GAM Bonus 044: Rambo Last Blood
Added 2020-02-29 01:10:55 +0000 UTCBecause it's leap year, we're not even getting this out on the last day of the month. For February's bonus, we asked you to pick from the Razzie nominees that we hadn't already reviewed, and holy hell did you choose correctly.
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I’m watching some of this on a free movie channel so I can enjoy the episode. I remember watching the trailer for this and saying “oh so it’s just a paranoid racist fantasy”, but now I’m curious for how bad it gets - at least until I shut it off. Edit: the tunnels are clearly a reference back to the insane fucked up shit that happened in tunnels during the Vietnam War. Like “The Americans have no idea what’s going on, but when they find a tunnel entrance they throw a shitton of explosives into it and then send someone into it to murder anyone he finds because they clearly aren’t American” levels of insane.
Matt
2024-12-02 01:07:41 +0000 UTCI had to come back to this post and say that this has become one of my all-time favorite GAM episodes. Noah trying to coach Sly is up there with one of the greatest doodly-doo's you guys have done. "Is everybody ok?" slays me every time
B
2020-06-02 21:55:41 +0000 UTCMarchi..shut up! Its comedy! You guys ROCK!
Jose vasquez jr
2020-05-16 00:54:36 +0000 UTCThanks to this episode, my 85 year old mother has now subscribed
Joe
2020-03-08 02:37:29 +0000 UTCJust a side note: No one noticed that the guys seem to use "Latino" as a skin color... Mexicans aren't Latinos. And while I'm white like many people born in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, etc. We are all Latinos, since we are from latin America. At least use the term properly.
Carlos Marchi
2020-03-05 23:00:06 +0000 UTCWomen in fridges is from Gail Simone. The original version refers to Major Force killing Green Lantern's girlfriend and stuffing her into his fridge for no reason other than to move the plot along.
Denise Huston
2020-03-04 19:08:13 +0000 UTCI feel like the villain in a 2020 Rambo movie would be antifa. So, The Reliant, essentially.
Natalie L.
2020-02-29 21:31:12 +0000 UTChmmm.. "While it may have been shot in Bulgaria and the Canary Islands, Rambo: Last Blood is meant to take place in a nameless town in Arizona and a nameless city in Mexico. The characters, such as they exist, regularly pass between the two places"
Aaron Norell
2020-02-29 19:58:01 +0000 UTC"The bottom of a dancer's foot!!" I'm dying!!!
Justin Campbell
2020-02-29 17:43:00 +0000 UTCI think this is now my favorite bonus episode ever!
Brett Kern
2020-02-29 16:09:26 +0000 UTCThis wasn't even much of a bloodbath compared to the last (2008) Rambo movie, which was basically just Rambo standing in one spot behind a .50 M2HB and turning literally a couple hundred people into hamburger. Although that one was brainlessly entertaining.
Kurt Montandon
2020-02-29 06:51:27 +0000 UTCA bit surprised by the lack of "Home Stallone" pun! I think that the Renegade Cut guy made a good argument for all the Rambo movies, even "the good one" as being pretty right-winged-propaganda-esque overall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgrv78IvGD4
Markus D
2020-02-29 06:48:48 +0000 UTCThank you. I needed some good laughs
B. King
2020-02-29 06:43:01 +0000 UTCSaw this in theater for... reasons. I don't even like Stallone, yet I felt sorry for him by the end of this movie. Painful to watch.
Tove
2020-02-29 04:34:24 +0000 UTCI'd exclude Se7en from that list, personally.
Kiwi Satan
2020-02-29 03:23:10 +0000 UTCFridging the girlfriend is the term. It comes from DC comics Green Lantern, where a villian literally killed Kyle Rayners GF and stuffed her in a fridge. It refers to the trope where women are often only included in a story to get killed/wounded/violated in order to motivate the male hero. Glaring examples Deadpool 2, Death Wish series, Paltrow in Seven, most Bond girls.
Troublemaker Jake
2020-02-29 02:22:22 +0000 UTCYou spelled *LOUD wrong!
Tim, Yes that Tim - the social media guy
2020-02-29 01:55:16 +0000 UTCHeath made a very compelling argument to select this movie.
Steve Gosse
2020-02-29 01:34:14 +0000 UTC
