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Rambo: First Blood (1982) (Patreon)

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2023-05-30 18:33:01
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Full link: https://youtu.be/rIBXrA726ow

Alriiiiiiight, I do feel this one filled a HUGE gap in my movie-culture-background! :D Knowing "Rambo" but having no clue what was going on has been weird haha. 

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Andrew

Please watch the sequels, there are 4 or them, so 5 films in total.

Bryan Tuck

The Rambo series is kind of weird in that the first one is quite different than any of the sequels. Starting with the second, it becomes a lot more... for lack of a better word, cartoonish. :) I'm much more of a Rocky fan than Rambo, but First Blood is still a pretty good movie.

Tyler Foster
>>109625943

I'm with Bryan. This first movie is great. The second and third, woof. I know some would make a case for Rambo (2008), and it is decent, but it's probably one of the most violent/gory movies I've ever seen, so just be prepared for that. I did not see the fifth and supposedly final Rambo movie.

Curaitis
>>109625943

Im with Bryan and Tyler. The first one is great but the rest of the franchise is at best mediocre. The 2008 one is by far the best of the rest. Imho this is one of those Franchises were you can clearly forget everything that came after the first one. @Tyler You didnt miss anything by not watching the 5th installment. Horrible writing, brutal and gory action and no mentionable character development. You can compare it to the 4th one but way worse.

Bryan Tuck
>>109625943

Yes... to be perfectly blunt, the fifth one ("Last Blood") is absolute garbage. It's ugly and mean-spirited, and it lacks even the technical competence of the other sequels.

Curaitis

Not content with creating one hugely successful film franchise with the iconic ROCKY series, Stallone joined the burgeoning ranks of '80s Hollywood action stars by bringing the character of Rambo to the screen. Of course, the muscle-bound ex-soldier soon became one of the most famous movie creations of all time, so it's interesting to go and look back at his roots in FIRST BLOOD, an adaptation of a dark action novel by David Morrell. Some things were altered in the transition from book to screen, namely the transformation of Rambo into a good guy instead of a misunderstood anti-hero. Anyway, FIRST BLOOD is a great flick, another fantastic movie made in a very good year for film. When mentioning Rambo, most people think of the two sequels that turned the franchise into a cheesy, over-the-top guns-n-explosives fest along the line of Arnie's COMMANDO. FIRST BLOOD isn't like that – it contains a modicum of realism, even during the pyrotechnic-heavy climax. It's a thoroughly engaging storyline, about a drifter who finds himself up against a corrupt police force, and it's scarily real – as each plot twist plays out, you realise that human nature has never been put so well on screen. Stallone is excellent as the psychotic soldier, and he's given great support from the cast which includes a career-best Brian Dennehy, a hammy Richard Crenna, and many others. Thanks for your reaction Mary.

Gary W

PTSD was just becoming recognized when this movie first came out, and I'm sure this movie helped to bring it to the attention of the general public.

Don Mayhem

Mary, this is the movie I grew up watching as a little kid. My mom had it taped on Beta tape(before VHS tapes lol). This reminds me of The Predator movie.

Tony Williams
>>109625943

Just thought I'd chime in and agree with all these fine folks that there is zero need to watch anything but the first one.

Tyler Foster

Don't know if it's worth fixing, but I think the video image in this full-length is ahead by about four seconds. Any big moment in the movie, such as the guy falling from the copter or something, your reaction to it is delayed if my picture and this picture are synced, but if I use the actual moment and your reaction to create a rough sync so the reaction "plays" properly, the video images don't match at all. Your idea of "drifter" is pretty close, although it is only the sheriff's presumption that drifters cause problems. Anyone who moves from town to town, often people who are gig workers just looking for temporary jobs, would be a drifter -- it's a neutral term. "Vagrant" is also just another word for "homeless." As you saw at the ending, the sheriff's antagonizing of Rambo is meant to represent how some people felt after the Vietnam war: that the soldiers had "lost" and that they resented them for it. There were also massacres of women and children in the war, as you saw in parts of Full Metal Jacket, so that is why some yelled "baby killer." Most reactors seem confused by this, because the movie doesn't really provide the context regarding Teasle's behavior upfront, and most movies about Vietnam don't cover it. Soldiers are often treated like royalty in America, up to a certain point. I'll try to keep this as politically neutral as possible, but a basic hypocrisy that you see often in America is that people who are insistent that the military and people in it are incredibly important, but there is no support or system for them once they return from combat and struggle to reintegrate with society for any number of reasons, or resources for them if they return with expensive physical or mental problems.

Tyler Foster
>>109646745

I would say that the actor who plays Teasle, the late Brian Dennehy, looks like Meat Loaf, who you would've seen in Fight Club and Rocky Horror, and also like Jack Black, from School of Rock and Jumanji.

fanofactionflicks

This one is the best of the 5, the rest are more explosive action type money makers, you can watch if you if you, it ain't required.

David Lonewolf Wright

The Vietnam War was an incredibly complicated and messy situations with tons of civilian casualties as it became harder and harder to tell friend from foe. Public opinion turned on the war as well as the soldiers that fought in it with more of the atrocities coming to light in the news, causing a lot of veterans to be treated poorly when they returned. Some of that was alluded to from Trautman talking with Sheriff Teasle and what Rambo was saying as he was breaking down at the end. I think we as a population got better in how we look at and treat our veterans, but I feel that we still don't put enough into making sure they are properly taken care of. If you liked the actor Brian Dennehy and want to see more of him as a smarmy sheriff, I highly recommended the western Silverado. It is one of my favorite westerns and it is going to have quite a few faces in it that you will probably recognize, but not be able to fully place where you know them from :)

David Bennett

I really enjoyed your reaction to this one, Mari. This is one of my favorite films. Stallone did a great job calling attention to PTSD afflicted vets which is something very few movies had addressed up till that point. I personally think the sequels are not really worth the watch and they just get worse as time goes by. I would like to address a few things. I am one of the minority of people who read the book before seeing the film. There are some notable differences and of course, a book can shed insight into a character in ways that no film really can. I don't know if you noticed or not, but there is a case with military medals in it on Teasle's desk at the police station. He is, in fact, a Korean war veteran and part of the reason he disliked Rambo from the get-go is because he feels that his service in the early 1950's to the country was largely ignored. Another reason is because he genuinely thinks that men like rambo will come in droves to his small town and bring drugs and crime with them. (By the way, in the book, the town is a fictional town in Kentucky. Why they chose to move the location to Oregon is beyond me) In the film, Rambo is indirectly responsible for just one death, which was Galt falling from the helicopter (to be fair, in the film, he WAS an asshole and helped cause the awful situation. In the book Galt was an inexperienced officer just trying to do his job when Rambo's PTSD kicked into overdrive). In the book, Rambo was way more bloodthirsty. In fact, when the sheriff and his posse were hunting him in the forest, Rambo actually kills all of the deputies and seriously injures Teasle. That is 13 men dead in the book before Trautman arrives on the scene. Also, in the book, Trautman and Rambo had never actually met each other. Trautman had been involved in the training program that produced the Green Berets in Rambo's A team. In the novel, Rambo has been run out of 15 different towns before the one where he and Teasle cross paths, and Rambo is just sick to death of being judged so unfairly based on pretty much nothing but his appearance. One of the biggest differences between novel and film is the ending. In the book, Teasle succumbs to his wounds shortly after Trautman shoots a dying Rambo in the head with a shotgun. I guess they decided that was just too dark for the movie. PTSD is a very real and very serious consequence of the sort of things that military combat vets experience and I'm glad that some films willing to address it. I'm glad you enjoyed the film

Anonymous
>>109670317

"By the way, in the book, the town is a fictional town in Kentucky. Why they chose to move the location to Oregon is beyond me." Better/more cinematic terrain would be my guess. Also, perhaps the filmmakers thought that villainizing hick Kentucky cops would generate criticism in the Southern states and overshadow the more serious critique the film was trying to make. So, moving it to the Pacific Northwest made the villain cops of that region more neutral-- no one thinks "oh, those Oregon cops are such dicks". Cuz for the last couple decades prior to FIRST BLOOD, the Southern United States rarely had a positive depiction in American film, not totally unjustly of course (i.e. "To Kill a Mockingbird", "The Intruder" (1962), "Sweet Bird of Youth", "In the Heat of the Night", "Cool Hand Luke", "Bonnie and Clyde", "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter", "Easy Rider", "The Last Picture Show", "Deliverance", "Sounder", "Conrack", "The Longest Yard", "Norma Rae", "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman", "The Klansman", "Walking Tall", "The Town That Dreaded Sundown", "The Legend of Boggy Creek", "Macon County Line", "Jackson County Jail", "Brubaker" etc.). "Trautman shoots a dying Rambo in the head with a shotgun. I guess they decided that was just too dark for the movie." One concern that Stallone had was that he was afraid it would send the wrong message to Vietnam veterans that the only way out your torment was suicide.

Don Mayhem

What I like about this movie is the character development. It's not just a one sided action flick. John Rambo, the last one alive from his squad. I've seen this movie many times, but not very often so I only remember what happens in the first act of the movie and the ending. I've mentioned this in the Full Metal Jacket how when these soldiers came home, some if not a lot, had a hard time finding work. Maybe because they didn't want to hire, who they called "baby killers," to work in their business. That guy who hit Jenny in Forest Gump said that about Forest. He said "who's the baby killer?" Not to mention PSTD and nightmares. Not sure how law enforcement is in Belgium, but here in the US, there is a very long history of police brutality. The Rodney King beating where a video tape clearly shows these cops beating up Rodney King with night sticks, jury saying they're not guilty, and anarchy blew up in the city. Same with the George Floyd murder. George Floyd was cooperating with the police, but they were trying very poorly to make it look like he was resisting. Humanity can be the most inhumane people. Ironically.