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To: ansel12

When I watched it growing up, I didn’t think he was crazy and I was on his side.
The cops were scumbags.


26 posted on 10/15/2022 7:53:02 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

“When I watched it growing up, I didn’t think he was crazy and I was on his side.
The cops were scumbags.”

Your reaction was correct and how the vast majority of the audience saw it.

I know the mixed feelings some have about it (Rambo was one mixed-up homeless guy, especially for a high IQ Vietnam era Green Beret), but in the end it came to be seen as a hero movie, a pro-vet movie, so you are right.


34 posted on 10/15/2022 8:08:42 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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