Episode #3 - Rambo III with David Johnson D.M.D.

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On this episode of Fabulous Film & Friends we’re going to do a deep-dive, as corporate folks love to say, into the mentality and megalomania of late 80’s Sylvester Stallone as evidenced by his 1988 rippling deltoids and rocket launcher extravaganza, Rambo III. 

I’m joined  by David Johnson, D.M.D. He’s a Salt Lake City Area Dentist Supreme and a Crossfit Animal, which is why I asked him to join me today as we revisit this benchmark film in our movie going lives. 

Dave and I have been friends since Middle School and we saw many a classic blockbuster together in the rural area where we grew up, including Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom, Back To The Future and Die Hard. But I think the most fun we had was when we saw Rambo III.  

We address the elephant in the room: Rambo III? Wasn’t that the Worst of the Rambo movies until Rambo: Last Blood came and went into the theaters in 2019? This isn’t a fabulous film. Or is it?

And that’s the question we’re going to ponder today.

Notes:

This podcast was recorded on July 25th, 2021, two weeks before the sad and terrible incidents in Afghanistan during August of 2021.

 Frank Stallone's hit from Staying Alive was called "Far From Over", which made it  to #10 on Billboard's Top 100 in 1983. 

Helicopters: According to IMDB, "The Mi-24 Hind-A (large glazed cockpit as opposed to two small tandem cockpits for the later D version onwards of the type) helicopters seen in the film are in fact modified Aerospatiale SA 330 Puma transport helicopters with fabricated bolt-on wings similar to the real Hind-A's used in the former Soviet bloc nations." 

Aerospatiale was a French Aviation/Aerospace manufacturer.