Night at the movies with Lance

Stallone, Van Damme, and Arnold, Sounds like an Expendables movie.  Welcome to Lance at the movies, today we are going to talk about boxing, fighting, and cop buddy movies.  First, we will talk about the best picture winner Rocky.  Now I know most of you have seen Rocky and will tell me Lance why are you reviewing Rocky all of us have seen it?  This is a review to see if the movie stands up in 2020.   It is 1976 and Sylvester Stallone is not a household name.  He writes a script and tells producers he wants to play the role himself, taking a big gamble.  Then it wins Best picture and Best screenplay that year.  This film is filled with the underdog spirit, anything you think you can't do, you can with hard work and a drive and determination to do it, that is the American way.   I remembered all the joy rooting for Rocky when I was a kid and it is still a great film, but the one thing I did notice was the boxing.  The still of hitting each other was a little delayed, maybe because I

   I don't own the rights to these images.  They are used as fair use.  Hello everyone this is Lance at the Movies blog.  I was referred this film by a friend this morning and thought I would check it out.  I thought it would be a preachy, intrusive, judgemental film like I had seen in the past.  But I was wrong it is a different kind of film then I normally review.   But it is an important film for anyone who has family or friends who are gay and wondering how to minster to them.   So many churches have passed judgement on those who maybe gay or transgender but that does not mean we need to.  These individuals are people.  It is so easy to write people off and discard them instead of love them.  It is easy to judge and hate.  But that is not what God wants us to do.  We need to love everyone who is different from us.  We need to see their point of view:  wrong or right.  Love them for who they are and not necessarily for what they do.   This film midway through I almost stopped wa