John's Movie Musings

This is the last Rambo, not the first Rambo. At least I hope this is the last Rambo. Let me explain the plot with a nursery rhyme...


What starts out as an interesting look into the Burma crisis turns into 90 minutes of dismemberment. Seriously. This is the most violent movie I've ever seen. You can see daylight through every bullet wound. And more limps are severed than words spoken by Rambo.

The movie sucks, but what I really want to talk about is Molog. Here's how Wikipedia describes it:

Now in the demo of how to use Molog in Rambo, I saw none of that. Instead, what I saw was probably the worst tech demo ever. For over twenty minutes (maybe longer), I saw a walkthrough of some guy pasting clip art on the screen while the movie is playing in the background. Who wants this? I know of no one who thinks, "This movie needs a giant boat in the middle of the screen."

But the best part (and by "best", I mean "horribly offensive") came when we got to the animated clip art. The demo selects a clip called "Hanging" and places it in the top left corner. It's a man swinging in a noose with about 3 frames of animation. So as the rest of the demo goes on, there's a Burmese villager swinging from a noose in the top third of the screen. You can't help but laugh and be mortified at the same time. Seriously, if you get a chance to watch this in Blu-Ray (don't. ever.). Watch the Molog demo. You'll never forget it.


Grade: D