| Posted by: Country1969 at March 3, 2008, 12:18 am | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | Hello Everyone, It's been awhile since I posted on here. I saw Rambo and was thrilled about it. The thought of Stallone playing this part again got me thinking how the movie would turn out. I've seen most of Stallone's movies since Rocky back in 1976. I've always been a fan of his. I really loved him in Cobra back in 1986. He wrote,produced and directed most of those movies. I read somewhere, another Rambo and Rocky movie is being consider. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: CreeperBEATNGU at February 29, 2008, 11:20 pm | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by Ratlehed I really liked it. More so than 2 & 3. I thought it was good that RAMBO had help from the mercanaries. It made it a little more "realistic" than just having Rambo going in alone and killing everyone. I was surprised with all the violence and blood. That sniper rifle was bad ass. Lots of action packed around a decent story. 3/4 stars for an action movie. This and Shoot'em Up! are my fave action films of the last 5 years. What does that mean?? They need to make better action flicks. 2/4 as a movie in general. Those are two of the best action flicks period. If all you saw in this was the action, than what that means is like most, you weren't looking very closely. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Max Cady at February 29, 2008, 12:01 pm | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | WOW! this movie was amazing! way better than expected 9/10 best movie of the year so far 1: Rambo 2: Jumper 3: No Country for Old Men | | Static Link |
| Posted by: john_rambo at February 28, 2008, 3:18 am | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by gyro_44 Pretty fucking awesome actually. As straightforward as it can be, with as little plot and as much action as possible. Carnage-tastic! 7/10 is the word carnage-tastic in the disctionary? it should be | | Static Link |
| Posted by: gyro_44 at February 18, 2008, 5:08 pm | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | Pretty fucking awesome actually. As straightforward as it can be, with as little plot and as much action as possible. Carnage-tastic! 7/10 | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Ratlehed at February 10, 2008, 11:56 pm | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | I really liked it. More so than 2 & 3. I thought it was good that RAMBO had help from the mercanaries. It made it a little more "realistic" than just having Rambo going in alone and killing everyone. I was surprised with all the violence and blood. That sniper rifle was bad ass. Lots of action packed around a decent story. 3/4 stars for an action movie. This and Shoot'em Up! are my fave action films of the last 5 years. What does that mean?? They need to make better action flicks. 2/4 as a movie in general. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Bourne101 at February 10, 2008, 10:13 pm | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by Rawlin67 really? great story? i mean, i guess i can see someone liking this on entertainment aspect, but it had the most generic rambo plot yet. Well, maybe not really the story. I just felt that the whole Burma aspect of it and showing the gritty reality was quite something. It seems all we hear about today is Iraq and Afghanistan and it was interesting (but very sad) to see one of the most dangerous parts of the world that we seem to never hear about on the news. Stallone really put his heart into it and made sure that we saw the reality and I just thought that aspect of it was fantastic. That's basically what I meant. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Rawlin67 at February 10, 2008, 9:55 pm | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | really? great story? i mean, i guess i can see someone liking this on entertainment aspect, but it had the most generic rambo plot yet. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Bourne101 at February 10, 2008, 7:49 pm | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | Rambo - 9/10 Still great on the re-watch. I can see me re-watching this many times over the years to come. Such an entertaining film with a great story. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Badbird at February 8, 2008, 6:31 pm | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by ilovemovies You are kidding, right? The first one I'll give you was actually pretty dark and serious which is probably why it's the only geniunly good movie of the four movies. But the sequels are DEFINITELY cartoons, where Rambo is basically an army of one taking down an almost an entire army of people out pretty much single handedly by himself. Now in the fourth one he does have some help by the team of mercinaries but it's still way too cartoonish and outlandish for it to be taken seriously. They ARE definitely live action cartoons. He had a lot of help in Part 3 as well. They are certainly over the top, yes. But are still far more serious than most action movies from the last decade. They didn't try to be cute or hip or edgy. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: MadsenOMC at February 8, 2008, 10:54 am | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | I just watched the second one again this week. It was on either Starz or Encore during the day, and I was bored. It is definitely a live action cartoon. In fact, it works extremely well as a comedy. I laughed from start to finish. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: ilovemovies at February 8, 2008, 10:08 am | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by Badbird You know, I don't know where this idea comes from. All the Rambo movies have been much more serious than people give them credit for. First Blood was a seriously dark depiction of Post Traumatic Stress - not to mention the shitty treatment American soldiers got after Vietnam. Rambo II was about government bureaucracy fucking over the POWs it knew were left behind. Rambo III was all about Afghan genocide at the hands of the Russians. All three were fairly dark and brutal. Hardly the cartoons people think they were. This movie was appropriately dark and violent. I mean disturbingly violent. And not "feel good" violence like Shoot em Up, or even Die Hard. This is about the horrors of war - as all the Rambo movies have been. Basically it's the same plot from Rambo III: Troutman/Missionary: Come in with us. Rambo: No. Troutman/Missionary: Oh shit. We've been captured. Rambo: I'm goin' in. Everyone gets killed. The end. It didn't feel quite right without Rambo flying a... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: Shockwave at February 8, 2008, 5:41 am | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | Why do people get so upset to see kids die in these movies but not women and men? Is there some age where, once they stop becoming cute, it means less? Really, its always puzzled me. Same thing with animals. "I coulda taken the WHIOLE VILLIAGE being killed, but did they have to kill the poor puppies!?" | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Badbird at February 8, 2008, 1:56 am | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by ilovemovies SPOILERS! I'm sorry but some of the violence is very gratuitous. I really didn't need to see to KIDS being brutally killed and stabbed and all. All of this might've been fine if this was trying to be a SERIOUS movie about the subject. But get real. This is a Rambo movie. Basically a live action cartoon movie and a rather violent one. You know, I don't know where this idea comes from. All the Rambo movies have been much more serious than people give them credit for. First Blood was a seriously dark depiction of Post Traumatic Stress - not to mention the shitty treatment American soldiers got after Vietnam. Rambo II was about government bureaucracy fucking over the POWs it knew were left behind. Rambo III was all about Afghan genocide at the hands of the Russians. All three were fairly dark and brutal. Hardly the cartoons people think they were. This movie was appropriately dark and violent. I mean disturbingly violent. And not "feel good" violence like Shoot e... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: CreeperBEATNGU at February 6, 2008, 7:22 pm | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | For proof that this isn't merely some cheesy blood splattered action flick with nothing relevant to say (I especially like one line in particular that people insist is so corny being the one that's resonating the strongest)... http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080201/...anmar_rambo_dc Police in Myanmar have given DVD hawkers strict orders not to stock the new Rambo movie, which features the Vietnam War veteran taking on the former Burma's ruling military junta, a Yangon resident told Reuters on Friday. Despite the prohibition, pirated copies of the movie are widely available on the streets of the former capital, where it is fast becoming a talking point among a population eager to shake off 45 years of military rule. "People are going crazy with the quote 'Live for nothing, die for something'," one resident said, referring to the tagline of the fourth Rambo installment, which opened in the United States this week. Even though it received lukewarm reviews, it is likely to be a sure-fire hit with opponent... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: bigred760 at January 31, 2008, 4:57 pm | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | I had a really good time watching this sequel. Rambo was cool as hell, the action sequences were freakin' awesome and exciting, and the story wasn't too shabby either. Stallone definitely knows his iconic characters, even if they've been MIA (pun intended) for a few years (Rocky included). 8/10 | | Static Link |
| Posted by: CreeperBEATNGU at January 30, 2008, 8:54 pm | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | The lead two performances and the people playing the villains were perfect, the dialogue was excellent, and the action sequences were visceral, gritty, and raw...they weren't any more over the top than it would be if you held a camera in front of a battle between a Vietnam war vet and his mercenaries against a bunch of ruthless maniacs. The point of the movie was not to simply offer an 80's action movie throwback, since no 80's action film is this brutal and based upon realism; the point of the movie was to show the type of savage, unrelenting brutality that people in this part of the world have to endure on a regular basis. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: cletus66 at January 30, 2008, 6:45 pm | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | Having just seen Rambo I can see how many critics are ripping the movie apart. The acting was mediocre, the dialouge was fairly cheesy and much of the action was laughably over the top. But they are also completly missing the point of this movie. This is a throwback to 80's style action movies which in most cases had mediocre acting, cheesy dialouge and over the top action scenes. However they were still entertaining as hell. Rambo is definitely not getting any oscars but it delivered exactly what it was supposed to, John Rambo kicking some serious ass. 8.5/10 | | Static Link |
| Posted by: poopontheshoes7 at January 30, 2008, 3:35 pm | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | Holy shit...that kid was hilaroius! Is he for real? LMAO! This hasd been a sexman review...tehe. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: john_rambo at January 30, 2008, 3:25 pm | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | is it possible for someone to be a pedophile before they are 18? cause that kid might just be that... lol | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Bourne101 at January 30, 2008, 12:52 pm | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by Spidey This kid pretty sums up my thoughts about the movie : Sexman's review That kid is going to be a serial killer one day, lol. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Spidey at January 30, 2008, 12:41 pm | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | This kid pretty sums up my thoughts about the movie : Sexman's review | | Static Link |
| Posted by: CreeperBEATNGU at January 29, 2008, 11:18 pm | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | In a film about a part of the world dominated by ruthless tyrants, senseless brutality, violence against children, rape, torture, etc... there's alot of "senseless violence" Wow...go figure. There's alot of humor in comedies too, damn it I wish they'd stop that! | | Static Link |
| Posted by: john_rambo at January 29, 2008, 3:59 pm | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | did anyone go to rocky balboa and complain that there was too much boxing, | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Nivekian at January 29, 2008, 12:30 pm | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | I loved it, it was a great bookend to the series, especially the 1st and 2nd flicks. I dont understand how a movie with the title "RAMBO" is pulling in so many complaining pussies into the seats. "There was too much senseless violence" Waaaaaahhh! "There was no plot" Waaahhh! Whatever, the movie is called Rambo, you know the series reputation, this isn't f'ing Rocky! | | Static Link |
| Posted by: john_rambo at January 29, 2008, 10:29 am | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | it seems that like 90% of the people in this board love this movie... plus both reviews from this site love it... thats awesome... BRING US RAMBO 5! | | Static Link |
| Posted by: SpikeDurden at January 28, 2008, 5:07 am | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | I'm going to watch the first one for the first time very soon, and then I'll check this out in theaters this week or next. I'm not excited, but there isn't much else to see. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: yorrick brown at January 28, 2008, 4:56 am | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | SUNDAY AM: I just got off the phone with Harvey Weinstein whose Weinstein Co is co-distributing Rambo with Lionsgate, and he's remarkably bullish on Sly Stallone's prospects especially overseas. Harv estimated that Rambo, which took in $18.1 mil from 2,751 theaters its opening weekend, "will end up doing $50 mil here and $100M to $150M foreign. That's what usually happens since this franchise is really big overseas." I bet the pic doesn't even see $45 mil domestic and drops with a thud next weekend. Of course, this is just idle chatter from Harv because he doesn't own Rambo: Avi Lerner and his company, Nu Image, do and produced the film. They licensed domestic rights to Lionsgate and LGF partnered with TWC. Nu Image controls the international rights and neither TWC nor LGF have any dibs on the foreign revenue. So it's great to say that there's a ton of international potential on the film but it does not benefit LGF nor TWC one bit. But that doesn't stop Harv who is already talking sequel and even h... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: Frank the Tank at January 27, 2008, 11:06 pm | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | Aside from a few slow spots in the middle with the mercenaries, this was awesome. I think I got goosebumps at least 10 times in this movie. Spoilers Rambo ripping that dude's throat out, beheading that one guy, and killing the main baddie at the end are all tied for kill of the movie. The violence made for a few uncomfortable moments with the unrelentless attacks towards young kids. The attack early on in the movie when the Burmese army attack the townspeople and the missionary was very haunting and disturbing. Some great directing in that scene. This seriously may have been one of the most violent films I've ever seen. Way more violent than the Saw or Hostel films for example as it didn't have penises getting cut off, but just an overwhelming amount of violence piled on violence which is pretty awesome. 8.5/10 | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Rawlin67 at January 27, 2008, 10:58 pm | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by john_rambo i am afraid i am going to have to kill you teenkiller... lol but yeah... check out this chart... its the body count for all the films now look at the total kills of the first three combined... now look at the total kills in the new one... the new one has more than the first three COMBINED... thats an action movie right there. so if someone just ran around a city and shot everyone in the fucking face, then it would be a good action movie? because the body counts high? at least in the other rambos, the violence was smart and exciting, and every now and then a death was something other than a body blown to bits. really, dont mind me, im just trying to play devils advocate here to everyone loving this film. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: RellimHcaz at January 27, 2008, 8:46 pm | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | THIS MOVIE SUCKED. there was WAY WAY WAY too much violence. no one wants to see genocide! the movie was extremley short. the rape scene was unessasary. rambo didnt get enough glory, cuz it was spread out between the mercenaries. the diolague was shit! (i guess that wuz expected.) YOU DONT FEEL FOR ANY OF THE CHARACTERS EXCEPT THE VILLIAGERS! 3/10. the only reason i gave it a 3 wuz because it wuz awsome when john rambo shot all the guys with his bow and arrow. that was great. i missed the trailers, which ones did they show? | | Static Link |
| Posted by: m_burlock at January 27, 2008, 7:14 pm | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | 7.5/10 I found Rambo to be lop-sided. It was boring, boring, and then KA-BOOOOOOM!!!! Ya know? I enjoyed the ultra violence, but I think it should've been spread out evenly over the whole film, and not all lumped together like it was. I understand the giving the film some heart. I'm not saying it shouldn't have had it. I'm just saying that having balance between the two would've made for a better action film let alone a better film. More ass kicking and one liners from Stallone would have made it better too. But I guess I was hoping for too much, eh? | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Danger^Cart at January 27, 2008, 6:47 pm | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | This is what an action movie should be, though the portrayal of my profession was somewhat exaggerated. 9/10 Fuckin' aye right. I want another one. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: poopontheshoes7 at January 27, 2008, 5:52 pm | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | 8/10 Damn good action flick. Rambo did what he does best. Shoot people with arrows, and blow the shit out of them with 50 cals! The village attack was suprisingly brutal and emotional. That was the point when I really wanted Rambo to kick some ass. And he did. I like the fact that it wasnt a one man army thing like in the last 2. This along with the first film are the more realistic of the bunch. Loved it! Good job Stallone! | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Mr.HyDe807 at January 27, 2008, 1:57 pm | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | Review- 8/10 An action movie that delivers! I got what i was hoping to see, which was rambo kicking ass and taking names (although Stallone didnt do too much ass kicking, which sorta bugged me). Was there bad acting? Definitely, but seeing Stallone stand there, bitch slapping them around, made me laugh my ass of and enjoy it even more! Overall, you just want simple in your face action, you got it here! | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Tyler Durden4 at January 27, 2008, 1:29 pm | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | If you wanna have just a fun kick ass time at the theater this is it. 8/10- Fun, Enjoyment Factor
As a MOVIE movie. It's not too good. 6/10. The acting is terrible from the 'Missonaries', but i'm not complaining. I had a lot of fun | | Static Link |
| Posted by: mcquade19 at January 27, 2008, 1:11 pm | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | Macbeth this aint - a throwback to 80's action films when heroes kill....alot. I remember watching Hotel Rwanda and wishing that someone would swoop in and kill the evil bad guys. This is that movie. The 1st half of this film serves to make you hate the bad guys, the 2nd half of this film Rambo kills the bad guys. Movie itself: 7/10 Enjoyment: 10/10 | | Static Link |
| Posted by: ilovemovies at January 27, 2008, 9:22 am | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | SPOILERS! I'm sorry but some of the violence is very gratuitous. I really didn't need to see to KIDS being brutally killed and stabbed and all. All of this might've been fine if this was trying to be a SERIOUS movie about the subject. But get real. This is a Rambo movie. Basically a live action cartoon movie and a rather violent one. The movie tries to have it both ways and be both gritty and realistic and yet also be what we've come to expect from a Rambo flick. The results are the two tones that frequently clash. The movie itself is okay but just okay. I think I agree with Berardinelli when he said that there weren't enough Rambo moments. The ending does kick ass but there too much running around and up until the ending there isn't enough Rambo kicking ass. And the ending wasn't THAT great either. I also found the mercinary characters to be a rather annoying bunch. Especially the guy who kept talking off to Stallone. And did anyone else actually laugh at the scene when Paul Schulze's character actually bas... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: bringtherain at January 27, 2008, 5:52 am | | Topic: Rambo Forum: JoBlo | | Rambo was such an unexpected treat. I thought it would be ok with some cool action, but it turned out to be more. It really is one of the great action films from the past decade or so. | | Static Link |
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