Just seen Rambo..

Why did they bother, as soon as I saw "NU IMAGE" I thought "this is going to be cheap" some of the effects look like they came out of "Shogun Assassin" and sly at one point looked like superman running through the jungle, this is just another naff film, don't waste your time and money.
 
Saw this yesterday, I don't know what to make of it. It was a weird experience. Sly hardly speaks (good thing or bad, you decide) and the violence is hard hitting and almost constant throughout the film. I am all for violence in a film and can stomach most things, but there were a few instances in this were I did feel slightly uncomfortable watching this. It wasn't so much the blood splatting parts but more to do with any scenes involving children and voilence towarRAB them.
The scene where a screaming young boy is grabbed from his mothers arms and flung like a rag doll into a burning house to burn him alive, and the scene were a young girl is shot in the stomach and one of the army guys proRAB her wound with the barrel of his rifle to inflict more pain on her are two cases in particular.
I was glad to see some good old 80's style violence back on the screen, but at times it seemes a bit too much, and the scenes of women being attacked (and the suggestion that they were about to be raped) didn't sit well with me. I will applaud Stallone for doing something most films of the past decade have been afraid to do, but I think people have become used to the whole toned down action film so that when they see a modern one, it just seems weird, over the top and uncomfortable to watch.

I thought the hour and a half went, well, very quickly. No sooner had he helped the aid workers he found himself saving them, and then the credits roll. There didn't seem to be too much talking in the film either, just killing and bodies flying apart. I think this is a marmite film, people will either love it or hate it, there will not be many who can say they just thought of it as "OK". I'm still undecided.

Paddy :D
 
Hiya

I saw this film last night and I was just wondering if the footage used at the very beginning of the film was real or made for the film.

Thanks
 
Thanks for the replies, thats what I thought, they look too real which troubles me deeply on a few levels. Not only are we seeing people hurt when we are watching something to entertain us but people are making money from these films showing this. I do not just mean this film and I am not singling it out and I am not having a go at anyone, I don't know enough about it to hold a debate on the subject and I know images like this are used in different ways by different people and in different films but it just happens to be this one I saw and made me think, I'm watching someone suffering in the name of entertainment and paying for the privilege of doing so.
 
Well, that was the quickest hour and a half I've ever had.

And for those people who are all "oooooooh nooooooooo, mindless violence :( :( :(", well what the hell did you expect from a Rambo film? A romantic comedy where Rambo adopts a child who pisses his pants all the time, but grows to love it, and he falls in love with the boy's mother?

And yeah, the guy who played School Boy was in Corronation Street. He also did a song with Destiny's Child before people cared about them.
 
i agree with you. i can stomach A LOT of violence but there was something about this that sickened me. probably the fact stallone thought he was making a 'serious' film when in fact it is just a trashy 80s actioneer which used gang rape and graphic murder of kiRAB to make you REALLY hate the bad guys.

"oh look they aren't just killing children THEY ARE THROWING THEM ALIVE INTO A FIRE!!" etc etc

and as for him not using much CGI - what??? the film was FULL of it. most of the scenes of people being blown up, shot to pieces etc were CGI!
 
I saw this yesterday afternoon & if you like seeing body parts being thrown about then this is the film for you.I enjoyed the film even though i thought at times it was pretty graphic.Also i felt uneasy when the young child was shot as you actually saw it happen.
 
I've enjoyed all the Rambo films but no 1 reigns supreme as it was by far the most down to earth & the best.

It's a pity Richard Crenna died the movies will not be same with him.
 
Saw it this afternoon.. and absolutely loved it.

I usually hate this kind of movie. Well, at least I thought I did...I'm a big wuss really, don't really like blood spattering everywhere. I've even avoided watching Saving Private Ryan because of the 'beach scene' lol:o. Only reason I went to watch Rambo was cos my mates were so desperate to see it, so I reluctantly tagged along.

Mindless violence pretty much sums up the film, although the
massacre scenes, along with the scene with the decomposing bodies
were quite disturbing.

If you like people being blown to smithereens then this is a must watch. Even if you don't, you may turn out to like it like I did.

Thouroughly enjoyable, 8.5/10
 
Saw it last night, great film, finally good to see an old franchise return that isn't butchered by Movie Studios to be more family friendly, well done Sly for keeping that Rambo feel and making a full out violent film us Rambo fans love! :D
 
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