http://rockybalboablog.blogspot.com/
QUESTION: What motivated you to bring back Rocky for a final chapter?
SYLVESTER STALLONE: I just didn't like the way the last one ended. Truthfully I thought the last one it, it just wasn't over, you know, you think it's over, and you really go back and you rehash it in your own mind like an athlete. You go, "God, you know, maybe I just retired too soon. Maybe Rocky just retired too soon." And yeah, someone told him he had problems. He had health problems. He, he had a little brain damage, but he never even had a second opinion. He just automatically assumed it. We do have our ups and downs, and it was a down side of his life. But I think that the real affirmation of life is what comes after that? Do you come out of that valley or not, you know?
(more at AICN (http://www.aintitcool.com/node/30919).)
Also check out the -- formulaic, yet oddly inspiring ;) -- trailer (http://www.apple.com/trailers/mgm/rockybalboa/) (rightclick here (http://images.apple.com/movies/mgm/rocky_balboa/rocky_balboa_h480.mov) if the other link doesn't work) for the upcoming Feel Good Hit Of The Christmas Season :)
Rocky is a great film (for various reasons), I both anticipate and fear another Rocky film.