Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
While we are in the mode of taking another look at things - we thought…what the hell? Why not revisit RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II. So this week travel back to the jungle with us and John Rambo himself. The only difference is, we’re allowed to win this time.
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69!!!! WWWWoooooooohhh!!! 🤜🤛 the greatest!!!
I'm so thankful Stanger mentions this around 2:21:00. I wish u guys woulda talked about it a bit more because it's pretty insane when u think about it. I guess I didn't really think about it when I was younger but I rewatched this movie last year and it hit me hard. Rambo literally destroys these peoples homes & entire village. These are jus regular civilians who didn't do anything to anyone. The amount of civilian casualties has to be so high. Its jus so ridiculous lol I couldn't stop thinking about all the lives he was wrecking during this sequence
Did we get to win this time?
“German and Native American, heck of a combo”… thanks… I was half asleep and hearing my ethnicity randomly described was a trip!
Hell yeah
So much fun gents.....if Stallone doesn't love your rendition of his flawless, missile like directed delivery.....fuck that dude, and the Mi-2 Hind he blows out the sky.
my funniest personal Rambo history is that I had a vhs tape of a few episodes of the cartoon I watched 100 times before seeing the movies. so watching the movies for the first time when I got older I kept being like "is this scene where he finds his giant 6 wheel action truck?" and was just constantly let down.
Where can I get my hands on one of those ActionBoyz hats Gabrus is rocking on 101 Places?
Just watched T2 with my 9yr old son and watching him watch it had me in tears . It was a fabulous day !
Of course The Quick and the Dead is on the never watch list #forStone
Yes I'm all for the double dips. If doughboys can do 5 episodes on Arby's then ABZ can get at least 2 episodes out of Hell Comes to Frog Town. Also anytime I see an ice cream cart guy with a "Good Humor" logo on the cart I have to do a Sly impression.
Put yer blouse on
“Just in case you pick up the Rambo first blood Part 2 on vinyl.”
Gabrus, love 101 places!
just recently read the First Blood Part 2 novel by Morrell and it’s not nearly as good as the first one but it’s worth a read and is interesting to see how he adapted the existing movie into a book. he replaces the “expendable” party definition with one pertaining to a car wreck (definitely less goofy) and gives a slight bit of agency to Co Bao, even poking fun at the offensive screenplay broken-English she speaks. delves more into Rambo’s trauma and makes him initially quite hesitant to agree to bring Co to the US with him, as he’s too traumatized to even consider sex or romance. And most importantly: ⚠️ Podovsky gets a hard-on and later orgasms while torturing Rambo! Wow !
How’s the body count compared to the first novel?
I would have bet my life that gabrus had seen Expendables 3
Living the 80’s office technology dream https://youtu.be/Atn8X4ap1QQ
Could use a visit from Arnold, it's been a while. Whenever Stanger says "amayzeen" Arny's knocking at the door
Loving the revisiting
This episode is truly Great! Thanks guys!
Kind of excited for you guys to do Uncommon Valor which is an all star Action Boyz cast POW rescue movie.
Stanger get in the kissing booth
Question for the action faction anything else besides the 2 books mentioned that you would recommend from the first blood author?
The idea of a guy going on a date and wearing a muscle suit and then refusing to take his shirt off when they have sex and using a slightly bigger fake penis…. That made me fucking laugh guys.
Napier also had one of the greatest lines in The Blues Brothers: You're gonna look pretty funny tryin' to eat corn on the cob with no fuckin' teeth!
the way he hits "no fuckin' teeth" is so memorable.
Less than 1% hospitalization rate, no way Rambo would get vaxxed
Rambo 2 rules because it buys into the POW/MIA conspiracy which was 1000% a hoax on bereaved families of dead US pilots whose corpses were never recovered. Nixon cynically used the fake issue to bolster his 1972 campaign.
NavyDocV, you seem like a chill, smart guy.
I liked the brief appreciation for the Rambo score. I have a lot of affection for the Rambo theme, partly because Stanger sang at least one song to the tune of it (Modren March Movie Madness).
Rewatching this reminded me that I only recently learned that the POW/MIA flag that used to be everywhere in the 90s and is still somewhat around today is actually some right wing conspiracy theory not based in any kind of reality. After learning that it made sense that as a kid I felt extra uncomfortable any place that had those up.
Highly recommend the book “The Spitting Image” by Jerry Lembcke, it’s all about how movies like Coming Home and First Blood perpetuated the abused veteran myth. Stories about vets getting spit on and heckled only started circulating in the late 70s.
I use antiperspirant so I trim my pit hair, it doesn't work unless it gets on the skin
Definitely appreciated the real talk about POWs and the generational effects of trauma. I'm a huge Battlestar Galactica fan. If you were to watch one episode, Scar (season 2 ep. 15) has a pretty good depiction of carrier life for pilots.
Had to apologize to my wife and kids for how much Stallone voice I’m going to be doing this week. Oh mah ghawd. Sistine.
Bad humor, I know
Trimming armpit hair cuts down on the amount of stink that happens
I was joking about being "out of ideas"! We need a text style that denotes when we're doing Rodger's fan voice!
I would also like to know the best way to get that across. Rodgers, please tell us how you would like us to communicate our ironic digs.
Michael Herr, who co-wrote the Full Metal Jacket screenplay, wrote a book called “Dispatches” that was another big influence on FMJ and is really great.
Charles Napier is the Russ Meyer alum, think I first saw him as one of the "good 'ol boys" in the blues brothers. Outrageous face, pretty over the top in supervixens, etc.
Stallone the past few weeks has been fucking melting down on Instagram about Irwin Winkler. It's fucking insane.
Indeed.
Not sure which one it was, but I remember enjoying insane Wesley Snipes a lot in one of those Expendables movies.
I learned what year the Vietnam war ended from this pod
The full story of that POW Rodgers brought up is brutal https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jul-19-me-thompson19-story.html
Rodgers telling it was brutal enough for me
I'm 5$ cheap member. Can a rich member bug them to do Shoot Em Up( Clive Owen). That film broke up a 7 year relationship I had with a girl. Thanks
I wouldn't hold my breath for it because they tend to cut off before about 2000 and that one is too modren. That said I'm very curious which one of you liked or hated it so much that you had to break up over it
I dunno about the rest of you but i want, what we all want, and every other guy who came over here after listening to high and mighty and gave everything he had, wants! For our ActionBoyz to love us as much as we love them!That's what i want.
We hate innocent villagers
