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- _niko22
Never mind the absolute shit that this eventually spawned, but the first instalment - First Blood is so good.
A loner drifter returns from Vietnam a changed man in a changed society, reverts to an almost feral state as he tries to survive in the mountains while being hunted by the law and the very institutions that created him.That famous scene where Stallone falls off a cliff into a tree was real, he almost broke his back doing that stunt.
My only gripe is that they changed the book's ending where Rambo dies at the hands of his Colonel and mentor.
- Thanks for the recommendation. I’ve never seen this because I assumed cheese.nb
- This movie is even better for those first discovering it and that have the oiled up Rambo image in their head.palimpsest
- Same as Rocky.palimpsest
- < Heard great things about the bookkaiyohtee
- I have an excess of that “oiled up Rambo” in my head.nb
- looks like Stallone never knew when to quit while he was ahead. ran everything into the ground so he could cash in. it's a shame._niko
- Rambo I's a great, grim flick.
If memory serves, there is literally one woman (and at that, a barely tertiary character) in the movie.Nairn - Nairn, do you look for movies that have no female characters?nb
- Copland is also a great Stallone film if ya haven't seen it.jbasnight
- 1 person dies in this. He never wanted to kill anyone. I think by Rambo 4 the death toll was in its thousands!Ianbolton
- The artist Alain Bublex did a project around it:
https://www.youtube.…
http://alainbublex.f…palimpsest - that's brilliant palimpsest, one of the things that immediately struck me about this film is the environment, the mountains and town play a starring role_niko
- ...and the rust and decay as a metaphor for passing time and change._niko
- @nb - not particularly. i don't bechdel test every flick I watch, I just remember it stuck out for me when I noticed, as a 16 year old, for some reason.Nairn
- As a 16 year old watching Rambo (again) presumably late night, I guess I was looking out for someone to wank to. I don't think the one woman was wankable-to.Nairn
- Lolnb
- I love the thought of you looking at the pic on that Rambo VHS and thinking “this looks like it’ll be sexy”nb
- Satellite TV, baby - I grew up as an outlier ex-pat in a forin land, beteeted on whatever Sky Movies had to offer on a Friday night.Nairn
- I'm now getting off on the thought of you getting off on the thought of me fantasising about improbable RamboPorn from VHS video covers. Stranger things?Nairn
- Oh, shit - that should've been "WASN'T wankable-to", ffs. I memba her being some plump-faced 40-50-something.
Still. *unzips hotpantsNairn - oh wait, this is the problem with double negatives and booze.Nairn
- "That famous scene where Stallone falls off a cliff into a tree was real, he almost broke his back doing that stunt"
That's not possible, from such fall youi_was - don't broke your back, you die.i_was
- I love Reagan era movies. I've never been to 80s America, but I'm nostalgic about that atmosphere, probably from watching all these movies as a kiddrgs
- WOLVERINES!, amirite?Nairn
- lol Nairn, don't get me started on Red Dawn lol_niko
- ya first one has heart. rest are pure explosions.pango
- First Blood is great, but I'm always perplexed at the immediate vitriol shown to Rambo by the cop. If you go by the stereotypes, small-townmg33
- America, full of it's conservatives and military support weren't against the war in Vietnam. I don't recall hearing of stories of returning / struggling vetsmg33
- being shunned for their service. Many of them were treated as heroes, across the ocean battling big ugly communism.mg33
- If anyone disagrees, please share your thoughts, especially if you've got any articles about that era of returning and struggling vet.mg33
- Is the story based on anything realistic? Widespread stories? Was it anecdotal?mg33
- The cops issue with him is not that he's a veteran but a long-haired bum.palimpsest
- ^ that makes sense. There were certainly hundreds if not thousands of men that fit that description in the years after the war.mg33
- The oddity is that he just returned from the way - so 70's, immediate time frame of end of war, and treated that way.mg33
- That's the irony of it, and of course Rambo doesn't play the veteran card he just wants to be left alone.palimpsest
- the movie is obviously exaggerated to make a point.pango
- Thanks, Bennn.palimpsest
- you're welcome! (●'◡'●)pango
- its still another form of propaganda. in the movie, Rambo talks about being spat on after he came home. it was a rhetoric pushed by Nixon.pango
- trying to drive a wedge between the vets and anti-war protestors. but the researcher couldn't find any first-hand account of such incidents.pango
- https://www.amazon.c…pango
- however, there were actually more vets protesting alongside anti-anti war protestors.pango
- Mg33, felt the same when I saw that scene, but only during the interrogation do they realize he’s a vet, cop initially mistook him for a drifter._niko
- Nairn Drew First Blood Not Meutopian
- Random factoid of the day: some of the sound effects used in the classic video game Golden Axe were sampled from First Blood.5timuli
- The most cheesy part, the song: "It's a long road..."i_was
- This is gonna sound dumb and it is - I can't just can't take it seriously, it's the haircut.kalkal
- your mom had that haircut.pango
- She actually did and I can't take her seriously either.kalkal
- This prompted my need for a massive survival knife!davey_g
- Stallone is wearing a ton of makeup in this pic ^^^nb