My Christmas present to myself was a viewing of Rocky Balboa, in a packed theater of stadium seating. Yep, Sly Stallone can still fill a theater. The movie is pretty much what you’d expect: ESPN runs a virtual boxing match of Rocky (from back in the day) against the current champ Mason “The Line” Dixon. Popular chatter builds up, the old Rocky re-registers for his license, and we have a heavily-billed bout of “Will vs. Skill”.

The one disappointment I had was that the remixed “Eye of the Tiger” soundtrack featured at the end of the trailer was all but absent.