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RAMBO V Synopsis... Sounds Cool To Me!
Hey Folks, Harry here... with more on the latest RAMBO - here's the official synopsis that has been being faxed around and found itself in my email box. What do I think?
Well, Rambo 2,3 & 4 are all essentially the same movie structurally and thematically. Whereas the original film was almost entirely Rambo as an outsider, having completely given up on authority in his life. This is very different from everything we've seen from this series. The idea of Rambo with a 22 year old sidekick is something I'm not entirely sure of. Though I'm pretty sure it won't be Michael Cera... though Michael Cera being teamed with Rambo hunting something inhuman would probably result in the best film ever made... while high. I'm pretty sure Stallone will go with someone a bit more rough and tumble.
As for people that want Rambo to stay "realistic" - I'd just like to fire back... "ARE YOU FUCKING NUTS?" Because Rambo hasn't been vaguely realistic since the end credits of the first film. RAMBO has pretty much proven that he can wipe out all 3rd world groups of would-be badasses... It is time for him to fight something he doesn't know. Something that actually scares him. Because right now, I'd say Rambo is a man with no fear. He has nothing to lose. That looks to change with this film - and while I understand how it scares some of you - and how most of you feel that it is outside your comfort zone, but I'm pulling for this to work.
My advice to Stallone at this point would be to go PRACTICAL with as much of the creature as possible. To drop the "V" from the title and just have it be RAMBO: THE SAVAGE HUNT. And cast Tony Jaa as the guy in monster suit - and have it so he can be 100% mobile. It'll never happen, but I'm just putting it out there. To me, casting a 7' guy in a big creature suit would just feel clunky. Cast a small, quick and furious combatant in that costume that can really move. Because there's nothing freakier than a small fast horrifying thing. At least that's my take. I'm surely wrong. Here's the synopsis:
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... it would be good to see something of Rambo's father in this film, and the dynamics of the relationship between father and son reconciled. Just a suggestion, Sly.
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Really?
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Really. Shit.
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Sept. 6, 2009, 2:50 p.m. CST
So this is a retooling of that book he bought the rights too?
by Stormwatcher
I remember ordering it from Amazon and reading about 1/3rd. Guy with a massive wolf dog, saves kid in teh forest to start with. Then its all about this human/monster on the loose and the Hunter guy chasing it down....its totally that book then?
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It sounds interesting, but that's a tough idea to take in with such a known character, with known societal enemies for him to take on. Makes me nervous, but I'm down for the ride, but I hope Sly puts together a remarkable production team, cause this sounds like one hell of a feat. finalists have been selected now you can Vote on the best short! http://protectyourbutterfingerbar.yahoo.com/?v=5I4PxnJtk
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rambo vs. predator, but it sounds kool as shit,,the last 3 movies got tired with the whole "rambo wiping out an entire army" thing
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Better than Hitler vs Chuck Norris.
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i wonder if stallone is a fan of days of our lives, where beau brady is one of the main protagonists of the daytime soap.
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I figured it out.
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You Rock Sly!
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the savage cunt
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Sept. 6, 2009, 2:59 p.m. CST
SLY'S PEOPLE/SLY; INCLUDE SOME FRANKENSTEIN STITCHES ON THE MONS
by ironic_name
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DON'T call the Hero JOHN RAMBO and everything is fine. Please don't piss on his grave. What's next? Rocky versus King Kong?
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The part where he's older, and goes after the dragon with his nephew or something like that. I was so ready for more at the end of the last movie. I'm glad this is happening!
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Sept. 6, 2009, 3:01 p.m. CST
Include david caruso in the same job... getting his ass kicked a
by ironic_name
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Shitty.
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that is utter crap. what made first blood great was the shade of plausibility. this is completely the wrong direction.
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...I only really care about Rambo.
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I've been following news on your work on here for a while now. You're the best!
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http://protectyourbutterfingerbar.yahoo.com/?v=5I4PxnJtk
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is a hell of a lot better than AVP.
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Sept. 6, 2009, 3:04 p.m. CST
OLEG swam to nazi germany and killed everyone on das boot
by ironic_name
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if they film it all in the north of canada - can you imagine a COLD Rambo movie, wild forests and icy wilderness? A survival movie.
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Sept. 6, 2009, 3:05 p.m. CST
aw, c'mon jackryne, I came up with rambo: savage cunt yesterday!
by ironic_name
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this sounds bad
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jean claude under the mask!
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...he IS a big creature suit. I myself am "small, quick and furious"...so big creature suits scare me.
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...that this is going to be awesome.
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Wy, oh why, use the Rambo franchise? Create new characters and avoid the obvious problems with connecting this with the Rambo universe. It sounds like a kick ass movie all in it's own, adding Rambo makes is WORSE not better. LISTEN TO ME SLY!!!! Make a NEW hero that we can follow through a series of movies! We need new heroes, but of the old school, not old school heroes remade. It is time Stallone started a NEW franchise!!
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Matthew Marsden needs to come back and kick ass with his sniper rifle!
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with VanDamme as Man in Suit- Now that would be fantastic...
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Good idea for a film, not a good idea for a RAMBO movie because it violates the rules of the fictional universe established in the first 4 moves.<P> It's a textbook jumping of the shark moment. (i hate myself for writing that- it's like the internet won.) <P> Also, by being so far removed from "our" reality it thus sets the entire series in a less real world... This is a problem because it's saying that all that horrific real world footage that gave so much meaning to Rambo 4... well, that wasn't so real... It enables people to be distanced from it, and really you don't want to let the audience off of that hook. That reality was what made Rambo 4 into something more than just a caper movie. It was very honest and showed the sheer brutality of REAL men in a very responsible way. Mr. Stallone, respectfully , If there must be a RAMBO 5 , please take the time to find a real world conflict to represent, because this sounds like a caper and you sir, have much better in you.
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If it weren't Rambo I would be interested.
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Sly optioned it and has converted it into a Rambo story.
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Sept. 6, 2009, 3:13 p.m. CST
...it could still be Blackwater. Just have the creature be...
by FlickaPoo
...especially designed to hunt and kill brown people and Muslim Arabs in particular. Have it drink blood and throw in a bunch of holy communion symbolism and you're set. Don't think that Erik Prince guy wouldn't do it if he could because he would.
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It sounds perfect for that.
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Sept. 6, 2009, 3:16 p.m. CST
Wouldn't it be AWESOME if this "BEAST" in RAMBO 5 was FEMALE????
by GibsonUSA Returns
That would be AWESOME!!
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Sept. 6, 2009, 3:16 p.m. CST
...but you don't know the soldier is actually FEMALE till later.
by GibsonUSA Returns
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This is A great idea with the emphasize you're putting on it. But it doesn't need to be A Rambo movie. Remember when Indiana Jones 4 came out and suddenly it was about Aliens, instead of, mystic forces. I think the same logic applies here. This changes the whole construct of the series. But God Damn either way I've got to see this. How do you sign up to design this creature? I want to be on that team. Damn that sounds like fun.
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Harry, I know EXACTLY what this synopsis is for Rambo V. It's the novle HUNTER by James Byron Huggins. (For those of you who have not read this novel, read it! It is one of the greatest hunting/tracking semi-sci-fi novels written. Loaded with action.) NO, this is NOT robbery on the part of Sly. See...he BOUGHT the rights to the 1999 novel nearly a decade ago. I've been waiting forever for Sly to star in the project; he kept saying that he wanted to make the novel one day. The main character is called Nathaniel Hunter. Just compare the synopsis above for RAMBO V and then check this out - coming straight from the write-up on the back of the novel, which I'm looking at right now. "Nathaniel Hunter could track anyone - or anything - on earth. Now the military desperately needs him for a mission that his ultrasensitive instincts tell him he should refuse. A beast is loose somewhere north of the Arctic Circle. It has already decimated a secret research facility and annihalated a squad of elite military guards. And the raging creature is headed south toward civilization, ready to wreak bloody devestation. It's a job that Hunter can't turn down, but he soon discovers that his prey is terror incarnate, a half-human abomination created by a renegade agency through a serious of outlawed genetic experiments..." Stallone has simply substituted the character of Nathaniel Hunter with RAMBO. This is a FANTASTIC idea on the part of Stallone and I give him much kudos for finding the best way to use this fantastic property that he's owned for a long, long time. I can't wait for this film! Anyone even simi-interested in this new chapter in RAMBO, go out and buy this novel NOW. YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT.
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I'm sure Sly will find a way to make it awesome, though.
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Sept. 6, 2009, 3:19 p.m. CST
There's unrealistic 80's action and then there's bugfuck nuts Sc
by JuanSanchez
Harry - comparing the unrealistic nature of Rambo 2-4 with this concept is complete bullshit.
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Weapon X all the way!
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This is the book cover from Hunter by James Higgins. An unbeatable combination of wilderness adventure, tracker's lore, and high-tech thriller, Hunter offers the most riveting action since Dean Koontz's Watchers. When it comes to action, no one does it better than James Byron Huggins, and Hunter, a pulse-pounding thriller, is his best work yet. Hunter is the ultimate tracker, the world's best. If you're lost, Hunter can find you -- whether you want him to or not. Still, Hunter is particular about the searches he takes on. So when the military men seeking his help are very secretive about the mission they're recruiting him for, Hunter's instincts tell him to refuse. But there is a beast loose somewhere north of the Arctic Circle and it's already charged through a secret research facility, wiping out the elite military squad that had been guarding it. And this raging superhuman monster is headed south for civilization, ready to wreak bloody devastation. It's a job that Hunter can't turn down, but what he discovers here in the wilderness is that terror has a form, that a renegade agency has let a half-human abomination escape into the wild. This almost invulnerable creature was created through a series of outlawed genetic experiments that have left it with a hunger for human blood. And may have made it immortal.
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Sounds like some bizarre movie mash-up. Rambo has been, and should be, grounded in 'reality'. Imagine, for instance, something like an invisible car in a James Bond film. This would be so jarring. What an awful idea. Stay off those steroids Sly!
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Yes Harry, dropping the 'V' from the title is the most important change Stallone could make. WTF!!! This sounds so fucking stupid - Troma stupid. So unbelievably outlandish I call hoax. Fighting an inhuman beast at the arctic circle. Is Stallone on crack? How fucking Bullshit.
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and John Lithgow as the creature. and snow. It worked once it can work again
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Sept. 6, 2009, 3:24 p.m. CST
This has to be fake. Some smart ass noticed the similarity...
by JuanSanchez
between the book and the concept Sly ran by Harry before and saw the talbacker comparisons to Hunter and through this together by replacing Hunter's name with Rambo. It's fake.
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...I don't want to have to see too much of this "Beau" asshole whoever he is. Rambo works alone.
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What happened to a press release?
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Just kill all the special forces members and the sidekick at the beginning of the film (those guys in 4 nearly ruined the movie for me), and make the creature a Predator and you'd be all set.
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Would pay money to see this guaranteed flop. This isn't outside the comfort zone Harry, it's outside the Rambo zone. And not by a little. First you're adding major sci-fi elements (tired, rehashed done before sci-fi elements). Second is turnign it into a buddy cop movie with the 22 yr old. Third, why in the hot fuck would Rambo after 40 years of killing and misery then finally making it home have any reason to go fight mutants in the arctic circle for the US Military? No one on the planet could come up with a plausible reason why Rambo, John J. would give two shits about UNIVERSAL WEREWOLF SOLDIERS at the North Pole. So fucking stupid. This beast must die.
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Seriously. This will become the greatest film ever.
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It's not worth it. I will just put tape on the cover when I buy it and Call it Stallone VS. Amy Winehouse. This is NOT a Rambo movie. I think it will be awesome but it 's not Rambo. Also that write up describes it way better than Harry or even Stallone's call could. Aren't they both professional writers, and yet neither could convey this idea effectively. Epic Fail.
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Sept. 6, 2009, 3:29 p.m. CST
And Rambo doesn't ask "how high?" when the gov says "jump!"
by JuanSanchez
Not anymore. That was the fucking cartoon.
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Stallone's vanishing common sense
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Sept. 6, 2009, 3:30 p.m. CST
...like I said before Mr. Sly, I'll see it no matter what...
by FlickaPoo
...just make it as cool as possible.
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This ISN'T a Rambo movie with new elements added. This IS a wholly different movie with the Rambo name added to cash in.
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Sept. 6, 2009, 3:32 p.m. CST
So in First Blood, he was a then-unknown mutant hunter
by BrandLoyalist
I too am having trouble making this conceptual journey. Here is how someone's IMDB plot summary for First Blood would need to be adjusted: "John Rambo is a Vietnam Veteran, winner of the Medal of Honor for serving his country in the Vietnam war, the last surviving member of the unit he was in, and a future hunter of half-human abominations resulting from illegal genetic experiments. Rambo arrives in a small town, where he is arrested by the abusive local Sheriff..."
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Take the sci-fi element out of this and make it personal. Rambo doesn't give a shit about the military and their problems unless it's personal to him. I duno what you would do but it this is outside the Rambo zone...
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I was excited at first but then after reading this synopsis: this sounds terrible. Rambo is a badass in THIS world, not some world with a mutated BEAST. AND, how are we gonna see RAMBO kill lots and lots of things when there is only ONE thing he can blow up? KILL COUNT = LAME
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I have confidence that Sly can do anything well if he takes time to work on the script and makes quality a focus. He's proven this over and over. Generally, I think the "military genetic" experiment has been done to death, and there's no reason to go there. Still, I have confidence that Sly can pull it off. I think, if this is to be more of a tracking/hunting film than a balls out action film, that Sly should consider just having another solder as the "villian." Perhaps a younger (30ish?) Iraqi/Afghan war vet who's a real badass and has just snapped...have him go crazy in town, shoot some people cause he's having a mental breakdown cause he's disillusioned with life, not necessarily the army or government, but just with a loss of purpose or something non-stereotypical, and then sneak off into the woods of Oregon or northern Canada, and have Sly and a partner or team go after him. The villian would be a sympathetic character of sorts, someone that Rambo almost became himself, had the general not been able to calm him down. It could wind up with the two characters in the forest stalking each other, which would be cool, and Rambo going home and the end, and talking with his dad about war/peace/human nature etc. I understand the idea of Sly hunting a savage creature, but I'm not sure that it necessarily needs to be sci-fi-ish. Rambo teaching about the potential evils of technology feels a bit forced. I see Stallone wanting to deal with the idea of savagery, but the last movie showed how savage mankind can be...having an artificial "savage" man or creature seems beneath Rambo somehow. Still, like I said, I have confidence Stallone could pull it off if he wants. Generally, the human villian is always the scariest villian. The evil within mankind is scariest, and I think trying to portray that evil with some sort of genetic experiment is not really Rambo's area of strength. The franchise is about two things: asskicking and humanity. I see the attempt at playing with the nature of humanity here, and I see that Rambo fighting a real "savage" could be cool, but I'd drop the "genetic manipulation" angle, and just have the guy doped up or trained into having no conscience and being a badass killer - a real peer to Rambo, who for whatever reason, went the other way (the dark side). On a side note, I still prefer the Rambo movies set in a forest or jungle of some sort, and I LOVED the high body count and brutality of the most recent film. Going for a "tracking/hunting with some action" movie could be a cool change, so long as it's done very well and it doesn't get too bogged down. If Rambo does have a partner, I'd rather see the person be younger, and not be killed off; let them be pretty badass too. If there's a squad, let them be killed off, but maybe one or two live. The Mexico idea...Rambo in the desert usually isn't as good to me. So far as the Predator idea goes, why not just get permission to make a Predator starring Rambo? The studio's should love the crossover, it would be Stallone's take on the franchise that we could compare to swartzenaggers, and people would pay out the nose to see it just cause the idea sounds so badass - it wouldn't even have to be a dramatic "part of the Rambo franchise" type of film. Just something for fun. I say make two or three more Rambo films. So long as Stallone is making them, I'll pay to see'm. The last 10 minutes of the most recent film were the first time I'd felt myself say "holy shit! that was awesome!" while watching an action movie in a long time. Keep it coming Sly.
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I was under the impression that it was just a soldier who has undergone crazy-ultimate-military training and lost his mind and reverted to his basic feral instincts.
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It's nice to see Stallone branch out into television. This will be perfect alongside SyFy's Saturday night feature lineup of Mega Shark VS Giant Octopus and Deep Blue Sea.
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and the R and the A and the M and the B and the O
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Sept. 6, 2009, 3:36 p.m. CST
...I don't know, this isn't so very sci-fi...you could treat...
by FlickaPoo
...this pretty realistically I bet. Rambo is already the ultimate government created killing machine...this just takes it a little further.
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Young, Buff. Seems like a good fit.
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...growing out of his fucking back right? Right? Someone will try something like this sooner or later....
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Rather than 1 vs 1 - make it Rambo + team vs. Iraqi/Afghan war team that snapped. That ups the body count...i watched the last Rambo in theaters and the best reaction from the audience was when sly was gutting the enemies...don't take that away.
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Nothing in this movie will top the outlandishness in Rambo: First Blood 2. Remember the scene where the bad guy's helicopter is hovering over the river and Rambo literally flies out of the water like a fucking dolphin?
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Sept. 6, 2009, 3:41 p.m. CST
sly, why not just make Hunter if you have the rights?
by Talkbacker with no name
I think I speak for many fans that would love to see this as a movie, just not a Rambo movie. Why not make Hunter followed by a grounded First Blood/Rocky 6 bookend sytle film to finish the series? Personally would think that would be the smartest move, but what do I know eh? Good luck. Looking forward to seeing whatever you come up with though. This new era of Stallone is very exciting that's for sure.
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Sept. 6, 2009, 3:41 p.m. CST
Oh, so the second (third?) Stallone upswing is over, eh?
by s0nicdeathmonkey
back to destroying his career again I see.
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The beast can't die so Rambo and his 22 yr old cabana boy an kill it over and over again. While this technically increases deaths on screen will anyone care after the first kill? It's just a matter of finding a way to stop it from reviving, like fire or some bullshit. Been done before Stallone. Are you willing to ruin your character on this hackneyed ssc-fi garbage. As a huge fan please don't. I'm still hoping this is some hoax. And Harry, if it is a hoax and Stallone is not involved - WOW. That would be the end of your career..
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Did you read the synopsis above? It hungers for human blood! It may be immortal!!!
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How many, played by whom, death order: (1) Terry Crews (dies last, so Stallone can survive) (2) Michelle Rodriguez (dies second, hysterically overreacting to first death) (3) Some Australian Actor (dies first) (4) A former WWE wrestler (dies third) (5) Eric Balfour (dies fourth, investigating a noise in an abandoned warehouse) (6) Tiffani Thiessen (government scientist; survives) (7) Ed Quinn (villainous private industry scientist; dies - badly)
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Is there a part for Lorenzo Lamas?
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Unless your gonna copy and paste the novel Hunter in here Stallone aint listening. Lets get down to casting people. Ryan Kwanten from True Blood for Beau. Ready,...GO.
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Apologies.
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Let's face it, anything Stallone makes right now will be awesome. I know I have complete trust in the guy.
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...I'm just saying they have made cats that glow in the dark...hairless mice that grow human ears...you could make some pretty fucked up human/creatures if you felt like it...you could do it today.
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Randy couture with Fangs. HOW. FUCKING. GAY. Guess Stallone wants to go the way of Seagal.
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but at this stage i'll trust Stallone's instincts.
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Sept. 6, 2009, 3:49 p.m. CST
Flcika - you could make a half-human/half-proto-human...
by JuanSanchez
bloodthirsty beast? Today? We can make that?
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Nothing is set in stone just yet. I trust Stallone, he was earnt that, but you have to admit this is all a bit out there even for a rambo movie.
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Sept. 6, 2009, 3:51 p.m. CST
Ahem, some of you dipfucks were talking about METAPHOR?
by REVENGE_of_FETT
LIKE WE SAID....it ain't a fuckin' METAPHOR! I think it's clear beyond any suspicion of doubt that Sly is going the Predator route...and that's pretty fucked up!
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Cause Rhinestone was the fucking balls... Get a fucking clue all you ass-kissers. This will be rancid shit. You all know it. And past success does not guarantee future success. Just cause Rocky 6 and Rambo 4 were the tits doesn't mean it's impossible for Stallone to jump the shark.
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The "Hunter" book does sound cool, and I'd love to see Stallone in that role too, but I'm not sure that concept needs Rambo forced upon it. As a fan, I'd rather wait and see two films done right...I have confidence that Stallone could do both movies...Just set them both in northern Canada, and film them back to back over six months or so. If he does mix the two, I still feel like it'll wind up pretty good and entertaining as an action film. Basically: Rambo vs genetically altered savage sounds entertaining and cool from an action film perspective. However, Rambo vs genetically altered savage sounds silly, unnecessary, and jumping the shark-ish from a franchise perspective and the excellent real-world message in the most recent Rambo. Rambo teaching a message about the ethical problems of playing with genetics doesn't really "feel" right. It feels forced, and it seems like a genetic, trivialized message compared to the previous Rambo(s). I like the idea I wrote in my previous post, or else making two separate films. I've got confidence Sly will make a great film whatever the case, but there's my 2cents.
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I love the Rambo movies, but it sounds like Fonzi is getting ready and putting on his water skis. Ugh.
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Really now.
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...task in controlling the results...I don't think you could successfully create a bloodthirsty beast on purpose yet...buy you could make some pretty fucked human creatures that would have every right to be pissy about life in general...
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be the sidekick. He's the reason Rambo will be dragged into it. I'm not keen on sidekicks, but I trust Sly.
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Sept. 6, 2009, 3:55 p.m. CST
This is jumping the shark, then placing your balls in its mouth
by JuanSanchez
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'Drop the V from the title and cast...' Harry giving Sly tips how to make a hit film??!! You got a voicemail, he wasn't asking for fucking advice you moron...jeez, get a grip...
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Rambo in Space? Where else is there to go?
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First Blood was a Vietnam vets story about alienation. And the pain of returning home to disrespect. <p> Then it was turned into a cartoon.Supervet. <p> Now this. <p> I hope vets everywhere piss on Stallones face for selling them out.
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Pretty much a series of dream sequences occasionally showing him pooping with the help of a machine.
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Everybody wants it.
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Yeah it's fine. I said before, this will be a blank disc with no cover art in my collection. I will also edit out the name Rambo throughout the movie. Only then will I enjoy this movie. I think it sounds like an interesting movie and Stallone will make it good casue that is what he does. I WON'T LET THIS RUIN RAMBO. I will take personal steps in my own life to protect the property. This is the reason they strap retards down.
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Now that I'd paid to see over and over again!
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Didn't Chuck Norris already make this movie?
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Seeing Rambo in northern canada with a lot of snow and trees would be awesome. Seeing his breath and his head wrapped up as he's tracking/hunting/fighting. cool.
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Sept. 6, 2009, 4:02 p.m. CST
And if Harry is in on this hoax I'm not coming here anymore
by JuanSanchez
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Ultimate showdown. At the end he jumbs Jaws on water skis
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That the craziest thing i've ever read here. Seriously!
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god i write like harry
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You lie
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This just sounds awesome. I'm already there, beer and pizza cooling and warming respectively.<P> It ain't Shakespeare. Rambo's already a comic-book hero these days - pitting him against a monster is just the next step. As I said before: SLY FUCKING GETS IT!!
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Watch Rambo V: The Savage Hunt, hosted by Sylvester Stallone. Featuring the retconned alternate ending where it is revealed that Rambo was just a genetically engineered soldier all along.
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A giant lizard alien with a vagina mouth that can turn invisible. Oh wait...
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I'm not saying it would be a bad movie, I'm just saying...really?
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What's more batshit than "I WON'T LET THIS RUIN RAMBO. I will take personal steps in my own life to protect the property."? haha man are you serious?
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....I LOVE this idea. Please open at the Rambo farm in Bowie, Arizona. Make the opening similar to "Firefox" Rambo running, trying to clear his head and than military helicopters invade the tranquility with Rambo's mission! Also, I am BEGGING you. Please have Bill Conti rescore "Rocky IV" and give us a directors cut. We need the continuity with the rest of the series. thanks for EVERYTHING Sly! Millsy
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A big part of me says the best they could hope for is a rehash of "The Hunted" (Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro). That was even set in the Pacific Northwest. I'm uneasy about the sci-fi aspect of this proposal, except for the fact that (as others have pointed out) I don't really know how much longer this will be "-fi". Say, hypothetically, a series of movies had been put into production back in the 60's or 70's about a single soldier fighting in wars around the world..now that soldier would be getting pretty old, and the most recent installments, featuring predator drones and GPS and computers that talk to each other would seem solidly "sci fi" to the original audience decades ago. Really, would anyone be particularly shocked if they turned on the TV tomorrow to see a CNN report about a top secret genetically or chemically altered human being who escaped from a government lab?
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I'm sure that "Brady" is just the shortform for "Brandenburg" adn we will maybe see a cgi-rejuvenated Til Schweiger as Rambo's sidekick!
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I would title the film simply THE SAVAGE HUNT and rename the hero to something like Marcus Hunt. Now you have a nice double entendre suggesting both a hunt for a savage and that our hero might just be a savage himself. <p> I'm sorry, Sly, but I just can't see myself getting behind this film if John Rambo - a genre icon, is included in any way. <p> Please don't turn this into Halloween III: Season of the Witch where audiences are left exclaiming "WTF was that?!?! That wasn't a Halloween (Rambo) movie!!"
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Sept. 6, 2009, 4:14 p.m. CST
"Because Rambo hasn't been vaguely realistic since the end cred
by -Halfscan-
Pretty much around the last time it was GOOD too... >.>
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...dude, Rambo has "nothing to lose"?? --He just came back to his dad and back to the U.S. At the end of the last film, he's a character ready to reconcile with the world he left. I'm not sure he's the "nothing to lose" character you're talking about. It'd be much more intriguing to have Rambo in the woods fighting for his life, because he wants to live, is desperate to live, so that he can continue that reconciliation with his family, society, etc that was hinted at at the end of the last film...in the whole "walking home" scene. If the enemy "has nothing to lose" and Rambo is desperate to live...now that sounds badass. Also, the idea of Rambo fighting a genetically altered beast is much further outside the reality of the other films. I mean, shit, the badguys were at least HUMAN. You don't think fighting supernatural/fantastic/sci-fi enemies is outside the scope of Rambo? ...historically, it has been. But with that said, the more I think about the idea, the more I have confidence Stallone could pull this off if the script is right. I still don't prefer a "genetic beast" to a real human villian...but I have warmed up to the idea a little, mainly cause I've got confidence that Stallone can make it work. However, I do feel that fighting a "genetic beast" as an enemy does take the franchise to unfamiliar territory...to a fantastic world that would be hard for the franchise to come back from. You know, it'd be, "oh yea, there's the regular rambo movies, and the one where he fights a monster." I'm not sold on the monster idea at all, I'd rather see two separate films, but as Sly is batting 1000 lately, I have confidence that I'll like whatever he does.
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and find the government had created a half-human, half-proto human beast that feasted on human blood.
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comparisons!!! Maybe the first description sounded like the hunted, but if you fucktards read the latest description it sounds like Aliens vs. Predator. I'd say the Thing but why besmirch a masterpiece with this malignant tumor of a film.
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Need I say more?
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Sept. 6, 2009, 4:18 p.m. CST
Taylor Kitsch is the ONLY man who can play Beau Brady.
by The_Genteel_Gentile
And PLEASE reconsider making this as a Rambo picture. Just one little name change and we're all right there with you Sly.
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Sept. 6, 2009, 4:19 p.m. CST
Yep - Indy wasn't realistic, but aliens still didn't fit
by JuanSanchez
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I don't know what these other ones are.
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will be the Highlander 2 of the Rambo series
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BEAUBO!!!!!!!!!
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I was hoping for one more real Rambo.
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interesting enough for a Sunday evening, along with some pizza and a few beers. And that is all.
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He's wanted to make Hunted for a long time. He made a lot of big missteps like D-Tox. After Rocky 6 and Rambo 4 he thought he would have enough street cred to finally get Hunted made and they told him "Not unless you make it marketable by making it a Rambo film". So then Sly decided to capitulate in order to get the movie made. That's what I'm afraid has happened here. He started out, not wanting to make the best Rambo movie he could, but using the Rambo name in order to get a different film from a different genre made.
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but it's a formula I always liked. It actually sounds fun to me. I'll see it.
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Sept. 6, 2009, 4:23 p.m. CST
HideousSecretion - that's a horrible insult to Highlander 2
by JuanSanchez
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Sept. 6, 2009, 4:23 p.m. CST
yes Statham_Wastes_Em, but look how that turned out
by Talkbacker with no name
When sci-fi was introduced to the series.
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<p>kid says "Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina."</p><p>Rambo pulls out an M-16 and blows the kid away.</p>
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We'll fund it, Sly, but can you make it Rambo? We need the Rambo name. He should wait to see how The Expendables does. If it's a big hit he'll have the power to get Hunter made.
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Sept. 6, 2009, 4:25 p.m. CST
Indy IV going sci-fi was bad, I'm agreeing with you
by Statham_Wastes_Em
Indiana Jones was never that realistic and pretty fantastical, but going so far into sci-fi didn't make sense. So Indy went from magic/fantasy to sci-fi, but now we're going from war/fiction to sci-fi, quite a big leap.
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Rambo detonates an entire city block in order to kill a drug dealer.
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slapping "Rambo" onto Hunter to get it made is okay.
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His father dies of cancer, so Rambo covers himself in guns and ammo belts and destroys the closest town.
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but think you are right in this case.
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so let me get this straight...rambo finds the cloverfield creature in a forrest some place tries to kill it. could be good but really Sly versus a monster.
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he gets irradiated, turns 14 feet tall and green. He then blows up the US military.
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...I do not like this idea. <br> <br> While RAMBO has never been a "realistic" series in the sense that one man can annihilate armies by himself, it has indeed been rooted in reality in that its villains have been timely and based on fact, and that (explosive arrows aside) its weapons and enemies have been based on reality. <br> <br> When, however, you interject a sci-fi enemy - a half-human beast - I think you throw this series off the rails. This might be a good film if you remove all reference to the character of John Rambo, but if you mix the two I suspect you'll poison the modest legacy of the RAMBO films. Sly, please do not do this.
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Ark's? Magic Rocks? Why couldn't Indy find aliens? It made sense. He even drank from the Holy Grail!
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He gets hit by a meteor giving him the powers of Superman. he goes and finds his old girlfriend who is now married with kids. he screams "You cheatin' WHORE" and massacres her family.
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Rambo dies in the line of duty but is brought back as a half-human cyborg. He kills everybody on Earth.
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What was your point then of of saying "Indiana Jones was never realistic either"? Sounds like you were supporting this idea.
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cause he can't imagine why people waste time watching that bull shit.
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Yeah I'm serious. I have the editing equipment next to my proton pack and my fux capacitor.
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Now let the real madness begin!
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I'd never leave the house!
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Dear Mr Stallone, you strike me as a nice guy, but there's a special place in Hell waiting for you for creating "Rambo" and becoming an icon of modern America's regressive slide into gun-crazed madness. You've got some productive years left, so get to work, redeeming yourself. (Hint: that means no more Rambo movies.)
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Rambo is teamed up with hot-shit cop Cash. Together they are going to take down a drug dealer. Cash makes a smart ass comment and Rambo stabs him in the skull, then kills the city.
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It wasn't a slam against Highlander 2. It is a perfect comparison though. People watched Highlander 2 and went said a collective WTF? It had nothing to do with the first one and it's established mythos. People will go see Rambo 5 with the Rambo mythos in their heads and expecting the badass excellence of Rambo 4. They will all say WTF? It may be a great film. But it has nothing to do Rambo. So it will ruin Stallone's sci-fi movie which may be good on its own merits and the Rambo series.
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Sylvester Stallone didn't create the character of Rambo.
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A super trained Seal/SAS/Delta guy subjeted to fucked up brutalizing mind crontrol involving slaughter house levels of violence,killing tramps/death row/ etc lots of LSD like the army used and then i could buy it in the RAMBO-VERSE but a monster thingy just sound wrong
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And thinks sci-fi Rambo V is a great idea! It's the same argument people made with Indy IV.
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Rambo's consciousness is implented into an alien body and walks around an alien planet. He walks around for 90 minutes screaming "ADRIEEEEEEN!" and killing other alien hosts. In the end he throws a rock into outer space so hard that it destroys his orbiting ship. Then he looks straight into the camera and says "I guess we got to win thhis time", then blows his head off.
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Go remove your tampon you pansy. Swear to god faggots, hockey and snow. So glad we heard from America's hat.
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I really hope so. That's an incredibly silly premise for a Rambo movie.
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mobile home. As soon as I get that fucker up to 88mph my house goes whenerver I want. So I don't have to leave the house.
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without the hunting granted
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... a storyline that a comic book writer would come up with for an ongoing series based on a popular movie property. I'm sure Sly can do something great with this but I think it'll lack the gravitas the others had. It's now a team adventure hunting a monster. I totally get where he's coming from with sending a savage such as Rambo against a real savage, but the sci-fi bit seems tacked on and like something we have seen before.
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<p>Rambo grabs a microphone linked to the Emperor of the Universe and says "I want what every other guy who came over here and spilled his guts wants! To topple a fascistic, totalitarian intergalactic regime of old, wrinkley guys!Palpatine....I'm comin' for you>"</p><p>Just then a squad of ginormous walking machines lumber towards him. Rambo runs at them top speed and foot-sweeps them, sending them all crashing to the ground. then he jumps in his spaceship and flies it straight into the enemy's moon base, obliterating it in a massive explosion.
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Sept. 6, 2009, 4:47 p.m. CST
I'm still laughing about the Indy fans, who accept...
by DerLanghaarige
...God(s) and shit like that in the series, but think that aliens went too far.
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1. Rambo vs small town cops. <p>2. Rambo rescues pow's. <p>3. Rambo rescues Trautman. <p>4.Rambo rescues a group of christian aid workers <p>5...um...Rambo fights a monster
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John Rambo could track anyone - or anything - on earth. Now the military desperately needs him for a mission that his ultrasensitive instincts tell him he should refuse. A beast is loose somewhere north of the Arctic Circle. It has already decimated a secret research facility and annihalated a squad of elite military guards. And the raging creature is headed south toward civilization, ready to wreak bloody devestation. It's a job that Hunter can't turn down, but he soon discovers that his prey is terror incarnate, a half-human abomination created by a renegade agency through a serious of outlawed genetic experiments..."
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..."above the Artic Circle"...so now its Rambo vs. The Thing? Predator schmedator - no matter what the "beast" it will still be the single greatest Rambo vs. a beast movie ever made.
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Sept. 6, 2009, 4:53 p.m. CST
HideousSecretion - it's a perfect comparison. I was just joking.
by JuanSanchez
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I'm in the minority on this one but I say fuck it. If he wants Rambo to hunt down a goverment experiment gone wrong, I'm sure he's got a decent screenplay to back it up. Say what you will about some of his film choices but when it comes to writting his own movies Stallone has a pretty good track record. All I ask is that he sit down,rewatch the last one (which was awesome),then watch Rocky 5(which was horrendus) and to make sure we ain't heading down that path again.
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Sept. 6, 2009, 4:55 p.m. CST
This almost a direct copy of the synopsis for hunter
by judge dredds fresh undies
I looked it up after someone mentioned it in one of the other talkbacks. Don't have a problem with that but maybe there should be a mention of what this is based off.
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and I still have this problem with this movie is believing that Rambo would go out and help the goverment again, the end of the last one was a great bookend, I can't see him helping the American Goverment unless something he loved and or believed in was at stake. And again<p><p>HARRY GIVE SLY A BLACKBOX if any actor/celeb lurking this site deserves a blackbox its Sly.<p><p>
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Didn't want to help Christian Aid Workers help people suffering genocide. Why the fuck would he even consider helping the military hunt mutants? On what fucking planet does that make sense? Trautman is dead. No one could compel him to do this. And how could they force him? What, are they going to put sleeping pills in his glass of milk before throwing on the airplane? Hollywood is dead.
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After all his "It's not a beast you fucktards!" venom, I wonder if we'll ever see that guy posting under that username ever again.
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So he'll drop Rambo into that too in order to get the funding. He'll need to borrow that flux capacitor.
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Sure he's a little old for the character, but I'd love to see Dean Winchester (SUPERNATURAL) "hunt" with Rambo.
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Don't these helpless fucks have their own Ultimate Hero to handle this shit. Some shitless Mountie wearing suspenders and that hat. Better yet sick Jim Carrey on the beast.
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thanks for the heads up on this sypnosis thread too.
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How is this getting green lit? This won't make it's budget back and Sly will be a laughing stock. What the Hell is he thinking?
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He was on the rag
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The first time Rambo V will be killed by this horrible plot, the second time by the boxoffice: Sly please, this is not Rambo, it's another project, don't mix them!
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The thing meets predator meets Frankenstein meets rambo. Other than a war on radical Islamists or North Korea, Rambo can only go sci-fi.
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Its a Yeti?<p> Still I trust Sly and could care less who Rambo kills as long as he does it with extreme prejudice Im happy
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And that's why it's now Ain't It Not Cool News. Maybe they can get the guy who played him in Fanboys to replace him. Couldn't be worse.
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Sept. 6, 2009, 5:06 p.m. CST
The old "give him a young wisecracking sidekick" routine...
by Viewer 3
I mean come on. These cliches never worked to begin with. And they sure as hell haven't worked for the past decade. When people run out of ideas, they usually resort to the same handful of fallback cliches. It's like clockwork, you can literally set your watch to it.<p><p>Either they throw in the "hip street-wise comedy relief youngster" or the "unnecessarily good looking female ass-kicking sidekick who can somehow knock hardened marines unconscious with one incredibly weak looking roundhouse kick while wearing a nowhere-near-believable amount of magazine-cover makeup so they can appeal to the horny-high-schooler audience who only want to see 'hot chickz kickin ass' while talking about how she can kick any man's ass etc. etc. etc". I'm not asking for "popcorn flicks" to be Academy Award material... but is a subatomic particle's worth of originality these days REALLY too much to ask? Apparently so.
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Sept. 6, 2009, 5:07 p.m. CST
Action Hero it's getting green lit because it's rambo
by Talkbacker with no name
and that's the reason it will make it's budget back. How much do you think the last budget was? It's a Rambo movie. Not War of the Worlds.
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yeah the 3 sequels were over the top with the action and the idea one man could do all that but they still took place in the real world. suddenly dropping sci-fi in there seems weird. as many others have said, he should have just made the book and play the main character. sure some people woulda compared him to rambo but least it wouldnt have been. not saying the movie itself wont be good but rambo should stick to "real life".
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It looks like it was photoshopped by a 4 year old. Holy shit does it look terrible.
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At the end of the last Rambo movie, I think we see a bit of character development. Rambo is ready to "re-join" the world in some sense...he's not in prison, he's not hiding in a third world, he's ready to come home. And maybe, he's ready to work for a living. You know, at least try to re-join society in some sense. Doing consultant work for the government, training troops, or tracking an dangerous animal, sounds like a decent job for Rambo. If he really has "come home" at the end of the last movie, I can see him re-joining the military in some sense, although not to intentionally to "fight" anymore ...after all, it's the only work environment he's ever known. My point, is that at the end of the last movie, Sly left it vague enough that he could have Rambo doing just about anything at the endof this one. Did he make peace with his dad when he got home and decide to try and re-join society? Or did he say "screw it" and go back to the jungle? I can see the character going either way.
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my mobile home/flux capacitor. He and Jensen Ackles travel back and slaughter Gen. Lee.
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Sloth from The Goonies. Maybe the Fratellis.
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to rescue the small town from First Blood. Have the film start after the funeral of Rambo's father. Like the first film, he is walking through the same small town on a cross-country trek, his heart heavy. He is hurting, he is brooding, and he is looking for someone to start a fight. <p> Turns out the the town has a bigger problem, a rogue group of U.S. militia men have taken camp in the mountains and have taken the town hostage. <p> Both Rambo and Sheriff Teasle end up beaten and thrown into a jail cell at the Sheriff's Office. <p> Following an escape, Rambo and Teasle reluctantly work together in a counter-assault against the militia. Keep in mind that Teasle is also a decorated soldier who served in Korea. <p> Rambo and Teasle find common ground/mutual understanding and the Rambo film series comes full circle. This is the truest way to end the Rambo series. This would be like Rocky Balboa.
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to rescue the small town from First Blood. Have the film start after the funeral of Rambo's father. Like the first film, he is walking through the same small town on a cross-country trek, his heart heavy. He is hurting, he is brooding, and he is looking for someone to start a fight. <p> Turns out the the town has a bigger problem, a rogue group of U.S. militia men have taken camp in the mountains and have taken the town hostage. <p> Both Rambo and Sheriff Teasle end up beaten and thrown into a jail cell at the Sheriff's Office. <p> Following an escape, Rambo and Teasle reluctantly work together in a counter-assault against the militia. Keep in mind that Teasle is also a decorated soldier who served in Korea. <p> Rambo and Teasle find common ground/mutual understanding and the Rambo film series comes full circle. This is the truest way to end the Rambo series. This would be like Rocky Balboa.
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to rescue the small town from First Blood. Have the film start after the funeral of Rambo's father. Like the first film, he is walking through the same small town on a cross-country trek, his heart heavy. He is hurting, he is brooding, and he is looking for someone to start a fight. <p> Turns out the the town has a bigger problem, a rogue group of U.S. militia men have taken camp in the mountains and have taken the town hostage. <p> Both Rambo and Sheriff Teasle end up beaten and thrown into a jail cell at the Sheriff's Office. <p> Following an escape, Rambo and Teasle reluctantly work together in a counter-assault against the militia. Keep in mind that Teasle is also a decorated soldier who served in Korea. <p> Rambo and Teasle find common ground/mutual understanding and the Rambo film series comes full circle. This is the truest way to end the Rambo series. This would be like Rocky Balboa.
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to rescue the small town from First Blood. Have the film start after the funeral of Rambo's father. Like the first film, he is walking through the same small town on a cross-country trek, his heart heavy. He is hurting, he is brooding, and he is looking for someone to start a fight. <p> Turns out the the town has a bigger problem, a rogue group of U.S. militia men have taken camp in the mountains and have taken the town hostage. <p> Both Rambo and Sheriff Teasle end up beaten and thrown into a jail cell at the Sheriff's Office. <p> Following an escape, Rambo and Teasle reluctantly work together in a counter-assault against the militia. Keep in mind that Teasle is also a decorated soldier who served in Korea. <p> Rambo and Teasle find common ground/mutual understanding and the Rambo film series comes full circle. This is the truest way to end the Rambo series. This would be like Rocky Balboa.
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That seems to be the first misstep with this project. It was quite embarrassing. Man I'm starting to really hate hacking on this because I love Stallone. I really wish all the best for him. He's on quite a run of form recently.
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to rescue the small town from First Blood. Have the film start after the funeral of Rambo's father. Like the first film, he is walking through the same small town on a cross-country trek, his heart heavy. He is hurting, he is brooding, and he is looking for someone to start a fight. <p> Turns out the the town has a bigger problem, a rogue group of U.S. militia men have taken camp in the mountains and have taken the town hostage. <p> Both Rambo and Sheriff Teasle end up beaten and thrown into a jail cell at the Sheriff's Office. <p> Following an escape, Rambo and Teasle reluctantly work together in a counter-assault against the militia. Keep in mind that Teasle is also a decorated soldier who served in Korea. <p> Rambo and Teasle find common ground/mutual understanding and the Rambo film series comes full circle. This is the truest way to end the Rambo series. This would be like Rocky Balboa.
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The phrase prehistoric power and the term beast along with genetic experiments sounds like Jurassic Park to me. I'm all for it if it's a prehistoric monster.
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What if they put the capacitor into the General Lee (the car from Dukes of Hazard) and turn it into their time machine? Then they mow down General Lee the man with General Lee the car!!
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Sept. 6, 2009, 5:17 p.m. CST
Kal Reeve, that's one way to not get your shit read I guess
by Talkbacker with no name
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I'm sure this has already been said, but the synopsis sounds like Rambo v. Predator . . . if well-directed, this will be fine by me.
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Soderbergh directing possibly the first good female-lead action film since Aliens, with a lead actress who can *actually fight*.
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HAAAAAAAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA what the fuck?
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Brian Dennehy is about 99 fucking years old right now. The only thing he's fighting is the grim spectre of death. And a militia wouldn't take over small mountain town. It isn't a plausible objective.
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Sept. 6, 2009, 5:21 p.m. CST
Talkbacker with no, it's an idea that should be seriously consid
by Kal Reeve
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I thought there should be this whole media frenzy surrounding his return to the U.S. The events of First Blood didn't go unnoticed by the media, and then he just disappears for decades.? The missionaries return after the Burma incident and try to shine a light on Rambo. Obviously he doesn't want it and it draws all kinds of unwanted offers and attention. Insert anytjhing after that. I wanted a drug company/health insurance/Iraq Vet plot line. Something really current and relevant in our times. Nope. We fight monsters. Leave that shit to Jack Brooks for christsake.
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No matter his age, Brian Dennehy always carries in a formidable manner. And a militia taking over a small town is as plausible as a militia taking over Alcatraz (The Rock).
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Sept. 6, 2009, 5:24 p.m. CST
You girlymen are going to get Mr. Stallone all depressed...
by FlickaPoo
...and then we won't have any more RAMBO movies at all...thanks girls.
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My favorite underused actor in Holywood.
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Why the Usa Army needs the help of Rambo? They can't use thousand and thousand men from their Special Forces to solve the problem? An old Vietnam veteran can really do a better job than many young Navy Seals or marines? Come on, it's a stupid starting point! And what about the "beast"? A beast? Rambo saga is a brillant mix of drama and action, nothing to share with thriller/horror/sci-fi movies! Seriously: It's a joke? Aicn and Sly are laughing since yesterday in my opinion, tomorrow someone will tell us it was only a joke....
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and live in the sewers.
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It wasn't a militaia taking over the Rock. It was rogue USMC Spec Ops digruntled over past treatment. And Alcatraz made a plausible fortification from which to launch their rockets. An actual militia, or group of people wary of big government, have been training many years to resist a complete government takeover. Taking over a local government would not fit into their ideology. It would also be pointless. What do yo do with a small mountain town? A town can't legally secede. How does a mountain town survive without people bringing in and out goods. How does a small militia take over a mountain town full of armed citizens? How does a large militia support itself logistically. It's implausible at best.
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Brian Dennehy is skin and bones. He looks frail. I'm not sure he's up to filming. Certainly not a action movie.
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Loving it. Loving it. Then they travel back to the 80's and install the capacitor into a Ford Farlane at which point they plow over Andrew Dice Clay
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And in some situations even better then their younger and stronger less experienced counterparts. That's why the Military needs Rambo. He possesses a skill that can't be taught.
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GUNS are for pussies, mental defectives and losers. Hence the name "Equalizer" ... Sly Stallone, you're a sad old whore. I'd respect you more if you wore a big ol' dress and wandered the streets of N'Awlins saying "Hello, Sailor".
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Nah he won't get depressed. He'll just make the logical conclusion that being a good guy and providing inside info to a bunch of naysayers was a bad idea and stop doing it. That's all.
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Why would a militia bring attention to itself after all those people got murdered at Waco and Ruby Ridge? They know the Feds will come in and wipe them out over a tiny podunk town. Which bring s up a bigger problem. Why Rambo? The Feds would be in their cleaning up by the time Rambo dragged Teasle's dusty carcass out of the prison.
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as an Inuit girl love interest. Look her up on tne Net; if anyone was built for science-fiction, she was.
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Traditionally every new Rambo movie needs to make the numbering system even more bewildering and fucked up than it was before. The full title should be something like "Rambo V: First Blood Part 4"
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Sept. 6, 2009, 5:40 p.m. CST
madCanada, so you are blaming Stallone for gun crime?
by Talkbacker with no name
You're an idiot
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1st: ANYTHING involving Sly sounds cool to you, Harry. His dick in your mouth would sound exceptional to you, jackass. Enough of that. I stick to my original thought: leave Rambo be. The way the last one ended was solid. He went out in style and he goes home. Awesome! Now this idea sounds like Rambo Vs. The Thing/Predator. It could be cool, I guess. Somehow... I doubt it. Actually, the beast should be played by your ugly fat ass Harry! I'd pay to see that!
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Makes Canada sound like a land of leftist faggots. "Guns are eeevvvilll okay." Geebus. Guns are how Americans and Canadians fought WW2 and beat the Nazis. And we all know who the real pussy is you fucktard. Cause you'd never tell a US Marien he wa sa pussy to his face. You'd shit your pants and run away little girl.
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... No, I'm not blaming Stallone for gun crime. But he sure is hell ain't the solution neither. He just a big ol' exploitin ho'. BTW, Talkbackerwithnoname, I dated your momma last night. She was sweet. Classy. A real lady.
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...just because the man feels no physical pain and can eat things that would make a billy goat puke doesn't mean he has no feelings...
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He's a little older, but he would rock. Ain't Sly friends with Robert Rodriguez? Isn't Robert producing the next damn Predator movie?! Dammit I want Rambo vs. Predator!!!! Anyway, I like the synopsis. Could be a great adventure/action flick. But will it take place in the snow? I don't care for that. And please, I with Harry would ask Sly about Cliffhanger 2. The first one is awesome.
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Sept. 6, 2009, 5:48 p.m. CST
Still no Knockout story, huh? AICN just doesn't have the news.
by JuanSanchez
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Sept. 6, 2009, 5:48 p.m. CST
zinc_chameleon...I quite enjoyed that google image search...
by FlickaPoo
...yes I did. thank you.
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Your spelling is very very bad and I can't tell for sure what you're trying to say; but I'm sure it's a bunch of propaganda-fed 'tardedness. FYI, Canada WON both world wars. With diplomacy. That is all.
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Terrible posts and a poor momma joke to boot. dear oh dear. How sad. Well that's one way to lose your voice and be left to play with yourself in the corner here.
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Your momma was feisty. Kickin' with teeth & all. But in the end, she gave me some sugar. She nice.
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Homo shit
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Canada will save your butts in Afghanistan too. You're welcome.
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to see what sticks. This site is the wall, and this idea is the shit.
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Good points, but then how about this, a Cop Land scenario. Disgruntled military men and neo-cons have been moving into the town for the past few years and ultimately take it over and place it under martial law. <p> If there is to be another Rambo movie, Rambo needs to be back in that small town, Teasle needs to be involved, and the Rambo story needs to come full circle.
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it'd be like a rip off. that being said it could be cool i guess.
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it'd be like a rip off. that being said it could be cool i guess.
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Something cool and new > Predator > Blanka
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I know I said this would be a silly idea, but after reading the synopsis it seems that all those metaphorical aspects of the creature hold up even stronger in this premise. As long as they can keep it about Rambo's psychology and have him truly terrified for once, this could actually be interesting.
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Things are so shit now that it is in a weird way...refreshing to see this tried and tested plot. Yes, it has been done and seen before but I am so in to watch it and Sly may put an interesting spin on things. Perhaps letting us get deeper into Rambo's psyche
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i noticed an ad here for the original ghostbusters cartoon dvd series, in 4 easy payments of 45 dollars. 200 dollars for old ghostbusters cartoons?! do enough people really buy that so its profitable!? i thought this was a recession
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Rambo is a superhero grounded in reality. From the moment who took on that whole camp in part 2, I knew that it heralded a new age of action hero. Action heroes have adventures and new obstacles to cross and this is just yet another obstacle for Rambo. Sorry, but I don't want to be stuck with Christensen and Jumper.
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now I'm sad
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You can get a complete set of Real Ghostbusters cartoon DVDs, for 200. OR buy them separately, like most sane people do.
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Looks like Stallone don't wanna write a script and just adapt Hunter or one of the predator screenplays. He probably won it off his mate Ahnuld on a round of golf. Fuck man. I had high hopes for Rambo V. Especailly since he was back home. I thought wr would see a bit of his background and then as he is a loose cannon surely he would have been hunted down again due to the emabarrsement USA think he is. I thought the USA would send in a commando to take him down.My personal favourite for this would have been... RAMBO V:COMMANDO
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...because we want it!
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........DEVELOPMENT HELL
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Please! Is James Bond going vampire hunting in his next movie? Is Indiana Jones fighting aliens in his next....okay, bad example. Still, the Suspension-of-Disbelief Meter has just imploded.
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no really. Make it.
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Sept. 6, 2009, 6:26 p.m. CST
Stallone needs to remain true to Rambo, not compromise him
by Kal Reeve
Bring Rambo full circle, bring him back to the small town, have him reconcile with Teasle and find common understanding. Have them work together against a common threat. Be true to Rambo, Stallone.
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Hopefully this awesomeness will not be killed by multitude of brainless assholes who post their negativity in the comments on this site.
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2. Hi Sly, Big fan from the UK. I'm sure that I read many years ago that you'd bought the rights to 2 novels. One, if my memory serves me correctly was called a Hunter, about a creature that's been used as an experiment and escapes, and you were something like the worlds best tracker, hence getting sent to capture it? And also a novel about sabre tooth cats attacking a town if my memory is correct, and if so, what happened to those projects? Jamie – UK Dear Jamie, I did option both these novels, for how long escapees me, but it was difficult at that particular time for such ambitious projects. Maybe if ROCKY BALBOA performs, I’ll be able to revisit that concept.
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2. Hi Sly, Big fan from the UK. I'm sure that I read many years ago that you'd bought the rights to 2 novels. One, if my memory serves me correctly was called a Hunter, about a creature that's been used as an experiment and escapes, and you were something like the worlds best tracker, hence getting sent to capture it? And also a novel about sabre tooth cats attacking a town if my memory is correct, and if so, what happened to those projects? Jamie – UK Dear Jamie, I did option both these novels, for how long escapees me, but it was difficult at that particular time for such ambitious projects. Maybe if ROCKY BALBOA performs, I’ll be able to revisit that concept.
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get Verhoeven
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I briefly met your son Sage at a con in Chicago. He seemed to have a genuine love for movies, horror movies in particular. A lot of horror fans love sci-fi\action\horror as well. Good Example: Aliens. Please ask your son if he thinks this should be a RAMBO movie. I think every talkbacker on here would agree that if this was NOT a Rambo movie, and you were playing some other ex-military person, they would say this sounds like it could be cool...if done right. PLEASE DO NOT MAKE THIS MOVIE AS A PART OF THE RAMBO UNIVERSE. If you have to pitch this as a Rambo movie to get a particular investor interested, then so be it. But please make certain that the legal writing on paper allows you to make it into a Non-Rambo movie.
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Ahuld had both James Cameron and Verhoeven. Stallone has yet only worked with Cameron. VOTE FOR VERHOEVEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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by giving away too much on this site. That said, I'm game for whatever Sly wants to make--he could do a crossover RAMBO: STOP OR MY RHINESTONE WILL SHOOT and I will see it! You kick ass Sly! Can't wait to see the flick.
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And write Sheriff Will Teasle and he was written in the novel - more sympathetic, less of a bigot/characature.
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And write Sheriff Will Teasle as he was written in the novel - more sympathetic, less of a bigot/characature.
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This sounds so bad .... Rambo was a high quality movie. Why ruin the hard work with this???
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this is a Rambo movie.
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In the Arctic Circle you are the law, out here it's me. Don't push it, don't push it or I'll give you a war you won't believe. Let it go, let it go.......
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Sept. 6, 2009, 6:38 p.m. CST
I vote for a Non-Rambo\Stallone\Verhoeven directed movie!
by Joey_Redballs
Paul Verhoeven makes "BITCHES COME" and "BITCHES LEAVE"!
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Sept. 6, 2009, 6:38 p.m. CST
Casting a 7' guy in a big creature suit would just feel clunky.
by Clavius
Yeah, because we all know how much casting a 7' guy in a big creature suit made PREDATOR suck.
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Why would Rambo reconnect with a smug asshole. Like that is what was missing from his life. He doesn't care about anything let alone some prick that fucked with him one time. Terrible
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Kal: Not sure how NeoCons would take over a small town since they all live in the DC Beltway. And again what would be the motive of a disgruntled military group taking over a small town. Are they disgruntled with small town America? Wouldn't they go after congress or the pentagon depending on who they blame? Taking over a small town simply to take over a small town is pointless. As for MadCanada. I think it's Bunny Nibbler with a new screen name. And to say Canada won both world wars with diplomacy has to be one of the most idiotic things I've ever heard in my entire life. I'm guessing you haven't had a history class yet. Don't worry, when you get to junior high they'll fill you in. Here's a hint: tanks, planes and guns.
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That synopsis is terrible. Really terrible.<p> I mean, it's not just the idea that's bad, it's the writing too.<p> Love Rambo, but if there's a studio marketeer taking count and gauging reaction to this synopsis then mark me down as a 'negative'.<p> Sorry Sly, but this 'monster hunter' hokum will devalue Rambo's legacy, not add to it.
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Any movie with a SPECIAL FORCES KILL TEAM and a guy name BEAU can't be that bad.
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After taking some time to eat dinner and reflect on the Rambo 5 story - IT STILL SOUNDS LIKE UTTER SHIT.
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All talking, no shooting.
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im sure one man gunning down hundreds upon hundreds of armed soldiers with as little as a scratch is realistic...
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everyone here is boring, why do you want a basic Remake of Rambo 2,3,4....this is a risk, of course it is...but perhaps sly has a killer script to back it up..he's obviously sticking to his Guns in this one and not shying away... GO FOR IT SLY, dont let these talkbackers bring you down!! if it is good, you will change their minds anyways!!
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only you are boring. if you want shitty sci-fi go to blockbuster and rent one of those straight-to-video turds. We want Rambo.
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The true version of Teasle from the novel is a much more complex, sympathetic character. <p> And it would be interesting to see Teasle as a changed, more tolerant man, helping Rambo.
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someone needs to go get laid if you are worried so much about the plot of a Rambo movie....at worst, its not a good film and ends up like rambo 3.....but if it works, then we could have something exciting...the problem is most of you arent giving stallone the benefit of the doubt...you are just afraid because its outside of your comfort zone..
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its a great novel....ideally, Stallone should just make HUNTER next and not rambo 5, but if this is How I get to see hunter then so be it
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Van Hellsing? The idea is pure retarded. Plain and simple. Why don't we have Jack Ryan going after the Lockeness Monster in a new Tom Clancy movie?
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maybe you're the one who needs to get laid for defending a Rambo movie's plot.
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did anyone actually listen to sly's phone message??
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let's hope so
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Im not the one whining and whining for hours about what a Rambo film should be about, about its "continuity" and about its "realism"...its an action film!! stop taking it so seriously....This is somethign new, and j0t a retread like the past 3 rambos...color me excited...and i'll get laid just fine..
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Sept. 6, 2009, 7 p.m. CST
Yep, a rip-off of Lincoln Child's mediocre 'Terminal Freeze'
by SherlockMonk
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I apologize to everyone I was rude to in the other talkback. I NEVER thought Stallone would go through with such a stupid idea. If this is really the plot, I'm not seeing it. I'm done. Rambo 4 will have been the final film for me. This sounds like horrible, Saturday morning Sci-Fi channel nonsense. MESSAGE TO STALLONE: with "Rocky Balboa" and "Rambo," you have given yourself credibility and validity again in the eyes of the average moviegoer, something that you obviously lost in the late 90's and early 2000's. I PROMISE you that if you go through with this ridiculous idea, everything you worked for in the past few years will be tarnished and your new reputation as a valid movie maker will be ruined. I'm a fan of your work and I even believe this. Please don't do this. You can obviously do what you want, but as a fan of Rambo - since First Blood - you're RUINING the character. Think of what First Blood was about; the mistreatment of veterans. It was a cultural statement brilliantly executed. If you use this plot, you're shitting on everything that First Blood stood for. Everyone knows that Rambo 2 and 3 helped to make Rambo a joke, but Rambo 4 BROUGHT IT BACK to being serious and badass. Please don't fucking ruin the progress you made. I fully support RAMBO 5, but not this nonsense. Please, on behalf of most fans, we ask that you abort this ridiculous idea and think of something else. No matter how long it takes. Thanks for listenin'.
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Sept. 6, 2009, 7:02 p.m. CST
dont listen to the talkbackers sly!! but if you do, make HUNTER
by coltrautman
because this is a plot id like to see you make...ive read the book HUNTER and ive wanted to see it made into a movie
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I have a feeling Harry isn't big on this concept for a Rambo sequel, but he can't come out and say it because then Sly won't be his buddy anymore. It's awesome that Stallone is so interactive with his fans here, but let's be honest. If someone else came up with this idea and suggested it as a sequel to Rambo, every talkback would be full of pure hatred while Harry et al chime in with snarky remarks about how this will rape Rambo's legacy. Again, this is a great concept for a standalone sci-fi film or the beginning of a new franchise, but as a sequel to Rambo? Not so much. It just reeks of a cashgrab because he doesn't have confidence that it could stand on its own without the Rambo brand attached to it.
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http://tinyurl.com/mrs6os
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although I guess rambo 3 was... Rambo 4 is practically a remake of Rambo 2.
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Than this shit. Think of the very last scene of Rambo 4, with him walking to his father's house. You're watching a tired, weary war veteran who has given his entire life to fight for his country and his core principles and now we have to imagine.... after that scene.... he ends up fighting some stupid fucking science project that the government created? Stallone, if you do this, you're a fucking retard. I know you could kick my ass and you're like 30-something years older than me, but I'd say it to your face, too. THIS IDEA FUCKING BLOWS, MAN.
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Yeah, it sounds more like a straight adaptation of HUNTER. But let's face it, Stallone IS Rambo, so if he puts on a fake moustache and calls himself Nathaniel Hunter, we're still gonna see him as Rambo, especially since their talents are basically the same. So might as well go with the better known character. Hopefully he will have changed a bit since he came home...cut his hair...ditched the headband. People should call him John now, too -- that would differentiate the character from the other movies right there. He's got friends, he's actually fitting back into society, he's like a whole different person. But when he's asked to go look into this trouble in the Pacific Northwest (maybe 'cause someone he knows is already missing up there?) he has to tap back into that primal hunting mindset in order to track this thing down, and that may not be something he really wants to do. Oh yeah, and don't even bother explaining what the thing is, 'cause it doesn't really matter, does it? Give the suggestion that the government's trying to clean up one of their messes ("you guys never change") and leave it at that. X-FILES did that often enough and still managed some pretty creepy episodes. Of course, none of this is worth considering without a decent creature design. If you don't have that, and a team like Stan Winston's that can pull it off, then I wouldn't even bother. P.S. Oh yeah, I agree -- BRING BACK WILL TIESLE! I'd pay to see it for that scene alone.
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Beau Brady, a character in a Rambo film and not only that, Rambo's hunting buddy?!?? Rambo doesn't hang out with 22yr olds called Beau Brady. He is a loner. Where did John's Beau even come from?? Don't take a step further. This already sounds like it sucks big time and will tarnish the other movies. I enjoyed the last one a lot and it was outrageous in violence; different from many other films in that respect. This reeks of a movie trying to be marketable, like the young sidekick in the last Indiana Jones film. "We surely can't have an old guy as a lead, the kids won't see that. We need a young recognisable face to pull them in, who they can relate to." Well news flash. Back in the day when I was growing up and I watched Stallone and Arnie films, I was a kid, they were nothing like me but I revelled in their badass-ary and a bond grew that led to me watching the majority of their films up until today. You stick Stallone in a badass film now and it works in reverse, the kids buy the DVD's of his old movies and the adults get to re-live their love for John Rambo being a one man wrecking crew.
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but who knows as a rambo film
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yeah, buddy, you'll get laid just fine. "Sly! If you're listening I still appreciate you signing my ass with that Sharpie! Oh yeah, make Hunter into a film!"
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It's better than Rambo 3 because at least it was mostly "serious," but come on. Rambo 2 and 3 are exactly why late night comedians picked on the character. They couldn't do it with Rambo 4 because it was fucking outstanding, but they're going to have a fucking ball when they hear this. Just the idea itself is going to make people not see this.
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what about "schoolboy" did he suck?
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Seriously ... all the amazing good will built up again for the Rambo character after the last AMAZING film, which was rooted in humanity and in reality, and which also brought John to an incredibly interesting crossroads in his life that many would've loved to see approached ... and THIS is what we get? <p>Not only that, but we get the obligatory young sidekick, so we can have the obligatory "life lessons" taught by the grizzled Superhero Rambo, the predictable age jokes, etc., etc. <p>This is an absolutely terrible idea. I'm dumbfounded on this, absolutely dumbfounded. I will wait and HOPE that something changes, but when I read that Rambo is fighting something that "may be immortal," then all that feeling I've built up for the character over the years flies out the window, because he no longer exists in my reality. MIght as well join the X-Men next. <p>Absolutely Suck Ass.
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That guy desperately needs a role where he plays against type. A young hunting enthusiast would do the trick.
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Better not be any of the people who bitched about what Rob Zombie did with his Halloween films. This seems to be the same sort of thing, only worse because Rambo V is connected to the previous movies while Zombie's Halloweens are their own entity unrelated to the previous series. So now when you watch First Blood, all you'll be able to think about is that 30 years later, he'll be fighting primeval sci-fi beasts in the Arctic for the US military. See the difference? As someone else pointed out, it'd be like James Bond fending off an invasion from outer space in the next 007 film. Sure, both franchises may veer into sci-fi or superhero territory at times, but this sounds a bit too far "out there" especially after the ultra-realism of the last Rambo.
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...props for owning up. I couldn't believe this could be real, either, not until I heard the voice message. I still cannot understand how Sly sees this as an acceptable direction for a new RAMBO film.
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Hi, please please please can you find a few roles for some more legends of action cinema like Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal. It would be AWESOME to see everyone from the great action films of the past in one movie. So far, it sounds amazing but they're still a few guys missing. It would be fantastic to see Cynthia Rothrock in their as well!
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It WILL be Shia LeBeouf and it turns out that he's the son of Rambo and the chick from the first movie. David Caruso played her. Anyway, Shia is Beau and they go off on the adventure to kill the monster. Monster will be motion captured from one of those 3rd world kids that got adopted by a star couple. Voiced by a mixture of Stephen Hawking and Andy Serkis. The good guys win and it turns out that the beast was really created by cloning Rambo and a Romulan together. The Brian Denehey part has been recast as one of the hot chicks from Battlestar Galactica. I think Grace Park. The ending, Rambo and Caruso get married. Wind blows open the church door and his headband blows down the aisle to Beau who picks it up and looks to put it on... But Rambo takes it from him at the last second and we know that the torch could be passed at any time. It's going to be directed by the guy that did the remake of "The Fog". Way to go Hollywood!
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C'mon, once again....a guy running around gunning down hundreds of soldiers with as little as a scratch...he IS a superhero....he was one in rambo 2, 3, and yes rambo 4....despite being more gory and violent was NO more realistic than Rambo 2/3
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I'll admit that I haven't read the book, but this is a seqel to a MOVIE franchise not a follow up novel. Dennehey played him as an asshole. I don't know why Rambo would go back.
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Sept. 6, 2009, 7:19 p.m. CST
Sly, hold Avi Lerner hostage until he lets you make HUNTER!
by coltrautman
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...I'm going to be watching the Expendables, and all I'm going to be thinking about is friggin' Rambo biting the creative dust while chasing an immortal werewolf around Antarctica. WHY? This can't be real, can it? Really? Someone make it stop. Effin' Stallone, if you go through with this, I hope Stern puts YOU in the ring with a 70-year-old Geraldo, and I hope he knocks some sense back into your skull. John Rambo the character means something to people, especially after the last flick. This Beau-Brady-Sidekick-Lovin'-Immortal-Manbeast-Chasin' crap is going to be to Rambo what "Phantom Menace" and its sequels was to Darth Vader.
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...then I'm in all the way! If not, this could be a really bad train wreck.
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Agreed. And who the hell would want to watch a buddy movie with Brian Dennehy? Not even Brian Dennehy would watch that.
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Sept. 6, 2009, 7:23 p.m. CST
Once Expendables hits big, Sly needs to get with a real studio
by JuanSanchez
No more Millennium Films.
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and it's telling me that this reported synopsis is complete bullshit.
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Perhaps he could fill the void left by Trautman's passing.
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This is a character that had depth! It was based on real soldiers, real drama, real tragedy. Now you wanna put an experimental monster to fight Rambo? True Rambo fans do NOT want this, it's only the Rambo 4 fans that love this kind of crazy, nonsense action. PLEASE take the character back to First Blood territory, and keep him there.
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Sept. 6, 2009, 7:26 p.m. CST
Life goes on after bad movies. I survived all four Highlander se
by JuanSanchez
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Damn AICN cutting me off.
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retire the character. Stallone make like Eastwood and retire the fucking character.
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Sept. 6, 2009, 7:27 p.m. CST
Sly should just make HUNTER after The Expendables..no more Seque
by coltrautman
dont get me wrong, I will love this film is sly uses the synopsis and makes it(hunter is something ive wanted to see made for YEARS) but expendables will make sly bankable again...just call it "the savage hunter" it would be a badass film!!
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...no matter what. No this story, no Mexico story, no Sarah Palin story, no hunting down leaky pussy sniveling talkbackers story. You have lost all RAMBO privileges.
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if you don't agree with me.
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You seem to be stuck in "arrested development" fandom. What's done is done. I appreciate your nostalgia for a great movie and Dennehey was awesome, but it just doesn't seem to make sense. Lets move on. In the film and in this talkback.
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too late http://www.aintitcool.com/node/42087 Still, I guess if they were shooting that scene, there's hope. It is in 'post' after all.
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Rambo, now living in the U.S. works as an authority patroling the U.S./ Mexican border. Over time, he learns that politics and bureaucracy dictate the decisions pertaining to what happens concerning the border. Politicians want votes from minorities and those hired to protect the border let things slide for racial and financial reasons. Rambo doesn't pay any attention to this stuff and minds his own business for the most part. After all, he's seen the type of corruption that the U.S. government is capable of. It's nothing new to him. However, one night, there's a violent shootout with some warlords along the border. Rambo takes part in the firefight - and is well within his rights to do so - and pretty much destroys them all. Upon further investgating, he learns that some terrorist group or groups are gradually transporting pieces of a massive weapon (maybe nuclear?) across the border and have been doing so for years. The goal has been to assemble it in the U.S. and to use it on a heavily populated area. Rambo tries to convince the higher authorities of this, but they obviously don't care. They're being paid not to care and to look the other way. Rambo takes it upon himself to venture deeper into Mexico to learn more.... along the way, he encounters firefight upon firefight.... each more violent than the last. It's a raging war that most people didn't even know was going on. As Rambo travels deeper into the heart of Mexico, he's eventually caught by the Mexican government. The story ends like this: while Rambo is being held.... the weapon that was being transported is near completion in the U.S. Rambo is far too late. The story concludes with a MASSIVE terrorist attack in a major U.S. city or heavily populated area. That's the end of Rambo 5. Rambo 6 could pick up with Rambo escaping from Prison, back to the site of the attack and having to restore order to the post-nuclear attack.
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and ill say it again...<br><br>i just dont believe this. I dont even think its that bad of an idea. (i would see it) but, i just dont believe this. The shitty one sheet, and now the bad fax of a plot synopsis makes this scream 'not true' <br><br>which beings me back to.. what is the real reason sly and harry are trying to fool us?
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it was. Your "sniveling little talkback" comment must've been for me. Considering I'm the only sensible tb'er who's anti-Rambo sequel.
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is on to something here. How about Stallone just plays a nameless character in a movie called THE SAVAGE HUNT. If you wanna call that character Rambo then go ahead you big silly. Everyone else can enjoy a great movie that doesn't sully a classic icon. Look I created nerd diplomacy. I just copyrighted that too. "Nerd Diplomacy".
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Sept. 6, 2009, 7:39 p.m. CST
I thought all faxes stopped working at midnight in 1999...
by FlickaPoo
...on December 31st.
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Your story idea is bad. Why would terrorists seize a small, Podunk town? That type of illogical shit is Steven Seagal's territory? And how would Rambo accidentally end up in that hick town where his own country hunted him like a dog? And why would Rambo treat the redneck that hunted him, like a mentor? That would weaken Rambo and would be just as illogical as the rest of that flimsy story and would be nothing more than a retread. And the rest of you who want Rambo to go to Mexico or other 3rd world countries, that would be a retread, too. Let the man make his movie.
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I don't think Sly would go with this story. Surely he learnt about crap from Stop or My Mom Will Shoot. The one sheet was photoshop rubbish and the capitalisation on this fax seems odd to me and also the line "special forces kill team' for me, doesn't sound/read right. Would they promote this film this early in development with some poor quality poster?
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...if you please.
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another icon shot to shit? I watched Spielberg and Lucas *sob* rape my dear friend, Indiana Jones. I can't stand by and let it happen no more.
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until it actually comes out, then he slams it.
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Why does Sly read talkbacker feedback?
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Rambo is a human superhero in that he fights human super-villians and impossible odds and wins. He's not fighting werewolves, vampires, and genetic mutants. Sly can pull it off I'm sure, but like I said way above, this has more potential to harm the franchise than help it. I'm all for more Rambo. All this "taint the ending of the series" stuff doesn't matter as much to me. Rambo has had "serious" movies, and pure-balls out 80's action flick fun movies (with a few serious elements thrown in). Another fun action flick is cool for me. My only concern is that Sly is capable of making really great, dramatic action movies with a point, like the most recent film, and since he's restored Rambo to that status...I don't see why he'd want to undo that. I can see the "savage" human as a metaphor for all that's evil in mankind and Rambo becoming a savage to fight it. Very interesting stuff, but I still have qualms about the genetic experiment plot. Rambo doesn't need such a setup. Finally.... No need for a "sidekick" - although a friend or peer is ok...but no sidekick in the Indiana Jones sense. I'm ok with a hunting/tracking movie, but I really really really enjoyed the total brutal ass kicking at the end of the last film. It's not the gore...it's just been so long since we had a character on screen that really is brutally strong and dominates his opponents so much...nowadays we've got jackie chan and keanu reeves kung-fu fighting all the time. I really enjoy the throat rip and the pure "shock" of seeing rambo be so calculating and brutal and warlike when he had to be. The action felt real, and not like the wus-filled action films of modern times. Sly, do what YOU want to do; I have confidence in whatever you do. However, please avoid all the pressure from studios and generic plotlines and goofy sidekicks that distract from the ass kicking. Rambo works best when he's not slowed down by dipshits.
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...worthy. RAMBO IV was far better than it had any business being, but FIRST BLOOD stands alone.
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he came up with the idea from some moron who cooked it up in one of these talkbacks. Either that, or he was extremely high.
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Stallone + a sidekiq= massive meh. I like Judge Dredd just because I was a wee little one when I 1st saw it, so it gets nostalgia points with me, but if I wasn't young I wouldn't care too much. So Sly it seems u dropped fif and replaced him with Terry Crews when people here roasted u, do the same and drop the 22 year old "hunting partner". Because I don't want to see Rambo taking off a guard's clothes and have the sidekiq tell him "Ewwww Rambo we don't have time for this!" with Rambo looking back with disdain.
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yes, STROKING. Like stroking a cock, right? I haven't heard that one before.
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I swear we will never see this film in the way it is being released right now. Somehow we will see Hunter or Rambo. Not this way though. To much geek backlash.
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Damn, that synopsis sounds just like the novel HUNTER. I own it and have read it. IT IS A GREAT FUCKING READ and A KICK ASS ACTION NOVEL. I've always dreamed Sly would make this film. Now it seems he will and with RAMBO as the lead...even better!
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Sept. 6, 2009, 7:59 p.m. CST
Yeah, whatever, it's the FIFTH movie in the franchise, go nuts!
by Tall_Boy66
Seriously, Harry actually has a point, the series hasn't been realistic for awhile. Let's go with mutated experiments and shit.
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I give up. "Mutated Experiments" it is.
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the memory of the people's lives that were saved/bettered because of the politics expressed in all the previous films. Every one of those before were reality-based, and opened up the world's eyes to real-world problems that were ultimately bettered because of this series' emphasis on those little-known social dilemmas. By making it sci-fi now will cause all the laypeople of the world to assume that those past events, some of which are still relevant today (i.e. - Burma) and still need our help, were complete fabrications. I HATE this new idea, and though I'm all for changing up the genre, for God's sake I'd prefer it be a musical or standard courtroom drama if need be: <p> The most honest path for Rambo to take is for him to become active in the courts to try and persuade Congress of various injustices in society. He's lived injustice most of his life, but now he's done with the violence. Let's have a quiet character study where he makes peace with his Kingman, AZ family, studies law, and becomes a firebrand public defender who channels his zeal for change into his strategy and speeches. I realize he's not the brightest character, but his passion will outweigh his smarts. It could be a bit like A History of Violence and culminate with an attack on someone he cares about, forcing him to consider his stance on violence now that he's had success with non-physical retaliation within the judicial system. This not only feels natural, but pushes the story into the realm of "another genre" like Stallone wants for a 5th Rambo film.
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well, this MUST prove that Harry Knowles is a fucking hack.
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Rambo battling with Michael Myers though. Or I will call bullshit.
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Sept. 6, 2009, 8:05 p.m. CST
Maybe Stallone can do like "Gran Torino" and not name the guy Ra
by Tall_Boy66
We all know that "Gran Torino" was Dirty Harry. But he wasn't. But he still was. If anyone's panties are in a bunch about it sullying the good name of Rambo, then, yeah, screw it, just call the guy "Smith" or something. Same deal with "The Rock". Connery is basically playing James-Bond-if-he-got-caught-and-spent-decades-in-prison. He doesn't have to call the character Rambo for it to have that historical depth of character. Personally, I don't care either way but it'll make people bitch less.
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I hate talkback headers
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Please don't do this to the Rambo universe. Make this one a standalone that has you competing with Schwartzenegger's "Predator" for box office and critical glory. This feels much too genre for what Rambo is.
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Sept. 6, 2009, 8:08 p.m. CST
If this is seriously the best Stallone can come up with
by Pablo Escobar
Then he should have gone with the original ending of First Blood. What a fucking terrible idea, it really is up there with the aliens in Indy however there is no where near the amount of loyal fans that Indy had in order to make this a success. I think this will be the death knell of his career and the franchise and any good memories we had about Rambo. I suggest making anything rather than this, send Rambo to Afghanistan again and this time have him die saving allied troops in battle, the end, better the character die this way.
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In fact it's sounding worse and worse....<P> Surely this is a Harry / Sly jest of the highest magnitude? Please let it be so.<P> What kind of 'gayness' is a sidekick called 'BEAU BRADY' for a start!! And he and 'Rambo' are part of a larger team?<P> Fuck this revisionist shit, I want a LONE 'Rambo' SINGLE-HANDEDLY fucking up a heap of badass scumbags who deserve it....NOT some poor 'half-human' freak/mutant.<P> If Sly wants his own 'Predator'-like movie, can he please come up with a DIFFERENT 'character' to do it with, rather than 'Rambo'....
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No we're not fucking nuts. Rambo is realistic in the sense that it doesn't take place in a world with fucking monsters, laser guns and warp speed. He's an over the top character, but there are certain things that fit within the "rules" of the RAMBO universe. A creature...DOES NOT fit into this world. This isn't PITCH BLACK...this isn't PREDATOR...this is RAMBO. Man vs. Society...Man vs. Man... not Man vs Genetically Created ID monster. Keep the movie in the "Rambo universe" not in some sort of weird hybrid movie that you just throw Rambo into the mix. I'm not saying this concept is completely bad, just a really weird departure for the series.
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and every red blooded hetero American boy will want an Inuit girlfriend. And they will all be asking "Megan Who"?
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of what belongs in what movie universe. If it were up to Harry, he'd probably have Rambo, James Bond and Indy battle an army of Terminators on an oil tanker amongst the deadly waters of a Jaws 5 movie. "Sounds cool to me!"
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screenplay by John Grisham
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Beau Bridges.
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... behind this proposed "Rambo" installment is fresh and daring. <p> There's also an element of poetry to it as the character of Rambo and this ID monster he's pitted against are both products -- and victims -- of another kind of beast -- the Military Industrial Complex.
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Just a few thoughts on who would make a good partner with Sly. I think it should be his opposite, a young kid who is not necessarily the physically imposing threat, but someone with that same feral instinct. A good counter to Sly's human tank. Sam Witwer http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1022429/mediaindex Lucas Black http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0085407/ Ben Foster http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004936/ Jonathan Tucker http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006958/ Joseph Gordon-Levitt http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0330687/
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he paid his dues with 'GI Joe.' The man has to be prepped for the Joker role.
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I call shenanigans...sly said it would be a "beast of a man" in his voice message
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I know, I know.. but he's such a versatile actor that I think he could step into any part and rock the shit out of it!
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I agree....and which is why I hope sly goes forward with this plot
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Is nuts. This won't happen, and if it does it won't be a Rambo movie. Fact. Trust me, you will remember me as a prophet later
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I'll be honest, it sounds stupid. and I don't want it to, because I like Rambo.
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Bunny Nibbles - gotta respect owning up. Major props. ++ Let's be clear to all who say what Rambo did in the first 4 films was unrealistic. Go read Lone Survivor. A small team of Navy Seals were ambushed and took down hundreds if not thousands of taliban fighters in a firefight. Yes they suffered massive casualties, but Rambo is supposedly so elite that other elite units pray at his altar. Saint of Spec Ops as it were. And for the most part Rambo isn't ambushed. He may take on the enemy on their turf but on his terms. So while some of the action scenes ay be cheesy and overdone there is nothing in any of the Rambo films that in any way compares to shitty UNIVERSAL WEREWOLF SOLDIERS. Being implausibly successful against overwhelming forces doesn't correlate to battling mutants in the tundra. Why in my head do I have that scene from Gears of War 2 were the test tube Horde break free (and go down way too easy)?
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... Usually he doesn't give a shit and that's what's cool about him, but it would be interesting to see him truly afraid for once...he would need a reason to want to live though...he hasn't really had that in the past...
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http://media.photobucket.com/image/Sam%20Witwer/Sesamous/crash.jpg
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Sam Witwer http://www.shirtlessmodels.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/sam2web.gif I apologize for it's original site.. haha
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I think that fear in Rambo is the new direction that Stallone is really going for. I don't hate that, but rabid Robin Williams just doesn't seem to be that thing. The Edge = older guy pursued by blood thirsty killing machine. Good BELIEVABLE movie.
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If he was all bad ass until the creature starts kicking his and he realizes this thing CAN kill him and he has too start RUNNING like Dutch in Orig Predator and shit to survive, I think that would be extremely exhilirating! Imagine rambo saying, " Oh, Shit!"
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Look it up. Some obscure film called "Predator."
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Stupid.
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And Rambo 4 was a piece of shit.
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Because if you haven't. There could be a lawsuit here.
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...called Hunter by James Byron Huggins (and it's frickin' awesome). Check it out. http://www.amazon.com/Hunter-Novel-James-Byron-Huggins/dp/1439101256/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252289871&sr=8-1
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do explain?
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I just read back through the Talkback and saw some people already mentioned Huggins' novel. Sorry for the repost. But from what I saw, everyone else that has read it really enjoyed it. It is one of the best--most intense--novels I read. Also, sorry about the non-TinyUrl'd URL. Got a little excited when I read the synopsis and realized it was Hunter for the screen.
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I believe Sly does own the rights or I hope he does cause if not there WILL be a lawsuit for sure. THE BOOK IS GREAT.
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GibsonUSAReturns is my favorite author though. Is BIG LOB in this.
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he bought it back in 1999 I believe...so no lawsuit for this....the Book is great...theres a great movie here if sly chooses to use it as a guideline...the character in the book was basically rambo anyways..
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And on IMAX? <p> Yes this will totally fuck the "real world" universe of Rambo.<p> But does anyone outside of here really care about Rambo? Do any of us really think the Rambo movies drew serious attention to the atrocities in Burma, or the Russians in Afghanistan, or missing POWs in Vietnam? <p> Most people's memories of Rambo are of Ronald Reagan's head superimposed on Stallone's body and Weird Al Yankovic gurning. <p> And I'm someone who considers Rambo the original and best template for every ultraviolent action movie. <p> Seriously though, considering the current state of the world, Stallone could surely pick a better scenario than an immortal genetic mutant from the Arctic circle with a taste for human blood. What about if Rambo was sent to track a renegade special ops vet returned from Afghanistan, who's now gone loco in Canada? A reversal of First Blood where Rambo is now the establishment trying to bring in a younger version of himself. That could be cool. <p> He's doing this because he's paid for the rights to adapt the book, and he can probably only get funding for the film if the Rambo name is attached to it.<p> Still, I'm sure none of us have ever watched Commando and Predator and not really thought it was the same character in both movies, even though they have different names. Stallone's character in this film should just remain nameless. <p> And sport a cock-dusting moustache and a ponytail.
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The character of Nathaniel Hunter has been turned into RAMBO for the film. He basically was Rambo anyway when I read the book.
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This certainly doesn't strike me as a RAMBO film, but Sly has probably been my favorite working director since '06. THE EXPENDABLES looks like it'll be awesome on a 'holy shit!' level. I'll see RAMBO V no matter what the story, even if it's to be the Hunter. It's in Stallone's hands now.
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Movies like HUNTER, CRUSADE and POE have been movies both STALLONE and SCHWARZENEGGER have promised for years. Finally some form of HUNTER is being made!
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...it was called "Predator". This has to be complete bullshit.
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I love it!
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is a much better title.
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with Stallone. If he wasn't such a cunt, he'd still have relationships with respected studios (and people) -- There are many reasons why Avi is his only game in town.
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I was being nice in the other talkback because I thought this was just the beginning of an idea. But now that there is an official synopsis and it's clearly not a joke, I don't know what to think. I'm sorry, but truthfully, I think it's really bad. The sidekick only makes it worse. I mean I'm sorry but I'm fast forwarding to the Monday after this is released and I'm thinking it will be badder than bad has ever been. Like 'Bring back the dream sequence from STOP OR MY MOM WILL SHOOT because it's better than this' bad. How far along are we with this?
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And as for the guy who thinks Rambo should infiltrate Mexico to find it's a burning war-torn terrorist weapons factory, give me a fucking break. Why doesn't he just go to fucking Cuba and battle Castro in a robot battlesuit?
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Nameless is the way to go. I do actually think there are a lot of moviegoers that learn of atrocities around the world from movies. Not just Rambo which always has a real world concern to them but also a movie like Blood Diamond or Paul Blart: Mall Cop;p
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You're right. The global exposure Rambo could bring to the underground Mexican nuclear weapons program.<p> Or the Arctic genetic research into human-blood-drinking mmortal savages.<p> Thank god Richard Crenna died before he could see this...
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to the very serious issue of the genocide of Iconic '80's heros.
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Didn't I read that dead-on-arrival synopsis years ago? <P> What happened to the human trafficking? <P> Wouldn't Dutch Schwarzenegger be the Commando to call?
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It sound like a variant version of the old animated series!!! OMG!!
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I thought by monster and all the sci-fi stuff they meant something like pumping some futuristic steroids and hypnosis training or something into some human soldier and let him loose. Entirely plausible... maybe he even has some of the latest hi tech weapons like a laser or some shit... But an actual mutated predator type monster??? I know Rambo movies are pretty crazy... but they were grounded in a sense of realism and pretty convincing... This may be going a bit too far... Maybe if they didn't call it Rambo, and it could all be just a big 'What if?' movie starrign the character Rambo then, yeah, I think we could all flow with it...
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I thought by monster and all the sci-fi stuff they meant something like pumping some futuristic steroids and hypnosis training or something into some human soldier and let him loose. Entirely plausible... maybe he even has some of the latest hi tech weapons like a laser or some shit... But an actual mutated predator type monster??? I know Rambo movies are pretty crazy... but they were grounded in a sense of realism and pretty convincing... This may be going a bit too far... Maybe if they didn't call it Rambo, and it could all be just a big 'What if?' movie starring the character Rambo then, yeah, I think we could all flow with it...
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make it a Days of Our Lives crossover, and the big reveal is that Rambo and Beau Brady discover that Stefano DiMera is behind the genetic experiments.
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No problem about admitting I was wrong. I have no ego. I really genuinely thought you guys were wrong. I never would have thought Stallone would do such a stupid thing. I admit when I'm wrong.
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Postive: It's Stallone. It's a Rambo movie. It's a first day viewing for me. Negative: I'm having an even harder time accepting this "creature" idea than I was with the confused "super soldier" idea. No, Rambo isn't a realistic franchise, but it was never sci-fi. As Johnno said above, they were somewhat "grounded in a sense of realism". I think basically, what myself and most others have a problem with is this having the Rambo character attached. If you told me this was a Stallone movie, gave me the plot and never mentioned Rambo, I'd be in love with it. It's not what I would have envisioned for another Rambo sequel, but I'M not Rambo. ;) We should all just be happy more Stallone movies are on the way!
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It'd still be a "stallone shooting stuff" movie, just with a different character name.. rambo chasing genetic experiments? wtf?
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the creature is Bruce Vilanch on X and roids and no doze and viagra
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Sept. 6, 2009, 11:08 p.m. CST
Imagine one of Rambos team members named BIG LOB...
by GibsonUSA Returns
THAT WOULD BE SO AWESOME!!!!
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Even if "Millennium is the ONLY company that will do business with Stallone" IT DOESN'T matter dip-shit. He will bring them hundreds of millions of dollars at the box-office like he did with RAMBO (just 80 million alone in rentals) and another 113 million worldwide. THE EXPENDABLES should make over 300 million worldwide. And the next Rambo movie --RAMBO : HUNTER (that would be a good title) should clean house as well. STALLONE doesn't need a major studio anymore as long as a studio foots the bill!
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I stuck a popsicle stick in your mom's cold pussy and out came a new frosty treat. You homo.
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I was jazzed about the Mexico idea. This is something creeping into our own borders, something timely and intriguing. I liked the idea of "conditioned" killers and Rambo facing one down--a young version of him (why not combine the two with a rogue mercenary in Mexico employed by the drug dealers?). This SF Rambo doesn't do much for me. <p> Although, it's Sly and he's been on a roll. As long as the characters are strong and Stephano DiMera is in no way involved... I'm there.
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Or the Arnold part...Don't know if I dig the idea of him having a plucky sidekick..but maybe he can get eaten or something, further proving that Rambo should be left alone. I say to mr Stallone who actually reads these things we post, GO FOR IT! if you are going to go for a creature please make it bad ass and not some stupid immovable thing..make it look like it can work, move and really be a threat...and if your last Rambo can be used as a litmus, please make the thing be brutal...Now go entertain us!! thanks!!
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This has got "bad idea" all over it.
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a movie just to make a movie to bring back an iconic character is another. Then it becomes pathetic.
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I'm guessing many here are those fools that went to watch Night at the Museaum when Rocky 6 was out! FOOLS!! (lol)
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Sept. 6, 2009, 11:36 p.m. CST
Stallone is a cunt with a terrible reputation. Blow me ABKING.
by Mennen
This is a fact in this town.
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Have Rambo hunt down a "beast of a man" in the arctic...only to find out...it's a veteran of one of the recent wars...his mirror image. Rambo vs. Rambo...he's finally gone from the hunted...to the hunter. But, not some creature in the literal sense...the creature is this war veteran...misunderstood...trained to kill...sent home to the pacific northwest. Where he goes apeshit...and starts murdering local police...only one man can talk this guy down...someone who's been through this...RAMBO.
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... He's still a cunt in "real life"
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I thought the synopsis for this movie sounded familiar. I read a book called "Hunter" with this almost exact plot. Check out this link. http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Hunter/James-Byron-Huggins/e/9780671015350/?itm=8 ?Read the book description. It says right there Stallone bought the rights.
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The first time we meet Nathaniel Hunter, the world's greatest tracker, he and his giant black wolf, Ghost, arrive at the scene of a massive search for a lost boy. "With primordial strength--an almost frightening animal strength brought to life with a single word--the enormous wolf turned, massive muscles bunching and hardening beneath the heavy black coat. The huge head, as broad as an anvil, went to the ground as it padded toward the treeline." No wonder Sylvester Stallone has bought James Byron Huggins's latest thriller for the movies! What a role--and the part of Hunter isn't bad, either... Hunter, a historic-looking mountain man who dresses in stylish leather garments designed by himself, finds the boy quickly and is ready to set off for Manchuria in search of a rare Siberian tiger when an even more dangerous target surfaces in the wilds of Alaska. An illicit medical experiment has gone wrong, and the attempt to combine the recovered DNA of one of our more violent and predatory predecessors with that of modern man has resulted in a creature whose amazing powers of brain and muscle are matched only by its survival instincts.
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kay so, why this "irks" me... People, especially "us" fanboyz n' gurLz... Need 2 "chill"... When was the "last" time Sly did "Sci~fi"? Ya'll are KNOWN 4 bitching n' Moaning... But...as MUCH as u "hate" the fact that ur BELOVED John Jay is becoming a Hunter of Wolf/beast, just hear this: U talk as THOUGH u've SEEN THIS EXACT Movie, ALREADY... When...in fact, Sly's YET to screen Anything resembling a movie... Shure, there have been PLENTY of these "so~called" chase premise... But NOT from StaLLoNe!!? How can u be SO shure? Unless, u have some kinda gift for seeing a movie before it's even made, then put ur so-call'd Crystal baLLz 2 rest, y don't u? Save the blasphemous hatred 4, I don't know, the day After...it's released!? Then, we'll get down 2 tearing the movie a new @~hole...IF it Sux... Otherwise, save ur critiques of an "imaginary" film for Laters, kayz? Sheesh...
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my cock. EWR3378 we know. It's been mentioned a billion times. Thanks though.
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Yes Yes Yes!!! Rambo Tracking down the ultimate fighting machine sounds awesome!! I cant wait to see the inevitable kickarse duel between the two them. I love the sound of the sci-fi twist! It was definitely time for Rambo to venture out of his square. He is a fantastic character & with a good script & imaginative story telling, this will be a great ride. I have faith in Sly. I'm there!!! Even if the creature is a huge CGI monster, that sounds great to me!! Go seek & destroy Rambo!!!
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Um, yeahs... I think...hmmm Well, I don't know if "any" of u'sss are Film Lovers... Well, there was THIS REALLY cooL, BAD@SS LiL' Flick from Gans... The guy who did "Silent HiLL" I know, NOT SO great...was a Decent Adaptation...but not quite EPIC as either of the FIRST two games... But yeah, anyhow, Lost potentiaL >..< However, he did this REALLIE bad@SS lil' flick in France before that...call'd...Brotherhood of the WOLF... Now, THAT had TWO guys who were HUNTING this "beast"...Holy SHIZZzz....BEST movie EVER... With the guy who "hosts" Iron Chef..."allez" cuisine? What's his "name"? {~_~} Possibly HIS best Role EVER...as "native" Named "Mani"...methinkS? Anyhow, YES, if the Movie Sly makes is ANYTHING like DAT...Oh god...CRAZY @SS Action...Balls to the Walls...INSANE!? Yeups, I'm THERE!!! I am SO lucky, cuz I LOVE "creature" flicks... and my OWN personaL "fantasy" Flick was to have a "Human" BAD@SS take on a "monster"...Imagine, if Bruce Lee were "alive" today...doing "B" movie genres...and have his character "take" on a "Mike Myers" type PSYCHOTIC killer? F*&* yes!!! My fantasy flick! heh...Plus, I'm a big...fan of "Creature" F/X and Movies in Gen... Not "enough" of THOSE! I know, a LOT of people HATE Underworld for this... BUt I could CARE LESS... Cuz, REallIE, @ the end of the day...it's ALL about PersonaL taste/opinion, on how something makes YOU Feel...and NOT so BullShiZZ EGO "well, my OPINION is OBSOLETE, um, I mean, Objective, and is the END aLL, be aLL Said Matter bla bla bla"... I don't buy into that crap, thinking that YOUR SOLE opinion, is the Highest and most important, and that Other people's opinions don't Count for Jack shizz... I think Everyone, EVERYONE feels "differently"...It's like ur favorite "food"...Just like Films...everyone has their OWN taste...So u can't expect EVREEONE to FeeL da SAME on ANY given SUbJect, ya? Yeups...Sorry, but I've "perused" this site for EONS, reading a TON of your "Feedback" without ONCE saying whatnot...and now, I feeL it's time to "speak" up about it... Cuz, there's this MISPERCEPTION... That your opinion is "shizz" and it "discounts" MY OPINION therefore, I'll "demean" and "Degrade" the other person to make their Opinion WORTHLESS...I am Sorry, I ApoloGizE...but That's NOT how the World WORKS...U can't "negate" someone's "feelings" and "opinions" just by Derailing them... Or making them feel "stupid"... Or "insulting" 'em...It does not make that individuaL'S opinions or feelings ANY less VALID... So GROW The #@$* up...!! Kayzzz? Talkbackers? Seriously...we need some "intelligent" debate now... Cuz film is a passion for EVERYONE involved...why not "discuss" this in a MORE productive Fashion? No...?
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I hope Stallone succeeds... SO he can make *is it UniversaL own'd?* RVP! Dat's RIGHT! Rambo Versus Preds!!! Or even BETTER! An Aliens Versus RAMBO+PREDS!! heee heee...MWAHAHAHA!! Jk...haha, no seriously!!! How COOL, would DAT BE!! ha...
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My Mom's cold pussy that apparently doubles as a snow cone maker.
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It's a new day and the Rambo 5 idea still sucks compacted stool from Harvey Keitel's ass. And the one sheet still looks like G'Mork. Fuck I really hope this is some elaborate hoax.
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Because Stallone is filming in the southwest on both sides of the border. He's making the Mexican Cartel story line but doesn't want to get abducted, murdered, etc. The Zetas are not going to be pleased having Rambo killing them on screen. They'll say their filming in Canada or some shit. Meanwhile, a large documentary crew with really good equipment suddenly shows up in Laredo. Makes sense and honestly the only way any company would insure the filming of this movie. So maybe no evil wookies.
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I knew this synopsis seemed familiar. <P> This may or may not be Cool News, but it's not NEW news. <P> Stallone should do it as a Hunter movie, not a Rambo.
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Same poster art: http://www.amazon.ca/Hunter-James-Byron-Huggins/dp/0671015354
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...even get mad at.
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Just change Sly's character name from John Rambo to Joshua Swaney.<p> Problem solved.
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Sept. 7, 2009, 12:41 a.m. CST
You're just a "fanboy" ABKING - You're not in this business -
by Mennen
You don't know Sly, which means you don't have a clue as to why a guy like Avi Lerner is Stallone's only game in town -
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I think he's gotta take a LONG hard look at what Rambo means to a lot of people. Especially the Vietnam vets who Rambo initially (metaphorically) represented. I've heard the commentary on the films, how Sly's been approached by vets saying how much his character MEANT to them. When it comes down to it, Rambo is bigger than Stallone because he represents a SOCIOLOGICAL IDEA -- a TRUTH those guys lived. Rambo is the rage we feel about mistreated vets. That meant a lot to a group of proud warriors. Imagine how embarrassing the lyrics to BORN IN THE USA would be if they ended with a UFO encounter. Sly, you're playing with a very important American myth -- one grounded in a form of reality and truthfulness. You may own Rambo, but you are also his caregiver. If you stain it a little, the backlash just isn't with us here, it's with anyone who has given an emotional damn about that character's journey.
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Hunter is a great character and can be a wonderful stand alone movie. Just get Paul Verhoeven to direct it. Follow that up with Rambo 5 set in mexico. Win/win situation.
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Sounds horrible.
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Hunter's oversized black wolf tracking partner is being replaced by a 22yr old Beau Brady? If this book is being adapted into a RAMBO movie, my guess is the wolf is being ditched for a character that the younger audiences can relate to. Only problem is that it's a studio cliche move. They did it with HELLBOY and with LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD. Neither movie needed the younger sidekick. If you're going to do it here, it needs to actually add something to the movie. Don't jump the shark Sly. Find the story. You found it with ROCKY BALBOA, you found it with RAMBO, and you'll find it here. Don't worry about attracting younger audiences, or relating it to them. With the right story, you won't have to.
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or whatever, this one above sounds like cheese. The last time they changed the formula of a established franchise was "Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull" and we know how that turned out to be!!! Sly can still film this Predator/Thing-flic but don´t make it a Rambo-movie, please!
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Believe me.<p>And I totally second the idea to cast Tony Jaa. Maybe not as the monster but as the 22yr old hunting partner?
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That another Rambo movie is in the works. :))). Shit, I hope Sly goes all out insane on the action. Explosions, CGI creatures, heads popping off everywhere yeah yeah yeah yeah fucken Rambo!! Go insane Sly. Go fucken Sci-fi, throw unrealistic shit at this Rambo character, it will be cool to see how Rambo reacts to the new threats. Rambo will always be Rambo, his character will be awesome no matter the situation he has to battle his way out of!! Do it Sly, Do it.
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Sly and Jackie have been rumored to do the same movie for over a decade now lol.
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it is gonna be a Mexico plot. Sly is staying at Harry's house while it is in production. They will have pillow fights and give each other foot rubs. eeeewwwww
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Sept. 7, 2009, 2:08 a.m. CST
More pressingly relevant; When can we expect an <p> Expendables
by The_Genteel_Gentile
I want to see some freshly minted Jeffrey L. Kimball images flashing in front of my retinas already. And crank up the Brian Tyler to eleven! Yes, it shall be EPIC!
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(last word got cut off from my previous, all would be solved with an EDIT FEATURE!!)
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honestly,its crystal skull territory.
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Imagine Mel Gibson - The Great Anti-Semite - as Beau Brady! Great casting. In this masterpiece of cinema called Rambo V: The Savage Hunt, we throw 'em back into WWII as part of a Jew hunting squad of assassins! Unlike, Tarantino's Basterds now in theatres. So, we follow these Jew assassins all through Europe, but in the end we find out that they were "really" killin' Jews in an attempt to get close to the Fuhrer himself and kill HIM! That's the Savage Hunt, dudes! Make this picture Sly! Make it!
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ditch the fucking mutated beast or whatever the fuck this horse shit is and do a real Rambo movie or don't do it at all. This is worse than that goddamn Indiana Jones Lucas shit out. Fuck this.
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Super-Soldier like Universal Soldier with Van Damme? This plot is very trash. I remember the rumors of the plot for Rocky 5-6 that it circulated in the nineteen: “Balboa VS Alien” in a boxing match. I don't like it. Rambo is a war machine for true wars. The x-files leave them to Fox Mulder.
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Sept. 7, 2009, 2:56 a.m. CST
WILL THIS BE A " IT WAS ALL JUST A DREAM" MOVIES??
by GibsonUSA Returns
You know, Rambo kills the mutated beast, and then suddenly he wakes up in his bed at home... <BR><BR>it was all just a dream...<BR><BR>he just killed his mental "demons".... <BR><BR> LOL YEAH!!
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typo.
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Aliens at the end of Indy 4 was a terribile idea, be careful Sly, don't make the same mistake!!! This plot kills the character!
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When the fuck did I say that the TERRORISTS WOULD BE MEXICAN? What I said was that TERRORIST GROUPS would be crossing the border to launch an attack inside the U.S. They could be from any country. The Mexican government just wouldn't give a shit.
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Sept. 7, 2009, 3:49 a.m. CST
"...there's nothing freakier than a small fast horrifying thing.
by DC Films
Sounds a little Freudian, Harry ;)<p><p> Good synopsis. Kudos to Stallone for being brave and inventive. Can't wait to see it.
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Film it like the hunter with Rambo in it. Then bleep out his name every time they mention it -- like Quentin did in Kill Bill. Then call it The Hunter. It will work, and make for a bad ass man-with-no-name film.
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....the Rambo universe, or that Rambo is some sort of public service that brings attention to global problems to people who are too dumb to read newspapers and get their news from Rambo films, LOL. Rambo was always meant to be an anti-war figure, yet that message was lost on a lot of talkbackers who want to send Rambo to go fight more wars. Your awful ideas remind me of the South Park episode with the manatees generating story ideas with colored balls. You guys pick a random 3rd world country, some random crisis, an enemy like warlords, or drug traffickers, or corrupt governments, and voilà, a crappy talkbacker idea for a Rambo film.
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The South Park manatees generating story ideas with colored balls.<p> Chakraborty, the problem that 99% of the people here have with the 'actual' synopsis is it sounds EXACTLY like that.<p> As awful as the 'alternate' suggestions from tbers may be, i've yet to read one that's worse than what Sly's actually planning to shoot!
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"RAMBO V Synopsis... Sounds Cool To me!"<p> Oh Harry. For fucks sake. I don't know what else to say... for fucks sake.
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WTF? Was that voicemail just Sly helping t to put one over on us talkbackers? This IS a joke right?
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...only with a new character and not with Rambo, then most of the talkbackers would be for it. So if he names the movie Hunter and his character is Jim Rango instead of John Rambo and is essentially the same person....then these people wouldn't have a problem with it. I think Harry's right when he says it's ridiculous to demand realism from Rambo because the last few films have been somewhat cartoonish. A new direction sounds cool in a B movie way.
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sure he's about 40 years older than in the description but with a little makeup it could work!!
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Sept. 7, 2009, 5:16 a.m. CST
Combining human traffickers, drug carterls and the "beast"
by Miyamoto_Musashi
Am sure someone has already suggested it, but why can't it be all three. <p> Firstly apologies to the writers of Taken and Predator, also apologies to just about everyone who can write, this is pretty raw, simple, full of clichés and over the top. <p> Basic story and some of the scenes. <p> Rambo, looking to help a family locate their daughter who they believe has been kidnapped by some Mexican human traffickers. Mexican human traffickers, of course being connected to a major drug cartel. <p> We see Rambo early on in an Urban environment in Mexico, trying to locate the girl and the traffickers. <p> He learns about a "processing" centre. Goes in kicks some butt, finds some girls, but not the one he is looking for. He learns that some of the prettier ones have been transported to a drug plantation in southern Mexico. <p> The scenes in the "processing" centre would of course resemble similarities to Taken, but this is Rambo and would be interesting to see him in an Urban environment. <p> We would cut to the drug plantation, that is cleared land located in the jungle. We would get a view, a first person perspective from someone looking on at the camp the plantation and the guards. Some of the guards notice that there is someone there in the jungle and start firing in that direction. We see 12 or so guards shouting and running into the jungle, trying to find this person or animal. <p> The guards go deep into the jungle, running but not aware of their surroundings. One by one we seen the 12 guards taken out in a vicious fashion but we don't get a clear view of who/what is killing them. <p> We see Rambo, in a village nearby, trying to get help or learn about how to get to this drug plantation. He learns that many of the pretty girls from this village have been taken by the cartel as well. But most people are too afraid to help, there is of course one young guy whose sister has been taken and agrees to help him. <p> He suggests to Rambo that he pretend to be "El Depredador", a fabled creature that apparently lives in the local jungle and prays on warriors. <p> Back at the drug plantation its evening and we see the leader spending time with some of the imprisoned girls and eyeing up the newly arrived American girl. He is interrupted and learns that the 12 men have not arrived back. There is a lot of fear with some of the guards fearing that El Depredador is in fact very real. He of course dismisses this. Then we see the camp attacked. <p> Rambo and his local friend attack the camp, Rambo goes about slaughtering guards, whilst his friend is tasked with freeing the girls. <p> Through the chaos of the fighting the girls are free, including the American one, Rambo asks him to take the girls quickly back to the village whilst he holds of the guards for a while. <p> Rambo's friend leads the girls away, but is suddenly attacked and killed, the American girl is taken away. The other girls scream, Rambo hears this and runs for them, finding his friend dead and the American girl gone. The sister of his friend repeats El Depredador. Rambo tells them to head for the village and heads in the direction of her screams. <p> The remaining drug cartel guards and leaders also head in the same direction. <p> El Depredador, runs far enough ahead, knocks out the girl, and prepares to eliminate his chasers. He is very much human, but beast like in his presence and manner <p> Chaos ensues as all 3 factions come head to head at once. Rambo is no match for El Depredador in combat, his raw beast like fighting and energy is too much for Rambo and he is physically beaten and knocked off a cliff and into a river. <p> El Depredador continues his ferocious onslaught of the guards, finally decapitating the leader and holding the head high whilst roaring. <p> A bruised and battered Rambo drags himself out of the river, he looks enraged, should be dead, but has let go, and now seems more raw and beast like. He and El Depredador battle it out, literally likes animals, fists and legs flying, both getting cut and bruised. At one point an almost dead Rambo is knocked back, as El Depredador pounces on him he manages to pick up a sharp stone and ram it through his chest, killing him. <p> Final shot is Rambo lying there covered in blood, and we see him close his eyes.
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The human traffickers / drug cartels bit is great....the 'beast' angle, no so much.<p> I fear for this next 'Rambo' movie, unfortunately.... 'Razzies' come to mind.
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Now get off your arse and go shoot it!
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I liked that story the first time out....when it was called Predator. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
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You guys act like Rambo somehow changes the world, and people go to see them to get their news/open their eyes from it...After Rambo 4, why does rambo have to go on another cliche mission into mexico??? if anything this brings something new to the series....Honestly, just leave rambo 4 as the end...sly can call this "savage hunter" if he wants and change the name of the character...then all the geek fanboys can be happy
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I finally got around to reading that shit. Pack your things! I want you out of here by noon! We are bringing in Goldsman to clean up the mess.
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hence the not so subtle "El Depredador". <p> And hence my apologies at the start.
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Clearly am not going to give up my daytime job, though if you said Orci and Kurtzman to clean up, I may have got a little offended.
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El Oh El.
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There are some people that learn about social/world issues from serious news programs, or newspapers, some from satirical comedy shows and some from watching movies where the main character uses half the world's ammunition supplies to kill 100's in awesome and spectacular ways...as long as the message gets out there.
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Sept. 7, 2009, 6:05 a.m. CST
If this wasnt a Rambo movie, people would cream their pants
by coltrautman
on this site...
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...Rambo vs ninjas. Rambo goes to Japan to defeat a syndicate of child stealing, drug-trafficking ninjas....with Giselle Bunting as his love interest. Here's the trailer: <p> http://tinyurl.com/m2w2kp
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Honestly, after The Expendables....the idea of some rambo rescue mission retread doesnt excite me much.....if you DO buckle in to fanboy cries(which you would be stupid to) then at least make your next film "the savage hunt" change the character....because we need something exciting after "The Expendables" and not some rescue mission retread with rambo going into mexico or some other 3rd world country...
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cream my pants. It's like if Rambo was Donnie from 'Lebowski.' He'd be out of his element. A child who wanders into a completely different movie than before. Everyone would like to see Schwartzenegger knock out Hannibal Lecter, but some things are best left alone. I'd seriously hope that other movie stars aren't thinking about taking their characters and pulling a stunt like this. If you're down with this shit, more power to you. I think it's one of the lamest things I've ever heard.
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Bring this on.
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...and drinks a beer...and eats some cock-flavored soup while young boys stare at his muscles: <p> http://tinyurl.com/m8w5me
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...of movies ended perfectly at the end of the magnificent Rambo, with the man walking towards his father and family home back in America and one was left to think that he may finally find peace- his final mission perhaps atoning from past sins- what a great way to end the movie and the series. This idea would end the whole thing with a clusterfuck. Mr Stallone please do this film by all means- but not as the Rambo character. Please don't!
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I think it sounds like a lot of fun. Nobody's gonna want to see yet another round of Rambo in the forest or the Middle East. What else can he do? Oddly enough though it somewhat resembles my intentionally-stupid idea for pre-Balboa Rocky 6 - "Rocky fights Alien Fugitive in Intergalactic Arena."
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Shia LaBeouf - as Rambo's local friend. He needs to be in every franchise <p> Danny Trejo - as the cartel leader , was either him or Cheech Marin, are there any other Latin American actors ?...kidding<p>. Dakota Fanning as the kidnapped American girl, she hasn't been in enough dodgy roles yet. <p> El Depredador to be played by Cuba Gooding Jnr, he is not one to shy away from crap, when there is a paycheck involved.
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My 6th sense tells me that you type your comments from your iPhone.
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Beowulf is the oldest surviving Anglo Saxon tale dating back to 600 AD - though the actual story in complete poem form took another 400 years to reach the masses. So it's an old, old story...but a really good one. Kudos to Stallone for trying to do something very, very different with the Rambo character. This could be very, very special indeed!
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Sometimes correct, but definetely a waste of a 6th sense
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AWESOME NEWS!!! THIS BOOK IS SUPERB. People complaining about the direction Stallone is taking need to read this book and then they'll be on board. FANTASTIC!
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The period at the start of one of your sentences was a clue...because the iPhone has an annoying habits of inserting periods when you do a paragraph break.
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It's a fun concept and I'm sure Stallone could make a hell of a good movie with it, but does the protagonist have to be Rambo? This sounds like someone else's story. John Rambo's story had been told, as far as I'm concerned. The last film was a perfect farewell to the character, just likie the last Rocky film. This would be like making Rocky 7. <p> Build some new characters and properties, Sly. You don't need Rambo to tell this story.
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besides wasnt a similar movie with Benicio deltoro and tommy lee jones,called the hunted?
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i loved the fourth rambo movie because it was the only sequel to depict rambo's inner suffering in the manner first blood did. (and of course because of the 200+ deaths) but this plot for part V sounds very superficial. stallone should not change the direction of the fourth part. don't make the same mistake you did with rambo III!!!!
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already got shit on by Uwe Boll.
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direct a colgate total commercial is given the financing to direct video games to movies movies.
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*shoots Spider* That's what the fuckin' world's commin' to, how you like that?
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One of the dumbest movies pretending to be smart i ever had the displeasure to watch.
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I would much prefer a Rambo movie that does flashbacks to Vietnam. I would love for Sly to find a young "Rambo" and "Danforth" and "Trautman" and give us a taste of what a Rambo-style gorilla war was like in Vietnam. They could even cover his capture and escape, and of course, the corrupt government stuff. "Company leader to Raven." I think that would be an interesting look at Vietnam if they made it look real. I want to see why Rambo was the best in Vietnam.Sly could make his cameos; talking to a relative, etc.
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I meant Hairy Beast...
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Paul Verhoeven was born to make HUNTER. Rambo 5 should go for the mexico plotline followed by a Verhoeven Hunter.
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This sounds loads like the Nightmare Man, a little seen BBC series set on a remote Scotish Island where a canbalistic murderer is stalking the isle..its turns out to be a russian who has been cybernetically attached to his mini sub which has been damaged by a nuke accident and he has subsequently pulled half of what is left of his brain away turning him into a bloodthirsty psycho killer:TM.Totally scary show !
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Only, less jokey.
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And the Beast is played by Briggitte Nielsen.
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Flavor will sacrifice his life to "slay" the beast, but doesn't make it out alive. Then Cobra looks at the camera and says, " Never trust something that bleeds for five days but doesn't die...or in Briggitte's case...ten."
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I'd rather fuck Leslie Nielsen.
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wonder why they'll never get Hollywood suit fingerprints on their scripts.
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Bad news indeed.
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Good news indeed.
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Rambo and his home health care aide hunt ManBearPig. This could be epic!
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http://tinyurl.com/mocmkn
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screw a rambo 5...let the character end..
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or u were being sarcastic?
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Bad news indeed.
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Sly called, he said "Leave me the fuck alone."
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But then again so did CRYSTAL SKULL, and since that turned out so well...
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some of you are scared. It the wrong hands this can get fucked up. But Sly knows what he is doing. Just go read HUNTER! If Sly has already made up his mind then there is nothing we can do.
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Todd McCarthy is a dribbling halfwit. <p>"spelling moderate to tepid B.O. prospects after big fest preems" <p>"Even more than "No Country for Old Men," with which the Coen brothers showed what is possible artistically and commercially with a McCarthy novel onscreen, "The Road" reads extremely cinematically." <p>"extremely cinematically." <p>What?
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follow this course of logic and this is what you get. thats the problem. bring rambo back to an honest believing script. the essence of First Blood. Harry...have you lost your mind? your smarter than this...come on ....
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The two ebst Rambo movies, First Blood and Rambo (4) are the best movies of the Rambo saga precisely because they do try to inject some form of realism into them. no, they are not realistic movies in themselves, but there's an atempt at plausability to the plot and the events depicted in the movie, even the over-the-top ones.<br><br>Rambo movies became stupid retarded bullshit when they went comic book on the audience's ass, like Rambo II and III. Sure, some people like them because it appeals to their americanism dreams of kicking foreing ass with extreme prejudice, with tonnes and tonnes of gratitious killing, but fun as they might be (and that depend son one's notion of fun, i guess), they are not good movies. One could even say they made a deliberate atempt to not make them any good. I call that 80s studio sponsored filmmaking.
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Sept. 7, 2009, 9:11 a.m. CST
If Expendables kicks ass, Sly will be 'King of Action Heroes'.
by Se7en
Arnie can have the 'gov' title, but the above title will go to Sly.
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Sept. 7, 2009, 9:13 a.m. CST
"Since when did anyone give two shits what Variety thinks?"
by AsimovLives
The people who makes the movies, that's who. They took it very seriously. That's why they call it the Hollywood's Bible.
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What exactly has that got to do with it's review?
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I tease British newspapers for being notoriously awful, not that the ones here are that much better. That being said, the entertainment reporting in British periodicals is largely awful- with rumors of Megan Fox playing Catwoman and Tom Cruise playing Spock in J.J. Abrams' STAR TREK. But again, I was simply having a little fun. I couldn't care less who says what about THE ROAD. I loved the book, I do believe the movie will fall short, based on my take from the trailer. But I put little stock in any "professional" reviews because I know some of the the people that write them and they're fairly dumb people.
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I'd call you a moron, but it's redundant. McCarthy's an industry joke. <p>But I'm sure you'll disagree. He did make these comments about your beloved Star Trek... <p>"Blasting onto the screen at warp speed and remaining there for two hours, the new and improved “Star Trek” will transport fans to sci-fi nirvana. Faithful enough to the spirit and key particulars of Gene Roddenberry’s original conception to keep its torchbearers happy but, more crucially, exciting on its own terms in a way that makes familiarity with the franchise irrelevant, J.J. Abrams’ smart and breathless space adventure feels like a summer blockbuster that just couldn’t stay in the box another month. Paramount won’t need any economic stimulus package with all the money it’ll rake in with this one globally, and a follow-up won’t arrive soon enough."
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Do not let some of these talbackers scare you away from a good idea. Just please make this script tight. I remember what BLADE II was like when it blew away the first BLADE movie and if this can make us say "fuck RAMBO (the 4th film)...then you've done your job.
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Sly, our ticket $$ awaits.
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But there's a difference between the gossip shit pedaled by the tabloids and the more serious arts stuff in the broadsheets.<p>I've read the Variety article and some of the criticisms in it seem a bit unconvincing(I get the impression the reviewer just doesn't like Viggo Mortenson).
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between a british tabloid and a broadsheet. Suggest you do research a bit, man. Wouldn't want egg on your face eh? The Guardian is one of the more respected broadsheets and is well known for it's coverage of the arts.
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I rememeber in the HUNTER novel there was a bad ass ninja like Black Ops team-member named Takacura (sp). He was awesome...please make sure he is IN THIS SLY! Sly's team in this could rival the expendables.
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look like Entertainment Tonight!
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Droid don't bring up STAR TREK with AsimovLives. Just. Don't.
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Not to appear glib, but I don't afford respect for most so-called "respectable" news outlets. I've worked in news, I've seen how things are run, and even the "professionals" are not above reproach. No egg on my face, old boy, none whatsoever.
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Sly don't go for the Rambo vs military-created-mutant idea. Just. Don't.
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... see what I did there? Heh.
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Todd McCarthy gave Viggo Motensen high marks for A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE and EASTERN PROMISES. So, your theory that the reviewer simply doesn't like the actor is not correct.
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You would call me a moron for not agreeing with a positive review of Jar Jar Abrams's Shit trek? I would take that as a compliment. And that McCarthy positive review, like all positive reviews of that piece of shit movie, are a joke. It's great to see the sheep drink the kool-aid and repeat, without thinking and ad nauseum, the same bullshit justifications for their liking of that horrible retarded movie, which is nothing more then trepeating the paramount Pictures advertizement text. Suffice to say, that does not impress me, in the slightest.
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Than I could be bothered to do! Joblo also has a positive review of it, so it's 2-1 to good reviews at the minute. Hope is not lost yet!
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Sept. 7, 2009, 10:18 a.m. CST
And by thr way, Shit Trek is not the sucess story Paramount want
by AsimovLives
Even Paramount latelly has come up with more cautious press coments about the disapointing numbers that Shit trek has made worldwide. paramount's latest bullshit is that Star trek movies never made as much box office abroad as in the USA territory, which is complete bullshit. Star trek. The motion Picture, for example, made almost double worldwide then it did in USA. Same story for Star Trek 4. It's only the Star Trek movies that flopped who made more in USA then abroad.<br><br>Jar Jar Abrams's Shit Trek is making at the box office less then what was expected and predicted based on the opening week numbers. The worldwide numbers is almost half the american box office take. The whole box office taken in, domestic and worldwide, and discounted the take from the distributors, is not even enough to pay the movie's budget and advertizement costs. The movie's box office sucess is now totally dependent on the DVD and blue-ray sales and rental. Which, i'm sure, will eventually put the movie afloat economincally. The the notion that the movie is making big bucks on the theatrical box office is pure bullshit, typical Jar Jar Abrams's style.<br><br>That said, Paramount projects, with good reason, that with the home entertaiment rental and sales, there's enough reasons to go ahead with a sequel. They might have been inspired with the Batman Begings case and hope for a similiar situation for their sequel. Which is perfectly understandble.
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Thanks for the heads-up. I do really hope my concerns are unfounded and the movie is good. It doesn't need to be NO COUNTRY excellent for me to be content. I just don't want it to suck. The prominence of Charlize Theron in the trailers makes me worry they've fucked with the story too much. We'll see...
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Sly is certainly doing his best to reclaim the crown of the king of action, and he's not doing a bad job at that. And frankly, i do hope he suceeds. i'm liking a lot this new, older and wiser, and shall i say, more talented Sly. I'm actually quite enthusiastic about The Expendables. Hope not to be proved wrong.
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I don't disagree with you that there are some at Paramount that wanted STAR TREK to make more, but that's because they are greedy fucks. Put aside your opinion of the movie for a moment and you'll see that that TREK did good business and has successfully revived a series in which the previous film, NEMESIS, grossed a total of $43 million in the US. Compare that to the new movie's $257 million, and that's an impressive box office turnaround. Again, I'm not debating the merits of the movie, just the numbers.
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You seem to be confused by my response, which was addressing your fervant adoration of a publication written by, and for, morons. <p>Your comments... "The people who makes the movies, that's who. They took it very seriously. That's why they call it the Hollywood's Bible." <p>To clarify, I used the McCarthy review of Star Trek as an example of that which you admire. "Hollywood's Bible" as you say. I've not seen ST, but am aware of your one-note, borderline-disturbing obsession with it's director and writers. Which is precisely why I would bring it up as an example of the dubious journalistic merit of said publication. <p>A word of advice. Next time, before responding, be sure you understand what it is you're responding to. If you can manage that feat, you may not look like such a moron.
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Just release the directors cut of Rambo! that movie was waaaaaay too short!!! the end credits where longer than the film itself
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I loved the last Rambo, but if this news is legit I'm very disappointed in Sly. The last film was not just a great action film, it brought attention to what has been happening in Burma. It would be more applaudable for Sly to make the next movie using the human/drug trafficking storyline that was originally proposed. This new synopsis has got "cheap, pointless, straight to DVD bullshit" written all over it. Harry's obviously an idiot, making excuses for the unrealistic direction sounds just like the fanboys that said "Punisher warzone" was awesome.
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Droid has just smacked you hard. You've made the mistake of taking on someone smarter than you (again).<P>Remind me how you were booking an early seat with "Mr. Alien, Mr. Predator and lots and lots of Mr. and Mrs. dead people". <P>So don't sound off like you've got a pair when clearly you are a yarbleless wonderboy. <P>
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A whole bunch of reviews have been up for days now, and there are clips up too - can't you post something? There's a lot of interest in this movie and a talkback would be appreciated!
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Barely making up for the production and advertizement is not good business. In fact, it's disapointing for the studios and anybody with a stake at it. Good business would had been figures like Iron Man. Or Transformers 2, for that matter. That's good business, in the case of the later, very good business. If we were to believe Jar Jar Abrams's and Paramount's bullshit, we would think that Shit Trek would be making the same box office performance as Transformers 2. Nothing could be futher from the truth. And the fact that Nemesis flopped doesn't make Shit Trek's situation any better.<br><br>Only the shit movie and Jar Jar Abrams's groupies still insist in the fallacy and lie that Shit Trek is some big major box office sucess. It's not. It's money will be made with home entertaiment sales and rentals. That will happen. But the movie is not the sucess that the groupies want it to be. Neither is commercially, nor it is in reception. In fact, USA and UK are unique in their great easy and ready acceptance of the movie, worldwide it's a different story. And i would even question that easy acceptance of the mvoie in USA and UK markets. While the majority of the critics seem to have kissed the movie's ass, the public is pretty half divided about it, with the more audeince criticism of it coming from UK. Shit Trek's story of public acceptance is, in true, not as rosy as the groupies would want to believe.
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http://tinyurl.com/ntolsa
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I don't give a fuck about Vareity. In fac,t i dispise Variety's insistence of only seeing movies only from the business side of the equation. Those guys only care about money and box office and little else. They are, in many ways, capitalism in entertaiment at it's most parodic and pathetic.<br><br>But that magazine is taken very seriously by the studios, and the people who make movies and take that as a commercial enterprise first and foremost, which means, the vast majority of Holylwood. Variety is their Bible. I was not promotion that rag, which in fact i despise, but i was stating a simple fact. And McCarthy can go fuck himsefl in the ass if his measure of why Shit Trek is a good movie is because of the common misconception that's a big office sucess. Fuck him, fuck his opinion and all those who agree with him.
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Terry O' QUINN must be in this as one of the BLACK OPS! It would be great to see JOHN LOCK with JOHN RAMBO!
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Mr. Stallone, I rarely write on here but I read the posts daily - for about 10 years now. This is one of the coolest posts I've ever read and I hope you will move this into production ASAP. Rambo IV was GREAT and look, you are not getting any younger. Our hope is that you can put out a few more Rambo movies that are as good as Rambo IV before you retire. Heck, look at Eastwood, he is around 80, so keep up your energy and put out a new Rambo movie each year for the next 20 years!! YOU are a legend but if you do something like that, we will begin to fear that you really are immortal.
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From the director of Ghost Of The Civil Dead and The Proposition, staring Viggo Mortenssen, from a book writen by the same author of No Country For Old Man? I would be fucking insane if i didn't found that appealing.
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"This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by the Weinstein Company". Get them here instead: http://tinyurl.com/nz4sn7
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Why not? The Hunted was basically First Blood but without trying to make the "Rambo" character a sympathetic hero or a victim of bad people.
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But I stopped watching, I don't want to spoil the movie for myself... and I have read the book. By the way, The Guardian is probably one of the best newspapers out there, anywhere. Best UK one anyway, IMHO. Not to be confused with tabloid arsewipes like The Sun, Mirror Star etc.
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Fuck YEAH!
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That's about as far as I got before saying, "This sounds awesome." I stopped reading to avoid any further spoilers. I'm still not sure Rambo would work for the government again, so I hope there's a better motivation in there somewhere. I also have zero interest in seeing Rambo paired with a younger sidekick. Didn't Stallone prove to the studio he still had the chops with Rambo? They should just kill off the "younger" sidekicks within the first 20 minutes and let Rambo go it alone.
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I used to fucking hate his guts. But nowdays, i rather watch an action movie made by him with him then most bullshit made today by MTV hacks who over-rely on CGI to save their untalented asses.
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Sept. 7, 2009, 12:13 p.m. CST
have david caruso get his face shot off while he is putting glas
by ironic_name
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As that's the name of one of their greatest songs, had to ask. Rare to find their fans these days. One of the best, most undervalued bands ever. As to this Rambo V swill ... I'm still waiting for the "Hoax" reveal before I change my soiled underoos.
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That's the synopsis for the next movie, an escaped military experiment? What happened to the whole human traffickers/drug runners thing? I really hope this isn't it because it sounds like dog shit to me. Science fiction does not belong in the Rambo universe.
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Here's what you do. Take Rambo and team him up with Dutch (Schwarzenegger) from Predator. They are given a top secret mission and sent up into Candada to track and take out a Predator, thats been hunting up the locals. Give them a Special forces team that the Predator can spend the film slaughtering one by one. We all get the team up we have all been waiting for!
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Thats meant to be Canada btw.
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YES! I thought Rambo was trying to save some girl in Mexico?
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I came to post about how terrible Stallone's idea for Rambo 5 will be. Why? We've had our shits and giggles. We know Stallone is reading this. But in the end Stallone doesn't give a shit what you think. He just wants your cash. And he seems willing to destroy the beloved Rambo character to suit his own purposes. And AICN is done for. I mean the news about the female MMA fighter in the Soderbergh movie and the pics of Green Hornet? I saw those a week ago on other movie sites. You know, the ones that dig for information and aren't so ingratiated to the studios and stars that they won't post anything negative if it will jeapordize their connections. And by connections I mean a PR rep spoon feeding what to say, when to say it, and so forth. Wouldn't want to piss off Stallone or Rodriguez right Harry cause you're best buds. This Rambo idea sounds like total shit that has nothing to do with Rambo. Yet Harry slobbers all over the thing. This Rambo movie is a sellout. And so is AICN. But hey, I get it. If I was a big fat ginger I'd want to believe the lie that those big name directors are my best buds. Cause the truth is so much more sad. I've been with this site for a long time. I've been booted twice. This is my third name. It's been fun, but AICN doesn't bother to get scoops and post real info from the sets like they used to. They just reprint press releases and shit they stole from other sites. Wish you all the best of luck making poop jokes on a a has been site. Harry is far too busy getting free swag and making set visits to keep the site real. Later masturbators.
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Rambo has found some peace living alone in the deep woods of Western Maine (Substitute for Pacific NW as Rambo would probably not return there after a bad experience in past and all. Parts of Western Maine are pretty remote) <P> Rambo comes into town a couple of times a year for supplies. He only has two people in town that are sort of his friends. A twenty something slacker (studio suits need to hit that young demo) that Rambo rescued a couple of years ago from a snow mobile accident and nursed back to health and the slackers sister who has a lot of affection for Rambo because he saved her brother. <P> You intro the characters, set up the back story, now time for your villains. As Nor'easter of the century is bearing down on Western Maine a gang of the most vile convicts imaginable escape from Maine's super-max prison nearby. Their leader should be John Malcovich in his psycho "In the line of Fire"/"Con Air" mode. <P> Slacker boy and his sister are driving a load of school Children back from a ski trip when the bus runs off the road. <P> Escaped convicts find school bus, but, slacker boy escapes. Goes and finds Rambo as he is only help available. <P> Rambo slices, dices and 'splodes all the heinous convicts until only Malcovich is left. Bus runs of near the edge of a cliff and teeters on the brink of going over the edge with the sister and the children. Rambo and Malcovich have their mano-o-mano battle to the death. Rambo kills bad guy. Happy ending. <P> Conventional, sure. Will the masses eat it up? Absolutely.
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We've seen Rambo in the forest, jungle, and desert.<BR><BR> What about a tropical setting? Rambo running and killing among palm trees and alligators. I know it sounds like an weird Rambo setting at first but wouldnt it be awesome?
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No. Sounds terrible.
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Sounds like Rambo hunting Wolverine after he gets his adamantiam & goes all feral in the Canadian wilderness. Maybe not.
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I like the Arnold Sly Team -up idea "Grumpy Old Killing Machines"
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Bare with me....$300 million budget, get sly's brother to play rocky (or use CG Sly), get Cameron to direct (when hes done "gay"vitar), get the David S. Goyer to write, just add Stan Winston studios and ILM and you gotta a fucken mega blockbuster...oh and you could save some cash by casting Bridget Nielsons gapping cunt as the Alien hive....perfect casting.
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Rambo vs a genetically engineered beast that's possibly immortal? And that sounds good to you? There's a reason your reviews mean dick to me and it's this kind of fanboy Michael Bayism horseshit where you decide something would be cool regardless of the mythology it should exist in. Rambo (IV) was pretty much a back to basics, as basic as Rambo gets. It was loved because it was a realistic portrayal of horrible events that are happening right now. And you're honestly ok with the follow up to that film being Rambo hunting a mutant? Jesus fuck.
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Any word on if Lance Henrickson or Sean Patrick Flanery will be in this? The work they did on the Sasquatch movies and D-tox (aka Eye See You) was just outstanding.
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Yes i am! one of my favourite bands. ;)
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I know Sly reads these and he must have spilled his coffee when he read that one.
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by the sounds of it. Hope not. Rambo vs Predator is good though.
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Nobody wants to see a sci-fi Rambo movie. If you want to make some kind of Kill Team vs. Predator vs. Wolverine movie, fine, just don't call it Rambo. Go ahead and make that movie Sly. But make it AFTER you make Rambo V. Follow up Rambo IV the RIGHT way. Have Rambo face off against corrupt police, or xenophobic/white supremacist militia-men, or a Mexican drug-cartel, or ALL of them at once, in a brutal and bloody showdown near the Rambo homestead in the American southwest. The cartoonish second Rambo film was bad enough. Don't introduce TOTAL fantasy to series.
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Rambo 4 was a poorlu reviewed stinking pile of dung and this will too!
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For the love of God, don't turn the Rambo series into Predator. The Rambo that we want to see is the one where he goes up against massive armies and kills everyone in the most violent ways imagineable.
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I'm sure Fox'll have their lawyers ready ... This is almost the EXACT synopsis of Predator?
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Beau Brady is a character from Days of Our Lives.
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I've enjoyed Sly's recent resurgence. I enjoyed RAMBO and thought he really did himself proud with ROCKY BALBOA. THE EXPENDABLES looks to be shaping up as something cool, too. However, this plot description for a new Rambo film just feels off. Kinda way off. I'd rather not see Sly go in this direction with the character...if feels too 90's action meets SyFy Channel Sunday afternoon movie.
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Still batting poorly, I see.
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could we get that Lloyd Braun guy to recreate his paraplegic character from the similiarly themed movie 'Abominable'? That would really crank this project up to an eleven. Plus Lloyd Braun had good screen chemistry with Lance Henrickson.
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Plot Change: Along with Rambo and Rocky,...a familar figure emerges from the fog...Cyborg DYLAN. Found in jungle after the first Predators hunt and pieced together by military's best scientists and doctors. Back to fucken settle the score with the those Predator bastards. Plot Change: Out of the fog with Carl Weathers as Cyborg Dylan is Danny Glover as crazy LAPD Lieutenant Mike Herrigan...YOUR MOVE PUSSY FACE!
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Sept. 7, 2009, 4:48 p.m. CST
There was also a similar movie with Chuck Norris and Ron Perlman
by ominus
i dont remember its title,but i remember 2 doctors tried a revolutionary medicine on a schizophrenic ron perlman who was already killed by the sheriff chuck noris.guess what,the medicine revived ron and made him near immortal and chuck noris had to face and kill him multiple times.the movie was terrible,just like rambo 5 is going to be,if sly do this script.
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Sept. 7, 2009, 5:01 p.m. CST
There was also a similar Rambo/Predator/Robocop/Universal Soldie
by ominus
made during the 80s.from what i remember,a special forces unit was sent to your typical foreign,hostile jungle for a mission,they soon find out that something more dangerous and deadlier is hunting them and killing them.at the end of the movie,the hero,your typical rambo clone,discovers that their predator,is an old friend and comrade of his,who was supposed to have died in an old mission.but the us goverment/military had a secret project,where they were transforming dead usa soldiers into cyborgs.the whole mission was a fake,they sent the unit as a guinea pig in the jungle,to test the capabilities of this super cyborg soldier.ofc the hero kills the cyborg at the end of the movie,releashing his frined by his tornment. the movie is terrible,and unfortunately rambo5 is going to be like that too.
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Starring Sylvester Stallone as Dutch from 'Predator.'
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Plot Change: Instead of 22 yr old side kick Beau Gayboy, replace with Full CG character Numnuts the talking squirrel w/the voice talents of Seth Rogen (comic relief for the kids...and also level the tension in film. Numnuts stays firmly perched on Rambo's shoulder throughout the film, and provides motivation to our protagonists when he is brutally rapped to death by a Predator that had accidentally mistaken him for a gym sock....bad luck on his part and box office gold.
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The hell is wrong with you guys? This sounds awesome and much better than some boring druc cartel crap only Americans care about.
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its time for bed now.but i really need to express my deep thoughts about this new take on this iconic character,regardless if mr stallone reads the talkback or not.cya later.
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can Sly play the def, mentally disabled cop character from Copland? Team him with the paraplegic Lloyd Braun character from 'Abominable' and Short Round from Temple of Doom. Multi-cultural, disabled friendly, no heavy sunbject matter like drug cartels. Sly will be able to print his own money with this setup.
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They are my favorite band of all time, "Steeltown" being my favorite album of all time. God bless Stuart Adamson...:-)
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Immortal man-beast? Check. <p>Young, wise-cracking sidekick for forced comic relief? Check. <p>All that's left is the aforementioned: Eddie Murphy as the Talking Ass, and Operation "Restore Rambo to Joke Status" will be complete!
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He could sell the hell out of those computers. Tough one on the paraplegic thing. Tough one, pal.
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is basically a surrogate SON figure for Rambo -- I don't know why no one has really caught on to this yet. But yeah, I'd love to see the movie at least open with some kind of "real world" connection to the previous film, or Rambo's arriving home as seen through the media. Otherwise, yeah, I'm a bit skeptical -- I'd love for Stallone and the studio to be actually covering up the real story, the Mexican kidnap narrative or something else -- but I'll still go with this if Stallone is as invested in his work as he has been during the last few years. Plus, after "The Expendables," I believe he'll get to ride that success into a few more decent projects, and audiences will invest in him a bit further, again...
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Which one will be funnier?
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MOTHERFUCKER
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Sounds a little too far fetched even for Johnny's abilites. I would have expected something with the Talbi Ban or the human trafficking story sounded cool- his daughter/son is kidnapped hijunks ensue. This sounds iffy, but hey, who fucking cares! As long as Sly kills lots of people- bring it the fuck on!
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I don't think Rambo should move into more sci-fi territory or wherever they are going with this "beast". Rambo should be dropped into Afghanistan or somewhere in the Middle East. Too bad that is not the P.C. way of thinking right now and there is no way Hollywood sends an "good" American against "evil" terrorists. That would make us look too good. Though that's where I think they should go. They did it with Viet Nam in F.B. pt 2, but Hollywood is a different animal now.
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and inadvertently draws the wrath of a legion of religious phanatics. Gunfire and knifeplay ensues. The movie ends with Rambo backtracking and destroying his own cartoon.
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It is time for Rambo to break out of the mould. Rambo could be BIGGER, like superman big... I think of the first blood series as his origin movies... NOW ITS TIME FOR HIM TO BE A SUPERHERO!! Bigger than Batman! Rambo can go anywhere & kill anything. Why constrain him to fighting militia all the time? That's been done to death. He is the ultimate killing machine. If the guy who did District 9 did that kickarse sci-fi fest with only $30 Million, imagine what Sly could do!!!! Arse kicking aliens all over the place YEAH!!! Rambo 6 - Rambo in Space! This is gonna rock baby! Do it Sly!
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Sly would never do a movie like this. He has good taste. I doubt this synopsis is even being seriously looked at if at all by him.
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It is time for Rambo to break out of the typical hero-gets-girl formula. Rambo needs to dabble in the world of high-fashion and take on a male lover. This too inadvertently draws the wrath of a legion of religious phanatics. Gunfire and knifeplay ensues.
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I'm glad he's doing it after holding onto the story for so long. But I always thought he would be perfect for the older hard as nails Green beret on the team. With a giant scar on his face and one good eye. That could have been his return to the Oscars.
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This synopsis is already being debunked on several websites. It's a FAKE. The next movie will have Rambo going up against a Central / South American cartel .... this is BS.
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Cuz you swallowed it. Nummy! Hook line and sinker!
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Sept. 7, 2009, 8:51 p.m. CST
If this moVie kills it, we will get at last, ROCKY IN SPACE
by the Green Gargantua
Fuck yea bitches. This is great news it could lead to the fuckin Stallion vs like all kinds of fucked up aliens and monsters? Oh sign me up. Get em Sly!
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Rambo 5 is based on the novel, Hunter, which Stallone optioned a while back - info here: http://bit.ly/UpnXg
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i just wish he went against mercenaries or private armies like in 24.
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WHERE DID YOU READ THAT? This HUNTER idea is just what Sly needs to give the audience something NEW!
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Hey sly, I really hope you're reading this talkback man. I say if you want to go sci-fi with Rambo, then just go all the way. Give us the fanboys a real fight for John Rambo. Here's my pitch, look into the lincensing and rights, but pit Rmabo against a true hardened sci-fi enemy. <P> <P> RAMBO VS. PREDATOR!!! <P> <P> Picture it: Rambo is called in, we finally get glimpses into the final fates of Dutch (Schwarzenegger's character) and Glover's cop from Pred2, and he has to track down a Predator with an elite black ops team. The government finally has a viable option to acquire Predator technology (after their failed attempts in Pred2 and AVPs). Marry the two universes together Sly. It could be epic! We all know Rambo will win out, the government can finally get their hands on some Predator tech, get the military off-planet and imagine this: Rambo leading a squad to a Predator-controlled alien world, where they could encounter xenomorphs for a later picture. Come on, man, make it happen! I'd lay down my pennies for that!
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got links?
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Wicket is his only friend.
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To hunt CLOVER....
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This is just a vacation trip for Rambo. He is used to fighting armies and addressing "real" issues like Vet treatment and P.O.W.'s and atrocities in third world countries that now, since he is retired, he is gonna go on a little hunting trip with his buddy Beau. Some beers a little hunting. Just some good natured hijinx up in the Great White North. Enjoy your trip John you earned it.
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but hes on the right side!!!
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should be decent
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Rambo vs. Predator.... And then an alien can lay in egg in Rambo's dead corpse at the end and we'd have an Alien-Rambo hybrid ready to go for AVP 3: The Steaming Pile.
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This thing reads stoopid, like some teen tard wrote it in the margins of his math book when he should have been paying attention. Still, the nippy conditions could allow Stallone to showcase his big, erect man-nipples throbbing with creatine dick-veins.
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Sept. 8, 2009, 2:48 a.m. CST
i can't understand how anyone wants to see the expendables
by martinlutherkrangjr
this movie sounds like a total joke. like an onion article. the fact that people are actually going to pay to see this movie blows my mind. it shouldn't even be at the theatre, its a dtv movie at best. people really want to see all these washed up 80's dipshits in a movie together? <p> the last rambo was totally absurd, it was just completely over the top especially the ending where he gets on the machine gun and turns an entire army into groundchuck. i watched it and enjoyed it but it was a total piece of shit.
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again- what the fuck do you know about what UK audiences thought of Star Trek (I haven't seen it, in fact I'd rather jump in acid than pay money to see something with Star Trek in the title). <P>Let me tell you for a fact, asshole, I know lots of people that have seen it, and everyone loved it. <P>When are you going to learn not to speak for 60m people that you don't fucking understand, know, or have anything in common with? <P>Go and fuck yourself, termite.
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What's wrong with north of the arctic circle?
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Sept. 8, 2009, 7:25 a.m. CST
Sly Do not Squander the Good Will of Rambo 4 -Burma thanks you
by HerbSewell
Coming off the high that was Rambo 4, this sounds like it’s going to SUCK big time. Anything that has a sci fi element should go all out, this half-human Dr. Moreou type shit is just going to come off as silly and cheesy. Sly, don’t do it, have more respect for your character. What you did to bring attention to the plight of Burma was magnificent, don’t squander the good will just to make a buck. Re-think your Rambo 5 script. The Mexican Drug Lord thing was a good idea, and it serves a purpose. Herb Out
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Stallone has reached out to you to understand what the fans think, tell him the truth. Your "realistic" excuse is terrible you know what people mean. Again Sly, change the setting, put Rambo in a city, keep the gore.
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Sept. 8, 2009, 8:13 a.m. CST
Sly still hasn't revealed this is a joke? Or even backtracked?
by JuanSanchez
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you know Rambo's highly skilled Special Forces Kill Team was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit - these men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground... <p> btw Beau Brady sounds like the Brady that was locked in the basement and the rest of the Bunch were never allowed to talk about him
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Sept. 8, 2009, 9:19 a.m. CST
"Rambo Vs Predator" (from Brigon, above) --I would see THAT!!!!
by JDanielP
Sounds like a great reason to have some popcorn.
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And I'll have a REFILL on my bucket of popcorn, 'cause that's a popcorn muncher, right there!!!! :-)
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I like the idea.
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Worth the price of admission...AND popcorn.
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Sept. 8, 2009, 10:44 a.m. CST
RAMBO VS. ZOMBIE ADOLF JACOB HITLER ROTHSCHILD JR.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by BringingSexyBack
No one thought of this before?
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I was really looking forward to this movie! Reason is that Rambo is back in America and the original idea (daughter) made it intriging, because this was gonna make it deeply personal. Also in Rambo, John was encouraged to come back to US because he might have family back home that care about him, therefore it was a natural progression to the original storyline. This new idea seems to have been done in Universal Soldier, Soldier, Hunted and Predator, and so it will not bring the audience with a repeated story and bashing by critics.
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Sept. 8, 2009, 12:05 p.m. CST
Video Game ARMEGEDDON gimmie gimmie Jimmy woods!
by Disney_Retcond_my_STD
I can't wait for the shitty PS3 video game version of this. My gamefly que is itching with anticipation.
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I like the idea of Rambo as a hunter, but making it science fictiony is just the wrong approach and doesn't fit the Rambo films that have come before. If that's the case, Stallone should just make this a NEW character -- what a concept. http://nickleshi.blogspot.com
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Sounds absolutely dreadful. Retire Stallone, as the prospect of this film and infact the whole Rambo series is total shit.
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Sept. 8, 2009, 1:07 p.m. CST
Lost Jarv, go fuck yourself, you little stupid malcontent
by AsimovLives
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Nice job Harry... Keep on posting the pure, unadulterated garbage like this and you are certain to inch towards that Pulitzer...
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In the last one he returned home to his dad. I figured he would try real hard for a normal life this time out. He takes a position at prison as a gaurd. He gets a female love interest in there she works as a gaurd to. Theres a riot when rambos not there. His girl is raped beheaded and tossed overt he prision wall. Rambo goes nuts he breaks into the towns gun shop in his 4x4 he grabs a shitload of guns and he breaks into the prison. there are tons of cams inside the prison. the riot and the revenger rambo shit is all caught and played live over national news. It end with rambo corning the main bad guy involved in the murder and gang rape of his chick. Rambo's badly injured he also about to kill th eguy when special forces puts it into a standdown. Rambo's dad comes in and rambo lets the guy live. there is no the bad guy suddenly pulls out a gun and rambo or his dad kill him moment. It's all about reality. Rambo nd his dad are outside the prison rambo is in cuffs in the back of an ambulance it's raining, rambos father hugs his son, rmabo lets of some speach about how lost everyone is and how he can never fix things. Something very touching. I want a film like that but not exactly like that. A human rambo with a real problem that hits home, who for all intesive purposes he takes on that hero mantle for those personal reasons but he's still a bad guy because he's not doing it by the book. I don't wnat a predator wannabe flick or some poncho vila like story. Probably to late to get this out. I love that slys got his game in check now and I love what he's doign with these iconic characters. But man rambo needs to stay interpersonal and as real as can be.
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In the last one he returned home to his dad. I figured he would try real hard for a normal life this time out. He takes a position at the towns prison as a guard. He has a female love interest in there, she works as a counselor. Theres a riot when Rambo's at home. His girl is gang raped, beheaded and tossed over the prison wall. Rambo races to the prision the local police force him to leave. He breaks into the towns gun shop in his 4x4. He grabs a shitload of guns and he breaks into the prison. There are tons of cameras inside the prison. The riot and the rambo revenger shit is all caught and played live over national new stations like CNN. It end with rambo cornering the main bad guy involved in the murder and gang rape of his chick. Rambo holds a knife to his neck. Rambo's dying from his injuries- he kicked and killed a lot of bad fuckers involved and he even teamed up with a car theif inmate who was always cool to him and vice versa. Special forces interupts rambo just as he's abou to kill this guy. Rambo's dad comes in they talk, and rambo lets the guy live. There is no the bad guy suddenly pulls out a gun and rambo or his dad kill him moment. It's all about reality. Rambo and his dad are outside the prison in an ambulance. Rambo is laying down cuffed to the gurney in the back an ambulance it's raining, Rambo starts crying. He starts to talk about the madness and mess his whole life has been and how no matter what he does to set it right it always fails. His father hugs him and rambo dfibs his eyes open up he sees his girlfriend. the screen cuts to black. I want a film like that but not exactly like that. A human rambo with a real problem that hits home that pulls the heart strings, the herpo mantel for personal reasons reasons that still put him into the bad guy mold, because he's not doing it by the book. I don't want a predator wannabe flick or some poncho vila like story. Probably too late to get this out. I love that Slys got his game in check now and I love what he's doing with these iconic characters he made. But man Rambo needs to stay interpersonal and as real as can be.
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/fake
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Drop the beast, the'V', keep the story 'real-world' and bring the character (and series) full circle. Just a thought. All the best Sly. Thanks.
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Well, let's just say, if it SUX, than you all will be "vindicated"... If it rulez...I hope you eat your words...though, this is on an individuaL BaSiS... SO yeahs...Wait n' Cee...as UsuaL
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Ummmm so this is Predator in the arctic?
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Rocky and the quest for adult dipers etc...
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Or make any James Byron Huggins books. They're all great movie material. The books are just awesome and JBH NEEDS TO WRITE MORE. James, where are you bro? Come back to us.
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I am a great fan - And I've seen all your films - Ive heard the phone message - this still sounds like a different movie to Rambo - I wonder what David M. thinks of his beautifully written character being used in a story which is based on someone else's novel 'Hunter'. The story itself isnt bad and would make a great movie - but its just not got the epic scale of a Rambo movie. I think you should take the advice of your fans and think up another story - I mean you could set this in so many different places - not the Pacific North West again - I mean you could never top First Blood in the way you can never top the original Rocky - So really you should concentrate on making something that the audience will come to without any complaints. I really think you should go by the previous Rambo formula - Basing it in real war situations but with fictional story. You could get away with this story if you set it in the Himalayas, where you could be sent to find your missing surrogate son (from Rambo 3) - and amidst the battle with rebels you discover that there is a feral beast destroying soldiers and civilians amongst the chaos. that would be a real cool idea and it would be taking into account many mythologies surrounding that area and you could still make it like Hunter where its an experiment gone wrong etc. Anyway you can guarantee I will watch the next Rambo movie - thanks for being such a great story teller and for being the popular icon.
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Something for Riddick...out of Pitch Black...a more apt follow-up... But, in any case, I'm stiLL Excited...anything's better than the staid and stale... Who gives a shit what we think? Until the movie comes out in the complete form...'nuff said
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