Why did they give Rambo his own super commando unit...

Nigga, they just tried to give him a shave.

During the war the Viet Kong or communist forces were referred to as Charlie.

Its military slang to simplify identifications in situations where concise communication is important. See also Bogies

Toys.

Doesn't it come from radio code where "Charlie" refers to the letter C? Because if it doesn't it's just asking for confusion.

Rambo was almost played by John Travolta.

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>We never got a Hellraiser kids cartoon
Such sights kids never got to see.

>Viet Cong
>V C
>Victor Charlie
>Charlie
Get it? And it's not so much radio code as the phonetic alphabet; it's easier to say victor instead of getting someone confused by stuff like V and B. It's actually really great if you need to spell something over the phone but you'll sound like a complete tryhard.

>Pinhead tickle tortures instead
>with his trusty demon dog Skinny

Can you imagine the cringe?

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>The last episode uses the ending from the book where Trautman shoots Rambo in the head after his rampage to destroy the monster he created.

Don't know how they got away with that one.

Jesus wept

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We almost got a lot of actors as Rambo, First Blood's development hell was some shit.

>People remembering the show
>wait, was this supposed to be sexual?
>all that deviant art "content"
Totally spies before totally spies

>implying most of cartoon Pinhead's victims wouldn't be dudes in an attempt to hide the "fetish" shit

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>No Evil Dead cartoon
>No Alien cartoon (it got fucking cancelled with a lost pilot)
>No Total Recall cartoon
Why live?

Real talk, could Cobra have stopped Rambo?

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Isn't that true of the movies?

I miss the days when R-rated (And hard PG-13) movies always got cartoon adaptations.

For the same reason Rambo had his own bubble gum.
AMERICA! Burning down towns and 'Nam flashbacks are just part of growing up and being America.

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Muh Communism

Jesus is such a crybaby

depends on if rambo was committing a crime

It was a Three hour long drama at one point before it was recut in the editing bay.

it was the cops fault for treating him like shit.

Unless Rambo deliberately started shit, Cobra probably would have just let him get some lunch and pass through town without hassling him. The real question is could Rambo have beaten Cliffhanger on a mountain?

>He was a psychopath who almost burned down a whole town

That's not what happened. Rambo was fine until the police literally started torturing him for kicks.

But he didn't have to go apeshit and almost burn a town down. He could have ridden away on the motorcycle he stole before causing any trouble like killing that guy with a rock throw.

Lovin' that helicopter design. I assume this cartoon was drawn to satisfy ritalin-popping millenials?

Why did they keep giving R-rated movies their own children's shows?

So how's the new movie? All the reviews are honestly making it sound pretty hilarious.

>Stallone multiverse battle to see who is the strongest Stallone.

Because kids loved them.

Was wondering that myself, haven't even seen trailers. Better than 4 at least?

He just wanted to grab a burger and keep walking, but no, Sheriff Teasle had to play Mr. Big Dick and spray him down with a fucking firehose.

Rocky has got this.

I'm fucking down for it.
I don't think John Spartan will win, but he'll get close at least.

>go to RT
>audiences love it
>See a chunk of professional reviews shit on it for nonsensical political reasons

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Nobody should ever listen to critics, they suck.

>Millennials

>Millennials

>Millennials

I'm sorry, my brain is refusing to parse your massive retardation.

Character and story wise it feels unnecessary after the last one, but the kills and action are pretty great and I'm a sucker for "tough old bastard with nothing to lose just wrecks shit" movies.

Rocky is too much of a nice guy. He might take out "Over the Top" and "Stop or my Mom will Shoot" Stallone pretty early, but he's not a killer and would walk away before doing anything crazy.

It's kind of what you would expect, the plot is pretty ridiculous but also boring at times, you could replace John Rambo with literally any other action hero and it would have the same effect.The action scenes are fun though but the movie feels short.

Honestly might be an improvement over 4, then, which was also kinda short. If it's anything like Expendables I'm good.

Modern pharma can help you with your cognitive disorder.

...Did you watch the same movie? He was being hunted down by a guy in a helicopter who was taking shots at him from a rifle--the same guy who was going to open fire on him in a public area where a stray bullet could have hit a civilian. Even Sheriff Teasle hit the brakes on that shit.

Deputy Gualt died because he removed his safety harness and was gleefully trying to kill him in cold blood. Yeah Rambo threw that rock, but if he hadn't been trying to literally hunt another human being completely disregarding police procedure and personal safety he wouldn't have fallen. He killed his own stupid ass.

Great, but felt very short.

It certainly was

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It's just like today's "getting shot at the Wallmart or a movie theatre" experience

This is the one aspect of 80's pop culture that really should make a comeback

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He doesn’t have to kill them, just knock them out.

I'd almost forgotten this.

It is short, it's about 78 minutes without credits. It's entertaining but feels like it stops just as it gets going, everybody's there to just watch Rambo kill dudes in crazy ways and that's only the last 15 minutes. There's one action scene in the entire first hour and it's maybe a minute.

For me it's an AU where Rambo put his shit together by converting to Buddhism.

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they sprayed him with a fire hose

>hey mommy can i watch toxie?
>oh ok sweetie
>*seeing eye dog gets shot to death*

Was fucking based, so many people loose their fucking heads at the end.

Rambo not your case Bambo

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>*kid's head get squashed by the car*

At least they'd have had to wait til Terror Firmer for the life-affirming rape scene.

Child hood trauma builds character, if more kids watched toxic avenger they wouldnt grow up to be easily offended pussies

Hell, if i never saw silence of the lambs as a kid i would've never developed my facial fetish.

he got hunted, shot at, shot at with a bazooka.
of course he wanted to get revenge

i never understood why they never made a terminator cartoon in the 80s of 90s.
did cameron not allow it?

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Apparently there were plans for it, summed up as "a boy and his Terminator".

Dunno why it never happened.

>Apparently there were plans for it, summed up as "a boy and his Terminator".
>Dunno why it never happened.
Would've been better then dark fate

It's really weird.

Also Mexico is evil and Rambo keeps cutting cut on the same cheek, which sends him into a murderous rage.

It's a western mixed with Red Riding Hood. The Mexicans are the indians/wolf, Rambo is an old cowboy who happened to be a retired wolf and mexi loli is Red Riding Hood. Americans have this thing for stories about the frontier between the civilization and the barbarians since The Last of Mohicans

Because Rambo has shown to be a damn good soldier if A) you let him be a hero and B) don't betray him.

>Also Mexico is evil
Tell us something we dont know

Rambo would probably take Rocky out, given their skill sets. Rocky would definitely win in a brawl, but Rambo sets traps and goes in for a stealth kill. Would probably slit his neck as he slept.

The "frontiersman versus barbarians" narrative goes back farther than that. Hell, look at Rome and the Germanics.

I don’t know, but the newest Rambo movie was a more faithful adaptation of pic related than Punisher S2.

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Hey, let's not forget Rocky was a GI Joe

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Maybe but burgers are obsessed over it and they built their identity on that. They add a religious connotation, with the white anglosaxon as inherently moral and the darkies as inmoral so they should be apart from the idylic white suburbs. It has been like that through all American history and it doesn't seem like it's going to change soon

>no episode about Rambo parking cars

where are his nipples?

in the 90's that It movie would already have had a cartoon with the kids having 90's adventure in their town, and the clown helping them with good vibe magic and a psa at the end

Stephen King may have made that godawful Shining mini-series, but even that cartoon idea would be beneath him.

It's based on the second movie where he gets pardoned.

>Used to work customer service with AT&T
>Had to deal with dealers like Best Buy
>They used to do this shit whenever I asked for their dealer code
Was the cringiest shit ever.

This one was actually funny.

Good thing I always hated cartoons about movies, except The Mask. Why was it a thing those days?

Fuck off back to tumblr.

>be hype for punisher TV show after seeing him basically steal an entire season of daredevil
>ends up being a side character to devote time to the gurl power FBI agent and bizarre cucking subplot with micro's wife
>half of what little time is devoted to Frank is spent on him crying
>Frank has mercy on a child pornographer
>tfw

Literally all they had to do was take punisher max and put it on a tv screen and it would have been ultra kino. I know they couldn't just have 2 seasons of Frank fucking people up 24/7, but what we got was just awful. He's supposed to be a monster who ran out of tears to shed a long time ago.

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friendly reminder the Rambo character is half Navajo

Now go talk to an old guy over the phone with just spelling things.
>F OR S?
>N OR M?
>I CAN'T UNDERSTAND YOU, TALK NORMAL
>DO WHAT NOW?
>DO WHAT NOW?
>F AS IN SAM?

I miss cartoons based on R rated movies, wish we could’ve gotten more

>Nightmare on Elm Street cartoon but it’s pretty much the Beetlejuice cartoon where Freddy is friends with Nancy and takes her on crazy adventures through Nightmare Land
>Action packed, monster-of-the-week Alien cartoon with Ripley and her squad of alien exterminators fighting a new Xenomorph variant every episode
>Child’s Play cartoon that is just the in-universe Good Guys cartoon but with Chucky, a mean and rude Good Guy that meets Andy who tries to teach him how to be nice and make friends

Only if they don't wind up genericized into typical modern cartoons. I don't want to see John Wick Roar.

Rambooo, the force of freeeedom!
That's about all I remember of it.
Sometimes I wonder if this, the Fonz cartoon, and Mr. T ever really happened.

There are some native ornaments on Rambo's house in Last Blood. Well, nobody give a shit about injuns anyway. At least Stallone isn't claiming to be 1/32 navajo or something

It's the usual kids cartoon adaption of a very adult source material that was very normal in the 80s.

This cartoon was my first introduction to Rambo. It used to rerun frequently in my country when I was a little kid. Then I watched Rambo II

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80s kids saw R rated movies all the time tho.

Then why not make a cartoon with toys for the kids to buy as well?

This reminds me of a Freddy vs. Jason SatAM cartoon idea me and my friends joked about.

>Jason is a good guy 'monster', a kinda boogieman that the adults don't believe exists but now and then he pops out of the woods or something and scares the pants off a grown up on accident.

>He's friends with a bunch of kids from Elm Street/Crystal Lake in a Frankenstien's monster from Monster Squad kinda way; they're kid versions of the survivors of various F13/Nightmare movies

>Freddy is still a bad guy, but he's far more like a Mister Mxyzptlk dickwad than a serial killer. Uses his claw to rip open a portal into the real world and pulls freaky shit like taking over a grocery store where the food tries to eat people, or turns into anthropomorphized shapes like in the movies (Freddie car, monsters, etc.)

>Jason is the only one who can stop him but it's usually up to the kids to figure out how to get Jason to Freddy or free Jason from the latest prison he's stuck in. Jason then beats the shit out of Freddy slapstick style and sends him packing back to Nightmare land.

>Wash, rinse, repeat for about 13 episodes and son. you've got a cult cartoon.

Good shit.

The issue is that Dredd always tends to win.

>Thy were here a minute ago, Sarge, must have lost them.

I've noticed he keeps finding religion then going back to being a killer. In Part III he was at that temple in Thailand, then went back to being miserable in Part IV, then he had a religious awakening from meeting the missionaries, but is back to being a revenge-crazed manic in the last one. He's too set in his ways, I guess.

The new movie even gives him a surrogate family opposed to a 'religious' religion and what happens to them pretty much hits the reset/kill switch, as usual...

Honestly, I'm not bothering with the fifth movie. The fourth had a much better, conclusive ending and I really don't see the point of this one.

The book does a way better job of showing that both of them are fucked in the head.

Personally, I always felt the book was more about Sheriff Will Teasle than Rambo. The name 'John' was given to him for the film; you never learn what his first name is, but you pretty much get the sheriff's whole fucking life story. Meanwhile, only some of Rambo's key life moments get that treatment. Hell, Troutman even just says outright that 'the kid' once tried to shoot his father with a bow, but we never get any further details (and Troutman is kind of implied to be a military weasel so who knows if his word can be trusted in the book.)

Both characters are given a few key moments to walk away from this fight and both refuse to take it, but Teasle loses most of his deputies (Rambo actually kills them) *and* his father figure. Yeah Rambo lost all his buddies during the war, but the freshness of the loss and all inadvertently paints Teasle as slightly more sympathetic even though he still started this whole fucking mess in both versions. he almost realizes he fucked up more than Rambo does, who doesn't get a breakdown/moment of abject sympathy as he does a few times in the films.

We need more of this in the Horrorverse threads.

I'd pay money to see all of those, even just as a Harry Partridge-type fake intro.

>tfw no Carrie cartoon in the style of Sabrina the animated series

And beat him. And the forced shave caused a ptsd flashback.
I just watched it last night and started trying to imagine what the movie would have been like if they just full on portrayed Rambo as the villain and Brian Dennehy was the hero. Would have been just as cool, I think.

Like I said, this is sort of what goes on in the books.

Rambo fucking guts a much younger version of Gault with the straight edge and just murders his way out of the precinct.

This. He was trained to be the perfect soldier to the point that it is impossible for him to adjust to civilian life.
>You just don't turn it off!
I can honestly see Trautman putting Rambo on some special force after Part II if only to cover his own ass and avoid a congressional hearing.

Aren't they both portrayed as in the wrong in the book though? Like, there's no good guy there?
When the car motorcycle chase was going on I for some reason started thinking of something like Two Minute Warning.

That's kind of what I figured the deal was with Rambo II, though I admit I've never caught the start.
Rambo is too broken to be a civilian, but he's still a goddamned good soldier and there's still killing to be done and rescues to be made.
So, just try to keep him occupied doing useful shit in the field until he gets killed.
Now that I think of it, Big Boss would fucking love John Rambo, but that's kind of obvious since Big Boss is one part Rambo, one part James Bond.

I've never seen Rambo 3. I assume this is more in line with that based on what I've heard.

Yes. Rambo was made more sympathetic in the movie because between the book's release and filming all the really scummy stuff the government did to the troops in 'Nam had come to light and veterens re-integrating into civilian life was a real concern, and they didn't want to look like they were dehumanizing veterans.

Well, that and Stallone's personal involvement also helped rebrand John Rambo into a more sympathetic character. He felt the audiences needed someone to root for or at least have sympathy with.

There is a suicide ending from First Blood that was filmed but test audiences threw a rightfully justified fit and they reshot the breakdown ending instead.

It's a shame that makes 2 and four unable to happen because it's a great bittersweet ending.

I like the suicide ending too, but I understand why they changed it And I can't really blame them for not wanting to create the impression that suicide was the only way out for troubled veterans. It would have been great to see a version of Part II that a greater emphasis on Rambo dealing with his trauma, but I guess the series was a victim of it's own success and II had to be an over-the-top action movie to fit in with the trend the first one helped create.

I've read the novelization of First Blood: part II that David Morrell himself wrote and and he *almost* implies that the outcome of his original book, not the first film happened, only Troutman lied to the dying sheriff at the end and pretended that Rambo had been shot to give the dying man closure.

It doesn't quite work, but I felt like Morrell was trying to meet the films halfway.

I never even knew there was a novelization of part II. Any other differences? Is Rambo still a big damn hero in it?

He also did a novelization of III.

jesus fuck that cover art is horrible, couldnt at least they tried to stick closer to the actual art direction?

looks like a direct to video scooby doo crossover

If the novel version implies that Rambo still killed the sheriff, it retcons Troutman into the Richard Crenna version as opposed to the more ambiguous one.

It's the same story mostly, but Morrell expands on a few things. Rambo is more willing to talk to Troutman in the book, Co was revealed to have been a mother; she sent her son to live in America as part of her deal to work with the US/CIA and while she came to care about Rambo personally, she still wanted to get the fuck out of Vietnam to go be with her son in California more than anything.

There's an honestly endearing moment where Rambo finally opens up and jokes to her that her kid is probably a surfer/lady killer of a teenager by now and she gets upset, insisting that he'd be an angel.

>There's an honestly endearing moment where Rambo finally opens up and jokes to her that her kid is probably a surfer/lady killer of a teenager by now and she gets upset, insisting that he'd be an angel.
That's sweet. And way better than the tacked on love interest role she seemed to have in the movie.

Oh she was still crushing on him in the book--eventually-- but she had more reasons than just that to shack up and ally with him.

apparently critics love narcos so killing criminals is bad now

I loved Rambo 5 I can see why critics hated it. It's a western and like an old school western, it needs indians. The mexicans fill the role of the indians. In any case, it's really about the establishment trying to wash its hands from the school shootings. The same woke critics that trashed Last Blood fucking loved Captain Marvel, the US Air Force recruitment movie.

If that's their complaint, it must be a great movie.
4 kinda sucked because it's mostly showing the bad guys committing atrocities so Rambo can turn them into ground meat over the last 15 minutes of action.

I actually watched a few episodes because of this thread. I appreciate that they used bullets instead of lasers like most cartoons.