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Rambo
May 29, 2008So the wife and I watched the new Rambo movie Wednesday night. Or should I say I watched the movie the entire length while my wife had to walk out of the living room because of the excessive violence from time to time.
I've seen worse collections of violence, but nothing that I can actually remember at this moment. It was probably on the internet...so back to my thoughts on the movie.
Sly does a good job again as John Rambo. He's a trained killer, what more could a guy love. The ultimate badass.
The movie is violent, very violent. I shuddered a couple of times. And I don't like seeing kids getting massacred in movies, but I'm a realist and I understand that situations like the one Rambo is suggesting by its plot in Burma.
Happens every day. And no one really does anything about it most of the time. So as far as social commentary goes, I give Rambo an A.
I don't want to give away too much, but Rambo's weapons of choice are a bow and arrow, knife and a .50 caliber turret gun.
He rips out a certain part of a man's anatomy with his bare hands. (Above the waist.)
Overall, the movie was good. They limited the speaking parts of Stallone, which is always a good thing, because he plays the quiet, mysterious man living in a distant land.
I say rent it. And if you're feeling nostalgic rent the first one. It's the best. A first movie is typically the best if any sequels follow.
And I didn't know this but there's an alternate ending for First Blood was shot at the time of production. Rambo could have committed suicide.
In this day in age with military suicides on the rise, I wonder what kind of different impact Rambo could have had on people if the character would have taken his own life.
I'm glad he didn't because where would the world be without four Rambo movies? Less violent?
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