Rocky and the Oscars

If you look at the 1977 Oscars, I think Rocky should have won a lot more. Here are the 9 categories Rocky was nominated in, who won, and who I think should have won.

Best Actor

Winner: Peter Finich for Network

Stallone should have won. He created a character that is and was iconic. 

Best Supporting Actor

Winner: Jason Robards for All the President's Men

This makes sense only because both Burgess Meredith and Burt Young were nominated. If only 1 is nominated, they likely win. Burgess should have been the one nominated and won.

Best Actress

Winner: Faye Dunaway for Network

I strongly believe Talia Shire should have won even more than Sly. I understand why Finich won because of the "Mad as Hell" speech. But Talia was so good in how her character changed throughout the movie. And she should have been nominated for Rocky III for that beach scene alone.

Directing 

Winner: John G. Avildsen for Rocky

This was by far the right choice.

Film Editing

Winner: Rocky

Again, it is the right choice.

Music (Original Song)

Winner: A Star Is Born

Gonna Fly Now is one of the best songs ever for a movie. I can see maybe why since it didn't have a powerful singer leading it to why it might not have won.

Best Picture

Winner: Rocky

The obvious choice.

Sound

Winner: All the President's Men

The sounds in the fight are really great, so I can see why it was at least nominated. Hard to say if it should have actually won.

Original Screenplay

Winner: Network by Paddy Chayefsky

This is the biggest mistake. Stallone should have won this award. His screenplay is brilliant, and the movie is great because of it.

A couple of categories I'm surprised it wasn't nominated for are Cinematography and Music Original Score. For Cinematography, they actually came up with new techniques to get the running and boxing shots. It deserved nomination. And Bill Conti created a masterpiece score for the movie. Much better than the Omen that won. That is another grave mistake.  

My Favorite 4th of July Movies

This is my Ranking for favorite movies to watch over the 4th of July. 

1.  Rocky IV 

2.  The Patriot 

3.  Independence Day 

4.  Rambo:  First Blood part II 

5.  Top Gun:  Maverick 

6.  Battleship

7.  Miracle

8.  Armageddon

9.  Sandlot

10.  Live Free or Die Hard

11.  Rocky

12. We Were Soliders

13. 13 Hours

14.  Unbroken

15.  Hacksaw Ridge

16.  Captian America: The First Avenger

17.  Fury

18  Glory

19.  Clear and Present Danger 

20.  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 

21.  Forrest Gump 

22.  American Sniper

23.  Lone Surviver

24.  Act of Valor

25.  National Treasure

My Top 3 Favorite Spirits

This is my list of top 3 favorites spirits in each category.

Straight Bourbon 

1.  Eagle Rare Aged 10 Years Bourbon 

2.  Blanton's Single Barrell Bourbon 

3.  Buffalo Trace Straight Bourbon 

Wheated Bourbon 

1.  Larceny Small Batch Bourbon 

2.  Weller Special Reserve Bourbon

3.  Hard Truth Wheated Bourbon Bottle In Bond

Finished Bourbon 

1.  Angel's Envy Straight Bourbon 

2.  Angel's Envy Single Barrell Bourbon 

3.  Starlight Carl T Huber's Bourbon Finished in Japanese Mizunara Barrells

Blended Whiskey 

1.  Travellers Whiskey 

2.  Von Payne Black Blended Whiskey 

3.  Travellers Full Proof Whiskey 

Tennessee Whiskey 

1.  King's Creek Black Label Whiskey

2.  Nelson's Green Brier Whiskey 

3.  Jack Daniel's Old No.7 Tennessee Whiskey 

Rye Whiskey 

1.  Bulleit Rye 

2.  Hard Truth Sweet Mash Rye

3.  Rossville Union Straight Rye

Japanese Whisky 

1.  Kaigan Japanese Whisky

2.  Toki Suntory Whisky

3.  Kanekou Okinawa Whisky

Flavored Whiskey 

1.  Hard Truth Peanut Butter Whiskey 

2.  Starlight Blackberry Whiskey 

3.  King's Creek Black Label Brown Sugar Whiskey 

Tequila 

1.  Tequila Ocho Plata Tequila 

2.  Suavecito Anejo Tequila 

3.  Pantaloans Reposado Tequila 

Gin

1.  Roku Gin

2.  Greenhouse Classic Gin

3.  Tanqueray No. TEN Gin

Vodka 

1.  Wheatley Vodka 

2.  Hard Truth Vodka 

3.  Ketel One Vodka 

Rum

1.  Hard Truth Toasted Coconut Rum

2.  Largo Bay Silver Rum 

3.  Largo Bay Coconut Rum 

Creams

1.  Bailey Irish Cream

2.  Buffalo Trace Bourbon Cream 

3.  Hard Truth Maple Bourbon Cream 

Stallone Movie Ranking

S-Tier

1.  Rocky Balboa 

2.  Rocky II

3.  Rocky IV

4.  Rambo: First Blood part II 

5.  Rocky

6.  Creed

A-Tier 

7.  First Blood

8.  Cobra

9.  Rocky III

10.  Demolition Man 

11.  The Expendables 2

12.  Creed II

13.  Assissans 

14.  The Expendables 

15.  Tango and Cash

16.  Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2

17.  Tulsa King 

18.  Rambo

B-Tier 

19.  Over the Top

20.  Oscar

21.  Rambo III 

22.  The Specialist 

23.  Escape Plan

24.  Cliffhanger

25.  Cop Land 

26.  D-Tox/Eye See You

27.  Nighthawks 

28.  Daylight 

C-Tier 

29.  Rocky V

30.  Lock Up

31.  The Expendables 3

32.  Judge Dredd

33.  Victory 

34.  F.I.S.T

35.  Grudge Match

36.  Rambo V:  Last Blood

37.  Spy Kids 3D:  Game Over

38.  Paradise Alley

39.  Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3

40.  Bullet to thr Head

41.  Driven

42.  Samaritan 

43.  Backtrace 

44.  Rhinestone 

45.  Avenging Angelo

46.  Escape Plan:  The Extractors 

47.  Zookeeper 

D-Tier 

48.  Escape Plan 2:  Hades

49.  Get Carter

50  Stop!  Or My Mom Will Shoot

51  The Expendables 4

52.  The Suicide Squad

Remember the Titans BS

The movie Remember the Titans is loved by many, but the movie changes a lot of facts and makes up a lot of fake stuff. This is fine if they promoted the movie as inspired by true event like (Hoosiers). But instead they promoted it as based on a true story.  A movie based on a true story shouldn't take as many liberties as this movie does.

The State Championship: The real 1971 team dominated all season. They had nine shutouts and won most games in blowouts. The nail-biting, come-from-behind championship game in the movie was entirely fabricated for dramatic effect.

Gerry Bertier's Accident: Star player Gerry Bertier was not paralyzed before the championship game. The real accident happened on December 11, after the undefeated season had already concluded.

Fictional Characters: Players like "Sunshine" Bass were heavily exaggerated, and characters such as the racist teammate Ray Budds were completely made up.

No Internal Team Racism: Real-life players and coaches have noted that the players themselves did not suffer from the intense racial infighting depicted on-screen. The actual friction came from the adults and the community, not the locker room.

Desegregation: The movie implies this happened in 1971, but the schools in Alexandria, Virginia, had already integrated years prior in 1965.

Gettysburg Run:  The famous 3:00 a.m. run through the Gettysburg cemetery and Coach Boone's emotional speech there never happened in real life.

The film omits that Coach Herman Boone was fired from his position at T.C. Williams in 1979 after players and assistant coaches alleged verbal and physical abuse.

This movie is an example of Hollywood using real people to push a story it wanted and not the truth.  Kind of like the movie Rudy, but that is another story of BS.

Ranking Rocky/Creed Boxers

S-Tier

1.  Apollo Creed

2.  Rocky Balboa 

3.  Ivan Drago 

A-Tier

4.  Adonis Creed

5.  Viktor Drago

6.  Thunder Lips

B-Tier

7.  Mason Dixon 

8.  Clubber Lang

9.  Ricky Conlan

C-Tier

10.  Tommy Gunn

11.  Danny Wheeler

12.  Damian Anderson

D-Tier

13.  Leo Sporino

14.  Felix Chavez

15.  Union Cain

F-Tier 

16.  Spider Rico

My Top Ten TV Shows

1.  The Twilight Zone 

2.  Friends

3.  Buffy/Angel's

4.  Fruits Basket 

5.  Supernatural 

6.  Sherlock 

7.  Chuck

8.  My Roommate is a Cat 

9.  ReLife 

10.  Quantum Leap

Favorite Sports Movies

Favorite movie for each of these sports...

Baseball: For Love of the Game 

Basketball: Hooisers 

Boxing: Rocky Balboa 

Football: Varsity Blues 

Golf: Happy Gilmore 

Hockey: Miracle 

Horse Racing: Seabiscuit 

Ice Skating: The Cutting Edge

MMA: Warrior 

Motorsports: F1

Running: Unbroken 

Table Tennis: Forrest Gump 

Water Sports: Back to School 

Wrestling: Over the Top 

Fictional: The Hunger Games

The Hammer Clause

If Minnesota officials don't start working with federal agents including ICE, but continue to allow mobs to obstruct, attack, riot, and cause trouble for ICE then President Trump will have to use the insurrection act called The Hammer Clause.

Here is what The Hammer Clause says, "Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion."  10 U.S. Code § 252 - Use of militia and armed forces to enforce Federal authority

It doesn't matter if citizens, a city, or state government agree with current federal laws on immigration.   If someone is in the country illegally the federal government has the right and duty to remove them from the country.   If the Left doesn't like the laws they could have changed the laws when Biden was President and Democrats controlled Congress.  That would have been the correct response to this issue.

The First Amendment does protect peaceful protest, but it doesn't allow riots, unpeaceful protest, unlawful assembly, and obstruction of justice.  Here is what the first amendment says on this issue, "the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."  The first amendment specifically says that assembly must be peaceful.  

Lastly, The Hammer Clause has been used many times in the past by many Presidents.  Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, FDR, Eisenhower, JFK, and LBJ to name a few.

My Top 20 Favorite TV Shows

1.  Friends 

2.  The Twilight Zone 

3.  Fruits Basket 

4.  Buffy the Vampire Slayer 

5.  Supernatural 

6.  Angel

7.  Horimiya 

8.  Good Eats

9.  My Roommate is a Cat 

10.  Chuck

11.  Quantum Leap

12.  Re:Life

13.  Sherlock 

14.  The Office

15.  Demon Slayer 

16.  Tulsa King 

17.  Night Court

18.  Death Note

19.  Parks and Rec.

20.  The Dick Van Dyke Show