God, yeah, I still can't bring myself to watch this one. Am I wrong in remebering the 4th "Rambo" as being quite good, though? With an anti-violence message or at least a "it may sometimes be necessary but it's always a tragedy" type of thing? I recall being impressed by that one, but it was quite some time ago.
Yeah, I'm not sure about the anti-violence message in "Rambo", since in that one he shoots the soldiers of Myanmar so much they explode into actual piece. I think that was one of those "the cycle of violence solves nothing, but we get to watch it continue." Plenty fun, though.
This one is definitely sloppier. "Rambo" made the title character out to be an unstoppable force of nature, a reckoning that comes from the wicked. This one seemed more about how John Rambo is just a man -- honorable, except that it keeps pulling back from that and making him seem immortal again. In that Stallone documentary on Netflix from last year, there's a really interesting bit about the ending to this movie that tells you a little bit as to how Stallone keeps compromising his own vision.
God, yeah, I still can't bring myself to watch this one. Am I wrong in remebering the 4th "Rambo" as being quite good, though? With an anti-violence message or at least a "it may sometimes be necessary but it's always a tragedy" type of thing? I recall being impressed by that one, but it was quite some time ago.
Yeah, I'm not sure about the anti-violence message in "Rambo", since in that one he shoots the soldiers of Myanmar so much they explode into actual piece. I think that was one of those "the cycle of violence solves nothing, but we get to watch it continue." Plenty fun, though.
This one is definitely sloppier. "Rambo" made the title character out to be an unstoppable force of nature, a reckoning that comes from the wicked. This one seemed more about how John Rambo is just a man -- honorable, except that it keeps pulling back from that and making him seem immortal again. In that Stallone documentary on Netflix from last year, there's a really interesting bit about the ending to this movie that tells you a little bit as to how Stallone keeps compromising his own vision.