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First Blood (1982) is a quiet, bruised character study disguised as an action movie. The sequels rewrote Rambo as mythic muscle, and history keeps mistaking the original for something it never was.

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One of Hollywood’s worst habits is taking an action film with something to say and reducing it to spectacle. FIRST BLOOD (1982) is about the treatment of veterans after war. The sequels shifted the focus toward ever-bigger body counts.

One of Hollywood’s worst habits is taking an action film with something to say and reducing it to spectacle. FIRST BLOOD (1982) is about the treatment of veterans after war. The sequels shifted the focus toward ever-bigger body counts.

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DEVELOPING: James Franco is joining the cast of the Rambo prequel film. Set years before the events of 1982's First Blood, Franco is not Rambo, but rather the heavy. Noah Centineo will walk in Stallone’s footsteps as John Rambo. Stallone was nearly perfect here- hard to recreate.

DEVELOPING: James Franco is joining the cast of the Rambo prequel film. Set years before the events of 1982's First Blood, Franco is not Rambo, but rather the heavy. Noah Centineo will walk in Stallone’s footsteps as John Rambo. Stallone was nearly perfect here- hard to recreate.

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Did you know? Golden Axe (1989) features iconic death screams that were actually sampled directly from the 1982 movie First Blood. Creator Makoto Uchida was obsessed with 80s action cinema and used the Rambo audio to give the arcade combat a more gritty and realistic punch.

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Rambo: First Blood (1982) had an early cut that ran nearly 3 & a half hours, packed with extra dialogue and one liners. Stallone hated it so much he wanted to buy the negatives and destroy them. What survived is the leanest, most grounded Rambo.

Rambo: First Blood (1982) had an early cut that ran nearly 3 & a half hours, packed with extra dialogue and one liners. Stallone hated it so much he wanted to buy the negatives and destroy them. What survived is the leanest, most grounded Rambo.

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FIRST BLOOD has often been misremembered because of its sequels. People forget that the original film is a smart, hard-hitting character piece. An unflinching and unflattering portrait of so many elements of American society. The casting is impeccable, top to bottom. The screenwriting is top-notch. This scene is a prime example. The insincere smile, the veiled threats. The contained anger. The action may be a little tame by today's standards, but it's not really an action film. It's a drama, with action. In the end, it's hard to see it as anything other than a tragedy. An angry rebuke to the arrogance of power and how most of us just want to look the other way. It still fascinates me how we can tell such entertaining stories about these things. I love this movie. The sequels are just entirely different things (I liked #4.)

FIRST BLOOD has often been misremembered because of its sequels. People forget that the original film is a smart, hard-hitting character piece. An unflinching and unflattering portrait of so many elements of American society. The casting is impeccable, top to bottom. The screenwriting is top-notch. This scene is a prime example. The insincere smile, the veiled threats. The contained anger. The action may be a little tame by today's standards, but it's not really an action film. It's a drama, with action. In the end, it's hard to see it as anything other than a tragedy. An angry rebuke to the arrogance of power and how most of us just want to look the other way. It still fascinates me how we can tell such entertaining stories about these things. I love this movie. The sequels are just entirely different things (I liked #4.)

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John Rambo wasn't supposed to be sympathetic. In David Morrell's novel First Blood, Rambo is a cold-blooded killer. Psychotic. Dangerous. The book ends with him deadshot by his own creator, Colonel Trautman. Sylvester Stallone read the script and refused to play that version. He saw something else. Not a monster. A victim. A man created by war... 🎬 First Blood (1982)

John Rambo wasn't supposed to be sympathetic. In David Morrell's novel First Blood, Rambo is a cold-blooded killer. Psychotic. Dangerous. The book ends with him deadshot by his own creator, Colonel Trautman. Sylvester Stallone read the script and refused to play that version. He saw something else. Not a monster. A victim. A man created by war... 🎬 First Blood (1982)

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China has created an antelope robot — but why? Chinese scientists have released a robot disguised as an antelope onto the Tibetan Plateau. Their goal is to study the animals’ lifestyle and the ecosystem. According to Xinhua, the experiment was a success — the antelopes accepted the robot as one of their own and were not afraid of it.

China has created an antelope robot — but why? Chinese scientists have released a robot disguised as an antelope onto the Tibetan Plateau. Their goal is to study the animals’ lifestyle and the ecosystem. According to Xinhua, the experiment was a success — the antelopes accepted the robot as one of their own and were not afraid of it.

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Kids (1995) drifts through New York like a nightmare disguised as summer, sun-bleached streets, aimless days, and the quiet sense that something irreversible is already in motion.

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Walton Goggins as Boyd Crowder in Justified was so magnetic the writers rewrote the show to keep him alive after the pilot. Hard to believe he never won an Emmy for it.

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watched the Raid 2 for the first time and it had the best car chase i’ve ever seen so i googled it to see how they did it and one of the cameramen was disguised as a carseat???

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