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Rambo
Feb 1, 2008 20:16:32 GMT -5
Post by Wraith on Feb 1, 2008 20:16:32 GMT -5
I have to say this was the most insanely violent movie I have ever seen. Most of the violence is very well done, but the village slaughter was too much for me. The final scene involves Rambo turning people into fountains of blood with a .50 machine gun.
Don't look for good plot, dialogue, acting, and characterization. Just violence. More than enough to please any gorehound.
It's not a great movie, or even a good movie. The plot is pretty typical. There's even and unlikable pacifist character who you know is either going to die or have a chang of heart.
It was the year's silly-black-and-white-morality-action movie. But unlike 300 the violence had real impact.
My rating: 5/10
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Rambo
Feb 1, 2008 20:34:36 GMT -5
Post by Mirabilis on Feb 1, 2008 20:34:36 GMT -5
I had no idea they'd even made another Rambo movie! (Remind me NOT to add this one to my list of "must see" DVDs. )
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Rambo
Feb 2, 2008 9:50:35 GMT -5
Post by Aedh on Feb 2, 2008 9:50:35 GMT -5
Insane violence? Awright!! It sounds from your description that this one's worthy of being seen in-theatre!
*goes to check showtimes*
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Rambo
Feb 2, 2008 11:53:00 GMT -5
Post by Wraith on Feb 2, 2008 11:53:00 GMT -5
I had no idea they'd even made another Rambo movie! (Remind me NOT to add this one to my list of "must see" DVDs. )Aside from the violence, you're not missing much. I wasn't too interested, but I decided to go see it after people in my class were saying it was the greatest movie in a while. They were exaggerating. There was this old couple in the theater sitting next to me and wouldn't shut up. The wife was freaking at the violence too.
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Rambo
Feb 2, 2008 16:16:33 GMT -5
Post by clericjay on Feb 2, 2008 16:16:33 GMT -5
I haven't seen the other Rambo movies and they have never really attract interest in me. But the trailer of the new one looked pretty good I think. And it has been a rather long time since I have seen a "just-kick-ass-action-movie", so it's time I think... I'll surely will watch it... ;D
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Rambo
Feb 18, 2008 12:31:09 GMT -5
Post by BlackDragon on Feb 18, 2008 12:31:09 GMT -5
And it has been a rather long time since I have seen a "just-kick-ass-action-movie", so it's time I think... I'll surely will watch it... ;D Exactly!! Me too! I grew up watching movies like Rambo, Rocky, Die Hard and Lethal Weapon, so this has to be seen!!
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Rambo
Feb 18, 2008 13:26:51 GMT -5
Post by clericjay on Feb 18, 2008 13:26:51 GMT -5
And it has been a rather long time since I have seen a "just-kick-ass-action-movie", so it's time I think... I'll surely will watch it... ;D Exactly!! Me too! I grew up watching movies like Rambo, Rocky, Die Hard and Lethal Weapon, so this has to be seen!! I will watch it next Thursday! ;D ;D ;D Time for some violence... I have watched many many intelligent movies the last months...
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Rambo
Feb 19, 2008 4:45:42 GMT -5
Post by BlackDragon on Feb 19, 2008 4:45:42 GMT -5
I will watch it next Thursday! ;D ;D ;D Time for some violence... I have watched many many intelligent movies the last months...hehe hell yeah!! It's time to take a break from the intelligent ones!
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Rambo
Feb 27, 2008 7:24:25 GMT -5
Post by aikidoal on Feb 27, 2008 7:24:25 GMT -5
So it looks like Rambo has been dropped from one of the major British theater distributors. Anyone in the UK have any ideas of why? Surely it's not because of violence.
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Rambo
Feb 27, 2008 7:53:23 GMT -5
Post by Mirabilis on Feb 27, 2008 7:53:23 GMT -5
So it looks like Rambo has been dropped from one of the major British theater distributors. Anyone in the UK have any ideas of why? Surely it's not because of violence. No idea but it's a possibility I suppose...although it seems a bit odd when so many other brutal, gratuitously violent and pointless films don't get pulled! *shrug*
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Rambo
Feb 27, 2008 12:46:17 GMT -5
Post by Aedh on Feb 27, 2008 12:46:17 GMT -5
I see that "Rambo" has earned the US Catholic Church's "O" rating for films, meaning that if you go see it, you'd do well to mention that at your next Confession.
As a philosopher by trade, I find their rating system mildly interesting, because they make some attempt to evaluate philosophical, moral, and intellectual content ... a thoughtful movie with some swearing or violence may well earn a better rating than one with the same swearing or violence, but no redeeming ideas or themes. For anyone who's remotely curious, it goes like this:
A-I ... wholesome family fun. Take the kids. Example: "Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana: Best Of Both Worlds."
A-II ... Still family fun, but advise you leave the little ones at home. May contain mischief, hurtful behaviour, or comic vulgarity. Example: "Be Kind, Rewind."
A-III ... Entertainment suitable for adults only. May contain swearing, brief nudity, adult situations such as serious treatment of alcoholism, drugs, domestic violence, violent crime, or adultery. Examples: "Witless Protection; Vantage Point." "The Passion Of The Christ" also earned this rating ... an example of the intellectual factor, since that amount of violence would certainly have gotten it an "O" if the victim had been, say, a teen-aged hitch-hiker.
L (until recently, called A-IV) ... "Limited" adult audience. Lots of swearing, depictions of adultery, naked boobs, drug use, some gratuitous violence. Example" "Charlie Bartlett."
O ... "Objectionable." Graphic violence, sex, full nudity, torture, decapitation, and other fun stuff. Example: "Rambo," not to mention the "Saw" and "Hostel" movies, etc.
"EQ" got an "O." This is an example of moral and intellectual content working against a movie rather than for it. They plainly didn't like the whole bit about "Clerics." "Ultraviolet" found itself in the same boat. They also plainly didn't like "Vice-Cardinal" Daxus and the cross-shaped Arch-Ministry.
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Rambo
Feb 27, 2008 19:46:37 GMT -5
Post by Wraith on Feb 27, 2008 19:46:37 GMT -5
I see that "Rambo" has earned the US Catholic Church's "O" rating for films, meaning that if you go see it, you'd do well to mention that at your next Confession. As a philosopher by trade, I find their rating system mildly interesting, because they make some attempt to evaluate philosophical, moral, and intellectual content ... a thoughtful movie with some swearing or violence may well earn a better rating than one with the same swearing or violence, but no redeeming ideas or themes. For anyone who's remotely curious, it goes like this: A-I ... wholesome family fun. Take the kids. Example: "Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana: Best Of Both Worlds." A-II ... Still family fun, but advise you leave the little ones at home. May contain mischief, hurtful behaviour, or comic vulgarity. Example: "Be Kind, Rewind." A-III ... Entertainment suitable for adults only. May contain swearing, brief nudity, adult situations such as serious treatment of alcoholism, drugs, domestic violence, violent crime, or adultery. Examples: "Witless Protection; Vantage Point." "The Passion Of The Christ" also earned this rating ... an example of the intellectual factor, since that amount of violence would certainly have gotten it an "O" if the victim had been, say, a teen-aged hitch-hiker. L (until recently, called A-IV) ... "Limited" adult audience. Lots of swearing, depictions of adultery, naked boobs, drug use, some gratuitous violence. Example" "Charlie Bartlett." O ... "Objectionable." Graphic violence, sex, full nudity, torture, decapitation, and other fun stuff. Example: "Rambo," not to mention the "Saw" and "Hostel" movies, etc. "EQ" got an "O." This is an example of moral and intellectual content working against a movie rather than for it. They plainly didn't like the whole bit about "Clerics." "Ultraviolet" found itself in the same boat. They also plainly didn't like "Vice-Cardinal" Daxus and the cross-shaped Arch-Ministry. I'm Catholic, and you don't know how junk like this and people like say, William Donahue, frustrate me. It's intriguing to me how these ratings work. It seems rather ridiculous that a violent movie with some meaning gets condemned by these groups while complete junk with no value is apparently ok with them. EG... I've heard criticisms that Hannah Montana would encourage disrespect for adults and wanton materialism, but I'd just condemn it for being stupid. And you'd think they'd object to Witless Protection since it seems to be nothing but lame masturbation jokes judging by the trailer. Typically, I really hate these watchdog groups.
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Rambo
Feb 28, 2008 0:59:38 GMT -5
Post by Aedh on Feb 28, 2008 0:59:38 GMT -5
I'm Catholic, and you don't know how junk like this and people like say, William Donahue, frustrate me. I do know, dude. Trust me. But I'm not saying I agree with them often. I also study what Muslim theologians have to say, even though I don't agree with them often either. Obviously, I don't believe that EQ is objectionable, or I wouldn't be coming up on 4,500 posts on the EQ site. And, while I think they're correct to the extent that I wouldn't take small children to see it, I think their reasons for judging it 'objectionable' are, on the whole, rather shallow. So EQ depicts the world as a bleak and violent place, spiced with mawkish, half-sincere sentimentality and people who make careers by misrepresenting the truth? Hey, dudes ... welcome to a fair allegory of the real world. It's the same with "Ultraviolet," in which I saw rather more than a half-baked remake of "Gloria" thrown together with gratuitous violence and tacit plugs for L'Oreal cosmetics, which is what they saw in it. I wrote an essay illustrating forty points of Paschal symbolism to be found in "Ultraviolet." (I think it's not for nothing that Kurt Wimmer has stated his favourite piece of music is Dvorak's 'Stabat Mater.') But then, I am merely a humble Evil Genius In Residence. I'm beneath them ... but nothing is beneath me. I choose not to be frustrated by people like that, but rather to undermine from within.
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Rambo
Feb 28, 2008 17:52:01 GMT -5
Post by Wraith on Feb 28, 2008 17:52:01 GMT -5
I can see how you can construe the movie as antireligious. The beauty of Eq, though, is that the Tetragrammaton can be equally applied to theocratic and secular regimes.
As for Ultraviolet, hell, there were times it came off as pro-life. Did they at least give it props for that?
This thread just might have to be moved, as it has been officially hijacked now.
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Rambo
Mar 4, 2008 10:56:12 GMT -5
Post by aikidoal on Mar 4, 2008 10:56:12 GMT -5
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Rambo
Mar 2, 2011 22:36:25 GMT -5
Post by Lightfighter on Mar 2, 2011 22:36:25 GMT -5
This movie was incredible. The fact that it took a movie like this to make a very large percentage of the world aware of the plight of the Karen in Burma just goes to show how people are ignorant.
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