2 thoughts on “Is Hollywood Selling War to Kids? 1985”
Not their finest moment here. Did they not have cap guns and toy cowboy pistols when they were kids? Rambo like a lot of modern action movies was just a modernization of the Western genre. It was just “white hats” vs. “black hats” under a new name. Kids played cowboys and Indians before. In the ’80s they were playing Rambo instead. Playing with a toy gun is just play. It doesn’t lead you to grow up to be some kind of coldhearted killer.
Not their finest moment here. Did they not have cap guns and toy cowboy pistols when they were kids? Rambo like a lot of modern action movies was just a modernization of the Western genre. It was just “white hats” vs. “black hats” under a new name. Kids played cowboys and Indians before. In the ’80s they were playing Rambo instead. Playing with a toy gun is just play. It doesn’t lead you to grow up to be some kind of coldhearted killer.
I think these toys were a different situation than the old cowboys and Indians things.