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RE: YIKES there is another rambo movie - 1/12/2008 10:26:38 PM

Maya2001

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I can see a 61 year old Rambo being a reality. If you don't belive me, try picking a fight with an "Over the Hill" Green Beret, Navy Seal, or other Special Forces. Hell, just try taking one out in game of paint ball. Trust me when I say that it's a fight or challenge you would never forget.

It is funny when people assume because you are older you should be decrepit, I work in a auto plant were the 60 something year olds are doing the same darn work as the young bucks and often they are the ones working harding and pulling up the weight of the younger slackers, the shirt factory I work in before had sevral 70's working there that put in over 50 years of service and they were definitely no couch potatoes, I recall one girls father at 90 had more energy then people a 1/3 of his age, if you looked and watched him hiking and dancing, and appearance wise you would even have a hard believing he was even 60 yet, I have watched my grandfather at 80 build a cinder block barn and spend a whole day chopping firewood, so I have no problems seeing a 61 year old Stallone or Arnold

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RE: YIKES there is another rambo movie - 2/4/2008 3:03:55 PM

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My experience has been (from working in the health care sector so plenty of contact with the elderly) that the older generations tended to work long after due retirement age (some not even recognising the word 'retirement'), they were/are more resilient, have greater stamina and certainly worked a far longer day than younger generations. It was frowned upon to find someone sitting idle - the attitude is that if there's time to sit around idle then something is being neglected, leading to greater work later on.

I recently saw the Rambo film and felt it was the ideal 'send off' for that particular character, it was especially brutal in highlighting the military junta in Burma - I believe China is right insofar as sanctions having little effect in bringing that dog to heel.

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RE: YIKES there is another rambo movie - 2/4/2008 3:24:23 PM

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well i thought late last year Beowulf would be good and yrrrrrrrrrrrchhhh!!!!!!!!!!! my Lord,Mistress and i walked out on it.should have walked out of Sweeny Todd. Beofore those two attrocities they did Die Hard? (what number was that,they should have stopped with the first one, now we have on Fox Terminator The Sara Conner Chronicles(how many years too late?) and now they just had to go and ressurect Stallone as Rambo yet AGAIN????

well folks one and all this is what we get when the big time writer go on strike,months and months of movies and programming worse than before. but wait in state lotteries now you can buy scratch off tickets to go to the American Idol Finals (yippie skippie doo).

ya know i think i'll also stick with the new Del Toro "The Orphanage" and maybe throw in Pan's Labyrinth on my dvd player again soon.

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RE: YIKES there is another rambo movie - 2/5/2008 1:59:07 AM

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I'm sure Beowulf wasn't quite what people were expecting when they went to see it. I have seen the film, was shocked to find it animated and every ten minutes I would say, "Another ten minutes of this shit and I'm gone." Despite that, I stuck with it and ended up enjoying it - not to the point I would see it again, but makes me wish I had not waited to see the angelina jolie version and opted for the previous version.

Sweeney Todd - Hated the musical elements, but the story was very good and cinematography even better. Another film I wouldn't wish to see again.

Pans Labyrinth - A little gem of a film, saw it several months ago and loved it, have seen it once more and it was certainly the best film of 2006/2007, deserving all the awards it received.

Rambo 2008 - I didn't like 2 & 3 but have to say I would watch 2008's offering again, although not going out of my way to do so. I wonder how people's reaction would have been had this been released as another war-related movie starring someone other than Sylvester Stallone. The message in the film was an important one, it also highlights the idealistic attitudes of many humanitarian workers that go into these war zones only to then place many men's lives in jeopardy b/c they have to risk their lives by going in and attempting extraction.

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