{"id":3416,"date":"2011-02-27T09:43:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T13:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=3416"},"modified":"2011-02-27T09:43:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T13:43:41","slug":"sylvester-stallones-rambo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/27\/sylvester-stallones-rambo\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylvester Stallone&#8217;s Rambo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2011\/feb\/022711rambo.png?resize=475%2C355\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"355\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On <strong>Febraury 23, 2011<\/strong>, <strong>Culture Mob<\/strong> posted a throughtful review by <strong>Josh Katz<\/strong> of <strong><em>Sylvester Stallone&#8217;s Rambo<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a taste:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To call Sylvester Stallone\u2019s 2008 action epic <em>Rambo<\/em> \u201cfrustratingly watchable\u201d mislabels the matter somewhat\u2014the film is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">compulsively<\/span> watchable.\u00a0 On an aesthetic level, it is a well-shot, well-cut, entertainingly-if-not-always-competently acted, and relentlessly paced piece of work.\u00a0 I\u2019ve seen it five times, and it goes down smooth every time.<\/li>\n<li>I believe Sylvester Stallone wanted to make an important movie.\u00a0 If you listen to the commentary track on the theatrical cut of <em>Rambo<\/em> or watch his Production Diaries on the extended cut (and I recommend giving these a whirl, just to get a sense of how eloquent and thoughtful Stallone can be), he seems committed to bringing the plight of the Karen genocide in Burma to light.<\/li>\n<li>Stallone is a master of action movie filmmaking; that much is certain.\u00a0 He instinctively understands where the camera needs to go to maximize visceral and spatial impact, how to split the balance of exposition and action, and how to vary action scenes while marrying them to logical narrative momentum.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/culturemob.com\/blog\/frustratingly-watchable-movies-sylvester-stallones-rambo\" target=\"_blank\">read the whole piece here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Febraury 23, 2011, Culture Mob posted a throughtful review by Josh Katz of Sylvester Stallone&#8217;s Rambo.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a taste: To call Sylvester Stallone\u2019s 2008 action epic Rambo \u201cfrustratingly watchable\u201d mislabels the matter somewhat\u2014the film is compulsively watchable.\u00a0 On an aesthetic level, it is a well-shot, well-cut, entertainingly-if-not-always-competently acted, and relentlessly paced piece of work.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-93","category-rambo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-T6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3417,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions\/3417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}