John Rambo (2008)

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Rambo Goes to Hell and Back
Published 10/12/2007 at Movie Blog
... . IMDb lists a variety of considered titles for the movie, including Rambo IV: End of Peace (eh), Rambo IV: Holy War (it rhymes), and Rambo IV: Pearl of the Cobra (hilarious). Most recently it was called Rambo IV: In the Serpent's Eye -- obviously the greatest title in action movie history -- but maybe that sounded a bit too direct-to-DVD. So they changed it again. Following the success of Rocky Balboa (which I absolutely loved), the title switched to John Rambo. I'm all about that simple name title -- it brings a touch of restraint and class to a movie I'm fairly certain will have neither. "This January...spend Martin Luther King Day with an old friend...John Rambo." Perfect. Done. But no. They've scrapped the title yet again! ...

Rambo Goes to Hell and Back
Published 10/12/2007 by Patrick Walsh at Cinematical
... . IMDb lists a variety of considered titles for the movie, including Rambo IV: End of Peace (eh), Rambo IV: Holy War (it rhymes), and Rambo IV: Pearl of the Cobra (hilarious). Most recently it was called Rambo IV: In the Serpent's Eye -- obviously the greatest title in action movie history -- but maybe that sounded a bit too direct-to-DVD. So they changed it again. Following the success of Rocky Balboa (which I absolutely loved), the title switched to John Rambo. I'm all about that simple name title -- it brings a touch of restraint and class to a movie I'm fairly certain will have neither. "This January...spend Martin Luther King Day with an old friend...John Rambo." Perfect. Done. But no. They've scrapped the title yet again! ...

First John Rambo poster
Published 10/19/2007 by Chris at Movie Marketing Madness

'Rambo IV' Gets Another Title and New Poster
Published 10/19/2007 by Christopher Campbell at Cinematical
... The first teaser poster for the new Rambo movie has debuted ...

'Rambo IV' Gets Another Title and New Poster
Published 10/20/2007 at Movie Blog
... The first teaser poster for the new Rambo movie has debuted ...

Rambo trailer
Published 10/24/2007 by Chris at Movie Marketing Madness

Worth Watching - Oct 25: Theatrical Rambo IV Trailer
Published 10/26/2007 by Alex Billington at FirstShowing.net

All Hail The Hero's Return: The 'Rambo' Trailer Goes Live [Seniors Can!]
Published 10/26/2007 by Seth at Defamer
... Rambo [IMDB] ...

Rambo official site launched on Break.com
Published 11/15/2007 by Chris at Movie Marketing Madness
Holy Hamlet! Is the official site for Rambo really hosted on Break.com? Break is a video upload site that seeks to differentiate itself from the other players in this market by flat out appealing to young males, or older ones suffering a bit of arrested development. I don’t have anything but anecdotal evidence and the site’s own positioning statements, but I’d wager most of their user-base wasn’t born until after Rambo III came out in 1988. So why would Lionsgate go for such a tactic? Well for one thing the site gives them access to that demographic, ...

Who Is John Rambo?
Published 11/29/2007 by john@themovieblog.com (John Campea) at The Movie Blog
A lot of people are pretty psyched up for the new Rambo flick “Rambo“. The early trailers FILLED with violence and blood splatter have a lot of folks talking and getting geared up for a return to the morally empty 80’s where in movies the biggest gun determined the moral code :) Personally, I have a lot of doubts about Rambo. I think it’s a desperate attempt by an over the hill actor to try to have relevance again. BUT… I said that exact same thing about Rocky Balboa… and I had to eat my words because Rocky Balboa was a fricking BRILLIANT movie that a hell of a ...

DECEMBER 2007 MOVIE PREVIEW
Published 12/1/2007 by Tim at Antagony & Ecstasy
And so another prestige season comes to a close, making the cinema safe for cheap romantic comedies and cheaper slasher films once more. Just four Fridays of Oscarbait between here and what I'm already taking to calling " Rambo ...

10 Most-Anticipated Movies of 2008
Published 12/31/2007 by admin at The Best Article Every day
Written by lukadium As we look back into 2007, we didn’t have many remarkable movies.We are hoping 2008 to be a better year in the movie sphere.Here is a list of most anticipated movies of 2008 according to yahoo: Cloverfield Release Date: 18 January 2008 Director: Matt Reeves Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller Plot Outline: Revolves around a monster attack in New York as told from the point of view of a small group of people. ...

JANUARY 2008 MOVIE PREVIEW
Published 1/3/2008 by Tim at Antagony & Ecstasy
Just like that, we snap back to the beginning of the year, and the monstrous, wintry wasteland of Dumping Season. Ordinarily, this is the month were all the parts of the country that aren't New York and Los Angeles get all of the big December Oscabait, but so very few films were given a platform release that even that cold comfort will be absent. Nor does it seem that there is a glut of foreign films making their North American debut. The good news is that we are now in the same calendar year as The Dark Knight ...

Junket Report: Rambo -- Interview with Sylvester Stallone
Published 1/18/2008 by Patrick Walsh at Cinematical
... for wanting to bring another of his iconic characters back to the big screen? Rocky Balboa surprised people with how heartfelt and genuinely moving it was. Rambo (and yes, it's just called Rambo now) will shock people with how serious and shockingly violent it is. Set against the very real, very disturbing situation in Burma, Rambo finds Stallone on a mission to rescue a group of missionaries from sadistic Burmese soldiers. ...

Check This Out: Rambo Kill Chart
Published 1/24/2008 by Alex Billington at FirstShowing.net
The newest Rambo movie hits theaters this Friday but unfortunately I won't be able to see it until I'm back from Sundance. However, it doesn't mean all of you who aren't here in Park City can't go watch Sly Stallone go on one more giant killing spree. LA Times ...

Rambo Review
Published 1/24/2008 by john@themovieblog.com (John Campea) at The Movie Blog
Thanks for checking out our Rambo review. To see a video version of this review, just go to the bottom of the post. When I first caught word that Sylvester Stallone was going to be making a new Rocky and Rambo movies, I hung my head it total despair. To me, it was a sad desperate attempt by an aging former star to become relevant again. To me they seemed like horrible ideas. But then I saw Rocky Balboa (aka Rocky 6) and I had to seriously eat some of my words. It was such a great film, and one that I still think about. So who knows? If he could surprise the hell out of us with Rocky 6, maybe he can ...

Review: Rambo
Published 1/25/2008 at Filmfodder News and Reviews
Movie Reviews Review: Rambo By Brian Orndorf, Senior Reviewer What began as a franchise of high adventure and bottomless sympathy, before promptly tumbling into a feral cartoon, has found its rightful home here: utter maniacal chaos. "Rambo" ( IMDb listing ...

Film Fan Fridays for Friday January 25, 2008!
Published 1/25/2008 by Shannon the Movie Moxie at Movie Moxie
Hello Film Fans and Fanatics! Welcome to Film Fan Fridays for Friday January 25, 2008! Here is another week of movie madness with not only Oscar nominations but ten new releases. Ten! But first a little about the Oscar nominations, the big contenders are: No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood both with 8 nominations closely followed by Atonement and Michael Clayton with 7 nominations each. Michael Clayton is reappearing in theatres this week so if you missed it originally you will have a chance to see it now! Add Juno to the ...

Review: Rambo
Published 1/25/2008 by Patrick Walsh at Cinematical
... crack some skulls in Rambo -- the first Rambo movie in twenty years -- I'll admit to feeling a bit giddy. A blast of 1980s excess is exactly what the slumping action genre needs right now, if you ask me. To paraphrase the old John Candy SCTV character -- I wanted to see everything get blowed up real good. So you can imagine my surprise when the film opened with a montage of real-life footage documenting atrocities in Burma. And this is serious stuff -- we're talking slaughtered women and children here. Quickly, my excitement turned to discomfort ...

Junket Report: Rambo -- Interviews with Julie Benz, Matthew Marsden, & Graham McTavish
Published 1/25/2008 by Patrick Walsh at Cinematical
Filed under: Action, New Releases, Lionsgate Films, Fandom, Interviews, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Remakes and Sequels Last week, Cinematical brought you an interview with Sylvester Stallone about his latest action extravaganza -- Rambo, the fourth film in the series. (Check out that discussion here.) This week, we have a junket report with the supporting cast. You probably know the lovely Julie Benz from her role as Dexter's girlfriend Rita on the Showtime drama Dexter. She ...

Talking Points: Fans and Critics Are Divided Over Rambo!
Published 1/27/2008 by Neil Miller at Film School Rejects
It’s been an interesting ride for ‘ole Rambo over the past few weeks. The fourth film in the Rambo series has been met, since its inception, with a diverse range of opinions from fans, bloggers and film industry pundits alike. Some have absolutely loved the idea of a carnage-heavy, all out war homage to the first three films — raising Rambo’s body count into the stratosphere. While others debate the need and/or the purpose of going back and re-hashing another has-been Sly Stallone character, a la Rocky Balboa. Personally, I thought Rocky ...

Rambo Has Critics and Moviegoers at War; So What Did You Think?
Published 1/27/2008 by orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) at /Film
... We all know that movie critics and fans of genre fare get along together like a giant serpent and Conan the Barbarian, but the maddening tug-o-war currently raging over Rambo’s merits is ridiculous. Consider: On IMDB, the Sylvester Stallone sequel has a fantastic user-rating of 8.5/10 based on more than 4,000 votes. This consensus is good enough to put the film at #195 out the top 250 films ever! Lest you think this gap is an anomaly limited to one site, ...

"GOD WOULD HAVE MERCY. HE WON'T."
Published 1/29/2008 by Tim at Antagony & Ecstasy
In the 1980s and into the 1990s, one of the most durable genres in the American cinema was the Big Dumb Fun action movie, empty-calorie exercises in elaborate set-pieces and corny one-liners. We still have action movies, of course, and they're still Big and Dumb, but very few of them are any Fun. I blame computers, at least a little bit: when every third shot contains a digital hero instead of a flesh-and blood Chuck Norris/Arnold Schwarzenegger/Steven Seagal/ et cetera , the result lacks a certain liveliness. Not to mention, computers have done away with the small, fun action scene; if it doesn't involve twelve locations ...

Debunking Rumors: Cloverfield Sequel and Rambo Sequel
Published 2/1/2008 by Alex Billington at FirstShowing.net
Afraid it's that time where we have to come along and squash all your hopes and dreams. This last week found some very interesting rumors appearing, including talk of the Rambo franchise continuing onwards, and also talk of the Cloverfield ...

The Real Truth Behind Son of Rambow's Delay
Published 2/6/2008 by Alex Billington at FirstShowing.net
Unless you were at Sundance in 2007, I'm sure you're asking, what delay? Son of Rambow, the fantastic indie movie that originally debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January of 2007, is finally making its way to theaters on May 2nd, 2008, a whole 16 ...

Published 2/10/2008 by Steve at The Ongoing Cinematic Education of Steven Carlson
Rambo (2008) * Not, to my surprise, the unintentionally funny fiasco expected from the adverts (especially the Interent red-band trailers); instead, Sylester Stallone's latest is mostly a decent, economically paced action film. Blood and thunder rule the day, but the hyperbolic violence meshes surprisingly well with the downcast, almost mournful tone that dominates the film's first two acts. * Much in the vein of what I understand Rocky Balboa to be, this is in part an old man, maybe a bit past his prime, indulging himself in a bit of ambivalent nostalgia. Stallone is examining one of his ...

Planet Terror
Published 3/13/2008 by thecynicalgamer at karlhungus.com
A month or two ago I posted my Death Proof review, which I liked, but bemoaned the Weinstein Brothers’ idiotic decision to cut the Grindhouse experience in two for us beret-wearing, war-mongering Europeans. Now, after a prolonged gap, I have finally got to see the second half of the experience. That is not to say I have seen the theatrical release as it was meant to be viewed. Nor have I seen all of the accompanying fake trailers which were meant to be half the fun (have only seen Eli Roth's Thanksgiving online, and the Machete trailer included before the ...

Rambo Forces Bulgaria To Pretend To Be Arizona
Published 3/24/2008 by Jason at Pop Critics
It seems like only a few weeks ago that rumors of a fifth Rambo film seemed pretty far fetched…wait, that was only a few weeks ago. Yet, here we are, a few weeks later and it looks like Sylvester Stallone will once again be strapping on the headband for another go at it. I didn’t bother to watch Rambo, the fourth film in the series, when it came to theaters (oh so briefly) and it hasn’t hit DVD so I really don’t know if I would like it or not. I wasn’t impressed by the previews or the reviews of it. It ...

War! Huh! What is it good for?
Published 3/31/2008 by Ibetolis at Film for the Soul
I've never really felt that enamored by the war movie genre, whilst my friends were watching their pirated versions of Platoon, Rambo Part II and Hamburger Hill I was being introduced to the madness of Monty Python, Carl Reiner/Steve Martin films and reveling in films more my age bracket. Blood and guts always used to make me heave and for many a year I was of the belief that all war films were of the macho posturing type, sweaty muscled men running through a barrage of bullets whilst firing off two machine guns at the same time without even earning a scratch for their heroics. It ...

Rambo: Preview & Trailer
Published 5/26/2008 by Jane Boursaw at Film Gecko
Sylvester Stallone has been on a sequel kick the past few years. First Rocky Balboa, then Rambo, and I see he’s got Rambo V slated for a 2009 release. I was just saying that actors should choose their roles carefully, because they might be with them for the rest of their lives. In Rambo, released in theaters January 25, 2008, Stallone returns as John Rambo, now living a peaceful life in the jungles of Thailand (because really, where else would he live?). When Christian aid workers ask the tough guy to take them up the Salween River into Burma to deliver ...

Cassandra's Nathaniel's Dream
Published 5/28/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (NATHANIEL R) at Film Experience Blog
Mmmm New on DVD this week is the latest morality/crime thriller from Woody Allen Cassandra's Dream (2008) starring Colin Farrell, Ewan MacGregor and Tom Wilkinson. The Weinstein's played a release shell game with the theatrical release, finally dumping it in ...

The Passion of the Rambo
Published 5/30/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (rob humanick) at The Projection Booth
If we critics fall victim to any one pitfall, it's that simplest of traps: judging a book by its cover. I first saw the career-defining First Blood earlier this year and was taken aback by its decidedly non-shoot 'em up story and execution, in much the same way that my then ...

Young Genghis Khan, Steroids, And A Cagey New DVD Release
Published 7/2/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Dan) at film babble blog
MONGOL (Dir. Sergei Bodrov, 2007) Appropriate alternate titles for this film could be THE ADVENTURES OF YOUNG GENGHIS KHAN, THE REAL WRATH OF KHAN, or perhaps most aptly GENGHIS KHAN BEGINS. At first I was just happy that this wasn’t like 300 - a videogame aestetic with not one foot in ...

Stallone "Hopeful" We'll See 'Rambo V'
Published 30 days ago by Colin Boyd at Get The Big Picture
You kind of had a feeling that Sylvester Stallone would leave this door open as long as he could. After all, Rocky Balboa was a terrific way to wrap up that franchise, and Stallone seemed reinvigorated by its success, turning his attention to Rambo afterwards. That follow-up was not nearly as good as Rocky Balboa, but it did very well overseas, earning a grand total of $113 million versus a $50 million budget. That's good enough to assume that home video sales and rentals and broadcast and cable contracts ...