Rocky III Movie Details
Rocky III taglines:His life is happy, his fights have seemed easy. Now a young upstart is going to make him prove just how far he can still go…
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| Directors: Sylvester Stallone | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IMDB Rating: 6.2/10 out of 33,668 votes |
“Rocky III” 1982 by Sylvester Stallone – Movie Goofs
“Rocky 3″ Plot Summary
When Rocky is defeated by a brutal challenger, Apollo Creed offers to retrain him in order to regain his fighting spirit.
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“Rocky III” Goofs List
- Continuity: During the final bout, immediately before Rocky knocks out Lang, the position of the two fighters alternates from the middle of the ring (in long shots) to up against the ropes (in close-ups) and back again.
- Crew or equipment visible: During the final fight scene a handheld movie camera (used for shooting ground-level shots) is visible on the far side of the ring. Full-size cameras are also visible in some shots.
- Continuity: In the second fight with Clubber Lang, between the first and second rounds, the shot is flopped – the word “Clubber” is backwards on his shorts and one of his crew’s robes clearly has “World Champion” backwards as well.
- Continuity: Before the final fight, the crowd scenes contain the picture boards of Rocky and Apollo in the background, making it obvious that it is the same crowd footage from Rocky II (1979).
- Continuity: There are multiple errors with the time-line and chronology of this film and it’s relationship with the previous two movies. Most obviously, Rocky (1976) is set primarily in 1975, with the title fight taking place on January 1, 1976. Rocky II (1979) is also set in 1976, with the title fight taking place on Thanksgiving, November 25. The events in Rocky III are said to take place three years later, placing it in 1979/1980. However, the newspaper advertising the charity match between Rocky and Thunderlips gives a date of 1982. Another major discrepancy is in relation to Micky’s age and date of death. In the first film, Micky says he is 76, placing his birth in either 1899 or 1900. In Rocky III however, his headstone lists his date of birth as 1905, making him 71 in the original film. Furthermore, the headstone lists his date of death as 1981, which implies that he was 76; the same age he was four years previously (in the original film).
- Continuity: At the beginning of the final fight between Rocky and Clubber, we see Rocky take his robe off in a close-up shot and he has a towel around his neck. We then see a distant shot and the towel is gone. Then we come to a slightly closer shot and the towel is back again.
- Continuity: When Apollo and Duke are reviewing Rocky’s first fight with Clubber and discussing how many rounds Rocky could potentially last, the footage they are watching is in black and white. However, during this scene there is a shot of Apollo looking at the screen, and the lights reflecting off his face show that the footage he is watching is in color.
- Boom mic visible: In the beginning of the film, there’s an overhead shot (of Rocky and “Thunderlips” facing one another) where the shadow of the boom mic is visible on the back of Thunderlips’s head.
- Factual errors: When Rocky is in training for the re-match with Clubber and is having flashbacks to the first fight, they cut to a scene in black and white where Rocky is taking an uppercut to the body. It is clearly visible that Rocky is wearing the “Stars and Stripes” trunks that Apollo gives to him right before the re-match. Rocky could not have been wearing these trunks because they hadn’t even been given to him yet.
- Factual errors: During the first fight with Clubber while Mickey is lying on the table in the locker room, the doctor is overheard to say “his blood pressure is 200 over 50 we’d better start CPR.” In actuality, the heart must be beating for there to be a blood pressure and CPR is only initiated when the heart and or respirations cease.
- Factual errors: At Micky’s funeral, there are only 4 people present (Rocky, Adrien, Paulie and Al the Cutman. In order for a Jewish service/prayer to take place, there must be a minimum of 10 men (Minyan). If there is not a Minyan then the prayers have no validity and therefore strangers are often invited to the prayers ensuring there are 10 or more men.
- Continuity: When Adrian and Rocky talk on the beach, in the first, zoomed-out shot of them together, there are numerous ships in the water along with some minor debris. In the close-up shots that follow, there are no ships, just the minor debris.
- Continuity: When talking to Adrian on the beach, Rocky appears to have not shaved in a few days. About halfway through the scene, he suddenly appears shaved.
- Factual errors: The newspaper shown just after the “Rocky vs. Thunderlips” match shows a date of “Wednesday, May 15, 1982″. May 15 fell on a Saturday in 1982.
- Continuity: The newspaper shown just after the “Rocky vs. Thunderlips” match shows a date of “Wednesday, May 15, 1982″. When Mickey dies later in the film, his tombstone says he died “August 15, 1981″, which was 9 months earlier.
- Continuity: Mickey’s tombstone shows the year he was born as “1905″, which is inconsistent with material from Rocky (1976). The first movie takes place between November 25th 1975 and January 1st 1976. Mickey in the first movie tells Rocky he is 76 years old, which would make the year he was born be either 1899 (if Mickey’s birthday was between January and November) or 1898 (if his birthday was in December).
- Crew or equipment visible: After the final fight where Rocky and Apollo are alone in the gym. You can see a crew member walk by in the bottom left corner while Rocky and Apollo both get into the ring.
- Revealing mistakes: During the last fight scene, Rocky is punching away at Clubber, and the two seemingly glide across from one end of the ring to the other. If you listen carefully, you can hear the sound of the rolling platform that they are standing on.
- Continuity: In Rocky’s first title defense, he begins the fight with golden gloves, but at the end of the fight, his gloves are black.
- Miscellaneous: As the scene depicting the dedication of the Rocky statue opens, the camera is focused on the snare drum of one of the high school band members. If one looks closely, it is clear that Mr. T autographed the top of the drum for the band member at some point before filming the scene.
- Continuity: When Mickey gets sick and lays down on the table in the locker room, he has his knit cap on as he starts to lay down. The shot switches to a different angle as he continues to lay down, and now his cap is off and laying on the table next to him.
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