Rainy Days and Rambo

Kept waiting for the rain to stop yesterday while I was catching up with a weeks worth of laundry. When it relented my motivation for leaving the house and even procuring dinner had floated off. Channel surfing between running downstairs to complete the next circuit in the wash cycle I had left Jon alone with the remote. Generally the outcome is to return to him channel surfing for another ten minutes.

What though did my dear stumble upon? The first two Rambo movies back to back. Never once had I seen a Rambo movie and Jon thought this much to my detriment. Searches earlier for local entertainment had yielded nothing of interest and though Vanilla Ice was playing in Cleveland the drive could not be justified. At any rate nothing better was at the theater within walking distance to our house so why not.

Let me first begin this by saying for those of you who have not seen Rambo, Sly hardly talks during the movie, it allows an implication of depth, emotion and even dare say intelligence. I like Rambo, I like Rambo. I had to repeat because it seems unreal. In First Blood he was the just man who committed no crime until unlawfully detained. The second movie was just really a twist on the first. Basic theme of Man Vs ALL OTHERS. Rambo fights against the systems of oppression. It's like that Rage Against The Machine song....."What we don't know keeps the contracts alive an moving".

During the entire broadcast of the movie on the Spike channel a numbing loop of commercials were playing. Before going to bed I wanted a Dominios sub, a bucket of KFC chicken and starting wondering if Kimbo could take Rambo in a fight. Kimbo definitely.

Fight on Rambo! For today the Browns play and we all need to have a little faith. Okay not in the Browns but in the overcoming of violence, bad acting, and a small budget to make a film that I could eek some meaning out of twenty or so years later.