My 17yo daughter went to see Snow White last weekend... when she got back I asked, 'So, was it woke?'

'Worse,' she said, 'It was boring.'

I suppose that's what they mean by underperforming as word of mouth gets out.

That isn't the operative part of the monologue. The part that resonated with a *lot* of vets (WW2, Korea, and Vietnam) was the part we'd now call his PTSD breakdown.

"Nothing is over, Nothing!" is the line that set's up the monologue.

But JB's point stands, Rambo is built around this 4 minute monologue vs. quips.

https://youtu.be/oLBMqORKWSg?si=003HXWOA4hRo-ZQE

"If there’s a speech you remember from Stallone, it’s a surprisingly heartfelt"

Hadn't thought about that, but yeah... Stallone's Rambo is built around the monologue he gives to Col. Trautman.