Ted Kotcheff, Director of ‘First Blood’ and ‘Weekend at Bernie’s,’ Dies at 94

The Hollywood Reporter ^ | April 11, 2025 | Etan Vlessing

[Flaming Conservative]

94. Well, the good LORD certainly gave him plenty of time to repent and be saved.

[dangus]

He actually died a long time ago. They just figured it out now.

[packrat35]

I will admit that I like quite a few movies he made.

Weekend at Bernies was a fun movie.

[nickcarraway]

It was a fun movie. Terry Kiser is hilarious.

[HYPOCRACY]

Ha!

[HYPOCRACY]

‘In the first film he doesn’t kill anybody. In this film he kills 75 people,’

That makes it better.

[GingisK]

He can take his sparking bullets with him.

[Tell It Right]

IMHO, First Blood was a good portrayal of what it may have been like for Vietnam vets coming home from a war they may have had no real purpose in risking their lives for, to a culture indoctrinated in thinking that the military vets were unassimilable psychos.

[Fledermaus]

If I recall, in the book Rambo does kill. And Col. Trotter shoots him dead in the end.

It was an anti-Vietnam war book about veterans not coping back in society.

I’m probably wrong.

[Fledermaus]

Col. Troutman. He was a captain in the book.

[Fledermaus]

Geez. Trautman.

[Waverunner]

I remember reading First Blood and The Park Is Mine when the books came out. This was the beginning of the unhinged Vietnam vet genre. Hollywood claiming the fake moral high ground by making both stories into movies.

[Flaming Conservative]

😊

[Seruzawa]

Hollywood was helmed by Vietnam era draft dodgers. They had personal motivation to justify their moral and physical cowardice by wacking on Vietnam Vets. I remember going to parties in the 70s and learning to avoid mentioning my service. The media depicted us all as crazy bombs ready to explode and a lot of people truly were frightened of Vietnam vets. Everyday it seemed there was some story about some crazed vet every day.

[vikingd00d]

>>I remember reading First Blood and The Park Is Mine when the books came out. This was the beginning of the unhinged Vietnam vet genre.

Movie-wise, ‘The Deer Hunter’ came out before ‘First Blood’.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Weekend at Bernies was a fun movie.

[nwrep]

"“It seemed to be celebrating the Vietnam War, which I thought was one of the stupidest wars in history. “Fifty-five-thousand young Americans died and so many veterans committed suicide. I couldn’t turn myself inside out like that and make that kind of picture."

Such true words. Unfortunately during this time the GOP had become the willing bitches of the MIC. We have finally learned our lesson.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Unfortunately during this time the GOP had become the willing bitches of the MIC.

It took two Democrat presidents to get the US in Vietnam. It took one Republican president to get out of Vietnam.

If Goldwater is elected in 1964, there is no Vietnam War in the US.

[ifinnegan]

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)

Great film. His masterpiece.