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Great review. I might actually go to the theater to see it now. Though I sure as hell won't cheer.

Can't...help...myself.....must go...see...bloodbath...caused by....septuagenarian....killing...machine.

Ranylt,

I rarely get to post so early on a review, so I apologize beforehand that I'm not even going to mention it, 'cause I won't be reading it until after I write this.

I was too late to post on the year-end list of stuff that really bugged us, but your topic was the one I most enjoyed and empathized with: the horrible filming & editing of action sequences in films. You especially nailed it for me when you mentioned that they DO pay stunt people to do these fights, but the stupidly close-up head & shoulders shots and bad guys just falling out of camera range from--what, getting hit?--is being relied on WAY too much, and I blame as much of this on a film I really liked, 'Batman Begins'.

In one of the most pivotal scenes in the movie, when he first takes on the bad guys at the warehouse as Batman, please point to one frame of film that actually shows him landing a punch on anyone of them anytime. They could've dressed up my frigging grandmother in a Batman suit and made her look just as 'badass' as the actual actor, what with these overworked camera closeups. That wasn't a fight, it was a friggin' square dance! Please let me see Batman kick some real ass onscreen before I die; they've finally got the storyline right, follow thru with the visuals, jerkwads!

Sorry to interrupt like this, but just wanted you to know I appreciated your contribution, and to think a lady wrote it really makes it kinda hot.

Oh, and I loved your beginning commentary in the 'favorite fights with classic stars' before laughing until the tears were flowing from the excellent comments that followed. (MY obvious one was that little bastard Robert Conrad, especially from the 'Battle of the Network Stars' time, but hey, I digress).

Anyway, thanks all the same Ranylt, I'm sure I'll love this review too. Carry on, everyone.

I can of can't understand people that are ripping on the film. I don't understand what they expected.

RR-

All my WoW brethren cajoled me, trying to get me to see the beauty of this movie. I was steadfast in my strict no-Rambo stance, but you've succeeded where they failed. I may give it a go now.

I think I'll go to a matinée though. Drunken man-children sounds a bit much for me.

Whoah thar, gairl! I REALLY loved this review enough to capitalize every letter of 'really' (those are my italics).

First you wow us with a super-charged defense/description of all the great action scenes, then deftly, and soberly, balance the praise by pointing out the stupid dialogue and other offensive points being made in the film.

And THEN I find out you've actually seen and written about 'I Spit on Your Grave' and 'Last House On the Left'??!!

Ranylt, you are very fast becoming my next favorite reviewer on this great site. God, a review that pumps me up so much I actually want to take a cool walk in the back yard just to let out some energy! I NEVER walk in my back yard!

I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. It definitely started off cartoonish and cheesy and stayed that way, but something about it got convincing midway, that made me get into the violence. It was probably the mercs being gutless that did the trick - life is an awful, messed up cartoon for people getting gutted daily. Maybe Rambo's right, the only way to stop the cartoon is through it. Gonna be pretty hard to kill another village down an entire regiment.

I second (or third) the above comments. Great review Ranylt, it was almost enough to make me willing to pay money to see this. Almost, but not quite. I'll see it if a friend can sneak me in, otherwise I'll wait for the DVD.

How can any reviewer in his right mind even begin to have something positive to say about this marble mouth freak? Every time I see this human chemical lab I get sick to my rotted out stomach. How does his shit constantly get green lighted? He is a plague upon humanity, a diseased filled boil on the ass of the entertainment industry to be exact. As America continues ass first into a oil grab disguised as a fight for freedoms, disguised as a war on terror, this is exactly what we don't need. A motherfucking shit-for-brains Ugly American showing the world we still haven't learned from Vietnam. Fuck you Sly.

I used to love so much Rambo movies when I was very young...a child, but I also used to admire General McArthur, does that make any sense?

Ever since the trailer, my friend and I have been waiting for this bloody, mindless escape into the far south-east. I did have your same questions watching said trailer though. Won't there be retaliation, mass-murder, and the like after Rambo saves all the westerners? I guess we shouldn't think to hard about those casualties.

@Pookie-- I can understand why someone wouldn't take a shine to Sly. I really can. The thing is, I really loved Rocky. A lot.

Also, for whatever reason, Germans love the hell out of him, so at least that's one country that won't hate the US more because of him and his work.

"If you can shove...any concern for narrative logic and character motivation aside..."

Sorry. Thinking is kind of a habit for me. I can't just flip a switch and make myself as mouth-breathing stupid as you. I enjoy a good story. Special effects, massive explosions, and gratuitous violence are not good story.

Ranylt, I appreciate your circumspect review. Some would have just stopped at the action, but you brought up some interesting, true points about the conflict and seeing the bigger picture, even while the action may be Hell Yeah! worthy.

I do loves me some action, but I could never get into Rambo. I have delicate sensibilities, don't cha know?

Finally, in a moment of "Daphne's taking the film too seriously," I must say that the church group sounds like a bunch of idiots.

"Commando" was a Schwarzenegger film. I don't mean to imply that the reference isn't apt, I just wanted to clear up whether this was intended as a call-back to what was thought to be some earlier work by the same "artist." Really, I'm not nitpicking, just curious - I can't think of a reason, personally, to reference "Commando" specifically except to establish continuity in a single actor's ouvre. "Commando" didn't really stand out to me even as an action flick, although perhaps my memory of it is just (thankfully) dulled. In short, I was just curious as to why you'd have mentioned THAT film for the "[x]-style violence" comment. Was "Commando" ground-breakingly violent and I just don't remember it? Or was there some particular "flavor" to the violence of that movie which springs to mind when watching Stallone's latest? Honestly. I'm not being snarky. I really wanna know.

Landon: The reference was deliberate. I referenced "Commando" there because "Rambo" 2008 has a lot in common with it, re. gunplay sequences and hero-against-armed-horde structure (and because I haven't seen Rambo II or III in so long, they're all but a distance memory of meh for me). -- RR

Landon: Actually, the line does say "combining zombie-flick levels--and styles--of gore with classic Commando gunplay."

And considering Commando is the movie where Arnold fires a rocket launcher from the back of a Cadillac in the middle of L.A., I don't disagree with that assessment. It wasn't overly bloody, but it was indeed gun-crazy. And I think that was where the comparison was drawn.

Daphne,

SOO glad I came back to catch your commentary, which is brilliant, as usual (and thanx for giving me the 'go-ahead' to fawn over Diane Lane earlier today, a classy act so common amongst our female Pajiba tribe).

Amazingly, while I (inevitably thru the years) end up watching most chapters of these different 'action hero' movies, NOT of my usual free will but because I happen to be at a friend/relative's house & am too cowardly (or drunk) to tell them their particular movie tastes SUCK--
I can accurately and honestly say that, like you, I NEVER got into Rambo - yet, I didn't much mind his existence as an iconic character (my older brother loves his 'Rocky' movies, what can I say?),
and the fact that Sly has managed to successfully revive TWO fucking legendary, "man's- man" hero franchises and still bring the audiences back after 20-plus fucking years is commendable indeed, like Bruce Willis, Ahnold, a few more have done - and who can blame them??.. hell, I haven't anticipated a future Netflix rental as excitedly as I am this one, and I was one of the people laughing at the original 'mass hordes' that were turning out in droves for these 'Rocky'/'Rambo' movies.

Why do I want to see this one? The trailer has been promoted here for quite awhile now, and I freely accept Pajiba as my own gospel; this excellent reviewer has distilled the very essence of why you would, or would not, want to see this movie, no matter what your reason; and said review tells us that it seems like Sly really went out of his way to give his fans what they wanted, in what is apparently a new, vicious and quite currently vivid fashion that seems to be quite satisfying (remember, the other 'Rambo's' mainly fetishized big, repeating metal weapons to convey their perception of violent revenge - so impersonal, don'cha think?)

Hey, I won't dis on this old-timer action superstar -I can save all that for Mel Gibson, a much more deserving loudmouth.

But from your review, it seems that Sylvester has delivered exactly what his core audience wanted in the first place..and that's all that the true fans really ask for.

Bravo to this man, I say...

Now please let him retire with some dignity. Perhaps if Clint Eastwood wasn't so fucking determined to keep making totally irrelevant films, he'd help lead this gentleman into the great quiet beyond, where their legends outlive their other, less-than-stellar performances, both in front and behind the cameras.

"Sorry. Thinking is kind of a habit for me."

You could have fooled me Spork.

Ranylt,

Excellent review. You are steadily becoming one of my most favored Pajibans.

One thing important issue you seemed to gloss over was the ubiquitous duality of man theme. Explored in some of my favorite films, such as 'Straw Dogs' and less subtly in 'Full Metal Jacket,' a large part of 'Rambo' was devoted to not so much discussing the role of the killer vs. savior in each human, but rather introducing the topic to interpretation.

It was evident to me that the mirrored roles of Rambo and Michael were meant to exemplify the two ends of the human spectrum, but those lines were blurred when Michael the missionary commits the un-commitable.

The films most revealing scene features the pacifist who believes killing for any reason is unequivocally wrong actually kills a man, by beating his head in with a rock, then is appalled with the literal and figurative blood on his hands. Not because he just killed a human being, but because he was capable of doing so.

Psst, [b]Vermillion[/b], Rae Dawn Chong shot the rocket launcher to save Schwarz after he was arrested.

The mistake is forgivable, what with all the folks munching on your BRAAAAAINS these days.

TMax - I enjoy the Rocky movies as well. The musical montages are timeless and awe-inspiring, as far as I am concerned (yes, I mean it). Plus, I loved the relationship between Rocky and Action Jackson (okay, Carl Weathers) in the movie. Damn you, Drago!

I think I need to watch Commando again. I haven't seen it in a long time.

"As America continues ass first into a oil grab disguised as a fight for freedoms, disguised as a war on terror, this is exactly what we don't need. A motherfucking shit-for-brains Ugly American showing the world we still haven't learned from Vietnam. Fuck you Sly."

Pookie: spoken like someone who hasn't seen the movie and yet insists on flapping his gums anyway.

There is an actual, real, true genocide taking place in Burma, and SOME action to END it (or in Darfur... or some real involvement in Bosnia a decade ago) would be a GOOD thing, whether it's by Ugly Americans or the UN or whoever. (Personally, I don't think Rambo and the mercenaries are a symbol for America in this film; it's anybody with military power, really.)

Pacifist ideals are all well and good, but almost anybody will throw that out the door when their own life is at stake. Why should it be any different when the lives of innocent strangers are at stake? It's idealism versus reality.

If we stand by and let things like genocide happen, we're not on any moral high ground for not killing people; if we think we are, we're fucking kidding ourself. As the richest, most militarily powerful country in the world, we're capable of stopping people from being murdered. Instead, we use it to make sure our rich get richer -- as in Iraq. But where Iraq is a bullshit war, started and continued under bullshit pretexts -- not all wars ARE wrong, and in its own not particularly subtle or intelligent way, that's what Rambo is showing.

All that said, I was paying much more attention to column A when I was watching Rambo, not column B, and in that regard, it was fucking awesome.

Well, as I said, I had to go see it. And guess what? I had a blast!

Yes, it is mindless. And if anyone tries to see it with any sort of analytical, serious criticism, they will find it thread-bare.

All of that said, between the evil guards losing their top half of their heads to sniper shots, heads being decapitated by machetes and the meanest, baddest, most dangerous .50-cal shredding human flesh seen on film...well, I guess I couldn't help myself.

This much has to be said about Stallone. He found a way to give his two memorable characters send-offs that befitted them. Rocky Balboa was feel-good sentimentality. Rambo meanwhile was cornucopia of violence and blood.

zzz..

Let the bodies hit the floor! Let the bodies hit the floor! YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

ADRIAAAAN!!!

Landon,

Commando may not stand out as a great action flick, but it does have one of my favorite Schwarzenegger lines EVER, when he's holding that one guy, leg first, over a cliff:

"Remember vhen I zaid I vould keel you lazzt?"

"Yeah, man. That's what you said, man!"

"I lied..."

Brilliant in an oh-so-cheesy, "let's have a Patrick Swayze Christmas" kind of way!

You can all keep Rambo. I had enough seeing the guy get liquified on the first viral trailer. Thanks but no thanks.

Anyone who questions Commando's action credentials, mmmmmmm...needs to watch that shit again.
Special emphasis on the scene where goes to town on the whole army, using only gardening implements.

I guess when one is the lowliest of all utensils, issued by dining establishments where a fork and spoon would be considered pretentious; one does what one can to attempt to elevate oneself above other, more worthy pieces of cutlery. It was a nice try Spork, but you have sadly fallen far short of your goal. Are you, perhaps, unwilling to shut off your brain in order to enjoy some good, mindless entertainment for fear that you would be unable to switch its feeble powers back on? To quote a great sage, "The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play." and what could be simpler than watching a movie such as this?

Thank you Ranylt for another excellent review. As usual, it is both entertaining and enlightening.

Also, while I have no love for torture porn, I Spit on Your Grave and Last House on the Left are old favorites from my misspent youth. I did, and still do, love a good low/no budget horror movie. Someday, when I grow up, I want to be just like Ash in the Evil Dead movies.

Please let me see Batman kick some real ass onscreen before I die; they've finally got the storyline right, follow thru with the visuals, jerkwads!

Somehow, I totally missed this gem the first time, TMax. As much as I love BB, I have to agree with you on how the fighting scenes were shot. Fingers crossed that Nolan decided to change it up for TDK.

Hey, everyone, thanks for the replies - apparently I need to watch "Commando" again! Come to think of it, I think the only impressions I really still have of it are via the self-parody of "Last Action Hero."

and nailing the coffin shut on an already-waning cinematic taboo

thats one taboo i was fine with. i need to see kids butchered on screen and will be skipping this one

Ranylt - awesome review. The first few paragraphs succeeded in creating an anticipatory adrenaline rush, whilst the last few tempered my attraction to cathartic, visceral bloodlust with more enlightened considerations.

Ask anyone of the millions of brown people who have felt the pointy end of US 'liberation' in recent years how they discern between column's A and B. Entertainment value is indeed subjective.

How to Enjoy Rambo - by PissBoy

Start your day off not doing anything really important. Go hang out with some friends who are equally as bored with the day. Sit around laughing and telling dirty jokes. Talk about seeing a matinee that requires no thinking. (It's OK peopole...not everything you see has to be Lawrence of Arabia) Find Rambo playing up the road 45 minutes from said conversation. KNOW that it's just going to be a gore-fest with a paper thin plot. Then ENJOY and spend the entire trip home from the theater giggling like school children for having allowed yourselves such an indulgence. And then...guess what? You just did what you're supposed to. You just had a great time at the movies. ~The End

I just got home from seeing this thing not even 20 minutes ago. OH.MY.FUCKING.GOD. It was bloody brilliant as far a b;ood can be brilliant. That is all.

Spork,

why don't you go comment on some website where they pander to your "sensibilities" when it comes to films? Go watch Juno instead of commenting on how a person could genuinely enjoy some cinematic crap every now and then.

Personally, I hate ultra-violent films with far too much realistic gore. I can deal with cartoon gore but I saw the viral trailer and that made my stomach turn. Plus I've never really been a Stallone fan as I cannot understand a single word that man says. But I don't think anyone who goes and sees this as an objective observer is a "mouthbreather", a term that is getting extrememly old, by the way.

You know, I gotta take umbrage with the dissing on the fight scenes in Batman Begins. I think they work, particularly the very first one in the docks, where it's shot from the point of view of Falconi's thugs, who don't know what the hell is going on. I thought it was a brilliant choice.

Not that I'm an expert. I'm just sayin'...

This may be the most truly pornographic movie I've ever seen. There is almost no plot other than a mechanism to maneuver hundreds of brown-skinned extras into position so they can be mowed down with machine guns, grenades, land mines, pistols, arrows, bazookas, and flamethrowers. Scene after scene of terrified asians being blown to (very graphic) shreds. People literally explode into pink mist, or red chunks, or erupt with geysers of spurting tidal waves of blood when they are shot. Children are shot point-blank. Babies are incinerated. Someone is hung by his wrists and ripped apart by pigs. The naive pacifist jesus-freak is forced to cave in someone's skull with a rock before moviegoers are allowed to like him. Don't give Stallone too much credit. He's not creating some meta-commentary on man's inhumanity to man. He's dishing out extraordinarily graphic, galactically gratuitous violence to stupid people who get hard-ons at the sight of an American flag smeared with nigger blood. Yeah, there was an eruption of testosterone-fueled applause at the end of this piece of shit, and some meathead in front of me said, "Man, I am so fucking pumped!" as the credits rolled. Pumped about what? Nothing in this movie was accomplished except thousands of brown-skinned (meaning inferior and primitive) people were blown to shreds, and the message received is that violence is the one true way to enter the palace of wisdom. Stallone, the producers and directors, and every audience member who applauded this cinematic crime can kiss my ass.
I'll repeat...this is truly pornographic in the most degrading and exploitative way.

Ranylt:
a) I'm so glad they assigned you to this one.
b) Thank you for this review. I read it out loud to Mr. PaddyDog (who will be attending solo). It was the laugh I needed after suffering through yet another horrendous Austen adaptation over on PBS. I won't bore you all with it but I'll just leave you with this thought. Who would you most expect to see cast as a very proper young regency lady? Why Billie Piper of course!

How is 'mouthbreather' an insult, exactly? Everybody breathes through their mouths, so honestly, how can that be an insult? I mean, are you calling them sick, because I have to breath through my mouth when I'm sick, what with all the plugging of the nose and all.

Hanyways, great review Ranylt. I'll probably get pulled to see this soon and will remember this review fondly while watching it with brain fully turned off and berserker bloodlust fully turned on.

why are her reviews so bad? and to think, the general public eats them up, like throwing fish to a group of seals and watching them slap their fins together.

she is trying too hard to fit the 'pajiba' style and comes off much too pretentious for her own good.

why would you feel dirty about feeling well entertained.... this first statement sets the tone for the rest of her pompous review... I wouldn't be surprised if she masturbated to it later.

in conclusion, ranylt is one of the weaker members of the pajiba crew, even though she will never take her head out from her ass to realize this.

although many pajiba reviews are good, another good chunk are just fodder for pretentious nobodies to pretend like they are part of some elite class of society.

To ranylt the tryhard:

Why are your capitalization and grammar skills so poor? I have always seen seals (at least in reference to mammalian seals) defined as having flippers, not fins. Fins tend to be relatively fixed in place, with only a limited degree of movement, if they have any movement capability at all. They are primarily used for balance. Flippers, on the other hand, are typically used for locomotion, and have a greater range of motion that what one commonly ascribes to fins. It is true that some dictionaries list flipper and fin as synonyms, but only in a general sense, and not in reference to seals.

I find her reviews to be intelligent and entertaining. Just because you may not understand them doesn't make them pretentious, it just makes you stupid.

I think she explains herself quite well, and a reading of her review makes it quite clear why it made her feel "dirty". As for what she masturbates to, that's her business.

If you are going to use the idiom "in conclusion", shouldn't you actually be concluding things? It looks like you pulled that idiom out of your ass a paragraph too soon.

As I stated earlier, just because you don't understand something doesn't make it pretentious, it just means you're stupid. I think you're just jealous that you aren't intelligent enough to be one of the elite.

Heheh! That was beautiful, CptCrckpot.

By the by, are you wanting us to read it as CptCrAckpot? Because I have always been thinking CptCrOckpot. Mmm casseroles.

You know those people who want all violence and bad language banned on TV because it offends them? And you know how the obvious answer to them is "change the fuckin' channel, moron"?
Well, "ranylt-the-try-hard" I suggest you do just that. There is obviously a tremendous level of support for Ranylt and her reviews on this site. Lots of us enjoy them, look forward to them and have fun discussing the points she puts forth, even arguing about them. If you don't, then just don't read them or at least try to muster enough brain cells together to make an informed comment that takes her to task on a review point instead of accusing her of being pretentious (the lame resort insult of the ignorant). As CptCrkPot pointed out, a lot of us get it. You don't so stop trying to spoil the party with petty comments that simply illustrate your poor grasp of irony. Also, if you're going to base an attack of her reviews on them being enjoyed by "pretentious nobodies who pretend like they are part of an elite class [SIC]", don't open it with "the general public eats them up". That's called a non sequitur, sweetie.

Jesus motherfucking Christ on a pogo stick, people. Are we still having this debate?

Really? We are?

Well shit.

Well said PaddyDog, your position as my spiritual internet sistster solidifies by the day.

ranylt .... your review is fine through part A
but falls apart when you get to part B. you say that " according to this movie, life in some parts of the world is an endless cycle of chaos and destruction." do you suggest that this isn't so ? you also seem embarrassed by your western roots but if " western intervention" can't put a dent in the nightmare, what will? stick to the movies until you get a grasp on what is going on in the real world.
finally, anyone who goes to a " rambo " movie looking for geopolitical enlightenment is triple figures away from mensa.

Nobody goes to a Rambo movie for intellectual reasons- it's mindless entertainment. If you're a snob of the "I can't turn my mind off" variety, then just don't go. If, however, you occasionally like to take time off from brutalizingly dense intellectual fare seen on the screen and in the cubicle and see some over the top (over the top doesn't really describe it- there are some action sequences in Rambo that would have to come back from another planet to be over the top) violence that somehow isn't torture porn even with all the gore, then you'll enjoy the hell out of it. Ranylt did an admirable job describing it- action aplenty, and plenty awesome, but don't go for the fucking subtext.

I remember watching the original Rambo and my eyes bugged out at the impressive way he took a bullet out of his body. Other than that, I have no lasting impression about the franchise. My father, on the other hand, was jumping up and down with anticipation. He could not wait to watch South Asian s getting blown up to pieces and a Caucasian He-man who saves the day. I don't see the appeal nor do I agree with the gratuitous violence. I'll wait till my father buys it at FutureShop and watch it then, at least I can pause and forward to my hearts content.

Rant aside, I love your review.

I'm not gonna comment on all the politically correct mumbo-jumbo...

I'm not gonna get into plot holes, bad dialogue, over-the-top executions, and beating the premise of a dead horse.

I'm gonna take a friggin' bath in testosterone, slap on my red bandaner, and go be ten years old again, watching Rambo be motherfucking Rambo. Political correctness be damned.

And for reasons I can't explain, I'll probably have an erection... with it's own little red bandana...

The review was great and dead on accurate.

I saw Rambo over the weekend while in Las Vegas at a friend's bachelor party. It's really the ideal setting for watching this film. The movie was exactly what we were expecting and hoping for. It delivered on all fronts.

The dialogue, while rare, was laughingly bad. Any dialogue between Benz (who is really not a very good actress) John J. was priceless. (By the way, since when has Julie Benz been more associated with Dexter than with her turn as Darla on Buffy/Angel?). Chapelle from Division (from 24)was awesome as the peace loving idealist. His look of rage and horror when he realized what he had done was definitely one of the highlights of the film. Pure genius.

From a violence/gore perspective, the movie was like the first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan stretched out across 80 minutes.

I am having a hard time coming up with a group of villians more evil than the Burmese militia John J. mowed down. Almost half of the film's modest running time was dedicated to showing just how evil these people were. Here is a sampling of what these guys were capable of:

Torturing villagers by making them race through mine-infested waters and then just shooting anyone who doesn't end up getting blowed up? Check. Check. (This specific event happened twice)

Ripping children from the arms of mothers to "recruit" them to their army? Check.

Abusing these poor "recruits"? Check.

Raping women? Check.

Ripping children from mother's arms and then shooting the children in the head? Check.

Shooting women in the head? Check.

Mowing down innocent villagers while they try to run away? Check.

Generally butchering innocents (e.g., hacking of limbs, stabbing people, using rifle butts, mortars, gernades, anti-tank machine guns)? Check. Check. Check. Check.

Killing dogs? Check.

Killing live stock? Check.

Burning down villages? Check.

Their leader enjoys a cigarette while watching all of the above with a look smug pleasure etched into his face? Check.

Parties involving forcing women to dance and then, once that gets old, gang raping them? Check.

Dangling a prisoner's bloodied feet into a pig pen and letting the pigs eat his feet while still the guy is still alive? Check.

Their leader is a pedophile? Check.

Many of you may not know this, but the entire plot (and a good bit of the dialogue) of "First Blood" was stolen from an earlier film called "Ruckus" starring Dirk Benedict as the misunderstood Vietnam vet. It's a much better movie.

I am in agreement with Ajax, as far as what role defines Julie Benz. Darla is the only one I ever see and she will always be a blonde to me.

Rambo's epiphany plays out almost like a moment of divine calling, and by movie's end the surviving missionaries understand that it wasn't Christ who saved them; it was the flesh-and-bullets savior--a different kind of immortal--standing over them with a smoking Kalishnikov. Now that is the kind of messiah I can get behind, because I sure as hell to want to be in front of him.

Loob,

I get that question a lot. It's crackpot, not crockpot, though I too love a good casserole, and love pot roast even more. I actually prefer the confusion it causes people, as they are far less likely to fear a cook as opposed to a crazy man.

Dear Gordon, you are absolutely right I didn't see it. So please tell me exactly what did Rambo do in this movie that he didn't do in every Rambo movie since inception?

sandyk:

You are absolutely correct. I read an interview once where David Morrell admitted that in 1981 he went straight home from seeing "Ruckus", jumped into his time machine, and went back to 1968 to start writing his novel, First Blood.

Quite a bit. For example, I do believe this was the first time Rambo had ever (1) gutted a dude so that the dude's intestines poured out of his body and (2) sneaked up behind a guy, grabbed the dude's throat, started squeezing until blood came pouring out and then ripped the dude's throat out Roadhouse style.

That's just two off the top of my head. I reckon there were at least a dozen more.

Dear Gordon, you are absolutely right I didn't see it. So please tell me exactly what did Rambo do in this movie that he didn't do in every Rambo movie since inception?

Pookie, please see the above post for your answer.

Peace.

Ajax19, I was simply responding to Gordon's attack on me for not seeing the movie and for flapping my gums. But I still stand by my original post about Rambo being a war monger and all around chemical addled ass wipe......awwww fuck it whatever I'm going to bed, I have to get up early in the morning to get down to the methadone clinic.

"Loob,
I get that question a lot. It's crackpot, not crockpot, though I too love a good casserole, and love pot roast even more. I actually prefer the confusion it causes people, as they are far less likely to fear a cook as opposed to a crazy man.
Posted by: CptCrckpot at January 28, 2008 4:10 PM"

Hehehee Okay, but I'll still be thinking of casseroles. :D

Pooks, I don't think John J. would disagree with you. In fact, in this latest film, John J. has an epiphany of sorts, a personal revelation. He makes the following observation about himself: "Y'know what you are, what you're made of. War is in your blood. When you're pushed, killing's as easy as breathing." He further states, "You didn't kill for your country... you killed for yourself."

So, you're spot on. Indeed, I think John J. would admit that he's not just a war mongerer, he's war itself!

As for being chemical addled, well... I'll leave that between you and him.

Terrific review. Hate to nitpick, but you misspelled Kalashnikov. Have not seen the movie yet. Sounds like a Sunday renter

See it on the big screen! It's the only way to get the full effect! A great tribute to the 80's version of the American hero. This is the only movie I've seen, that shows what actually happens when a 50 cal comes in contact with a human! There is no such thing as a small bullet hole in this movie! I don't get excited for gore, but I found myself cheering for more each time I saw a Burmese soldier "killed". This movie exceeded my expectations, and I plan on seeing it again w/my co-workers this weekend!

Great review, Ranylt.

This movie was fucking disgusting. I can't believe anybody would enjoy this shit.

Soo....does...anyone know why 'mouthbreather' is/was an insult? Anyone? Bueller?

Fuckin' great movie!!!

and Ranylt Richildis is an idiot.