Interested to check out that thrillist piece tho. I saw Rambo IV in the theater but all I remember was a part where he shot a guy with a giant machine gun and the guy basically disintegrated, dont even remember what continent it took place on
― One Eye Open, Friday, 31 May 2019 00:50 (four years ago) link
xpost I didn't mean the movie was complicated, just the Afghanistan scenario.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 31 May 2019 00:55 (four years ago) link
I don't believe in guilty pleasures but I make an exception for the Rambo movies - bar First Blood, easily the best and least problematic entry in the series; contra his first post, Soto's follow-up implies (correctly) that it's not politically coherent/consistent enough to qualify as "right wing pulp." The rest are progressively uglier "do we get to win this time?" fantasies. I'm not proud of myself for liking them, even if "Rambo: First Blood Part II" is some kind of camp classic. But I do. God help me, I'm even looking forward to the new one.
― thewufs, Friday, 31 May 2019 01:27 (four years ago) link
can't believe they didnt call this one Tired Blood
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 September 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
looking fwd to Armond's rave
― omar little, Friday, 20 September 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
They should just call it "Blood."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 September 2019 18:14 (four years ago) link
"Blood Transfusion"
― Fox Pithole Britain (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 September 2019 18:15 (four years ago) link
“Rocky Blood”
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 20 September 2019 20:11 (four years ago) link
Wise Blood's already taken.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 20 September 2019 21:09 (four years ago) link
wow so last blood is absolutely fucking vile, huh
― Receive Your Simulated Fluids Before The End of The Year! (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 14 December 2019 15:25 (four years ago) link
The first one's politics are bat shit. 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
Batshit and hilarious. If I catch it on TV I always watch it.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 14 December 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
First Blood is great. Haven't seen the others and haven't felt a compulsion to.This, on the other hand: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambo:_The_Force_of_Freedom
― Welcome to the Sandwich Trough (Old Lunch), Saturday, 14 December 2019 16:05 (four years ago) link
first blood is greatiii is incredible in its entirely unique mix of greased-muscle homoerotica and full-throated support for the brave fighters of the mujahideenlast blood is a sickening display of anti-mexican torture porn which ends with a gang of drug lords being murdered in rambo’s backyard viet cong-style network of boobytrapped underground tunnels
― Receive Your Simulated Fluids Before The End of The Year! (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 14 December 2019 16:11 (four years ago) link
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.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 14 December 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
murdered AND mutilated i should have said in that last entry
― Receive Your Simulated Fluids Before The End of The Year! (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 14 December 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
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
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 28 May 2021 00:25 (two years ago) link
long hair
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 May 2021 00:29 (two years ago) link
First Blood is a masterpieceanti copanti 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
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 28 May 2021 00:33 (two years ago) link
iirc Rambo kills a helicopter with a rock
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 May 2021 00:36 (two years ago) link
iirc only one person dies in the first Rambo!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 May 2021 00:39 (two years ago) link
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
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 28 May 2021 00:45 (two years ago) link
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
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 28 May 2021 00:57 (two years ago) link
^ OTM on every count.Thank u for reminding that Cosmatos directed Part II, guess I need to see that real soon.
― Jerome Percival Jesus (Old Lunch), Friday, 28 May 2021 01:03 (two years ago) link
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!
― calzino, Friday, 28 May 2021 01:11 (two years ago) link
he cuts a pizza with scissors too
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 28 May 2021 01:14 (two years ago) link
lol I remember that bit now!
― calzino, Friday, 28 May 2021 01:15 (two years ago) link
tbf Jamie Oliver probably does the same
― calzino, Friday, 28 May 2021 01:17 (two years ago) link
F.I.S.T. might also be prime for a rewatch seeing as though I've watched The Irishman about 5 times now
― calzino, Friday, 28 May 2021 01:22 (two years ago) link
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
― Jerome Percival Jesus (Old Lunch), Friday, 28 May 2021 01:40 (two years ago) link
Also: Cobretti. Again: Cobretti.
― Jerome Percival Jesus (Old Lunch), Friday, 28 May 2021 01:41 (two years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Friday, 28 May 2021 10:20 (two years ago) link
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.
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
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 28 May 2021 10:56 (two years ago) link
Best thing about Cobra is that it's a Christmas movie.
― in a bar, under the (seandalai), Friday, 28 May 2021 12:17 (two years ago) link
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?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 May 2021 12:32 (two years ago) link
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.
― earlnash, Friday, 28 May 2021 12:53 (two years ago) link
― 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
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 28 May 2021 12:57 (two years ago) link
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
― Jerome Percival Jesus (Old Lunch), Friday, 28 May 2021 14:16 (two years ago) link
https://thedissolve.com/features/forgotbusters/749-cobra-gave-the-1980s-the-dirty-harry-knockoff-it-d/
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 May 2021 14:19 (two years ago) link
you have a life preserver? ... 'cause your french fries are drowning in there
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 28 May 2021 19:00 (two years ago) link