The Reel Rejects - FIRST BLOOD (1982) MOVIE REVIEW!!!

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Starting point is 00:01:30 the saddle for first blood oh we've never seen it i have recently learned that the sequel is called first blood part two i found that hilarious if you also found it hilarious and also want us to potentially watch first blood part two please like please subscribe if you're not already please comment below saying hey watch first blood part two a kind of funny named title with a lot of redundancies and numbering and i'd like to thank the fine folks at prepper for helping cut down these highlights making it sing making it have some pizzazz just giving it that little extra oomph and also if you want to watch this in its entirety

Starting point is 00:02:03 front back the beginning to end the entirety all of the blood both first second and third become a patron you see all the blood spilled any bit of it I assume there's more than one I hope so I mean grab your boxed set copy and you know you can let us know and then you can sync up and we can all enjoy I mean this is a 1982 filming case I miss the first blood because of filming camera quality

Starting point is 00:02:25 You know that I made a joke going, oh, it's the first blood, in advance. That's when the best jokes happen. When you think of them in advance and they're off the cuff pre-recorded. That's the intro you want. All right, let's get into it. Damn. What a monologue. That was incredible.

Starting point is 00:02:46 Yeah, what a crescendo. Jesus. I love that the climax wasn't the explosions. Yeah, it wasn't like some massive, you know. I don't know. It was that multi-combo. Yeah. Just something, yeah, real personal, real human.

Starting point is 00:03:01 It's, yeah, it's the reason for all this. And the opening of the film and the end of the film are about the person. Yeah. But we still get that moment. Yeah, you know. That guy still got his come up and... It's a clear victory. When you're on your own.

Starting point is 00:03:22 Oh, interesting. Okay, that's Richard Crenna. All right, Brian Dennehy. Brian Denny he's on a ton of stuff. Yeah. He's not... Is he like... He's not the skipper on Gilligan's Island, is he?

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Starting point is 00:06:52 Barber, Benny Dobbins, Will Harper, and Bobby Sargent did the work. Absolutely. Excellent work. Especially in a movie like this. Those were some incredible stunts. And Michael Westmore on the makeup. That is a prolific Hollywood makeup artist. Man, that was incredible. You know what else

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Starting point is 00:08:15 We very much appreciate you doing so. But yes, friggin' A, first blood part one. Golly, Miss Molling. Yeah. That was so much better than I expected. That was a different tone, a different feel, a different movie. I've seen the art a lot. I've seen especially this Rambo First Blood Part 2 art a lot.

Starting point is 00:08:33 So I expected that movie. And I'm curious if that movie is the movie I think it is, because I haven't seen it either. And if enough of you want us to watch it, leave a comment blown and hit a like. But I do find a lot of the 80s stuff is more my jam. Like, do you know what letterboxed is? The website. The social media app.

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Starting point is 00:09:04 And filmed in Panavision, beautiful film green. It filmed in Canada, you knew it, you knew it, you knew it. But Portland is south. That said, what was I saying? Tone 80s. Oh, so when I look at my letterbox, the 80s is my favorite decade. You can actually look at like what you're. rate what decades were strong what comedy

Starting point is 00:09:22 drama like you can it gives you tons of stats it's dope and I've rated 2,600 or so movies and yeah so I went through like all of the movies that I had on AMC and actually rated when I saw them and I went through and like all the movies I literally went through the top hundred movies of each year rated everything that I remembered

Starting point is 00:09:38 and the 80s are always my top like the 80s is my jam and I've found that the 80s movies I missed this demolition man judge dread are my biggest surprises because I either miss them because of like it not being what my family watched growing up or I had the wrong

Starting point is 00:09:54 impression of it and I didn't want to have that actor ruin for me. So it's been really cool especially with this going back and watching stuff from that era that's actually better than I would have expected and still feeling like it actually makes me think the 80s is better than I already

Starting point is 00:10:10 thought it was. Do you know what I mean? I'm also watching the greatest hits. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like Rambo's obviously got five of them. There are a lot of the earmarks of the 80s that yeah, there are some that dip into wackiness and campiness and you know the 80s cheese and coked out qualities that you might think of but i think but i won't stumble upon like a walmart 80s movie most likely so i'll be just seeing that i think yeah we're saying yeah the cream is particularly good for a decade that i think gets most of its flowers for

Starting point is 00:10:36 like the nostalgia classics like oh tea or things like that you know uh and you know amblin things that we're often hearkening back to uh and you know the 80s i think it's easy to forget you know do have a certain edge of, like, real cinema. 41 years ago this movie came out. Yeah, and real cinema that, like, is congealing with a more marketable genre, like an action movie or something like that, you know? And, yeah, like, it makes me fascinated to go back

Starting point is 00:11:03 and in a film school kind of way, like, you know, revisit the decade. Because, too, one thing that fascinates me is, is this is a 1982, or released in 1982, so, you know, if you're thinking about decades and tonality, you know, you're sort of in that transition, point where the style of the 70s is slowly giving away to the sensibility of the 80s and morphing into what the 80s, you know, kind of defining aesthetic might be, you know,

Starting point is 00:11:29 when you get to like the middle of the decade. So here it's like you do have certain earmarks that feel like, yes, this is an 80s movie, but it's being so early on in the decade, I feel like you still have a lot of that 70s sensibility where like, again, there is passage of time. There is a little bit of that, like, cinematic, you know, use of time. but I feel like for the most part everything is like really immediate and it all grows out of that immediate seed

Starting point is 00:11:51 of like he's walking into town he sees his old friends you know mom or whoever that was he goes and sees the relative of his you know ex-brother in arms the last we find out later I like that we waited to find that out yeah totally and then you know

Starting point is 00:12:08 and then he wanders into town the guy tries to take him out of town and then slowly everything just kind of builds from there and it grows into this thing where once you're at the end and you're back in town and everything's on fire like you does feel like

Starting point is 00:12:22 this isn't even that long of a movie this is an hour and a half it does so much more than an hour and a half than I would have thought possible I feel like I watched a two hour like you know over two yeah but not a bad way yeah in that way of like it's not dragging

Starting point is 00:12:34 it just feels very substantial and except for maybe one cut here or there it feels like well finessed and well edited and paste and all that stuff it really I love that everyone's arc made sense to them and we immediately knew the archetypes like we we get to grow more finding out like you know he's he's a bit that adds layers to it but very quickly we know what he stands for we very quickly know you know

Starting point is 00:12:57 those cops we very quickly like i liked that i didn't quite trust the general or the the colonel troutman but yeah but i also like that you know where he was coming from still made sense even if he'd betrayed rambo i still would have been like i get where he came from but i didn't like that i was judging him because i wanted to like him so i liked that inevitably he did help, you know, like, as a ranking officer, are you going to pull some kind of, yeah, something where you're trusting on our share history for exploitation here?

Starting point is 00:13:28 Because I could see it going that way. And I also think it's really bold. And I consider the 80s a very pro cop era. And this wasn't, and I like that because I do think there is, you give anyone power, they can abuse it. You give anyone with an ego a gun, they can abuse it. You can give anyone that's emotionally charged about something that they don't quite understand. They can abuse it.

Starting point is 00:13:51 And it didn't paint them as mustache twirling. It definitely made them look at times ignorant. It definitely made them like, you know, shoot first, ask questions later. But that's real life with a lot of people. So I like that it was not pro cop, but it also wasn't like this is just black and white villainy because it allowed the movie to feel way more interesting by the decisions that got made. And I think it also allowed the movie to feel like there was. weight and nuance in decisions beyond even what we saw on screen.

Starting point is 00:14:19 I want to know more about a lot of things because it wasn't so transparent. Yeah, it's like I want to go back and look at some of the stuff with that main sheriff character because, like, he talks about, you know, also, it seems like he's an ex-soldier to some degree as well or has some of that experience because he talked about it, like, I couldn't, again, I want to go back and clarify

Starting point is 00:14:39 whether he's just talking about, like, you know, the war time, as they say later, was difficult on everyone. but he's got like medals and stuff in his office. And so part of me was thinking like it almost seems like you have two sides of a coin where it is like this guy has kind of been lucky enough to come back and do the dream in a way he lives in this like peaceful little mountain town

Starting point is 00:14:58 and is like completely removed from the realities of the conflict and you know, especially the view on soldiers at this point in time coming back from Vietnam War and stuff. You know, it's almost like it's so extreme in his effort to like get this guy out of here don't want any of this in our peaceful happy little town and then on the flip side you've got Rambo who's like

Starting point is 00:15:22 I can't not be living in this ever this is all I have for seven years and when did Vietnam War end oh goodness I see those are those are historical elements sorry audience but I also like I thought I thought it was mid-70s so when he said seven years ago I was wondering if this was like real time because like that would have been 75 or when they filmed this that would have been 74 because they probably filmed it in 81 but I do like that this felt like it was of its time.

Starting point is 00:15:46 Like, it felt like it was in early 80s, both in the filmmaking, but also the characters because of those ramifications. And I do like that we had questions. Like, I like that we want to know more. I am curious, though, if, because this was so good, like you've talked about with 80s movies, like, is it diminishing returns?

Starting point is 00:16:01 Because it's even Rambo is not called Rambo. It's called First Blood. The second one's called Rambo First Blood Part 2, making it like, the guy, you like, and by the third one, it's like, Rambo 3. Like, does it get less nuanced? Like is it something that's like, we're just going to shoot stuff in the third one?

Starting point is 00:16:16 It looks like it from these posters that Amazon are showing us. Yeah, I mean, that's the thing, is I feel like I can imagine how this would easily and quickly shift into something that, that I would imagine maybe some level of aspiration

Starting point is 00:16:32 toward relevant commentary in the following sequels to one degree or another. However, I can see that being very, I don't expect them to have this sensibility where I think it would just be like too dreary to franchise for people if you were always dealing with like the real weight of trauma of these, you know, forgotten guys coming home and struggling to find a place in the world. Like I feel like some of that will be there, but I feel like it will probably prioritize like him being a resourceful badass and it'll probably give you, I would imagine more explosions and probably like more overtly. It's like this rides a good line in terms of like the police that, you know, are sort of embroiled in the main part of this conversation.

Starting point is 00:17:12 even before you have like the National Guard and stuff coming in like all those characters are riding a line where it's like they're not likable we're not really in their corner ever they're not really that sympathetic even but there's something about them that like you said isn't just like absolutely cartooning whereas I expect in the future installments we will have just like these are really bad guys and we got to see them die will we fight Russians because it's the 80s you know what I mean like it'll get no disrespect to Russians but like it it's gets into that time. It makes me curious. And yeah, I imagine that it'll become more lunky and ham-fisted with those elements and maybe a bit more negligent

Starting point is 00:17:49 with those elements. I don't think he has scars in the third one. Look it looks like it's just oiled up. And that's the thing too is I bet it'll get shinier and it'll get more sort of Hollywood. Like this is an interesting time in cinema to me because it's like you have movies like this that have a lot of pulp

Starting point is 00:18:03 and exploitable elements and things that make a blockbuster make an action movie or whatever the genre is. But it's also like never really taking a break from the like stakes and the emotional paul that's cast over everything like it's it's weird i think they did use to make these movies that have potential to be blockbusters or to appeal in ways that action movies in this case do but that are like always sort of being a film too yeah i can see this turning into a thing where it's like now it's less of a film and yeah so like i really like

Starting point is 00:18:35 just yeah having all that to chew on and the fact that yeah there's so much about you know the the weird tension between everybody and, you know, these, this, yeah, these guys who are forgotten and struggling and who, you know, everyone just wants to pass off. And I like that even though Troutman, again, is a comforting presence and the closest presence, he is, yeah, sort of removed. And nobody really knows what the experience of this guy is. And it is heartbreaking. Because when he's monologuing at the end, it's like, yeah. Man, that was a rough monologue. I mean, beautiful. Yeah. And as many legitimate reasons as there are to take issue with various wars and protest and, you know, protest those actions at the same time. time there is a point that like you also just have no idea unless you've been there what it's like to be in those positions and so it just makes you take pause i think and go like yeah how how do the rest of us you know the people for whom you are fighting you know for whom you're trying to give the privilege of a life without this level of extreme wanton violence and horror yeah you know at the same time how can there be a balance of appreciation you know when, yeah, like your politicians

Starting point is 00:19:39 and the people making the decisions about this stuff are not helping at all. And a lot of people got thrown under the bus. Yeah, and everyone's trying to maintain this peaceful home state at the cost of, like there's a poison in the well. It's at the cost of, you know, like truly looking out for each other and truly embodying the thing

Starting point is 00:19:54 we were fighting for the most and all this like mirrored imagery. I just love the way, you know, you start out again, idyllic, beautiful, sunlit, you know, pond and farmhouse. And then the second he gets that bad news The weather all gets dreary. Yeah, I was walking in the shade.

Starting point is 00:20:09 I love you noticing that. I hadn't caught up on that. And the movie ends in a fiery suburb. Yeah, it starts green and it ends bleak. Yeah, and then you go to the town and it's like, oh, but this is still like nice and cozy. And it's increasingly more and more like a war zone. There's just like encampments and the National Guards.

Starting point is 00:20:26 You have just trucks. And that war can happen anywhere. Like it brought war home. And it made it feel like that town was like, you know, a war-torn little town that was so idyllic. Yeah, and in some ways, I mean, again, I am not an expert on like, I want to, I want to do at this stage of my life, like a true deep dive back into history and learn, relearn some things.

Starting point is 00:20:42 But it did seem like in a way almost this situation sort of mirrors, this doomed endeavor that, for my understanding, sort of was the Vietnam War in that, you know, we went in some place. And instead of leaving after a certain point when it seems maybe reasonable to do so, no, it's just like, we got to just keep on escalating this. We can't back down, you know, and that's very much what the cops are doing here. they're just like we can't just let this go you know we got to show our display our power and and convince ourselves especially in the context here that we have control and all that like i don't know yeah this is so much more rich than expected i want more audience if you'd like to watch rambo first blood part two please leave a comment below please if you're still watching this leave a like on your way out please leave a comment on the way out telling us which of the rambos is your

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The Reel Rejects - FIRST BLOOD (1982) MOVIE REVIEW!!!

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