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Rocky IV (1985) - 11 corrections

Directed by Sylvester Stallone, starring Brigitte Nielsen, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Dolph Lundgren, Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire (add more)

Genres: Action, Sport

Comments made in brackets are corrections from other visitors. As such, any aggressive/abusive corrections (and I get quite a few) written as if they're comments I've made myself will be ignored. To submit your own corrections for mistakes, just click the edit icon under an entry, then choose "correct entry". Some entries have "duplicated entry" after them - these are entries which were already listed on the main page, but were submitted again. I occasionally leave these online for a while, just in case they were moved in error, so don't worry about pointing them out to me.

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Entry When Apollo Creed fought Ivan Drago, Drago knocked him out in the second round. In the scene, Drago pulls his left hand back ready to punch, then a closer shot shows how his right fist hits Creed, and again in the next shot it shows how Drago's left hand has just landed. [It was actually a left that hit Creed, not a right. The camera angle was coming from the left and you can clearly see the back of a glove during the slow motion bit which could only happen if a left was thrown. Creed's head position and reaction make it appear to be a right.]
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Entry If Ivan Drago could have really punched as hard as three average heavyweights, Rocky would have gone down after two powershots at the most. [Not necessarily. Drago could hit with 2150 pounds of pressure just after his drug injection, with time to prepare his punch at a stationary target in a climate-controlled environement. Against Rocky, a human, moving target who was hitting him, Drago's punching power diminished greatly over the course of the bout. In addition, the Russians could have rigged the machine for the press conference.]
Entry In the scene before Rocky and Drago enter into the ring.You see some countries names.When it comes to the Soviet Union.You see CCCP/Russia.It should have been CCCP/USSR. [This is incorrect, it actually does say CCCP/USSR not CCCP/Russia.]
Entry Rocky trains in Siberia in December for weeks, yet when he fights Drago he has a near full-body tan. It's doubtful that he went to a tanning salon. [Not necessarily true. We could surmise that Rocky continuously tanned in his hometown, and then left for three weeks. That amount of time gone wouldn't necessarily affect his tan.]
Entry During the inevitable training sequence about 25 minutes from the end, Drago and Rocky are shown shoulder pressing; Rocky the wagon and Drago the barbell. Rocky's weight is certainly impressive looking, but Drago's it is impossible. While the film-makers wanted to show the immense strength of the doped-up Soviet, there is almost no way he can slow press over 450 pounds shown on the bar. The world record in the Olympic clean and jerk is just around 500 pounds and that is with momentum and throwing the bar up. [Not impossible. Some of today's strongest bodybuilders are handling even more weight than that. Check out the current Mr. Olympia Ronnie Coleman, as well as IFBB pros Markus Ruhl and Art Atwood. Markus Ruhl has shoulder pressed over 500 lbs in the seated position for several reps. I have pictures and videos of Ronnie Coleman and Art handling even more weight.]
Entry When 'team Rocky' arrives in Russia to train for the Drago fight, Pauly starts to complain about the Spartan conditions. One of the complaints he makes is that he will be missing college football's Rose Bowl game. The Drago/Balboa fight took place on December 25. Prior to the forming of the BSC in the late 1990s, the Rose Bowl always took place on January 1. Hence, he would have been home in plenty of time to catch the game. [First and foremost, Paulie is an idiot and a drunk. The idea that he could make such a silly mistake is completely in character. Secondly, he's seen Rocky II and presumably knows that sometimes, after a fight with a particularly tough opponent, Rocky needs a little hospital attention. Paulie's being pessimistic and not too bright. In other words, he's being Paulie. Not a movie mistake.]
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Entry During the dinner scene when Rocky and Apollo are discussing Apollo's possible fight with the Russian, Adrian advises against the idea, claiming Apollo had "been retired for nearly five years." We assume Rocky IV happens about 1985, that would put Apollo's retire year, according to what Adrian said, somewhere about 1980, or maybe slightly previous, say in 1979. In the movie sequence, we presume Apollo retired as he said he did after his loss of the title to Rocky, and that (at least in movie time) was about 1976, when their rematch took place. So Apollo had been retired over 8 years, not "nearly five." [As has been pointed out about these films before, the year they are made is not necessarily the year they are set in.]
Entry In the scene where Rocky is driving his car after the talk with Adrian, he begins to have flashbacks of events that have happened in the previous three movies. During those scenes, there are a couple of shots which show Drago, standing alone in the dark with a strobe light flashing for effect making it seem like he's standing in front of Rocky, for the fight. His face in these scenes show him as though he has already been fighting but unless it's just Rocky's imagination it doesn't make sense to have it look that way since Apollo, didn't even make a scratch on Drago's face during their fight. Rocky is the only fighter to ever seriously beat Drago, so his face wouldn't have looked like that until it was their fight at the end of the movie. [Yes, the flashback does happen in Rocky's imagination (or at least his memory), so it would appear differently from reality.]
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Entry In the scene where Apollo is playing with his dogs in the pool and watching the news announcing the arrival of Drago, he has one tennis ball in his hand, in the next shot from another angle he has three tennis balls, and in the next shot he has only one again. [He was throwing the balls for the dogs to bring back to him in the pool. While he's watching the TV, you can hear them keep splashing in and out.]
Entry At the end of the movie when Rocky is addressing the Russian crowd, the crowd breaks into applause after Rocky says "If I can change, and you can change..." but before he finishes off emphatically with "...everybody can change.", the part that should spur the applause. The timing of the applause seems quite unusual, and is done merely to make the scene more dramatic. [This doesn't seem like a mistake to me. It's not unusual for an audience to react to a speaker's words before he finishes his thought. When Rocky began speaking about people's attitudes changing, they reacted spontaneously.]
Entry In this movie Rocky is celebrating with his wife their almost 9 year anniversary of their wedding. That is not correct, because this movie was in 1985 and they got married in Rocky II in 1979. That is 6 years not 9. [They didn't get married in 1979. It was 1976. Rocky and Apollo's first fight is in January of 1976 for the Bicentennial. Rocky proposes to Adrian on the day he gets out of the hospital following the fight and they are married in the next scene. Rocky 2 may have come out in 1979, but the events of the film take place in 1976.]

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