Rambo......FOUR

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I want to start this post by saying first that, until tonight, I had never seen a whole Rambo movie. I think I've seen the end of one, and a few scenes from others before, but that's about it. Tonight though, that changed...

We went and saw the latest installment of Rambo. It was bloody, and it was gory. The acting wasn't anything special, but, all in all, it was exactly the kind of movie it was supposed to be. There's a perfect word to describe such a movie: craptacular

It was certainly all of that.

It was probably the most gory film I've ever seen. That includes The Passion of the Christ. The most horrible part about it though is that, in those parts of the world, these things are real. Sure, there's probably no "John Rambo", but the horrific things that the Burmese soldiers were doing to the villagers were not overstating things. Apparently, this was Stallone's intention going into the filming of it.

Having read some of the material in the news over the last few months concerning Burma, I knew as we watched it (and Lilly also) about the horrible truth it was showing. That's hard. It's one thing to watch a movie where there's fake blood and fake killing. It's something totally different to watch a movie where the violence is rendered as accurately as possible. Rambo was a really good medium for telling that kind of story. Personally, I think it was done pretty well.

I don't want to spoil the ending, but I would like to add that it was not anywhere near as cheesy as Independence Day or some other movies we see. It was good.

Anyways, that was our evening, with the exception that Daniel bought us and Brian steaks out at Outback afterwards. Good times and good food were had by all. (Daniel was buying us steak as a thank you for helping with his move...)

Now, I'm off to bed though. Good night.

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