Finally watched First Blood and Rambo:FB2 for the first time - solid

For starters, I don't even have a good reason as to why I've never watched them before, just missed the boat on them as a kid and never have gone back and watched them. I definitely played Rambo type shite throughout my childhood, I used to LOVE the badass Rambo knives and some of my friends had, etc. But for whatever reason I never saw them. I also had no idea there were five movies (forgot all about the '08 and '19 ones).

After watching Over the Top recently and still loving that one, I saw that the Rambo movies were airing on one of the movie channels. So I recorded them (the first three) and have watched the first two in the last few days.

I'll say this: neither one of them are particularly good or particularly bad, and overall I liked them well enough. I do feel like I was expecting them to be better though (or the first one anyway...the second one was more what I was expecting). The first one has very little plot outside of "Rambo pisses off a local cop the runs into the jungle to do Rambo shite." But they were VERY simple movies, which I can appreciate I guess. I do think that the main reason I was semi-disappointed in them is because I waited so long to watch them though. Feels like had I watched any of them in the 80s or 90s as a kid/teen I would've liked them much more. But now they just sort of feel dated and not overly good. But then again, a lot of the Stallone-written-and-acted movies back then have a similar vibe.

The second one was a good bit better than the first for me. It was much more in line with what I thought a Rambo movie would be, and I also dug the whole "go to Vietnam" plotline. Also the asian chick in the movie was gorgeous.



I did get a chuckle our of the way Stallone walks in both of the movies though, especially the second one. Looked like he had a stick up his arse and was trying to pull off the whole "Do you know where the weight room is?" routine. And the gratuitous shots of a roided out Stallone were funny as well. And of course this shite right here is both laughable and awesome:





And I did always sort of indirectly love Rambo for giving me the completely awesome Rambo scenes in one of the funniest movies of all time (and one of my all-time favorites), UHF:





Anyway, feels good to have finally caught up to the boat that I missed and seen some of these movies. I plan on catching 3 this week and then hitting up Rambo and Last Blood as well. Is that a mistake? If I enjoyed the initial 2 well enough, I assume I should enjoy the rest of them as well, right?