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The release of "Rambo III" in American theaters was a complete disaster. The third film about John Rambo's adventures grossed only $53 million. For comparison, the second part made $150 million in the US. However, the worldwide release saved "Rambo III" from total disaster, bringing in $135 million.share
It was a terrible movie. But unlike the 2nd one, which was also terrible, it wasn't saved by the editing (the 2nd one featured some of the best editing of any '80s action picture). It was always hilariously terrible but it became even more so after 9/11, as the "heroes" in the movie are, in effect, al Qaida and the Taliban.
shareThe Afghan soldiers in this were a part of the Mujahideen. At the time of this movie the Mujahideen were our allies. the United States was funding them while they were at war with Russia.
Later on, some of its members did go on to join the Taliban but at the time of this film there was no Taliban. The Taliban did not come into existence until the mid 1990s.
The main mujahadeen group backed by the Reagan administration was the Hekmatyar faction, out of which came most of the major leaders of al Qaida and the Taliban, including Muhammad Omar, Osama bin Laden, Omar Abdel-Rahman and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar himself. They spent more time terrorizing and murdering other Afghans--peeling religious dissenters alive, throwing acid in the face of unveiled women, etc.--than they ever did fighting Soviets.
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