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If you ever get a chance read the original First Blood novel by David Morrell. It's a riveting book which the film is relatively faithful to.
Have read. Agree. Really excellent. Always wondered what the author though of the movie sequels?
Morrell writing the novelisations of Part II and III suggest he was happy enough to be involved with it as a moneymaker, but simultaneously the novels are so vastly different that it suggests he wasn't too happy with how the character was being dumbed down onscreen.
He hates the new one, apparently.
I didn't think that a film where Rambo cuts someone in half with a machine gun was the sort of film to bring attention to what was going on in Burma, just as I don't think that a film where
I guess two and three had the real world in the background too to be fair but I thought the tone of them was more fantasy. Everything about them was silly and OTT, there was the odd misjudged moment (dedicated to the brave fighters of the Mujahadeen) but for the most part they didn't seem to have any pretence about being a really important film like the first one. They used real wars as a backdrop but they were still pulpy adventure stories.
4 and now 5 on the other hand try to ground themselves in the real world like the first one and act as real explorations of these issues and conflicts while still keeping the OTT action of the sequels and I just don't think that approach works.
I don't expect the character is looking for trouble or hurting anyone other than the bad guys. Once provoked.
I’m going to see it this weekend and this review is encouraging in that his ranking of the Rambo films mirrors mine, 1,4,2,3.
Fingers crossed 🤞
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=b7sHuC_DsCo
That’s a very interesting point. I never thought of it like that before.
I was quite disappointed with the new movie. It felt like a script for a Taken knockoff that was written 10 years. Very dated and the Rambo character could have been replaced with any grizzled old man character.
Yeah I agree, most of it felt more like an original straight to DVD action film than a Rambo film to me.
I actually sort of want a sixth film now. I don't like the idea of this low point being the last one. But then I said that after the fourth film, that he should make one more to go out on a high, and instead we got something even worse. Maybe Rambo's better off being left alone now. I'll always have the first three.
I think it's more how those issues are portrayed. There was no nuance to it. Mexico is a grim dark scary place which seems to be entirely controlled by a cartel who go around raping disfiguring killing and sex trafficking before the old white American hero who tried to warn his surrogate daughter about what a shithole it was brutally murders them. To be fair I've read that the cartels really are that powerful over there, and I guess the Mexican journalist character balances things out slightly by providing some positive representation, but it still felt like a really nasty and exploitative take imo, even more than the fourth one did. I genuinely think that Sly's heart is in the right place and that he feels like he's bringing attention to these real world issues but grisley gore filled revenge porn isn't the best way to spotlight them imo.
Don't think it's anything to do with sensitivity around the subject. Breaking Bad and Sicario were both fairly recent and both of those were critically acclaimed.
I'm seeing it this coming week, and I am still very much excited for it, despite the sceptic reports. ;-)
OMG. What a nonsense film. And Sly. How grumpy can you be.
MOD EDIT: Watch the language, please.
Bar the first, which was politically interesting, I didn't find the other films to be any good. And I'm a Sly fan. The Balboa films are his crowning glory, not these.
3 is an underrated classic and I'll defend it til the day I die. I like to think that Sly went to see TLD, then went on a massive coke binge and wrote the whole film there and then. Pure cinematic testosterone.
1985 Rambo: First Blood Part II
1988 Rambo III
2008 Rambo
2020 Rambo: Last Blood
So it is possible. Rambo: Last Blood Part II.
The titles of Rambo are a complete mess :)) Rambo III followed by Rambo? The next film should be called Rambo VI: First Blood Part III, Last Blood Part II.
I find it refreshing that some people like II and III so much :-).
Rambo 2 - Kein Mensch, kein Gesetz, kein Krieg kann ihn stoppen
(no man, no law, no war can stop him)
Nice.
British rock band Killing Joke's 2003 album was named "Killing Joke" , after their debut album in 1981 or so was also named the same.
So let's see if we come full full circle and get another First Blood with no appendices :-)).