sticklefifer posted:

Rambo has consistently managed to be the prime example of an action franchise not getting it for decades now. First Blood examined PTSD and the horrible way the US treated returning Vietnam vets, and cops treating vagrants like criminals was also a fairly novel portrayal at the time. Yet every sequel since then has been Rambo: Mass Murderer for Hire (up until the last one, which was just Taken). I don't know if Stallone's the culprit there, but it really undermines the social criticism of the original story. Rambo died at the end of the book First Blood was based on, which just drives the point home. They even filmed that ending but didn't use it.