http://sodblog.com/media/movies/rambo-2008/ The Internet's home for sarcasm. Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:21:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://sodblog.com/media/movies/rambo-2008/#comment-488 Ben Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:55:26 +0000 http://www.sodblog.com/?p=535#comment-488 I didn't necessarily have to suffer any comments made, but I did chuckle at the first line, reading "my experience departed from yours just a big", only because any response I've gotten reading along the lines of that is followed by a long and tiresome rant, attacking my opinions and obviously not anywhere close to my viewpoint. However, I was pleased to find that there actually was accuracy in that statement, and not verbal abuse. I'm an open minded person when it comes to any responses, because I welcome honesty when it comes to discussion, and everyone is entitled to their opinion. I didn’t necessarily have to suffer any comments made, but I did chuckle at the first line, reading “my experience departed from yours just a big”, only because any response I’ve gotten reading along the lines of that is followed by a long and tiresome rant, attacking my opinions and obviously not anywhere close to my viewpoint. However, I was pleased to find that there actually was accuracy in that statement, and not verbal abuse. I’m an open minded person when it comes to any responses, because I welcome honesty when it comes to discussion, and everyone is entitled to their opinion.

]]> http://sodblog.com/media/movies/rambo-2008/#comment-487 Aaron B. Sun, 08 Jun 2008 06:21:03 +0000 http://www.sodblog.com/?p=535#comment-487 Good review, Ben, but my experience departed from yours just a bit (Every one his/her own critic, right?). Now, you'll have to suffer (if you're still reading by this point) my comments. The peace group was pretty blatantly some type of evangelical outfit, trying to get up river into the jungle of Burma to — naturally — proselytize and, seemingly secondary, spread/administer good medicine. They got chopped up by some brutal Burma warlord, taken prisoner, and one of their preachers from America (Colorado? or the desert Southwest?) asks John Rambo to shuttle some mercenaries up river to rescue said evangelicals. There is quite a bit of loaded character baggage in this movie, and it would easily appeal to, oh, a Utah demographic. Of course, in the words of the Big Lebowski, that's like, just my opinion, man. I especially enjoyed the end action scene, though, where Rambo jacks some dual .50 caliber machine gun and proceeds to kill three hundred and forty seven of the enemy in no less than two minutes and fifty two seconds. Great movie that gets right down to the Rambo action. I wondered if a George Orwell, "Burmese Days" and Rambo IV would be an interesting comparative study... Good review, Ben, but my experience departed from yours just a bit (Every one his/her own critic, right?). Now, you’ll have to suffer (if you’re still reading by this point) my comments. The peace group was pretty blatantly some type of evangelical outfit, trying to get up river into the jungle of Burma to — naturally — proselytize and, seemingly secondary, spread/administer good medicine. They got chopped up by some brutal Burma warlord, taken prisoner, and one of their preachers from America (Colorado? or the desert Southwest?) asks John Rambo to shuttle some mercenaries up river to rescue said evangelicals. There is quite a bit of loaded character baggage in this movie, and it would easily appeal to, oh, a Utah demographic. Of course, in the words of the Big Lebowski, that’s like, just my opinion, man. I especially enjoyed the end action scene, though, where Rambo jacks some dual .50 caliber machine gun and proceeds to kill three hundred and forty seven of the enemy in no less than two minutes and fifty two seconds. Great movie that gets right down to the Rambo action. I wondered if a George Orwell, “Burmese Days” and Rambo IV would be an interesting comparative study…

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