Re: Rambo

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!

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[Post edited by Ironbull on Jan 25, 2008 - CST 11:08 PM]

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

Quote: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...

Quote: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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[Post edited by Falcon01 on Jan 26, 2008 - CST 10:14 AM]

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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[Post edited by Love Hendrix! on Jan 26, 2008 - CST 6:45 PM]

duplication error

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[Post edited by Love Hendrix! on Jan 26, 2008 - CST 6:17 PM]

duplication error

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[Post edited by Love Hendrix! on Jan 26, 2008 - CST 6:17 PM]

Falcon siad,
Quote: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!