With no Stallone http://www.cbr.com/rambo-reboot-in-the-works-without-sylvester-stallone/ Get ready to Tweet hate and photoshopped dicks at the new actor. Unless you're hypocrites. But that can't be!
They have to reboot it. Last we saw Rambo he was helping a young Osama bin laden, and play goat carcass polo with the Taliban.
I totally looked up "that fat chick from Mike & Molly" to make sure I got the name right and then I typed the wrong name anyway.
Some studios really enjoy losing money. That's the only reason I can see for continuing a path that is loaded with failure.
I can't see this working. It's a product of it's times. A dissafected and troubled Vet hunted by a small town Sheriff. In 70's America when the conventional 'wisdom' was that returning Vets were broken and crazy from killing all those babies and shit, it played. In today's America, that Sheriff would most likely be hunted by the townsfolk instead. And, I'm sick of reboots.
Stallone just posted in Instagram what looks like fan art for Rambo: Last Stand, with this underneath... A man has to control his life, before it controls him ... Nothing is over...
Maybe the new one can be about an Iraq vet that hunts and kills the Republican senator that cut his VA benefits.
A recurring story I've heard is that Rambo is going to be retconned as gay. Which is why the running title is being altered slightly to "Rambutt"..........
Unless they're going to make it a period piece--set in the 70s/80s--I'm not sure a reboot is going to work. Rambo is someone who gave everything he had and did some pretty horrible things to serve his country, and the country turned its back on him. That inner rage is at the heart of the character, and it's difficult to see how it can be translated to modern times. War is always horrible, and many come back it from it with some big personal demons, yes, but veterans of our recent wars haven't felt the public indifference or disdain that many Vietnam vets felt.
Structurally, "First Blood", is actually a remake of "Lonely Are The Brave". Except there, it's a cowboy having trouble adapting to modern times instead of a vet, and the cowboy just has a chip on his shoulder instead of PTSD. But, the cops go after him, and it's a whole chase thing. If the formula can be changed that much to make "First Blood", in the first place, I think they can think of something.
Yes, you could certainly take First Blood and adapt it to modern times, but the question is: would much of the character we identify as Rambo remain? When does a reboot become a whole new thing?
The First Blood reboot would be the easy part... Disillusioned, broken warrior comes home. Can't fit in, becomes a drifter... normal america rejects him. Modern-day Rambo would look like a train hopping crust punk. It'd be the commie crushing adventures of the next two where the character already became unrecognizable from the original tale.
Sure, but PTSD isn't what makes Rambo...Rambo. The core of the character is that he's been rejected by the country he's served. You certainly could make a movie about an Afghanistan vet with PTSD who goes on a machine gun rampage against (1) small town police, (2) terrorists, or (3) assorted hostile non-white people, but that movie's really not about Rambo.
Hmmm...maybe. I think the 2nd film fits the character (he gets to "re-fight" the war that dominates his psyche), the 3rd film turns Rambo into a pretty generic action character. The 4th film actually brings the character back. In any event, not many commies left to crush, so there'd need to be new adversaries.
Fair enough... What always drew me to the first story was that the enemy was the establishment he'd fought for.
The thing is, as we've seen time after time in these things, even if they try to set it in modern day, they will be too chickenshit to change what they see as its core. Which means it'll be this awkward mix of old and new, and probably crap because of it.
Rambo: "I want what every guy who went over there and spilled his guts wants: for our country to love us as much as we---" Man: "Sir?" Rambo: "Uh, yeah?" Man: "I saw your army jacket. Thank you for your service. We'd like to pay for your lunch." Rambo: "Hey, that's very nice. Thanks!" RAMBO 2017...At TGI Fridays
And that's the part which absolutely will not play well today. In the '70s/'80s you could get away with having soldiers do awful things during war, because Vietnam was seen as some kind of monstrous conflict which broke lots of people, or required people to do such things if they wanted to survive. Iraq and Afghanistan? Not so much. Oliver Stone caught flack for the village burning scene in Platoon, can you imagine the shitstorm which would erupt if a movie showed something similar being done in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Maybe if they're going to go down Rambo Blvd again, why not go the comedy route? Then again, that's a BAD IDEA too! We don't need any new Rambo flix, reboot, remake, whatever it would be.
