Word: rambo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...track foreign investors. A case in point: blind corporations based in the Netherlands Antilles control more than one-third of all foreign-owned U.S. farmland, many of the newest office towers in downtown Los Angeles and a substantial number of independent movie companies producing films like Sylvester Stallone's Rambo pictures...
...police are stymied by last August's Mob-style assassination of Hollywood entertainment executive Jose Menendez and his wife Kitty, who were shotgunned in the front room of their mansion. Menendez had been an executive and director of Carolco Pictures, an independent movie company that produced Sylvester Stallone's Rambo movies, and police have been unable to unravel his business affairs or identify all his partners. Carolco is controlled by a Netherlands holding company that is, in turn, owned by a tangle of offshore family trusts...
...audience may not be able to "handle it." The movie's predictably choreographed action scenes lack no blood, but even so, they will bore any Rambo lover. Even William Fraker's excellent camera work could not save these sequences...
Quan spends most evenings in his new two-story home "drinking beer and watching my Rambo tapes, because it's so damn boring here." Many of those who remember Quan and his family from before the revolution think he was crazy to return, despite his roots in Taishan. "Most of my friends here thought I was on the lam when I showed up." Others thought Quan could not possibly have anything to offer. "The Chinese have an incredible superiority complex," he says. "They're backward as hell, but they still believe the world revolves around China. They take great pride...
...Rain does reinforce some long-standing racial stereotypes. Though courageous, the Japanese police are portrayed as law enforcement robots who wouldn't know an original idea if it came up and introduced itself. Douglas, on the other hand, has trouble with both authority and morality, but is full of Rambo-like cunning and improvisation...