RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital

First is the best!

The movie is good. The audio is in English, but it has Korean subtitles. The movie came out in 1982, that was 43 years ago.

First blood is one of the best movies ever made. This 4k delivers. If you love this movie, then buy it, you will not regret it.

4K restoration is just beautiful. I owned the DVD and the Blu-ray and if you are thinking about converting to 4K, I highly recommend it because there are discernible differences in the video quality (on LG OLED TV). Special Features from Blu-ray edition carry over; they are: Commentary from Sylvester Stallone, Commentary from David Morrell (the author of the book First Blood) First Blood is the perfect movie to epitomize the concept of “if you pick on the wrong guy, you get your ass kicked” and “the hunter becomes the hunted”. Sherriff Teasle is a small town sheriff who is a bully; he picks up Rambo for vagrancy just because he doesn’t like the way Rambo looks (unbeknownst to him, Rambo is a war hero, a Vietnam green beret with medal of honor). When Rambo finally gets enough of the harassment at the hands of the cops in the police station and breaks free, it turns into a personal war and vendetta for Sheriff Teasle who desperately tries to bring down Rambo but with no success. As Sheriff Teasle takes the fight up a notch in each step, Rambo manages to come back stronger and before you know it, Rambo takes on the entire police force, law enforcement and even the army in this tour de force action flick – a total classic! My only criticism is the subtitles. Some of the subtitles do not match the spoken words and in some instances they ruin the meaning of the scene. I am not sure if the subtitles in the DVD or the Blu-ray edition have the same problem or not. For instance, in the scene where Rambo says (while talking to Trautman in the tunnel), “They drew first blood, not me” which is an important line in the movie because it is first and the only time the title of the movie is spoken. The subtitle in that scene reads: “They shot first, not me”. One other example is when Rambo is riding in the car with Sheriff Teasle and asks if there is a law against him having something to eat in this town, Teasle responds: “Yeah, me”. In this scene, subtitles read: “Yeah, my law”. These are the examples I can think of now.

Aside from the wait time to get this, when I finally popped in it - my mind was NOT blown! The picture quality was pretty clean, had film grain but it did not have that true 4K very fine detail! It was good, but it did not make me think that this was mind blowing! The highlights of the picture quality are when there is plenty of lighting such as fire, explosives or artificial lighting. When you see those - THEN the picture shines, but those are few moments. I still recommend the 4K version, but there is a reason it is priced so low for a new catalog release - it does not shock the mind. It still looks as you recalled on cable all of those years ago, but cleaner, clearer and more expansive. To give you an idea of what I mean, the 4K version of Terminator 2 got low ratings for it's video quality, yet when I popped that in - I saw the immediate 4K difference! Yes, some 'waxiness' occurred due to their removing the film grain in order to not make it look as it is - an almost 30 year old movie! T2 HAS that 4K pop with very fine details and one that shows what 4K can do! Maybe they should not have tried to remove ALL grain, but T2 has a lower score but in reality it looks better than this First Blood, which has a higher score. I still say get this since this still has a great picture and the sound is pretty good for what they had to work with. It still looks better than the Blu-Ray version.

Contemporary mythology, as Joseph Campbell once said, is how mankind is remembered both culturally and anthropologically. It is what lasts... With that in mind, amongst the memorable archetypes of the last 50 years or so comes John Rambo. As easily misunderstood by critics as he is by everyone in his filmic universe, he is sometimes written off as a 'killing machine'. This misses the point. John Rambo is really every man who was called by his people to go to war for them. It's just played on a broad cinematic canvas. War is hell, as anyone who has ever experienced it can tell you. And the absolute impossibility of conveying those experiences with anyone outside the realm has created, particularly in our media savvy society, a number of disaffected and alienated young men. It is to this that Sylvester Stallone's nicely nuanced performance speaks. Beautifully shot in the Pacific Northwest, Stallone's Rambo is a drifter ostensibly in search of a Vietnam buddy whom he finds has died from toxic Agent Orange poisoning. What he is really searching for is is soul- and his humanity. The reception he is given by the town Sheriff (played beautifully by Brian Denehy) is an allegory for how we, as a society, have used and then turned our back on these young men. Ridiculed, humiliated, and jailed, Rambo takes war against the new enemy- those who are tormenting him. The plot thickens nicely when Colonel Sam Trautman (the hugely underrated Richard Crenna) shows to 'take charge' of the situation. Seems he trained Rambo in the Special Forces and commanded him in Vietnam. What he really is is the estranged father figure that Rambo desperately wants approval from. This works extremely well on a deeper psychological level than one might expect from a 'B' actioner. This is an important film. Important for it's cultural significance, for John Rambo is truly a great Ameican icon in the clasic sense. Important too, is it's impact on filmaking- his characterization has been copied endlessly by the likes of Bruce Willis and Chuck Norris, all of which lack the subtext that Stallone brought. I do suggest, however, that one skips the next two installments in the series (they're ok, but just really potboilers) and instead see his superb followup out in theaters now. Called simply 'Rambo', it serves well as a coda for the character. Forget the critics on this one, folks, and particularly the excellent Blu-Ray transfer will have you more involved than ever before. This movie satnds the test of time. Don Case

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Compré la edición 4K UHD de Lionsgate a 350 pesos, lo que se me hizo casi una ganga tomando en cuenta que esta edición es importada y el envío fue completamente gratis. Además de que para los que todavía no tienen una televisión 4K o un reproductor 4K también incluye el Blu-Ray normal en 1080p. Tanto el Blu-Ray 4K como el Blu-Ray normal incluyen una pista de audio en español con el doblaje mexicano original, también incluye una copia digital pero lamentablemente no está disponible para México. Sin duda ésta es la mejor edición de Rambo y a un muy buen precio.

*This is a review of the First Blood StudioCanal BluRay edition. There's not much to say about First Blood that hadn't already been said. This film is great and is one of my personal favorites!! PLOT: --------- John J. Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) is backpacking back home to Arizona after doing his war tour in Vietnam, when he decides to stop into Hope, Washington to meet up with an old war buddy. Unbeknownst to him, his friend has been killed from cancer, brought on by Agent Orange. Distraught, he preps to stop in town and get some dinner when he's noticed by Sheriff Will Teasel (Brian Dennehy) who offers him a ride, unbeknownst to Rambo that it's an escort and a warning not to come back into town, as Rambo looks like a drifter and Teasel doesn't want any trouble from 'his kind'. Rambo ignores this, heads back into town and is arrested by Teasel for vagrancy. After he's pushed around by the small town deputies and triggered by flashbacks of his days as a P.O.W (Prisoner of War) in Vietnam, Rambo snaps, takes out all of the deputies and Sheriff non-lethally in highly skilled hand-to-hand combat and escapes into the wilderness surrounding the town. He is then pursued by the lawmen into the wild, all of whom will find out that they're outmatched by Rambo who is a green beret Vietnam vet and is the best there is. Sheriff Teasel has picked the wrong man to mess with as Rambo will fight all opposition in this heavily escalating personal war on pride, honor and to see who the better man is. Rambo's mentor Col. Sam Trautman (Richard Crenna) arrives to help deescalate the situation when the national guard shows up to help apprehend Rambo, but it may already be too late!! REVIEW: ------------- This movie isn't at all like the cartoony pulp culture Rambo we're all familiar with; the gun-totting, bad guy killing, invincible good guy. This is the more grounded, realistic PTSD suffering Rambo, who's dealing with coming home and being disrespected by the country he's spilled blood for to defend. It's not just an action film, it's a dark, moody commentary on the Vietnam vets and their unjust treatment after returning home from the Vietnam war. Rambo is the face of all the suffering, torment, pain and sorrow of all our vets went through, and who better to represent that? When he's pushed around by Teasel and the deputies, he pushes back and starts a one man war to get his point across. It's only at the end of the film that we find out why he's fighting back so hard. It's truly brilliant filmmaking at it's finest. BluRay REVIEW: ------------------------ This BluRay version is awesome!! There are plenty of special features, unlike the DVD format. - Drawing First Blood (A retrospective documentary) - First Blood: A Look Back (Another retrospective documentary) - Stallone Commentary - David Morrell Commentary (Author of the original First Blood novel) - Alternate Ending - Joke Ending - Deleted Scene: Saigon Dream (I'm glad that they cut this gratuitous sex scene as it served no purpose in the film) - Plus a few more short retrospectives * That's quite a LOT of special features for $10!! Picture Quality: 8/10 (While the quality's quite clear, we still have the widescreen bars on a 1080p widescreen) Audio Quality: 10/10 VERDICT: -------------- The best kind of films are those that teach us something and carry messages. Sure, this is an action film, but it has a smart commentary in its method, which stops it from being hollow and pretentious. Kudos to Stallone, Brian Dennehy, Richard Crenna and the rest of the cast for making one of the best action films ever made with such conviction. It's truly a one of a kind action masterpiece in every sense of the word. Highly recommended!! 10/10