You're probably all aware of the new Rambo film
slated for January 2008. So, I decided to go back and review the older movies to remind myself who this 61-year-old man is.
It turns out the show is a lot more ambiguous than I remember. Not that anyone's goals in the film aren't clear, but it's just
that I didn't remember
these love scenes being the way they were.
Rambo had a lot of challenges in these movies, although perhaps his greatest enemy was English. A game I tried to play was
to watch
clips of the Rambo films
and see how much of it I could understand. The other odd Rambo phenomenon was how Rambo developed over time.
He started as a post traumatic stress disorderd man who periodically had flashback episodes and whose signature is a giant
Bowie knife that he eviscerates people with. And then suddenly for a period of time in the '80s he was
this:
He was a scholar and a gentleman teaching people about classical pottery in Rambo: Force of Freedom. But no matter
how much his changes may have been baffling, I had to admit that many of them were AMAZING. In Rambo II,
Sylvester Stallone's character actually
MORPHS INTO THE EARTH ITSELF to fight his adversaries.
I can't wait to see the fourth Rambo film. Speculate why on your own.
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