“I can't get it out of my head. I've... I've dreamed this seven years. Every day, I have this. And sometimes, I wake up, and I don't know where I am. I don't talk to anybody. Sometimes a day... a week... I can't put it out of my mind.”

Without disregarding the legitimately thrilling grindhouse carnage that the later installments in the series provide, it’s still mind-boggling to me how a small-scale, subtly poignant character study laced with social commentary about the effects of the Vietnam War and the way society treats soldiers with PTSD abruptly transformed into the iconic, violent, adrenaline-fueled action franchise we know today.

The 80’s, man.

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