You know, I don't think I need to explain to you guys that there is an upper echelon of action film stars the likes of which we will never see again. I am talking about Arnold, Bruno, and of course Sly Stallone. For whatever reason, Hollywood just doesn't promote these types anymore nor do they greenlight the types of scripts that made those guys famous.
Luckily, someone put a lot of faith in Stallone's "Rocky Balboa" and got that brilliant movie made, giving a fitting end to the Rocky series. Now, I think the fruits of Rocky VI's success is paying off.
What we have here is possibly the greatest promo reel/trailer ever created. And I am not being hyperbolic here.
Sly is at the Cannes film festival showing this promo reel to all the film distributors, who are living it up on the French Riviera right now. I can only imagine that it is blowing people away. At times, this promo reel seems to be evoking a real grindhouse feel...but most importantly it seems like Sly has found the perfect combination of First Blood and Rambo: First Blood part II. Some interesting character work shown off in the beginning, and then of course the gore kicks in. I have never really had a chance to see Stallone direct real action, seeing as how all his non-Rocky action flicks were all directed by others. But judging from this promo, Stallone has picked up a few new tricks.
Without further ado, I give you "John Rambo"...
3 comments:
Thanks for posting this trailer. I started to write something up yesterday but ended up having to take off for the day.
It truly is a shocker. Now let's see if it's released in this country with all that graphic imagery.
it looks pretty awesome, some of those kills are downright grizzly. there's also some nice symmetry with "rocky balboa" and "john rambo" as final chapter titles.
People should read this.
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