First Blood (1982)
Added 2024-01-01 08:00:04 +0000 UTCThe boyz discuss First Blood.
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First Blood takes place in a town called Hope and was filmed in the town of Hope, British Columbia (about 90 mins from Vancouver)...so they didn't have to change any signs.
Sean Goodman
2024-03-16 17:02:06 +0000 UTCI’m here for the Columbo impressions
Goodgwill Hunting
2024-02-08 02:19:25 +0000 UTCBeastmaster been around since… who knows
ElNiñoAccióN
2024-01-22 19:31:50 +0000 UTCI stopped the episode midway because of Stanger and Rodgers talking about how incredible the book was. Picked it up and read it in its entirety before coming back and I have to say goddamn, what a great book. Thanks for the recommendation, I have shared it with a couple buddies who picked it up as well and I never would have known about it otherwise. The descriptions of death, dying, and the self-deluded attempts to justify your behaviors to yourself were so vivid, nuanced, and relatable. Do yourselves a favor and pick it up if you are at all curious.
Addison Blaylock
2024-01-16 06:52:33 +0000 UTCSo Alf Humphreys who played Lester had his nose fractured during the police station fight scene when Stallone elbowed the shit out of him in the face. My man didn’t need anytime in the makeup chair. His bandages and bruising was 💯 real.
RutgerHauerPowerHour
2024-01-07 18:23:42 +0000 UTCPut stanger on a jet ski and he’s done… kaput!
Thomas
2024-01-07 04:57:41 +0000 UTCYesssssss. Finally a movie that kicks off with a town being immediately and weirdly racist against Italians
Jean Cahill
2024-01-06 00:39:09 +0000 UTCFamously Buddy Joe Hooker was mentioned in the Hooper film as the only other stuntman that could pull the rocket car over the gorge gag.
Buddy Jones
2024-01-04 07:15:51 +0000 UTCBroforce is great. Rodgers mentioned Contra as the perfect game. I would recommend Blazing Chrome as a really good indie spiritual successor to the 16-bit Contra 3.
Thatguy
2024-01-04 01:55:35 +0000 UTCI realized while you were talking about the Rambo monologue that the end of the Stallone Orange Julius sketch is him doing a parody of that monologue.
Don Knott Steiner
2024-01-03 22:18:51 +0000 UTCFinished the book Sunday, listened to the ep Monday then had a vivid dream that Rodgers called me saying he got a job drawing sketches for the Encyclopedia of Writers and Rimbaud was next but needed me to write the encyclopedia entry asap. Thanks for ruining my brain Action Boyz.
JamieQT
2024-01-03 21:36:16 +0000 UTCI live 34 minutes outside of Hope. I've been up to the mine that they used for the cave in the movie back in the late 80s
sean o'malley
2024-01-03 21:02:21 +0000 UTCGabrus, may your 2024 shine bigger and brighter than the previous year 🌟
Daniel_
2024-01-03 16:23:23 +0000 UTCSame, and I've been a patron since who knows
JeanDammeClaudeVan
2024-01-03 14:19:11 +0000 UTCGreat episode. This makes me want to read the book
Kevin Hames
2024-01-03 06:42:27 +0000 UTCMaybe the cleaning chemicals are getting to me but Stangers jet ski story was new to me. Keep the stories coming!
David
2024-01-03 06:39:47 +0000 UTCBeastmaster Cut
Roscoe 112
2024-01-03 02:51:34 +0000 UTCHappy New year! Listened to the episode and was wondering towards the end what Gabrus was going to say when the whole "Baby Killer" part of the speech came up. Wikipedia seems to cover it in a fairly balanced manner. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_spat-on_Vietnam_veteran#:~:text=There%20is%20a%20persistent%20myth,often%20yelling%20%22baby%20killer%22.
Ron Ortiz
2024-01-03 02:31:04 +0000 UTCAnyone else recall hearing that some sounds from the Sega game golden axe were lifted from first blood, specifically Caruso?
Ant
2024-01-03 02:14:26 +0000 UTCAlways solid, can make even a true pos like "deathship" tolerable.
Ant
2024-01-02 22:50:03 +0000 UTCWhen I was about 12 years old (1987), I went to a flea market and found a stall where a guy was not only selling sweet 1980's Survival Knives, but was willing to sell them to a 12 year old. That summer, I took the knife with me to the family cabin because I wanted to fuck around in the forest and "survive" like I was Rambo - it had the compass, the wire saw, fishing line and hooks, matches, the whole program. Anyway, my grandfather caught me with this massive knife and quickly confiscated it and ratted me out to my parents. Fast forward to 2007 when my grandfather died, my uncle came to me and was like "I don't know what dad was doing with this knife, but I figure you seem like you'd like this, so I saved it for you." Not only did I finally get that knife back, but I still have it to this day. As a preteen kid in the late 80's, I can't emphasize enough how cool and awesome we all thought these things were. Anyway...I'm off to hunt a hog, thanks for letting me share.
Nathan Rodriguez
2024-01-02 22:45:00 +0000 UTCTime is a flat circle I guess. Funny that First Blood showed in an ep 2 weeks before it’s actual episode.
David
2024-01-02 22:36:38 +0000 UTCI was for sure that kid.
Nathan Rodriguez
2024-01-02 22:35:41 +0000 UTCJust loving all the Crenna appreciation on this show. Wait Until Dark is a fun-as-hell thriller with Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin and Richard Crenna. Always loved him after that.
Charlie Horgan
2024-01-02 20:29:52 +0000 UTCWe recorded the silent partner episode in November.
Gabrus, Rodgers, and Stanger
2024-01-02 18:25:23 +0000 UTCNo, we did not.
Gabrus, Rodgers, and Stanger
2024-01-02 18:23:55 +0000 UTCLiking it so far?
Alex Muraviov
2024-01-02 17:52:45 +0000 UTCNever thought I'd be listening to the audio book of First Blood, but here we are. It's pretty fun.
Pål Christian Andersen
2024-01-02 17:48:13 +0000 UTC2.99 on steam 80% off til the 4th
bloodflart
2024-01-02 17:46:08 +0000 UTCHope, which is the actual name of where this movie was shot, is about 2.5 hrs west of where I live. Best thing they have in that town is a Rambo standee that you put your face in.
JarredPalmer
2024-01-02 16:55:59 +0000 UTCHell yeah
Will See
2024-01-02 16:33:45 +0000 UTC“Me? I just love the rump” - James Marsden, unprompted
Don Bell
2024-01-02 14:45:06 +0000 UTCWith the Epstein names being released, this week, Centauri's got to be sweating.
Michael Pemulis
2024-01-02 14:26:57 +0000 UTCAlso I did have a knockoff version of that knife. Long gone now but what a great (terrible?) dad for getting me one.
Joshua C Day
2024-01-02 13:25:25 +0000 UTCI will be reading the book as soon as it arrives. Thanks for the suggestion!
Joshua C Day
2024-01-02 13:23:57 +0000 UTCOne of the first action movies I remember watching with my dad. I actually never picked up on how heavy it was and how Vietnam was a nightmare for so many back then. I just loved the vibe of scenery and the fact that John J fought back against injustice (defund Teasley) and used his environment to survive. anyway. I was openly weeping multiple times thinking of my dad (he’s been dead for 17 years) and the horrors of war but much like Big John would whisper I just “shut if off”. Thanks as always for the laughs, insight and nostalgia Action Boyzzzzz
Joshua C Day
2024-01-02 13:23:07 +0000 UTCVery good Stanger
David
2024-01-02 06:19:01 +0000 UTCThis episode being recorded before Silent Partner took him by surprise
tire
2024-01-02 05:52:05 +0000 UTCYou guys were quoting First Blood during the Silent Partner episode
David
2024-01-02 04:19:46 +0000 UTCDang I fell asleep half way through the other night, was going to finish rewatch today but Paramount removed all the Rambos today. Now I'm googling "rambo 3 movie collection", no thanks on the 4 or 5 movie collection.
Dan Skisak
2024-01-02 03:44:08 +0000 UTCHow many people knew a kid that had one of those compass handle/wood saw combo knife?
Hammerthrust Von Sexron
2024-01-02 03:33:23 +0000 UTC?
Gabrus, Rodgers, and Stanger
2024-01-02 03:19:56 +0000 UTCVixen
AFistfulofGwildors
2024-01-02 00:51:05 +0000 UTCThis episode being recorded before Silent Partner took me by surprise.
David
2024-01-01 23:54:00 +0000 UTCSteve Stevens!
Dave McM
2024-01-01 20:33:31 +0000 UTC👏🏻 Adds in the Man With No Name element too.
Dave McM
2024-01-01 20:32:16 +0000 UTCI didn’t think so either
Dave McM
2024-01-01 20:30:31 +0000 UTCOooft! That’s an eye-opening, penny-dropping lesson. 😳
Dave McM
2024-01-01 20:21:18 +0000 UTCJack reacher is the same premise as First Blood really, except updated to the Iraq war and with changes to help it with serialisation.
Eugenio Triana
2024-01-01 19:35:42 +0000 UTCSylvester Stallone Script Note #101 “what if Rambo befriended the dogs?”
Canadian Day Player
2024-01-01 19:27:57 +0000 UTCHappy New Year Action Boyz and Janitors. I live 30 minutes from Hope, and it's a classic Canadian small town that loves that Rambo was shot there. On the main street there is a wooden statue of Rambo, and a life size painting of Rambo with the face cut out so you can put your face in the hole and take a picture. In the early 2000's I blew the hubcaps off my Hyundai Pony going over that train track "ramp", even after it was re-graded so it wasn't such a launching pad.
Tyler Simpson
2024-01-01 18:30:12 +0000 UTCThe band Radiohead is named after Stephen Toblowsky
bloodflart
2024-01-01 18:00:40 +0000 UTCSick!
bloodflart
2024-01-01 18:00:19 +0000 UTCHas Stanger told that jet ski story before? Didn’t sound very familiar
Mike Cooper
2024-01-01 17:58:08 +0000 UTCYou guys would LOVE the game BroForce. It’s literally every action boyz icon in a modernized contra side scroller.
Alex Muraviov
2024-01-01 16:39:52 +0000 UTCHe also does some voices from time to time.
Daniel the spaniel
2024-01-01 16:18:59 +0000 UTCMy husband got a paramount account because he is trying to get me into Star Trek, and it’s fine, but I really liked lower decks. I also got excited this past season when I saw Rodgers name as a supervisor so it’s a bummer if he’s not on the show anymore, I’m sure he offered a unique perspective!
Rebe K
2024-01-01 15:53:35 +0000 UTCI had the Rambo big wheel with the 2 guns coming out of the front. I was the baddest MF at my preschool when they let us bring our tricycles.
Daniel the spaniel
2024-01-01 15:36:11 +0000 UTC2024 is gonna be your year. Yes you, the one reading Patreon comments. I have faith
Joe B
2024-01-01 15:29:47 +0000 UTCI went through a bunch of David Morrell's books, a while back, and, other than First Blood, the one I think about the most is Testament. It is so depressing and unrelentingly grim; I wish it been made into a movie, in the 80s, just to see how they would've rounded the edges, for a more box office friendly version.
Michael Pemulis
2024-01-01 14:55:08 +0000 UTCPerson of color here. Ahem, we fuck with this film for its relatability. They treat Rambo like regular everyday blacks in America.
Crown Jules
2024-01-01 13:32:58 +0000 UTCHappy New Year everyone! I hope 2024 brings you health and happiness. Nearly 3hrs on a classic is a grand start, should pass the journey to first foot the mother-in-law. 👏🏻 Lang may yer lum reek! ❤️
Dave McM
2024-01-01 12:56:57 +0000 UTCHappy New year Action Boyz. Also Janitors.
Keith Jarrett
2024-01-01 12:10:43 +0000 UTCHappy New Years. I took a bunch of MD 🫡
Big Junior
2024-01-01 11:30:06 +0000 UTCThe episode length can only go up from here! Right action boyz?
Art S
2024-01-01 09:12:19 +0000 UTCGabrus: WELCOME TO 2024!
Paul
2024-01-01 09:04:01 +0000 UTCHappy new year everybody 🍻
Turkey Creek Jack Johnson
2024-01-01 08:53:08 +0000 UTCHappy New Year janitors
The Buffmaster
2024-01-01 08:49:18 +0000 UTCHappy New Year fellow workers. Electrician on the left coast here. All the best.
James Evers
2024-01-01 08:12:23 +0000 UTCHappy New Year everyone!
Gilligan(The marooned Ranchero)
2024-01-01 08:03:25 +0000 UTCHappy new year!
Cole Trickle
2024-01-01 08:00:35 +0000 UTC
