Rocky is an alien.
 When Rocky points this out, he is told that "it doesn't really matter, does it?" According to director Avildsen's DVD commentary, this was an actual mistake made by the props department that they could not afford to rectify, so Stallone wrote the brief scene to ensure the audience did not see it as a goof
In 2008, Rocky was chosen by British film magazine Empire as one of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time

