Both suggest a Stallone underacting award for the monosyllabic delivery, saying Cobra goes even further and Tango & Cash shows that greater expressiveness was available.
The overacting category is repurposed as the Rambo II underacting award, returning to the earlier Stallone critique.
One hottest take prefers rewatching Missing in Action 2, especially its climactic fight to the death, while admitting the whole movie is not especially good.
The other hottest take argues Predator borrows extensively: Mexico standing in for a foreign jungle, an older officer and suspicious bureaucrat, insertion trouble, hostages and an indigenous ally, lost modern weapons, bow and arrow, mud camouflage and a withheld finishing blow.
Casting What-Ifs includes Lundgren reportedly removed because of his Drago role, Lee Marvin declining roles across both films, and local Chinese-restaurant workers recruited as extras in Mexico.
The producers reportedly wanted John Travolta as Rambo’s partner, an idea Stallone vetoed; the hosts enthusiastically imagine buddy banter and a Quarter Pounder and metric-system exchange.
Steven Berkoff and Charles Napier are the candidates; Napier is favored despite discussion of whether knowing his name disqualifies him. His Cable Guy appearance is another supporting example.
Recasting Couch returns to Travolta as the partner and proposes replacing the closing song with Born in the U.S.A., while doubting Springsteen would approve.
Craig is said to be traveling and absent, so he has no flex selection. The first name alone does not independently identify a credited producer.
Half-Assed Internet Research reports Mexico and Thailand locations, the fatal accident involving special-effects worker Cliff Wenger, 425,000 opening-day video units, high video prices and a Soviet ban.
A claim about remaining Vietnam POWs is read from research, followed by explicitly unverified accounts of Crenna pantsing Stallone, a retaliatory cream pie and cast mud fights.
The on-set prank story is suggested as a Steven Seagal unbelievable-on-set-story candidate, with doubt that Crenna would behave that way.
The stated body count is 85 total and 74 attributed to Rambo; helicopter weapons are suggested as padding his tally.
Stallone receives affirmative Apex for 1985, jointly represented by this film and Rocky IV.
Vietnam movies do not receive Apex here: late-1970s quality and Platoon’s Oscar-winning period are preferred, with Full Metal Jacket and Casualties of War also discussed.
Reagan, Uncle Sam/America, Julia Nickson and the Cold War’s 1985 pop-culture moment receive affirmative answers; the lack of nuclear-weapons discussion slightly weakens the Cold War argument.
Martin Kove is placed at Karate Kid instead, and movie knives are placed a year later with Cobra and Crocodile Dundee, alongside knife advertising.
The Rancid Body Odor pick is the rescued POW rather than sewage-soaked Rambo, although nearly everyone is considered plausible and Co a possible exception.
Murdock is offered as a contrarian Body Odor alternative because of his constant sweating.
Nitpicks question an eight-year sentence given the deaths, attempted killing and extensive property destruction in First Blood.
The prisoners hammering rocks prompts questions about whether they are splitting rocks or finding rubies. Making gravel is tentatively suggested; the hammer swinging mainly looks cool.
Rambo’s muscular physique despite eating nothing is challenged; the hosts discuss high nutritional and exercise demands without medical verification.
His lack of beard growth over several days is questioned; a knife-shaving scene is proposed.
A nitpick questions how Rambo identifies and spares the POW building during indiscriminate helicopter fire after seeing the camp only from the ground.
Another nitpick imagines fatal infection after the sewage pit, comparing it with Andy Dufresne’s sewage-pipe escape; disease and lost-smell claims are comic speculation.
