No wonder Lou stays away, GB 
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Annoyingly every time I pause that clip it says. āAnna (300m from your house) wants to fuckā. I donāt even know an Anna.
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Must be targetted advertising. Mine says Nanna.
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Watched 10 Cloverfield Lane tonight and enjoyed it. I found it to be full of suspense, never quite sure what was going to happen. Ending gets a little silly, but on the whole it was good.
Loved it right up until the last 10 minutes or so. Real shame tbh!
John Goodman was great I thought. And yes, the ending spoiled any dramatic suspense. It had to end that way ā¦ Cloverfield franchise
Rambo II is on ITV4 now. In it, John Rambo, who is in prison for defrauding people out of sponsor money (see Rambo I) is given the chance to get out of jail early but on condition that he single handedly restarts the Vietnam war. So off he goes, he meets a Vietnamese woman with hazel eyes, finds US soldiers who are still being held as POW, gets double crossed, gets left in Vietnam, gets covered in slugs and meets a nasty Soviet git who tortures him. It does, however, all work out in the end.
Thanks Fatso, you just spoilered the story!
Or did I? Does it all work out in the end? Or does the Hazel eyed Vietnamese woman get shot to buggery? Who knows.
Stallone hates women with Hazel eyes ā¦
Or whatever 
Itās been years since Iāve seen the Rambo films. In fact, I may have never seen them all all the way through. Iāve now watched Rambo I and II in quick succession and they are bizarre. Everything about them is weird. The whole concept is a strange one and itās a big leap from Rambo I to II. In the first one, thereās a little logic to the filmā¦heās returned to America and instead of being a war hero he is shunned. Heās a drifter who gets no respect from the police and suffers from PTSD and he ends up kicking off. Silly, but fair enough. But by the time we get to Rambo II, heās being sent to get American soldiers who are still being kept as POW because the Americans wonāt pay the compensation they owe to the Vietnamese, except heās not meant to rescue them, heās meant to just take photos to keep everyone happy that no soldiers are actually there. I meanā¦what? What sort of fucking story is that? Which idiot thought of that? And which even bigger idiot heard this idea and then backed it? It ends with a rousing song that made me regret ordering the Chinese takeout I had earlier, as they were/are probably in cahoots with the Vietnamese and Russians.
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Oh dear. 5th Wave. Was searching for something to watch on the flight here & thought Alien Invasion flick.
But it isnāt, itās a teen flick someone trying to kick off a low budget Hunger Games style franchise.
Could have been a cracker with an Invasion of the Body Snatchers feel but ended up being just shit & cheap.
Avoid like the plague. Polish soap operas are WAY MORE ENTERTAINING
Look, we all know that the Vietnam War, which ended up killing 3.9 million Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians, is really about the sacrifices of the 58k US Servicemen and the feelings on those left behind.
So First Blood is about the feelings of John Rambo as heās reinserted into a country that doesnāt want him back.
Rambo II is about a man whose country doesnāt want him back, going back to a country he doesnāt want to go back to, in order to rescue people that country doesnāt want to give back. If thatās confusing, just think of it as a film about the feelings of trapped GIs, and the injustice of them being imprisoned, etc.
Rambo III is Stalloneās assault on the Cold War, the left hook coming from Rocky IV. As we all know, the Berlin Wall fell just three years after Rocky made his āeverything must changeā speech. Rambo III was really the āstickā of those two movies. If people didnāt fall for the ācarrotā of a musclebound shortarse inexplicably felling a Soviet leviathan, theyād get the Rambo version instead.
Rambo IV is hugely violent, surprisingly good, and all the bad guys are Burmese military cunts.
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Are you saying that Rambo is based on fact? I was unaware of that and feel foolish now.
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It hangs off a historical framework, so to that extent, yeah.
The only thing stopping John Rambo from being perceived as just another US mass killer is his time in the Vietnam War.
Iām not sure quite how many American POWs were still in 'Nam during the height of 80s Vietnam POW films, though.
Well he saved about 6, so probably 6.
Great summary, Pap. Itās Fatherās Day - I reckon I can get away with ignoring the kids and watching back to back Rambos instead.
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