First Impressions of Rambo
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citrusjavaWatched Rambo: First Blood for the first time, for class.
It's not my favorite thing, but it does have interesting aspects.
No small amount of John Winchester in there- war veteran, expert fighter, driving through the US, drifter, no place in normative society, tortured, lost so many people. Down to the way he stitches himself up. And other SPN things - the naked vulnerability, crying action hero, trouble with the law, "I'm here to save you from him, not the other way around"... And oh, those seventies (OK, 1982) cars, jackets, heroes in painted-on jeans. Also, it's unbelievable they make kid costumes out of this.
Spent the first 20-30 minutes of the movie waiting for the twist where he somehow becomes a boxer.
It's not my favorite thing, but it does have interesting aspects.
No small amount of John Winchester in there- war veteran, expert fighter, driving through the US, drifter, no place in normative society, tortured, lost so many people. Down to the way he stitches himself up. And other SPN things - the naked vulnerability, crying action hero, trouble with the law, "I'm here to save you from him, not the other way around"... And oh, those seventies (OK, 1982) cars, jackets, heroes in painted-on jeans. Also, it's unbelievable they make kid costumes out of this.
Spent the first 20-30 minutes of the movie waiting for the twist where he somehow becomes a boxer.
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Date: 2013-12-18 10:28 am (UTC)Honestly, I was surprised he didn't end up dying - it was that sort of story, tragic flaw all the way, that police officer wanting to shoot him so much ...Had the movie been made today, I'd have maybe expected him to stay alive in a "and these people are here, the problem is not solved" sort of way. In the late '90's/early 2000's he would have died.