Rambo Returns One Last Time.

Biggins

Todays Times (England) reports that Rambo will be returning again.

Excerpt:

In news that will surprise few — given the Hollywood star’s soft spot for sequels — Stallone has said that he is hard at work on the first draft of a script that will send off the gung-ho character of John Rambo in a “blaze of glory”.

In an MTV interview, Stallone talked bafflingly of the “destiny” of his iconic Vietnam veteran: “It’s one thing where you lay down the final culmination of your life where you can articulate it, but also act on it where he realizes what his destiny really is, It’s not to be a farmer, it’s not to be obscure - it’s to go out in a blaze of glory in a heroic fashion.
“But is he really doing it for himself or is he doing it because that’s just his id? That’s who he is.”

Stallone suggested that the fifth film, which has been been on and off the cards since 2008, would be set around Mexico, with the troubled mercenary taking on a drug cartel. “I like the whole Mexican situation, what’s going on down there. So I’m working on a formula for it right now.”

Source: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/film/article3402337.ece

So one more time around the block for the man with this character.
Here's hoping it a good finale.

johnny_ultimate

If it's half as funny as the last Rambo, it will be the comedy of the year.

krudler

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

If it's half as funny as the last Rambo, it will be the comedy of the year.

the finale of that was brilliant to see with a crowd of lads on opening night, you could tell every girl who was dragged there by her OH was hating it while he was grinning like a loon with the rest of us :pac:

Goldstein

This appears to be one for the unpoopular opinions thread but I thought the last one was a decent enough action flick. Of course it wasn't the least bit grounded in reality or political correctness but the name of the movie should have tipped us off to that. It delivered what its trailer promised (minus a couple of lines in the theatrical release - "long time" for instance) and had no illusions about being anything other than what it was. I was surprised it was as uncompromising as it was in the end.

C'mon, there's a small part of the inner rambo in us that was laughing/cheering towards the end.

Otis Driftwood

I have to say,I loved the last one,pure cheesey goodness but it knew it from the outset.

There is a guy on another forum I post on and he was with the US Marines in Afghanistan and he said the effects in it,such as what happens to a human body when it gets hit by heavy artillery,were as realistic as anything he has ever seen.

More of the same please!

Roar

Yes! Yes! A million times yes!

niallon

Who can complain about a Rambo film really? As said above, it's one of the few films of the last decade that actually delivered everything the synopsis and marketing promised. Only gripe I'd have is I thought the last one was a perfect send off for the character, a sort of finally fed up with living a war kinda thing, and coupled with Rocky Balboa was one of Sly's finest hours. Sequel will ruin all of that

johnny_ultimate

Goldstein wrote: »

This appears to be one for the unpoopular opinions thread but I thought the last one was a decent enough action flick. Of course it wasn't the least bit grounded in reality or political correctness but the name of the movie should have tipped us off to that. It delivered what its trailer promised (minus a couple of lines in the theatrical release - "long time" for instance) and had no illusions about being anything other than what it was. I was surprised it was as uncompromising as it was in the end.

C'mon, there's a small part of the inner rambo in us that was laughing/cheering towards the end.

No, I agree that it's a very entertaining film, but it's also this almost unequaled contradiction of a movie. On one hand you have the hilariously awful and over-earnest dramatic elements: it's genuinely impossible to take the mumbling Stallone seriously in the emotive scenes. Hilarious how they try to counter the grim 'realistic' violence with the full on one-man genocide that comes later. On the other you have this insanely visceral action movie: so mental, so darkly comic, so extraordinarily ultraviolent you can't help but admire it. Really, Hollywood hasn't made anything like it before or since. It's a beautifully repugnant contradiction. God awful yet strangely brilliant. It's almost impossible to look away from the screen. That bit with the turret gun transcends stupidity to become something almost spiritual.

It's also one of the best cinema experiences I've ever had, matched only by The Raid recently. The whole cinema was in hysterics when it was required, jeering occasionally as Stallone stumbled and grumbled through his way through painful lines of dialogue, and cheering Rambo on as he overcame great adversity by making people explode in showers of ludicrous gore. The audience all seemed to 'get' it. We embraced the stupidity, were in awe of the brute force of the action. And we all gave it a genuine yet highly ironic standing ovation at the end, so entertained were we for the duration.

There's nothing quite like Rambo, and frankly the consistent flow of contradictions make it extremely difficult to figure out what the **** Stallone was trying to achieve or say when he made it. Never mind though, it really doesn't matter.

Mocha Joe

First Blood is such a great movie, one of my all time favourites. A proper character with a decent storyline. It was absolutely gripping first time I seen it. It has a fantastic ending aswell. It's strange watching that one now after what it's become.

Jimmy Iovine

I hope this happens. The last one was brilliant. Not brilliant in the whole making any sense aspect but it was just pure entertainment. Must give it a watch tomorrow again.

Sindri

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

That bit with the turret gun transcends stupidity to become something almost spiritual.

Actually lol'd at this.

Lionel Messy

Rambo kicks ass, this is good news.

Duggy747

I have never laughed so hard in a cinema before or since Rambo 4. I was in tears at the end of Rambo's slaughtering.

The sister and her fiance went to see it since she loved Rambo movies. He was bored shìtless and she thought it was great craìc. :pac:

It was a crap movie but, man, I had great fun with it just like all the other Rambos (The 1st being a genuinely good movie). Probably one of the only sequels that didn't disappoint at all in recent years. You knew what to expect from Rambo.

I can never say no to another Rambo movie

Simian!

“I like the whole Mexican situation, what’s going on down there."

Not a trace of irony. Over 12,000 drug-related killings in 2011 and more than 15,000 in 2010. Based on previous form Rambo could top that number in the space of a couple of hours.

Fysh

Mocha Joe wrote: »

First Blood is such a great movie, one of my all time favourites. A proper character with a decent storyline. It was absolutely gripping first time I seen it. It has a fantastic ending aswell. It's strange watching that one now after what it's become.

Yeah, it's really strange watching First Blood and seeing how well it handles its subject matter - yes, it's an action film, but there's an underlying point to it all. The sequels threw that away, and by the time we hit part 3 we were in total farce-land ("Noble mujahideen" my hole!).

Having re-watched First Blood a while back it strikes me how well it works by itself and how odd it seems to have sequels (particularly tonally-different sequels) where the obvious emotional problems his experiences have lumbered him with are ignored.

Cokeistan

Hopefully he unleashes another 50 cal on an entire mexican drugs cartel, should be just as funny as the last one

Galvasean

Is it true that Rambo blitzed the record for most on screen deaths (previously held by Equilibrium IIRC)?

Sleepy

Was the death toll really that high in Equilibrium? Must re-watch it, don't remember it being noticeably higher than the likes of the earlier Rambo / Commando movies

paddyismaddy

live for nothing, or die for something - hell yeah

Cork boy 55

Don't recall much of Rambo 4 other than it was crap (IMO)
and a loud of noise but thats what you get on the tin with a rambo sequel

just looking at wiki


Reception in Myanmar


The film is currently banned by the Myanmar government. The military junta has ordered DVD vendors in Myanmar not to distribute the film due to the movie's content.[27] Despite having never been released there theatrically or on DVD, Rambo is, however, available there in bootleg versions. Despite the film being unpopular among some of the population due to the negative portrayal of the Tatmadaw, the opposition youth group Generation Wave copied and distributed the film as anti-Tatmadaw propaganda.[28] According to Karen Freedom Fighters, the movie gave them a great boost of morale. Myanmarese Freedom Fighters have even adopted dialogue from the movie (most notably "Live for nothing, or die for something") as rallying points and battle cries. "That, to me," said Sylvester Stallone, "is one of the proudest moments I've ever had in film."[27] Also, overseas Myanmarese have praised the movie for its vivid portrayal of the military's oppression of the Karen people

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambo_%28film%29

Zardoz

Goldstein wrote: »

The fourth film was worth the admission price for the above scene alone.:)

Otis Driftwood

Galvasean wrote: »

Is it true that Rambo blitzed the record for most on screen deaths (previously held by Equilibrium IIRC)?

Im pretty sure that honour is still held by Premutos.

DrumSteve

I can't wait for this, I loved that last Rambo film. It felt like an old school 80's movie, but present day (obv.)

Galvasean

Sleepy wrote: »

Was the death toll really that high in Equilibrium? Must re-watch it, don't remember it being noticeably higher than the likes of the earlier Rambo / Commando movies

Equilibrium has an obscenely high on screen death toll. People die with reckless abandon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S9fnYGKIf0

Otis Driftwood wrote: »

Im pretty sure that honour is still held by Premutos.

Just watched a trailer for that on youtube. Looks mad.

TheDoc

Ill never say bad word about Rambo. Loed them as a kid , still loved them.Ill gladly overlook anything poor and come out thinking it was the bestthing ever.

Loved the last one

And know since we essetially know hes going to die , I cant wait for the genocide to begin

OldeCinemaSoz

Sly could be well known as the last great action hero.

And who would have thought it?

In these days of losers like street ham, it's great to see
the olde boy putting on the gloves yet again.



And roll on The Nees in taken 2.

:cool:

Galvasean

TheDoc wrote: »

And know since we essetially know hes going to die , I cant wait for the genocide to begin

He better take a whole continent with him