Video: “John Rambo” trailer
posted at 8:52 pm on May 19, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Via Ace, who’s cautiously optimistic. Hollywood’s skittishness about Islamic terrorism being what it is, here we find America’s military superhero passing on the central conflict of our time to repel the encroaching Burmese menace. Can’t. Wait.
It’s a little gory so skip it if you’re squeamish.
Update: John from Op-For asks how could Rambo fight Al Qaeda when he was fighting alongside them in Rambo III?
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Wasn’t the original plan for this movie Rambo hunting down Osama?
Shivv on May 19, 2007 at 9:02 PM
Wow. Way more violent than its predecessors.
jaleach on May 19, 2007 at 9:02 PM
Yeah, I’m confused on that one myself. Still looks badass though.
MarkyX on May 19, 2007 at 9:03 PM
Couldn’t Sly have picked a more innocous enemy?
Maybe pesky Inuits angry about excess chilblains?
He needs an IT’S THE JIHAD, STUPID! T- shirt
profitsbeard on May 19, 2007 at 9:04 PM
well if we employ the netroots logic here, Rambo can’t fight Al Qaeda because HE WAS ALLIED THEM WITH IN RAMBO III!!
To do so would be hypocrisy. Google it.
John from OPFOR on May 19, 2007 at 9:04 PM
Whoa. Can a .50 caliber really do that much damage?
Slublog on May 19, 2007 at 9:05 PM
Slu…I’ve seen vids of .50 cal sniper rounds simply exploding bodies. So they answer is a resounding “hell yes.”
John from OPFOR on May 19, 2007 at 9:06 PM
Wow. That’s pretty
awfulawesome.Slublog on May 19, 2007 at 9:07 PM
I think it’s obvious pandering to the conservative Christian, but still has enough of the action to get everyone else to see it. Probably be oversaturated with politics, but I think I might see it anyways. However I do have to laugh when I hear people praying to God in the background right before Rambo kills hundreds of people:
Arma Virumque
Ambrose Bierce
“Ours is a Christian army”; so he said
A regiment of bangomen who led.
“And ours a Christian navy,” added he
Who sailed a thunder-junk upon the sea.
Better they know than men unwarlike do
What is an army, and a navy too.
Pray God there may be sent them by-and-by
The knowledge what a Christian is, and why.
For somewhat lamely the conception runs
Of a brass-buttoned Jesus firing guns.
Nonfactor on May 19, 2007 at 9:12 PM
“When you are pushed…killing is easy as breathing”
Ropera on May 19, 2007 at 9:20 PM
It’s pandering to me, that’s for sure. “First Blood” is one of my all time favorites. “Rocky Balboa” was a superb farewell, and I expect that “John Rambo” will be the same.
I love being the generation that everything skews towards, finally.
Krydor on May 19, 2007 at 9:22 PM
Wow, the new Stallone titles are pretty boring. “Rocky Balboa” & “John Rambo”
That’s a pretty gruesome trailer.
SillyRyno on May 19, 2007 at 9:26 PM
Early on in the battle for Baghdad one of our sniper friends related a story of an 1100 meter shot at a bad guy on a water tower. Pretty much just a pair of legs falling off the tower, the round passed through the water tank.
One of John M. Browning’s greatest inventions, .50 cal.
Zorro on May 19, 2007 at 9:30 PM
Sooooooooooooo boring. Nice plastic surgery, tho.
tickleddragon on May 19, 2007 at 9:33 PM
I’ve heard from a friend of mine in the 20th SF that a .50 cal round can kill you even if it misses you. He said that a bullet that barely misses your head is moving with such velocity and mass that it can break your neck.
Yikes.
SillyRyno on May 19, 2007 at 9:37 PM
The muhajdeen were not the taliban/terrorists. Taliban came in the 90’s. The muhajdeen are essentially northern alliance.
lorien1973 on May 19, 2007 at 9:42 PM
I question the timing…
amerpundit on May 19, 2007 at 9:42 PM
ameripundit-
I time the questioning.
profitsbeard on May 19, 2007 at 9:46 PM
SillyRyno,
That’s a myth about the .50 killing you just by getting close. For a rifle bullet, it is huge and moving extremely fast, but if it misses you you’ll only get the wind and the sonic crack as it goes by. If its close enough to your head the sonic crack might damage your eardrum but that’s it. The only bad effects after that are the sudden soiling of your underwear and the heart attack you’ll get when you realize what it was.
Lancer on May 19, 2007 at 9:47 PM
okay, after all this .50 cal talk…
I had to get the Marine opinion. In video form! Sponsored by Ford, apparently. Terminal Ballistics Effects.
John from OPFOR on May 19, 2007 at 9:52 PM
Take title of previous movies. Add part of name not in previous titles to title. Genius.
Seixon on May 19, 2007 at 9:52 PM
At a time like this, avoiding the Islamist threat in a film like this is not only a cop-out, it’s offensive. The entertainment world bombards us with crap ranging from George Clooney movies to daily installments of “The View” to (almost inexplicably) weekly episodes of “ER” agressively hammering at the message that American military personnel are murderers, rapists, and soulless torturers unjustly persecuting the innocuous peasants of the Islamic world.
When you’re going into the studio to make what obviously could and should serve as a counter-propagandistic antidote to this relentless deluge of leftist poison, yet you choose to avoid the obvious villain, it’s ideological capitulation at best.
Blacklake on May 19, 2007 at 9:53 PM
Especially a Raufoss round, which isn’t meant to be aimed at flesh.
While I agree that Rambo III had our man John fighting with Taliban Mujahideen against the Soviets, that isn’t exactly the same as Al Qaeda.
Freelancer on May 19, 2007 at 10:00 PM
This movie just might make 300 look like a chick flick. As long as they keep liberal politics out of it I’ll be forking out 10 bucks to see it on the wide screen.
Darth Executor on May 19, 2007 at 10:30 PM
Mmmmm, delicious war porn.
C’mon, we all know Rambo’s heart is in Southeast Asia.
SouthernDem on May 19, 2007 at 10:31 PM
Coulda been worse, they could have called Burma ‘Myanmar’.
My first thought on this is kinda telling the left, if you have a problem with Darfur then pick up a gun and do something about it. Rambo movies have always been pro-warrior and made civilians look like the clueless weenies most are.
- The Cat
MirCat on May 19, 2007 at 10:40 PM
Must see… after it comes out on DVD. Or On-Demand, whichever is first.
SilverStar830 on May 19, 2007 at 10:51 PM
I have read that Sylvester Stallone a hypocrite and wants all handguns banned in America!!!
In this article he is quoted as stating to “take every handgun away from Americans”.
http://www.gunsandammomag.com/second_amendment/six_degrees_hypocrisy/
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“Until America, door to door, takes every handgun, this is what you’re gonna have.”
–Sylvester Stallone
That the star of “Rambo,” who made his fortune exploiting armed violence, should call on government raids to disarm millions of real veterans and the rest of his countrymen, goes beyond hypocritical. It is contemptible.
======================================================
If this is true it’s no surprise that Sylvester Stallone has chosen to not face the real enemy in this film.
angryamerican on May 19, 2007 at 11:06 PM
I wonder if they’ll ever consider putting these movies on Joost?
If…only.
Darnell Clayton on May 19, 2007 at 11:11 PM
Allah:
Nice hoping, as I was. But I interviewed Stallone in December at the “Rocky Balboa” debut and asked him about this. He told me they are NOT Muslim. Read more here. I asked him why and he had NO response and NO clue.
Debbie Schlussel on May 19, 2007 at 11:25 PM
Chickens!
Burma?
Too chicken to make a movie about Rambo going after Islamofascist Jihadis, such as al Qaeda, Hamas, al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, Muslim Brotherhood, Hizbolah, Iranian Islamic militants and security-intelligence operatives, Shiite and Suni militia types, and so on.
Chickens!
Instead Rambo goes after Burma?
Hollywood has no backbone except when it comes to attacking the United States of America and Christians. Safe to do because nothing bad happens to you when you do, unless you just don’t fill seats in the movie theater because you pissed off the patriotic citizens, something Hollywood does not seem to be concerned with.
William
William2006 on May 19, 2007 at 11:34 PM
If it is half as good as Rocky Balboa then it will be worth seeing.
bj1126 on May 19, 2007 at 11:37 PM
Debbie Schlussel on May 19, 2007 at 11:25 PM,
The day Hollywood makes a post 9/11 movie in which the violent element are depicted as they truly are, as violent Jihadis, is the day I expect to win a Super Lottery of hundreds of millions of dollars.
I won’t hold my breath!
William
William2006 on May 19, 2007 at 11:37 PM
I believe I saw Carl Rove behind the bushes (no pun intended)
Ropera on May 20, 2007 at 12:11 AM
there is always the possibility that Burma converts to Islam before the movie debut.
Ropera on May 20, 2007 at 12:13 AM
Looks like a good flick. The Stallion has still got some spring in his step.
I shot a lot of .50 cal as a tank commander, it’s the TC’s weapon, so I enjoyed the video clip on terminal ballistics. Since I was in the Clinton Army I never went to combat so I haven’t seen real life effects on the enemy, but a .50 cal will dismember you if it hits you. It has a tremendous amount of kinetic energy.
Mojave Mark on May 20, 2007 at 12:20 AM
Wow. A bit violent for a preview.
Chris L. on May 20, 2007 at 12:41 AM
Wasn’t Stallone in the middle of a big steroids bust down in Australia recently?
Rick on May 20, 2007 at 1:17 AM
I remember years ago reading that Rambo 4 would have Johnny going after radical right wing militias who kidnapped his neice or something stupid like that. Sly, you gotta do another “Demolition Man”! John Spartan!
Sandra Bullock: “Let’s go down there and blow this guy.”
Sly: “AWAY! Blow this guy AWAY!”
Sandra: “Whatever.”
Sly: “Whatever? There’s a BIG diff’rence.”
Classic.
Tony737 on May 20, 2007 at 1:28 AM
Maybe one day an American will have the guts to make a heroic film about Americans killing jihadists. I’ll be in line.
Lazarus on May 20, 2007 at 3:57 AM
It may be a bit lowbrow, but there’s always the original Delta Force starring Chuck Norris. Post Iranian hostage crisis, Golan Globus was giving it to the Islamists with one cheesy action pic after another. Listen to the tirades by the ringleaders though. The rhetoric is still the same. The only difference is you don’t hear it in the movies anymore.
austinnelly on May 20, 2007 at 4:05 AM
This! Is Spar… oh, nevermind…
Mazztek on May 20, 2007 at 4:38 AM
I’m kinda wondering about Stallone. I mean you see him cutting his enemy’s heads off (something jihadis are fond of) and you see him blowing the enemy to pieces using the enemy’s own weaponry (another thing jihadis are fond of).
In addition the Burmese including it’s government, are Buddhists. The government is clearly a military dictatorship, nevertheless if Stallone is fighting on behalf of an oppressed minority here, then that minority would be either islamic or christian, those being the other two faiths in the country.
The only minority that governments in the region need to take any action against are muslims. Thaksin (ex-Thai prime minister), before he was deposed by the muslim junta (posing as a democracy) that is now governing Thailand, took a hardline stance against muslims and kept them in line by at times quite brutal means. In other words, Thaksin had the right idea.
So my exit question is: is Stallone a muslim-sympathiser??
Aylios on May 20, 2007 at 7:26 AM
yup
Aylios on May 20, 2007 at 7:27 AM
The Burmese are the only ones without their own CAIR-like DC pressure group.
They’ll have one by the time the movie opens, though.
Mike Antonucci on May 20, 2007 at 11:04 AM
That was actually a pretty faithful recreation of an actual hijacking up until the point where the Delta Force landed in Beruit and killed all the Muslim Fanatics. Here’s a link
Classic “B” movie. Chuck had a superbike with endless guided missiles. Proper 80’s techno soundtrack. Lee Freakin’ Marvin!
Ah, what a decade for over the top movies.
Krydor on May 20, 2007 at 11:10 AM
Wow, that looks stupid. I would love a preview function.
Krydor on May 20, 2007 at 11:12 AM
I think sometimes over-the-top gore in war movies can actually be an anti-war statement.
eforhan on May 20, 2007 at 11:17 AM
This must be a for-the-internet-only trailer. I’ve never seen a gorey trailer in a theater. The only one I remember is when the guy’s head blew up in the Scanners trailer about 20 years ago.
Privatestock on May 20, 2007 at 11:33 AM
Don’t forget Arnie fighting the “Crimson Jihad” in True Lies. Good stuff.
Privatestock on May 20, 2007 at 12:14 PM
Privatestock, good call. “True Lies” is one of my all time favs.
“They call him the Sand Spider”.
“Why?”
“Probably ’cause it sounds scarey.”
Don’t forget “Navy Seals” and Charlie Sheen callin’ them “Rags”. hahahaha
Tony737 on May 20, 2007 at 1:29 PM
I enjoyed Chuck Norris’ movies, from “Good Guys Wear Black,” to Golan Globus productions “Delta Force, and “Invasion USA” and so on.
“If I wanted your opinion, I’d beat it out of you!”
Great!
I also loved Bruce Lee in Warner Brother’s “Enter the Dragon,” in which he beats 94 different assailants from the beginning of the movie till the end, and all without wires, all while on the ground employing a modified, choreographed, movie style of his Jeet Kune Do (Way of the Intercepting Fist), Kali-Escrima (Filipino Stick Fighting), Nunchaku, and so on.
True Lies and Commando, featuring Arnold Schwartzeneggar, were entertaining as well.
William
William2006 on May 20, 2007 at 3:13 PM
Wait, so this trailer alone is basically rated R, but the new Die Hard gets PG13??
Seriously.
emmaline1138 on May 20, 2007 at 3:45 PM
I agree, it is the typical PC bullsh** from the left appeasement/capitulation crowd! After all, Hollywierd wouldn’t want to offend the poor Islamo-fascists opressed by American Imperialist scum, especially since they’re only defending themselves from the “Great Satan” that invaded and continues to “occupy” Iraq, at least that’s the current Islamo-fascist excuse to justify their indiscriminate butchery of innocent people and their continuous Jihadist calls to destroy the West, worse yet (for us, not the enemy) they (Islamo-fascists) now have an official spokesman to further their propaganda thanks to apologist Ron Paul!
Liberty or Death on May 20, 2007 at 3:48 PM
Maybe the same way our real-life special ops guys and CIA are now???
Levy on May 20, 2007 at 6:30 PM
C’mon folks, it’s just a movie! They don’t all have to be political. Look at the begining; there’s John Rambo, living a life of seclusion in some South East Asian country, the only type of place he probably ever felt like he belonged. He doesn’t want trouble, he’s not out looking for a fight or to be a soldier. He’s just an old, tired man living with his past. He even turns down the chance to bring some (apparent) Christian mercenaries where they wanna go. He ends up going after them because (I’m guessing) he just can’t sit back and let them die. If anything, this is a movie about how praying and hoping for the best changes nothing. Violence, on the other hand, can solve many problems. Now granted, I’d much prefer he was out killing jihadis, but we can’t always get what we want.
Sheesh, what’s next? Complaining about the Transformers and how Megatron isn’t known as Omar al Megatronie?
wolfva on May 21, 2007 at 8:44 AM
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