My weekend movie treks have been cancelled by NCAA football on Saturdays and NFL football on Sundays. Thus, I went to a twin-bill in the middle of the week. Wow, no one goes to the movies on Wednesdays.
These Rotten Tomatoes ratings practically say it all:
Rotten Tomatoes My Rating
Reviewers Audiences
Rambo: Last Blood 26 84 B
Ad Astra 83 42 B-
I pretty much always agree with the audience.
There have been five Rambo films, beginning in 1982 (38 years ago) with First Blood. If Rambo 5 does really, really well, the series could approach $1 billion in box office revenues.
Of course, this is all Sylvester Stallone doing serious damage to a Mexican prostitute/drug group. The production is gruesome, bloody, and all that. Yet, this was a greater experience than Ad Astra, which I found drifting and sometimes boring. I did say this was the last Rambo, after all, he is 73 years-old. But maybe not, as Stallone is thinking about a prequel.
Also too, wonder if there will be another Rocky? Well, just this week he appeared on the Kelly and Ryan morning show and hinted that he is thinking about one. Stallone will want to reach a billion dollars.
Ad astra means to the stars in Latin, in case you were wondering. Was it slow and obtuse or mesmerizing and minimalist? Lavish or not? Those are terms from reviewers, who liked the film.
Brad Pitt did well, and Tommy Lee Jones is getting old. In short, the production had to do with son seeking hero astronaut father lost on Neptune by choice. But our government thought he was a renegade with a mission to kill him. There was some mumbo-jumbo about improved technology, but Voyager 2 took 12 years to get there, while Pitt got there in 80 days. All in all, it did not have the grandeur of 1968's 2001 nor the authenticity of Gravity. No sequel here.
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