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RAMBO 5 finally underway

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Staying with the old franchise theme word is out that RAMBO 5 is now underway. Seems John will finally be fighting close to home this time.
Nu Image/Millennium Films has officially given the go-ahead for a fifth installment in the "Rambo" film franchise says Variety.
The story revolves around Rambo fighting his way through human traffickers and drug lords to rescue a young girl abducted near the U.S.-Mexico border.
Like last year's fourth entry "Rambo", Sylvester Stallone will star and direct. Shooting is slated to kick off next Spring.
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I like it. With all the drug trafficking and kidnapping news kicked even higher the last few years this makes for a good Rambo at home story. Fighting the good fight here.
 
While Stallone has really surprised me the last few years, and I admittedly thought doing a fourth Rambo was a bad idea...at least until I saw that first internet released trailer...and then it turned out to be awesome...I'm gonna' say that a 5th one is a bad idea.

I thought it honourable that he was doing two really great films to seemingly book end a phase of his life and career. Now he's just sucking the tit dry.
 
T'Baio said:
While Stallone has really surprised me the last few years, and I admittedly thought doing a fourth Rambo was a bad idea...at least until I saw that first internet released trailer...and then it turned out to be awesome...I'm gonna' say that a 5th one is a bad idea.

I thought it honourable that he was doing two really great films to seemingly book end a phase of his life and career. Now he's just sucking the tit dry.
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If he goes back to the Rocky well again, I would definitely agree.

But Rambo has never exactly been high art to begin with, so if he wants to keep churning THOSE ones out, then I'm perfectly fine with it.

Hopefully this time he'll have a slightly bigger budget though. As much as I loved the last one, it was obvious he didn't really have much to work with. Just when the story demanded a huge, kickass finale... it just sort of ended with him shooting everyone from the back of a jeep. lol
 
I doubt it'll be anywhere as violent as the last Rambo. The producer, Avi Lerner (whose credits for the majority of his career include such winners as the Cyborg Cop, American Ninja, Shark Attack, U.S. Seals and Operation Delta Force franchises), seems convinced that the last Rambo movie would've done better had it been PG-13, which is a reason The Expendables might be PG-13.
 
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II don't really care about Rambo, I just hope he's done with Rocky because they ended it on a high note.
 
"Rambo 6 - Rambo rescues an old woman from a convenience store, and has to kill his way out when he finds out the elderly woman has been short changed! Join Rambo as he kills his way out of Wal*Mart, ensuring Dotty get's what she deserves - £1.14."
 
Cky said:
"Rambo 6 - Rambo rescues an old woman from a convenience store, and has to kill his way out when he finds out the elderly woman has been short changed! Join Rambo as he kills his way out of Wal*Mart, ensuring Dotty get's what she deserves - £1.14."
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I'm In :techman: :D
 
Cky said:
"Rambo 6 - Rambo rescues an old woman from a convenience store, and has to kill his way out when he finds out the elderly woman has been short changed! Join Rambo as he kills his way out of Wal*Mart, ensuring Dotty get's what she deserves - £1.14."
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I'd watch this, then buy the unrated DVD.
 
Cky said:
"Rambo 6 - Rambo rescues an old woman from a convenience store, and has to kill his way out when he finds out the elderly woman has been short changed! Join Rambo as he kills his way out of Wal*Mart, ensuring Dotty get's what she deserves - £1.14."
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Will there be action figures?

JonathonWally said:
I'd watch this, then buy the unrated DVD.
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Precisely. Everything these days seems to have two cuts.
 
^ The unrated cut DVD won't have any of the special features on it that the theatrical cut DVD has, and then they'll release the ultimate edition DVD... with some new special features, but conveniently leaving out a few of the original special features.
 
Rocky Balboa was the best film in the series since the first, and perhaps the only other film in the series that had something interesting to say. Rambo (IV) on the other hand was just...another John Rambo movie. But I suppose Sly has to make money somehow.
 
Rambo 4 was awesome because he used the violence to make an artistic and political statement. He was asked to tone it down by the studio but refused because he thought that to water-down what really goes on in Burma, and in the act of war, just wouldn't have been honest intellectually and artistically. And kudos to him for doing that. He ended up making a modern action movie classic. Because that film was way more deep then it had any right to be.

That being said, they should not make another one. The last one was so genre-defining, that it would be impossible to top it. It was the perfect end for the character. They'd end up with another Rambo 3 or Die Hard 4. Especially if they decide to tone down the violence.

The funny thing is this plot was going to be the one used in the last one, but Stallone turned it down because he wanted something that felt more like the first two.
 
Thrall said:
Rambo 4 was awesome because he used the violence to make an artistic and political statement. He was asked to tone it down by the studio but refused because he thought that to water-down what really goes on in Burma, and in the act of war, just wouldn't have been honest intellectually and artistically. And kudos to him for doing that. He ended up making a modern action movie classic. Because that film was way more deep then it had any right to be.
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:techman: Right on!

I'm in for another no matter what. Even if it should suck, Rambo 4 was STILL entirely awesome.
 
Can he beat the crap out of Karl Rove and Dick Cheney in this one? Or can they at least be collateral damage?

--Ted
 
Chrisisall said:
Thrall said:
Rambo 4 was awesome because he used the violence to make an artistic and political statement. He was asked to tone it down by the studio but refused because he thought that to water-down what really goes on in Burma, and in the act of war, just wouldn't have been honest intellectually and artistically. And kudos to him for doing that. He ended up making a modern action movie classic. Because that film was way more deep then it had any right to be.
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:techman: Right on!

I'm in for another no matter what. Even if it should suck, Rambo 4 was STILL entirely awesome.
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Yeah, I mean the rape and pillage of the rebel village was probably one of the most disturbing things I've ever seen on screen. And the end battle when he gets on THE FUCKING .50 CAL FOR THE EPIC WIN was almost iconic. That whole scene was the type of scene Michael Bay wishes he could direct on his best day.

Me and friends went in laughing and preparing to make fun of it when we went and saw it. Because after Part 3, it had kind of become a pop culture joke. But no one was laughing after the film was done. We were kind of in shock, trying to take in all we had just seen.
 
Sweet. I'm definitely looking forward to seeing Rambo blowing away drug lords on the Mexican border. That was originally an idea for the fourth movie.

Rambo IV might not have been high art but it was beautifully shot and the battle at the end was one of the best action scenes shot, period.
 
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