Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
I love Rambo 3 for exactly that reason - it highlights America's dualism in international matters while at the same time higlighting Hollywood's habit of jumping on the bandwagon and making stupid patriotic films that double as propaganda

the funny thing about the series is that rambo isn't a hero at all in first blood. just the opposite, he's a psycho. any normal person would just keep on walkin' to the next town when the sheriff makes a point of personally giving him the bum's rush... but oh no, not this guy, he goes flippin' ballistic and kills half of the local police force. they had originally cast kirk douglas as colonel trautman, but he insisted that trautman must double-cross rambo at the end and kill him (per the ending of the original novel) -- only fitting that he should destroy the frankenstein monster that the army created. apparently the producers were not too keen on that idea.