Posted on 01/24/2008 5:04:04 AM PST by Callahan
....It's pretty likely that some people will be heartily offended by Rambo; once again an American hero is mowing down hordes of brown skinned people who have no redeeming qualities or humanity. The leader of the Burmese troops is not only a killer and an %#%^!, he's a gay pedophile! I believe the guy had a mustache but I don't remember it being twirled. But the fact is nobody expects - or wants - reality or complexity in a Rambo movie. Hell, one of the main themes of this movie is that killing is necessary, and missionaries who spend the whole film bemoaning Rambo's penchant for violence wind up visiting bloody revenge on their captors. And everybody in the audience cheers. The Rocky films are feel good stories of uplift (when they're done right) but the Rambo movies are, at their best, guttural cries of hate and rage. They're almost refutations of the hopefulness of the Rocky movies. John Rambo is a character who hasn't met a situation that can't be solved by blowing !$@#$@ to hell, and that's what we like about him. I will probably never stand behind a 50 cal and reduce another human being to red goo, but I love seeing Rambo doing it in my stead....
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I want to see this bad! I understand his next is a reprise of Death Wish which should make the libs unhappy also!
It will be rerun several times!
Another movie to go see while I munch popcorn.
I see none of the movies I paid money to go see this past year are in the Oscar hunt.
FWIW, Savage went to see it last week and had Stallone on the show. Sounds good so far!
Oooh, I gotta see this one! :)
Folks, that's code-speak for find a way to blame the US.
Meh... Stallone in anything is automatically relegated to “renter” status for me.
I’ve been reading about these “brown Skinned People” alot lately and how us big bad white people are really putting these poor “Brown Skinners” down.
“Brown Skinned People” seems to be the latest phrase du jour for our current crop of so-called journalists.
Well Stallone came though bigtime with the last Rocky which I though was great so I believe he will come through with this as well.
Who’s laughing now Hollywood huh?
Ah, George Hamilton.
What ever made that guy famous I have no idea.
Is he in many movies?
I know of him well, I just have no clue as to why.
I see him in television commercials.
I’m still waiting for Rambo XIV.
John trapped in the VA retirement home has to out wit and out fight nurse Rachet and the evil liberal protestors who have a “right” to protest outside his window.
Spoiler, using a catheter and common household ingredients
john defeats nurse Rachet and goes on to lay waste to the worthless peacenik scum.
Found the poster for it. Put it at post 19.
“He said it was more because he thought it would have been an insult to our guys who are doing the real fighting rather than nod to political correctness”
Sounds like he caved to PC.
How many movies have come out where the badguys are islamic terrorists post 9/11
Flight 93
United 93
The Kingdom
The character Rambo would have immediately traveled to America to help after 9/11
In the end of Rambo II he stayed his love for country and fellow soldiers.
Just a nitpicker.
I like Sly so I will buy the dvd.
A plot with Rambo going back to fight the Mujahadeen he helped in Rambo III would have been very interesting. If I was a billionaire, I would have financed it myself.
I totally agree. I watched Rambo II on cable last night,
This character woould have come out of hiding and went after terrorists after word of 9/11.
This movie is contradictory to the character.
I just saw it this afternoon after I went to early voting here in Florida.
Sly Stallone basically made a cinemax 3:00 AM movie on a Friday night. Zero dialouge and the violence was so extreme and over the top it made you actually look forward to hearing some people talk.
He scored huge with the Rocky Balboa comeback film. That was easily the best film made last year IMO. One of the best of the series.
But this...this was just crap. I did smile a few times during it though at the message he was showing that all of these pacifists who go to these extremes to make a humanitarian point are f-cking morons. They wound up costing the lives of so many people when they had no business going in there with books and medicine.
That part of the world is just as bad as Afghanistan during the Taliban days.
The ending...a throwback to the opening scenes of the first movie...roll credits...ummm...ok.
I so wish this movie would have been better. Why Sly chose to fight in Burma and not Al Qaeda I will never know.
WARNING WARNING WARNING - this movie has set a new level of graphic for disturbing war images....this is not just a blow 'em up movie but several lengthy, graphic and very realistic scenes of the destruction of Christian villages by a sadistic Muslim leader.
Infants and small children are not spared and are depicted being gruesomely murdered while the parents and children were crying screaming and begging for their lives.
Very uncomfortable to watch and several in the audience (males and females) shielded their eyes.
This movie should be viewed by parents before taking adolescent (no way little kids) to it. Otherwise, I liked the movie, typical Rambo theme....However, it was the incredibly dark vision of the movie that haunts.
My father in law just called to say I shouldn’t take my 11 year old stepson to this because of homosexual scenes in it. Any truth in his charges?
Actually, that’s only implied...the sadistic leader of the Burmese Brigade ignores the women (unlike the constant rape scenes of women- brief nudity) and has a young boy brought to his hut.
Nothing is really shown but implied...door closing with the two alone....later opening and the boy running back to his cage...
The rape scenes are more graphic than the norm in violent movies...
BTW, this is a very dark movie.....unlike previous Rambo’s which BTW, I usually like even if they are a little corny and over the top at times....
The blow’em up, shoot’em up scenes and blood and gore are usually no big deal....
This movie is very gritty.....I would not take an 11 year old unless he’s very mature. Even at that, you’ll have to prepare him before going and talk to him afterward.
Thanks for the advice. We went to Cloverfield instead.
Please send back a review on Cloverfield....I’ve heard mixed reviews..
“My father in law just called to say I shouldn’t take my 11 year old stepson to this because of homosexual scenes”...
I’d have thought the graphic violence was reason enough not to...I guess some folk might want to see ‘Can’t stop the music’ rated X.
What cracked me up (yeah I’m pretty de-sensitized) was that the bad guys didn’t even wait until they stopped shelling the village before they started raping the women. Stallone really, I mean really went out of his way to portray the villains as the scum of the earth, which made it all the more satisfying when ol’ John Rambo grabbed a .50 cal and spent a solid hour turning them into red applesauce. Also, I loved the British SAS guy. He should get his own movie.
Lol, that was easily the tamest part of the various atrocities in this movie. I can't imagine what's going to be in the obligatory un-cut DVD release.
Yeah...the scenes were compressed...rapes and motar shelling shown almost simultaneously but the visual eefect was both compelling and disturbing.
Unlike you, I did not find much satisfaction in the film although I agree the one former British SAS guy provided some relief in the movie.
The movie was awesome. If you have kept up with the Rambo series you will like it. It seems that those that haven’t kept up with the Rambo saga uniformly dislike the movie.
The “full circle” theme is key to understanding the plot. The tie-in to the original is very satisfying. He even looks down the road for the sherriff when he’s standing at the mailbox. This more than made up for my dissapointment with the other installments after the original. Yes the violence is over the top but the impact was calculated and well done in my opinion.
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