Rambo

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By JIM SLOTEK

The word "bloodbath" tends to get thrown around at every garden-variety onscreen massacre these days.

That said, Rambo is the closest you will experience to a churning soak in a Jacuzzi full of Type O-negative.

I didn't think to start counting when the movie started, but there are literally dozens of heads blown clean off in loving closeup. Every time a landmine blows, it sprays a blood-red geyser. Arms and legs are hacked away. People are fed to pigs. Our hero disembowels a bad guy and lets him roll downhill, his entrails flapping around like abdominal dreadlocks.

http://www.torontosun.com/Entertainment/Columnists/Slotek_Jim/2008/01/25/4793263-sun.html

Sounds pretty violent. I'm not sure if this is a wait-for-video movie or not but I will definitely see it at some point

Shouldn't be any more explicit than say 300 or APOCALYPTO. I love the RAMBO concept, with so much outdoor photography in the series. This new one looks good from the trailer, but haven't read any reviews yet on the story, and how well it's "executed". But hey, we're talking Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo here. Enough said. ACTION FILLED FUN.

-LH (The Loverboy)

NC-17

My dad keeps asking me when this will hit DVD. lol

I've had 2 friends tell me they wanna go see it this weekend and these guys haven't been to a cinema in years! :p

Hey it's Rambo, it's not going to be a movie with an incredible plot or anything. It's just fun seeing Rambo again as it was to see Rocky last year and Indiana Jones (obviously Harrison Ford) in a few months.

Good call Falcon - try to see it in a theater with DTS sound if available in your (Canadian) area.

-LH (The Loverboy)

How do you dare to compare Rambo and Rocky with Indy??? You crazy??

Hey I grew up with all these characters so they are ALL special to me

I can't wait for Indiana Jones though and I'm excited about Star Trek too. The hardest movie will be to watch The Dark Knight though

EDIT: Sorry it won't be hard to watch it but I think you know I mean.

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Uh oh... just read my USA Today newspaper, and the reviewer is giving it 1 star (out of 4)...

"This RAMBO is way off-target. Stallone's latest fires and misses." - Claudia Puig

93 minutes, Directed by Sylvester Stallone
Rated R - for strong graphic bloody violence, sexual assaults, grisly images and language

-LH (The Loverboy)

Wasn't USA today the same newspaper that said Land of the Dead was a good film? Their opinion is pretty much worthless.

Well, I saw it today and yes it was graphic but I loved it. I am a big Rambo fan and this is a great movie if you like war movies. Although Rambo doesn't do all of this himself this time...not going to give anything away iif it really matters. I would recommend it to you all.

P.S. I thought it had a perfect ending.

Thanks for the review. For a RAMBO-type action film, I'm sure it delivers the "goods".

-LH (The Loverboy)

I wonder if flea markets will start selling Rambo survival knives again? I had one when i was a kid and it had the big compass on the handle and survival gear inside the handle! We used to play rambo everyday after school at a near by forest. NC 17 my a** I watched Rambo and carried a Rambo Knife on my belt when I was 10 yrs old!

[Post edited by Ironbull on Jan 25, 2008]

Have any of you guys seen Rambo yet? I just read this review posted yesterday on IMDB.com...

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Mick LaSalle in the San Francisco Chronicle acknowledges that he provides "a straight-ahead action film that makes the first 30 minutes of Saving Private Ryan look like a debutante ball.

Wow. Keep in mind it has received some pretty bad reviews but some that weren't so bad also.

I just found this fantastic comment on there also...

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The Los Angeles Daily News's Glenn Whipp writes, "Interestingly, the relative absence of this kind of action movie in recent years makes the new Rambo something of a curio that will satisfy genre enthusiasts whose taste for (first) blood cannot be quenched by costumed pansies like Spider-Man."

LOL. How true.

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Falcon01, as I said in my last post, I saw it and loved it.

Feature - STALLONE ON A MISSION
(from the latest issue of Time magazine)

"In a film like RAMBO, the more he speaks, the less interesting he is. It's much harder to play than ROCKY." - Sylvester Stallone

[a few article excerpts] -

What he wanted to say in the new RAMBO came down to one smart speech: "Old men start wars. Young men fight them. And everyone in the middle gets killed. War is natural. Peace is an accident. We're animals." Stallone eventually CUT all that dialogue out because Rambo is a silent man, and blurting out your thesis is for college papers, not movies.

No one remembers this, but FIRST BLOOD, the first Rambo movie, about a Vietnam vet with massive posttraumatic stress disorder who winds up shooting up a small American town, is an antiwar movie. The second Rambo--the glossy action movie loved by many, including President Reagan--is about a vet who goes back to Vietnam and wins, freeing a bunch of POWs.

The new Rambo is supposed to be back in the antiwar camp. "What I was trying to say is that nothing changes. The world will never come together and say we are one," Stallone says. "Rambo thought he would have accomplished something with all he's given. I think about the lifelong police officer who retires after 50 years, and crime is up. He's gotten hurt, he's lost his wife, and what has he accomplished? Crime is up."

The world, Rambo realizes, is perpetually chaotic and dangerous. "If you think people are inherently good, you get rid of the police for 24 hours--see what happens," Stallone says. "I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned."

Unlike the rest of Hollywood, Stallone was smart enough to make an antiwar movie that's not about the Middle East. And of course, the futility of war isn't what you think about when you're watching an hour of bad-guy heads popping off in the latest Rambo, the most violent of the series. In fact, it's not even what Avi Lerner, one of the film's producers, saw in it. "This is the Rambo that makes America feel good about what he's doing." Lerner says. "This time it's a Rambo that's saving the world."

Playing a guy who acts with only his eyes and his biceps is hard than playing a fast-talking, earnest boxer, especially on a 61-year-old body. Which was one of the reasons Stallone wanted to do it. He pumped up to a freakish 209 lbs (95 kg) - in Rambo II he weighed only 168 lbs (76 kg). And, he insists, he did it without steroids, though with the help of a prescription testosterone.

"HGH [human growth hormone] is nothing. Anyone who calls it a steroid is grossly misinformed," he says. "Testosterone to me is so important for a sense of well-being when you get older. Everyone over 40 years old would be wise to investigate it because it increases the quality of your life. Mark my words. In 10 years it will be over the counter." He was in such great shape, it freaked out his co-star, Julie Benz. "I'm a runner. I sprint. And I'm extremely competitive. And he blew past me every time. And he doesn't run at all. He's that focused," she says.

So the meaning of RAMBO, really, comes just from the act of making it. "This was a physical tour de force," Stallone says. David Morrell, who wrote the movel that Rambo is based on, says Stallone has been thinking of the character this way for years. "Sly phoned me two years ago and said he thought [the postmovie] Rambo would be working with scrap metal from the Vietnam era, and the metaphor was that he's a salvager and was trying to salvage his life. Sly is very big on metaphors," he says.

After RAMBO, Stallone is considering remaking DEATH WISH.

For more details...

> RAMBO (2008) on IMDB (Internet Movie DataBase)

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Falcon siad,

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EDIT: Sorry it won't be hard to watch it but I think you know I mean.

Yeah, that whole Heath Leadger thing will be in the back of my mind as well.

man this was a fun movie... I loved it! get ya popcorn ready! jeez best action movie ive seen in a long time, graphic! I cant believe it isnt NC-17 ....let the bodys hit the floor, is a under statement!

Scionguy05... a friend called me today and said the movie is awesome, but very graphic, and recommended I see it. I'd read on IMDB that Stallone had cast another actor for the late Richard Crenna's role (seen in all 3 previous films), but then decided to omit the character before shooting RAMBO. Instead, my friend said there are a few "flashbacks" to previous scenes that Crenna filmed for the other movies.

I'm going to go see it this week, and look forward to the eventual Blu-ray release too. For HD-DVD fans, it will probably appear on non-N.American editions, just like the other 3 RAMBO films are out on HD-DVD now, in both Australian and European editions, and can be ordered from the USA's Xploited Cinema (Ohio).

-LH (The Loverboy)

I went to see it yesterday with some friends. I have NEVER seen a mainstream movie in a theater with so much violence. Man, it was to the point to where it was actually kinda funny. I thought I was watching Stallone's version of "Story of Ricky". If anyone is familar with the Soldier of Fortune games on XBOX this is the film equivalent. 90 minutes of dismemberments and full body explosions (not to mention, about five exploding heads). My friend said the body count was counted on some web-site as being somewhere around 356.

Tears of the Sun was pretty violent. Maybe not as much as Rambo but the fact that it was that countries army doing terrible things to it's own people. The Burmese Army was doing most of the killing.

Love Hendrix- i will buying this movie, hopefully they have a nice dvd set with all the rambos! HOpefully in hd! and if its in blu ray ill have to get a blu ray player lol, i was thinking of geting a combo player anyways, there is alot of war epics i want in my collection that just arnt out in hddvd, but rambo is a must see in theathers, Everyone in the theather was giving a bunchs of ewww's and ooooo's lol

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Well I caught Rambo saturday night at 7:30pm, there was only about 20 people total in the theater and I can see why...

As far as action this is the best of the series, but everything leading up to it is just a blur, and extremely forgettable. I was so let down by it, and had to come home and watch First Blood to remember what a good Rambo movie was like.

5 out of 10.

Rambo pulled in a healthy $18.2 million over the weekend (20 years after the third installment in the franchise), right behind the $18.7 million of the spoof movie Meet the Spartans.

USA Today made the following report today...

RAMBO May Fire Up Another Sequel

To quote John Rambo, "Nothing's over!" After the fourth installment of the Rambo franchise did well at the box office over the weekend, Harvey Weinstein, one of the film's executive producers, starting talking about another sequel. Weinstein has had conversations with producer Avi Lerner and Sylvester Stallone about a fifth film. One idea: Return Rambo to the USA.

-LH (The Loverboy)

I don't know how many of you have seen Hot Shots Part Deux, the one that parodies Rambo. During the final battle sequence when Rambo is mowing down soldier after soldier. All I could think about was the scene from Hot Shots where Charlie Sheen is killing a bunch of soldiers and there's a little counter that's keeping score and finally it reads "BLOODIEST MOVIE EVER".

Blu-ray Disc Cover and Pics...


















-JIMI LOVE (the Voodoo Child)

Hendrix, your great man.
I cannot wait to own this! John Rambo certainly ranks up there with the best for me. Even though this movie will suck!

Sidenote-"How in the hell do you post a topic on dvd town,I have a good one as taken from Home Theater magazine about the PS3 and how it is still the best bluray player to get".

-blade

Hey blade... yeah, I got my copy of Home Theater Mag about 4 days ago, and read the same great review about the PS3 (40GB model), and considered posting excerpts here as well (but have been lazy). The magazine's website will eventually add it, but usually they take a few weeks.

For starting a New Thread Topic... click on the "Message Board" link (above menu, right side), then select the -proper category- that will relate to the subject of your new thread (News, New on DVD/Blu-ray etc, Equipment, Everything Else, etc), then at the top of those already linked threads you will see a link to start a new topic... <click on those words, and then (1) provide a brief subject in the top line, then (2) post your complete message in the main body like always). Then others can post responses (if interested).

Forgot... you HAVE to be logged in (of course).

-JIMI LOVE (the Voodoo Child)

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I saw this in the theater. It is by far the bloodiest of the Rambo films, but I loved it and I will be purchasing it the day it is released.

FYI... Update

> Amazon RAMBO pre-order price lowered to $22.95 - now $5 less than the previously discounted price ($27.95)

And I'm hoping Amazon will offer a special 'combo' price (w/the 3-film Trilogy Box Set), to save even more. Arrives May 27.




-JIMI LOVE (the Voodoo Child)

Interesting Blu-ray news....



We've heard previously about the heavy violence for the recent JOHN RAMBO (4th film). Now, it's learned that, in Germany, Warner is releasing TWO versions on Blu-ray, one of which is mentioned as being "Uncut" according to THIS REPORT -

Rambo fans will be interested to see Warner releasing not one, but two versions of the recent Rambo movie. While you could opt for the standard John Rambo, it seems that Amazon has an exclusive limited Steel Book Uncut edition for the same price - John Rambo (Uncut, exklusiv bei Amazon im limitierten Steel Book inklusive Tattoo). This title has only just been announced and it is already ranked 33 in DVD! Being a Warner release, very high chance it is coded for all regions. This title is due June 27th, the standard edition will follow June 29th.

So, there is another BD edition of RAMBO to consider purchasing. This is a similar situation to video releases of the Sony James Bond film, Casino Royale. Most BD editions have been the PG-13 version, however there also exists a longer "Rated R" version - released uncut on BD in Australia, Japan, Germany, and the (Scandinavia) areas of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. It's slightly longer (22 seconds) but does not have the numerous cuts/edits of the theatrical edition! Sony has not yet released this uncut edition on DVD or Blu-ray in North America (to my knowledge).

Click on the link above, and scroll down to the bottom of the page to view all of the numerous differences in violence between the PG-13 theatrical version, and the uncut "Rated R" version of Casino Royale.

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-JIMI McLovin (the Voodoo Child)

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Another UPDATE...



> John Rambo UNCUT (German Blu-ray), Limited 'Steel Book' edition - now listed on Amazon's German website, and arrives 1 month (June 27) after the Region A release (May 27).

Since this title in Germany is released to video by Warner Brothers, it's likely to be "Region ALL" (non-locked), so then could be viewed on any Blu-ray player worldwide. I also checked the UK edition, but it's controlled by Sony, so will probably not be this "uncut" version coming to Germany ['uncut' is not mentioned in the UK listing, nor on the cover pic]. Will post more details later, when known.



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-JIMI McLovin (the Voodoo Child)

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