Rambo: The Complete Collector's Set (2008).
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Shopping Bag: Rambo
By: Robert T. TrateDate: Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Lionsgate has collected all the Rambo you will ever need in a steel box called Rambo - The Complete Collector's Set. It has more than just the movies. This blood soaked collection is an action montage of delights. It is also a collection of Vietnam documentaries, deleted scenes, weapon specifications, creator back stories and a Robot Chicken style toy commercial.
Like First Blood, Rambo: First Blood Part 2 and Rambo 3 are simply repackaged ultimate editions of the original Rambo DVDs. There is no harm in that because, in addition to all the special features I mentioned, Lionsgate has packaged their Special Edition of Rambo in the box set and included a Digital Copy of the film for your iTunes or Windows Media. Why all the Rambos weren’t included this way escapes me but now we all have the ability to download Rambo and carry him anywhere.
I could sing praises of the box set all day long. I never found a boring moment with the six disc set and its features so I decided to give the one Rambo film I had seen the least another glance. Watching Rambo 3 again after seeing the fourth one I found the film to have many of the same elements for the character. Rambo was told by Colonel Troutman (Richard Crenna) “…to come full circle.” Only then would he find the peace he was looking for. In hindsight he was on that path and Col. Troutman screwed it up by getting caught by the Russians. Rambo 3 is practically identical to Rambo in action and plot except that John Rambo is telling someone else to live for nothing or die for something. In essence he is telling himself that and in realizing that it gives him the honor and peace to go home (after he has killed a lot of bad guys, of course). Finally John Rambo has earned the right to go home. Good or bad we never really see that homecoming, only that long road.
Like Rocky Balboa, Rambo was a huge gamble by Stallone to get the last story right and pay the proper respect to the character. I for one am glad that he took the chance.
Lionsgate delivered what Paramount won’t with their Indiana Jones box set in the fall, a box set that encompasses all that we will ever need or want from Rambo. That is unless they come out with another one.
Check out my review of Rambo from its initial release back in January.
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