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Post by 4barrelhemi on Jan 27, 2008 4:48:13 GMT -5
Has anyone seen this? I watched it last night and I have to say it has to be one of if not the bloodiest most brutal things I've ever seen.
Nonstop action and killing from begining to end. Good story though and awareness to what goes on over in Burma.
I think Stallone did a good job and wrapped up the Rambo series very well.
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Post by mirai on Jan 27, 2008 6:23:57 GMT -5
i'll probably go and see it when it comes out over here in England
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Post by vitaman2007 on Jan 27, 2008 8:55:36 GMT -5
Totally psyched to see this. Won't miss this one.
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Post by The Never Dead on Jan 27, 2008 10:19:15 GMT -5
I want to see this badly. I don't go to theaters to see movies often but I'm very stoked about going to see Rambo.
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Post by gopher in heat on Jan 27, 2008 11:40:16 GMT -5
I also have been anticipating this one, especially after all of the great buzz and good reviews. I'll probably be seeing it this week.
Oh and 4barrelhemi, Stallone has said a few times now that the Rambo series will probably continue. He wants to make 2 more if memory serves me.
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Post by Shpoo on Jan 27, 2008 15:05:19 GMT -5
I just got back from watching this one and I've officially forgiven Stallone for Demolition Man and Rambo III! ;D The ending was very well played. After the cheer inducing slaughter of the Burmese militants, the bit that followed was kind of sobering. Both the novel and movie First Blood (and even to some extent the second movie) did a great job of showing how ugly was can be without making a statement of right or wrong. I'm glad this one went a similar route. I also loved how they portrayed the baddies in this as cowardly and how the abandoned the one man army theme. It was also a very smart move shying away from places that are in the news and setting the film in somewhere that'll probably still be relevant in the same sense that it is today 50 years from now. LOVED the use of the old Jerry Goldsmith score. Dug the short flashback. Great movie. Here's a pretty good review: youtube.com/watch?v=oGlk244VjAQ
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Post by drwynn on Jan 28, 2008 21:14:17 GMT -5
RAMBO was awesome...I can't even put into words how much I enjoyed the film and was surprised by how well done it was. Stephen Romano posted a bulletin on this film on MySpace and he raved about it. I wrote this response to him (pardon the wordiness of this post); Totally dead on with your review of "RAMBO". I was so geeked out to see this film, I went to the 10:30am showing on Friday. Going into the film, I had such high hopes for this final, hello and farewell to John Rambo...I viewed this film as an opporunity for redemption of sorts. Mainly because I didn't care that much for "Rambo III"...and also, because after seeing "Rocky Balboa" and reading tons of interviews with Stallone regarding his last Rocky and the new Rambo films, I saw that this actor/writer/director understands what the characters he created in Rocky and Rambo mean. Not just to the fans of the films, not just to movie geeks, but to mainstream American culture. What they mean as film icons, pop culture heroes, and to the very fabric of American film history. After seeing "Rocky Balboa", I knew that Stallone wanted to send out these two icons out in a way he saw fit...in films with personal messages...whatever they may be. "Rambo" totally lived up to my expectations. I loved that Stallone allowed Rambo to evolve...I loved that Stallone understood that the character had to be different...that he allowed Rambo to be a hulking, ox of a man with close to no soul or humanity left in him. I loved that Stallone understood that Rambo had to finally accept his destiny and come to terms with who he was before he was finally allowed to try to find peace within himself and within his reality. And once the action got going in the film, good Lord...was it incredible. It was war and brutality as it really exists in this world...it was the atrocity and savagery of murder, torture, rape, and decimation as it would actually appear...not the glossed-over version we see in so many "Die Hards" and "Lethal Weapons" (even though I am fond of both of those series as well...but, for different reasons). I loved that Stallone understood how important it was to utilize and take advantage of the compassion, sadness, and beauty of Jerry Goldsmith's original "Rambo" theme when constructing the musical score for the new film. I loved that Stallone wrote a script that actually had a message about what he thinks of the world, war, the men used to act in these wars...and the state of the world. Critics are panning the film tremendously; saying things like Rambo has no REAL reason to go into Burma...saying that Stallone is the ultimate hypocrite for embracing violence in the 80s and now turning his back on it in the 2000s. But, I read an interview with Stallone on www.aintitcoolnews.com, and in it he said something about how the politicians and spokespeople for Burma spend millions of dollars in the U.S. every year trying to put a positive PR spin on the genocidal atrocities being committed in that country...and I have to wonder, is that why the critics now seem to "hate" Rambo? Or is it because of the fact that Rambo/Stallone seem to be saying that violence is ugly and horrible and brutal...no matter what the reasons are for committing it...and that when you do these awful things, it changes you forever; it turns young men with hope in their eyes into empty, soulless shells of men...and that message isn't as popular now that we're fighting a war against God knows who in a country in the Middle East for reasons we can only guess about. I can't begin to understand why critics hate the film so much...but, I have to say, I thought it was tremendous...and I'm recommending it to as many people as I can.
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Post by bcg1969 on Jan 28, 2008 22:12:58 GMT -5
^ well put .\m/.
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Post by 4barrelhemi on Jan 29, 2008 0:49:22 GMT -5
very well put !! I don't care what the criitcs have to say.
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Post by drwynn on Jan 29, 2008 16:02:44 GMT -5
Thanks for the kudos everyone...makes a newbie like me feel very welcome!
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Post by The Never Dead on Jan 29, 2008 17:31:19 GMT -5
Critics are irrelevant to me. I'd rather hear what fellow peers have to say than that thingy Roger Ebert.
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Post by vitaman2007 on Jan 29, 2008 19:32:33 GMT -5
Thanks for the kudos everyone...makes a newbie like me feel very welcome! Good review. I'll be seeing this Thursday. As for the critics(most not ALL), they're cut from a certain cloth and have a specific agenda, and if the movie doesn't fit their world perspective, they personally attack it. Being independent, this stuff stands out like a sore thumb, especially on most network tv and virtually all cable news networks. I canned my cable because of it.
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Post by Shpoo on Jan 29, 2008 21:02:31 GMT -5
I can't begin to understand why critics hate the film so much...but, I have to say, I thought it was tremendous...and I'm recommending it to as many people as I can. I can see why some people (who don't like that much reality in their action movies) wouldn't like it, but I think most people just automatically react to it being a Rambo movie. Most of them have probably only seen the movie posters for the previous entries or watched Rambo III.
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Post by vitaman2007 on Jan 31, 2008 21:08:49 GMT -5
Holy guacafuhkinmole!
This movie was freakin' awesome.
Stallone created a masterpiece.
He gave hints of a certain direction the movie could have gone, but sacrificed it for the sheer concept of the "brutality of war".
The village scene had me choked up. But the pay off was right around the corner. It's you and Rambo, destroying evil, by becoming evil.
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