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John Rambo

sting-bono  said about 5 years ago  or at  1:26AM on Monday, May 21 2007 in films

switchbladesisters  said about 5 years ago:

Rambo's ability to punch a man's head off is unequalled


horse  said about 5 years ago:

When you're pushed, killing's as easy as sneezing


horse  said about 5 years ago:

When you're pushed, killing's as easy as beefing


switchbladesisters  said about 5 years ago:

I particularly enjoyed people's tendency to explode when shot.


horse  said about 5 years ago:

When you're pushed, milling's as easy as breathing


horse  said about 5 years ago:

When you're pushed, killing's a sea syas breathing


horse  said about 5 years ago:

When you're bushed, filling's as easy as cheesewhizz


horse  said about 5 years ago:

When you're flushed, a shilling's as easy as breathing


horse  said about 5 years ago:

this is definitely Rambo 2. I wanted to see a Rambo 3 remake.. that was the best re-write of history ever.


devilwillride  said about 5 years ago:

That looks chillingly familar.

But yeah, cast your Oscar ballots now.


Bugsy.  said about 5 years ago:

i havent watched the clip yet
so is rambo now fighting the afgani mujahadeen he trained and assisted in rambo 3?


horse  said about 5 years ago:


gathering storm  said about 5 years ago:


gathering storm  said about 5 years ago:


gathering storm  said about 5 years ago:

this looks like it could be the best movie ever made hahahahahah


horse  said about 5 years ago:

possibly th quickest youtube to gif transfer I've ever known



number none  said about 5 years ago:

Just watched the trailer. I actually looks ok-ish


the power of 666  said about 5 years ago:

Rocky Balboa

John Rambo

What's next, Johnny Tango & Christopher Cash?


the power of 666  said about 5 years ago:

and does he punch a dudes head cleean off?


number none  said about 5 years ago:

I'm sure he uses a knife


TopherPlus  said about 5 years ago:

I just can't look at Stallones face anymore.

He looks like an animatronic version of himself.


bungle  said about 5 years ago:

That was possibly the most satisfying movie trailer ever made.


BADALEX  said about 5 years ago:

Really? Damn. Stupid library.


tihstar  said about 5 years ago:

I almost don't need to see the film now... surely it can't get much better than the bits in the trailer?


horse  said about 5 years ago:

it can get longer.


sting-bono  said about 5 years ago:

rambo better not die in this one. what happened in rocky balboa, did he die/lose/take human growth hormones?

What's next, Johnny Tango & Christopher Cash?

that would be awesome. but i hope his next film is 'Marion Cobretti'.

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i277/guod_photos/stallone-cobra04.jpg


cheezel  said about 5 years ago:

he's back and he's, pissed-off!!!


sting-bono  said about 5 years ago:

yes, but he's reluctant now. obviously affected by afghanistan. he's mellowed. the fire doesn't burn so fiercely. he's soul searching. he's lost his identity. he needs to refind JOHN RAMBO!


gathering storm  said about 5 years ago:

666 said 1 hour ago:

Rocky Balboa

John Rambo

What's next, Johnny Tango & Christopher Cash?

lolololololololol


le_disco  said about 4 years ago:

First Blood is on TV1 right now. fuck yeah.


Friends Forever  said about 4 years ago:

The trailer looks so bad its funny.


Alright  said about 4 years ago:

did he punch that guys head clean off?

you gotta show some respect to a man who can do that.

rambo is like bruce springsteen basically


Inactivist  said about 4 years ago:

He Bowie-knifed that guy's head clean off.

I'm betting that he will tear a Burmese soldier apart with his bare hands and then punch the disembodied limbs into a pulp and then drink the pulp and then shit the pulp out and shoot the shit with a flaming arrow.

Like Itchy & Scratchy.


Alright  said about 4 years ago:

i hope there are more helicopter tank fights


DanO  said about 4 years ago:

review of Rambo in the age.....sounds entertaining

Rambo reeks of depraved violence

Los Angeles
January 28, 2008

Sylvester Stallone insisted he would only do another Rambo flick if it was about the human condition.

He stuck to his guns. Chapter 4, simply titled Rambo, is about the condition of humans - after they've been blown apart by bombs, land mines and projectiles fired from the biggest, loudest firearms you may ever encounter on screen.

A box-office and critical joke for years with a string of absurd movies, Stallone regained a lot of good will with fans on 2006's Rocky Balboa, a resurrection of his most-famous character that proved an unlikely commercial success and also earned the respect of many reviewers.

Rocky Balboa got back to the core of the lovable goof known as the Italian Stallion, evoking a lot of the charm of the original Rocky and rinsing out some of the bad taste left by the increasingly caricatured sequels.

Co-written and directed by Stallone, Rambo is sickening, almost degenerate, in its savagery. Any hope that it might redeem the franchise the way Rocky Balboa did vanishes about the time a Burmese soldier bayonets the belly of a child during one of the movie's early sequences of utter carnage.

First Blood, which introduced Stallone's Vietnam vet John Rambo, was silly in its relentless one-man-army action. But that 1982 flick at least brushed up against relevant questions about how a nation welcomes back the killing machines it creates to do its dirty work without figuring out some way to flip the off switch.

There never has been much story to the Rambo movies, whose last installment came in 1988. The latest Rambo has a thin setup - Stallone's stoic soldier living out his life as a boatman and snake-catcher in Thailand when he's approached by American missionaries (Julie Benz and Paul Schulze among them) to ferry the group upriver to help villagers endangered by civil war in Burma.

Rambo reluctantly agrees, then later finds himself joining a team of mercenaries hired by the congregation back home to find out what happened to the missionaries after the village they'd been working in is exterminated by the army.

He didn't ask for it, he didn't want it (and neither did we), but Rambo once again becomes an upstoppable demon of death as he tears through the jungle slaughtering bad guys with bow and arrow, his bare hands in one particularly bloody moment, and a gun that could bring down a T-Rex.

The body count is phenomenal, and Stallone's effects team at least deserves credit for the twisted skill with which they create new and gruesome ways to show bodies being atomised amid the explosions and gunfire.

It's a true one-note performance for Stallone, whose Rambo is chided by one of the mercenaries for his ''thousand-yard stare.'' But that thousand-yard stare is all Stallone musters as he mumbles his way through such fortune-cookie justifications for wholesale violence as ''When you're pushed, killing's as easy as breathing'' and ''Live for nothing or die for something.''

At least the movie is short, and in the few quiet moments, sparks of personality emerge from Matthew Marsden, Graham McTavish, singer Jake La Botz and others playing the mercenaries who hitch their wagon to Rambo.

The movie might satisfy bloodthirsty action fans, but for most people, this is one Stallone do-over we could have done without.

AP


moo-core  said about 4 years ago:

So I saw this at the drive-in tonight. It was fucking ridiculous (not that I expected any less) and violent and at first tried really hard to be serious. Also, Sylvester Stallone kills possibly hundreds of people it. Some of them in very inventive and unexpected ways. I think I I found entertaining enough.*

  • DISCLAIMER: My judgment may have been impaired by marijuana.

moo-core  said about 4 years ago:

This all said, I don't think I'd recommend paying to see it.


turtle  said about 2 years ago:

BADALEX  said about 2 years ago:

Eh, the thing that bugs me is that as the Rambo films go on, they get less and less political.

That's what I liked about the Rambo films in the first place.

Well, that and the awesome head kicking knife stabbing exploding arrow body count obviously.


Angus  said about 2 years ago:

Political as in ''At a dinner party, never talk about religion or Rambo'' ?


BADALEX  said about 2 years ago:

Pretty much. I mean, watch Rambo:First Blood. Quite a statement about vets getting treated like shit and the national guard being fucking retarded and hick cops being fucked.


kellyclarksonisgold  said about 2 years ago:

hmm feel like the song now


kellyclarksonisgold  said about 2 years ago:

kellyclarksonisgold  said about 2 years ago:

btw read the book. it kicks arse.


cheezel  said about 2 years ago:

kellyclarksonisgold said 24 minutes ago:
get this in ya

what is that thing he/she on screen when you play the song?


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