My Recent Whole Deal with Rocky IV: A Timeline

Ian Belknap
9 min readJan 16, 2023

I’m like anyone, really. Weak. Distractible. Pretty dumb. Self loathing. So as a result, I rewatched Rocky IV. If you’re considering doing so, I cannot say I would advise it.

January 6, 2023, 10:16PM: I viewed Rocky IV. Like, in its entirety, I’m saying. To be clear: this was not some “idly flipping through basic cable in a hotel room and getting inertia-slurped into it” type of thing. I — a supposedly sentient adult human — chose it. On a streaming platform. Voluntarily. Like an idiot.

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Ian Belknap

Founder WRITE CLUB. Essays, satire: Rumpus, Chicago Trib, Chicago Reader, American Theatre Mag, etc. Partner & I sold pilot to Sony-Tristar writerianbelknap.com