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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Jan 6, 2017 3:29:17 GMT -5
I'm watching it right now and I forgot how much the movie bugged me. The female lead and her compassionate speeches are irritating. Bald dude screams at Stallone for killing people that was going to murder them 20x over. Chick says f*** it you murdered them but people over there can use our help.
Makes you miss the original Rambo movie
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Post by GuyOfOwnage on Jan 6, 2017 4:58:01 GMT -5
I'm watching it right now and I forgot how much the movie bugged me. The female lead and her compassionate speeches are irritating. Bald dude screams at Stallone for killing people that was going to murder them 20x over. Chick says f*** it you murdered them but people over there can use our help. Makes you miss the original Rambo movie Nothing will top the original First Blood, but Rambo comes awfully close, especially if you've seen the director's cut. It actually redeems the series after Rambo III, and has one of the best third acts I've ever seen in these kinds of movies. And I think the humanitarian group was scripted perfectly. By the end of the movie, they understand that sometimes, violence is the only option to overcome these types of enemies.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Jan 6, 2017 10:01:34 GMT -5
It's better than II and III....but that's not saying a whole lot.
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Jan 6, 2017 10:08:11 GMT -5
Oh man I love this movie. It came out shortly after Rocky Balboa, and was a great miniature renaissance period for Stallone's most popular characters. While it ended on a satisfactory note, I'm so bummed they never continued the series after this. Although I would love to see the mercenaries again, maybe they meet the Expendables in passing?
An interesting fact, the actor that played the leader of the rebels is in real life a rebel fighting the Burmese government. In the director's commentary, Stallone explained that even though it meant certain death, the man wanted to do the movie, because Rambo has been the only time their situation has gotten any attention whatsoever.
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Post by Push R Truth on Jan 6, 2017 10:33:29 GMT -5
I liked it for very shallow reasons. It felt like a throwback ultra violent 80's/early 90's action movie
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Post by Lupin the Third on Jan 6, 2017 11:39:27 GMT -5
I liked it. I thought it was a good finale for the Rambo character.
Especially the ending.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Jan 6, 2017 11:41:50 GMT -5
I liked it. I thought it was a good finale for the Rambo character. Especially the ending. Once the action got started then the movie became good. I hated the first 20 mins as it was very preachy. The ending when he returns is good along with the people realizing that killing doesn't make you a bad person when you are involved with situations like that
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Post by Lupin the Third on Jan 6, 2017 11:44:47 GMT -5
I liked it. I thought it was a good finale for the Rambo character. Especially the ending. Once the action got started then the movie became good. I hated the first 20 mins as it was very preachy. The ending when he returns is good along with the people realizing that killing doesn't make you a bad person when you are involved with situations like that Right after they did the whole Burma Civil War news bit, my friend and I looked at each other and we're like, "And Rambo's gonna come in and kick all their asses!" I really liked the ending part with him walking down the road to his dad's. Kinda went full circle with the beginning of First Blood.
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Jan 6, 2017 12:02:25 GMT -5
I liked it. I thought it was a good finale for the Rambo character. Especially the ending. Once the action got started then the movie became good. I hated the first 20 mins as it was very preachy. The ending when he returns is good along with the people realizing that killing doesn't make you a bad person when you are involved with situations like that Indeed, I have always despised the "violence solves nothing" bullshit. Might sound good on a bumper sticker, and might make kindergartners nod in agreement, but it's nothing more than irrational rhetoric that has no application to reality.
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Jan 6, 2017 12:17:38 GMT -5
The subject matter made the film's tone too serious to work with such over-the-top violence, even for Rambo and Stallone. When he slices the evil Colonel's stomach and all his guts fall out or when he knocks a soldier down and unloads all the ammo from a giant Browning machine gun, I can only laugh at how ridiculous it looks.
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Post by brody on Jan 9, 2017 10:34:47 GMT -5
IIRC I left the theater sweating from the finale of the movie gearing me up.
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Post by Albino Heat on Jan 9, 2017 18:43:38 GMT -5
I always found it weird he takes longer to get down the driveway at the end than it takes him to outrun a bomb through the entire freaking jungle.
Good movie. I like the 80s action movie throwback feel.
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