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Ain’t It Cool News offers an advanced review of Rocky Balboa the sixth installment in the Rocky series, which will be coming to American theaters this December.

Judging from this description, it would not be surprising to see Objectivists lining up for the latest exploits of the Italian Stallion:

“Meanwhile,Stallone manages to talk about some big stuff (namely man’s will versus the chaos of nature) without getting too cheesy. People will want to call it cheesy, but think about it. How many movies in recent years have truly had a heroic figure?

We need this movie…you see, they don’t really make movies like this anymore, at least none that are any good. This is more than just a great Rocky movie; this is an ode to man, a celebration of the heroic ideal, a testament to the strength of our volition, a view of man as he might and ought to be. Here, we have in Rocky someone who does what’s right and follows his calling based on his beliefs and will, damn the people who would disillusion him. (Echoing the real life story of the people who would mock Stallone for attempting a comeback.)”

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9:32 pm on October 25, 2006