RAMBO FIRST BLOOD (1982) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION

This movie is never what people think it is the first time they see it. It is not some mindless shoot em up action movie but a film about genuine loneliness and pain and Stallone is legendary in it.

I remember when we got off the plane from Afghanistan, the first people we saw were Vietnam vets. They made it a point to be at every home bound flight in order to make sure all service members were properly welcomed back to the US. They said it was their goal that what happened to them upon their arrival would never happen again. 14 years later, coming home from another deployment, and the first people we saw were Vietnam vets. They were still coming out to welcome service members home.

That scene at the end is probably one of most powerful commentaries on the costs of war and PTSD I've ever seen. The acting by Stalone was brilliant.

The welcome the Sheriff gave him was exactly the kind of welcome I got from the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department when I got home from Afghanistan. The way police treat vets is portrayed spot-on in this movie.

For anyone who says Stallone can’t act never watched the ending to this film. He’s incredible and showed why he’s an academy award winner

That ending monologue hits so close to home how badly the US treated our troops after Vietnam. I personally have once or twice had a PTSD experience like he did at the end but it’s nothing compared to the trauma troops had to go through and what they actually experienced; Stallone captured it so effectively. Anybody who says he’s a bad actor need to look no further.

The last scene is so underrated, its one of the most emotional scene in cinema history and ,its a fact and true to what happened to soldiers who returned from Vietnam back home

REMEMBER FOLKS!!! All Rambo wanted was something to eat!!!

The reason that Sheriff Will Teasle resented John Rambo was because in the novel it was explained that Teasle was a Korean War veteran, a plotline that was deleted from the movie. Many Korean War veterans felt that they had become veterans of a forgotten war, and their service and sacrifice had been forgotten as well, while Vietnam veterans got all the attention. Also, many Vietnam veterans came home from the war resentful and critical of the US government's actions during the Vietnam War, which many Korean vets felt was unpatriotic and unbecoming a US soldier.

ANOTHER TRUE STORY: When my daughter was 4, she got me out of a speeding ticket by telling the cop "I was rooting for Rambo the whole time." Got him laughing so hard with how serious her face was that he literally fell over. Pulled us over a month later just to tell us that everyone calls him "Teasle" now and literally boo him when he walks into the station each morning. And yes, its still going on 10 years later. His daughter and mine are BFF's.

I STILL get choked up during the last scene where Rambo breaks down.

I remember when my grandfather (who served in Vietnam) showed me this movie, he told me that Stallone interpreted exactly what many comrades felt when they were socially rejected after having given everything in a war, losing their humanity and awareness, many ended up in psychiatric hospitals. and those who were lucky returned home with quite a few post-war traumas. I remember my grandfather reciting exactly the phrase that Rambo says "many of us were fortunate enough to return home, but we never really came back."

That final monologue really demonstrates Stallone's exceptional acting skill.

5:56 He was going to see Delmar because he was his last wartime buddy. But functionally, for the story's sake, he goes there to establish how completely alone and directionless he currently feels/is.

He brought a pocket full of pictures and memorabilia for the two of them to sit and reminisce about. But once he hears that Delmar's dead, he gives the widow the picture with her husband and immediately throws the rest of it in the trash. He's held onto it all this time, but it's suddenly worthless. Worse than worthless, it's outright depressing. There is no one left who would appreciate any of it. Nobody to reminisce with, and he clearly has no interest in doing so alone.

First Blood was a genuinely good movie. You have to take into account the historical context. This was 1982, so 9 years after the end of the Vietnam War. That war was an ugly scar on our psyche back then. This movie addresses that. Here's a guy with PTSD probably, who never got any respect once he got back home for his service and sacrifice. You see, you guys grew up in the post 2001 ear. 'Thank you for you service' is something you say almost like 'gesundheit' or 'bless you' after someone sneezes. But back then, if you had long hair, you were immediately suspect- it didn't matter if you served or not. America itself was at a point where it was about to change, but had not yet. That's what this movie is all about, and it's weird for me, because I don't really think of myself as old, but I was born in the 60s. And I watched all this take place. I remember the Moon landings, Vietnam, Nixon resigning. I remember this film coming out and watched it in the cinema.

Yeah, I don't really know what I'm trying to say, but it's interesting to note how outraged you are at the behaviour of the police. Back then, that's how it was. No internet. No mobile phones. It was your word against the word of the police, and who do you think they believed? Back then, this is true, Rambo would have been shipped out to the county work farm for a few months or rustled out of town like that for vagrancy.

I tear up during the final scene when Rambo compares civilian life with military life. That resonates deeply with me as I too struggled to “assimilate” back to civilian life after 14 years of knowing nothing but being in the military. We did have a code of honor, a brotherhood. It didn’t matter where you were from or what you looked like. We had each others backs because our survival and accomplishing the mission depended on it. Then we come back and you have, what seemed at the time, the majority of your own countrymen hating you. We give our lives for them and that was our “thank you”. That’s why we vets keep to ourselves or associate with other vets because we want that brotherhood back. Thank you for watching this film and learning about what we go through and showing appreciation. You’re part of the few.

I'm 52 years old and I first saw this movie with my dad who was an Army Sargeant Vietnam Vet he enlisted when he was about 19 straight out of high school a young Mexican American from Northern Ca. Who wanted to serve his country his base camp was in Tu Duc near Bien Hoa he did 2 tours of duty in Nam from 1966 to 68 and was decorated. Sadly Agent Orange took him at age 59 in Feb. 2006. I remember when we were watching this movie and at the ending I heard someone crying I looked over and it was my Hero my dad the first time I ever saw him cry. The man who I always thought who was invincible is a memory I will never forget. He would never talk about his time there very much and he would be distant when I asked him what he did to be awarded his medals. RIP "Pops" 1946-2006 🙏🇺🇲🕊🕊 God Bless all service men and women who have proudly served this nation past, present, and future.🙏🇺🇲

My father came back from Vietnam and never talked about it until I was almost 30. Just learned how to live with all the bad things that happened over there. Even after he told me some of the stories, I could not imagine going through live like that. Before he passed he finally built a display case for his medals. He received the silver star for saving the lives of 5 soldiers after they got shot down. He loaded his helicopter down with too many people and was able to crash it back in friendly territory after taking numerous hits to the helicopter and crash landing. One of the guys who he saved actually came to his funeral and spoke. That brotherhood just does not ever die.

In Brazil, Rambo First Blood is titled as "designed to kill" but, if you pay close attention to the movie, Rambo doesn't kill anybody.

The older I get, and the more I learn about what happened in Vietnam, the more devastating the ending is. His breakdown and the things he says…Stallone’s best acting ever.