Better than Rocky

Ok... you are a probably someone who was born after 1990. Sylvester Stallone wrote these stories for Rocky. And on top of that he was from Philly. Raging Bull also another classic fight movie. Southpaw is new. New actor, old story.
Rocky got it right. Showing that a man can go far in the world if he just puts his head down and plows forward.

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I liked Southpaw a lot but I have to disagree with you OP. I enjoy revisiting Rocks 1-4 all the time but this one isn't something I'll watch again unless someone asks me too.

This movie isn't even as good as that steaming pile Rocky 5. This movie is classic Sutter, clearly he doesn't research his material and just writes nonsense.

Stallone was nominated for an Oscar for his acting in Rocky I.

Jake won't be, as he wasn't even nominated for NightCrawler, which was a much superior performance to what he did in this film.

I wouldn't say 100x better, but I definitely agree that this film is superior to Rocky! It made me feel so much more (to the point where I was chanting "Come on, Billy" during the finale).

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A lot of newer movies are better than older movies.The older movies just hold a certain nostalgia and were the pinnacle of cinema back then. The Fighter, Southpaw, Warrior and even Undisputed 1 & 2 were better made movies. They had better technical fighting and acting than anything Rocky could deliver. Rocky will however always be the best known and well regarded.

Take Alien for example as a classic in everyone's eyes. There have been many low budget horror B movies that I have seen in the past couple years that are 'better' than Alien. Alien broke all the ground and set the tone. Ridley Scott made Prometheus to the same tone and was seen as cliche and predictable. I guess it may be just me, but, Ray Stevenson's B-movie Outpost just blows away most big budget movies.