Cahiers du Cinema Wednesday, May 25, 2005

This may seem like shameless pandering to my hardcore readership, but the other night, while I was trying to bounce Wrong Turn Jr. to sleep, I found myself watching Commando and loving the hell out of it. I can quote lines out of that one in my sleep, but I hadn't seen it in years, and it still amazes. Arnold reaches a Bob Hope level of non-acting; Dan Hedaya should play everybody in every movie; the steel-drum soundtrack is as Dada-incongruous as the zithers in The Third Man. So many drug-running scumbags, so many trash-talking punks in skinny ties! It's enough to make a hot-blooded neocon pine for the days of Golan and Globus...

Uh, I mean, Pax. Always Pax.

@ 7:28:00 AM,

5 Comments:

At 9:02 AM, Blogger BeK said...

Remember, Rob, when I said I'd kill you last?

 
At 12:20 PM, Blogger Pete said...

Bad guy with gun to Arnold: Fuck you asshole [gun clicks]
Arnold: Fuck YOU asshole!

 
At 12:22 PM, Blogger Rob Toth said...

I eat Green Berets for breakfast...and I'm very hungry!

 
At 3:58 PM, Blogger BeK said...

Can I get a pillow for my friend? He's dead tired.

 
At 11:23 AM, Blogger Bill said...

Rae Dawn Chong: "Where's Sully?"
Arnold, "I let him go."

Who knew you could scalp someone by throwing a circular saw blade at them?

 

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