Picking Nits
The short prison sentence, rock-breaking, nutrition, facial hair, helicopter targeting and sewage exposure
In the discussion (6)
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- Nitpicks question an eight-year sentence given the deaths, attempted killing and extensive property destruction in First Blood.
- The prisoners hammering rocks prompts questions about whether they are splitting rocks or finding rubies. Making gravel is tentatively suggested; the hammer swinging mainly looks cool.
- Rambo’s muscular physique despite eating nothing is challenged; the hosts discuss high nutritional and exercise demands without medical verification.
- His lack of beard growth over several days is questioned; a knife-shaving scene is proposed.
- A nitpick questions how Rambo identifies and spares the POW building during indiscriminate helicopter fire after seeing the camp only from the ground.
- Another nitpick imagines fatal infection after the sewage pit, comparing it with Andy Dufresne’s sewage-pipe escape; disease and lost-smell claims are comic speculation.