Just Saw Rambo IV; Good Movie and Good Blade

I just got home from seeing it, FANTASTIC movie, about 75% of the audience burst into applause at the end!
 
I just saw it too. I went in thinking it was going to be good but it turned out to be even better than what I expected. I liked how it ended a lot.
 
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Not to sound liberal and critic-like, but dang... that was horrendously gorry. After seeing the Saw films and other movies like those, I thought Rambo was the most disturbing movie in terms of utter violence and "gorriness." Now, granted, I wasn't let down at all and it was a LOT better than I expected it to be, but wew, I just wasn't prepared for that...

Anyways... in a worldly sense, it's horrific to see what happens in countries like Burma. We are very blessed to reside in the USA and be "free."

And thank God almighty we have the right to own guns and knives...

I do agree though that the part of him forging the knife was especially good to be included in the film, and my favorite part was at the end with Sly on the .50cal... ahh... the beauty... and of course him ripping that dude's throat out.

-RC
 
The movie was better than expected. I think he made his knife (in the movie) from leaf spring steel. Would that be good to use in real life?
 
FliGuyRyan.....

According to Sly in SOF the movie gore falls short of the real situ in country, so to speak.... Sly said it was worse than any hellhole you could imagine.
Actual newsfilm was run for maybe 30 seconds prior to the opening credits with a voiceover explaining the basics of the real deal.

scudracer.....

Alot of springs are used in real life knives; most of the variables in material selection, tempering, etc. apply as well. Rambo used what was at hand for materials, in the relatively short timeframe at hand and the results were AT LEAST good enough for "fictional covert deanimation".

Saw the movie opening day and will most likely see at least ONE more time!
Best gory battle action special effects I've EVER seen and I'm over 60....
Enjoy!!!
 
scudracer said:
The movie was better than expected. I think he made his knife (in the movie) from leaf spring steel. Would that be good to use in real life?
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very much so bro

old leaf springs were generally made from 5160 IIRC

I GOTTA SEE THIS MOVIE!!!
 
Two reliable reviewers have stated the violence in the battle scenes of "Rambo" to be more intense than the beginning of "Saving Pvt. Ryan".....can't say personally, never saw SPR.......
 
Larry S. said:
Two reliable reviewers have stated the violence in the battle scenes of "Rambo" to be more intense than the beginning of "Saving Pvt. Ryan".....can't say personally, never saw SPR.......
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I actually said the same thing to friends about 2 hours after seeing Rambo last night.
 
one of the negative reviews called it "an adrenaline pump and purveyor of raw carnage" and a "slab of action porn."

and I wondered why the reviewer didn't like it :D
 
In SOF Sly said they had to travel on the river to get to some of the filming sites due to mining of all the trails same as the reason given in the movie for why the Christian missionaries wanted to hire Rambo to take them into Burma.
At night the film crews could see these small fires along the river and Sly said one of the locals said each of the Burmese Generals ran his own individual meth lab in that area.
Did I mention Sly received 2 personal death threats and the film crew at one site took a couple of rounds of smallarms fire?:eek:

If any of you have ANY like at ALL for the character Rambo, you MUST SEE THIS FILM! Let's just say there's some interesting closure in it on several levels that comes from an unexpected source......:cool:
 
The knife reminds me of the British MOD "Golok" (By Martindale?) and the Fox Knives Military Division (FK MD in pics), Golok. Around here in Malaysia the term golok is used sometimes but most people use the 'Parang' as a utility knife. The pic in Wikipedia is NOT the parang we use here though.
 
The knife was primitively brutal. As far as looks go, you couldn't hope to create an uglier knife. But it fit in well with how gritty the movie was. That scene where Rambo chops off the mounted machine-gunner's head with it was awesome. Same where Rambo stabs the main bad guy at the end and guts him. I really want to see it again. It was so refreshing to see a movie that packs such a punch without the commercial fingerprints all over it. I'm curious to know if there's a running total on how many people Rambo killed in the four movies total. The real awesome thing about the movie was that it really placed Rambo on the verge of military mythos. At the end where he's standing up on that ridge looking down at all the bodies scattered everywhere and the black smoke billowing, he was like a modern mythological hero - the cellulose God of War. Sweet movie - really catered to the Id. But on a down note, however gradiose he was after the last battle, that was all negated by how retarded he looked walking home. Oh well. It was still awesome.
 
His haircut as he walked home was quite ... bad. Stallone if you're reading pls re-shoot it if there's a director's cut. Either keep the long hair or go for something like Rocky Balboa had. Also, they could have played "It's a long road" at the end for nostalgia.

Anyway back to the knife ... yes it looks like some Orc blade from LOTR! Very nasty but I wonder why he didn't just pick up some golok or parang type knife which may have been there. But, who are we to question movie logic. Seeing Rambo make his own knife and use it so brutally made the movie a LOT better than it would have been without the knife in it!
 
FliGuyRyan said:
Not to sound liberal and critic-like, but dang... that was horrendously gorry. After seeing the Saw films and other movies like those, I thought Rambo was the most disturbing movie in terms of utter violence and "gorriness." Now, granted, I wasn't let down at all and it was a LOT better than I expected it to be, but wew, I just wasn't prepared for that...

Anyways... in a worldly sense, it's horrific to see what happens in countries like Burma. We are very blessed to reside in the USA and be "free."

And thank God almighty we have the right to own guns and knives...

I do agree though that the part of him forging the knife was especially good to be included in the film, and my favorite part was at the end with Sly on the .50cal... ahh... the beauty... and of course him ripping that dude's throat out.

-RC
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I understand what you mean, but, unlike films like Saw, I think films like this and Saving Private Ryan serve to remind us of how nakedly brutal the REAL world can be. I know "Rambo" isn't real, but that type of violence is not really as uncommon as it seems sitting here in the US.
 
I saw it today...There was more of the forging of the 'Rambo 4' knife in the movie than I thought there'd be...That's one big piece of D2 steel!

...and it's not a movie for the squeamish, my wife walked out about half way through, but I stayed for the whole thing. I like the ending also. Definitely full circle!

Stallone's in pretty good shape for his 61 years too.

I'm assuming you guys saw the February '08 Blade Mag article about the knife used in '04...
 
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