Mood:
lazyPoster named 'RYP' from Comebackalive dot com bb is supposedly supposed to be the author on a guido guidebook to the worlds most dangerous places.
And so there's word of a new film out called Rambo in which Sylvester Stallone, according to Wik, is asked by his former army commander:
"....to join him on a mission to Afghanistan to supply weapons including Stinger missiles to the Afghan freedom fighters, called the Mujahedeen, who are fighting the Russians. Rambo refuses the request."
Bear in mind this film is set in 1988 when most people not have the slightest inkling of where or whence such a country ever existed but only that if Rambo is in it: Afghanistan will do. Since Vietnam was the last one.
Nor that , bear in mind, word is that according to Wik :
"Ironically, members of the heroic Mujahedeen who fought against the Soviets on the side of Rambo in the film, would later form the basis of the terrorist group, Al-Qaeda, now infamous as the world's most elusive terrorist organisation responsible for multiple attacks on US targets. Osama bin Laden, now the world's most wanted terrorist was an ex-Mujahedeen freedom fighter."
So our hero, the tall in the saddle gusto mustachioed RYP quips:
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Gee buddy and what are you doing : convalescing while busy posting on your fan messageboard? Why didn't you submit a script for him in time to have his character join a private army in Iraq ? Or is that not where a lone warrior feels most out of place?
I thought poster 'RYP' was the one always saying thats where all the fake action is.
But looks like Stallone is ahead of the curve as usual. As if people haven't been fed up to their necks with news on terrorism, a Rambo film about what was leftover to be done in Afghanistan would do for the Rambo series what a sequel did for Saturday Night Fever.
Which, co-incidentally enough for the purposes of this blog entry: Sylvester Stallones brother sang the title track for.
Turning out films the critics can't touch like Rocky Balboa as producer writer director and now Rambo, Stallone is certainly showing old fans his career really is 'Far from Over'. To the delight of legions of new ones as well.
Up to our ears in do doo from Iraq/Afghanistan, a pleasant vicarious distraction by way of Burma is just what the Dr ordered....
by going where too true few enemies go, Iraq a wet dream for wanna be rich wanna be heroes, Rambo is the quintesential lone warrior indeed. Im sure it will be a smashing box office success.
