I made this essay into a video, which can be found here: https://youtu.be/wUOo4Ao0EJs
If you'd prefer just to read instead and not click to another site, the text is below (contains slight spoilers for First Blood, if you haven't seen it already):
I never saw First Blood when I was growing up. My first experience of the Rambo character was seeing First Blood Part II as a teenager, where hefrees a bunch of POWs in a Vietnamese camp, killing scores of enemy soldiers in the process (I looked it up, apparently the body count was 75…).
So, when I sat down to watch First Blood for the first time when I was in my twenties, I expected something similar: Sylvester Stallone violently murdering hordes of his enemies in the name of war and glory. Instead, what I saw was a damaged and fragile Vietnam veteran being driven to desperation by an abusive and short-sighted small-town police force. First Blood was a much more solemn and substantial story than I was expecting, with a good deal of emotional weight. The biggest surprise of all was that only one person died in the whole film, and it was entirely accidental…
I actually had a similar experience with the Rocky series as well, the first one I saw was Rocky IV, which may well be the silliest and most over-the-top entry in the franchise, then saw the first Rocky much later, expecting another dumb boxing film but getting something much more. Just thought it was a little odd I had the same experience in two separate Stallone-led film series. Enough of Rocky though, back to Rambo.
First Blood is the story of Vietnam veteran John Rambo, drifting around the Pacific Northwest, trying to reconnect with an old war buddy who he soon finds has died of cancer caused by exposure to chemicals in Vietnam. Rambo continues aimlessly drifting and is picked up by local Sheriff John Teasle (Brian Dennehy) who drives him to the other end of town and sends him on his way, telling him that the town of Hope doesn’t want his kind, even if it’s just for the time it takes to have a meal. After being dropped off, John turns right back around and begins walking back into Hope. So Rambo ends up getting arrested and treated incredibly poorly at the station, triggering an episode of PTSD during which Rambo escapes the station and heads into the nearby forest to hide. The small town police force engage in an overzealous attempt to hunt him down, but their initial eagerness gives way to fear when they realise wha
... keep reading on reddit ➡I'm trying to read a little about this on the wiki, but I don't want to read any spoilers, so I'd rather just ask here. I want to do as much as possible, for the story and XP, before it's too late to turn back, but I'm not quite sure I understand how these quests work.
Night of Long Fangs has two possible paths, but I don't know how far I can go down each one before I can't do the other one. So far I have spoken with Damien but have not talked to the ravens to let Regis know.
Instead, I headed off to speak with Orianna and am now beginning Blood Simple. But I don't know if completing Blood Simple will lock me into the Unseen Elder path or if I can do it and still find Syanna instead.
I'm leaning toward finding Syanna because I think I read that leads to a better ending, but I want to do as much of the Orianna part as I can, if for nothing else than the story/dialogue/lore.
Without story spoilers, can someone break down how far into these quests I can go before my choice is final?
Also, I was really looking forward to getting the Cantata sword, but it seems it's only available in the quest What Lies Unseen, which from my understanding is only available if you choose to see the Unseen Elder. If I choose to get Syanna instead, does this mean the sword is not available?
Thanks!
Edit: My understanding is that you can either speak to Damien and then go straight to the Syanna path by talking to Regis, or you can still speak to Orianna, do Blood Simple completely, and then change your mind and go back to find Syanna. This sounds like what I would do, if I understand correctly.
An abusive husband pays a detective to murder his unfaithful wife and her lover, and Murphy's law kicks in. Everything that can go wrong, does go wrong in this movie.
Everyone ends up paying for their sins, and is denied what they wanted. Marty gets killed by the one he wanted dead and the one he employed for the murder. Ray gets killed realizing Abby, for whom he buried a person alive, is scared that he will kill her. The detective gets outwitted by his prey. Everyone who tried to take a life gets paid back in their own coins, and in a way that their purpose for their heinous acts becomes meaningless. There is a sense of justice being dealt out to the characters throughout the movie.
The only character that comes out physically unscathed in Abby. At the beginning, she is desperately trying to find a way to escape an abusive husband. She turns to Ray, but ends up being afraid of him, too. The nightmare scene establishes this point that is again driven home when she tells Ray "I love you too" and he replies, echoing Marty from her nightmare, "you are scared". And at the climax, as she outsmarts the killer and comes out on top she announces confidently "I am not afraid of you any more, Marty". She went from a vulnerable, afraid person who had to lie about love to protect herself from abuse, to achieve her victory over the fear and retaliate decisively and triumphantly.
The suspense does not falter for a single moment throughout the movie. Most of the tension arises due to the characters' limited knowledge about the incidents. Literally none except the audience knows the full picture. Marty doesn't know what the fuck is happening except that his goose is cooked, Ray knows neither why are they being hunted nor that Abby did not attempt to kill Marty, Abby does not even know whom she killed, the predatory detective does not know his lighter is not with Ray and Abby. Even the plot is driven mostly due to the characters' ignorance about the real incidents.
This movie seemed to have some horror elements in it, for example, the scene where the newspaper flies through the air and hits the door while Ray tells Abby he buried Marty alive, the burial scene itself and the nightmare scene. Also, the scene of the light streaming through the bullet holes, is unforgettable. So is the ending scene, the pov of the dying man. This is a movie, whose visuals stay with you long after you watched it. I guess that's what makes it so brilliant.
The lighter case, the reason
... keep reading on reddit ➡Sitting all day makes me lethargic, and then it builds on itself. What do you all do to get the blood flowing when you just have a few minutes?
How do you push yourself through the lethargy to do these things?
I though I'd put a good word in for this movies since I saw in the comments of the trailer posts that a lot of people were getting their knickers in a twist about the supposed spoilers, which of course entirely ignores the fact that barely anyone would watch a boring standard plane-hijacking movie.
Yes, the trailer tells you the main premise of the film, just like every trailer. But it's just that, the main premise of the film.
It gets into the thick of things pretty quickly too (atleast, as thick as it gets with a fun, simple premise)
It stays fairly tense in a way throughout the 2 hours, with a mildly cathartic (if a bit grim) payoff.
Simple film, nicely done, a bit too dark (visually, lacking light), some fun goofy scenes, befitting of the movies premise, very few moments that are actively annoying to viewers (e.g. no blatently stupid decisions), overall neat moments, neat film, and I like German and Scottish accents.
It's partly in English, but with a lot of German too. Netflix offered English dubs though in the country I'm in (it seems that changes from country to country, which is weird.
If you don't mind the very minor spoiler of what the main films premise is about it's >!The mother is a vampire (I think she's on the plane because she's trying to get treatment).! And she helps fight off the terrorists, but she isn't OP because she doesn't want to be a vampie and has some self control!< More in-depth spoilers >!Things get out of hand when one of their terrorist steals her blood (she sedated herself to stop her biting others) and injects himself!<
I made this essay into a video, which can be found here: https://youtu.be/wUOo4Ao0EJs
If you'd prefer just to read instead and not click to another site, the text is below (contains slight spoilers for First Blood, if you haven't seen it already):
I never saw First Blood when I was growing up. My first experience of the Rambo character was seeing First Blood Part II as a teenager, where hefrees a bunch of POWs in a Vietnamese camp, killing scores of enemy soldiers in the process (I looked it up, apparently the body count was 75…).
So, when I sat down to watch First Blood for the first time when I was in my twenties, I expected something similar: Sylvester Stallone violently murdering hordes of his enemies in the name of war and glory. Instead, what I saw was a damaged and fragile Vietnam veteran being driven to desperation by an abusive and short-sighted small-town police force. First Blood was a much more solemn and substantial story than I was expecting, with a good deal of emotional weight. The biggest surprise of all was that only one person died in the whole film, and it was entirely accidental…
I actually had a similar experience with the Rocky series as well, the first one I saw was Rocky IV, which may well be the silliest and most over-the-top entry in the franchise, then saw the first Rocky much later, expecting another dumb boxing film but getting something much more. Just thought it was a little odd I had the same experience in two separate Stallone-led film series. Enough of Rocky though, back to Rambo.
First Blood is the story of Vietnam veteran John Rambo, drifting around the Pacific Northwest, trying to reconnect with an old war buddy who he soon finds has died of cancer caused by exposure to chemicals in Vietnam. Rambo continues aimlessly drifting and is picked up by local Sheriff John Teasle (Brian Dennehy) who drives him to the other end of town and sends him on his way, telling him that the town of Hope doesn’t want his kind, even if it’s just for the time it takes to have a meal. After being dropped off, John turns right back around and begins walking back into Hope. So Rambo ends up getting arrested and treated incredibly poorly at the station, triggering an episode of PTSD during which Rambo escapes the station and heads into the nearby forest to hide. The small town police force engage in an overzealous attempt to hunt him down, but their initial eagerness gives way to fear when they realise what
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