First Blood The Rewatchables
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First Blood

Most Rewatchable Scene

Jail escape to the cliff; Trautman's entrance

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  • The jail escape is the first pick; a son watching found the first ten minutes slow until the shaving scene, when Rambo cleans house.
  • Taking the motorcycle, including Stallone's little happy-feet dance compared to Jared Goff, is the greatest part.
  • Per the research, the bike-and-car jump over a bump went too high on the first take and the stunt driver hurt his back.
  • Stallone's wordless actor instincts in the sequence bond the audience to Rambo; Stallone is called underrated, and Caruso helps.
  • From the arrest to the motorcycle is as good as action filmmaking gets; the stretch from the shaving to the cliff runs about 30 minutes.
  • Stallone took real punishment, as when Ernie Shavers sent him to the hospital.
  • The cliff scene: Art threatens Rambo from the helicopter, Rambo jumps into the tree; Stallone did the bottom third of the fall himself and broke a rib.
  • The jump has been ripped off for 40 years; unlike Butch and Sundance, Stallone looks like a war machine hanging from the cliff.
  • The perfectly timed rock hitting the helicopter glass is compared to a throw from deep left field.
  • The night hunt, with the "We ain't hunting him, he's hunting us" line, has Rambo taking out the deputies one by one.
  • Troutman's first scene ("God didn't build Rambo. I made him") and Teasle's disgust are another pick.
  • The rats play better on a theater screen; Stallone reportedly got bitten and needed a tetanus shot.
  • Rambo taking the Jeep ("That's how accidents happen") and blowing up the gas station are two more rewatchable moments.
  • The "Nothing is over" ending is shockingly good acting, but it is flagged as not rewatchable because it is so emotional.
  • The final pick is the jail escape through the cliff, about a 30-minute stretch; kept to one scene it is jail to motorcycle, with Troutman's entrance also named.
  • Crenna is praised along with The Flamingo Kid; someone else reportedly had the Troutman part until the day before.