GRINDHOUSED SERIES VOL #4
A less serious retelling of John Rambo’s story. Rambo himself is a narrator who tell us story of his life in Forrest Gump fashion - the main narrative is the story from “First Blood” while second and third movie (along with some more additional material) become flashbacks of his earlier adventures. Everything is tied with John’s quest to find and face three mysterious bears colonel Trautman told him about.
Trailer: https://www.reddit.com/r/fanedits/comments/tjlutf/rambo_grindhouse_project_trailer/
- primary storyline is First Blood
- there is a flashback about Rambo’s life from before events of the movies build from elements taken from various movies
- II and III are compressed to the form of flashbacks tied to the main plotline.
- a fake AI Rambo voiceover created through fakeyou.com site applied to the whole film, he is commenting events depicted in the edit Forrest Gump style.
- there was no excessive re-scoring ( I was going to do it, but source files are not re-scoring friendly) so it is still mostly Goldsmith music, but some songs and music were added to newly created scenes and to scenes which had originally no music at all. Some little re-building SFX in few instances.
- some deleted material from First Blood and Rambo III from Ultimate Blu-ray edition has been included
- additional footage from 12 non-Rambo movies was used.
Sometimes it is 1-2 minutes, sometimes just a few seconds.
- additional music by: Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Doors, Jon Hare, Pornosonic, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Sammy Hagar, Jimi Hendrix, AC/DC, Pride & Glory, Mike Post, Simon Boswell and… Sylvester Stallone
- most of the scenes in First Blood that doesn’t include Rambo himself have been cut. The story is now shown mostly from his point of view but there are still some exceptions from that (but we never leave Rambo for more than seconds).
- grindhouse effects of varying severity added thoughout the movie
- be warned that this edit includes high amount of swearing as well as nudity and sex scenes not present in original Rambo movies.
Final running time is 111 minutes, which includes around 67 minutes of First Blood (including credits and alternative/deleted material), 8 minutes of Rambo II and something like 25 minutes from Rambo III. So, a little more than 90% of it is Rambo, the rest is the material from various non-Rambo movies.