RAMBO IV

[Jox]

Nu Image has announced that RAMBO IV will be shot next year in Bulgaria, Stallone would be writing the script at the moment...

[Mosquito]

Oh my, Nu Image... even Sly has to work with those guys now?

[Jox]

well they're trying to get into higher caliber and bigger budget movies now, they just produced THE BLACK DAHLIA directed by Brian de Palma with Scarlett Johannson and a $60 million budget. They're about to make the next Oliver stone in the same budget range and other projects like that, but don't worry they're still making stuff like "Alien vs. Alien", "Dark Water" and "Attack of the gryffon"...

[Jox]

first pics from "JOHN RAMBO", kinda scary...

http://www.flynetonline.com/2007/03/rambos-last-mission-in-thailand.html

[Nathan]

I saw those - I'll admit it doesn't look much like a RAMBO movie judging from the set and he does look scary.

[Sasha]

I have a bad felling about it...

[Nathan]

Well he managed to make Rocky Balboa decent and he has very good ideas and intentions for this one so I hope it turns out ok. Can't see it being as action packed as the 2nd or 3rd or as well acted as the first but who knows he might surprise us with a killer combination of them both!

[Sasha]

I was on "Rambo" today and I must say it's just f*cking great violence action! It's also the most bloody film for years.

[Craigie-Boy]

I heard that about the film - that it's supposed to be almost ridiculously violent in places, and that the UK censors may even cut out the most violent scenes for its theatrical run and then reinstate them for the DVD release...

[dvdvision]

Balls, movie is uncut in the UK.

[Jox]

On my way to the Paris premiere (with Sly)...

[Nathan]

Really...

[Tom]

Sly's signed a multi picture deal with Nu Image and is looking at scripts to direct. I just wonder whether he and Dolph may get together and make a film again? Get on it Jox!

It's looking very much like a great year for action. MM was good, I even enjoyed Pistol Whipped too, soon Rambo 4 will swipe my head clean off with a machete, and there's still The Shepherd, JCVD and Gallowwalker later in the year.

[dvdvision]

So Jox, what's your impression ?

[Jox]

We are to celebrate the return of real, honest and brutal action cinema.

I had not been this excited to be in a movie theater since LOTR or the very very first screening of "Brotherhood of the Wolf" (first print out of the lab) but maybe even way back from the times of "T2" or "Universal Soldier" so more than 15 years!

First of the screening was extraordinary in its context, and it was like in LA where the audience applaud at star credits, punchlines or bad ass moments. I don't usually like theater crowds but in events like this one it's almost magical to live such a screening...

Now I've seen movie stars and such, met many actors and I don't really care anymore (plus I think celebrities deserve the respect to be treated as any other person -not less not more- not like circus freaks). So before hand it didn't do much to know that Stallone would attend, especially since I knew he would rush to come down, say two words and leave... And YET, to see him arriving, and barely a feet away, with all the craziness of the room, was really touching; as if he was bearing the aura of his own legend and even though I'm not a hard core fan, his films also made me as a cinephile....

So anyway, the film is a killing, of course in every sense of the word. It's Rambo power of ten. The downside of it when the slaughter is over you don't know what hit you and expect one more reel full of it (it's the same runing time as MM so when the first part is over it's non-stop till the end and it goes by really fast! There's a few things I'd add but I'd rather wait everybody saw it, but what Sly accomplished here is crazy and amazing!