Rambo First Blood remake

It's Tarantino. I'd watch it.

I've always thought that First Blood would be ideal for a remake. Not because I'd like to see another franchise but because this time they could be faithful to the book which is one of the best I've ever read. Its a great thriller thats for sure but its also deep and surprisingly moving.

The original film was hacked down form a much longer film, I'd like to see the original intended film

Not so. Stallones inflated physique only came with the sequels. John Rambo, as written by David Morrell, was a regular looking guy.

He actually has a fairly good physique (bigger than you'd think) most of the time, even going back to his days on Girls. And if Charlie Sheen can do it for Hot Shots Part Deux, Adam would have no bother doing it for realzies.

just going on the cover of the book Mads Mikkelsen or Emmet J.Scanlan

Whether it'd be any good or not would probably come down to whether you're a Tarantino fan or someone like myself that considers him wildly over-rated... There's no doubt that it'd be successful though. Small cast, no need for a huge budget, biggest expenses would be the Driver and Russel's paycheques. Tarantino right that it would be an absolute slam dunk commercially.

"noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, oh tarantino.....ok bring it on"

Tarantino is absolutely the wrong man for this. 'First Blood' is an intensely serious story that touches on many of the open sores that suppurated in America at the time regarding Vietnam and their place in the world. However, Tarantino's stuff is laced with schlock and kitschy references to other B movie fare and apart from 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Jackie Brown', he has been completely unable to keep that stuff out of his movies. When I first heard about this, all I could think of was 'Coming Home in a Body Bag' and that's huge no from me with regards to a movie like 'First Blood'. A movie, BTW, that far too many people mis-remember and believe that it's the same type of shite that 'Rambo' was, when the reality is that it is a far different type of story than the Reaganite jingoistic nonsense that came afterward.

Plus Tarantino just cannot help himself either and in nearly every one of his movies he goes too far into stupid. He's a very talented director and has a wonderful ear for intriguing dialogue. But there's always a point where he turns up the dumb dial to 11 and goes a long way to destroying his pictures. The Bride standing on Pai Mei's sword is an example and sure, 'Kill Bill' is pure fantasy with many ridiculous moments, but that is a moment that a ridiculous step too far, along with the 5 finger death punch gibberish. Or another example is in 'The Hateful 8' where after an excellent first half (some of the best stuff Tarantino has ever done), he blows it completely when he makes everyone puke geysers of blood after they drink poison coffee. He turns a excellently built and tense setting into farce. 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' ends with some of the dumbest nonsense I can possibly imagine him doing and completely ruins a decent movie at the final stretch. I won't even mention 'Inglorious Basterds' because that was just bloody awful full stop.

So, no, Tarantino and 'First Blood' are a terrible idea. Because I just wouldn't trust Quentin to be able to keep a lid on his worst traits. His version of 'First Blood' will end up being closer to Troma's 'Combat Shock' than either the 1982 film or the novel.

Absolutely and it shows that little had changed with regard to America's foreign policy exploits from the 50's onwards. They may be beginning to roll back on going around the planet wrecking other nations now, but for half a century is was par for the course with them. One would have thought that Vietnam would have showed them the error of their ways, but Iraq showed that they learned bugger all.