*Because I'm sick and therefore even more easily confused than normal*

[wesleysgirl]

Is the Rambo movie I've been seeing ads for a NEW movie? Or a re-release of the original? There *is* an original Rambo movie isn't there? WTF, Sly?

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[taffimai.livejournal.com]

New movie. I think he decided that if he was going to get into shape for another Rocky, he might as well do another Rambo too. *brings you tea*

[yasminke.livejournal.com]

I'd hazard to guess you've seen the ads for the NEW one (he admits he took human growth steroids so he could buff up for it). And it looked like Julie Benz was in the preview I saw.

There is an original Rambo, yes. And this ain't even close.

[tabaqui]

I read the original Rambo on a plane, having bought it last-minute in an airport bookshop when it had just come out. It was about a Vietnam vet, i had to own it!
:)

And it was actually very cool. Heh. Much cooler than the movie. Why Sly felt like he had to make *another* one of these is beyond me. Blah.

[sophiabrooks.livejournal.com]

I am sick as well, and I thought I dreamt the new Rambo movie until I saw this post.

[reginagiraffe]

I had the exact same confusion!

It's a new one.

[ely-jan.livejournal.com]

I share in the WTF! I saw a commercial this weekend and was left with tilted head and furrowed brow.

[entrenous88.livejournal.com]

OH! I thought it was a re-release, but I guess I am wrong?

I have never seen Rambo. I have, however, viewed many of the Rockys.

[killerweasel.livejournal.com]

Brand new movie. Youngest brother saw it over the weekend and pronounced it 'the coolest and bloodiest movies he's ever seen'. Plus Julie Benz is in it.

[silentflux]

As the many people before have stated - new movie :) And I went and saw it this weekend... mostly because I have a weakness for action movies - the kind that almost never get made anymore, and I did like the first movie of the franchise. And of course, my brother wanted to go.

I have to say, that for what it was - a big budget action movie - it was quite good. Predictable, yes. Great action, yes. Although, I did have to turn away a few times because the action was explicit and bloody and much more graphic than I could just sit and watch, but it does make a good point about Burma (which is where it's set). Sly stated in interviews, he wanted the action to show the absolute brutality of the genocide and civil war that's been raging there for the better part of a century, and I think he succeeded. Quite frankly, a lot of the violence horrified me for the very fact that I could believe that this was happening right now in Burma. *shrugs* I enjoyed it, but you have to like action and for this movie, you have to be prepared for the completely unsettling portrayal of genocide and the cruelty of violence.