Rambo V - Great Movie

I have not been so enthralled with the Rambo franchise over the years. For me they didn't rate up there with The Transporter franchise or John Wick, but they were fun enough.

Actually, for me the John Wick franchise took a fall with the third chapter as I've blogged about.

As for Rambo V, I suspect it's the last and final episode for the Rambo franchise and it was a great one. I mean, finally we have men acting like men and women acting like women. And that is not to be mistaken as men are strong and women are weak. No. Women are strong too. But in real life they're not going around beating up and/or killing everyone. Not like in a Halle Berry fantasy, anyway.


No. In Rambo V, women are strong and determined individuals who, as adults, have their shit together, but as teenagers, they don't. (Kind of like in real life.) And that is the basis of this story. In Rambo V, you have an adult woman and a teenaged girl (her niece,) who live with Rambo, and the niece makes a choice that is not the right choice. Imagine that...


They're both strong women, but neither one of them go around beating up twenty men all at the same time. I mean they don't beat anyone up. And that was a refreshing twist in the Hollywood universe these days. I have grown very weary of watching women beating up and killing men left and right, at every turn, and sometimes as many as fifty men all at the same time.

So no. This movie was realistic. Gritty, and quite brutal. Because in the Rambo character, we have an ex special ops military man. He's trained to kill, and trained to survive. He's a veteran of wars and, of course, a veteran of the four  previous Rambo experiences to his credit.



And as an older man, the Rambo character still exudes toughness. He looked strong. Probably because of Stallone's workout ethic and yes even the steroids he doesn't lie about taking, unlike other Hollywood musclemen, (i.e. The Rock,) But whatever...

Rambo V Last Blood worked, and it was great. It was refreshing and I'll take it any day. And at this point I'll take it even over John Wick. At least over John Wick Chapter 3. No wanna be tough chicks in the Rambo franchise. Thank god.

Music Time Again

I know this blog was dedicated to my novels. But you might have noticed there hasn't been a lot to post about regarding those novels for a while. It's like, right now, those novels are in Limbo. Only my two Killer Books are in print, but I have a lot of satisfaction in the other books, too.

Especially now, since I've rewritten them in the days since the respective publishers went under. All three books are in a far superior form in regards to writing and the prose. I mean The Vase, Second Chance, and John Dunn are so refined and polished now, I can't wait to see them in print again in their current states.

But like I said. All three books are in Limbo. Which means waiting on agents, waiting on publishers, and all at a snail's pace, you see. And I move faster than a snail I'm glad to say.

So instead of writing more, I'm back to my music. I had composed 13 plus albums averaging about ten songs per album, and I was very proud of that music I had written. My only set back or hold up was that I can't sing worth .... You get the idea.

Even though I tried singing on volumes 12 and 13, I was not satisfied with my voice or my singing. At all. I have no range and I am missing the notes often. It's better if you don't listen to it.

But I had always wanted to get back to it. I was particularly proud of volumes 3 and 4, so I went back and recorded those with me singing....yuck.

Then the man who had been making the CDs for me told me to try a different machine....meaning a machine other than the old-fashioned cassette tape recorder. It was time I crossed into the 21st Century and recorded everything digital. So I did and wow, what a difference!

I'm using digital devices now and all my songs are being recorded onto an SD card rather than old cassette tapes. Everything sounds better and even my voice sounds better. I almost sound like a real singer. Mind you I said almost. I am still no singer. But hey, whatever. I'm not sending these to Sony Records or Warner Records, or Atlantic Records, or MCA for that matter.

I know I'm never getting anything done professionally. This is all for fun. But you know what? I like my songs a lot better than MOST songs that are out today. I'm not saying I can compete with real singers out there. I can't. How many times do I have to say it. I'm not a singer. But again, I like my songs a lot better than a lot of songs that HAVE been professionally recorded. So there.

So what all this means is that I am going to redo Volumes 2, 12 and 13, with this new digital device, and go from Volume 2, then Volume 3, 4, 5 and all the way through Volume 13. Then I might just keep on going. What about volume 1 you might ask? Well, Volume 1 was simply a compilation of all the songs I had written in my early years. Early, like in high school, I mean. Yeah, I like the songs, sure, but those songs are not the rockin' riffs I've put together since then.

The funny thing is, and I suppose it's quite coincidental, but I've re-established contact with a couple of my old high school band mates. Both are still playing music and were glad to hear I was too. Who knows. Maybe one day we'll get the old band back together. Or not. I suppose we'd need to be on a mission from God for that to happen.

But hey.... In the meantime, I'm still rockin' out. And lovin' it.