who else is ready for... Rambo 4 !

igotid88

TrixieCat wrote:

There were 3 others???? :eek:
I saw the preview on a dvd and thought...this is nuts! I don't think I saw any of them.
But this one looked "interesting".

Really? I wanna see it.

faithful227

sigh eternally wrote:

IT RULED.

mindless death. there is no redeeming quality to this movie. no romance, no political message. Rambo just goes out and kills. it's so over the top... i was rolling in the aisle laughing/crying because it's beyond stupid. the jungle becomes a human slaughterhouse for John Rambo.

My thoughts exactly. Thought I was the only one who actually laughed.

sponger

Saw it tonight on DVD and also found myself laughing towards the end when the violence becomes almost cliche, were it not also unbelievably graphic.

It's like the writers just said hey let's throw in everything that we can possibly think of, and to make it all fit they had to toss out about 99% of the script.

But, as I watched some of the more horrific scenes involving genocide, child molestation, gang rapes, and babies being burned alive, I remembered an interview with Sly I saw when the movie was being released.

He mentioned that he intentionally kept those scenes as real as possible because he didn't want there to be any misconceptions about just how bad it really is over there right now as we speak.

So, in contradiction to an earlier post in this thread, there definitely is a political message to this movie in spite of its obvious gratuitously violent overtones.

And that message is that if the US really gave a rat's ass about freedom and not just about the oil that's underneath arab dictators, then shit like what's going on in Burma wouldn't be need to be shown in a Rambo flick just to get it to the masses.

Sly also mentioned that Rambo is an atheist because he's lost all hope in man. So, I guess it's safe to say that Sly is one of those confused individuals who think religion has anything to do with real hope. If anything, atheism is synonymous with hope for mankind because the basis for atheism is that man is capable of being moral without believing in fairy tales.

Great fuggen flick. I give it 2 thumbs up.

And, I wonder if anyone noticed the Audie Murphy reference. After all, Rambo's single-handed massacre is how Audie won the Medal of Honor in WWII. He jumped on top of a burning tank, manned the .50 cal machine for a good 20 minutes, and single-handedly stopped an entire German advance that almost certainly would've overrun his outfit. This was in spite of taking a wound to the leg.