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7 hours ago, kalvasflam said:

Last Blood... that seems so... final.

But hey, if John Rambo kicks the bucket, that works for me.  May be we can get Die Hard: The END next.

 

7 hours ago, Chronocidal said:

You mean "Die Hardest?"

:lol: 

 

5 hours ago, Keith said:

"Dead Hard."

How about Died Hard.

Chris

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I thought John Rambo (the last one) was a great movie. It wrapped up his story in a great way.  Over the top violence and just an overall feelling of ...you know it's coming...just wait..just waiiit..and then BOOM.  He just goes OFF!  One of my favs.  I don't know if I'll see this one in the theater or not, might depend on what people say on here honestly. 

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Like Mad Max, they just couldn't leave well enough alone and have the main character disappear into the distance

 

Rambo 23 - "The Search for Rambo" (for obvious reasons they couldn't use "MIA" with copyright lasting longer than Uranium 238's half life)

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11 minutes ago, Chronocidal said:

Twenty years from now, they'll do a tie-in movie that establishes John Rambo as the genetic basis for Kurt Russell's character in Soldier. :lol: 

Throw in a tie in Dutch from Predator as another genetic template, and you've got Contra the Movie.

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Remember how the first movie was a complete repudiation of the badass American super soldier fantasy that its sequels would become? Hmmm...

The dialogue is so generic and the plot looks so generic and... I dunno, I was just really expecting more. And speaking of plot, if my assumption holds true and it's about Rambo pulling a Liam Neeson after the Mexican cartel kidnaps his American niece to sell into sex slavery... hoo boy. One look at a certain former billionaire's rap sheet would tell you an entirely different and entirely more truthful story...

But setting that aside, that really is just the most boring dialogue you could have ever put to a trailer. That's honestly the only thing what did it for me. It's so bad, in both trailers, so mind-numbing.

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7 hours ago, kajnrig said:

Remember how the first movie was a complete repudiation of the badass American super soldier fantasy that its sequels would become? Hmmm...

 

Yes.  The Jingoistic nonsense of the sequels was annoying.  The first film, though flawed, was thought provoking.  The last film (before this one) was better then the 2nd and 3rd by a long shot though.

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While the second and third Rambo movies are nothing more than typical 80s bullet porn schlock where the hero just mows down countless bad guys, specially the 3rd one, they are very entertaining for what they are.  First Blood, on the other hand, was a repudiation of the mistreatment, by arrogant and condescending civilians who just saw veterans all as vagrants, junkies, and trouble makers due to the vilification they received in the media of the time, of American servicemen returning Vietnam and trying to reintegrated into society; John Rambo was pushed into going "full Rambo" because of the dehumanization, abuse, humiliation and disdain he suffered at the hands of small minded good'ol boys, specially the holier-than-thou police chief, in a Podunk town John just wanted to pass through.

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18 hours ago, mechaninac said:

While the second and third Rambo movies are nothing more than typical 80s bullet porn schlock where the hero just mows down countless bad guys, specially the 3rd one, they are very entertaining for what they are.  First Blood, on the other hand, was a repudiation of the mistreatment, by arrogant and condescending civilians who just saw veterans all as vagrants, junkies, and trouble makers due to the vilification they received in the media of the time, of American servicemen returning Vietnam and trying to reintegrated into society; John Rambo was pushed into going "full Rambo" because of the dehumanization, abuse, humiliation and disdain he suffered at the hands of small minded good'ol boys, specially the holier-than-thou police chief, in a Podunk town John just wanted to pass through.

First Blood brought home the pain, alienation and marginalization returning Vietnam War vets were going through. What made John Rambo special in that movie was the fact that he didn't want a fight, but got pushed into it. And when he was, he didn't become the "unstoppable one man army" of the next two films, but a competent warrior fighting his enemy on his own terrain instead of theirs. Rambo could be hurt, starved, scared, you name it. But what made him perfect in First Blood was seeing the emotions that lay just under the surface brought out by how he was treated and now being hunted. And instead of "playing" as they expected, he relied upon his special forces training and honed combat instincts. In that vein, he brought the pain back upon his tormentors in a palpable way.

The 2nd and and 3rd movies...bring a squeegee.

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I have to admit I found the third movie entertaining in a way.  I laughed my butt off in the opening sequence where Colonel know it all about stealth is sneaking around in the desert with his headlights on.  I don't even remember if I watched the rest of the movie after that.  I suppose I did.

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