Rocky IV is the original motion picture soundtrack to the movie of the same name. It was originally released in 1985 on the Scotti Brothers label.

• • • • • The Pitch: 33 years after he killed Apollo Creed () and was pummeled by Rocky Balboa () deep within the Soviet Union, Ivan Drago () returns for vengeance. This time, however, the one doing the breaking is his son, Viktor (), who’s hungry for Creed’s () world title and a chance to drag the Drago name out of the frozen Russian mud. Here’s the rub: Whereas Drago’s coming from a shattered family, Creed’s starting to build his own, something that’s not lost on the ol’ Italian Stallion, who tells our titular hero early on: “In the ring, you got rules. Outside, you got nothing. Life hits you with all these cheap shots. People like me, we live in the past. You got people that need you now.

You got everything to lose, this guy has got nothing to lose.” Go ahead and cue Bill Conti. Ain’t Nothin’ Over ‘Til It’s Over (And Nothin’s Ever Over): If this all sounds redundant, it should. Without spoiling anything, there’s nothing narratively surprising about Creed II. The ebbs and flows of the story are incredibly predictable, and anyone who’s even remotely familiar with this franchise could probably tell you what happens without buying a ticket. What connects the punches, though, is what’s always been the strength of the Rocky franchise — the drama. After all, the reason why Stallone’s 1976 original swept the Academy Awards the following year is because of everything that happens outside of the ring. It’s a love story wrapped up in a crowd-pleasing underdog tale. Cardboard pinhole camera pdf free download programs for windows 7.

Understood that, which is why 2015’s Creed was such a breath of fresh air. The film was less concerned with the archetypal matchups that had dumbed down the franchise and was more intrigued by the street-level drama that made it so palatable.

Of the five sequels prior to Creed, only two ever came close to reclaiming that dramatic spirit: 1979’s Rocky II and 2006’s Rocky Balboa. The rest are clunky ’80s arcade games, slotting in one cartoonish villain after another. By far the most gluttonous of the bunch is 1985’s Rocky IV, which capitalized on Creed’s harrowing death with an endless parade of ludicrous montages and Nintendo dialogue, all fueled by radical ’80s nationalism that hasn’t aged in the slightest. But as we all know now, Coogler found the seeds to his own story within that macho madness, and those seeds continue to flourish in s sequel, even as it has to contend with the more garish extravagances of its source material. Those extravagances wind up adding to the film’s predictability, but again, it’s not about who wins or loses, it’s about who’s winning or losing. And for the first time since Rocky II, that extends to both sides of the ring. Child Is Father of the Man: Twelve years after Rocky Balboa, Stallone returns to the typewriter alongside first-time scribe, swapping in for Coogler and co-writer Aaron Covington, and while their script lacks the punctuality, humor, and finesse of its predecessor, it doubles down on the drama in all the right places.