I've been through Hope many times in my life. It is the last stop before you enter the Lower Mainland in south west British Columbia. As a child, it always felt like the middle of nowhere when we finally got there.  First Blood , the first Rambo movie by Sylvester Stallone was filmed here back in 1982. It was a box office success, grossing $125 million in the domestic box office - the 13th highest-grossing film of the year.  It is about a Vietnam veteran, John Rambo (Stallone) who is coming to Hope (but set in Washington) to see a war buddy who died from the effects of Agent Orange. The local sheriff, assuming Rambo is a drifter, transports him to the outskirts of town, telling him to move on. Rambo starts walking back towards town so the sheriff arrests him. Flashbacks to his time in Vietnam surface when he is abused by a deputy. He fights his way out of the sheriff' station and into the forest. Rambo uses his knowledge of guerilla warfare to survive and set booby traps for t...