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Bold & Angry Old Rambo Movie
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I wanted to like this but couldn't
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It kind of feels like they cut a lot out. The movie zips along at very fast pace. I for one really liked it. It's a different kind of violence than we've seen in previous Rambo movies. More personal, and vengeful. There's one scene where he literally rips a man's collar bone out of his neck and threatens to snap it if he doesn't share intel. I've never seen anything like that in a movie before. The violence is very over-the-top and in-your-face, but it's all directed at sex traffickers, so it's very satisfying. They could have made them more evil though. At the end, they just come off like a trained militia force, but it doesn't really fit their profile. Movie has some issues, main one for me is that I would like to have seen the impact of what he accomplished liberate people. That's something all Rambo movies have had in the past, but you don't get that here. It kind of doubles down on this notion that "Mexico is garbage and the government doesn't give a shit" (which may or may not be true) but overall I really enjoyed it and welcome it to the franchise.
If anything, the new film ensures that Rambo's final note is painful. The end of Last Blood reinforces the tragedy that Rambo represents as a character. It's a very dark film, yet we do get to see him in his most functional, domesticated state at the start of the film. By the end, he's a monster who is prepared to violently kill any Mexicans who dare cross onto his property. It's the ultimate old man Rambo movie. Unapologetic, vengeful, and lonely. Not exactly necessary, but very timely.
To me, it felt like Rambo had inherited bottom of the barrel American souls -the one bit of happiness left to a Nam vet in the form of some failure's abandoned flock, on the Southern border no less, where human life is cheap. Thematically, it makes sense. This is the family he inherits -abandoned souls just like him and all the others who fought a war and came back only to be rejected by the very country they fought for.
I got a sense this was him feeling out his enemy. Experiencing what they were made of. They were really just a bunch of pussies in the end compared to what Rambo was capable of.
For sure. And it looks great, really well produced with high profile casting. But man, this script was horrendous. It was like they had 6 different ideas for a sequel and they decided to merge them all into one story.
I consider Green Lantern in the top 10. Doesn't even come close to the worst.
He really should come back. DC would just be making another error and show of insecurity if they didn't acknowledge the previous effort. Reynolds would also give his Deadpool character a ton of hilarious material if he had to walk back all negativity on Green Lantern. Deep down, everyone knows Green Lantern is the superior character.
Yea I think you could do a sequel easily while saving face by not "remaking" it. I mean if Sam Jackson can star in a sequel to shaft called "Shaft", anything is possible. Also speaking of Disney horror, this bootleg collection of movies is amazing: [url]https://etsy.me/2ZrqGwF[/url] It actually includes the original cut of Watcher in the Woods which has never been released before.
Aside from the fact that for 1984, nothing quite like this had ever been done before, it's the genre blending that always kept me and many others interested. It's all at once a comedy, horror, and sci-fi FX movie, with all kinds of A-list production value to boot. The 2016 remake revealed it to be much more of a formula and branding effort, so it's obvious that there's tons of lightening in a bottle that made the original work so well, but you really need to have a pre-internet origin for your childhood to fully appreciate its cultural impact. I had the toys, watched the cartoon, and loved the sequel.
I was really excited about the video game, but somewhat disappointed with the writing. Like the Evil Dead TV show, the third act was all fan service, relishing or recycling its former glory as opposed to being present and clever while still cutting edge, and moving the story forward.
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