Why do they need to put rap music in the training montage? It it because the main character is black? Kind of cringe. It’s not like “gonna fly now” is white people music. The best part about Rocky is the training montages. And it fucking motivates you. Non of the Creed movies made me felt like that.
I gave the movie an extra point for the anime influence. That shit was cool.
Less race, more age of the target demographic. Times change, so soundtracks change too.
They problem is they aren't even using cool, catchy rap songs. They are entirely forgettable.
I didn't even know it was supposed to be an anime influence. I thought it was because they did not want to go over budget by spending more the sequence on the crowd or that it was during covid that they partially shot the scene
I'm watching Creed this weekend so can't comment, but I'd believe it. There's no avoiding generic shit given producers are usually ancient and not exactly cool hip and in touch with the youthes.
Even Rocky Balboa used that catchy "It's a fight" rap song and I remember it fifteen years later. I saw Creed III two days ago and can't remember the song for the montage. <45>
Not everyone one that’s young is into rap. Movie soundtracks should be it’s own genre. We don’t listen to the Terminator soundtrack and the The Dark Knight soundtrack on the radio. Creed should make it’s own soundtrack thats it’s own thing that fits with the training montages and boxing matches.
Of course not, but it's kind of hard to argue that rap is not among the most popular, if most popular, genre of music with the target audience.
Update: October 17, 2022
First Character Posters for CREED III Featuring Michael B. Jordan and Jonathan Majors [Updated with Official Trailer]
Creed III is directed by Michael B. Jordan (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Keenan Coogler and Zach Baylin. The film stars Jordan, Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashad and Jonathan Majors. This is the first film in the franchise without Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa.
Thats the one this I noticed he is a much crapier actor than majors or stallone is he has a weird cadence like he was reading from a cue card. When he is on screen with better actors this is really highlighted. Jordan is either monotone or overacts and explodes.
Soap opera is the correct words felt like a starz soap opera or those new tyler perry soap operas on BET.
He basically made it into a B movie rocky reboot this last film was basically rocky 3 with majors being the mr.T character.
Stallone willingly gave it to him. The first two were good. This one sounds like it sucks though, and that doesn't give me hope for the future of the franchise (if absent of Stallone).
