Thread 509080791

I remember hearing as a kid that Rambo was pro American war propaganda. Looking at it today it's about as anti establishment as it can get.

I mean he beats up a CIA agent and even helps to found the Taliban?

I mean the only thing that would make him cooler would be if the reason he's so deadly is because he was trained by Otto Skorzeny.

I thought about this when I was listening to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKQlgVjc7ZQ&list=RDmKQlgVjc7ZQ&start_radio=1

>>509080791 (OP)
War is fucking based as long as I'm not the one fighting it or in the middle of it. 90 IQ men need something to do.

>>509081267
I don't know if you a technically a boomer, but you certainly are one spiritually

>>509081267
I don't know if you technically are a boomer. But you certainly are one spiritually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osXCdcCUQm4

This is the scene I was talking about

>>509080791 (OP)
ITS NOT OVER YOU DONT JUST TURN IT OFF

>>509080791 (OP)
>it's about as anti establishment as it can get.
dude, he comes home and starts killing all the cops in town because they were acting like uppity faggots

>>509082809
Basically documented how the Vietnam Vets were attacked just as much from so called "reactionaries" as from Abbie Hoffman inspired goons.

>>509082687
As I said he helped found the Taliban

When we take power I want to make a movie called "Rambo Origin Blood", where he is trained and mentored by Otto Skorzeny and kills Robert Maxwell and Johnathan Pollard(think of Tarantino films where Hitler dies in 1944 and Sharon Tate is saved by Brad Pit).

>>509080791 (OP)
The Rambo movies are pro-military. They are not necessarily anti-establishment. They are about how the soldiers returning from Vietnam were treated by their government and by the citizens. The government abandoned them, many of the soldiers became homeless, broke and addicts. A lot died from sickness that was caused by agent orange, which wasn't acknowledged by the government until 1991. The anti-war hippies would spit on soldiers returning. They called them baby killers. The veterans couldn't get jobs and faced discrimination. All because they were drafted to fight a war for their country.
Rambo wasn't about hating the US and it wasn't pro-communist either. The movie set in Afghanistan was during the Soviet-Afghan war when the mujahideen were working with the CIA against the Soviet Union.
You have to understand that most military vets are patriots who love their country very much but don't love the politicians who send them to war. And they don't love the people who hate them for honorably serving their country. Veterans just want some respect and dignity, that's what Rambo is all about.

>>509084120
>>takes what I say literally
Bro I being tongue and cheek with a lot of what I was saying. But I basically agree with you. Even if the movies had some goofy moments the moral of the story was good. I still contend that it was anti establishment because even talking about mental illness in the military was taboo until recently.

>>509083997
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKb7Hyus5-Y