Beliefnet.com lists “Ten Military Movies to Celebrate Memorial Day” and “First Blood” makes the cut. Here’s what they had to say:
“First Blood” (1982): This movie featured no war footage and, in fact, was set entirely in a little Northwest town. But it told the tale of Vietnam vets after they came home and illustrated the unfairly rough journey so many of them had to face. And Sly Stallone was both believable and restrained as a war hero who won sympathy for a generation of those who lived his on-screen fate.
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