1985: When ‘Rambo’ tightened his grip on the American psyche

Thirty-five Memorial Days ago, Sylvester Stallone was atop the box office pile, in “Rambo: First Blood Part II,” smooth, rippling and outrageously oily. The movie opened alongside a flaccid 14th Bond film (“A View to a Kill”) and a confusing Richard Pryor comedy (“Brewster’s Millions”); it crushed both. This was a great Top 10 week. You had the country’s two most important comedians, Pryor and Eddie Murphy, at the back half and the beginning of their careers, movies with Cher, Madonna and Grace Jones; and Harrison Ford aligning his stardom with excellent, nonfranchise filmmaking.

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