How old is Rambo's pops supposed to be? Rambo was like 65.... At minimum, the dad would be like 85, and yet there's cattle and horses and sheep milling about the farm. How could an old guy maintain that land and those animals? I walked out when i saw this.
shareThere are a lot of people out there in their 60's that still have parents alive and active into their 80's and 90's. Maybe not throwing bales of hay around, but certainly still capable of owning property. At either rate, the ranch seems to be well kept and maintained, perhaps "R Rambo", whoever that was, had some ranch hands to help out. Rambo said he had a father, maybe, he didn't know...so this Rambo could have even been an uncle or someone else he looked up when he got stateside.
You walked out at the right time anyway, because that was the end of the movie.
If I thought you weren't my friend, I just don't think I could bear it.
Why would you walk out?
I've never walked out on a movie no matter how bad I thought it was...
I only did once, when I saw Les Miserables. Such a waste of time and money...
shareOnly time I ever walked out of a movie was when I saw Titanic and thats because I knew the ending already. As soon as the ship hit the iceberg, I left
shareI walked out of Schindler’s List for the same reason. I already knew the Nazis were going to lose the war.
shareI already knew the entire story of Schindler’s List so I never bothered to watch the movie. At least in Titanic, I learned about all the drama pre iceberg collision with the passengers
shareGood point, Titanic at least gave us more historical insight that most were not aware of. Braveheart and Amadeus did the same thing
shareRambo was not 65 but 59-60. He was born in 1947 and this movie takes place in 2006 or 2007. His father would probably be in his early 80's then.
Btw, i always thought it would be cool to see a mid credit scene where Rambo rings a doorbell, the door opens and we see either Kirk Douglas or Clint Eastwood in a short cameo as Rambo's father. Actually it would be cool if they got Kirk Douglas to play the role, as he was the original choice to play Colonel Trautman in "First Blood", before he resigned at the last moment.
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They shot an alternative ending which an elderly man with a cowboy hat is sitting in the porch and he gets up when we he sees Rambo approaching!
I think the theatrical ending works great.
It's not a plot whole. I used to work for a rancher who was in his late 80's. He was up at the crack of dawn every day, doing chores and working out the horses like he was half his age.
shareStop lying to us
shareWho's lying?
shareYou're lying about this rancher. He was only in his 60s. Ranchers retire by the age of 70
shareRanchers retire when they're good and ready and not one second sooner, age be dammed. Many of them never really retire, just maybe slow down a bit. The man I worked for was a rancher all his life, he was in his late 80's when I stopped working for him (I'd been with him for 7 years) and he passed away at the age of 97. And guess what? He never retired, kept working right up till the end when he had a stroke that left him bedridden for the final few months of his life.
You should not talk about things you don't know boy.
Think about how much longer that rancher could have lived if he retired by the age of 70. Most ranchers live past 100
shareI wouldn't say most live past 100. Most people (ranchers or otherwise) don't make it past late 90's, but those who do tend to be people who keep working. It's fairly common for people to die a few years after retiring. It's work that keeps us going.
shareFrankly I am bothered by the ending cause the previous movies made it clear he had no family to go back to.
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