I will say Rocky is a serious picture. The first 2 rocky films are genuine film. The rest are action movies. But rocky 2 was very much autobiographical like the 1st. Between the 2 films people were saying "is Stalone a fluke?" And he took the words of the critics of the day and harnessed that into the script. Its more cliché in my opinion as a whole but its not 80s action schlock like they'd go on to be later in the series.
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