Why Sylvester Stallone Tried to Destroy ‘First Blood’

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Sylvester Stallone said the first edit of his 1982 movie ‘First Blood’ was so bad that he tried to buy the movie so he could destroy the negative.

, he and his manager almost threw up in the back of an alley, then tried to figure out how to buy the movie back so they could destroy the negative.tells the story of John Rambo, a war veteran who is forced to fight for his life after being abused by a small-town police force.edit. “We tried to buy it back and burn the negative. Originally it was three hours long, I stayed an hour and a half in the woods chasing guys. Plus I was pontificating throughout the thing.

’ And have other people talk about you — which by the way is not a bad way to live in general, other people fill in the blanks, like a Greek chorus you know? I think it works. It went from three hours to 90 minutes.”was a big success at the box office, earning $125 million at the box office, almost exactly the same amount Stallone’s other 1982 movie,, earned.

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