Rambo: first blood do you consider it a classic

[ultimatefan]

You missed the point.

Rambo looks like a vagrant and a hippie...the people that looked down on and spat at our returning soldiers from that war. He is harassed and arrested by small town good ole' boys...for being a vagrant and a hippie...It's a bit of irony, but adresses some really deep seeded issues in American culture and counter culture. John J. Rambo isn't met with despise and distrust for being a soldier from Vietnam. He is met with despise and distrust for looking like one of the people that protested the war.

I remember the hippie comments from the sheriff, but a lot of that look had to do with the effect the war had on him. Many veterans probably looked like a wreck when they came home because well, they were a wreck.

 

[bluejake01]

I remember the hippie comments from the sheriff, but a lot of that look had to do with the effect the war had on him. Many veterans probably looked like a wreck when they came home because well, they were a wreck.

Did you see that? It flew right over your head.

The typical redneck good ole' boys and the conservative republicans were not the ones spitting on our soldiers..it was the counter culture that was. Like Born on the Fourth of July, First Blood uses irony to make a point that I think you missed.

 

[SymbioteKal-El]

First Blood is an absolute classic, I have to watch it again every so often simply because it is a classic and one of the best action movies ever, but the action never dominated the movie like the sequels, it simply added to it. FBII and Rambo are quite good, and 3 is pretty bad, but First Blood is up there with Die Hard, Terminator, Aliens, etc as one of the best action movies ever.

 

[Carnotaur3]

First Blood has some awesome cinematography. I really never appreciated it until I saw it all on Blu-ray. Holy **** does it look good!

And the story is simple yet effective. It's on a league of its own. The character work between Rambo and the Sheriff is awesome.

 

[gwynplaine]

I don't know if it's a classic, probably. Anyway it sure is a great film.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

First Blood has some awesome cinematography. I really never appreciated it until I saw it all on Blu-ray. Holy **** does it look good!

And the story is simple yet effective. It's on a league of its own. The character work between Rambo and the Sheriff is awesome.

Yeah, totally agree, on blu-ray it does look fantastic, same with Rambo 2, they look like they were made recently.

Anyway, First Blood has always and will always be a classic to me, the scene's in the forest are simply superb.

 

[Golgo-13]

It IS a classic. It's funny, i remember Stallone and his agent viewing a screening of the movie before it was released, and they both thought it was the worst piece of turd they had ever seen, and Stallone was scared his career would be over...

 

[Max J Power]

I wouldn't call it a classic, but it's a good and influential action movie. A really badass one too.

 

[StrainedEyes]

It is definitely a classic in the action genre.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

It IS a classic. It's funny, i remember Stallone and his agent viewing a screening of the movie before it was released, and they both thought it was the worst piece of turd they had ever seen, and Stallone was scared his career would be over...

Now that is funny, but how could they think it was a turd? According to my Dad it follows the book very closely, other than the ending of course.

 

[david icke]

Did you see that? It flew right over your head.

The typical redneck good ole' boys and the conservative republicans were not the ones spitting on our soldiers..it was the counter culture that was. Like Born on the Fourth of July, First Blood uses irony to make a point that I think you missed.

reply to a very old post, but what the hey, it's discussing the movie, and an important point about it I think.

No, I think the sheriff's main reaction was to do with his being a Veitnam vet, as well as his appearance.
Sure, there might have been some irony in there too with what you're saying about the hippy appearance.
But the thing is, people knew that a lot of ****ed up things happened over there that they don't want to know about and forget.
The sheriff doesn't want some messed up ex-soldier walking about his town who coul've been involved in crazy sh**, who knows what's going through his head.
(edit:The point is it's a small town atht wants to forget the troubles of the outside world, and that's what Rambo's appearnace would remind them of.)
I think in the film it's quite obvious that it's Rambo's military clothing that attracts the sheriff's attention, that's why he wants him out of town, for the reasons stated above.
There may be some irony in the fact he gets slagged off for having long hair but that's not the reason he's run out of town.
From what I understand a lot of Vietnam war vets were left alone to cope with their trauma and fiancial difficulties with not much help from the government. Maybe the hippies were against the war, but that didn't mean they spat on the soldiers, and maybe the conservatives were for the war, but that doesn't mean they didn't spit on the soldiers when they came back after having lost.

I think FB is a classic, of any genre. The phrase 'Rambo knife' entered the lexicon when describing hunting knifes, and Rambo is now a word commonly used to decribe a tough guy.
It's a great tight film with a great final scene from Stallone.
If he and his agent thought this movie was going to mess up his career what were they thinking when they sat in front of Cobra?

 

[Aztec]

The original "Rocky" and "First Blood" are classics. Most of the sequels were varying degrees of bad (but often entertaining) but Rocky Balboa was good (although The Wrestler would later do the concept far better) and "Rambo" was good old fashioned dumb fun.

 

[Addendum]

First Blood is the only Rambo movie I like

 

[Golgo-13]

Rambo jumping off the cliff into the pine trees = pure badass.
Rambo sewing up his own arm = classic
Col.Troutmans "...good supply of body bags!" line = absolutely hilarious!

 

[SymbioteKal-El]

^There are some unintentionally hilarious moments in First Blood, but thats because it is a product of its time, same with the sequels, who have some more hilarious moments which werent meant to be.

But FB is still a classic, and always will be in my eyes.

 

[bullets]

I think it's a classic. You could debate that .