Post by masterofdisaster19 on Oct 29, 2007 11:33:06 GMT -5
A refined official trailer has popped up on youtube for what will now be called RAMBO (no John, but thank god they dropped all the cheesy direct-to-video sounding subtitle ideas). So they dressed it up, toned it down, and added a voice-over narrator.
I didn't particularly care for this treatment. It seemed extremely outdated. If this was intentional, like a sort of harkening to the vibe of the glory days of Rambo movies, then they should have been a bit more overt about it; it looks confused. One thing that would have accomplished that overtness would have been the use of the Jerry Goldsmith score. The voice-over narration is a little corny and the tag lines "Blood will flow" and "A warrior will come" are just a little too simple minded for me.
To be honest, the amped up intensity and bareness of the long, brutal trailer that came first seemed a hell of a lot more resonant with the times and came off far, far more plausible and realistic.
War is ugly and bloody and messy, and there are no corny voice over narrators, and no one to edit out blood and gore from your field of vision. I liked the visceral realism of it. It gave Rambo the edge that Rambo in 2008 should have, an intensity on par with Rambo in the 80's - but amped up, nasty and real. The acts of violence are utilitary (throat ripping is a legit technique) rather than cartoonish (shooting a human being with an exploding arrowhead is not). The 80's were cartoonish and silly, our present time is bare and realistic, and if there's one thing that stays the same is that Rambo is an intense character that must be portrayed as such - but he must keep with the times.
I think the new trailer is a step backwards. Whether it denotes a step backwards in the film's end result remains to be seen.
There was also a second teaser released shortly before the trailer, using Rambo's voice as the narrator, a philosophical pontification by the psycho vet himself. He talks about war and war being in your blood, finding out what you're made of and some other vague themes of masculinity. It was pretty blah, actually.
Oh... One thing I actually did like about the new official trailer: Rambo closes it with the line "Live for nothing, or die... For something. Your call."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfL8H8Alj-k
I didn't particularly care for this treatment. It seemed extremely outdated. If this was intentional, like a sort of harkening to the vibe of the glory days of Rambo movies, then they should have been a bit more overt about it; it looks confused. One thing that would have accomplished that overtness would have been the use of the Jerry Goldsmith score. The voice-over narration is a little corny and the tag lines "Blood will flow" and "A warrior will come" are just a little too simple minded for me.
To be honest, the amped up intensity and bareness of the long, brutal trailer that came first seemed a hell of a lot more resonant with the times and came off far, far more plausible and realistic.
War is ugly and bloody and messy, and there are no corny voice over narrators, and no one to edit out blood and gore from your field of vision. I liked the visceral realism of it. It gave Rambo the edge that Rambo in 2008 should have, an intensity on par with Rambo in the 80's - but amped up, nasty and real. The acts of violence are utilitary (throat ripping is a legit technique) rather than cartoonish (shooting a human being with an exploding arrowhead is not). The 80's were cartoonish and silly, our present time is bare and realistic, and if there's one thing that stays the same is that Rambo is an intense character that must be portrayed as such - but he must keep with the times.
I think the new trailer is a step backwards. Whether it denotes a step backwards in the film's end result remains to be seen.
There was also a second teaser released shortly before the trailer, using Rambo's voice as the narrator, a philosophical pontification by the psycho vet himself. He talks about war and war being in your blood, finding out what you're made of and some other vague themes of masculinity. It was pretty blah, actually.
Oh... One thing I actually did like about the new official trailer: Rambo closes it with the line "Live for nothing, or die... For something. Your call."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfL8H8Alj-k
I absolutely love "You know his name... and you know what he's capable of"
