This is funnier than anything in the entire franchise.
As far as franchises go, the five-film run featuring Sylvester Stallone's stoic killing machine John Rambo is one of the strangest. First Blood, directed by Ted Kotcheff and adapted from the novel by David Morrell, stars Stallone as a traumatized loner just looking for a place to rest seven years after Vietnam. Running afoul of some biased local lawmen who don't like his hippie look and vagrant vibe, Rambo uses his training and a heaping dose of PTSD to fight back, culminating in a heartbreaking breakdown by Stallone as Rambo remembers returning home from war to face …
First Blood, the 1982 thriller starring Sylvester Stallone, introduced the world to John Rambo, but was not originally intended to launch a franchise.
Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, The Neon Demon) has been hard at work on the Los Angeles-based crime thriller series, Too Old to Die Young. For his latest collaboration with Amazon Prime Video, Refn directed, produced, and co-wrote the series with Ed Brubaker (Captain America: The Winter Soldier comics); Brubaker is also on board as a producer. Today, fans everywhere can get a look at the project thanks to the blood-soaked, neon-lit, and highly dramatic first trailer. Too Old to Die Young explores the criminal underbelly of LA through various characters’ existential journeys, described as going from "…