There's a teaser out for the new Rocky movie, Rocky Balboa, and it was quite surprising content wise. My apologies, I've lost the reference of where I found the clip, still catch it direct from Stallone's site [QT:33.3Mb].

It's simply a slow motion shot of Rocky's beaten eyes as camera flashes go off around him, with his voiceover giving a long and stirring speech about how the strength is shown by the hits you can take and keep on going through. So there's not really much to it, but the lengthy voice over is suggesting that this might be an older and wiser film as well as a more oratory Rocky.

I don't think that there is anywhere else that this series can go other than to take a deeper, more intelligent look at Rocky, and if we can see the Sylvester Stallone of Copland, then I think we might be in for an interesting and surprising addition to the series. What do you think, does this show Rocky in a different light? Is it good news or bad for the series?