The Game (rapper) Wallpapers and Photos

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Jayceon Terrell Taylor (born November 29, 1979 in Los Angeles, California), better known by his stage name The Game, is an American rapper signed to Geffen Records. The Game rose to fame in 2005 following the success of his debut album, The Documentary and his two Grammy nominations.

Since then, The Game is considered to be a driving force in bringing back the West Coast hip hop scene and competing with many of his East Coast counterparts. Also, The Game is the only West Coast solo artist to release a multi-platinum album (The Documentary) since Dr. Dre’s 2001 album, which was released in late 1999 (however, Snoop Dogg’s Tha Last Meal album sold two million copies but was only certified platinum).

Aside from releasing two albums that debuted at number one on both the United World Chart, and the Billboard 200, The Game has also gained notoriety for the hip hop feuds he has taken part in. The Game’s music falls under the subgenre known as gangsta rap, a style of hip hop popularized in his hometown of Compton, California.

The Game was originally signed as an artist on Aftermath Entertainment, but Interscope Records CEO Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre decided to have The Game also work with 50 Cent and G-Unit. The arrangement was to help build a growing buzz around The Game which would also fuel interest in G-Unit. Since then, he made numerous cameo appearances in music videos by 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks, Young Buck, and Fabolous, first appearing on the music video of In da Club, dancing with a girl. Even at this early stage in his career, he was embroiled in rap feuds associated with G-Unit, including those with Joe Budden, Ja Rule, and Memphis Bleek. His first appearance on a single was on Jim Jones’ “Certified Gangstas”, before his own single “Westside Story” was released in 2004.

The original title of the album was Nigga Wit’ An Attitude Volume 1 (as heard in the lyrics to “Dreams”), but an injunction filed at the request of Eazy-E’s widow prevented him from using N.W.A.’s name in the album title. Dr. Dre and 50 Cent were executive producers on The Game’s major label debut album, The Documentary, which spawned the hit singles “How We Do” and “Hate It or Love It” (the latter receiving two Grammy nominations). The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and was the tenth best selling album of 2005 in the United States. It also debuted at number seven in the United Kingdom and sold over five million copies worldwide.

Due to his disputes with 50 Cent, The Game left Aftermath Entertainment and signed with Geffen Records to terminate his contractual obligations with G-Unit in the summer of 2006. The rapper’s second album Doctor’s Advocate was released on November 14, 2006. This album was set out by The Game to prove that he is able to make good music and be a successful artist without the help of Dr. Dre or 50 Cent. He is also working on getting his own label, The Black Wall Street Records, signed to a distribution label. While The Game originally claimed Dr. Dre would still do production on the album in the November issue of XXL magazine, he admitted in September (after the XXL interview was conducted) during an interview on radio station Power 105 that Dr. Dre would not be producing any tracks (although four previously unreleased tracks produced by Dr. Dre were released on the internet, but no reason was given as to why they were not included on the album). The album debuted at number one in the U.S., selling over 358,000 copies its first week.

In May 2007, The Game said, while filming Beef IV, that his tentative third album would be his last, explaining that his three albums will be enough to have allowed him to “[get his] point across.”

As a result of his fame, The Game ventured into areas outside of rap. He was chosen to play and had bought a large selection of shares for the now defunct Inglewood Cobras, an ABA franchise team. The Game also ventured into acting. In 2004, he had a minor role voicing the character “B-Dup”, in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. He will also voice a character in the upcoming video game Def Jam: Icon. In 2006, he made his film debut in Waist Deep as a character named “Big Meat” and has been filming at least two more movies. The Game has also partnered with 310 Motoring to create his own shoe called The Hurricanes. A portion of the proceeds of the shoe are donated to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

The Game’s first son is named Harlem Caron Taylor and was born on June 30, 2003. Baron Davis, a basketball team mate in high school, and current NBA all-star was named Harlem’s godfather. The Los Angeles Times reported that as of 2006, The Game is a resident of Glendale, California after purchasing a home in the Kenneth Village neighborhood. The Game announced that he was engaged to actress and model Valeisha Butterfield, the daughter of U.S. Congressman G. K. Butterfield. The couple were set to marry in March 2007, but the engagement was called off in June 2006. In February 2007, The Game revealed in a Wild 94.9 radio interview with Mistah F.A.B. that he was expecting his second child in April, with former substitute teacher Tiffany Webb. He welcomed his second son, King Justice, on April 25, 2007.

Even before releasing his debut album, The Game was involved in feuds with many rappers. He previously had rivalries with Suge Knight of Death Row Records, Ja Rule, Joe Budden, Yukmouth, as well as Jay-Z, Memphis Bleek, and the Young Gunz of Roc-A-Fella Records. The most prominent rivalry he had was with 50 Cent and G-Unit. The Game has also had minor feuds with Xzibit, Ja Rule, Guerilla Black, Bishop Lamont, Domination, Benzino, and model Vida Guerra (see “Wouldn’t Get Far”).

The feud with Joe Budden began when 50 Cent criticized his album for “lacking street credibility”. Joe Budden took offense and released various insults at G-Unit. The Game previously did a freestyle for DJ Clue and Joe Budden used the end of the freestyle without notifying The Game. While on the end, Joe Budden took shots at G-Unit. In defense, The Game made several records against the rapper, most notoriously the track “Buddens”. Joe Budden mocked The Game’s appearance on the dating game show Change of Heart. The Game has consistently defended his appearance on the show. Later, at a party in New York, the rappers mutually announced their intention to stop making hostile records about each other, but The Game has subsequently suggested in songs and videos that he won the feud.

Yukmouth first met The Game at a club and at the time, Yukmouth was engaged in a feud with 50 Cent and G-Unit. The Game released a diss track aimed at the rapper over the beat of “I Got 5 on It”, a song which Yukmouth recorded when he was a part of Luniz. Yukmouth responded with a track that mocked The Game’s appearance on Change of Heart. The two later tried to bury the hatchet due to a personal friend and even recorded a song together named “Peace”. However, the beef continued afterward, since The Game dissed Yukmouth on “Peace” (they recorded their verses separately). Since then, Yukmouth responded by releasing a freestyle music video over Fabolous’ “Breathe” single. In the video, there is a look-a-like of the rapper getting robbed and beaten up. In that song, Yukmouth claimed that The Game had a tongue ring and was slapped by mogul Suge Knight. Since the West Coast Peace Conference, both rappers ended the feud.

Dr. Dre’s old nemesis Suge Knight had an ongoing feud with The Game stemming from when Yukmouth claimed that The Game had been slapped by Suge Knight. The Game responded on his website, saying that if Suge Knight had ever touched him, he would be “six feet under”. After the 2005 BET Awards, associates of Death Row had their invitations to a party hosted by Ciara rescinded. Supposedly, a member of Death Row tried to steal The Game’s chain. The Game stated on his Black Wall Street website that he dislikes Suge Knight because of “the lives he has endangered”. In Miami for the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards, Suge Knight was shot and wounded at Kanye West’s party by an unknown gunman. The Game vigorously denied involvement in the shooting, but the incident renewed efforts to pacify hip hop feuds and The Game has consequently been discouraged from attending certain events in hopes of averting retaliation. Later, The Game and various representatives of California’s rap cliques formed a West Coast “peace treaty” to end many rivalries between West Coast rappers. Although Suge Knight did not attend, he and The Game declared their feud over.

The feud between The Game and Roc-A-Fella Records grew out of an earlier rivalry with Memphis Bleek over the name of his label (Get Low Records), which was similar to the one The Game was previously signed to (Get Low Recordz). On the single “Westside Story”, The Game raps that “I don’t do button-up shirts or drive maybachs”, which was perceived as being directed towards Jay-Z. Later Jay-Z performed a freestyle on Funkmaster Flex’s radio show on Hot 97 and in it, he repeatedly used the word “game”, which some hip-hop fans believed was directed towards The Game. The Game responded and made several remarks directed at Roc-A-Fella Records.

While The Game was feuding with Roc-A-Fella artists, his first album featured production from Kanye West and Just Blaze, two Roc-A-Fella producers. In an interview with Ed Lover and Monie Love, The Game said the Maybach line on “Westside Story” was referring to Ja Rule. He also said he has a lot of respect for Jay-Z and would never take shots at a legend. Jay-Z later insisted that the “game” references were just about the rap game itself, not the rapper. The Game still addressed Memphis Bleek and Young Gunz on some songs, but the feud between them cooled off. There were rumors that Jay-Z was planning on “declaring war” on The Game and others at a concert. He instead used the opportunity to make peace with many of his rivals.

Lil Eazy-E, a young rapper and son of rapper Eazy-E, was also in a feud with The Game. The two used to be close associates and even recorded music together. Lil’ Eazy-E has since directed numerous diss songs targeting the rapper and expressed his anger over what he felt was The Game misusing his father’s name. The Game responded by claiming that Lil’ Eazy-E is trying to establish himself off the success he had made since releasing The Documentary. The Game responded on “120 Bars” where he claimed that Lil’ Eazy-E does not write his own lyrics. However, The Game states on the same track that he would rather not feud with Lil’ Eazy-E due to the deep respect he feels for his father. Lil’ Eazy-E later responded with “They Know Me”. On October 30, 2006, The Game went on KDAY and said that he and Lil’ Eazy-E have ended their feud.

The Game had a falling out with his manager and half-brother Big Fase 100. The rapper claimed that Big Fase 100 extorted him out of over $1.5 million, and felt that his influence was holding him back. Later in interviews, Big Fase 100 attacked The Game’s street credibility, claiming that him being a “certified gangsta” is fabricated. The manager went on to claim that the supposed gangster life is based on his own life and blamed selfishness on The Game’s part as the main reason of their falling out.

A confrontation between The Game and Ras Kass took place at Club Element in Los Angeles. The stories are different from each party, but what is known is that The Game approached Ras Kass over a song that Ras Kass made regarding The Game’s son and asked him to take back what he said, but he refused. The Game’s entourage claimed that The Game punched and knocked out Ras Kass. The story from Ras Kass’ representatives was that he walked away and got hit by a bottle in the head and then The Game’s crew jumped him, but he escaped with just a black eye.

On October 28, 2005, The Game was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest in Greensboro. At one point, police said his companions were pepper sprayed when they surrounded officers in a threatening manner. Mall security officers said the rapper was wearing a full-face Halloween mask, filming shoppers, cursing loudly, and refused to leave when asked. The Game continued to act up and was arrested, a police statement said. The Game claimed that officers overreacted and that he did nothing wrong when he was pepper sprayed by the mall security. The five officers involved in the incident ended up suing The Game for defamation, which has yet to be taken to court.

World Wrestling Entertainment made it public that they plan on suing The Game over the rights to his name, which is a nickname for professional wrestler Triple H.

On May 11, 2007, The Game was arrested at his home reportedly in connection with an incident at a basketball game in South Los Angeles in February 2007. He is alleged to have threatened a person with a gun. The arrest took place after his home was searched for three hours. The Game was released early the next day after posting $50,000 bail. On January 9, 2008, a Los Angeles judge scheduled February 4 as the beginning date for The Game’s trial on assault and weapons charges.

Amanda Seyfried Photos and Biography

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Amanda Louise Seyfried (born December 3, 1985) is an American actress and former child model. She is known for her roles in Mean Girls, Alpha Dog, Veronica Mars and Big Love.

Seyfried started her career as a model at age 11. From there she went on to acting in the daytime drama The Guiding Light. In 2000, she was the first actress to play the role of Lucy Montgomery on CBS’s As the World Turns. She went on, from 2002 to 2003, to play the role of Joni Stafford on ABC’s All My Children.

In 2004, Seyfried achieved a breakthrough when she was cast as the most dimwitted of the “Plastics”, Karen Smith, in the popular teen film Mean Girls. In Mean Girls, she initially auditioned for the role of Regina. She became the original casting choices for both the roles of “Regina George” and “Cady”. She was then cast as the sidekick to “Regina”, “Karen Smith”. The other roles later went to Rachel McAdams and Lindsay Lohan respectively. In 2005, she played the lead character in one of the nine parts in the movie Nine Lives.

Continuing her television career, Seyfried was cast in UPN’s Veronica Mars as the title character’s murdered best friend Lilly Kane. In her role as Lilly, she appeared on the show through a series of flashbacks, dreams and visions, which portrayed her as a wild, stylish, and bubbly teenage daughter of a business executive.

Lilly is sometimes compared to the character of Laura Palmer of Twin Peaks, who also was deceased and appeared through various flashbacks as the plot unfolded. While appearing often during Mars’ first season, she also appeared briefly in season 2’s premiere and finalé. Seyfried originally auditioned for the title role on Veronica Mars, but lost the place to Kristen Bell and ended up winning the role of Lilly Kane.

Seyfried has had primetime cameo appearances and minor guest roles on Fox’s House, Justice, NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and CBS’s CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and currently appears as Rebecca on ABC Family’s television series Wildfire.

Seyfried is also a main character, Sarah Henrickson, in the highly-touted HBO original series Big Love. She appeared in the 2007 film Alpha Dog and played a supporting role in the film Solstice in 2007. Amanda will play the role of ‘Sophie’ alongside Meryl Streep and Pierce Brosnan in the film version of the musical “Mamma Mia!”, due for release in 2008.

Seyfried was born in Allentown, in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. She is a 2003 graduate of Allentown’s William Allen High School and is currently a student at New York City’s Fordham University. As a teenager, she appeared on the cover of three Francine Pascal books.

Dominique Swain Biography and Photos

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Dominique Ariane Swain (born August 12, 1980) is an American film actress. She may be best known for her role as the title character in the 1997 film adaptation of the novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

Swain was born in Santa Monica, California to Cindy (Fitzgerald) and David Swain, Sr., an electrical engineer. Swain grew up in Malibu with four siblings living a modest lifestyle and was a straight-A student at Malibu High School. In 1993, Swain was a stunt double in the film The Good Son. Her sister is the actress Chelse Swain.

In 1995, Swain was chosen from 2,500 girls to star in the controversial remake of Lolita; the film was released in 1997. Shortly after, Swain starred as the rebellious daughter of John Travolta in action film Face/Off. After Face/Off, she starred in many low-budget films.

In 2002, Stuff magazine named her #79 of the “102 Sexiest Women In The World.” In February of 2007, she was the cover girl on Stuff magazine. Also in February, the horror movie Dead Mary was released to DVD Starring Dominique as Kim.

While it wasn’t in theaters, it has become a horror favorite amongst fans. She recently did a cameo appearance in the Nickelback video for Rockstar. She lip syncs the lyrics while lying in a bathtub filled with bubbles.

Swain is a spokesperson for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). At the age of 21, she became the youngest model to pose nude for PETA.

In the Lolita-esque ad, set in a classroom, she stands at a blackboard writing, “I’d rather go naked than wear fur” over and over like a naughty schoolgirl. The caption below reads: “Kindness Is a Class Act.”

She has erroneously been reported to be a vegan or vegetarian in the past, but this was probably an incorrect assumption based upon her support of PETA’s anti-fur campaigns. Swain says:

Everybody thinks people who promote PETA don’t eat meat, but I think animals were made to be eaten. I take my part in the food chain very seriously. I eat meat, the rarer the better. I just don’t think animals should be slaughtered for their fur.

Sarah Jessica Parker new Wallpapers and Biography

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Sarah Jessica Parker (born March 25, 1965) is an American actress and producer, with a portfolio of television, movie, and theater performances. She is known for her role as Carrie Bradshaw, a newspaper journalist, on the HBO television series Sex and the City, for which she won four Golden Globe Awards and two Emmy Awards.

Parker was born in Nelsonville, Ohio, the daughter of Barbara, a nursery school operator and teacher, and Steven Parker, an entrepreneur and journalist. Parker’s father, a native of Brooklyn, was Jewish, the original family surname being “Bar-Kahn” (“son of Kohen”); Parker has said of herself, “I always just considered myself a Jew”. Parker’s parents divorced early on in Parker’s life and her mother remarried Paul Forste. Parker grew up with her mother, stepfather and seven siblings (three from her parents’ marriage, and four from her mother’s second marriage). As a young girl, she trained in singing and ballet, soon being cast in the Broadway production of The Innocents. Her family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and then to Dobbs Ferry, New York, near New York City, where Parker was developing her career as a child actress. In 1977, the family moved to the newly opened planned community on Roosevelt Island, in the East River between Manhattan and Queens, and later to Manhattan proper; her parents later moved to Englewood, New Jersey where she attended Dwight Morrow High School.

Parker attended the School for Creative and Performing Arts, the School of American Ballet and the Professional Children’s School, and later Dwight Morrow High School. She and four siblings appeared in a revival of The Sound of Music, and Parker went on to the new 1977-81 Broadway musical Annie—first in the small role of “July,” and then succeeding Andrea McArdle and Shelley Bruce in the lead role of the plucky Depression-era orphan, beginning March 6, 1979. Parker held the role for a year.

In 1982, Parker was cast as the co-lead of the CBS-TV sitcom Square Pegs. The show lasted only one season before being canceled by the network, but Parker’s performance, as a shy, misfit teen who showed hidden depths, was critically well-received. In the three years that followed, she was cast in four films—the most significant of those being Footloose in 1984 and Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, co-starring Helen Hunt, in 1985. Also that year, she became romantically involved with actor Robert Downey Jr., whom she met on the set of Firstborn and with whom she lived until 1991; during their relationship, Downey had a drug problem, and Parker has commented that she thought that she was “the person holding him together”.

By the early 1990s, Parker’s career was gaining momentum. In 1991, she appeared in a supporting role in the romantic comedy, L.A. Story; both the movie and her performance garnered positive reviews. The following year she landed an important starring role in the well-received film Honeymoon in Vegas, co-starring Nicolas Cage. Her 1993 role in the film Hocus Pocus was a higher grosser at the box office but received negative reviews. The following year, she appeared opposite Johnny Depp in the critically acclaimed movie Ed Wood. The film Miami Rhapsody, in 1995, saw her back on familiar territory with more romantic comedy material and a leading role. She appeared in another Tim Burton-directed movie, Mars Attacks!, The First Wives Club, and The Substance of Fire, in which she reprised her 1991 stage role, in 1996.

In 1997, she appeared as Francesca Lanfield, a washed-up former child actress, in the comedy Til There Was You. Later that year, the script for an HBO drama/comedy series titled Sex and the City was sent to Parker; d the show’s creator, Darren Star, was determined that she be cast in his project. Despite some early doubts about being cast in a long-term television series, Parker agreed to star.

The show proved to be an instant success, raising Parker’s profile considerably. Despite the show’s increasingly risqué storylines, Parker retained the strict no-nudity clause in her contract throughout the show’s six-season run. Parker became a producer for the show starting with its third season. In 2004, Parker won an Emmy award for her lead role (after five consecutive losses). Many gambling and betting establishments stopped taking bets on her Emmy victory, because it was so widely predicted that she would win. Parker has since stated that she will “never do a television show again”, although she will co-executive produce a new HBO series based on Washingtonienne, but will not star in it.

After Sex and the City ended in 2004, rumours of a film version circulated and it has since been revealed that a script had been completed for such a project. However, Parker commented that it would likely never be made. Two years later, however, preparations were resumed and the film is currently in production. In addition to work in movies and television, Parker is also a respected stage actor, having appeared in well-reviewed lead roles in the off-Broadway play Sylvia, alongside husband Matthew Broderick in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and the Tony Award-nominated Once Upon A Mattress, as Princess Winifred the Woebegone.

In December 2005, Parker appeared in her first theatrical film in several years, The Family Stone; she received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress – Comedy for the role. Her next film, the romantic comedy Failure to Launch, co-starring Matthew McConaughey, was released on March 10, 2006 and opened at #1 in the North American box office, grossing slightly over $24 million in its opening weekend, despite mediocre reviews.

Parker’s work as a producer continues with the independent film Spinning Into Butter, based on the Rebecca Gilman play scheduled for a 2006 release, which she will also star in. Her latest confirmed project is Slammer, a prison-themed musical comedy to be directed by Adam Shankman and released in 2007. The role as an imprisoned publicist who stages an all-inmate musical will give Parker the opportunity to revisit her musical roots, which have yet to be explored in her film and television work. Parker was initially set to star in Vacancy, along with her co-star from The Family Stone, Luke Wilson, but she dropped out in favor of other projects. Kate Beckinsale later won the role.

Parker has become very influential in the world of fashion. In 2000, she hosted the MTV Movie Awards and appeared in no fewer than 15 different costumes throughout the show.

She has also become the face of many of the world’s biggest fashion brands through her work in a variety of advertising campaigns. In August 2003, Parker signed a highly lucrative deal with Garnier to appear in television and print advertising promoting their Nutrisse hair products.

In 2004, she fronted an international campaign by Gap, but her contract with the clothing giant was abruptly terminated in Spring of 2005 in favour of British soul singer Joss Stone. A friend of Parker’s commented to the press that “Sarah’s spring campaign for GAP has only just started and she feels the announcement of her replacement in the same week that the new ads are appearing is a bit of a snub”. In addition to her advertising work, Parker released her own fragrance in 2005 called “Lovely”—an innocent parody in itself. In March 2007, Parker announced the launch of her own fashion line, Bitten, in partnership with discount clothing chain Steve & Barry’s. The line, which features hundreds of clothing items and accessories under $20, launched on June 7th, 2007, exclusively at Steve and Barry’s. In July 2007, following the enormous success of “Lovely”, Parker released her second fragrance “Covet”.

Personal life: As her career continued to blossom into the 1990s, she met journalist John Kennedy Jr. and dated him for several months. Prior to this, Parker had a serious relationship with Robert Downey Jr. She was also romantically linked to singer-songwriter Joshua Kadison in the early 1990s, who described their tumultuous relationship and their cat Moses in the song “Jessie” on the album Painted Desert Serenade.

On May 19, 1997, she married actor Matthew Broderick, to whom she was introduced by her brother. The couple married in a civil ceremony in a historic synagogue on the Lower East Side of Manhattan that is no longer used as a house of worship; both Parker and Broderick (who each have one Jewish parent) consider themselves to be “culturally Jewish.” Parker has also defended the state of Israel. “I feel defensive when people say, ‘How can Israel go in with tanks?’, she says, “What are they supposed to do? Children are being killed by people willing to strap bombs to their bodies and walk into the public market. So Israel’s response to this is to protect its people.” The couple’s first child, son James Wilkie Broderick, was born on October 28, 2002. He was named after Broderick’s father, the distinguished Irish-American actor James Broderick. Given her public declarations of support for public schools, school choice advocates are anxious to see if Parker makes good on her 2004 promise to enter James Wilke into the New York City public school system when he turns five in 2007. Parker and Broderick live in New York City and frequent the arts.

Parker and Broderick also spend a considerable amount of time at their holiday home in County Donegal, Republic of Ireland. Parker is a prominent member of the Hollywood’s Women’s Political Committee and is UNICEF’s Representative for the Performing Arts; in 2006, she traveled to Liberia as a UNICEF celebrity ambassador, and has commented that, “It’s a place that gets little or no attention, so we’re going to try and bring some attention to it.”]She is currently a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for the United States. As of 2007, she lives in New York City with her husband and son.

Rambo 2008 Film Trailer, Review and Wallpapers

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Rambo is an upcoming 2008 film starring Sylvester Stallone as Vietnam War veteran John Rambo. It is the fourth chapter of the Rambo franchise. The film has been given an R rating from the MPAA for strong graphic bloody violence, sexual assaults, grisly images and language.

When a group of missionary aid workers in Myanmar disappear into the vast green inferno, vigilante Vietnam War veteran John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) leaves his job as a Salween River boatman behind to accompany a group of mercenaries on a daring rescue mission.

It’s been twenty years since Rambo helped mujahedeen rebels fend off Soviet invaders in Afghanistan, and these days the former soldier lives a simple life in northern Thailand. Yet despite the fact that Rambo has long since traded his guns for a fishing reel, the world’s longest running civil war rages into its sixtieth year on the nearby Thai-Burma border.

It seems like every day more rebels, mercenaries, medics, and peace workers cross through the remote village where Rambo lives, most of them never to be seen again. One day, human rights missionaries Sarah (Julie Benz) and Michael Bennett (Paul Schulze) show up asking Rambo to guide them up the Salween so they can get some much needed food and medical supplies to the desperate Karen tribe.

According to Sarah and Michael the Burmese military has planted landmines all along the roads leading into the tribe’s village, making it virtually impossible to reach the tribe via land. At first Rambo flatly refuses to cross into Burma, but these refugees will most certainly die without aid and he eventually relents. Two weeks after Rambo drops the group off in dangerous territory, pastor Arthur Marsh (Ken Howard) arrives with a chilling message: the aid workers never returned from their mission into the jungle, and the embassies refuse to help Marsh and his fellow missionaries find their missing friends.

Pastor Marsh knows that Sarah, Michael, and the rest of the missing missionaries are being held hostage by the Burmese army, and in order to hire the mercenaries needed for a rescue mission he has mortgaged his house and taken up a special collection from his congregation.

Now, despite the fact that Rambo has long since sworn off all forms of violence, the knowledge that innocent missionaries are being used as pawns in a brutal war leaves him with no other choice than to venture behind enemy lines on his most dangerous mission to date. Sylvester Stallone has described the film as “sort of like Beyond Rangoon, but with rocket launchers.”

Rambo 2008 Movie Trailer:

Cast:

  • Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo
  • Julie Benz as Sarah Miller
  • Paul Schulze as Michael Burnett
  • Matthew Marsden as Schoolboy
  • Graham McTavish as Lewis
  • Jake La Botz as Reese
  • Ken Howard as Rev. Arthur Marsh
  • James With as Preacher Missionary

This is the only film in the series that does not feature the character of Rambo’s friend and mentor, Colonel Trautman. Richard Crenna, who portrayed Trautman in the previous Rambo films, died of cancer in 2003. This is also the only film in the series to not be musically scored by Jerry Goldsmith, who passed away in 2004 after his long battle with cancer.

Alternate titles: So far the most recent installment of the Rambo franchise has undergone many name changes, and has been known as the following:

  • John Rambo – mirroring the final installment of the Rocky Franchise, Rocky Balboa. This is still the title being used in Germany, Spain and Italy, because First Blood’s original title in these countries is Rambo.
  • Rambo IV
  • Rambo IV: In the Serpent’s Eye
  • Rambo IV: Pearl of the Cobra
  • Rambo: To Hell and Back – On October 12, Lionsgate announced that the film title was being changed to Rambo: To Hell and Back. After some negative feedback from the online community, Stallone spoke with AICN’s Harry Knowles and is quoted to have said:
    “Lionsgate jumped the gun on this. I just was thinking that the title John Rambo was derivative of Rocky Balboa and might give people the idea that this is the last Rambo film, and I don’t necessarily feel that it will be. He’s not an athlete, there’s no reason he can’t continue onto another adventure. Like John Wayne with The Searchers.”

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