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Continuing on with the "Random Movie Tangent Based off of Rocky Actors" Tangent.... First Blood!! This was nothing like I imagined it would be (in the best way possible)!

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JeRon Washington

Teegan, I know this off topic but Happy Mother's day 🌺

BridgesNotBurned

This is an amazing Sunday surprise! Diving in now! Hope you continue this series as well. What an arc between here and Rambo Last Blood!! Here for it all! Happy Mothers Day! 💙

Dan M

I’m liking these Teegan Tangents! Looking forward to watching this with you when I get home. Happy Mother’s Day, Teegan! Hope you’re having a fantastic day!

Beat Conductor

I gotta suggest Demolition Man again. It's Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, and Sandra Bullock. Movie is pure gold.

scott osborne

i be skipping first blood and part 2 il wait for rambo 3 and rambo 2008 oh yes its mothers day over there i hope your enjoying your mothers day

BridgesNotBurned

Great reaction! What a movie! Really hope there a bunch of recommendations to continue. There are themes and messages in every one, even the couple more action-y ones. Love this WHOLE series! Thank you for this one!

Jay SMARTASS

Great movie pick & Reaction Tee!! Just to let you know there is a TFE video on the real life Rambo called: Roy Benavidez the Green beret that took a knife to a gun fight in Vietnam & won.

Larry Darrell

The reason Teasle profiled Rambo as a troublemaker right away was more because of his appearance. The long hair, unshaven disheveled and dirty appearance of Rambo was more akin to drifters who were sometimes drug addicts, alkies and criminals. Someone that would be looking for a loud bar to have a good time, according to a small quiet town sheriff like Teasle. Also, the fact that Rambo was wearing a military jacket with the American Flag on it, would not have been immediately apparent that he was a veteran, given his appearance. Throughout the 70s, hippy types would wear military garb ironically, while protesting the war. Their appearance would sometimes be like Rambo’s. Remember the protesting hippies in Forrest Gump, when Forrest was in Washington, D.C. and met Jenny. There were veterans of the Vietnam War who came back and joined these protesters and let their appearance go, and also became “troublemaking” drifters. And many like Rambo, who just became drifters for the only reason being, society didn’t respect them and they could no longer fit into the prim and properness of home life, after seeing the horrors of war. (PTSD, as we know it today, was not widely recognized until the early 80s. The term “PTSD,” Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was not even officially deemed a mental disorder until 1980, two years before this film) Teasle was a veteran of the Korean War, and I think, never understood how anyone, like the hippy protesters, could treat American soldiers the way they did, and he also couldn’t understand how an American soldier could come back home and disgrace the country they fought for by becoming a troublemaking bum and disrespecting the soldiers’ uniform, which bears the American Flag, by allowing it to get so filthy it stinks. The Vietnam War was a different kind of hell compared to The Korean War. It took many years and many stories told, for people to realize this. The novel was released in 1972, while the war still raged on, and this film was released in 1982, only 7 years after the war ended. The attitude of Teasle was something many felt at the time. When I see Teasle’s face when he’s told over the radio, that Rambo was a war hero, that he was a Green Beret and that he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor… I really believe he’s realizing for the first time that Rambo was a respected War Veteran. I don’t think that thought ever crossed his mind before. Rambo was just a dirty bum drifter that didn’t belong in his town and when he tried to walk back into town, well then he became a troublemaker. The fact that Rambo was wearing a soldiers’ jacket only infuriated Teasle more, and he was going to punish him for it. So once Teasle does find out Rambo is a respected Medal of Honor winner… well, now his childhood best friend is dead because of him. Teasle now hates Rambo even more. Teasle is a decorated Korean War Veteran, and to him, Rambo has disgraced every honor that was ever bestowed on him. The characters of Rambo and Teasle, are both Tragic characters when you realize how they got to their ends. Every thing that happened in their lives… every Order they fulfilled… every Right decision they ever made… every Honorable action they ever took… lead them to the end of this film, and they both thought they were doing the Right and Honorable thing. You were wondering, Teegan, how this film can end in a way, that produces sequels. Well without giving too much detail about the original script or the original novel (I’ll leave that for someone else to decide if it’s spoilerly)… but the original film script was much darker and the original ending, which is the ending of the novel, was much less hopeful. Stallone signed on to do the film, but was starting to regret his decision, until the producers allowed him to re-work the script, which is where Stallone’s screenplay credit comes from. Stallone did not want Veterans who were having troubles, to have a feeling of hopelessness, after seeing this film. Stallone wrote the end monologue that Rambo gave… which, for me, is one of his greatest creations, and one of his greatest acting performances. He should have been nominated for this film. I can’t watch that scene dry eyed. Here is a “making of” featurette if interested. In case you were ever interested in reading the novel, they talk about the differences here, just FYI. (I don’t know what you would consider a spoiler or not, so just saying ;-) https://youtu.be/ZePH9o8w3ss?si=Eri9YSRfRNXGgvNi For a couple other Vietnam Veteran films, look to 1978, which is when two of the best were released… Both Highly Recommended… The Deer Hunter (1978) & Coming Home (1978) PS: Yes… rats will bite you, if they are scared or threatened. Like a strange man carrying a torch into their nest. ;-)

Roope Toivanen

This was a nice surprise, first time seeing it for me too and I really enjoyed it, great movie and reaction again!

Dan M

Nice commentary, Larry.

Paul G

Teegan, great reaction as always! Just a word of advice, be careful with this one on YouTube, the studio that put out Rambo is notorious for going after reactors with copyright strikes.

Myth Oceanas

Also have to understand Vietnam lasted 20 years, 8 for the US. Initially people weren’t as critical, but after a few years, it was clear there was fighting and no real gains. And they were constantly drafting people. Then basically we lost and North Viatnam won. And the US over a 30 year period had been at war for close to half of that, between WW2, Korea and Vietnam. To understand why soldiers were mistreated you have to keep things like that in mind.