Rambo (2008)

If you care about the new Rambo flick you’ve seen this already. But let’s revisit it, shall we?

Dude. Dude.

Later, MPAA-approved trailers were much slicker and less filled with gushers of red meat. But this one, tossed together to build buzz last May, makes the movie look like a fucking Ruggerio Deodato flick. And I’m not ashamed to say I loved it.

Why? Because it promises what you go to a Rambo film for: blatant zesty gore. And this looks splattier than any of the previous three entries. (When I first clocked this trailer, I said “Yeah, good luck getting an R rating with that, Sly,” but according to a recent AICN Q&A, Stallone said he talked the MPAA into leaving the brutality intact.)

In any event, this was released on the web about a month after Grindhouse came out. And, goddammit, this is a fuckin’ grindhouse movie. It’s Machete for real. It’s definitely a grindhouse trailer, anyway, right down to “STALLONE. IS. JOHN RAMBO.” If Stallone had contacted Tarantino and Rodriguez and asked to include this as one of the faux trailers in Grindhouse — and they’d have enthusiastically agreed, probably while jacking off — it would’ve fit right in.

Speaking of grindhouse trailers: here, have some Hobo with a Shotgun. A closer approximation of grindhouse than almost anything in Grindhouse.

Aaah, that never gets old, does it?

I’m ’bout to get all up in your shit. Absolutely.

~ by Rob Gonsalves on January 3, 2008.