'Rambo' - C or D?

What I love about it is how a product of the US military completely completely goes off on civilians and police.

Similar to Mr.X's monologue in JFK. The same network trained to commit imperialist war crimes in country after country turning in on itself.

murdered AND mutilated i should have said in that last entry

Was rewatching the first Rambo, which I've always liked fine, but I could never figure out why the cops in this small town don't like him so much. What is their problem?

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, September 1, 2016 12:14 PM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

acab

long hair

First Blood is a masterpiece

anti cop
anti military

watched the first three this week because i was sick and ii is directed by my dude george p cosmatos so i figured, why not? i fully fell in love first blood, it's a reverse horror movie that takes place largely in a forest wreathed in fog, and it's so mournful and sad. low body count weighs weird considering what comes after, iirc only a few dogs and a cop die, and the cop's death is an accident out of self-defense. small town sheriff's department on a power trip seems completely aligned with reality to me, even if the actual politics animating it are way more opaque

first blood part ii is such wild fascist wish fulfillment that i just imagine he hallucinates this entire film during his breakdown in the first film. it fuckin rules though. exploding arrows and a fuckin helicopter chase... cinema

iirc Rambo kills a helicopter with a rock

iirc only one person dies in the first Rambo!

the scene in ii where sly grabs the microphone and says "murdock... i'm coming to get you" has to be one of the greatest sequences in action movie history

george p. cosmatos also directed sly in cobra which, like first blood ii, is a total fascist fever dream and a movie i love dearly for how little it seems to take place in reality

^ OTM on every count.

Thank u for reminding that Cosmatos directed Part II, guess I need to see that real soon.

Cobra is one of them movies I eagerly picked up in the video store in the 80's but barely remember anything about it other than chewing a cocktail stick or a match makes you nuff hard!

he cuts a pizza with scissors too

lol I remember that bit now!

tbf Jamie Oliver probably does the same

F.I.S.T. might also be prime for a rewatch seeing as though I've watched The Irishman about 5 times now

Cobra is an amazing exhibition of try-hard badass behavior which is a) uniformly weird and b) almost always performed for an audience of one so who are you even trying to impress rn, Cobretti

Also: Cobretti. Again: Cobretti.

Is this a film that could have had a different legacy if a different director and star had been picked.
Trying to think how good First blood was as a book. I think it is a scenario that has been replayed elsewhere and not given birth to a bunch of progressively dumb gung ho sequels. Drifter turning out to be much more capable of looking after themself than first thought.
Are there any Darwin awards handed out to people who've picked up on weapon use from this series.

Yes, the Veterans were Spit On, but the police chief (Brian Dennehy!) treats Rambo like a hippie, so the director Ted Kotcheff has it both ways.

― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 May 2019 bookmarkflaglink

weren't a lot of vets also hippies? and hippies also vets?

Disappointed that no one itt mentioned the depressingly sad First Blood end credits song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTPO3Q5DJrE

Best thing about Cobra is that it's a Christmas movie.

And of course James Cameron wrote Part II, right?

Cobra, I don't think I've ever seen it, but boy do I remember the poster and tagline. I wonder what action movie was the first to use laser scopes?

The 'get back to 'Nam and set s#1t right' genre started a few years before Rambo II.

Rambo II was made because Uncommon Valor and Missing in Action made a s#1t ton of money.

Best thing about Cobra is that it's a Christmas movie.

― in a bar, under the (seandalai), Friday, May 28, 2021 5:17 AM (thirty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is also one of my favorite things about first blood

The second best thing about Cobra is that the villains are axe-clanking quasi-satanist NWO-ers.

The third best thing about Cobra is the trivia that this movie was somehow adapted from the same source material:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f1/a3/a8/f1a3a80cef7a342ff92c1ee71aa2ac52.jpg

https://thedissolve.com/features/forgotbusters/749-cobra-gave-the-1980s-the-dirty-harry-knockoff-it-d/

you have a life preserver? ... 'cause your french fries are drowning in there