This movie did more for Vietnam Veterans in two hours than the VA did in a decade. That speech at the end is one of the best speeches about war and PTSD ever put in film. All the sequels are worth watching for sure
Several Vietnam veterans were invited to the premiere. At the completion of the speech, they stood and saluted Sylvester Stallone in the theatre. Nobody has done more for Vietnam veterans than Stallone with that heartbreaking speech.
At the end of the Vietnam war, U.S. veterans were treated like absolute garbage by their own people and they suffered severe PTSD which is what Rambo’s speech at the end was talking about. This is still one of the best action movies of all time. Sylvester Stallone was phenomenal in this movie and he actually did the falling into the tree stunt himself and broke several ribs.
Remember too, that back then, it was a time when reporters were allowed to report and even film what was happening in wars, so a lot people at home were made aware of the atrocities being committed by our soldiers. When you saw women and children being raped and killed by our soldiers, it was hard to welcome them home as heroes. Especially, when it was an unjust war on foreign land. That being said, there was also a mandatory draft, so it's not like everybody had a choice. It was a very complicated situation. My point is to try to also understand the backlash from home when soldiers go off to the other side of world and kill people. Granted, this backlash is less common today because news agencies are no longer allowed to report from the front lines, so we hear no evil and see evil, and we see our soldiers as great heroes fighting the good fight against "evil" forces and are more likely to forgive them, but back then, people were allowed to see more of what was actually happening during our foreign wars, and they judged our military forces accordingly. All of our modern wars have just been invasions of foreign land, so it's not like our soldiers are off the hook. As much as I love this movie and always cry at the end monologue, it's also a bit biased toward our military industrial complex and pro war propaganda. Just saying.
@@KittyBoom360it’s stupid. Why backlash the soldiers instead of the politicians that get us involved in these wars? Especially the draft? The American populace is completely bonkers sometimes and direct their anger to the wrong people.
@@hashbrown4278 It's similar to how, today, there is a lot of anger towards cops because of all the videos we see of police brutality and such because citizens now have phones with cameras. Your anger is directed toward the people committing the acts, not just the system that allows it. Like I said, it was because of the journalists and their cameras embedded within the military back then. So people back then saw our soldiers committing horrible acts on their TVs. It's not like this today because journalists are forbidden in military actions now. And you can see why the ban. It makes the populace anti-war. Yes, you can still be angry at the system, but does that let the people you see on camera completely off the hook? Of course, not all cops are bad, nor are soldiers. Many of them really mean well and do well, at least to the best of their knowledge. However, I'm just trying to provide balance here so that people can better understand why many Americans did not treat vets as heroes upon their return. It wasn't just some random thing. They had very good reasons. You can call them stupid and bonkers, as you say, but then, are you really even trying to understand their POV? You aren't even allowed to watch what they watched back then. It would be like judging the defund the police movement of our time without being allowed to watch videos of police behaving badly.
This has got to be the best out of the franchise. It focuses more on life away from war than life vs war. It also shows how it can hide a persons true colours when they're misunderstood, pushed to to the limit, have violent fantasies or are brave enough to enter extremely dangero
The following are some interesting production facts about the movie from Wikipedia: The film was shot in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia, Canada on a $15 million budget beginning on November 15, 1981, and continuing until April 1982. The town scenes in the movie were shot in Hope and the nearby Coquihalla Canyon Provincial Park, called Chapman Gorge in the film, while the rest of the movie was shot in Capilano Canyon, Golden Ears Provincial Park and Pitt Lake in Pitt Meadows. During the production Buzz Feitshans replaced producer Ed Carlin, who suffered a heart attack. The locations chosen for the film initially experienced unseasonably warm and sunny weather during the filming, which posed challenges since the crew had counted on an overcast setting. However, a period of heavy snowfall beginning in January 1982 delayed the production by two months. Other delays were caused by injuries to the cast during stunts, including Stallone sustaining a serious back injury and several broken ribs, in particular, due to performing his own stunt of dropping off a cliff and into a tree. Since the production ran over schedule, Crenna's role in the film was cut in order to avoid having to pay him higher fees as specified in his contract. The firearms used in the film had to be imported into Canada because of the country's firearms regulation. In January 1982 over $50,000 worth of firearms-including fourteen M16 rifles, three Remington shotguns, two .44 Magnum revolvers, and eleven Colt AR-15 rifles-were stolen from the set. Although the guns had been modified to shoot blanks, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police claimed that they could be easily modified to fire live ammunition. After the incident the set was guarded by the Canadian Army, whose soldiers also served as extras in the film.
good set of trivia. One more: Brian Dennehy (playing the sheriff here) is an actual life badass commando who served at least (that we know) two tours in Vietnam. He well knows how to play a hard man, he's been around them enough and he was one of them.
I am a partially disabled combat veteran of the United States Navy. I can tell you that soldiers and sailors go into war and it changes them. They have experienced the horrors of war. They will spend the rest of their lives with the thoughts and dreams of that horror and the things that we had to do to survive. A colonel in the Spanish American war was asked by a reporter that witnessed the brutality of their training, “Is all this necessary?”. The colonel responded “Most men will not kill each other. War is murder no matter how you look at it.” The report ask “So your training these men to be murders?” The colonel said “God, I hope so!” That is what war is. Thousands of men murdering each other and making thousands of widow’s and orphans. It takes a huge toll on the mines of the veterans that survive. They are forever changed. It’s horrible, but, it’s the truth.
The film that introduced John Rambo is a gripping survival adventure with an emotional ending that's downright moving. Jerry Goldsmith contributes an excellent musical score.
Just a nice to know fact: the part at minute 10 where he climbs and jumps into the tree for landing softer…Stallone actually did that scene and did it by himself, he broke 4 ribs during that fall and he kept on finishing the movie afterwards, other times back in the day and other breed of people, just awesome 🤯😎🤙🏻
Also because it seems you guys don’t knew about that: back in the Vietnam days the Vietnam veterans were actually treated like shit: no jobs / protests / spittet at / getting attacked and PTSD wasn’t a thing officially - of course the veterans had it but nobody was aware of it and they hated the veterans basically in that time… this movie had a great impact on those topics
Stallone’s monologue at the end encompasses the mental trauma that Vietnam veterans have been dealing with since coming home. And this film came out just seven years after the war ended. 😔🇺🇸
You should also know, the when this premiered there were Vietnam veterans in the audience at the end they stood up and saluted first screen and then, Sylvester Stallone. It was the first time anyone had bothered to tell their half of the story concerning the Vietnam war and its effects on the survivors. They were denied treatment for the post traumatic stress disorder/PTSD as it was not recognized as a condition by the American army. The character of John Rambo is clearly suffering from advanced PTSD.
Many of the WWII and Korean War veterans didn't understand what was going on in Vietnam and kind of blamed the Vietnam soldiers for not winning the war. In addition people with long hair were viewed by some as being anti-American and trouble makers. Also, there developed a stereotype of Vietnam war vets as being broken, homeless and drug users. There were also people on the left who viewed them as lawless killers due to stories the newspapers ran. This country used them but failed to help them adjust back into the world. It was over 10 years before we recognized their service. As soldiers came back from the first Gulf War there was an effort to also pay tribute to the soldiers who had been ignored for almost 20 years.
This is such a great movie. Stallone’s speech at the end really sums up the trouble our soldiers had after coming home and no assistance. There still isn’t much assistance for our soldiers which is sad. Many people say we need to care for them but do nothing about it. The ending had a different turnout. Trautman was supposed to shoot Rambo in the station after he calmed down to “put him out of his misery” they decided against it cause it basically said death is the only way to deal with the pain of war.
Awesome reaction young ladies! I STRONGLY RECOMMEND Stallone in the MOST underrated police movie of all time - "Nighthawks" 1981! New York Cop Deke DaSilva (Stallone) fights international terrorism in America 20 years before 9-11-2001!! It holds your attention every second from the opening scene to the very end! Enjoy!
The story about Rambo's friend being killed by a kid's shoeshine box rigged with explosives was part of what made the Vietnam War so psychologically damaging. The "friendlies," the seemingly innocent civilians, could be setting you up to be killed, so the stress and sense of danger was never really turned off. This led to emotional problems which led to behavioral problems which in turn led to sociological and political problems which led to further emotional problems. Also, psychotherapy in those days wasn't up to speed on how to deal with these particular kinds of emotional problems, and the stigma associated with mental illness and the stigma associated with serving in Vietnam (the public loathed and feared Vietnam vets) made seeking any psychological help extremely difficult.
The Movie is ICONIC, but THE NOVEL explains alot more about the situation and the Characters. Both Men were right, and at the same time both were wrong. I saw this when it first came out, but not in a Theater... I was stationed on a Navy Destroyer in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and it was shown for Movie Night.
A lot of people will say that Rambo isn’t realistic with his skills. I don’t know personally but my dad was a Vietnam vet and he said there were guys that were just that good!! He said he’d seen it with his own eyes.
The skills that are developed to serve in the Army Special Forces are just insane. Commonly known as Green Berets, though they never call themselves that, don’t have fighting as their primary mission. Don’t misunderstand, they can shoot and blow stuff up better than anyone but their motto is the Latin ‘De Oppressor Liber,’ ‘To make the oppressed free. Green Berets are trainers of local forces who go out to fight. The Special Forces are masters of getting huge results from minimal resources. Special Forces claim that if you insert a team of 10, called an A-Team, into a small country, within 25 days they’ll replace the current government with one friendly to the US and will have control over all the major civil and military levers of power.
I grew up as a kid in that town. Hope, British Columbia Canada. The movie people were there for a year and a half. We used to skip out of high school to watch them film. Said hi to Sly once.
I hope you watch them all. They are fantastic movies👌🏼🔥 The scene at the end is so powerful. Colonel Troutman is the only person who can truly understand how John feels.
23:56 it wouldn't be a great action film of the 80's and 90's if someone didn't say "Get Out!" the Terminator, the T-1000, and of coarse Rambo. 😂great reaction to a classic!
The last line is gut wrenching: Dan just said: ''l want to go home!'' And called my name. l want to go home, Johnny! l want to drive my Chevy! But l couldn't find his legs. “l can't find your legs!'' l can't get it out of my head. lt's seven years ago. l see it every day. Sometimes l wake up and don't know where l am. l don't talk to anyone. Sometimes all day long. Sometimes a week. l can't get it out of my head.
Two endings were recorded for this film, the original final version would be the same as the book... Rambo commits suicide after the dialogue with Gen. Trautmann, but the film's producers saw that it would be a box office success and could lead to a franchise and they used the ending in which Rambo surrenders to the police. On the DVD/Blu-ray you can choose to watch the final scene with the book version in which he dies A hug from Brazil girls
I was born in Clarksville, TN. It's right beside Fort Campbell army base. There were vets there of all the wars and conflicts from the First World War to the Persian Golf conflict. Giant American flags and 101 Airborne images everyone. Vets lived all around you. My grandfather was a career military vet. Thirty years from the end of WWII to the end of the Vietnam conflict. WWI vets talked, WWII vets talked and Korean vets talked. They wore their hats and medals. Vietnam vets didn't talk. They could be neighbors for years and never talk about it. You didn't know someone was a Vietnam vet unless someone else told you. You didn't talk about Vietnam. I asked my mom about it and she just said it was "bad". She didn't want to talk about it. This movie was therapy for Nam vets and a bit of healing for America as a whole, I think. We needed it. It was how I learned about the Vietnam conflict. My mom answered more questions when we watched this movie together.
There is a video from the last couple years on YT that shows a sheriff in some town in the U.S. doing exactly this, telling someone they have to get out of their town and not come back. He was eventually fired but here it is 40 years later and its still happening.
Now I understand why Rambo keeps his knife the whole time. He uses his knife to hunt animals as well as to cut some wood to keep himself warm, not to mention for self-defense. In other words his knife can be used for hunting, killing, and slicing tree trunks.
One of the best parts of this movie was when Rambo was talking about the trauma he suffered in Vietnam. Most of the guys who served over there went from high school to boot camp to a warzone like Rambo describes often in a matter of a few months. That's one of the reasons I think there were so many PTSD cases out of that war. That scene also showed that Stallone had some ood actin ability in him if he would have had a shot at more dramatic roles.
"'Congratulations!', they said, 'You've got what it takes!' They sent him back into the rat race without any brakes They took a clean-cut kid And they made a killer out of him is what they did" Bob Dylan
Stallone made himself out to be a hero, the best of the best, on the backs of the men who actually went to war. The ones commenting that he did more for Viet Nam vets with this movie can't be Nam combat vets.
What people forget that Veterans ARE TRAINED KILLERS and Survivalists. so many civilians forget that. They look at us and forget that fact. We try to assimilate into society, but never forget that we've taken the Oath, have served our country, and we're trained in warfare. We have a standard...a line that should be respected and NEVER crossed. Respect OUR Veterans and never forget that we're Patriotic to the bone. And that our Oath to Serve, Protect and Die for our Country or our beliefs has no expiration date. 🇺🇸🇺🇲🇺🇸
"In town you're the law, out here it's me; Don't push it! Don't push it or I'll give you a war you won't believe, let it go, let,, it, go!" Gave me chills as a kid when I first watched this and still does now!
Yeah its often overshadowed by the ending but even now years later its so powerful watching such a dangerous man fighting justly for his life but at the same time so desperate for peace pulls you in two directions, on one hand you want him to kill the sheriff but on the other hand you dont and when the"good"sheriff choses war instead of peace you can feel the betrayal
The Vietnam war. The futility of it. The movie "Hamburger Hill" and "Platoon" unveiled it for what it is also. Thank you for the reactions to this movie of John Rambo in "First Blood".
I Always love when women see this movie for the first time, thinking it's gonna be a mindless 80s action movie, and next thing you know, they're crying when that ending comes out of nowhere.
Stallone did a great job calling attention to PTSD afflicted vets which is something very few movies had addressed up till that point. I personally think the sequels are not really worth the watch and they just get worse as time goes by. I would like to address a few things. I am one of the minority of people who read the book before seeing the film. There are some notable differences and of course, a book can shed insight into a character in ways that no film really can. I don't know if you noticed or not, but there is a case with military medals in it on Teasle's desk at the police station. He is, in fact, a Korean war veteran and part of the reason he disliked Rambo from the get-go is because he feels that his service in the early 1950's to the country was largely ignored. Another reason is because he genuinely thinks that men like rambo will come in droves to his small town and bring drugs and crime with them. (By the way, in the book, the town is a fictional town in Kentucky. Why they chose to move the location to Oregon is beyond me) In the film, Rambo is indirectly responsible for just one death, which was Galt falling from the helicopter (to be fair, in the film, he WAS an asshole and helped cause the awful situation. In the book Galt was an inexperienced officer just trying to do his job when Rambo's PTSD kicked into overdrive). In the book, Rambo was way more bloodthirsty. In fact, when the sheriff and his posse were hunting him in the forest, Rambo actually kills all of the deputies and seriously injures Teasle. That is 13 men dead in the book before Trautman arrives on the scene. Also, in the book, Trautman and Rambo had never actually met each other. Trautman had been involved in the training program that produced the Green Berets in Rambo's A team. In the novel, Rambo has been run out of 15 different towns before the one where he and Teasle cross paths, and Rambo is just sick to death of being judged so unfairly based on pretty much nothing but his appearance. One of the biggest differences between novel and film is the ending. In the book, Teasle succumbs to his wounds shortly after Trautman shoots a dying Rambo in the head with a shotgun. I guess they decided that was just too dark for the movie. PTSD is a very real and very serious consequence of the sort of things that military combat vets experience and I'm glad that some films willing to address it
This was adapted from the novel of the same name. This is a psychological thriller, while its four sequels are more straightforward action films. Sylvester Stallone starred in Rocky III the same year as this, while Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in Conan the Barbarian
DEAR AMERICA: Letters Home from Vietnam. Documentary. I believe this film should be aired at the 11th hour, on the 11th day, of the 11th month globally. It is that powerful.
fun fact: i had one of those Rambo survival knives when i was a kid, the compass unscrewed from the handle, and inside the handle was some fishing line with hooks and waterproof matches
This movie is a story about one of the saddest events in American history... the treatment of US Veterans who came home from the Vietnam War. We treated them like absolute trash. People/protestors literally spat on them when they landed and got off the planes at the airport.
😂😂 I got to know a Bulgarian girl when I was on holiday,she played basketball,elizabet,her friends showed me a few curse phrases and that thing Vicky did while banging the sides of her fists together and saying...damn It's on the tip of tongue haha",it's calling someone a wanker 😂
(20:26) I'd just like to point out that there's a zero percent chance that a professional special-forces soldier uses full-auto with zero additional ammo.
Yes, ladies, John Rambo was indeed messed up. He was an exceptional warrior, trained in the elite Special Forces, but he was suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as a result of the brutal experiences and torture he endured in Vietnam. Regrettably, those Vietnam War veterans who survived their tours of duty were often treated shamefully once they returned home to the country they fought for and risked their lives for, especially by college kids - their very contemporaries - who were allowed to avoid being drafted and sent to war if they attended University instead. So the college kids who took the easy way out, and refused to fight for their country, in particular, often treated Vietnam War vets abominably. They were accused of cowardice and of committing unspeakable atrocities on civilians, including women and children. The slur “Baby Killers” was one of the most common insults hurled their way. The war became so unpopular that America was eventually forced to withdraw from Vietnam, abandoning the war because of civil unrest at home. Over 58,000 Americans who fought in Vietnam died there and never made it back home again…
Great movie. The comment at the start, "Welcome to Hope, hmpf", was misplaced. REAL place, just not in the USA. I grew up near Hope, British Columbia, Canada. BEAUTIFUL area.
Great movie franchise to watch. I hope to see you all react to more Stallone movies in the future. The Rocky franchise is the best. Highly recommend it because those are Stallone’s best movies.
Fun reaction as always. When you choose close captions, don't pick ones made by someone watching the movie in another language and translating it back into English 😄
ladies you have to put yourself in the time period of the movie to understand the premisce the reason he gets so much judgement has a "drifter" is because after the vietnam war people in the US reacted this way to veterans and most of them were drifters not having any place to go with their owl country pretty much having turned on them calling them baby killer and spitting on them so this is not far off from the truth it was a highly contreversial war in a controversial time
Sylvester Stallone nickname The Italian Stallion has so many great movie like the Rambo series.There is also the Rocky movies.He acted in over seventy movies.He also had several Sci-Fi movies that were I thought were good.
I don't know where you girls are from, the accent says Eastern Europe, possibly Russia. You need to understand that in your terms Rambo is Spetsnaz/Green Beret. Those who fought them and survived consider themselves extremely lucky. These are soldiers who were trained to terrorise the enemy. No fear, no hesitation, no mercy. That Rambo let them live is, as Col Trautmann said, a mistake.
in the end, sadly, the sheriff was right. he needed to get rambo out of his sh*tty little fiefdom asap. but he and his men were too smug and hamfisted to realize that the drifter they were playing games with was an a-bomb and they were deliberately hitting all the triggers.
Rambo wanted was a hot meal and no trouble, but that idiot sheriff denied Rambo both. All what happened could've been avoided if Rambo was just left alone.
*Eu gostei das mudanças que o Stallone fez em relação ao Rambo do livro. O Rambo do livro era muito mais cruel e matou até crianças tentando combater o Xerife. O Rambo do livro teve muitas atitudes condenáveis*
This movie did more for Vietnam Veterans in two hours than the VA did in a decade. That speech at the end is one of the best speeches about war and PTSD ever put in film. All the sequels are worth watching for sure
It did more for Vietnam vets in 90 minutes - even better.
This and Platoon
Several Vietnam veterans were invited to the premiere. At the completion of the speech, they stood and saluted Sylvester Stallone in the theatre. Nobody has done more for Vietnam veterans than Stallone with that heartbreaking speech.
Stallone's acting at the end showing his angst and hurt is actually some of the best acting scenes ever to grace celluloid, imo!
her face when he popped the wheelie was so cute!
At the end of the Vietnam war, U.S. veterans were treated like absolute garbage by their own people and they suffered severe PTSD which is what Rambo’s speech at the end was talking about. This is still one of the best action movies of all time. Sylvester Stallone was phenomenal in this movie and he actually did the falling into the tree stunt himself and broke several ribs.
Remember too, that back then, it was a time when reporters were allowed to report and even film what was happening in wars, so a lot people at home were made aware of the atrocities being committed by our soldiers. When you saw women and children being raped and killed by our soldiers, it was hard to welcome them home as heroes. Especially, when it was an unjust war on foreign land.
That being said, there was also a mandatory draft, so it's not like everybody had a choice. It was a very complicated situation.
My point is to try to also understand the backlash from home when soldiers go off to the other side of world and kill people. Granted, this backlash is less common today because news agencies are no longer allowed to report from the front lines, so we hear no evil and see evil, and we see our soldiers as great heroes fighting the good fight against "evil" forces and are more likely to forgive them, but back then, people were allowed to see more of what was actually happening during our foreign wars, and they judged our military forces accordingly.
All of our modern wars have just been invasions of foreign land, so it's not like our soldiers are off the hook.
As much as I love this movie and always cry at the end monologue, it's also a bit biased toward our military industrial complex and pro war propaganda. Just saying.
@@KittyBoom360 Geeze, really?
What does your opinion have to do w/ the comment above?!
@@onedeadit has everything to do with it fym?
@@KittyBoom360it’s stupid. Why backlash the soldiers instead of the politicians that get us involved in these wars? Especially the draft? The American populace is completely bonkers sometimes and direct their anger to the wrong people.
@@hashbrown4278 It's similar to how, today, there is a lot of anger towards cops because of all the videos we see of police brutality and such because citizens now have phones with cameras. Your anger is directed toward the people committing the acts, not just the system that allows it.
Like I said, it was because of the journalists and their cameras embedded within the military back then. So people back then saw our soldiers committing horrible acts on their TVs. It's not like this today because journalists are forbidden in military actions now. And you can see why the ban. It makes the populace anti-war.
Yes, you can still be angry at the system, but does that let the people you see on camera completely off the hook?
Of course, not all cops are bad, nor are soldiers. Many of them really mean well and do well, at least to the best of their knowledge. However, I'm just trying to provide balance here so that people can better understand why many Americans did not treat vets as heroes upon their return. It wasn't just some random thing. They had very good reasons.
You can call them stupid and bonkers, as you say, but then, are you really even trying to understand their POV? You aren't even allowed to watch what they watched back then. It would be like judging the defund the police movement of our time without being allowed to watch videos of police behaving badly.
This movie proves just what a phenomenal actor Sylvestor Stallone is, especially with that ending speech. Great reaction!!
Great writer too. He wrote Rocky and this, even though this is based on a book
This has got to be the best out of the franchise. It focuses more on life away from war than life vs war. It also shows how it can hide a persons true colours when they're misunderstood, pushed to to the limit, have violent fantasies or are brave enough to enter extremely dangero
It was the only good film in the series. All the others were just redundant and super-violent.
The last 10 minutes monologue broke me 😭
Veterans should be given extra care in all senses. Thank you for the reaction. ❤
All Vietnam Veterans are American Heroes in my opinion. @Lunal73
Sad to think that even today lot of Veterans are homeless and our government literally cares about illegal aliens more
The following are some interesting production facts about the movie from Wikipedia:
The film was shot in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia, Canada on a $15 million budget beginning on November 15, 1981, and continuing until April 1982. The town scenes in the movie were shot in Hope and the nearby Coquihalla Canyon Provincial Park, called Chapman Gorge in the film, while the rest of the movie was shot in Capilano Canyon, Golden Ears Provincial Park and Pitt Lake in Pitt Meadows. During the production Buzz Feitshans replaced producer Ed Carlin, who suffered a heart attack.
The locations chosen for the film initially experienced unseasonably warm and sunny weather during the filming, which posed challenges since the crew had counted on an overcast setting. However, a period of heavy snowfall beginning in January 1982 delayed the production by two months. Other delays were caused by injuries to the cast during stunts, including Stallone sustaining a serious back injury and several broken ribs, in particular, due to performing his own stunt of dropping off a cliff and into a tree. Since the production ran over schedule, Crenna's role in the film was cut in order to avoid having to pay him higher fees as specified in his contract.
The firearms used in the film had to be imported into Canada because of the country's firearms regulation. In January 1982 over $50,000 worth of firearms-including fourteen M16 rifles, three Remington shotguns, two .44 Magnum revolvers, and eleven Colt AR-15 rifles-were stolen from the set. Although the guns had been modified to shoot blanks, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police claimed that they could be easily modified to fire live ammunition. After the incident the set was guarded by the Canadian Army, whose soldiers also served as extras in the film.
good set of trivia. One more: Brian Dennehy (playing the sheriff here) is an actual life badass commando who served at least (that we know) two tours in Vietnam. He well knows how to play a hard man, he's been around them enough and he was one of them.
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I am a partially disabled combat veteran of the United States Navy. I can tell you that soldiers and sailors go into war and it changes them. They have experienced the horrors of war. They will spend the rest of their lives with the thoughts and dreams of that horror and the things that we had to do to survive. A colonel in the Spanish American war was asked by a reporter that witnessed the brutality of their training, “Is all this necessary?”. The colonel responded “Most men will not kill each other. War is murder no matter how you look at it.” The report ask “So your training these men to be murders?” The colonel said “God, I hope so!” That is what war is. Thousands of men murdering each other and making thousands of widow’s and orphans. It takes a huge toll on the mines of the veterans that survive. They are forever changed. It’s horrible, but, it’s the truth.
Thank you for your service, good sir 🙏
The film that introduced John Rambo is a gripping survival adventure with an emotional ending that's downright moving. Jerry Goldsmith contributes an excellent musical score.
Just a nice to know fact: the part at minute 10 where he climbs and jumps into the tree for landing softer…Stallone actually did that scene and did it by himself, he broke 4 ribs during that fall and he kept on finishing the movie afterwards, other times back in the day and other breed of people, just awesome 🤯😎🤙🏻
Also because it seems you guys don’t knew about that: back in the Vietnam days the Vietnam veterans were actually treated like shit: no jobs / protests / spittet at / getting attacked and PTSD wasn’t a thing officially - of course the veterans had it but nobody was aware of it and they hated the veterans basically in that time… this movie had a great impact on those topics
Just a nice fact to know they originally wanted Steve McQueen as rambo. And. Kirk Douglas as Truman ,
Stallone’s monologue at the end encompasses the mental trauma that Vietnam veterans have been dealing with since coming home. And this film came out just seven years after the war ended. 😔🇺🇸
Yes, a real heartbreaking scene. Sylvester Stallone at his best performance; it's like he actually experienced it.
"First Blood"(1982) is an excellent action movie and one of the 10 best movies of all time for this Kind!
It may be top 3 for me. This, GoodFellas & Shawshank Redemption are probably my 3 favorites.
You should also know, the when this premiered there were Vietnam veterans in the audience at the end they stood up and saluted first screen and then, Sylvester Stallone. It was the first time anyone had bothered to tell their half of the story concerning the Vietnam war and its effects on the survivors. They were denied treatment for the post traumatic stress disorder/PTSD as it was not recognized as a condition by the American army. The character of John Rambo is clearly suffering from advanced PTSD.
Many of the WWII and Korean War veterans didn't understand what was going on in Vietnam and kind of blamed the Vietnam soldiers for not winning the war. In addition people with long hair were viewed by some as being anti-American and trouble makers. Also, there developed a stereotype of Vietnam war vets as being broken, homeless and drug users. There were also people on the left who viewed them as lawless killers due to stories the newspapers ran. This country used them but failed to help them adjust back into the world. It was over 10 years before we recognized their service. As soldiers came back from the first Gulf War there was an effort to also pay tribute to the soldiers who had been ignored for almost 20 years.
This is such a great movie. Stallone’s speech at the end really sums up the trouble our soldiers had after coming home and no assistance. There still isn’t much assistance for our soldiers which is sad. Many people say we need to care for them but do nothing about it. The ending had a different turnout. Trautman was supposed to shoot Rambo in the station after he calmed down to “put him out of his misery” they decided against it cause it basically said death is the only way to deal with the pain of war.
Also the test audience HATED Rambo dying at the end.
Thanks for watching this with us old veterans on veterans day weekend
Awesome reaction young ladies! I STRONGLY RECOMMEND Stallone in the MOST underrated police movie of all time - "Nighthawks" 1981! New York Cop Deke DaSilva (Stallone) fights international terrorism in America 20 years before 9-11-2001!! It holds your attention every second from the opening scene to the very end! Enjoy!
The story about Rambo's friend being killed by a kid's shoeshine box rigged with explosives was part of what made the Vietnam War so psychologically damaging. The "friendlies," the seemingly innocent civilians, could be setting you up to be killed, so the stress and sense of danger was never really turned off. This led to emotional problems which led to behavioral problems which in turn led to sociological and political problems which led to further emotional problems. Also, psychotherapy in those days wasn't up to speed on how to deal with these particular kinds of emotional problems, and the stigma associated with mental illness and the stigma associated with serving in Vietnam (the public loathed and feared Vietnam vets) made seeking any psychological help extremely difficult.
Coincidentally, November 11 is Veteran’s Day in the U.S. 🇺🇸🫡
Rambo’s knife is called a survival knife. It came with a compass, needle & thread, matches & flint. I actually had one when I was a kid.
The Movie is ICONIC, but THE NOVEL explains alot more about the situation and the Characters. Both Men were right, and at the same time both were wrong.
I saw this when it first came out, but not in a Theater... I was stationed on a Navy Destroyer in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and it was shown for Movie Night.
Thank you ladies. My favorite Rambo. The actor with red hair went on to CSI crime scene investigator as a police detective.
A lot of people will say that Rambo isn’t realistic with his skills. I don’t know personally but my dad was a Vietnam vet and he said there were guys that were just that good!! He said he’d seen it with his own eyes.
The skills that are developed to serve in the Army Special Forces are just insane. Commonly known as Green Berets, though they never call themselves that, don’t have fighting as their primary mission. Don’t misunderstand, they can shoot and blow stuff up better than anyone but their motto is the Latin ‘De Oppressor Liber,’ ‘To make the oppressed free. Green Berets are trainers of local forces who go out to fight. The Special Forces are masters of getting huge results from minimal resources. Special Forces claim that if you insert a team of 10, called an A-Team, into a small country, within 25 days they’ll replace the current government with one friendly to the US and will have control over all the major civil and military levers of power.
I grew up as a kid in that town. Hope, British Columbia Canada. The movie people were there for a year and a half. We used to skip out of high school to watch them film. Said hi to Sly once.
I hope you watch them all. They are fantastic movies👌🏼🔥 The scene at the end is so powerful. Colonel Troutman is the only person who can truly understand how John feels.
23:56 it wouldn't be a great action film of the 80's and 90's if someone didn't say "Get Out!" the Terminator, the T-1000, and of coarse Rambo. 😂great reaction to a classic!
The last line is gut wrenching:
Dan just said: ''l want to go home!'' And called my name. l want to go home, Johnny! l want to drive my Chevy!
But l couldn't find his legs.
“l can't find your legs!''
l can't get it out of my head. lt's seven years ago.
l see it every day.
Sometimes l wake up and don't know where l am. l don't talk to anyone.
Sometimes all day long.
Sometimes a week.
l can't get it out of my head.
Two endings were recorded for this film, the original final version would be the same as the book... Rambo commits suicide after the dialogue with Gen. Trautmann, but the film's producers saw that it would be a box office success and could lead to a franchise and they used the ending in which Rambo surrenders to the police.
On the DVD/Blu-ray you can choose to watch the final scene with the book version in which he dies
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I was born in Clarksville, TN. It's right beside Fort Campbell army base. There were vets there of all the wars and conflicts from the First World War to the Persian Golf conflict. Giant American flags and 101 Airborne images everyone. Vets lived all around you. My grandfather was a career military vet. Thirty years from the end of WWII to the end of the Vietnam conflict.
WWI vets talked, WWII vets talked and Korean vets talked. They wore their hats and medals.
Vietnam vets didn't talk. They could be neighbors for years and never talk about it. You didn't know someone was a Vietnam vet unless someone else told you.
You didn't talk about Vietnam. I asked my mom about it and she just said it was "bad". She didn't want to talk about it.
This movie was therapy for Nam vets and a bit of healing for America as a whole, I think. We needed it. It was how I learned about the Vietnam conflict. My mom answered more questions when we watched this movie together.
There is a video from the last couple years on YT that shows a sheriff in some town in the U.S. doing exactly this, telling someone they have to get out of their town and not come back. He was eventually fired but here it is 40 years later and its still happening.
Now I understand why Rambo keeps his knife the whole time. He uses his knife to hunt animals as well as to cut some wood to keep himself warm, not to mention for self-defense. In other words his knife can be used for hunting, killing, and slicing tree trunks.
One of the best parts of this movie was when Rambo was talking about the trauma he suffered in Vietnam. Most of the guys who served over there went from high school to boot camp to a warzone like Rambo describes often in a matter of a few months. That's one of the reasons I think there were so many PTSD cases out of that war. That scene also showed that Stallone had some ood actin ability in him if he would have had a shot at more dramatic roles.
Btw, the director of the movie is bulgarian 😎
My grandpa was in the army, in Vietnam, so this movie is absolutely heartbreaking, to see.
"'Congratulations!', they said, 'You've got what it takes!'
They sent him back into the rat race without any brakes
They took a clean-cut kid
And they made a killer out of him is what they did"
Bob Dylan
Stallone made himself out to be a hero, the best of the best, on the backs of the men who actually went to war. The ones commenting that he did more for Viet Nam vets with this movie can't be Nam combat vets.
What people forget that Veterans ARE TRAINED KILLERS and Survivalists. so many civilians forget that.
They look at us and forget that fact. We try to assimilate into society, but never forget that we've taken the Oath, have served our country, and we're trained in warfare. We have a standard...a line that should be respected and NEVER crossed.
Respect OUR Veterans and never forget that we're Patriotic to the bone. And that our Oath to Serve, Protect and Die for our Country or our beliefs has no expiration date. 🇺🇸🇺🇲🇺🇸
"In town you're the law, out here it's me; Don't push it! Don't push it or I'll give you a war you won't believe, let it go, let,, it, go!" Gave me chills as a kid when I first watched this and still does now!
Yeah its often overshadowed by the ending but even now years later its so powerful watching such a dangerous man fighting justly for his life but at the same time so desperate for peace pulls you in two directions, on one hand you want him to kill the sheriff but on the other hand you dont and when the"good"sheriff choses war instead of peace you can feel the betrayal
I love that it's a review for first blood part 1 but the thumb nail photo is from first blood part 2
......My heart breaks for jonny in that moment when he is in the station at the end. EVERY SINGLE TIME i watch it i cry. 💔💔💔💔💔
The Vietnam war. The futility of it. The movie "Hamburger Hill" and "Platoon" unveiled it for what it is also. Thank you for the reactions to this movie of John Rambo in "First Blood".
I Always love when women see this movie for the first time, thinking it's gonna be a mindless 80s action movie, and next thing you know, they're crying when that ending comes out of nowhere.
24:15 OMG did Viki just do the alternate flip-off sign from Friends?! Hahah I love it! 😂
Best line ever: “God didn’t make Rambo. I did.”
Stallone did a great job calling attention to PTSD afflicted vets which is something very few movies had addressed up till that point.
I personally think the sequels are not really worth the watch and they just get worse as time goes by.
I would like to address a few things. I am one of the minority of people who read the book before seeing the film. There are some notable differences and of course, a book can shed insight into a character in ways that no film really can.
I don't know if you noticed or not, but there is a case with military medals in it on Teasle's desk at the police station. He is, in fact, a Korean war veteran and part of the reason he disliked Rambo from the get-go is because he feels that his service in the early 1950's to the country was largely ignored. Another reason is because he genuinely thinks that men like rambo will come in droves to his small town and bring drugs and crime with them. (By the way, in the book, the town is a fictional town in Kentucky. Why they chose to move the location to Oregon is beyond me)
In the film, Rambo is indirectly responsible for just one death, which was Galt falling from the helicopter (to be fair, in the film, he WAS an asshole and helped cause the awful situation. In the book Galt was an inexperienced officer just trying to do his job when Rambo's PTSD kicked into overdrive). In the book, Rambo was way more bloodthirsty. In fact, when the sheriff and his posse were hunting him in the forest, Rambo actually kills all of the deputies and seriously injures Teasle. That is 13 men dead in the book before Trautman arrives on the scene.
Also, in the book, Trautman and Rambo had never actually met each other. Trautman had been involved in the training program that produced the Green Berets in Rambo's A team.
In the novel, Rambo has been run out of 15 different towns before the one where he and Teasle cross paths, and Rambo is just sick to death of being judged so unfairly based on pretty much nothing but his appearance.
One of the biggest differences between novel and film is the ending. In the book, Teasle succumbs to his wounds shortly after Trautman shoots a dying Rambo in the head with a shotgun. I guess they decided that was just too dark for the movie.
PTSD is a very real and very serious consequence of the sort of things that military combat vets experience and I'm glad that some films willing to address it
A great testimony to what vets all over the world have to live with. Governments and beurocrats write the check and vets have to cover it.
The wonderful things about 80s action movies, there was always unlimited ammunition.
Viki, I love 💕 your compassion for other people. It makes you my hero ⭐ 💪⭐
This was adapted from the novel of the same name. This is a psychological thriller, while its four sequels are more straightforward action films. Sylvester Stallone starred in Rocky III the same year as this, while Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in Conan the Barbarian
28:12 that’s the point, create chaos from many points to disorient the enemy
In the documentary "Sly" on netflix, Stallone mentioned that there were 20,000 veteran suicides a month before first blood came out.
DEAR AMERICA: Letters Home from Vietnam.
Documentary.
I believe this film should be aired at the 11th hour, on the 11th day, of the 11th month globally.
It is that powerful.
PTSD Is a horrible thing.
Fun Fact: @(13:14) Sylvester Stallone actually stitched his arm in that scene. 😳
NOTHING IS OVER!!!
fun fact: i had one of those Rambo survival knives when i was a kid, the compass unscrewed from the handle, and inside the handle was some fishing line with hooks and waterproof matches
"First blood'' and "Terminator 1'' are masterpieces.
Rambo didnt kill cop ,cop killed himself by disobeying orders
video: first blood
thumbnail: rambo 2
hotel: trivago
This movie is a story about one of the saddest events in American history... the treatment of US Veterans who came home from the Vietnam War. We treated them like absolute trash. People/protestors literally spat on them when they landed and got off the planes at the airport.
You're right, Lia, it's an abandon old mine shaft.
All he wanted was something to eat.
This is the first depiction of what we now call PTSD in a Hollywood movie.
You two would love *The Fugitive* starring Harrison Ford.
😂😂 I got to know a Bulgarian girl when I was on holiday,she played basketball,elizabet,her friends showed me a few curse phrases and that thing Vicky did while banging the sides of her fists together and saying...damn It's on the tip of tongue haha",it's calling someone a wanker 😂
(20:26) I'd just like to point out that there's a zero percent chance that a professional special-forces soldier uses full-auto with zero additional ammo.
Still one of the best Action movies of all time.
Heard my dad have those same traumas.
Hope is a small town in British Columbia, Canada. That's where this was filmed.
This movie is freaking awesome.
All-time classic :D
So glad you decided to watch this one. I can’t believe this movie is 41 years old.😳
Yes, ladies, John Rambo was indeed messed up. He was an exceptional warrior, trained in the elite Special Forces, but he was suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as a result of the brutal experiences and torture he endured in Vietnam.
Regrettably, those Vietnam War veterans who survived their tours of duty were often treated shamefully once they returned home to the country they fought for and risked their lives for, especially by college kids - their very contemporaries - who were allowed to avoid being drafted and sent to war if they attended University instead.
So the college kids who took the easy way out, and refused to fight for their country, in particular, often treated Vietnam War vets abominably. They were accused of cowardice and of committing unspeakable atrocities on civilians, including women and children. The slur “Baby Killers” was one of the most common insults hurled their way.
The war became so unpopular that America was eventually forced to withdraw from Vietnam, abandoning the war because of civil unrest at home. Over 58,000 Americans who fought in Vietnam died there and never made it back home again…
Should have just called in Britain's SAS they would have caught Rambo in 20 minutes
@@da90sReAlvloc Perhaps not have caught him, but they certainly could have rendered him "unalive."
Amercans were against Vietnam war and some treated soldiers as trash instead of respecting them
29:26 Nothing Is Over.
Great movie. The comment at the start, "Welcome to Hope, hmpf", was misplaced. REAL place, just not in the USA. I grew up near Hope, British Columbia, Canada. BEAUTIFUL area.
Great movie franchise to watch. I hope to see you all react to more Stallone movies in the future. The Rocky franchise is the best. Highly recommend it because those are Stallone’s best movies.
4:40 "hehehehe" 😠
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Fun reaction as always. When you choose close captions, don't pick ones made by someone watching the movie in another language and translating it back into English 😄
Omg I'm so happy and surprised you're reacting to this. It's an action movie classic. Love your reactions ❤
the tree jumpimh scene is from the movie Death Hunt from 1981
Everyone thinks this is a guns and adventure movie until you get to the final 10 minutes.
ladies you have to put yourself in the time period of the movie to understand the premisce the reason he gets so much judgement has a "drifter" is because after the vietnam war people in the US reacted this way to veterans and most of them were drifters not having any place to go with their owl country pretty much having turned on them calling them baby killer and spitting on them so this is not far off from the truth it was a highly contreversial war in a controversial time
One of my all time favourites
Nice reaction video again guys! Thx!
Great Reaction Ladies, Please Do Rambo , First Blood Part 2, You Will Definitely Love That One Forsure 😊
My favorite movie hands down and the best book I have ever read! Hate to be that guy but the book is way better!
That picture is from Rambo ,First Blood Part 2. The movie is called First Blood.
Lia you look AMAZING!!!! 🤩
She s a beautiful woman ❤❤❤❤❤
You should check out the rest of the franchise. If you're interested in more Vietnam movies try the movie Dead presidents or Full Metal jacket.
Sylvester Stallone nickname The Italian Stallion has so many great movie like the Rambo series.There is also the Rocky movies.He acted in over seventy movies.He also had several Sci-Fi movies that were I thought were good.
I think his adult film was also called Italian Stallion
Great reaction! Glad you watched this great film and got to see the birth of another movie icon.
I don't know where you girls are from, the accent says Eastern Europe, possibly Russia. You need to understand that in your terms Rambo is Spetsnaz/Green Beret. Those who fought them and survived consider themselves extremely lucky. These are soldiers who were trained to terrorise the enemy. No fear, no hesitation, no mercy. That Rambo let them live is, as Col Trautmann said, a mistake.
They look nothing like russian, genius. Totally different accent too. Get out of your house more often. 😂
in the end, sadly, the sheriff was right. he needed to get rambo out of his sh*tty little fiefdom asap. but he and his men were too smug and hamfisted to realize that the drifter they were playing games with was an a-bomb and they were deliberately hitting all the triggers.
Rambo wanted was a hot meal and no trouble, but that idiot sheriff denied Rambo both. All what happened could've been avoided if Rambo was just left alone.
PTSD is no joke.
Rambo has it in spades.
Superb performance from Stallone.
this movie was filmed in Canada
Good choice.
*Eu gostei das mudanças que o Stallone fez em relação ao Rambo do livro. O Rambo do livro era muito mais cruel e matou até crianças tentando combater o Xerife. O Rambo do livro teve muitas atitudes condenáveis*
O filme foi muito melhor que o livro.
Good one, Ladies! Thanks for sharing. 🙂
In the original book teasel is a former Korean war veteran and that's why he doesnt like Rambo