On Monday Oct. 25th, 1982 I enlisted in the United States Army. The weekend before, my last movie as a civilian was First Blood. I have to say that movie was a major source of motivation. As Rambo is being chased up the mountain he says to himself "keep moving" I repeated that mantra through Boot, Airborne, and then Q-course(you could go SF of the street back then). I spent the next 25 years serving proudly with the brave men of the 5th SFG at Campbell(RIP Matty Kimmell). A few months ago I separated (honorably) and made my way to H-wood to keep an eye on my actress daughter. I refused to see any movies until Rambo came out today, first film as a civilian. It was well worth the wait. This is a great closer to an important figure in American pop culture. I found the acting and script to be first rate. The action was TOO realistic, I had tears in my eyes as the Burmy soldier bayonets the young boy and as the team comes across the overrun village with the rotting corpses, very realistic. The only issues I had were of the merc team, multi-national teams don't exist and the interesting calibers they carried, but hey the spirit remains. Ending Rambo were it was first headed to, so many years ago was poetry. Perhaps my own history shades my view of this top rate movie, but isn't that what films are for, to show you that no matter what you are things DO change.
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Road House 2: Last Call
(2006 Video)
Ain't bad, ain't bad at'll
10 August 2006
I saw the behind the scenes featurette on the special edition of Roadhouse. My first thought was no way a sequel could be made with out Swayze, no way, then Jonathon Schaech came into my bar( yea, I was bouncing when Roadhouse came out then and now, how sad) this past weekend and we got a chance to talk. He is a real cool guy. A regular joe. Just on that meeting I rented the movie. I tell ya' it's not bad. The fight scenes are outstanding, although not too realist (not smart to kick high), but close , they are very well done. Schaech is very fast, I doubt they used camera tricks, he is a natural. The acting is good; I wish Jake would have gone a little bit more over the top. The women are all hot, the fight scene between the two females at the end, nice, very nice. All and all it's not bad, a worthy sequel and come on, Will Patton is in it, that is just icing on the cake.
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