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

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First Blood was an outstanding film and the original ending (Rambo dies) would have made it even better.

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I remember reading the original First Blood novel after I saw the movie on HBO when I was 13 and being pissed that the book ended with Col Trautman blowing Rambo's head off with a shotgun.

I guess that was too graphic for 1982, which might explain the director/Stallone altering the scene to show Rambo shooting himself in the chest with Trautman's sidearm for the original movie ending.