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Sylvester Stallone's Rocky at 50: The Perfect Underdog Story
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- Oh Brother
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- Jul 8, 2026
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- 3844
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Summary
Message Dan and Mike Rocky turns 50 this December, and Sylvester Stallone just turned 80 — so we're marking both with our very first Stallone review. A broke, unknown actor with bit parts in mob films turned down nearly $400,000 from the studio, wrote the script in three days, and sold his own dog to make the one movie he refused to let anyone else star in. We get into the guerrilla filmmaking behind it: a budget under a million dollars, a 28-day shoot, no permits, tarps hauled in to fake th...