I just watched Rambo. Dammit...

[Pingfah]

I know you're proud of not seeing them but you might be surprised by First Blood (the first Rambo movie), it probably isn't what you're thinking and I thought Stallone is really good in it.

It completely took me by surprise. I thought it was going to be a dumb action flick. It's not that at all. I really liked his impassioned speech towards the end. A little overwrought in the performance but he carries it off pretty well, and very well written.

 

[Kryton]

The new film is a downer and I'm sure that was the point showing the futility of war and all that, I guess most of the time you really can't go back home as they say.

I was born in late 1962...and in the mid'80s I was more into the fantastic (Star Trek, Star Wars, Back to the Future, et.al.) than the nihilistic nastiness of the Rambos which, frankly, since I thought (and still do think) Stallone was incapable of delivering a performance I cared even a teeny-tiny-bit about, I was fine with missing the Rambos.

I know you're proud of not seeing them but you might be surprised by First Blood (the first Rambo movie), it probably isn't what you're thinking and I thought Stallone is really good in it.

I don't think "proud" is the term as much as "disinterested in both the subject matter and the lead performer".

Never saw Copland, either. <shrug>

 

[zakkrusz]

Rambo was a cut above most action flicks I've seen, and I'm a fan of action flicks. Also it's filled with such manly awesome-ness and pure testosterone that it accelerates your beard growth while watching it and makes you crave a huge bacon double cheeseburger.

 

[Harvey]

Most of the action scenes were well done, but the movie was extremely thin on characterization for everyone except for the title character.

 

[Captain Craig]

Superman you got your old username back from the Captain something switch, yeah for you!

On topic, sorry you didn't like the movie I loved it.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

The new film is a downer and I'm sure that was the point showing the futility of war and all that, I guess most of the time you really can't go back home as they say.

I was born in late 1962...and in the mid'80s I was more into the fantastic (Star Trek, Star Wars, Back to the Future, et.al.) than the nihilistic nastiness of the Rambos which, frankly, since I thought (and still do think) Stallone was incapable of delivering a performance I cared even a teeny-tiny-bit about, I was fine with missing the Rambos.

I know you're proud of not seeing them but you might be surprised by First Blood (the first Rambo movie), it probably isn't what you're thinking and I thought Stallone is really good in it.

I don't think "proud" is the term as much as "disinterested in both the subject matter and the lead performer".

Never saw Copland, either. <shrug>

I think there's a bit of pride there, if you were really disinterested you wouldn't be posting here.

 

[biotech]

Pretty much, if I posted in every thread about a program of film I dont watch and have no intention of watching, I'd have twice my post count..

 

[ktanner3]

I don't think Stallone said he wanted to make a popcorn flick with John Rambo. In his chat at AICN he said he wanted to show realistic wounds in a time of war. And I'm not sure the shit that takes place in Burma is that far from reality, btw.

He said that if anything he downplayed the violence because if he showed everything that was going on in Burma in the film would get an NC-17 or X.

Rambo 4 is a brilliant action movie. The last 15 minutes is one of the best action scenes I've ever seen. It's action porn. The rape and pillage of the Karen village is one of the most horrifying things Ive ever seen on film. Stalone felt he had a duty to show what was going on in Burma, and man did he wake some people up. This is a movie about standing up to horror and evil. The message of the film is that pacifism only gets you so far. If really want to stop tyranny you have to be willing to fight and die for it. This a movie for guys who like seeing other guys kick ass and chew bubble gum.

It's like he made a check list off all the types of evil people:
-Rapists: Check
-Murderers: Check
-Child molesters: Check
-Communists: Check
-Torturers: Check

So that when he kills them in the most GLORIOUS of fashion it becomes all the more satisfying.

Watching the behind the scenes stuff was very telling. The guy who played the main bad guy was actually a former Karen rebel and felt that this film needed to be made to get the message out. Even if it meant the government killing his relatives back in Burma. Also the film is a huge hit with the Karens(big surprise) and they have used it to bring many to their cause.

And to the post who thought the last scene was like a video game: You need to see Hard Boiled, Shoot Em Up, and Commando. Trust me, Rambo is not nearly as over the top as they are.

Hmmm. I might have to get this on blue ray. I was never a big Rambo fan and I grew up in the 80s. But this sounds like a fresh approach. Stallone really surprised people with Rocky Balboa and Rambo.I didn't think there was anything left in those franchises to talk about.

 

[Caligula]

Hmmm. I might have to get this on blue ray. I was never a big Rambo fan and I grew up in the 80s. But this sounds like a fresh approach. Stallone really surprised people with Rocky Balboa and Rambo.I didn't think there was anything left in those franchises to talk about.

It really is a fresh approach. Thrall summed it all up really well. I wasn't much of a Rambo fan, myself, although I do love First Blood. Like with the Rocky franchise, this latest entry more than made up for the mediocrity represented by its two immediate predecessors.

 

[firehawk12]

I dunno. Rocky Balboa was a great movie, actually... Rambo? Well, it's telling that there's another Rambo in the works... it's because the stories are so generic that it's kind of easy to replicate.

 

[Cmndr J Crichton]

Did you know this movie has been banned in Myanmar(formerly Burma). Anyone caught with it could meet with an untimely end, or severly punished. Stallone was awesome, though. He proved with Rocky Balboa, and now RAMBO he can hold still his own in a movie. I was so sad one day to see all of Stallone's movies in a 5 dollar bin at Wal-Mart. However, I'm so glad he's making a comeback! He was my movie hero through-out the 80's, and through Daylight!(Yes even Demolition Man, and Judge Dredd.) I hope he makes another RAMBO film, and a new action movie with his new film deal he got from the Weinsteins(SP)

 

[firehawk12]

It's basically a propaganda film for the Karen rebels... probably like the third Rambo film was propaganda for the Taliban way back when. I'm guessing they don't watch that movie anymore though.

 

[Thrall]

It's basically a propaganda film for the Karen rebels... probably like the third Rambo film was propaganda for the Taliban way back when. I'm guessing they don't watch that movie anymore though.

That wasn't the Taliban. They were created from refuges in Pakistan by Pakistani Intelligence. Most of those guys in the film became The Northern Alliance.

I've often heard the main complaint about this film is that "it has no plot!" You want a plot? In a Rambo movie? Really? Have you not seen any of the other ones? These are movies about kick ass army commando shit and big explosions and killing communists by the truck-load. If you want a plot, go watch The Borne movies(which lets be honest here, is the same movie done three times).

Screw natural male enhancement and Hair Club for Men. This movie is so manly that just one screening will put hair on your chest and make your cock grow by 10 inches. So ladies, you probably shouldn't watch this movie because that would really suck if that happened to you. Just a warning.