i just got back from seeing this actually. loved the violence. there are a few wtf moments, but pretty realistic. [SPOILER - highlight to read]: when rambo was manning the machine gun... holy shit. school boy kicked ass... he needs his own movie.
and was it just me or did sly have fat fingers... i mean FAT fingers.
i'm really looking forward to this. I loved First Blood, and even though i hated both sequels, i still had high hopes for this.
If i ever make it as a director, i want to remake First Blood, but make it more faithful to the novel. The book had a million times more violence and gore than First Blood and the first two sequels combined.
"It" meaning he is still a draw at the theatre. I take it you have never seen Sly in a non action movie, his acting isnt that bad.
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I know what you mean, and it's not that he's a draw, it's that he finally clocked onto nostalgia, and others bought it. If he had "it", he wouldn't have faded into nothingness.
The only other good movie he's ever been in, and been good in, is Copland.
I say "other", I don't know why. He hasn't been good in anything else.
whats that movie where he is a mob boss trying to go clean and his daughter is getting married to a banker? it has Chazz Palamenteri in it and Vincent Perez in it. Sly was good in that one.
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All the ways you wish you could be, that's me. I look like you wanna look, I **** like you wanna ****, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not.
Apart from Demolition man, Tango & Cash, Cliffhanger, Assassins.....
I suppose its a matter of taste, you donīt go and watch Stallone if you appreciate Shakespeare type acting, if you like action then Stallone, Schwarzenegger & co are a good bet.
I liked the new Rambo flick, it was kinda off the chain in places, good effects, well shot, stallones face of melted wax, lots of blood and guts, could have done with more of a denouement but good entertainment.
What I find shallow is how some people regard the others as stupid or low for watching and or maybe even liking a movie like the latest Rambo flick just because the film isn't Shakespearean in manner.
Forget that. It was Shakesperean in action.
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I don't think people are stupid or low for liking it, I think it's stupid and low to confuse a movie being good, with the viewer being hyped by nostalgia. It's like people who were young when Doom came out saying "It's better than all these new FPS games.", it's not, clearly.
If Rambo was a new, un-franchised movie with an unknown actor, it wouldn't have got anywhere near the acclaim.
If you like it because of nostalgia, fine, but it is what it is.
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