The tagline for the 2006 release of Rocky Balboa, the sixth installment in the Rocky movie franchise, says it all for Baby Boomers nowadays: “It ain’t over ’til it’s over.”
The original Rocky, in 1976, made a mega-star of then thirty-year-old Baby Boomer Sylvester Stallone. Depicting a small-time boxer who gets by as a debt collector for a loan shark in Philadelphia, the movie follows Rocky Balboa as he trains for a long-shot, once-in-a-lifetime fight for the heavyweight title. But Rocky is realistic. All he wants is to go the distance, which, against all odds, he is able to do. Now, thirty years and four sequels later, the sixty-year-old Stallone plays an aging Rocky who comes out of retirement for an exhibition ...
