Rambo

[bballbaby]

Well, it's sunday evening and i'm sitting on the front porch smoking a tat red angeles after a nice dinner of leftover jerk chicken and some frech hamburgers and watermelon. Nice n easy for a sunday evening. Anyhow, i picked up the much-anticipated newest edition of Rambo at the movie store. I'm really excited about this movie. I grew up with John Rambo. Even owned the survival knife with the fishing line, saw tooth cutter, compass, matches, needles, the whole bit. I was in 6th grade when it first came out, or at least thats when i remember having the knife. I got it for Christmas. Loved that thing. Anyhow, I'm about to wathc a 60+ year old Sly Stallone in his most blood letting movie yet.

I fully expect this to be a B type movie in that I suspect the blood and drama of the whole thing to be a bit over the top and even a bit hokey. I'm trying not to imagine my own 60+ year old dad doing the same type of thing. But we'll see.

Even if it is a bad movie, i owe it to John Rambo to wathc this movie for him helping make me the survivalist that i am.

I'll let ya'll know what i think.

 

[RonC]

cant wait to see it

 

[Mitch]

I was a die hard fan as a kid too, even owned the knife. However, I joined the military and learned that for what it weighed it better suited as an anchor than a cutting tool. I was still the envy of every kid on the block in high school though.

 

[bballbaby]

OK, so the movie ROCKED! I felt like a little kid the whole time. With every move i kept asking, What's Rambo gonna do now? What's he gonna do NOW!
I had heard that the movie was very visual and extremely graphic. Boy was that the truth. Never seen so many exploding heads. But it was all in context and certainly fit with the various scenes. None of it felt over dramatized.

As for the movie, the whole plot development was as you'd expect from a Sly movie. Never had to think a whole lot, kinda knew what was going to happen, all you had to do was just sit and mindlessly watch it unfold. Good thing it was only an hour and 20 minutes long.

But at the very end, Sly ties in a bit of very straight forward symbolism and we pretty much say goodbye to Rambo forever, albeit very fittingly.

What i liked about the fact that he blatently says goodbye to Rambo, this is the end, is that as i've said, i grew up with Rambo. Well, it hasn't really been an "era" for Rambo, but to see it 20 years ago and then revisit him again now that i've grown up and now that John Rambo has grown and matured, it was like old friends revisiting each other, checking in if you will. That part was really cool. The relationship was easily rekindled at the very start of the movie, it was as if i never skipped a beat with what he was all about. It was easy to connect with him.

All in all, i liked it. But again, i was a Rambo fan to begin with.

Oh, and if you watch this and you have a good surround sound system, turn it up to movie theater loud. All the gun shooting is phenomenal in surround.

 

[koolbooy]

i loved it, its action all the way through. no boring parts. good action movie, the way rambo should be!

 

[WhiteLightning]

Looks like I'm going to have to rent it now.