. We feel like Stallone held onto that while writing Rocky II. Listen to the full episode now. lnk.bio/neverseenit #rocky2 #sylvesterstallone #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Rocky II was released in movie theaters 47 years ago today. Definitely my favorite Rocky movie and this is my favorite scene. youtu.be/4iMgZ_Nxxmc #Movies #Cinema #Filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →Tonight’s film: Rocky II (1979) Directed by Sylvester Stallone #Rocky #SylvesterStallone #NowWatching #Filmsky #Moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →There are three GREAT Rocky films (Rocky, Creed, and Rocky Balboa), one Very Very Good Rocky film (Creed III), a bunch of fine but inconsequential ones (Rocky II, Rocky III, and Creed II), the interesting but later-copied-and-improved Rocky V, and then whatever the fuck Rocky IV is.
neutral · AI labelView post →Star Wars (1977) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) Superman (1978) Rocky II (1979) The Muppet Movie (1979) Popeye (1980) The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) E.T. (1982) I'm old.
neutral · AI labelView post →For this last weekend, @ageddragonflame.bsky.social and i decided we were gonna fly now, and getting strong now, and start a Rocky movie marathon. We watched Rocky, Rocky II, and Rocky III, and had a wonderful time. These movies are timeless classics and ones that’ll stand the test of time ^^
positive · AI labelView post →Pick a movie for each of these star ratings ⭐ - Rocky V ⭐⭐ - Rocky II ⭐⭐⭐ - Rocky IV ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Rocky ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Rocky III (I’m one of the dozen Rocky V apologists in the world, but still…)
neutral · AI labelView post →Rocky II. the sequel to rocky!!!!!! very enjoyable movie!!! its like the first one but more intense! im glad this had more Mick scenes, their dynamic is so.... profoundly sad and painful and codependent. loved the way this fight was shot way more than the first one
positive · AI labelView post →Rocky's the better movie, but I like Rocky II more. does that make sense? 📽️
positive · AI labelView post →I think Rocky is a limitedly good film. Rocky Rocky II Rocky Balboa What those three and ignore everything else.
positive · AI labelView post →Watching ROCKY II, which is probably the ROCKY movie I've seen the least (excepting V, which doesn't count because it doesn't exist). Wild that the first five minutes are just the last five minutes of the first movie replayed in full, down to the freeze frame.
neutral · AI labelView post →it is wild that ROCKY II starts with the last few minutes of the first movie
neutral · AI labelView post →#JulyMovieChallenge #Moviesky #Filmsky 6: Favorite Sylvester Stallone movie 🎥 Rocky II (1979) R.I.P Carl Weathers🙏🏾🤍
positive · AI labelView post →An A180 Watches a Movie a Day Wednesday, May 27, 2026 Rocky II Dir. Sylvester Stallone 1979 ★★★★ #A180Watches2026
positive · AI labelView post →Trivia: ROCKY II opened on the same day as its fellow unnecessary sequel, BUTCH AND SUNDANCE: THE EARLY YEARS and the boxing remake of THE CHAMP. The Who opened in THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT. THE NINTH CONFIGURATION got a sneak preview. The best movie that opened on June 15, 1979, however, was this one.
neutral · AI labelView post →My ★★★★½ review of Rocky II on @letterboxd: boxd.it/ySmkh
positive · AI labelView post →Rocky II(with Naomi!) good movie
positive · AI labelView post →Halloween II: reminded once again how much I love it when a sequel gets going in the immediate aftermath of the first movie. The Rocky II effect. Of _course_ Michael wants a rematch. Misery: oh THAT'S why they gave Kathy Bates the oscar huh? holy shit. Being a writer really is like that.
neutral · AI labelView post →40. Rocky II (Movie): 4/5 The finale easily bumped the rating up higher than originally intended. One of the best finales for any film out there. Especially for a film that is mostly just the first film, but slightly better with how it handles both the tensions of boxing, and having a family.
positive · AI labelView post →In the first Rocky movie, Rocky Balboa loses to Apollo Creed. In Rocky II, Rocky defeats Apollo. If the Eagles win tomorrow, it's like they say "art imitates life." With that said LFG #eagles!
neutral · AI labelView post →The thing is that "Beneath" and Rocky II are very similar: Hey, we had a hit, let's remake it except without any of the actual movie-making that made the original great. Then....somewhat different directions.
neutral · AI labelView post →#58 Rocky II Pretty much an extension of the first Rocky movie, with similar story beats and the training montages and everything. So it's pretty alright.
neutral · AI labelView post →I felt sure I’d watched all the Rocky movie multiple times, but I’m in bits here watching ‘Rocky II’
positive · AI labelView post →Film-wise: at 7.10, Save Yourselves! on Film4. At 9pm, No Hard Feelings on Film4, Rocky II on ITV4, Bad Company on Legend, Tiger In The Smoke on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social or Coming To America on Comedy Central. At 10.40, Fury on BBC1. At 11, Origin on BBC3. At 11.05, Housebound on Film4 #telly
neutral · AI labelView post →13 favorite films of 1979, ya say The Muppet Movie Alien Apocalypse Now The Jerk Rocky II The Warriors Galaxy Express 999: The Movie Castle of Cagliostro Meatballs The Life of Brian 1941 Star Trek: The Motion Picture The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Netflix movie time. Rocky II PG 1979 ‧ Sport/Action ‧ 1h 59m www.imdb.com/title/tt0079...
neutral · AI labelView post →What an insane year! Those plus Apocalypse Now, Rocky II, the Muppet Movie, Mad Max, the Amityville Horror, Star Trek, Life of Brian! What an embarrassment of riches!
neutral · AI labelView post →I would put Rocky II above Rocky, as it's the finest "after the bell" movie ever, but if you edit the two together as one big movie I think it might be the best sports movie of all time.
positive · AI labelView post →Rocky: Listen, could you answer me one question? Apollo: Yeah, sure Rocky: Did you give me your best? Apollo: Yeah Rocky: Thank you. 🥊 #OTD in #Film #History 15 June 1979, #SylvesterStallone's #boxing sequel ROCKY II, starring Stallone and #CarlWeathers, hit 🇺🇸
neutral · AI labelView post →If I had the patience to make video essays--and I'm kinda glad I don't--I would make one comparing ROCKY II with THE GREAT MUPPET CAPER in terms of how they escalate iconography from their source films ROCKY and THE MUPPET MOVIE, which were already cultural phenomenons when the sequels were made.
neutral · AI labelView post →So what's everyone's favorite shot in a movie? Not your favorite movie. The one shot where you thought "that's perfect". For me, it's Rocky and Apollo falling in Rocky II #cinema #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →1. Rocky II (1979) Definitely one of the best sequels of all time. I like how Rocky and Creed try to move on from the fight but that eventually makes them fight again, and I love how this movie focuses more of Rocky and Adrian’s relationship.
positive · AI labelView post →10pm TODAY on @ITV4 The 1979 #Sports #Drama film🎥 “Rocky II” directed & written by Sylvester Stallone 🌟 Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith
neutral · AI labelView post →Those Films? (2/2) Life of Brian Mad Max Manhattan (I know, I know) Murder by Decree The Muppet Movie Norma Rae North Dallas Forty Nosferatu the Vampyre Richard Pryor: Live in Concert Rocky II Star Trek: The Motion Picture The Warriors
neutral · AI labelView post →Film-wise: at 8pm, All About Eve on BBC4. At 9pm, Rocky II on ITV4, Twins on Comedy Central or Sunset Boulevard on Sky Arts. At 10.50pm, The Ipcress File on BBC4 or The Predator on Film4. At 11.15pm, Indiana Jones & The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull on ITV1. At 1am, Seven Psychopaths on Film4 #telly
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie: Rocky II (Blu-ray) And if I said this one is better than the original?? 🫣 #filmsky
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