The Shrine

So, you gonna go see it? Do you care at all?

After the surprising awesomeness of Rocky Balboa, Stallone's earned another ticket from me.

I want to see it, will probably rent it when it enters the home video realm.

Zeus wrote:So, you gonna go see it? Do you care at all?

After the surprising awesomeness of Rocky Balboa, Stallone's earned another ticket from me.

Id like to see the new Rambo... but it has nothing to do with the crappiness that was Rocky Balboa. Ugh, you liked that one?...

I remember my childhood days of watching Rambo without my parents permission. It was sheer awesomeness. Nostalgia earns my ticket price. Which Hollywood has been banking on for years, this is no different i suppose than Transformers. Which sucked.

Bring it on! The teaser from a year ago sold me on it.

What is wrong with you people? Fucking sheep.

SineSwiper wrote:What is wrong with you people? Fucking sheep.

You have to explain this one....

Flip, I loved Rocky Balboa. I thought it was a good a film as the first two and an amazing ending to a great series. Just ignore Rocky V, we shall never speak of it again.

What was so great with Rambo? I think the best part of Rambo was when Weird Al made fun of it.

SineSwiper wrote:What was so great with Rambo? I think the best part of Rambo was when Weird Al made fun of it.

First Blood was a spectacular psychological action flick, that's what made it so damned popular and what took Stallone to superstardom (along with Rocky). Rocky 2 was just a very entertaining and fun action flick. The 3rd is pretty lame but watchable.

Two years ago I would have cried at the prospect of another Rambo flick but Stallone's earned another ticket from me with Rocky 6. I like the series enough.

SineSwiper wrote:What was so great with Rambo? I think the best part of Rambo was when Weird Al made fun of it.

First Blood and the first Rocky are both powerful, intelligent films. It's easy to forget or not realise this given the direness of the following entries in both franchises.

Then why is it associated with such male-charged bullshit? You just don't see the same type of reaction to these movies than to any other movie I can think of, except something mindless that Dolph Lungren or Jean-Claude would produce.

They're both masculine films. This doesn't preclude their being good.

(The sequels are even more stereotypically masculine, but not good.)

Have you seen either of them? At this point I am guessing no. The rule!!

Well, with all of the hype bullshit, I have no desire to see either of them.

Yep, there it is.

There what is? I never said or implied that I saw either of them.

SineSwiper wrote:I never said or implied that I saw either of them.

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SineSwiper wrote:I think the best part of Rambo was when Weird Al made fun of it.

SineSwiper wrote:What is wrong with you people? Fucking sheep.

I know you well enough to understand that you feel qualified to make judgements like these with no real knowledge of what you're judging. You need to realise, though, that to do so is not rational. You are a pod.

I am a pod? Is that like an iPod? Pod people? P.O.D., the band? One of those POD storage thingies?

Jerry Seinfeld wrote:Let me explain something to you. You see, you're not normal. You're a great guy, I love you, but — you're a pod. I, on the other hand, am a human being. I sometimes feel anxious, uncomfortable, even inhibited in certain situations with the other human beings. You wouldn't understand.

Cosmo Kramer wrote:Yeah, 'cause I'm a pod.

I still didn't understand that joke. I guess it's because I'm a pod.

SineSwiper wrote:There what is? I never said or implied that I saw either of them.

Watch the first film of each each. Your mentality is like my wife's who refuses to see Fight Club because she thinks it's about men fighting. Neither of those movies are anything close to what you think they are.

EDIT: believe it or not, both of those flicks are far closer to being character dramas (a la Six Feet Under) then straight-up action films like you seem to think they are

Zeus wrote:So, you gonna go see it? Do you care at all?

After the surprising awesomeness of Rocky Balboa, Stallone's earned another ticket from me.

Yes and yes. Like BL, the teaser hooked me in a long time ago.

Andrew, Killer Bee wrote:Have you seen either of them? At this point I am guessing no. The rule!!

Indeed. The rule!

SineSwiper wrote:I still didn't understand that joke. I guess it's because I'm a pod.

let me explain it better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAOxY_nHdew

Especially violent trailer!!!!

http://www.movieweb.com/video/V07IbcdmwAOPTW