Stallone talks about it a bit:
http://www.mania.com/56647.html
John Rambo - Rambo IV.
Holy shit. I actually liked this film.
The plot is very simple and tight with only a few holes in the plot. One is sort of glaring towards the end, but it's easily ignored as the film is entertaining.
I should warn that it's not for the squeamish. They ratchet up the gore factor by about 1000.
And the brutality...one scene in particular gave me flashbacks of Caligula.
Imagine an episode of the A-Team except instead of nobody hitting anything, everyone does and they're using exploding bullets.
The plot is very simple and tight with only a few holes in the plot. One is sort of glaring towards the end, but it's easily ignored as the film is entertaining.
I should warn that it's not for the squeamish. They ratchet up the gore factor by about 1000.
And the brutality...one scene in particular gave me flashbacks of Caligula.
Imagine an episode of the A-Team except instead of nobody hitting anything, everyone does and they're using exploding bullets.
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
There's only three scenes in that flick that really stand out as shining examples of high violence.Leisher wrote:And the brutality...one scene in particular gave me flashbacks of Caligula.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Any Blu Ray review loses half a star when you can't skip the previews.
Goddammit.
Also good transfer, though I wonder about the audio options... I have a 5.1 speaker system, but the only audio options were 7.1 in English, or 5.1 in French. I wonder if I lost some of my audio watching 7.1 on a 5.1 system.
Goddammit.
Also good transfer, though I wonder about the audio options... I have a 5.1 speaker system, but the only audio options were 7.1 in English, or 5.1 in French. I wonder if I lost some of my audio watching 7.1 on a 5.1 system.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
I want the a/v quality of a dedicated bluray player, with HDMI cable, but with movies stored on a hard drive and accessible through a winamp-style media library.
Is anyone doing that, yet?
Oh, I should add that the Rambo BD came with a second disk that was a digital version of the movie for use on an iTunes or whatever.
Is anyone doing that, yet?
Oh, I should add that the Rambo BD came with a second disk that was a digital version of the movie for use on an iTunes or whatever.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."