An amazing action movie that ends with one of the most powerful and devastating performances we have seen yet! Can't wait to keep the Stallone Train rolling, thank you for your support!
The book First Blood is well worth a read, very different from the movie, better of course, although the first movie is much more faithful to the characters than the sequels which are entertaining, but in that classic 80's action-cringe style.
For all the crap people give Stallone, he is one of the first and few action heroes to break down and cry on screen. No John Wayne or Clint Eastwood nor ever Arnie. Stallone was that confident enough to cry and show it.
@@alainvosselman9960 Cheers. But yeah, I mean, for years I heard years from people how much of a "Meathead" Stallone is. Or how Arnold or whoever was better. But I look back and I can not remember one movie of an action star cry and sob at the end of the movie like a child. The older I get and the more I know how hard it is for men to show their emotions this much, the more I respect this man who had the courage to do this.
@@gutz1981 Yeah, you're spot on with it. I think that is why it is such an incredibly powerful scene. I'm kind of an emotional fella and remember how awkward it looked for the colonel to let Rambo put his head on his chest, which was so 'unmanly' to be doing, from both men. But i never thought about the nucleus of the situation, Rambo crying, to begin with. Even as a kid this scene was kind of a tear jerker...lol
Stallone’s monologue at the end still gives me chills. You just don’t expect it after all the previous action. It’s an absolute punch to the gut watching him tell that story about his friend.
That line "I didn't come here to rescue Rambo from you. I came here to rescue you from him." Is one of my favorites ever. Also, a very powerful final scene. great reaction.
Like Rohrschach in prison meeting all the inmates having a grudge against him: "None of you seem to understand... I'm not stuck in here with you. You're stuck in here with me!"
The end scene was the most important part of the movie. This was one of the first movies about Vietnam war veterans that brought public awareness of the trauma that war caused to the soldiers.
Yeah, makes me hope Teasle listened to the whole thing and realize how much of a stupid dick he was. Not many people know what these soldiers have been through or going through, but they can at least be understanding. Talk to them and help them however you can, but don't shut them out. Sly's speech was filled with so much pain I felt it.
@@DarkPaladin24 There's a reason vets are homeless/killing themselves at ridiculous rates. Unfortunately, the only people that you can relate to are people that were there. No one else will ever understand.
If you liked it fore that reason read the book by David Morell its a proper man hunt & takes no sides but goes into the character's more & a killer ending
Agreed, its so tragic that they had no idea who he was & just met Rambo's history with zero empathy & nothing but violence. Bad move. I never went to Nam but have a few hallmarks in my life that any law officer might want to consider. I won't lose my shit & start making punji traps, and I guess I could, but possibly last resort. Any soldier who has seen traumatizing things will mostly never want to revisit it & will avoid confrontation as much as possible.
@@LeadStarDude No. The fifth one is called Rambo:Last Blood. The fourth one is called John Rambo, at least that's what it's called on the Blu-Ray I hold in my hands right now :)
Took my girlfriend to see this in '82. I grew up during the Vietnam War, and saw the daily death and casualty numbers in the mornings while I was eating breakfast before school, so I was pretty "invested" emotionally, in that war. At the end of the movie, during Sly's monologue, my girlfriend and I looked at each and we were both crying. That war! We weren't anti-war hippies or anything... it was just a hard reality we had to go through, and it affected us both. I hated the way vets, coming home, were treated, and I was glad Stallone made a statement. I don't know how many minds it changed, but Viet vets WERE treated a LOT better in the following years. I know you didn't want to go, but a very big thank you to all the Vets... thank you for your service, no matter how you feel about it. Peace!
My father was in the Korean War that's what they call the Forgotten War because no one remembers it and one of my best friends was in the Vietnam War he died from cancer by the way lower intestinal cancer which means he had to wear a diaper because of Agent Orange you know remember agent orange where like it just wiped plants away and they told the troops it was fine to just go in there
They deserved the hate... They were failures who wasted their time being brainwashed so they could murder someone they've never meet..... fighting for old men and women to out of shape to do so themselves.... veterans and pig's don't deserve praise they are disgusting vile people....but hey freedom is great isn't it
@@ronniemaclaine5234 my great uncle fought in the Korean War he passed away back in 2014 he would tell us stories about the war when we would have family reunions every year
Agreed, he played such a great "bad cop" in this and makes you dislike him, total opposite of the loveable, big Tom Callahan from Tommy Boy, which was what I saw him in first.
My father fought in Vietnam. He heard the exact same things that Stallone describes. All of those things happened to an entire generation of Vietnam vets that mostly had no choice to fight over there. They were ignored, put down, abused and shamed. It's taken nearly 50 years and most of their deaths for people to finally have come around and treat them like the poor broken human beings they are. Like others have said, this was the first film that even remotely addressed the mental and physical trauma of Vietnam vets and how they were actually treated by their fellow countrymen.
Yea the way vets were treated was a national disgrace plus in dealing with what happened to them a lot self medicated with drugs or took there own life’s shame is vets today are getting screwed also so many are homeless or dealing with issues from the wars
:( just makes me sad. But that makes this movie so much more effective. The truth of it and the way PTSD just effects the mind. How mentally distressed Rambo is. And how mentally scarred people are treated. :(
Brian Dennehy was one of my favorite actors. He played his character with such malevolent charm. He was even better in Silverado, a "fun western 80's movie" I highly recommend.
"Copland" is another Stallone movie where he gives a great and probably his most understated performance. Also with Robert DeNiro, Harvey Keitel, and Ray Liotta.
I think you probably need to gut through the Rambo and Rocky franchises first and see how overblown and shitty his movies got to truly appreciate Copland and Stallone's understated performance.
I’m not a Stallone fan, but he was masterful in this. I had a good friend, a vet, who died of stage 4 lung cancer today. We never knew he was sick,he never lt us know. Breaks my heart watching this.
@Derrick Finzer not all vets died from cancer from smoking a number of them died of exposure from agent Orange used in Vietnam although smoking could have been a contributing factor. I had a teacher who taught high school art for 33 years and was a Vietnam vet. He passed away in 2020 at age 76 due exposure from agent Orange that was spread in the area where he was stationed and later in life suffered from prostate cancer.
May your friend rest in peace but I don't understand why you had to make a point of I'm not a Stallone fan that's like someone who is watching something that's supposed to be like either Republican or Democrat and go well I'm not a trump fan but everything he did was pretty damn awesome I don't get it why can't you just say wow Stallone he's pretty damn good actor and I have no problem with saying I'm a fan of his
I remember watching this with my dad when it came out on video back in the day. That last scene was so powerful, my dad started crying. He was a gunner in Vietnam. He never talked about his experiences and I never wanted to ask him, because I had heard so many stories about how soldiers would come back home and be spat on, they'd be called murderers, baby killers, rapists, just the worst things imaginable, all because they served in a war that many of them didn't even want to go fight in. I know that him and my mom lost a lot of friends. That last scene is such a powerful one. It displays Stallone's acting chops, and gives just a glimpse of what a lot of vets had to go through when they came back home. I hope you react to more of the Rambo saga. Part II is a favorite of mine, III not so much, but Rambo and Rambo: Last Blood are definitely worth reacting to!
Sylvester Stallone deserves far more recognition for his contributions to the Action film genre. He wrote all the Rocky, Rambo, and Expendables franchises. Directed pretty much all of the Rocky movies and is a terrific actor on top of it. There is a very short list in Hollywood of people who have had done as many things successfully as Stallone.
Really? I was always under the impression that he was the biggest 80s action movie star behind Arnie. Both of their likenesses were even used on the cover for Contra because they were the quintessential action heroes of the time. I’d say he’s earned his reputation & then some.
What are you talking about.... He's a household name. Practically worldwide. Unless you're talking about some sort of lifetime achievement award for contributions to the action film genre that I haven't heard of, what recognition do you want?
...it's worth noting that the most notable movie in this series, Rambo II, was co-written with Sly by the James Cameron. I mean, talking about contributions to the action genre ...
@@mikepeters807 If we are going to credit people for the character and story it should be noted that Rambo nor the story of the first movie is Stallone' brainchild. The character and story are both from the 1972 novel First Blood by David Morell.
In the original novel, Sheriff Teasle has a backstory that was going to be in the film but ended up getting cut out. Teasle was a Korean War veteran, and he resented John Rambo being a Vietnam War veteran because the Korean War by that point had become a forgotten war, and Korean War vets felt like their service and sacrifice had been forgotten as well. Teasle also resented how many Vietnam vets felt about the USA after the war was over.
This is also apparent in how Teasle leads his men in the forest. A line of men 50ft apart was typical for Korea but the tactic was not used in Vietnam.
I have to say that Rambo is one of the saddest movies I've ever seen. Sly's performance as John Rambo, especially in First Blood, is amazing. That speech at the end gets me every time.
That speech was really unexpected to me when I first saw the movie in theaters back in 1982 i was a junior in high school and it made me cry at the end it was so sad,I knew several Vietnam vets from my hometown that went to Vietnam and they all felt the same and sadly one of them took his own life when I was growing up he went to church with us that was so aweful I remember soldiers returning from the war in 1975 and I was only 10 but I’ll never forget the reactions they received when they got home
The reason he blows up the town is because that's what the sheriff was so proud of. A quiant town with no crime. A bunch of blown up buildings ruined that image.
likes of rambos literally ran from real guerrillas. rambo series yet another propagandist attempt to rewrite history and make "heroes" of war criminals..
@@jeffw7382 congrats for cravenly hiding behind vague words without specifics, just like usa's regime military war criminals who lost the war while committing war crimes on a mass scale . and then funded propagandist movies, like rambo series to make heroes out of those criminals, hide and justify war crimes, and manufacture opinion for further illegal wars with even more war crimes.
First Blood is a great movie. My favourite of all the Rambo movies. Sylvester Stallone should had got a Oscar nomination for his performance as John Rambo. 35:22 His acting at the end of the movie was really good. I felt really sorry for Rambo in the first movie. The movie wasn't just about Vietnam veterans and PTSD, it's also about bullying gone too far.
I love how it gradually reveals how deeply troubled Rambo is. By the end you realize he has these horrifying images stuck in his mind everyday and barely ever speaks to anyone. All of the Rambo movies are very entertaining, but this one is really powerful and one of the greats.
I kind of low-key love how the knowledge of the Rambo sequels paint what people assume to be the tone/theme of this first movie. It couldn't be further from the actual truth. This movie always surprises (and usually delights because it's not some mindless action bloodbath).
@@MessOfThings The trend of Stallone franchises. The original Rocky towers over the rest of the series which become mostly cheese with some decent elements here and there.
@@alainvosselman9960 Eh. I find Rocky way more compelling in that he doesn't care about winning the title really, he just wanted to go the distance with the best because he's been written off his whole life and also let himself down. And as he rises everyone around him gets better too. Also it displays actual boxing strategy more than the straight up clobberfests of the other films IMO. I feel like Rocky II and so on were made because people were like (that was great but Rocky didn't win sad." Which isn't the point at all.
I hope anybody who's struggling with PTSD knows that other people might not be able to understand it but they can still help if there's communication about it. This movie throws almost everybody when they watch it because everyone expects it to be some popcorn action flick through the cultural osmosis of just who Rambo is. That final scene with John and Col. Trautman is really powerful and striking and this whole unfortunate debacle could've been avoided, just as you said.
Oh yeah and when he wrecked the town, that warfare strategy, asset denial, breaking the enemies will and ability to fight. The targets he chooses all make perfect sense, fuel, ammo, power grid, Pretty much a one man invasion force at that point.
Fun fact Sly did all of his own stunts. He really did jump off the cliff, and when he landed on the branches he screams out in real pain, because he broke his ribs.
I not sure that this is quite right. I think someone ese did the cliff jump (onto a crash-pad presumably) and then sly was dropped into the tree, and as you said was injured. I could be wrong though as I'm just going off memory from back in the day.
I lived in Hope BC in grade seven when this film was made. Met Stallone and Brian Dennehey, the sheriff. Brian Dennehey, the dick sheriff is one of the nicest guys I have ever met. He was always hanging out with the locals, laughing and socializing. He was great with kids. The ending is brilliant. Stallone kills that scene. So heartbreaking. Definitely one of my favorite movies of all time.
I used to pick up loads of bottled water at the Nestle plant in Hope & bring it to California, about 15 years ago, but it wasn't until 5 or 6 years ago, that I found out this was filmed there, and not Washington state!
Thomas Brynko: My sister worked in The Business for a while and met Brian Dennehey. Said exactly what you said. Just a very nice man. Dang. Reminds me of how my mom worked with Richard Dreyfuss before he was famous and said the same thing, except there are people who say Dreyfuss is kind of a jerk. But, a story my mom told me about a truly kind thing he did will always be how I can't help but think of him
Jerry Goldsmith also did Planet Of The Apes (1968), The Edge, The Ghost And The Darkness, and on and on and on. More importantly he did music for a little, now underrated, movie with Richard Crenna (Col. Troutman) and Steve McQueen and a big cast in The Sand Pebbles (1965). A MUST SEE MOVIE there.
@@scottjo63 jerry goldsmith is the only one i'd put in the same conversation as john williams. williams is probably the GOAT but goldsmith is right there with him imo.
I think it's important to remember that 2 cops actively call out the others for being too aggressive to Rambo when he was at the police station, with the 2nd one even doing it in front of others, and many cops didn't see any of that happen all together. Most cops, the National Guard dudes and regular civilians only saw the parts where Rambo was acting crazy and hurting people. The Sheriff and the cop killed at the helicopter are 100% to blame for this movies events imo.
This was one of my favorite movies growing up. Rambo made the survival knife blow up in sales for a decade. It had a screw off hilt that inside contained fishing line, hook, matches/flints, compass, and several other survival tools. He was such a great character. Didn't kill anyone he didn't need to.
He is an excellent screenplay writer. Some great mainstream, some awesome cult stuff. Fun Fact: He was originally cast to play Axel Foley in Beverly Hills Cop. However, he wanted to re-write the script, and decided to write out a lot of the comedy and add more action and drama. Ivan Reitman didn't care for the changes and recast Stallone in favor of then-rising comedian Eddie Murphy. Stallone's altered script would then be adapted into the cult classic action film "Cobra."
@@sethraelthebard5459 Did not know that! Cool. Stallone also co-wrote and directed Staying Alive (sequel to Saturday Night Fever). May not have been a critical success, but it was a box office success.
That is a good flick and yes Sly performs well. But it also has an absolutely powerhouse supporting cast with DeNiro, Ray Liotta, Harvey Keitel, Michael Rapaport, Robert Patrick, and John Spencer, among others.
Fun fact: Stallone actually did part of the scene himself after the jump where he is landing through the branches and he actually broke some ribs in the process ,so the shot where he is in pain on that branch , he Is REALLY in pain
@@Jutrzen it’s a figure of speech for „do you want to hear something interesting“ it doesn’t necessarily have to be fun. Yes it can be a contradicting statement ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Even more amazing is that shot, where the ladder under him gives in, in the mine. It might have been planned, but that's still some whole new level of bodycontrol and situational awareness. He falls, does a whole flip going down, lands in the water and still saves the torch. I don't wanna know how often they had to do this shot. Every normal human being would either have dropped the torch or doused it in the water. Completely nuts!
I'm so happy you reacted to this masterpiece - intense, emotional and deep at the same time. I hope you will watch other Rambo films. Also, if you are interested in other great Sly Stallone films, I recommend Nighthawks (1981), Lock Up (1989), Cliffhanger (1993), Daylight (1996), Cop Land (1997)
Great reactions, guys! “First Blood” is the best of the Rambo franchise, in my opinion. After this one, the movies, and character, devolve increasingly into more of a parody. This movie, I feel, tried to tell the story of John Rambo and the problems he has to live with. Made even more poignant, with his speech in the end. After all, in Vietnam he was trusted with millions of dollars of military hardware and machinery. And back in the real world he can’t even keep a job parking cars. The one line that I absolutely love is when he’s got Sheriff Teasle in the woods up against the tree, with his knife to the sheriff’s throat, and he says, “I could have killed 'em all, I could've killed you…” That right there should have told Teasle to let it go.
The 4th movie is a return to the first and the better for it. In fact the 4th completwly ignores the events of the 3rd and 3rd and it is the better for it.
As a veteran its hard to watch that last scene, it really strikes at the heart of the pain and confusion that comes when the war ends and you have to put it behind you.
As a non-veteran, this cut thru all the BS and delivered your message to me more effectively than any other media I've seen. I wish the sequels hadn't muddied the waters.
I really appreciate that the film makers chose not to end the movie the way it ends in the novel. If the Colonel would have killed him, we wouldn’t have been able to enjoy all of the other sequels that came out. I look forward to seeing your reactions to those as well. Once you’ve finished this series, I think the next Stallone film you’ll have to watch, aside from the Rocky and Creed films is Cliffhanger. It’s a classic.
If I remember right, the movie script was originally supposed to end with his suicide after his monologue. Would have been a very different end and I can say that the final version is better.
My Dad was in Hope, B.C. seeing this movie being filmed on location, even took some pictures of Stallone and the camera crew One time he was sitting in the diner with his friends, it was freezing cold that night, the furnace was smoking out, they saw Stallone running around outside with the tanktop and the M-60 with the camera crew filming and they were all really surprised like how the hell is he doing that? You should see Stallones commentary track on the First Blood DVD, really really interesting.
@@cesarmedina7080 Yes it is. I live two hours from there. They got a visitor's place that has photos taken from the First Blood movie put up around there.
The "Shoe Shine box" story is based on a true story from 35:17. Sly met two Vietnam Vets who were actually on set when they told him their story about when they were In Saigon
I saw this on Halloween in 82, first year I didn't trick or treat because of the Tylenol poisonings my mom wouldn't risk us getting candy from strangers, so we went saw this. It was less than ten years after the war so our veterans were still young adults. They were treated like crap when they came home. It was about this time they got any respect and I'm sure this movie was part of it. That and a growing patriotic wave.
Also so many shows in the early 80s featured helicopters, magnum pi, riptide, blue thunder, etc. etc., this was because so many vets came back from vietnam having learned how to fly a helicopter, there really was a surplus of helicopter pilots in the us,
For a while I was not sure how Rambo found his way out of the cave, but it has to do with oxygen and breeze. The flame from the fire will be drawn to the direction of oxygen.
You should watch Rambo: First Blood Part II. He has a great monologue at the end of that one too. And the film started many of the action tropes we know today.
I was nine years old when this movie was released. I remember my older brothers coming home and quoting lines and describing the whole movie. A year or so later I got a Rambo knife for Christmas, with the compass and matches inside.
People often compare Stallone with Arnold. As far as acting, writing and as an overall artist, Stallone is in a completely different league than Arnold.
As much as I love the acting by Stallone and Dennehy, Richard Crenna has to be my favorite thing about First Blood. His smarmy one-liners as these small town cops fail to take down his man are just a joy. Can't give the movie enough credit though for rising above just being a great action movie and finding an emotional core that still resonates today
You picked a good one. Best of the franchise in my opinion. I think it really says something about PTSD among soldiers and such. Glad you two enjoyed it.
This should have been a standalone movie, but this franchise goes the same way of Rocky. Both franchises start out with classic action/drama movies and devolve into mindless action blockbusters, but they can still be enjoyable. The good thing is that the fourth film in both franchises accept and embrace the ridiculous nature of the sequels and deliver a complete blast for fans. The fourth Rambo film delivers a grindhouse style B movie that I can't help but enjoy.
Rambo II holds a special place in my heart though. While it seems like a standard action flick today, for its time it was kind of revolutionary. It created many of the action tropes we take for granted today.
I've been watching this movie for years and never even noticed the Christmas tree up in the station or thought about it being a Christmas movie lol. So I guess it's right up there in the great tradition of Christmas action movies with Die Hard and Lethal Weapon!
The tragedy of the entire Rambo series is that there were two kinds of reactions to the first movie. One group said "What a sad story of a broken man, destroyed by war" and the other said "Hey Ma! Lookit that feller with the big guns! He blowed up that town real good!". And they made ALL the sequels for the second group. In the first movie the enemy is small town America. In all the sequels it's the natives of whatever country he's invaded this time.
The first blood is the only one worth watching he actually only kills one person not even on purpose and tried to avoid people instead of gunho mad man
In this film, as in "Platoon", the drama of the soldier is shown, of the traumas of a war that obviously was not his. That final speech by John is the most devastating. Very good reaction, guys. I recommend "Born on the 4th of July", another great film about Vietnam and about soldiers who retake their lives.
The score in this movie is amazing. Everytime you hear that Rambo organ start playing you know some shit is about to go down haha. Also even though the young red headed guy pulls off his dog tag, he is the only one to treat him with a lick of respect.
Typical Jerry Goldsmith. So great. Many similarities to his score for Total Recall a number of years later. Some parts are nearly identical actually... The same can be said for Alan Silvestri's scores for Back To The Future and Predator. So great.
This is really a different type of film compared to the others in the series. More realistic. He's a more developed character than the monosyllabic action hero he becomes in the later films.
Mostly because this one's adapted from a novel (which is well worth reading BTW - book Rambo is a much darker, more complex character and there's a lot more between him and Teasle, kind of a generational almost father/son conflict. Much higher body count and different ending too). (the author of 'First Blood' had issues with the cartoonish nature of the sequel movies, especially "Rambo: First Blood Pt 2", so he actually wrote the movie novelisations himself in order to try to put some depth back in there)
The novel, First Blood by David Morrell is very different to the film, a character study of sorts. If you haven't already, you should check it out. The sequel, Rambo:First Blood Part 2 was written as a tie in to the movie sequel.
"That main cop has such tiny dick energy". LOL. In the book this was based on, Rambo died at the end, and the movie was almost released with that ending. Along with the original Rocky, this is one of Stallone's best performances.
@@scsi_joe yeah, actually I think you can find it on UA-cam, he's also WAY more violent in the book, he is way less sympathetic, not totally unsympathetic but he just straight up tries to kill everyone, that kid he let's go only survives because he can't catch him if memory serves
@@andrewhussey4538 True. The book is super violent compared to the movie. They really toned the character down for the movie. If they had filmed the book as it was written I doubt it would have worked as well as it did considering both Rambo and Teasle are not likeable much at all in the book.
I wonder how that actor faired in real life. Billy Dee Williams said that he constantly had to defend Lando Calrrisian in hotel lobbies, airports, restaurants, etc.
I did a tour in the Falklands Islands up on one of the Mountains for four months. The only access to the Base was via Helicopter and Port Stanley had all the fun and supplies. Our unit was given just two videos for the whole Tour: Simon Murry's Documentary "Legionnaire" and First Blood we watched those videos about 40 times so just love the diaolague in this film it's hilarious. We used see how many quotes we could use in normal conversation. Tip: Have you viewed the British Film " Scum!" That was a cult film among the youth back in the day.
I love when people watch this movie for the first time and think "It's Rambo." Hollywood made him into an action hero for all the sequels. This movie, based on the book, is a character piece and study on ptsd. And in the book Troutman kills Rambo in the end. R.I.P. Brian Dennehy for playing a great villain.
As I said in another reaction to this film, the Vietnam war was incredibly unpopular back home and it's important to remember that the veterans from that time were absolutely shat on by society at large when they returned home - no parades, no acknowledgement of their issues, no nothing. These days, it's common to say to (for example) an Iraq veteran, "Thank you for your service." Vietnam vets had nothing like that and had to deal with things such as no-one wanting to talk about what they went through and America generally being ashamed of the war, and by extension, the vets themselves. Consequently, a lot of them went on to have major mental issues later in life, and some did snap, although perhaps not quite as badly as this fictionalised example.
Friend of mine had an uncle who was a Vietnam vet. He had a lot of issues but was.... surviving. Then he came home and caught his wife in bed with another man. You DO NOT want to know what he did to them. I will just say the room was painted red with blood when he finished and he ended up getting life in prison with no chance for parole. Yeah. Vietnam vets were not people you wanted to be near if they did "snap"
Fun Fact: Stallone actually broke his ribs hitting the tree branch (Which the scream was left in and real) Buddy Joe Hooker did the initial high fall from the cliff, Stallone did a lighter fall into the branches.
Filmed in Hope, British Columbia, Canada a couple hours east of Vancouver. And, yes, it IS a beautiful location for a town. The bridge he walked across at the beginning was recently replaced. The town had a big "Rambo Day" celebration with a bunch of military equipment on display, etc. Great movie. Great town. I love your videos. Best response videos I've seen and the ONLY reason I regularly watch response videos, which I never really liked until coming across your channel.
My favorite quote of Rambo's is either at the end of First Blood, or maybe Rambo 2, but the quote is no doubt the wish that the Nam troops who made it home wanted. The ones who made it home were insulted, spurned, and mistreated instead of welcomed as the heroes they were/are. The Rambo quote is, “I want, what they want, and every other guy who came over here and spilled his guts and gave everything he had, wants! For our country to love us as much as we love it! That's what I want!” One of the most heartbreaking quotes in film history.
And Night Hawks (1981), with bad guy terrorist Rutger Hauer, before Blade Runner, Billy Dee Williams, etc. Now there's an underrated character Stallone should have made more popular.
I served in the Army and PTSD is no joke. You go through all these things, these horrible situations you are put in and you have to do severe things to get back home and then you get home and few people have honor and NOBODY understands what demons you fight every day and especially at night when you are alone. You can be highly trained and come home and not get a job washing cars. It can be a living hell. I'm better than I was and no more suicide attempts but it never really gets easier. You just get more numb to things. Comfortably numb. I used to wake up and not know that I was home. For a few seconds I thought I was back overseas. your mind gets trained to that. I love your guys channel. Long time fan.
Movie trivia - The actor that play Deputy Art Gault (the mean cop with the red haired) was Jack Starrett. One of the other famous roles he played was Gabby Johnson (authentic frontier gibberish) in Blazing Saddles.
Quick tid-bit: Many survival-knives of its day were designed with a hollow handle which held an array of tiny tools to help give a leg up in any wilderness-survival situation. Things like a compass, waterproof matches, small birthday candle, a fire-steel, fishing line with hooks and sutures among other little tiny tools could be crammed inside the handle for quick use. ( :E
And after the sequel, manufacture and sales of those knives (and cheap knockoffs) skyrocketed. There were ads for "Rambo Knives" in so many unexpected magazines, etc. Some as cheap as $4.99.
If you think Stallone is good in this, watch COP LAND, where he acts some very big hitters (De Niro, Keitel etc) off the stage in a very powerful dramatic performance - IMHO he should have gotten an Oscar for it.
This movie is OUTSTANDING!!! I love how Jerry Goldsmith's music meshes well with it all. The government and the U.S as a whole did a VERY terrible job dealing with both the after effects of Vietnam and veterans coming back. No PTSD solutions, No employment, no mental therapy etc. This was supposed to be the 1st and last movie because he was supposed to be killed off but the film did so well that they made a sequel
Goldsmith was king way back. He died at 75 years old still going after being active in the industry for over 52 years. His stuff was so good that when mixing the temp audio track for Alien the editor used score cues from his first film score work on "Freud" in 1963, more than 15 years earlier - those score cues remained in the final film for the facehugger acid blood scene, and the Dallas in the airshafts scene. Ironically he scored the first film of 2 major sci fi franchises within only 2 years - Alien and Star Trek The Motion Picture (plus the theme tune for all 3 80s/90s Star Trek TV shows). He also scored the original Planet of the Apes too. Nominated for Best Score Oscar 17 times, won only once (The Omen).
This movie went through production hell for nearly ten years. Kirk Douglas was trying to get the movie made with him playing Trautman. Al Pacino, Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman to name a few were considered to play Rambo. When Stallone came abroad he got involved with script changes, including changing the ending. Kirk Douglas was against it and left the project. Lee Marvin was suggested to play Trautman before Crenna finally got the part. Gene Hackman would have been good as the sherrif but I loved Dennehy in the part. The Final cut of the film turned out brilliantly. Pity about the sequels.
Yeah i heard the reason Kirk Douglas didn't accept the role was because he thought Rambo should have died in the original ending, but all the test audiences really hated it which is why they changed it.
@@TBRSchmitt the next ones are just enjoyable and get worse as the sequels go by. However they are worth watching at least once if you want to understand lots of pop culture references. AND, "John Rambo" is a very good movie IMHO. It feels like Sly wanted to do something decent with the character and not just another money maker sequel. Besides it manages to make you believe that someone that age can still be VERY dangerous.
Such a powerful performance by Sylvester Stallone!!🤘 The speech he gives at the end of the movie gets me every time😢🤙 this Rambo movie is easily the most grounded of the series❤️😎
The ending made the whole movie for me and I was already really enjoying it! Just shifted the tone into such a realistic and devastating portrayal of a veteran dealing with what they had to experience in war!
@@TBRSchmitt Absolutely👍 it’s really sad that veteran‘s had to go through stuff like that😢I used to have a neighbor that had bad flashbacks from Vietnam😔
That's why this is my favorite Rambo film. This is not a big action film, this is a story about a soldier suffering from PTSD. That speech in the end is so powerful.
Maaan I saw Rambo 2 and 3 so many times growing up in the 80’s and early 90’s but when I finally watched First Blood I was blown away. Especially that ending very emotional.
The cliff scene used 2 stunt doubles, and Stallone did the last part of the fall, where he slammed into the branch and screamed in pain, that was real as he broke a few ribs. In the cave, the rats bit Stallone, and the director told him, "that is why you are getting paid 3 million dollars", or words to that effect lol. And most of that movie, Stallone didn't wear a jacket and the temperature was just above freezing.
32:58 "This is kind of like a horror movie." It's crazy you said that because it sometimes gets looked at as a modern day retelling of Frankenstein, with Rambo as the Monster and Troutmann as Frankenstein!
This movie helped bring attention to all the Vietnam Vets struggles after the war. I was 14 when this came out and I could be remembering wrong but I believe it helped make people more aware of the problem. During that time period after the success of this movie a few more of these type came out. It felt at the time to me that it improved awareness and helped at least some of the Vietnam Vets get more help that they needed. Again, I was very young but that's how I remember this area of Vietnam based films.
I agree I was 10 when it came out & I believe that this one brought attention to how unfairly the Vietnam veterans were being treated ( most of whom had been drafted), just like the second brought more attention to it's subject matter ( not going to spill anything)
given what you willingly did in vietnam, you don't deserve help . war criminals of the worst kind. you get any help only because facts about what you did are kept from public eye.
4:00 what you do not realize is the the Sheriff is a war veteran, having served in Korea, but despises Vietnam Vets as he thought they were mindless thugs killing innocent men, women and children, hence why he hates Rambo. He'll learn the hard way later on.
In the book he's a Korean war veteran yes, but in neither book or movie is he shown to despise veterans, he doesn't even know Rambo is anything other than a vagrant until after he's on the run,...remember, by the time Rambo reaches town, he's been moved on so many times he's just itching for an excuse to show somebody his 'skills', both characters are equally good and bad and responsible for the violence that follows.
My dad is a Vietnam vet..I always feel like I inherited his flashbacks. He drank alot ..fought police but was jailed.. gradually calming down in life..but always a calm crazy creature
I think Stallone's performance was absolutely fantastic, especially the last scene where he breaks down, looking back I don't know why he didn't get nominated for an Oscar for his performance of a Vietnam Vet coping with coming back to the world and getting treated like that after fighting for your country against an unbeatable enemy in their own back yard. An amazing performance 👍
Brian Dennehy has some real gems in his career. Besides being the sheriff in first blood he also plays a crooked sheriff in the Western, Silverado. (btw my favorite movie of alllllll time!) also great in a movie called F/X, and Cocoon, and others.
I love this film. First Blood is a classic and by far the best film of the franchise. now im not going to spoil anything for you guys, but i want to inform you that its sequal are radically different from the original. after all, First Blood is unique within the franchise sinces it really isnt an action film.
So glad you did this! I don't think I've seen it since I watched it in the movie theater when I was about 12, and I remember everybody just going crazy about how great a film it was. Stallone was definitely on a roll! Just make sure you never watch Stop, or My Mom Will Shoot! 😂
This movie is by far my favorite in the series. (disclaimer: I have not seen the last couple)). Unfortunately the next couple suffer from the typical familiar 80's action camp. Fun when I was a kid but this one is just a good movie and I'd watch it again and again.
When Rambo first came out everyone wanted that knife that Rambo was using. It's razor-sharp, with a compass in the hilt, a first aid kit in the knife chamber. To top it all off, the serrated side can cut through barbed wire. That knife was next level and cost about $100, but it was well worth it.
mine is not the same as his but it has the compass, fishing hooks,matches, etc inside the handle. The sheath has a wetstone and can be used as a slingshot too.
Such a masterpiece, especially the end. Stallone and the other 3 writers really wanted to touch on how much suffering the men of vietnam went thru even after they returned home. All that pain of a nation turning against their own who answered the call was captured perfectly in that final speech.
Soooo glad you’re back to Sly films, I love Arnie but Stallone has always been that cut above, he’s an incredible writer, director and actor, all his films are incredible, can’t wait to see what you do next :D
They don't explain it in the movie but you get a glimpse of it on his desk the sheriff was a Korean war vet. So you would think he would have been more sympathetic to Rambo since they were both vets.
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An amazing action movie that ends with one of the most powerful and devastating performances we have seen yet!
Can't wait to keep the Stallone Train rolling, thank you for your support!
The book First Blood is well worth a read, very different from the movie, better of course, although the first movie is much more faithful to the characters than the sequels which are entertaining, but in that classic 80's action-cringe style.
The best rambo is rambo 4
Awesome movie
There's an alternate ending in which Rambo shoots himself after the scene with Trautman at the end.
Besides Rambo and Rocky movies, I suggest Cobra, Tango and Cash and Judge Dredd
Anyone who claims that Stallone can't act needs to watch this movie.
The guy can act, but he's better at writting and directing.....
He's a fantastic actor in the right roles
Very good remark
And Copland.
He's consistently amazing through the Rocky movies, and still in Creed.
For all the crap people give Stallone, he is one of the first and few action heroes to break down and cry on screen. No John Wayne or Clint Eastwood nor ever Arnie. Stallone was that confident enough to cry and show it.
He cried in Rocky II and III too. Made me cry as well.
Out of all the action stars of his time, he was also a terrific and talented actor when he had the right material.
You know, i never actually thought off that my entire life... lol, thanx for pointing that out. That's a sharp obseveration, and i think it stands.
@@alainvosselman9960 Cheers. But yeah, I mean, for years I heard years from people how much of a "Meathead" Stallone is. Or how Arnold or whoever was better. But I look back and I can not remember one movie of an action star cry and sob at the end of the movie like a child. The older I get and the more I know how hard it is for men to show their emotions this much, the more I respect this man who had the courage to do this.
@@gutz1981 Yeah, you're spot on with it. I think that is why it is such an incredibly powerful scene. I'm kind of an emotional fella and remember how awkward it looked for the colonel to let Rambo put his head on his chest, which was so 'unmanly' to be doing, from both men. But i never thought about the nucleus of the situation, Rambo crying, to begin with. Even as a kid this scene was kind of a tear jerker...lol
"He doesn't even have a gun, or ammo or anything!"
Sure he does -- all of theirs. They're just carrying it for him.
If I need a weapon, I'll get a weapon.-Melinda "The Cavalry" May.
Thirty seconds later, she had TWO pistols.
LOL, good one !
@@scotthewitt258 and she earned that nickname after killing a kid, hence why she hate it. the story behind that scene alone is great stuff.
In the immortal words of The Cavalry, "If I need a gun, I'll get a gun."
Stallone’s monologue at the end still gives me chills. You just don’t expect it after all the previous action. It’s an absolute punch to the gut watching him tell that story about his friend.
Also, when he mentioned "babykiller", supposedly that was associated with the My Lai massacre...
That line "I didn't come here to rescue Rambo from you. I came here to rescue you from him." Is one of my favorites ever. Also, a very powerful final scene. great reaction.
Like Rohrschach in prison meeting all the inmates having a grudge against him:
"None of you seem to understand... I'm not stuck in here with you. You're stuck in here with me!"
@@Leon_der_Luftige came to say that very thing.
"To dispose of enemy personnel.... To Kill! PERIOD!!!" Do not f with that kind of person.
Read the India versions of Rambo and his team “The Baker Team” in Vietnam and you will realize why he reacts like he does
The Speech at the end is one of the most powerful on film, It was totally out of the blue and perfectly delivered by Sly
I unexpectedly cried, his pain seemed so real, and the fact that Vietnam and other war vets actually went through the same pain is heartbreaking.
The end scene was the most important part of the movie. This was one of the first movies about Vietnam war veterans that brought public awareness of the trauma that war caused to the soldiers.
Who has seen the alternate ending?
Yeah, makes me hope Teasle listened to the whole thing and realize how much of a stupid dick he was. Not many people know what these soldiers have been through or going through, but they can at least be understanding. Talk to them and help them however you can, but don't shut them out. Sly's speech was filled with so much pain I felt it.
@@DarkPaladin24 There's a reason vets are homeless/killing themselves at ridiculous rates. Unfortunately, the only people that you can relate to are people that were there. No one else will ever understand.
This is barely even an action movie. It's more of a character study and that's what makes it so great. I love it.
classic story of intolerance, misinterpreting and knee-jerk judgement
Its a statement on American policing
Based on a novel, dont forget. They made a beautiful work taking this to a Movie. Some novels that was Turned into a movies were Huge sucesseses.
If you liked it fore that reason read the book by David Morell its a proper man hunt & takes no sides but goes into the character's more & a killer ending
Agreed, its so tragic that they had no idea who he was & just met Rambo's history with zero empathy & nothing but violence. Bad move. I never went to Nam but have a few hallmarks in my life that any law officer might want to consider. I won't lose my shit & start making punji traps, and I guess I could, but possibly last resort. Any soldier who has seen traumatizing things will mostly never want to revisit it & will avoid confrontation as much as possible.
The Best Rambo movie.. this movie is less action compared to the sequels.. but it has the best story telling out of all..
After this Rambo just becomes an action Super Hero. This movie is actually about something.
I actually really like the fourth one, John Rambo.
@@Trygvar13 Same. Best Part after one
@@Trygvar13 That would be the 5th movie not the 4th.The 4th is just named Rambo, and it takes place in Burma.
@@LeadStarDude No. The fifth one is called Rambo:Last Blood. The fourth one is called John Rambo, at least that's what it's called on the Blu-Ray I hold in my hands right now :)
Took my girlfriend to see this in '82. I grew up during the Vietnam War, and saw the daily death and casualty numbers in the mornings while I was eating breakfast before school, so I was pretty "invested" emotionally, in that war. At the end of the movie, during Sly's monologue, my girlfriend and I looked at each and we were both crying. That war! We weren't anti-war hippies or anything... it was just a hard reality we had to go through, and it affected us both. I hated the way vets, coming home, were treated, and I was glad Stallone made a statement. I don't know how many minds it changed, but Viet vets WERE treated a LOT better in the following years. I know you didn't want to go, but a very big thank you to all the Vets... thank you for your service, no matter how you feel about it. Peace!
To those of us that fought with honor, you were the very best of all of us.🖖✌
"We weren't anti war hippies or anything" the movie shits on those, just as much as it shits on war.
My father was in the Korean War that's what they call the Forgotten War because no one remembers it and one of my best friends was in the Vietnam War he died from cancer by the way lower intestinal cancer which means he had to wear a diaper because of Agent Orange you know remember agent orange where like it just wiped plants away and they told the troops it was fine to just go in there
They deserved the hate... They were failures who wasted their time being brainwashed so they could murder someone they've never meet..... fighting for old men and women to out of shape to do so themselves.... veterans and pig's don't deserve praise they are disgusting vile people....but hey freedom is great isn't it
@@ronniemaclaine5234 my great uncle fought in the Korean War he passed away back in 2014 he would tell us stories about the war when we would have family reunions every year
As great as Stallone is in this film, Brian Dennehey doesnt get enough credit for his performance, he was a very genuine believable actor.
Agreed, he played such a great "bad cop" in this and makes you dislike him, total opposite of the loveable, big Tom Callahan from Tommy Boy, which was what I saw him in first.
My father fought in Vietnam. He heard the exact same things that Stallone describes. All of those things happened to an entire generation of Vietnam vets that mostly had no choice to fight over there. They were ignored, put down, abused and shamed. It's taken nearly 50 years and most of their deaths for people to finally have come around and treat them like the poor broken human beings they are. Like others have said, this was the first film that even remotely addressed the mental and physical trauma of Vietnam vets and how they were actually treated by their fellow countrymen.
It was terrible how they treated returning vets.
Yea the way vets were treated was a national disgrace plus in dealing with what happened to them a lot self medicated with drugs or took there own life’s shame is vets today are getting screwed also so many are homeless or dealing with issues from the wars
:( just makes me sad. But that makes this movie so much more effective. The truth of it and the way PTSD just effects the mind. How mentally distressed Rambo is. And how mentally scarred people are treated. :(
Grandfather was World War 2 vet. After war he was heavy drinker and even smallest noise made him jump out of bed to investigate the source of noise.
*same in Russia
Brian Dennehy was one of my favorite actors. He played his character with such malevolent charm.
He was even better in Silverado, a "fun western 80's movie" I highly recommend.
He did a great supporting role in the movie F/X.
He played a lot of good characters, too. He was a great character actor. Loved him in Cocoon.
He did a great job playing Chris Farley's dad in Tommy Boy
@@15blackshirt And Jack Black's in The Big Year ;-)
@@ppjkb8 Agree with that!
"Copland" is another Stallone movie where he gives a great and probably his most understated performance. Also with Robert DeNiro, Harvey Keitel, and Ray Liotta.
Cop Land is another excellent movie with Stallone. 👍
I love that movie. Wish some reactors would review it.
Copland is a highly regarded movie.
Yes IT is®
I think you probably need to gut through the Rambo and Rocky franchises first and see how overblown and shitty his movies got to truly appreciate Copland and Stallone's understated performance.
I’m not a Stallone fan, but he was masterful in this. I had a good friend, a vet, who died of stage 4 lung cancer today. We never knew he was sick,he never lt us know. Breaks my heart watching this.
Rip to your friend, man. No one can prepare us for such things. Hope you are doing ok.
@Derrick Finzer not all vets died from cancer from smoking a number of them died of exposure from agent Orange used in Vietnam although smoking could have been a contributing factor. I had a teacher who taught high school art for 33 years and was a Vietnam vet. He passed away in 2020 at age 76 due exposure from agent Orange that was spread in the area where he was stationed and later in life suffered from prostate cancer.
May your friend rest in peace but I don't understand why you had to make a point of I'm not a Stallone fan that's like someone who is watching something that's supposed to be like either Republican or Democrat and go well I'm not a trump fan but everything he did was pretty damn awesome I don't get it why can't you just say wow Stallone he's pretty damn good actor and I have no problem with saying I'm a fan of his
@Derrick Finzer cigarette smoking killed my dad
I remember watching this with my dad when it came out on video back in the day. That last scene was so powerful, my dad started crying. He was a gunner in Vietnam. He never talked about his experiences and I never wanted to ask him, because I had heard so many stories about how soldiers would come back home and be spat on, they'd be called murderers, baby killers, rapists, just the worst things imaginable, all because they served in a war that many of them didn't even want to go fight in. I know that him and my mom lost a lot of friends. That last scene is such a powerful one. It displays Stallone's acting chops, and gives just a glimpse of what a lot of vets had to go through when they came back home. I hope you react to more of the Rambo saga. Part II is a favorite of mine, III not so much, but Rambo and Rambo: Last Blood are definitely worth reacting to!
Tell your father I said thank you.
First Blood and Rambo (2008), are my favorites.
"I'll give you a war you won't believe." One of the most intimidating lines ever spoken in a movie, and Rambo had the skills to back it up.
always loved that line.
And its also the way he delivers it. Amazing.
And a good supply of body bags
You can't tough talk a movie when there are some guys who have actually done stuff close to this in real life.
"Don't Push It"
Sylvester Stallone deserves far more recognition for his contributions to the Action film genre. He wrote all the Rocky, Rambo, and Expendables franchises. Directed pretty much all of the Rocky movies and is a terrific actor on top of it. There is a very short list in Hollywood of people who have had done as many things successfully as Stallone.
Really? I was always under the impression that he was the biggest 80s action movie star behind Arnie. Both of their likenesses were even used on the cover for Contra because they were the quintessential action heroes of the time. I’d say he’s earned his reputation & then some.
What are you talking about.... He's a household name. Practically worldwide. Unless you're talking about some sort of lifetime achievement award for contributions to the action film genre that I haven't heard of, what recognition do you want?
Yeah, but I think he’s not recognized as a legit filmmaker, just a caricature of the action star
...it's worth noting that the most notable movie in this series, Rambo II, was co-written with Sly by the James Cameron. I mean, talking about contributions to the action genre ...
@@mikepeters807 If we are going to credit people for the character and story it should be noted that Rambo nor the story of the first movie is Stallone' brainchild. The character and story are both from the 1972 novel First Blood by David Morell.
In the original novel, Sheriff Teasle has a backstory that was going to be in the film but ended up getting cut out. Teasle was a Korean War veteran, and he resented John Rambo being a Vietnam War veteran because the Korean War by that point had become a forgotten war, and Korean War vets felt like their service and sacrifice had been forgotten as well. Teasle also resented how many Vietnam vets felt about the USA after the war was over.
Wow
There is a glimpse of Teasles medals in his office.
Oh damn. That's a nice little tidbit that should've been put on the screen. That's something that's rarely talked about
This is also apparent in how Teasle leads his men in the forest. A line of men 50ft apart was typical for Korea but the tactic was not used in Vietnam.
@@bl3993 Very good observation. 👍
I have to say that Rambo is one of the saddest movies I've ever seen. Sly's performance as John Rambo, especially in First Blood, is amazing. That speech at the end gets me every time.
That speech was really unexpected to me when I first saw the movie in theaters back in 1982 i was a junior in high school and it made me cry at the end it was so sad,I knew several Vietnam vets from my hometown that went to Vietnam and they all felt the same and sadly one of them took his own life when I was growing up he went to church with us that was so aweful I remember soldiers returning from the war in 1975 and I was only 10 but I’ll never forget the reactions they received when they got home
The reason he blows up the town is because that's what the sheriff was so proud of. A quiant town with no crime. A bunch of blown up buildings ruined that image.
"In town you're the law. Out here it's me. Don't push it. Let it go" Best line in the movie next to his PTSD monologue at the end.
likes of rambos literally ran from real guerrillas. rambo series yet another propagandist attempt to rewrite history and make "heroes" of war criminals..
@@sitting_nut Stuff a sock in it, Marxist assclown!
@@sitting_nut congratulations for not understanding anything
@@jmenelow call me names since you can't refute what i said. and don't expect me to shut up because person like you can't face facts.
@@jeffw7382 congrats for cravenly hiding behind vague words without specifics, just like usa's regime military war criminals who lost the war while committing war crimes on a mass scale . and then funded propagandist movies, like rambo series to make heroes out of those criminals, hide and justify war crimes, and manufacture opinion for further illegal wars with even more war crimes.
HE JUST WANTED SOMETHING TO EAT
Should have just fed the man!
This shows how some of your life decisions can move you to extreme paths...
"He wrote this?"
Yes, he is an academy award nominee screen writer. Just let that settle in.
He wrote part of the screenplay. It's based off the book First Blood. The character of Rambo was kinda inspired by Audie Murphy
@@MrEd8846 I know, i also think it is cool that Stallone is a pretty ok screenwriter. She just seemed quite surprised with the writing credit.
Actually, Stallone never won an Oscar. As great a script as Rocky was, it had no shot at beating Paddy Chayefsky's Network.
@@doughbafett corrected
@@amandarose4469 I think he's better than pretty ok. I guess it depends what you think of the movies he's written. And to be fair, it's hit or miss.
First Blood is a great movie. My favourite of all the Rambo movies. Sylvester Stallone should had got a Oscar nomination for his performance as John Rambo. 35:22 His acting at the end of the movie was really good. I felt really sorry for Rambo in the first movie. The movie wasn't just about Vietnam veterans and PTSD, it's also about bullying gone too far.
True...he deserved an Oscar for this performance.
I love how it gradually reveals how deeply troubled Rambo is. By the end you realize he has these horrifying images stuck in his mind everyday and barely ever speaks to anyone. All of the Rambo movies are very entertaining, but this one is really powerful and one of the greats.
Should read the book it's based on
"That redhead guy" is David Caruso, of "NYPD Blue" and "CSI: Miami" fame. (The latter responsible for the pun-liner + sunglasses + YEAHHHHH meme)
Is he the guy from the "24" series.. David Palmers security? Or is that a completely different actor
@@josephamoraz7990 I think you're confusing him with Glenn Morshower.
@@DataCab1e Glenn Morshower could be David Caruso's brother separated at birth at this rate.
I knew there was something about that guy!
@@paolom.6011 classic line
I kind of low-key love how the knowledge of the Rambo sequels paint what people assume to be the tone/theme of this first movie. It couldn't be further from the actual truth. This movie always surprises (and usually delights because it's not some mindless action bloodbath).
I agree, the rest of the series is all action film but this one is an absolute drama masterpiece
@@MessOfThings The trend of Stallone franchises. The original Rocky towers over the rest of the series which become mostly cheese with some decent elements here and there.
@@BrettCagwin49ers Rocky 2 holds up quite well too. Turning it into a trilogy and then an entire saga.. Is where it went a bit downhill.
@@alainvosselman9960 Eh. I find Rocky way more compelling in that he doesn't care about winning the title really, he just wanted to go the distance with the best because he's been written off his whole life and also let himself down. And as he rises everyone around him gets better too. Also it displays actual boxing strategy more than the straight up clobberfests of the other films IMO. I feel like Rocky II and so on were made because people were like (that was great but Rocky didn't win sad." Which isn't the point at all.
@@BrettCagwin49ers Plus the whole dynamic with him and Adrian in this movie is brilliant too.
I hope anybody who's struggling with PTSD knows that other people might not be able to understand it but they can still help if there's communication about it. This movie throws almost everybody when they watch it because everyone expects it to be some popcorn action flick through the cultural osmosis of just who Rambo is. That final scene with John and Col. Trautman is really powerful and striking and this whole unfortunate debacle could've been avoided, just as you said.
@@tenchraven and they don't care. They really don't.
Oh and in the book, doesn’t Trautman shoot John to save him the indignity of prosecution / prison / possible State execution?
@@4no3bo3dy I think so. Realistically, he would have been dead by the end of the movie
Mmm. About PTSD and Vietnam in general. The after affects of war. And how it hurts people so much.
Oh yeah and when he wrecked the town, that warfare strategy, asset denial, breaking the enemies will and ability to fight. The targets he chooses all make perfect sense, fuel, ammo, power grid, Pretty much a one man invasion force at that point.
Fun fact Sly did all of his own stunts. He really did jump off the cliff, and when he landed on the branches he screams out in real pain, because he broke his ribs.
I not sure that this is quite right. I think someone ese did the cliff jump (onto a crash-pad presumably) and then sly was dropped into the tree, and as you said was injured. I could be wrong though as I'm just going off memory from back in the day.
Something tells me this probably isn't true but I'm too lazy to check.
Nope. He had stunt doubles for many scenes in this movie.
I lived in Hope BC in grade seven when this film was made. Met Stallone and Brian Dennehey, the sheriff. Brian Dennehey, the dick sheriff is one of the nicest guys I have ever met. He was always hanging out with the locals, laughing and socializing. He was great with kids. The ending is brilliant. Stallone kills that scene. So heartbreaking. Definitely one of my favorite movies of all time.
Yeah Dennehy is a great actor but i can't help but see him as John Wayne Gacy...he was so creepy playing that character.
I used to pick up loads of bottled water at the Nestle plant in Hope & bring it to California, about 15 years ago, but it wasn't until 5 or 6 years ago, that I found out this was filmed there, and not Washington state!
Thomas Brynko: My sister worked in The Business for a while and met Brian Dennehey. Said exactly what you said. Just a very nice man. Dang. Reminds me of how my mom worked with Richard Dreyfuss before he was famous and said the same thing, except there are people who say Dreyfuss is kind of a jerk. But, a story my mom told me about a truly kind thing he did will always be how I can't help but think of him
RIP Brian Dennehy and Richard Crenna
My grandma lived there, they filmed some of the pick-up shots in her backyard by the creek she had
This is easily one of Jerry Goldsmith's best scores and one of his most iconic musical themes.
Jerry Goldsmith also did Planet Of The Apes (1968), The Edge, The Ghost And The Darkness, and on and on and on. More importantly he did music for a little, now underrated, movie with Richard Crenna (Col. Troutman) and Steve McQueen and a big cast in The Sand Pebbles (1965). A MUST SEE MOVIE there.
Jerry’s main score for the second Rambo film is my favorite.
@@scottjo63 jerry goldsmith is the only one i'd put in the same conversation as john williams. williams is probably the GOAT but goldsmith is right there with him imo.
I think it's important to remember that 2 cops actively call out the others for being too aggressive to Rambo when he was at the police station, with the 2nd one even doing it in front of others, and many cops didn't see any of that happen all together. Most cops, the National Guard dudes and regular civilians only saw the parts where Rambo was acting crazy and hurting people. The Sheriff and the cop killed at the helicopter are 100% to blame for this movies events imo.
This was one of my favorite movies growing up. Rambo made the survival knife blow up in sales for a decade. It had a screw off hilt that inside contained fishing line, hook, matches/flints, compass, and several other survival tools. He was such a great character. Didn't kill anyone he didn't need to.
Stallone is actually a pretty good screenplay writer. This remains his best performance ever, matched only by his role in Copland.
Rocky was a great performance also.
Copland is his best work
He is an excellent screenplay writer. Some great mainstream, some awesome cult stuff. Fun Fact: He was originally cast to play Axel Foley in Beverly Hills Cop. However, he wanted to re-write the script, and decided to write out a lot of the comedy and add more action and drama. Ivan Reitman didn't care for the changes and recast Stallone in favor of then-rising comedian Eddie Murphy. Stallone's altered script would then be adapted into the cult classic action film "Cobra."
@@sethraelthebard5459 Did not know that! Cool. Stallone also co-wrote and directed Staying Alive (sequel to Saturday Night Fever). May not have been a critical success, but it was a box office success.
You guys should react to “cop land.” A very underrated Sly film, but one of his best performances.
Definitely worth a watch
yes
That is a good flick and yes Sly performs well. But it also has an absolutely powerhouse supporting cast with DeNiro, Ray Liotta, Harvey Keitel, Michael Rapaport, Robert Patrick, and John Spencer, among others.
oh my Harvey Keitel is a favorite of mine, underrated performer as a bad guy.
Fun fact: Stallone actually did part of the scene himself after the jump where he is landing through the branches and he actually broke some ribs in the process ,so the shot where he is in pain on that branch , he Is REALLY in pain
What's fun about that?
I never new that thats interesting
@@Jutrzen it’s a figure of speech for „do you want to hear something interesting“ it doesn’t necessarily have to be fun. Yes it can be a contradicting statement ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Even more amazing is that shot, where the ladder under him gives in, in the mine.
It might have been planned, but that's still some whole new level of bodycontrol and situational awareness. He falls, does a whole flip going down, lands in the water and still saves the torch.
I don't wanna know how often they had to do this shot. Every normal human being would either have dropped the torch or doused it in the water. Completely nuts!
@@joenight9693 right? I remember seeing that and thinking he was gonna drop the torch
The final scene is Stallone’s greatest performance in any of his films.
Original ending Rambo dies filmed buy test audiences hated it, Its on UA-cam.
I'm so happy you reacted to this masterpiece - intense, emotional and deep at the same time. I hope you will watch other Rambo films. Also, if you are interested in other great Sly Stallone films, I recommend Nighthawks (1981), Lock Up (1989), Cliffhanger (1993), Daylight (1996), Cop Land (1997)
Yes Night hawks!!!!!
Assassins.
Paradise Alley is another great Stallone flick
Great reactions, guys!
“First Blood” is the best of the Rambo franchise, in my opinion. After this one, the movies, and character, devolve increasingly into more of a parody. This movie, I feel, tried to tell the story of John Rambo and the problems he has to live with. Made even more poignant, with his speech in the end. After all, in Vietnam he was trusted with millions of dollars of military hardware and machinery. And back in the real world he can’t even keep a job parking cars.
The one line that I absolutely love is when he’s got Sheriff Teasle in the woods up against the tree, with his knife to the sheriff’s throat, and he says, “I could have killed 'em all, I could've killed you…” That right there should have told Teasle to let it go.
Remember how popular the “Rambo knife”, with a compass, matches and fishing line was when I was a kid.
I still have mine im 46 lol ,found it recently in a box of stuff
Custom-made by Jimmy Lile.
It's cool but functionally pointless.
@@LethalByChoice “Cool but pointless” sort of sums up everything I was interested in at that time 😀
@@BarbaOlof That's fair and true 😆
Rambo didn't become an 80s action hero meme until the sequel, when it developed in the more recognizable form today.
The 4th movie is a return to the first and the better for it. In fact the 4th completwly ignores the events of the 3rd and 3rd and it is the better for it.
As a veteran its hard to watch that last scene, it really strikes at the heart of the pain and confusion that comes when the war ends and you have to put it behind you.
As a non-veteran, this cut thru all the BS and delivered your message to me more effectively than any other media I've seen. I wish the sequels hadn't muddied the waters.
you don't have to answer this but what division did you serve in and where did you serve?
I really appreciate that the film makers chose not to end the movie the way it ends in the novel. If the Colonel would have killed him, we wouldn’t have been able to enjoy all of the other sequels that came out. I look forward to seeing your reactions to those as well. Once you’ve finished this series, I think the next Stallone film you’ll have to watch, aside from the Rocky and Creed films is Cliffhanger. It’s a classic.
If I remember right, the movie script was originally supposed to end with his suicide after his monologue. Would have been a very different end and I can say that the final version is better.
My Dad was in Hope, B.C. seeing this movie being filmed on location, even took some pictures of Stallone and the camera crew One time he was sitting in the diner with his friends, it was freezing cold that night, the furnace was smoking out, they saw Stallone running around outside with the tanktop and the M-60 with the camera crew filming and they were all really surprised like how the hell is he doing that? You should see Stallones commentary track on the First Blood DVD, really really interesting.
Such a beautiful town.
I don't think Hope was the real name of the town. I think I read something about that.
@@cesarmedina7080 Hope is the real name of the town.
@@cesarmedina7080 Yes it is. I live two hours from there.
They got a visitor's place that has photos taken from the First Blood movie put up around there.
The "Shoe Shine box" story is based on a true story from 35:17. Sly met two Vietnam Vets who were actually on set when they told him their story about when they were In Saigon
Damn I believe it.
I saw this on Halloween in 82, first year I didn't trick or treat because of the Tylenol poisonings my mom wouldn't risk us getting candy from strangers, so we went saw this. It was less than ten years after the war so our veterans were still young adults. They were treated like crap when they came home. It was about this time they got any respect and I'm sure this movie was part of it. That and a growing patriotic wave.
I remember the Tylenol scare, but I had forgot the year. Worst Halloween of my childhood.
Also so many shows in the early 80s featured helicopters, magnum pi, riptide, blue thunder, etc. etc., this was because so many vets came back from vietnam having learned how to fly a helicopter, there really was a surplus of helicopter pilots in the us,
For a while I was not sure how Rambo found his way out of the cave, but it has to do with oxygen and breeze. The flame from the fire will be drawn to the direction of oxygen.
I think more just that all the air blows that way
You should watch Rambo: First Blood Part II. He has a great monologue at the end of that one too. And the film started many of the action tropes we know today.
I was nine years old when this movie was released. I remember my older brothers coming home and quoting lines and describing the whole movie. A year or so later I got a Rambo knife for Christmas, with the compass and matches inside.
NOTHING IS OVER
that finale is the proof that sly CAN act
People often compare Stallone with Arnold. As far as acting, writing and as an overall artist, Stallone is in a completely different league than Arnold.
And I think he just might 'Smeel Manely' too
@@poppys34Arnold was definitely not the artistic type.
As much as I love the acting by Stallone and Dennehy, Richard Crenna has to be my favorite thing about First Blood. His smarmy one-liners as these small town cops fail to take down his man are just a joy. Can't give the movie enough credit though for rising above just being a great action movie and finding an emotional core that still resonates today
His best line for me is “….to eat things that’d make a billygoat puke”
The delivery.
“Set him up for you? That’s like leading pigeons to the cat”
Plus, his name rhymes with Emma.
And, originally, the producers wanted Kirk Douglas, but he made so many demands, that they went with Richard Crenna instead.
You picked a good one. Best of the franchise in my opinion. I think it really says something about PTSD among soldiers and such. Glad you two enjoyed it.
This should have been a standalone movie, but this franchise goes the same way of Rocky. Both franchises start out with classic action/drama movies and devolve into mindless action blockbusters, but they can still be enjoyable. The good thing is that the fourth film in both franchises accept and embrace the ridiculous nature of the sequels and deliver a complete blast for fans. The fourth Rambo film delivers a grindhouse style B movie that I can't help but enjoy.
Rambo II holds a special place in my heart though. While it seems like a standard action flick today, for its time it was kind of revolutionary. It created many of the action tropes we take for granted today.
I've been watching this movie for years and never even noticed the Christmas tree up in the station or thought about it being a Christmas movie lol. So I guess it's right up there in the great tradition of Christmas action movies with Die Hard and Lethal Weapon!
I like this movie WAY better than A Christmas Story.
There can be no christmas without Hans Gruber falling from Nakatomi plaza.
Sly got messed up real bad for doing that jump from the cliff into the tree. He still has that bad scare on his shoulder.
He is broke 3 or 4 ribs when hit branch. The pain scream is real.
Alkan ustalar yeah he wasn’t acting the pain was real, he was in the ER multiple times throughout the entire shoot.
He only done the last ten feet or so, it was a stunt man who did the rest.
The tragedy of the entire Rambo series is that there were two kinds of reactions to the first movie. One group said "What a sad story of a broken man, destroyed by war" and the other said "Hey Ma! Lookit that feller with the big guns! He blowed up that town real good!". And they made ALL the sequels for the second group. In the first movie the enemy is small town America. In all the sequels it's the natives of whatever country he's invaded this time.
The sequels shat on the anti-war message of the 1st film.
Alternate ending where he shoots himself is much better . Should have only ever been one movie
It also didn't help that they decided to use him as propaganda.
@@redshift912 kind of like Rocky. On it's own it was a great movie, by Rocky 4 he is basically Rambo in the boxing ring fighting the Soviet system.
The first blood is the only one worth watching he actually only kills one person not even on purpose and tried to avoid people instead of gunho mad man
In this film, as in "Platoon", the drama of the soldier is shown, of the traumas of a war that obviously was not his. That final speech by John is the most devastating.
Very good reaction, guys. I recommend "Born on the 4th of July", another great film about Vietnam and about soldiers who retake their lives.
The score in this movie is amazing. Everytime you hear that Rambo organ start playing you know some shit is about to go down haha. Also even though the young red headed guy pulls off his dog tag, he is the only one to treat him with a lick of respect.
He was practicing yanking off his own sunglasses years later. CSI:Miami.
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Typical Jerry Goldsmith. So great. Many similarities to his score for Total Recall a number of years later. Some parts are nearly identical actually... The same can be said for Alan Silvestri's scores for Back To The Future and Predator. So great.
This is really a different type of film compared to the others in the series. More realistic. He's a more developed character than the monosyllabic action hero he becomes in the later films.
Mostly because this one's adapted from a novel (which is well worth reading BTW - book Rambo is a much darker, more complex character and there's a lot more between him and Teasle, kind of a generational almost father/son conflict. Much higher body count and different ending too).
(the author of 'First Blood' had issues with the cartoonish nature of the sequel movies, especially "Rambo: First Blood Pt 2", so he actually wrote the movie novelisations himself in order to try to put some depth back in there)
He gets better in the 4th one which I think is just called RAMBO.
@@adamsmythe8292 The fourth one is my favorite of the series.
The first Rambo is so very different from the others. One of my favorite movies, ever, and a powerful social critique.
The novel, First Blood by David Morrell is very different to the film, a character study of sorts. If you haven't already, you should check it out. The sequel, Rambo:First Blood Part 2 was written as a tie in to the movie sequel.
Rambo movies. #1 really good. #2 & #3 not so good. #4 good. #5 so-so.
"That main cop has such tiny dick energy". LOL. In the book this was based on, Rambo died at the end, and the movie was almost released with that ending. Along with the original Rocky, this is one of Stallone's best performances.
@@scsi_joe yeah, actually I think you can find it on UA-cam, he's also WAY more violent in the book, he is way less sympathetic, not totally unsympathetic but he just straight up tries to kill everyone, that kid he let's go only survives because he can't catch him if memory serves
@@andrewhussey4538 True. The book is super violent compared to the movie. They really toned the character down for the movie. If they had filmed the book as it was written I doubt it would have worked as well as it did considering both Rambo and Teasle are not likeable much at all in the book.
Colonel Trautman shot Rambo in the head at the end of the book
I wonder how that actor faired in real life. Billy Dee Williams said that he constantly had to defend Lando Calrrisian in hotel lobbies, airports, restaurants, etc.
You both did a really good job analysing the film at the end so faithfully 👍Your reactions during it were awesome, too, of course.
I did a tour in the Falklands Islands up on one of the Mountains for four months. The only access to the Base was via Helicopter and Port Stanley had all the fun and supplies. Our unit was given just two videos for the whole Tour: Simon Murry's Documentary "Legionnaire" and First Blood we watched those videos about 40 times so just love the diaolague in this film it's hilarious. We used see how many quotes we could use in normal conversation. Tip: Have you viewed the British Film " Scum!" That was a cult film among the youth back in the day.
Thank you sir, for your service
I love when people watch this movie for the first time and think "It's Rambo." Hollywood made him into an action hero for all the sequels. This movie, based on the book, is a character piece and study on ptsd. And in the book Troutman kills Rambo in the end. R.I.P. Brian Dennehy for playing a great villain.
As I said in another reaction to this film, the Vietnam war was incredibly unpopular back home and it's important to remember that the veterans from that time were absolutely shat on by society at large when they returned home - no parades, no acknowledgement of their issues, no nothing. These days, it's common to say to (for example) an Iraq veteran, "Thank you for your service." Vietnam vets had nothing like that and had to deal with things such as no-one wanting to talk about what they went through and America generally being ashamed of the war, and by extension, the vets themselves. Consequently, a lot of them went on to have major mental issues later in life, and some did snap, although perhaps not quite as badly as this fictionalised example.
Friend of mine had an uncle who was a Vietnam vet. He had a lot of issues but was.... surviving. Then he came home and caught his wife in bed with another man. You DO NOT want to know what he did to them. I will just say the room was painted red with blood when he finished and he ended up getting life in prison with no chance for parole. Yeah. Vietnam vets were not people you wanted to be near if they did "snap"
Fun Fact: Stallone actually broke his ribs hitting the tree branch (Which the scream was left in and real) Buddy Joe Hooker did the initial high fall from the cliff, Stallone did a lighter fall into the branches.
I think the fall might have even actually been three or four stages, total? I think that was in the commentary.
Filmed in Hope, British Columbia, Canada a couple hours east of Vancouver. And, yes, it IS a beautiful location for a town. The bridge he walked across at the beginning was recently replaced. The town had a big "Rambo Day" celebration with a bunch of military equipment on display, etc. Great movie. Great town. I love your videos. Best response videos I've seen and the ONLY reason I regularly watch response videos, which I never really liked until coming across your channel.
My favorite quote of Rambo's is either at the end of First Blood, or maybe Rambo 2, but the quote is no doubt the wish that the Nam troops who made it home wanted. The ones who made it home were insulted, spurned, and mistreated instead of welcomed as the heroes they were/are. The Rambo quote is, “I want, what they want, and every other guy who came over here and spilled his guts and gave everything he had, wants! For our country to love us as much as we love it! That's what I want!” One of the most heartbreaking quotes in film history.
2 suggestions for Sly movie, Tango & Cash(with Kurt Russell!) and Cliffhanger.
Excellent films. Both a lot of fun, especially Tango & Cash.
Definitely these two, Tango & Cash a personal favourite with Kurt Russell, Jack Palance, Terri Hatcher and other familiar faces of 80’s cinema
Agreed, both are excellent. Also Cop Land and Lock Up.
I love cliffhanger!
And Night Hawks (1981), with bad guy terrorist Rutger Hauer, before Blade Runner, Billy Dee Williams, etc. Now there's an underrated character Stallone should have made more popular.
Hope that this Stallone list includes Cop Land (1997), stacked cast, great role from Stallone. Love your channel.
Timeless classic. Fuck this whole town was my sentiment as well. LMAO
hahaha F that town!
I served in the Army and PTSD is no joke. You go through all these things, these horrible situations you are put in and you have to do severe things to get back home and then you get home and few people have honor and NOBODY understands what demons you fight every day and especially at night when you are alone. You can be highly trained and come home and not get a job washing cars. It can be a living hell. I'm better than I was and no more suicide attempts but it never really gets easier. You just get more numb to things. Comfortably numb. I used to wake up and not know that I was home. For a few seconds I thought I was back overseas. your mind gets trained to that. I love your guys channel. Long time fan.
Movie trivia - The actor that play Deputy Art Gault (the mean cop with the red haired) was Jack Starrett. One of the other famous roles he played was Gabby Johnson (authentic frontier gibberish) in Blazing Saddles.
Quick tid-bit: Many survival-knives of its day were designed with a hollow handle which held an array of tiny tools to help give a leg up in any wilderness-survival situation. Things like a compass, waterproof matches, small birthday candle, a fire-steel, fishing line with hooks and sutures among other little tiny tools could be crammed inside the handle for quick use. ( :E
And after the sequel, manufacture and sales of those knives (and cheap knockoffs) skyrocketed. There were ads for "Rambo Knives" in so many unexpected magazines, etc. Some as cheap as $4.99.
@@rollomaughfling380 ahh the good old days, 4.99 was considered a lot back in those days.
@@waterphoenix857 That was, like, five weeks allowance LOL
If you think Stallone is good in this, watch COP LAND, where he acts some very big hitters (De Niro, Keitel etc) off the stage in a very powerful dramatic performance - IMHO he should have gotten an Oscar for it.
This movie is OUTSTANDING!!! I love how Jerry Goldsmith's music meshes well with it all. The government and the U.S as a whole did a VERY terrible job dealing with both the after effects of Vietnam and veterans coming back. No PTSD solutions, No employment, no mental therapy etc. This was supposed to be the 1st and last movie because he was supposed to be killed off but the film did so well that they made a sequel
There still is the deleted scene around where Trautman kills him.
@@tkopp10976 Yea.......it's not good tho
Goldsmith was king way back.
He died at 75 years old still going after being active in the industry for over 52 years.
His stuff was so good that when mixing the temp audio track for Alien the editor used score cues from his first film score work on "Freud" in 1963, more than 15 years earlier - those score cues remained in the final film for the facehugger acid blood scene, and the Dallas in the airshafts scene.
Ironically he scored the first film of 2 major sci fi franchises within only 2 years - Alien and Star Trek The Motion Picture (plus the theme tune for all 3 80s/90s Star Trek TV shows).
He also scored the original Planet of the Apes too.
Nominated for Best Score Oscar 17 times, won only once (The Omen).
@@DJDavis844 I suspect there have been a lot of discussions about that :) Point being, this could have been the only movie of the franchise.
@@mnomadvfx He's the best in my opinion. This and Basic Instinct are my top favorites from him.
“Wow he’s going fast”
In our generation we yelled with our balls f*** YEAH!
This movie went through production hell for nearly ten years. Kirk Douglas was trying to get the movie made with him playing Trautman. Al Pacino, Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman to name a few were considered to play Rambo. When Stallone came abroad he got involved with script changes, including changing the ending. Kirk Douglas was against it and left the project. Lee Marvin was suggested to play Trautman before Crenna finally got the part. Gene Hackman would have been good as the sherrif but I loved Dennehy in the part. The Final cut of the film turned out brilliantly. Pity about the sequels.
Sequels are better than a lot of the new crap we get today.... wtf was red notice? Lol
Yeah i heard the reason Kirk Douglas didn't accept the role was because he thought Rambo should have died in the original ending, but all the test audiences really hated it which is why they changed it.
@@CaptWalker Yeah. Douglas had a falling out with Stallone over it.
They get more ridiculous as the franchise goes on (often in a good way), but this first one is a very solid movie.
Can't wait to watch them!
@@TBRSchmitt wait until you get to the third one. That one aged well lol. Still a good movie.
@@TBRSchmitt the next ones are just enjoyable and get worse as the sequels go by. However they are worth watching at least once if you want to understand lots of pop culture references. AND, "John Rambo" is a very good movie IMHO. It feels like Sly wanted to do something decent with the character and not just another money maker sequel.
Besides it manages to make you believe that someone that age can still be VERY dangerous.
@@TBRSchmitt BTW, a completely unrelated reaction proposal: the great escape.
@@TBRSchmitt just a warning. the two newer ones are extremely violent and brutal.
Such a powerful performance by Sylvester Stallone!!🤘 The speech he gives at the end of the movie gets me every time😢🤙 this Rambo movie is easily the most grounded of the series❤️😎
The ending made the whole movie for me and I was already really enjoying it! Just shifted the tone into such a realistic and devastating portrayal of a veteran dealing with what they had to experience in war!
@@TBRSchmitt Absolutely👍 it’s really sad that veteran‘s had to go through stuff like that😢I used to have a neighbor that had bad flashbacks from Vietnam😔
That's why this is my favorite Rambo film. This is not a big action film, this is a story about a soldier suffering from PTSD. That speech in the end is so powerful.
Maaan I saw Rambo 2 and 3 so many times growing up in the 80’s and early 90’s but when I finally watched First Blood I was blown away. Especially that ending very emotional.
The cliff scene used 2 stunt doubles, and Stallone did the last part of the fall, where he slammed into the branch and screamed in pain, that was real as he broke a few ribs. In the cave, the rats bit Stallone, and the director told him, "that is why you are getting paid 3 million dollars", or words to that effect lol. And most of that movie, Stallone didn't wear a jacket and the temperature was just above freezing.
Stallone was actually riding the dirt bike that wasn't a stuntman.
32:58 "This is kind of like a horror movie."
It's crazy you said that because it sometimes gets looked at as a modern day retelling of Frankenstein, with Rambo as the Monster and Troutmann as Frankenstein!
This movie helped bring attention to all the Vietnam Vets struggles after the war. I was 14 when this came out and I could be remembering wrong but I believe it helped make people more aware of the problem. During that time period after the success of this movie a few more of these type came out. It felt at the time to me that it improved awareness and helped at least some of the Vietnam Vets get more help that they needed. Again, I was very young but that's how I remember this area of Vietnam based films.
I agree I was 10 when it came out & I believe that this one brought attention to how unfairly the Vietnam veterans were being treated ( most of whom had been drafted), just like the second brought more attention to it's subject matter ( not going to spill anything)
given what you willingly did in vietnam, you don't deserve help . war criminals of the worst kind. you get any help only because facts about what you did are kept from public eye.
@@sitting_nut so according to you every single person that got drafted should've committed suicide
@@sitting_nut I was a baby when Vietnam was going on....and you're an idiot.
@@ursathrope2968 no, they shouldn't have committed war crimes as they did. following orders is not a valid excuse .
4:00 what you do not realize is the the Sheriff is a war veteran, having served in Korea, but despises Vietnam Vets as he thought they were mindless thugs killing innocent men, women and children, hence why he hates Rambo. He'll learn the hard way later on.
In the book he's a Korean war veteran yes, but in neither book or movie is he shown to despise veterans, he doesn't even know Rambo is anything other than a vagrant until after he's on the run,...remember, by the time Rambo reaches town, he's been moved on so many times he's just itching for an excuse to show somebody his 'skills', both characters are equally good and bad and responsible for the violence that follows.
well in vietnam and later american military were mindless thugs killing innocent men, women and children,
My dad is a Vietnam vet..I always feel like I inherited his flashbacks. He drank alot ..fought police but was jailed.. gradually calming down in life..but always a calm crazy creature
I think Stallone's performance was absolutely fantastic, especially the last scene where he breaks down, looking back I don't know why he didn't get nominated for an Oscar for his performance of a Vietnam Vet coping with coming back to the world and getting treated like that after fighting for your country against an unbeatable enemy in their own back yard. An amazing performance 👍
Because Oscars are not really about the best films or performances, especially if the movie or actor falls outside of their preferred zone.
You guys should watch Rocky if you are going through Stallon movie, this is by far his best work.
We definitely will watch it along with the majority/all of his film catalog like we did with Arnold!
Cliffhanger is my fav Stallone movie. Rambo 4 is my fav Rambo movie, the most violent action movie I’ve ever seen
Can't wait to get to both!
Cliffhanger is awesome. I absolutely love John Lithgow in it!
@@TBRSchmitt and do his best underrated character in Night Hawks (1981). Stallone vs Rutger Hauer, before Hauer did Blade Runner.
Got to have a strong stomach Samantha if you're going to watch Rambo 4!! It shocked me!
Brian Dennehy has some real gems in his career. Besides being the sheriff in first blood he also plays a crooked sheriff in the Western, Silverado. (btw my favorite movie of alllllll time!) also great in a movie called F/X, and Cocoon, and others.
Out of all the films which Rambo is your favourite? Have you watched The Hunted? Starring Benicio Del Toro and Tommy Lee Jones
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Honestly I've only seen the first Rambo. I haven't seen The Hunted either. But color me intrigued 🤔
I love this film. First Blood is a classic and by far the best film of the franchise. now im not going to spoil anything for you guys, but i want to inform you that its sequal are radically different from the original. after all, First Blood is unique within the franchise sinces it really isnt an action film.
So glad you did this! I don't think I've seen it since I watched it in the movie theater when I was about 12, and I remember everybody just going crazy about how great a film it was. Stallone was definitely on a roll! Just make sure you never watch Stop, or My Mom Will Shoot! 😂
This movie is by far my favorite in the series. (disclaimer: I have not seen the last couple)). Unfortunately the next couple suffer from the typical familiar 80's action camp. Fun when I was a kid but this one is just a good movie and I'd watch it again and again.
John Rambo, #4 i guess in the series, is absolutely brilliant. I have no interest in the last one, who needs Rambo fighting a drug cartel.
When Rambo first came out everyone wanted that knife that Rambo was using. It's razor-sharp, with a compass in the hilt, a first aid kit in the knife chamber. To top it all off, the serrated side can cut through barbed wire. That knife was next level and cost about $100, but it was well worth it.
I remember the cheap Chinese knock off that was available for around $12.
All it was missing was a thing on the handle that tells time!
@@Paul77ozee I had the cheap knock off first and then I had to upgrade.
mine is not the same as his but it has the compass, fishing hooks,matches, etc inside the handle. The sheath has a wetstone and can be used as a slingshot too.
@@Necrowolf81 that’s the one l was thinking of mate.
Such a masterpiece, especially the end. Stallone and the other 3 writers really wanted to touch on how much suffering the men of vietnam went thru even after they returned home. All that pain of a nation turning against their own who answered the call was captured perfectly in that final speech.
Soooo glad you’re back to Sly films, I love Arnie but Stallone has always been that cut above, he’s an incredible writer, director and actor, all his films are incredible, can’t wait to see what you do next :D
They don't explain it in the movie but you get a glimpse of it on his desk the sheriff was a Korean war vet.
So you would think he would have been more sympathetic to Rambo since they were both vets.