*commercials

Adding video to channels (Commercial) - requested by ant.

Us men seem to be way more insecure than I previously imagined.

I get the Action Movies where a young, fit, trained specialist takes out an army of bad guys (against all odds) because he is the hero..

Young men like to watch this, because they have to much Testosterone.

I partly get the Action Movies where a middle aged man of a srtictly civilian persuasion is "pushed too far"(tm), normally by bad guys abducting (or just threatening) his family, and wipes out the bady guys (usually career criminals with lots of training in killing people) by the dozen.

Middle aged men seem to need this to get through the day.

What I really don't get is this slew of movies over the last years, where a retired, old and tired looking man, (usually after his daughter gets kidnapped) decides to come out of retirement one last time (or multiple times) to kill hordes of young, highly trained bad guys.

I get it why some men like to watch this, Testosterone makes you stupid like that, no matter if it comes in syringes, but the rest?

I guess some men are in denial that they are just "too old for this shit."

Yep....I considered linking the new Terminator trailer for exactly that reason.

I realised I'd never seen a Rambo film and went back and watched the original and... it's a surprisingly nuanced film. No really!

The Rambo I was know is a classic meat head action hero, but the original is a damaged Vietnam vet who just wants to be left alone. The real villains are the towns folk who demonise and victimise him.

He does everything he can to avoid conflict until he's "pushed too far" and I think that's what everyone remembered. But the core of the story for me was a soldier who came back, that society had didn't want and who had nowhere to go.

If you've not seen the original check it out! You might be surprised.

The first movie wasn't really a Rambo film....it was First Blood.
Rambo-First Blood 2 was the first Rambo movie, a completely different animal from the original....so much that Rambo 2 dropped the "First Blood 3" part and the series ignored it thereafter.

You just know Culkin is going to see this and do another Home Alone. Now THAT'S Hollywood.

Nursing Home Alone. Oh, brother.

Rambo doesn't know how to sharpen a knife.

Damn man. That's like Boy Scout level.... I hate when movies can't even get the simplest basics of guns and knives and such right.