S2E29: Rambo
Added 2023-08-02 23:34:27 +0000 UTCIt's the fourth Rambo film.
Sylvester Stallone reckons this is 'the best film he's ever made' because it's 'the most truthful'.
We reckon it's the worst movie we've ever seen.
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Comments
i recently re-listened to the first couple episodes and in there you talk about scaling SCUM proportionally to account for the later Bonds. clearly nobody was prepared for Rambo.
thejackalope231
2023-08-16 19:43:06 +0000 UTCI'm struck by ultraviolence as p*rnography for the impotent and incels. An analyst would have a field day. It's similar to the Evangelical focus on punishment, and love depicting hellish torture.
Kisa
2023-08-10 05:43:20 +0000 UTCA24 isn't struck
Liz and Ash in Florida. It's very hot! Climate change will kill us all.
2023-08-08 23:46:17 +0000 UTC(*it's a film version not just a taping of the Broadway show but retaining most of the features)
Julian Pollock
2023-08-08 23:01:27 +0000 UTCMondosuggestion for I think after the strike ends although I'm not totally sure whether this film was union bc it was an Indy taping of a Broadway musical: Zoot Suit with Edward James Olmos is perfect for the show.
Julian Pollock
2023-08-08 23:00:13 +0000 UTCYeah, I've got a forehead dent from forceps (though no other obvious damage) so I get real uncomfortable with them going after Stallone for the physical side of things.
Miss Norris
2023-08-07 10:56:26 +0000 UTCIts sudden switch from “roaring non-lethal rampage of revenge” to “actually, you should contact the police because they’re the real heroes” at the climax would definitely be food for an interesting discussion.
Erik Traudes
2023-08-07 06:24:47 +0000 UTCFor the season of solidarity I'd like to renew my suggestion of Michael Collins. It's got everything: An oceans are now battlefields type opening crawl, trains, British security forces getting got. What more could you want?
Ctolm [the t is silent]
2023-08-07 00:12:11 +0000 UTCI had been hoping for a while to get an episode on Norwegian Ninja (Kommandør Treholt & ninjatroppen). It has ninjas and Operation Gladio, though unfortunately I don't think it has any blondes with American accents.
Brian Danger Hicks
2023-08-06 22:46:56 +0000 UTCI guess you'll have a while to recover while waiting for the strike to end, at least. Hope the studios cave quickly!
JoeNotCharles
2023-08-06 00:38:11 +0000 UTCI recently saw someone hold up Rocky Balboa as a "surprising" example of a positive male role model. If you're not too burned out on Stallone, it would be great to see you do the Rocky movies. At the very least I think they'd have more mixed things to say than the deflating whoopie cushion sound of the Rambo movies.
JoeNotCharles
2023-08-06 00:28:31 +0000 UTCGO BOLLYWOOD. GO WITH HAIDER. HAMLET SET IN THE KASHMIR CONFLICT CMONNNNN (RRR has questionable politics and caste views so if you are doing that please read up on that!)
Borbachev
2023-08-05 12:39:44 +0000 UTCRegarding French films, I'd like to hear your take on Costa-Gavras "Z" about the murder of the Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis in the climate of rising fascism.
quantumsquid
2023-08-05 08:18:49 +0000 UTCWould love to see y'all talk through the Russian film Страна Глухих (Country of the Deaf)
Ellie Osterman
2023-08-05 07:28:14 +0000 UTCFurie the 2019 Vietnamese film might be worth a look as I don't think it's struck.
Anthony
2023-08-04 23:22:34 +0000 UTCAnother great Weinstein Company film
Trevor Gilmore
2023-08-04 03:58:21 +0000 UTCThe thing that frustrates me the most about Rambo 4: Rambo is that this came out a couple years after Rocky Balboa, an actually good film, maybe the 2nd or 3rd best non-Creed Rocky. So it was obvious that Sly knew how to make a great film that revisited one of his classic characters, but this inexplicably Evangelical hyperviolent right wing screed is the direction he decided to go with.
Kevin Mark Bradshaw
2023-08-03 23:35:21 +0000 UTCWas watching that last night and my God does it have things to say about masculinity.
Jon W
2023-08-03 21:56:07 +0000 UTCGive us the RRR episode!
Jon W
2023-08-03 21:54:57 +0000 UTCAlso I’m Kinda drunk leaving this comment so this is not a parasocial thing just a suggestion I’d appreciate, like if mia mulder and alice could review HOI4 Mods i dont know the broad appeal but i'd listen
Alex Boag
2023-08-03 20:14:57 +0000 UTCJust wanna point out to Abby, Ciarán of the Corner Späti promised (on twitter to me) to bring the most fucked up vibes if you do the lupin the 3rd yearly specials, not sure if that’s a positive or negative. and boy oh boy do they have gender and sexual politics at times. So like if Abby or dev wants to dive in to the lupin specials you have at least one guest and one listener for it.
Alex Boag
2023-08-03 20:13:28 +0000 UTCbrain references that never came: the scene of comically numbing violence was the old Monty Python sketch "Sam Peckinpah's Salad Days". Furthermore, Strongbad referencing his band of shady missionaries
karpad
2023-08-03 19:52:57 +0000 UTCStoked for non-US film content, too! May I suggest: Riki-Oh! The Story of Riki.
Bappy Lorenzo
2023-08-03 19:39:06 +0000 UTCAfter that episode, my self enforced (inflected) habit of watching the film critiqued seems like a bad idea now.. I may report back on my findings..
mortran
2023-08-03 18:03:14 +0000 UTCbanging my hands on the table ALEKSANDR PTUSHKO ALEKSANDR PTUSHKO
God's Eepiest Soldier
2023-08-03 17:31:42 +0000 UTCA film along similar lines would be NZ classic Sleeping Dogs, the film that was pod-favorite Sam Neill's big break. It's set in a near-future New Zealand which is sliding into a fascist police state. Could make for an interesting double feature.
BarFly
2023-08-03 15:48:43 +0000 UTCgreat episode as always, cool to see the SCUM record finally broken. just wanted to mention one thing related to the rambo series as a whole, which is that stallone talks like that because when he was born the doctor went too hard on the forceps and gave him facial nerve damage. as such, it's kinda shitty whenever you make fun of his slurred line deliveries. not to defend this guy and his incredibly fascist film series, but i wasn't sure if you were aware. apart from that, great episode, looking forward to next week
i once heard a podcaster assume the spice channel was associated with the spice girls
2023-08-03 15:39:55 +0000 UTCAs a Burmese river estuary pirate police currently under machine gun fire, I find it very rude that KJB has insofar not responded to my emails.
Alex
2023-08-03 15:34:12 +0000 UTCRambo 4 but the Geezer 'ard Bastard is played by Miriam Margolyes
BarFly
2023-08-03 14:12:31 +0000 UTC“Tertiary Rambosis” 😆
John Harwood
2023-08-03 13:36:21 +0000 UTCAlso check out Eega by the same director: John Wick but the hero is a house fly
Nick Alexander
2023-08-03 13:18:48 +0000 UTCPraying that RRR makes it into the Season of Solidarity
Nick Alexander
2023-08-03 13:17:41 +0000 UTCRelatedly, there might be triggering content issues but otherwise it would be interesting to dig into the Female Prisoner Scorpion series
Nah
2023-08-03 11:07:38 +0000 UTCHell yeah non-Hollywood season. It's finally time for you to do the movie that says the most about masculinity that any movie ever has, the whirlwind delerium epic of Catholic upskirt photography, cultist katana fights and casually addressed egg-cracking, the actual roughly 80th highest rated movie of all time on Letterboxd, Love Exposure.
Nah
2023-08-03 11:05:41 +0000 UTCtell you what every time i was a pirated movive made by hollywood i'll donate a movie tickets worth of mony to the union
Alfred Lang
2023-08-03 10:15:51 +0000 UTCCan I put in my vote for Kwaidan if you can find it? It's horror anthology (4 stories) but it's also just a beautiful movie on the visuals.
Tegan Thompson
2023-08-03 09:19:16 +0000 UTCHell yeah union strong. Having heard Abby mention New Zealand cinema, gonna throw a recommendation out: Muru. Stars guy-you-love-to-see Cliff Curtis as a country cop, whose town is targeted by bigger cops and the government after a group is overheard making threats (real or fake?) towards the Prime Minister. The main target is played by an actual real-life activist who was jailed in events similar to those in the film, which is pretty sick. It’s incredibly good, has a lot to say, and says it so fucking angrily that it rules. Also, the opening title card says ‘the New Zealand police do not endorse what is depicted’.
Caleb O'Brien
2023-08-03 05:19:24 +0000 UTCI look forward for season of solidarity to inevitably cover the evangelion movies.
Hedrigal
2023-08-03 01:53:47 +0000 UTCThis podcast is dedicated to the brave fighters of the mule-jahideen
Noblesse Oblahaj
2023-08-03 00:14:54 +0000 UTCdoes this mean we will finally get the Harry Palmer films lol
alice
2023-08-02 23:49:47 +0000 UTCSolidarity to the working people of the world!!
Jason Young
2023-08-02 23:46:56 +0000 UTCShamelessly responding to the intro and the plans with the strikes: oh boy I can't wait to see if there's a brief check in with Soviet Cinema. There's gotta be something fun there that's not Tarkovsky or the big cinephile stuff
AaronMk91
2023-08-02 23:44:46 +0000 UTC
