Surely this is technically assembled in a fashion action films never will be again. The sheer amount of on-set physical effects/squibs/explosions and set-pieces devoid of computer effects is STAGGERING. I enjoyed it more this time than I ever have.
shareYep, that's a good point. Everything not only looks authentic but 'in camera' that is no bull$hit add ons with digital stuff. But it's the scale of the movie along with all the real explosions that makes Rambo III unique. It's like the last of the epic action movies we saw before Cameron's T2 put an end to that type of realistic action cinema.
And if it's at all possible, try to save the car.
Rambo III impresses more and more with each passing day.
shareI know...I used to deride this one a bit, just because I liked the other two so much and then the fourth. But more and more I come to like part 3..even if just for being one of the last hardcore action movies of the practical effects age. Things started to get glossy in the early 90s...this movie is just a bevy of stunts and explosions and firejets and squibs and blanks.
It hit me when I watched it for the first time in a long while and when the tank and chopper collided, I realized I was waiting for it to turn into a CG effect with a shot from an impossible camera angle...but it didn't. They hit for real. Yeah, it might have been half a tank pushed by a Chevy and the fake front of a chopper hanging from a crane smashing into each other with all the nuts and bolts out of frame, but it felt better.
And the sound effects were phenomenal. Explosions never sounded like that before or since. It's just badass without being insanely bloody or gory and, despite what some say, it's not riddled with one-liners like so many action movies of the time. There's like two...the blue light thing and "How are you?" "Well done." oh yeah... "Surrounding's them out." That's really it...but to be fair, this is the first movie where Rambo says more than a few sentences that aren't part of a speech. We've never heard him just talk before, let alone with a friend or normal-ish people. We've only seen him in the past films talk to authority figures, enemies, Co a little bit, and Trautman in very tense situations. They had to invent Rambo as a character who spoke...it's kind of perfect that he'd be darkly funny. In fact, I wish a tiny bit of that would have been preserved for the fourth one...it would have made the character seem even darker...but maybe a little too sick.
I've forgiven this movie for a lot of its faults.
Great post brigthmidnight71.
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