I was 12 when this movie came out. I had never went to the movies with my father. Dropped off picked up. My father took me and my brother to see that movie,he is a Vietnam Vet. I believe that is the first time I ever saw my father cry. True story. I'm a Desert Storm vet. That is a day I will never forget 😢😢😢
The others pale by comparison. So much of this film hinges on the sheriff violating Rambo's rights. They couldn't play that plot over in a new movie. So they had an epic character and they needed to write a new chapter in his story. But the first chapter they shared with us was so epic. It may have been better if they wrote a chapter from his days in Vietnam with Troutman.
I agree. It ages like wine. I always loved it as a kid. I remember having recorded the movie when it played on tv and watching it over and over.. And about a year or two ago i downloaded it and watch it again from time to time. It's like stepping back in time.
@@jasonseaton6895 Hell yeah.. but come to think of it... the strong silent type played by Stallone is like an overlap with the character of Rambo but still..; awesome movie ! I love how it's not a great movie and somehow still is. lol.
Stallone is a legend, as a kid in the 80's when l saw First Blood l thought of it as just an action movie but later as an adult l understood how traumatized and PTSD-ed Rambo was - excellent movie, an all time classic
Americans may despise the Vietnam veterans then but as a Malaysian, i would be eternally grateful to them for stopping the communists in slaught. Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia would have had very different and bitter history if not for these poor guys from USA, South Vietnam, South Korea, Anzacs fighting it out with China backed NVA and Viet Cong
@@subvet2002 you are most welcome. I remember back in the 1970s, as a small kid, the headline of a Malaysian Chinese language newspaper carried a headline "Vietnam's next target in Thailand and Malaysia!" That scared me like hell. I used to scan papers to read about Thailand army fighting off Vietnamese at the Cambodian border - small skirmishes . I remember feeling relief everytime i read the words "Thai forces managed to fight off Vietnamese incursion parties". My sincere thanks to the grunts and gyrernes of 1960s.
@@weetakapa yg di lakukan oleh Amerika waktu itu adalah benar. Sayangnya kita sebagai manusia tidak sanggup untuk menghindari efek samping yg tidak diinginkan dan tak terelakan.
@@skellener He is talking about when they came home in the early 70's. They were indeed despised, led by a very big vocal group, comprised almost totally of the hippie counter culture on the college campus.... you know, give peace a chance, make love, not war.... Those vermin were the ones brainwashed, and hopped up with all kinds of drugs, not bathing, who were spitting on vets returning, calling them baby killers. Have you not seen a single movie from the late 60's early 70's?
these are really cool videos going behind the scenes of an iconic movie like rambo first blood. just all the twists and turns it took to end up where it did and i hope most of the Vietnam Vets could enjoy the film! Thank you so much for your service! Godbless🇺🇸
in 1985 nyc gave the vietnam vets a parade , i worked for the nyc highway dept at the time we made sure there were no pot holes for them to step on lol. ny loves our veterans of all wars !
He should have died as in the book. That is what makes the book so damn good actually. No stupid hero stuff. Just reallity. That is what makes an allready great move even better. Still love the movie! But the ending nah..(I had read the book before)
Just because it was in the book doesn't mean it will work in the film. The test audiences hated the death ending. He doesn't kill anyone in the film. If he were unhinged to the point of killing everything that moved, then the death ending would make sense.
@@pdrey100 Just because the test audience did not like it does not make it a good ending (That is all about the money and risk..). Just wanting the standard happy ending etc. Everything is not john w and riding into the sunset etc. The book is way more realistic and many of us like that. And yes it would have (also) made a great movie. Probably even better as I stated above. But hery, that is just my 2 cents.
This rambo movie was great, 2 and 3 were imo dumb,, he turned his character into a comic book character , running through the jungle flexing his pecs, getting shot at by the enemy wide open amd he never gets hit but Rambo kills everybody,, it got too silly in 2 and 3
They couldn’t kill him because that’s not the movie they had made. If they had stayed more true to the book to where he killed people it might have played better that he died…but Stallone was just too much an icon of the underdog from Rocky at that time, it just wasn’t probable they could pull it off.
It's so sad that the follow up movies never got the proper attention and turned out to be like a cow set up to be milked to the last drop. Although i like all Rambo movies, for they all take on subject matter that is rooted in reality and the character of Rambo was still played well but perhaps the over the top feel to it ruined it and made them look more like just ordinary action flicks with a hero that just can't die.
I don’t think you understand the character and what made him do what he did until that moment. Yet he still showed restraint throughout the movie even though he was in so much pain.
PLOT: A veteran Green Beret is forced by a cruel Sheriff and his deputies to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers. ACTUAL PLOT: A mentally disturbed veteran Green Beret, who can't tell the difference between a city in the Pacific Northwest in 1982 and Vietnam in 1972, chooses to endanger innocent lives, assaults and cause the deaths of local law enforcement because his feelings got hurt.
"... feelings got hurt"? They tried to deny him the rights due a citizen because he fought in a war at the direction of Congress and The President. Then they assaulted him because THEIR feelings got hurt. Then they tried to take his life. We see Rambo very differently.
@@eddarby469 - They denied him rights due a citizen because he fought in a war at the direction of Congress and The President. Our opinions due differ. Here is a list of crimes Rambo committed before Teasle and his deputies ever learned that Rambo was a Viet Nam war veteran: Failure to obey the commands of a law enforcement officer; carrying a concealed weapon; assault on a police officer; assault on multiple police officers causing bodily injury; assault on a teenager, resulting in injury; grand theft of the teenager's motorcycle; flight; reckless endangerment by initiating a high speed chase; death of Deputy Gault and reckless endangerment of the helicopter pilot. Until, while standing over Gault's body and hearing the message over the radio, all of the action's of the police were in direct response to Rambo's conduct and had nothing to due with any military service he may have had. Rambo, when he turned back toward's Hope, began a series of events that he escalated himself. Teasle instantly identified Rambo as a potential threat to his town and Rambo spent the rest of the movie proving Teasle was right. Teasle saw Rambo as a vagrancy threat that could affect the good order of the town. He didn't realize, he couldn't have known, just how mentally unbalanced John Rambo was. Teasle is the hero of this movie, Rambo the villain. Rambo's back story doesn't excuse his conduct. Rambo should have died at the end of this movie.
Apparently you didn’t watch the movie. Unjustly detained, then arrested, beaten in his holding cell, and blasted with a fire hose, then he finally loses it when they attempt to shave him with a straight razor before his court appearance. It’s no wonder he broke out of there. If it had happened today in real life, regardless of his response, the jail cell cameras would ensure nearly all the officers would’ve been canned for their actions. Oh, and one final thing, he didn’t cause the death of any officer. The only officer that died was because he unfastened his safety belt in the helicopter while trying to murder him.
@@davidvaninwagen9391 - He was offered a ride by Sheriff Teasle and voluntarily went with him. Teasle drove him to the edge of town. He wanted him to leave. When Rambo walked back towards the town, he ignored the commands of a police officer and then resisted him. That's when Teasle pulled his gun. He finds a large hunting knife concealed on Rambo's body and arrests him. That arrest is not unlawful. He chose not to cooperate with police while being finger printed, and firmly grabs one of the police officers (Mitch) when his dog tag is being checked. That qualifies as assault. Gault should have hit him across the head with his night stick right then rather than threaten him. When Teasle was chasing Rambo with his patrol car, if he had hit a pedestrian and killed them, the death of that pedestrian would have been charged to Rambo, since any death that occurs as the result of a felony is charged to the perpetrator of that felony. The entire situation was created by Rambo. He is guilty of multiple felonies. Gault died during that pursuit, a pursuit that Rambo is directly responsible for. He would have been charged for the death of Art Gault, especially since his death was a direct result of Rambo's attack on the helicopter. I'm not defending Gault's actions in the movie, but his escalation is a direct result of Rambo's unwillingness to cooperate and his attack on Mitch. Bottom line, Rambo, after he checks Gault's body, could have just left, disappeared into the country. Rambo chose to stay and punish them, then punish the town. He needed a bullet in his head at the end of the movie. Apparently, I did watch the movie, I just watched it from a law and order perspective. I'll take the law and order Sheriff's position over the mentally deranged lunatic's position every day of the week. Hope looked like a nice place to live. I'll bet you don't find people shitting on the sidewalks there.
Perfect example how an action film should be made...
One of the best films ever made
I was 12 when this movie came out. I had never went to the movies with my father. Dropped off picked up. My father took me and my brother to see that movie,he is a Vietnam Vet. I believe that is the first time I ever saw my father cry. True story. I'm a Desert Storm vet. That is a day I will never forget 😢😢😢
The first and best of the Rambo films. Still one of my favourite, Stallone films.
Same here. Brings me back to when I was 12 years old. First blood was something else 🙂
The only Rambo film is a Film
The others pale by comparison. So much of this film hinges on the sheriff violating Rambo's rights. They couldn't play that plot over in a new movie. So they had an epic character and they needed to write a new chapter in his story. But the first chapter they shared with us was so epic. It may have been better if they wrote a chapter from his days in Vietnam with Troutman.
Stallone sold the character. Should have been an Oscar nominee. He was great.
Yeah, his best movie.
Absolutely one of the best movies ever made!
I agree. It ages like wine. I always loved it as a kid. I remember having recorded the movie when it played on tv and watching it over and over.. And about a year or two ago i downloaded it and watch it again from time to time. It's like stepping back in time.
One of the best soundtracks of all time.
I reckon Stallone should have been up for an oscar.
This is my favorite Stallone movie!!
It's his only good movie.
@@guilty-of-being-right I liked Cobra too.
@@guilty-of-being-rightfaut pas exagérer non plus ! Non ?😊
@@guilty-of-being-right Rocky 1 was a smasher just as well. A bit hard to deny.
@@jasonseaton6895 Hell yeah.. but come to think of it... the strong silent type played by Stallone is like an overlap with the character of Rambo but still..; awesome movie ! I love how it's not a great movie and somehow still is. lol.
One of my top 5 action movies of all time! My favorite of his
Totally agree mate
Right up there with Predator, and the Terminator.
@@joemontano71 fucking right man...100%
And best of all Sly got to keep his dog 😁
Stallone is a legend, as a kid in the 80's when l saw First Blood l thought of it as just an action movie but later as an adult l understood how traumatized and PTSD-ed Rambo was - excellent movie, an all time classic
The adoration towards this movie is truest. Everyone loved Rambo.
what a year for stallone 1982 was first blood and rocky 3
Americans may despise the Vietnam veterans then but as a Malaysian, i would be eternally grateful to them for stopping the communists in slaught. Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia would have had very different and bitter history if not for these poor guys from USA, South Vietnam, South Korea, Anzacs fighting it out with China backed NVA and Viet Cong
Thank you for that perspective, I've often thought about that too, how some neighboring countries would have faired, had there been no intervention.
@@subvet2002 you are most welcome. I remember back in the 1970s, as a small kid, the headline of a Malaysian Chinese language newspaper carried a headline "Vietnam's next target in Thailand and Malaysia!" That scared me like hell. I used to scan papers to read about Thailand army fighting off Vietnamese at the Cambodian border - small skirmishes . I remember feeling relief everytime i read the words "Thai forces managed to fight off Vietnamese incursion parties". My sincere thanks to the grunts and gyrernes of 1960s.
@@weetakapa yg di lakukan oleh Amerika waktu itu adalah
benar. Sayangnya kita sebagai manusia tidak sanggup untuk menghindari efek samping yg tidak diinginkan dan tak terelakan.
Who said Americans despise Vietnam vets? That’s insane. Maybe some. A vet is a vet and they deserve our respect and thanks.
@@skellener He is talking about when they came home in the early 70's. They were indeed despised, led by a very big vocal group, comprised almost totally of the hippie counter culture on the college campus.... you know, give peace a chance, make love, not war.... Those vermin were the ones brainwashed, and hopped up with all kinds of drugs, not bathing, who were spitting on vets returning, calling them baby killers. Have you not seen a single movie from the late 60's early 70's?
He should have won an Oscar for the ending scene imop. Such a great movie.
The Goldsmith music is absolutely everything to that movie , you remove it and it remains almost nothing of it .
Yes the speech at the end is so true. Very good actually.
Rambo a great classic.
these are really cool videos going behind the scenes of an iconic movie like rambo first blood. just all the twists and turns it took to end up where it did and i hope most of the Vietnam Vets could enjoy the film! Thank you so much for your service! Godbless🇺🇸
I went to Hope last month 🙏
This film inspired a generation 🇺🇸🫡
Yes, but not the stupid generation z!!
Rambo 1 and Rocky 1 are Stallones best movies!
Great great movie Stallone ever star in
3:55 and then..." it's a long road" a forever song!
Ele nessa ft da capa do vídeo tá parecendo Roberto Carlos kkkk
in 1985 nyc gave the vietnam vets a parade , i worked for the nyc highway dept at the time we made sure there were no pot holes for them to step on lol. ny loves our veterans of all wars !
I worked at Carolco in the 80s and Mario and Andy had matching RR cars with license plates Rambo 1 Rambo 2
THE BEST
the ending was great it was like he was taken home by the Colonel it was good for veterans to see
Seen an idea that What if Rambo dies and rest of the Rambo- movies are just his last brain activity like in Jacob's Ladder
watching this tonight
Great movie, I remember seeing it for the 1st time, I waited to go pee until it was over, didn't wanna miss n e of it! Dam those were the days!
Is best film for me
Brilliant thank you
Great movie. 1st ever Stallone movie my dad introduced me to when i was about 9 years old
" ya know, wearing that flag on that jacket lookin the way you do ya askin for trouble around here friend "
You got any place where i can eat around here?
@@Jeff-sp7bg McDonalds. Trump is serving fries today.
everything was perfect- but the last Rambo's breakdown...
first
0:15 very harsh? He looks so nice, vulnerable and likable. Also the expressions. At least for us Germans.
The last Rambo movie is the Rocky V of the Rambo films! Never should've happened!
I like rocky 5 lol
He should have died as in the book. That is what makes the book so damn good actually. No stupid hero stuff. Just reallity. That is what makes an allready great move even better. Still love the movie! But the ending nah..(I had read the book before)
Just because it was in the book doesn't mean it will work in the film. The test audiences hated the death ending. He doesn't kill anyone in the film. If he were unhinged to the point of killing everything that moved, then the death ending would make sense.
@@pdrey100 Just because the test audience did not like it does not make it a good ending (That is all about the money and risk..). Just wanting the standard happy ending etc. Everything is not john w and riding into the sunset etc. The book is way more realistic and many of us like that. And yes it would have (also) made a great movie. Probably even better as I stated above. But hery, that is just my 2 cents.
He said he liked first Blood out of all of them but he said in other clips he liked 3 the most
I’m sure sequels was foremost on everybody’s minds concerning the death of Rambo.
The Best Sly Movie apart from Rocky.
1:03
This rambo movie was great, 2 and 3 were imo dumb,, he turned his character into a comic book character , running through the jungle flexing his pecs, getting shot at by the enemy wide open amd he never gets hit but Rambo kills everybody,, it got too silly in 2 and 3
They couldn’t kill him because that’s not the movie they had made. If they had stayed more true to the book to where he killed people it might have played better that he died…but Stallone was just too much an icon of the underdog from Rocky at that time, it just wasn’t probable they could pull it off.
It's so sad that the follow up movies never got the proper attention and turned out to be like a cow set up to be milked to the last drop. Although i like all Rambo movies, for they all take on subject matter that is rooted in reality and the character of Rambo was still played well but perhaps the over the top feel to it ruined it and made them look more like just ordinary action flicks with a hero that just can't die.
Ok Robert L jump...
Funny thing is - Sylvester Stallone was a Vietnam War draft dodger who went to Canada.
Funny thing is - You do not have a clue of what you are talking about..
@@Jack_Waffles even funnier thing is you don't know what you're talking about. Ask him he admitted it.
@@Jon-k8z "Draft dodger that went to Canada".. muahaahhahaahaahah..
Who cares ? The government has no moral right to force people to join the military.
Thoroughly unpleasant person on set
The nervous breakdown was awful at the end ! Ruins it
I don’t think you understand the character and what made him do what he did until that moment. Yet he still showed restraint throughout the movie even though he was in so much pain.
Kinda agree, I understand the characer issues, but I didn't buy Stallone's acting there.
PLOT: A veteran Green Beret is forced by a cruel Sheriff and his deputies to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.
ACTUAL PLOT: A mentally disturbed veteran Green Beret, who can't tell the difference between a city in the Pacific Northwest in 1982 and Vietnam in 1972, chooses to endanger innocent lives, assaults and cause the deaths of local law enforcement because his feelings got hurt.
Just go away coz you're mentally unsure of yourself, here in Africa we salute our hero Jonh Rambo.
"... feelings got hurt"?
They tried to deny him the rights due a citizen because he fought in a war at the direction of Congress and The President. Then they assaulted him because THEIR feelings got hurt. Then they tried to take his life.
We see Rambo very differently.
@@eddarby469 - They denied him rights due a citizen because he fought in a war at the direction of Congress and The President. Our opinions due differ. Here is a list of crimes Rambo committed before Teasle and his deputies ever learned that Rambo was a Viet Nam war veteran: Failure to obey the commands of a law enforcement officer; carrying a concealed weapon; assault on a police officer; assault on multiple police officers causing bodily injury; assault on a teenager, resulting in injury; grand theft of the teenager's motorcycle; flight; reckless endangerment by initiating a high speed chase; death of Deputy Gault and reckless endangerment of the helicopter pilot. Until, while standing over Gault's body and hearing the message over the radio, all of the action's of the police were in direct response to Rambo's conduct and had nothing to due with any military service he may have had. Rambo, when he turned back toward's Hope, began a series of events that he escalated himself. Teasle instantly identified Rambo as a potential threat to his town and Rambo spent the rest of the movie proving Teasle was right. Teasle saw Rambo as a vagrancy threat that could affect the good order of the town. He didn't realize, he couldn't have known, just how mentally unbalanced John Rambo was. Teasle is the hero of this movie, Rambo the villain. Rambo's back story doesn't excuse his conduct. Rambo should have died at the end of this movie.
Apparently you didn’t watch the movie. Unjustly detained, then arrested, beaten in his holding cell, and blasted with a fire hose, then he finally loses it when they attempt to shave him with a straight razor before his court appearance. It’s no wonder he broke out of there. If it had happened today in real life, regardless of his response, the jail cell cameras would ensure nearly all the officers would’ve been canned for their actions. Oh, and one final thing, he didn’t cause the death of any officer. The only officer that died was because he unfastened his safety belt in the helicopter while trying to murder him.
@@davidvaninwagen9391 - He was offered a ride by Sheriff Teasle and voluntarily went with him. Teasle drove him to the edge of town. He wanted him to leave. When Rambo walked back towards the town, he ignored the commands of a police officer and then resisted him. That's when Teasle pulled his gun. He finds a large hunting knife concealed on Rambo's body and arrests him. That arrest is not unlawful. He chose not to cooperate with police while being finger printed, and firmly grabs one of the police officers (Mitch) when his dog tag is being checked. That qualifies as assault. Gault should have hit him across the head with his night stick right then rather than threaten him. When Teasle was chasing Rambo with his patrol car, if he had hit a pedestrian and killed them, the death of that pedestrian would have been charged to Rambo, since any death that occurs as the result of a felony is charged to the perpetrator of that felony. The entire situation was created by Rambo. He is guilty of multiple felonies. Gault died during that pursuit, a pursuit that Rambo is directly responsible for. He would have been charged for the death of Art Gault, especially since his death was a direct result of Rambo's attack on the helicopter. I'm not defending Gault's actions in the movie, but his escalation is a direct result of Rambo's unwillingness to cooperate and his attack on Mitch. Bottom line, Rambo, after he checks Gault's body, could have just left, disappeared into the country. Rambo chose to stay and punish them, then punish the town. He needed a bullet in his head at the end of the movie. Apparently, I did watch the movie, I just watched it from a law and order perspective. I'll take the law and order Sheriff's position over the mentally deranged lunatic's position every day of the week. Hope looked like a nice place to live. I'll bet you don't find people shitting on the sidewalks there.
Imagine Dustin Hoffman as Rambo ,it definitely gonna failed
I think they should have followed the book