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Author Topic: Rambo (2008) Steve Wilson Expert Film Handler Posts: 109 From: Paoli, IN, USA Registered: May 2004 posted 01-29-2008 09:17 PM                        Well I finally made it to see John Rambo tonight and I was indeed pleased with the film. Just as I was with Rocky Balboa. Sly could have put out two really poor movies, but I found both of these to be very good and worth watching several times. They will both do very well of video for sure! I would have liked to see a better wrap up of the last scene in the movie with the girl and the surving missionaries etc. I give it 4 our 5!  |  IP: Logged Mike Schindler Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1039 From: Oak Park, IL, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 01-31-2008 02:01 PM                     Despite the fact that I hated the first three films in the franchise, I was looking forward to this movie quite a bit. Why? Because ROCKY II-V sucked, and the idea of a movie about a 60 year-old Rocky is ridiculous. And yet ROCKY BALBOA was awesome. So I figured, pretty much the same scenario here, Stallone has earned the benefit of the doubt. This movie is definitely better than the last two, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it good. It's relatively well made, but I think the movie's "message" is absolutely terrifying. I left the theater feeling icky.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-31-2008 06:42 PM                        The movie's message is "Violence should be considered a viable solution to any problem" which is perfect for movies.  |  IP: Logged Chad Souder Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 962 From: Waterloo, IA, USA Registered: Feb 2000 posted 01-31-2008 07:20 PM                     quote: Joe Redifer The movie's message is "Violence should be considered a viable solution to any problem" which is perfect for movies. It did seem like Sly was trying to send a bit of a political message. I loved it! One question - [spoiler] I know nothing about Burma, but what would it be about that river that would cause him to need a new prop on the boat motor every trip [/spoiler]? HGH can be very beneficial in aging males, but research is inconclusive in younger males and not much has been done at all in women. Diamond Dallas Page swears by it. Was this not at one point called Rambo: To Hell and Back ?  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-31-2008 07:31 PM                        Lionsgate called it To Hell 'n Back or something like that and that pissed of Stallone. He doesn't necessarily want this to be the final Rambo movie. I think the next movie should be him fighting off the police guerrilla style in that small Arizona town. Stallone apparently has a penchant for political themes. Almost all of the Rambo movies have some sort of political subset woven in there, usually added by Mr. Sly himself.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-31-2008 10:12 PM                     I think the last sequel of Rambo could involve a 80 year old Stallone sitting in a chair on his porch. He uses a shotgun to tell punks to get the hell out of his yard. Maybe the full title could be Rambo: Geezer War.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-01-2008 02:26 AM                        Hmmm, so 3+ people per minute get killed for two hours, not to mention the number of people who get body parts ripped apart and dismembered. blood spewing everywhere and the audience will sit there unbothered, and from what any observer could tell, taking quite a bit of vicarious delight in the carnage. Now throw up a scene on that screen of a couple having joyous, unbridled sex (or maybe even with a bridle), and people would go running from the theatre in rage, anger and disqust. We are truly a weird species.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 02-01-2008 03:32 AM                        Violence is more fun to watch onscreen than sex. Sure, porn is fantastic and I recommend it to everyone without exception, but watching violence with a crowd is definitely less awkward than watching sex with a crowd. Watching sex should be done either alone or with one other person (or a group of people if you swing that way). Sex is much more personal than violence. I really don't see why people compare the two. Also sex scenes are very rarely filmed/edited well. Do you think actors should really "do it" for the scene?  |  IP: Logged Kurt Zupin Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 989 From: Maricopa, Arizona Registered: Oct 2004 posted 02-01-2008 04:28 AM                     Watch Brown Bunny. They really "did it" for that movie. Horrible movie, then one hardcore scene at the end of the movie.  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 02-02-2008 10:10 PM                        Today 4:55PM, Regal 15 in Eugene, #1. Looked and sounded about as good as this print probably could. I was over at rottentomatoes.com and one of the reviewers (Bill Clark) said this: quote: Who’s going to this movie looking for deep messages? This flick is about Rambo confronting and cutting down evil in his own specialized, one-man-army way. In that respect, Rambo delivers big-time and simultaneously gives a big, blood-covered middle finger to all the neutered action movies of late. Well that sums it up exactly. This is a fairly well-made action movie with a message, featuring a body count like you may have never seen before. Really, I don't know how anyone could accurately count all the bodies without doing an intensive frame-by-frame analysis. Whoever came up with those numbers must have a screener DVD and a lot of time on their hands. Oh, and Stallone also points his big bloody middle finger at people who naively believe the world would be a better place if we would all just try to get along. For what it is, I give it 4 out of 5 stars. Play it LOUD!  |  IP: Logged Blaine Young Master Film Handler Posts: 477 From: Kirkland, WA, USA Registered: Sep 2006 posted 02-03-2008 12:56 PM                     Play it LOUD and in DTS. Holy cow that's an agressive soundtrack.  |  IP: Logged Stu Jamieson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 524 From: Buccan, Qld, Australia Registered: Jan 2008 posted 02-18-2008 03:04 AM                     quote: Bobby Henderson Strangely, I have not seen any of the red, chicken pox dots of "crap code" in any d-cinema shows. What are those red dots which turn up so frequently, anyway?  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 02-18-2008 03:30 AM                     quote: Stu Jamieson What are those red dots which turn up so frequently, anyway? Search for "crap code" as he alluded to. It's CAP code or a security measure. If the pattern shows up in a pirate movie they can figure out what theater it happened to.  |  IP: Logged Peter David Bruce Expert Film Handler Posts: 187 From: East Anglia -England Registered: Aug 2007 posted 02-18-2008 10:36 AM                    its the same in all 35mm too. they always (in my experience) have some kind of code 'dots' printed on some frame in the film. means any film pirated can be found with that code image and then linked back to whatever cinema that print went to. do i make sense. doubt it.  |  IP: Logged Stu Jamieson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 524 From: Buccan, Qld, Australia Registered: Jan 2008 posted 02-19-2008 03:58 AM                     I always thought that those dots were the result of poor quality control at the film processor (and I've been thinking that the quality has been especially shit of late) but, no, you guys say that the studios are ruining their prints on purpose? What madness is this?  |  IP: Logged

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