Rambo first blood is entirely John Rambos fault

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Rambo first blood is entirely John Rambos fault

Post by Das Troll » Fri Dec 17, 2021 1:30 am



All he had to do was keep walking, but he turned around. Yeah the cop was a dick, yeah Rambo deserved a meal, but sometimes you have to take the L. Rambo goes to jail after this and it leads to Rambo First Blood Part 2. That leads into Rambo 3. Really all 3 Rambo movies hinge on this one scene where he decides to turn around and go back into town instead of just keep walking.

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Re: Rambo first blood is entirely John Rambos fault

Post by Enigma » Sat Dec 18, 2021 8:05 am

I'll admit, I haven't actually sat down and watched all the Rambos, but what I've seen makes me feel like he's a psycopath.
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Re: Rambo first blood is entirely John Rambos fault

Post by Das Troll » Sat Dec 18, 2021 1:12 pm

He may be a psycho but he's OUR psycho and he never killed anyone that didn't need killin.

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Re: Rambo first blood is entirely John Rambos fault

Post by Enigma » Sat Dec 18, 2021 9:19 pm

For some reason this conversation makes me want to watch American Psycho
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Re: Rambo first blood is entirely John Rambos fault

Post by Kheron » Wed Dec 22, 2021 2:00 pm

Isn't it a thing that Rambo has PTSD from his time fighting in some war? Idk if I'd classify him as a clinical psychopath, dude got messed up.

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Re: Rambo first blood is entirely John Rambos fault

Post by Enigma » Wed Dec 22, 2021 3:15 pm

Now that you mention it, yeah, I think that was the premise that the military turned him into an unstoppable killing machine then just sent him home.
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Re: Rambo first blood is entirely John Rambos fault

Post by Das Troll » Thu Dec 23, 2021 2:58 am

The Rambo book was far different than the movie. In the book he ended up dying at his last stand. I don't think Rambo is technically a psycho, maybe a sociopath though by the second to last Rambo movie when he says "when pushed killing is easy as breathing". I'm not sure if he was actually unhinged or if the literal hundreds of people he's killed has finally got to him. Either way he clearly has PTSD in massive doses.

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Re: Rambo first blood is entirely John Rambos fault

Post by Enigma » Thu Dec 23, 2021 8:01 am

It kind of sucks how movies are never as good as the books. Like I guess Forrest Gump did way more things in the book and made more sense over all. Oh, and he wasn't retarded if I recall, just slow.
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Re: Rambo first blood is entirely John Rambos fault

Post by Kheron » Thu Dec 23, 2021 8:36 am

The author of fight club actually said the movie was better lmao

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Re: Rambo first blood is entirely John Rambos fault

Post by Enigma » Thu Dec 23, 2021 10:11 am

Yeah, but that's an exception
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Re: Rambo first blood is entirely John Rambos fault

Post by Das Troll » Thu Dec 23, 2021 11:52 am

In the fightclub book they actually cut off peoples balls and kept them in the freezer. By the end the narrator ends up in an insane asylum where his nurses are all fight club attendees just waiting for him to get it together.

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Re: Rambo first blood is entirely John Rambos fault

Post by Kheron » Thu Dec 23, 2021 12:15 pm

Das Troll wrote:
Thu Dec 23, 2021 11:52 am
In the fightclub book they actually cut off peoples balls and kept them in the freezer. By the end the narrator ends up in an insane asylum where his nurses are all fight club attendees just waiting for him to get it together.
Wow, really? I haven't actually read the book. That's crazy. I guess the Fincher preferred to keep the ball harvesting to just threats in the movie lmao

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Re: Rambo first blood is entirely John Rambos fault

Post by Das Troll » Thu Dec 23, 2021 1:35 pm

Kheron wrote:
Thu Dec 23, 2021 12:15 pm
Das Troll wrote:
Thu Dec 23, 2021 11:52 am
In the fightclub book they actually cut off peoples balls and kept them in the freezer. By the end the narrator ends up in an insane asylum where his nurses are all fight club attendees just waiting for him to get it together.
Wow, really? I haven't actually read the book. That's crazy. I guess the Fincher preferred to keep the ball harvesting to just threats in the movie lmao
Yeah I guess actual castration was a bridge to far for cinema. Another good example of a book that was too harsh to be put into a movie is American Psycho. Yesh the shit that they left out of the movie is insane.

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Re: Rambo first blood is entirely John Rambos fault

Post by Enigma » Thu Dec 23, 2021 5:26 pm

I wish they'd just put the crazy shit like that in the movies.
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Re: Rambo first blood is entirely John Rambos fault

Post by Kheron » Thu Dec 23, 2021 11:00 pm

Same. It'd be way more entertaining. I want to see Durden's (Jack's? Is the Narrator actually given a name in the book?) testicle freezer, dammit!

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Re: Rambo first blood is entirely John Rambos fault

Post by Enigma » Fri Dec 24, 2021 9:17 am

I would have loved to see Forrest Gump do more things than knock up some literal crack whore.
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