![]() ![]() Jordan’s Adonis Creed (wearing gray sweats, natch) jogs to an updated version of “Gonna Fly Now.” At the end of the movie, Donnie and Rocky mount the museum steps one more time, albeit slowly to accommodate the former champ’s weakened (but improving) physical condition. So cute! Running Creed Creed ups the ante with some motorcycle dudes doing wheelies down the street while Michael B. Running Balboa In Rocky Balboa, the Stallion runs with a dog wearing a matching gray sweatshirt. Running V In Rocky V, Tommy “the Machine” Gunn beats Rocky up those same museum steps before doing a sick cartwheel at the top. Rocky’s raised arms at the peak are essentially a metaphor for Rocky conquering all of Russia at the height of the Cold War, even before his cringe-worthy “Everybody can change!” speech at the end. Running IV In Rocky IV, Rocky outruns a Mercedes full of KGB agents before charging up a snowy mountain. Running III By the third one Rocky's beach sprinting against his former nemesis Apollo Creed, with slow-motion camera emphasis on their rippling thighs and extended ocean hugging. Quite a group of young endurance athletes Rocky has there. According to some sources, mapping the route the kids follow checks in at around 17 miles. Running II In Rocky II the run is virtually identical except this time he’s joined by about a thousand cheering kids, making the whole thing more than a little corny. But that triumphant moment, and the street market full of well-wishers he runs through, set a precedent that would be emulated and escalated in every other movie in the series, sometimes to bizarre extremes. ![]() In the original film, Rocky’s runs are just him jogging through the streets of Philly in that signature gray sweatsuit, eventually conquering the 72 steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. So not that weird, but it sets up later oddness. ![]() Running Admittedly this is the most ordinary exercise Rocky engages in: running. ![]()
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