Juno was simply delightful! :p

Nostalgia may’ve propelled Rambo to the Top 250 on IMDB, but it’s still only got a 37% on Rotten Tomatoes compared to Cloverfield‘s 76%. I find RT’s tomatometer ratings relatively reliable. Of course, Spartans has an astonishingly bad 3%, so there’s no reason at all for it to have beaten Stallone at the box office.

But intellectual analysis aside, I still want to see Rambo.

I’m not quite sure the hype. My 14 yo freshman and his friends went to see Cloverfield. They thought it was lame and wanted their money back. When quizzed…they didn’t get the arty camera work, but worse the monster was just stupid. This from the Xbox PS3 generation…they are becoming immune.

They wanted Rambo this weekend when the crowds die down. Am inclined to let them see it as they know that is all fake but still like the shoot ‘em ups.

Go figure.

It’s been my recent experience that any film that spans more than five years from it’s prior (Star Wars/Freddy/Rocky) is usually going to be bad, if only because we have an amazing precedent. I feel fairly confident Rambo is the same. I hope Indiana Jones doesn’t fall into this rut.

For my money, I wish I hadn’t paid for any movie in recent months except for Into the wild and No Country.

I kind of feel bad for Stallone. When he burst onto the scene (’76, I think it was) with “Rocky”, everyone seemed to believe he would be a formidable force as a writer-director. But then he got caught up in his own pretense with awful, bloated movies like “F.I.S.T.”, “Paradise Alley”, and, of course, “Staying Alive.” After that tripe he has once again been reduced to recycling the tired old Rocky and Rambo franchises. A pity, but it’s not like he had a bundle of talent to begin with.

“…but it’s not like he had a bundle of talent to begin with.”

disagree! IMHO Rocky and First Blood are both excellent films.

and for all of its ham-fisted dialogue and lunkheaded acting, Rambo is a fast-paced, tightly-knit film. it’s more thrilling and exciting than thought-provoking. if you were looking for anything more than that you were probably in the wrong theater.

7. Real men don’t ride goofy custom choppers, putt around town at 25mph on 3/4 mile trips to meet up for a vanilla latte and talk about bikes.

“ham-fisted dialogue and lunkheaded acting”

I rest my case, Your Honor.

I am decidedly female, but I would totally rather see Rambo.

I’d rather drink beer and play pool than see any of those movies.

Lucky for you, DB, the plotlines of the “Rambo” and “Rocky” flicks are so light, you CAN shoot pool and drink beer while watching them; in fact, it enhances the experience. Or so I’m told.

Lucky for you, DB, the plotlines of the “Rambo” and “Rocky” flicks are so light, you CAN shoot pool and drink beer while watching them; in fact, it enhances the experience.

and what’s wrong with that??

That would be the only way I’d want to see those movies.

Just like the only time I saw Deep Throat was projected over a stripper on Broadway in San Francisco, and the only time I saw The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was projected over Vox Pop at the Cathay de Grande. Context is important.

Context is everything, DB.

And in related news fresh off the AP wires:

NEW YORK — Rambo wouldn’t be Rambo without those bulging muscles — and Sylvester Stallone is defending using human growth hormone to get them.

“HGH is nothing,” Stallone told Time magazine. “Anyone who calls it a steroid is grossly misinformed.”

Stallone said for him, testosterone is “so important for a sense of well-being when you get older.”

He suggested that “everyone over 40 years old would be wise to investigate it because it increases the quality of your life.”

Stallone, who is 61, predicted, “In 10 years it will be over the counter.”

HGH has become a substance of great concern in Major League Baseball and other sports battling allegations of rampant doping.

Stallone’s muscles are on display in the new “Rambo” movie, which opened in second place at the box office over the weekend.

All this macho posturing is so annoying.

If you can’t see the difference between Cloverfield and Rambo, even if you don’t like either movie, it’s a sad day for human intelligence.

If you can’t see the difference between Cloverfield and Rambo, even if you don’t like either movie, it’s a sad day for human intelligence.

LOL. Enlighten me. PLEASE.

On a basic level, without even bothering to analyze the movies beyond the surface, one movie is about showing everything in explicit detail and the other’s all about everything that doesn’t happen on the screen.

Plus, you can’t claim the intelligence line when your entire post is ridiculously sexist.

mark, the whole post is a joke. you need to take things a little less seriously when we’re talking about giant monster movies and rambo.

also, your high-horse mentality is starting to get on my nerves.