New on DVD: Sly Stallone's Senior Moment

by Odie Henderson May 28, 2008 4:57 PM
New on DVD: Sly Stallone's Senior Moment

Now that Clint Eastwood has broken my heart by dismissing his return as Dirty Harry, I must turn my fetish for senior citizens with guns toward this week's DVD releases. The writer of 1976's Best Picture winner shows off his penchant for steroids and graphic violence in the Rambo DVD box set. The set includes First Blood, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Rambo III and just plain old Rambo. Harrison Ford may have taken 19 years to put his fedora back on, but Sly has him beat: It took Rambo 20 years to tie on his headband and rediscover his taste for a little of the old ultraviolence. I bet the box set has one of those old McDonalds sign counters: "Over One Billion Killed!"

You gotta love the IMDb's plot keywords system. Sometimes it's a hotbed of "too much information" about movies. If you're so inclined, you can search for a movie that contains "Female Rear Nudity," "Ice Cream" and "Uncircumcised Penises." They have spoiler alerts throughout the comments section, but sometimes the movie's ruined for you by the plot keyword categories it winds up in. You don't even need to watch the latest Rambo to know everything about it. According to the plot keywords section, the fourth Rambo movie contains, among other things, "sadistic violence, body part, ripped in half, gory violence, crushed head, foot blown off, person on fire, mass child killing, disembowelment, head spin, hole through torso, hit in head with rock," and my own personal favorite, "anvil." I don't know about you, but I can't have too much anvil in my movies, especially if they're being used the way God intended -- that is, like they're used in Road Runner cartoons.

I do a great Stallone imitation [Doesn't everybody? - Zach], and First Blood provides me with the quintessential phrase to utter, a phrase that perfectly underscores the fact there will be a fifth Rambo movie. Richard Crenna tells Sly: "It's over, Johnny! It's over!" Sly responds "NOTHING IS OVER!" before embarking on a crying rant in which not one word is decipherable. The IMDb classifies this as "weeping." Uh-huh.

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