{"id":7505,"date":"2020-06-03T15:58:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T22:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7505"},"modified":"2020-06-03T15:58:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T22:58:17","slug":"rocky-xxv-still-cocky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7505","title":{"rendered":"Rocky XXV: Still Cocky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Continuing with our final installment of our brief <em><strong>\u2018something completely different \u2013 get me the hell out of the nightmare year that is 2020\u2019<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0photo-toon retrospective. . . <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sylvester Stallone has made many films in his long Hollywood career, but he is most notably known for his character Rocky Balboa and the film series franchise  which has chronicled the pugilist from Philadelphia for umpty-nine movies since 1976, when <em>Rocky<\/em> won the Best Picture Academy Award. Quite honestly, in our opinion here at the Bucket, Stallone&#8217;s best acting performance was as a small town police officer uncovering corruption in the NYPD in the forgotten 1997 movie <em>Cop Land<\/em>. But Rocky has been his go-to meal ticket for over forty years, why should he stop now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Here\u2019s a photo-toon from our December 22, 2006 issue<\/strong> featuring Sylvester Stallone making yet another comeback in <em>Rocky XXV: Still Cocky<\/em>. This time the rapidly aging boxer must face off against a truly menacing cockfighting rooster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"373\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rockycomeback.jpg\" alt=\"Sylvester Stallone has decided to resurrect his meal ticket from the '70s and '80s with yet another new Rocky film, Rocky XXV: Still Cocky which features the aging boxer attempting a comeback against some new, challenging foes like a menacing cockfighting rooster.\" class=\"wp-image-7503\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rockycomeback.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rockycomeback-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Sylvester Stallone has decided to resurrect his meal ticket from the &#8217;70s and &#8217;80s with yet another new Rocky film, Rocky XXV: Still Cocky which features the aging boxer attempting a comeback against some new, challenging foes like a menacing cockfighting rooster.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing with our final installment of our brief \u2018something completely different \u2013 get me the hell out of the nightmare year that is 2020\u2019\u00a0photo-toon retrospective. . . Sylvester Stallone has made many films in his long Hollywood career, but he is most notably known for his character Rocky Balboa and the film series franchise which &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7505\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rocky XXV: Still Cocky&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2175,2173,619,54,98,2169,2174,2172],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7505"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7505"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7511,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7505\/revisions\/7511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}