Tonight - Commando!

Galvasean

Holy crap Commando is on Channel 4 at 23:20!!! :eek:

Anyone not going out tonight must watch this film.

Pugsley

Awesome! I havent seen this gem in years!
Thanks for the heads up.

mike65

C4 show some commercial trash these days!

FF is showing The Entity which is even trashier and I might tape that one.

Mike.

Galvasean

Ah now here! Don't be calling Commando trash. it's arthouse cinema at its most raw.

Creature

Indeed, not to mention the sparklingly witty script and the riveting performances by Arnie and Aussie Freddie Mercury.


John...I'll be waiting John.

ThOnda

I've just finished watching Taxi driver, so no other classical film tonight...

Sherifu

I want to see it.

Eirebear

Experiment in Terror on Five US for me tonight, never seen it before but know the Theme tune extremely well from the Fantomas- Directors Cut album

Eirebear

Eirebear wrote: »

Experiment in Terror on Five US for me tonight, never seen it before but know the Theme tune extremely well from the Fantomas- Directors Cut album

Great Movie! I think the only ones left from that album now are Spiderbaby and Der Golum

Beanstalk

'let off some steam bennet...'

Fantastic film. You can't help but spend the week after viewing it quoting the script. Must get the DVD asap.

Kess73

Ah good old Bennett, goes from being a mohawked nutjob in Mad Max 2 to getting a pipe chucked through him by Arnie.:D

Galvasean

Deleted User wrote: »

Fantastic film. You can't help but spend the week after viewing it quoting the script. Must get the DVD asap.

Saw it in HMV (Swords) for €6 last week.
Just a shame we don't have the uncut version.

Galvasean

Galvasean wrote: »

Saw it in HMV (Swords) for €6 last week.
Just a shame we don't have the uncut version.

Ordered the R1 directors cut. I wanted the Blu Ray but it's only contains the cut version.

Nunu

'Commando' is one of the few films I watch every time I see it's on. Bennett is a definite cult hero:)
Gutted I missed it last night and I have it on DVD...work that one out

Galvasean

Deleted User wrote: »

Ordered the R1 directors cut.

Any good special features?

Galvasean

Galvasean wrote: »

Any good special features?

Here's what playusa have listed.

# Seamlessly branched Director's Cut with never-before-seen footage
# Audio commentary by director Mark Lester (on theatrical version only)
# Deleted Scenes
# Pure Action featurette
# Let Off Some Steam featurette
# Photo galleries with over 150 images: Creating Commando / Domestic Bliss with John and Jenny / Kill Arnold, Kill! / Trashing the Galleria

I also ordered Rambo and can't wait to watch both back to back.

Snake Plisken

Yeah I just watched the US Blu-Ray of it last Tuesday, classic Arnie and all the errors in it just make it lovable, even forgot that theres an early Bill Paxton role in there! Classic had to have it on Blu-Ray

Galvasean

Wow, Id love to hear that commentary :pac:

Pop's Diner

On TV3 now. Possibly the greatest 'piece of crap' movie ever made.

It's currently at beginning of the chase sequence that ends up with him breaking his promise to Sully

Larianne

Is it just me or did the actor who plays Bennett base his character a lot on Chopper Reid?? He's australian and all so I'm guessing so.

Pop's Diner

He seems to have based his character and look on Freddy Mercury? Sexuality in particular.

Larianne

just checked imdb.com Says he based it on Freddie Mercury on steroids. I still think he looks like Chopper Reid.

Parsley

I switched over to TV3 just as it was coming on. I was full sure it was the greatest film of all time, but it was at least a hundred times better than I remembered it. SOO ****ing good.



"Don't disturb my friend. He's dead tired."

Larianne

Ah the one liners are great!

TerrorFirmer

If there was ever a movie to open a six pack to.

ronnie3585

And I thought I was the only one who loved this film! One of my all time favs.

"Let off some steam, Bennett".

Handsome Bob

I saw it.:D However I forgot about how unbelievably corny the beginning was, with Arnie having the laugh with his daughter. It was like watching one of those cheesy holiday adverts designed for middle America.:pac:

Oh and Bennett, he looks like a mixture of Chopper and someone out of the village people.:p

All the same, testosterone raising stuff.:D

Burgo

Pop's Diner wrote: »

It's currently at beginning of the chase sequence that ends up with him breaking his promise to Sully

well in fairness he had to let him go.

MagicMarker

Movie Fact!

His daughter is Pheobe in Charmed.





I would

Pop's Diner

MagicMarker wrote: »

I would

No you wouldn't. Matrix would rip your head off first.

nix

Auh i missed it, i really cant so no to any Arnie film tbh.

Heck id even watch junior for the laughs


Sad i missed Commando

Don't disturb my friend.
He's dead tired.

Ruu_Old

Good film. *throws saw blade at Galvasean*

Kinetic^

Awesome film. "Let off some steam Bennett"

omahaid

Class film, one for the museum so future generations can benefit from the wisdom.

"You're a funny man, Sully, I like you. That's why I'm going to kill you last. "

"Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last?"
"That's right, Matrix. You did."
"I lied."

omahaid

Oh, and for any Arnie fans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0WrUMhB_nE

Galvasean

MagicMarker wrote: »

Movie Fact!

His daughter is Pheobe in Charmed.

I would

Remember what happened to Sully when he made an inappropriate remark about Matrix's daughter?

Ruu wrote: »

Good film. *throws saw blade at Galvasean*

Thank God this is the edited for DVD version where you don't actually see my head getting sliced off.
You have no idea how disappointed I was with the commando Blu-Ray. Its not teh unrated version. No special features. Plus the picture transfer is lousy

Anyone read the Commando 2 script? Apparently it was the influence for Die Hard

Parsley

For anyone interested, I bought a 4-pack of Arnie films in HMV yesterday. Commando, Predator, Conan the Barbarian and The Terminator for a tenner.

ryoishin

Quality movie.

irish_bob

Parsley wrote: »

For anyone interested, I bought a 4-pack of Arnie films in HMV yesterday. Commando, Predator, Conan the Barbarian and The Terminator for a tenner.

three out of four aint bad