Commando (1985) - MOVIE REACTION - First Time Watching
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- Опубликовано: 29 июл 2024
- 🔫 Welcome back to my channel! 🔫 You all know how much I've been loving these Arnold movies I've been watching so today I am watching Commando (1985) for the first time! I love 80's films so I am super psyched to be watching this today! So without further ado, grab your chicki nuggies and choccy milk because we're jumping in 🌊
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"Let off some steam, Bennett" 💨
Some of his one-liners like this one are just priceless!
“I’ll be back, Bennett.”
“Cmon Bennett, Let’s Party!”
“I’m not gonna shoot you between the eyes, John…gonna shoot you between the balls!” - Bennett😂
It can't be easy to shoot someone between the balls, that would take great skill.
NC: I also would’ve accepted, “I’m so steaming, man.”. Ugh… good night.
@SCARFACE - a classic quote.
But also with Vernon George Wells as Bennett.
The same guy from Mad Max 2, Innerspace and MacGyver...
Much respect there.
One of those "background actors" that you sometimes see in the movies, sort of = you know the face, but you don't know their names.
Commando is one of those movies I put on if I am having a bad day. Perfect over the top action film, it's damn near a comedy
@Chris Miller now that you mention it the overblown action does make it veer off into comic territory 😅 and yes one of those flicks that can lift my spirits have to drop the remote when it's on! CHEERS mate .
Spotting all the same stuntmen at the end wearing different wigs and moustaches is fun.
@@o0pinkdino0o Also the string holding up Sully
@@ChrisMillerCrazyHouse I'm glad someone else spotted that !😅 i think even the G I joe cartoon had more reality than this in some scenes , but still it's 80'S action and you gotta love it !
Commando is a great, mindless entertainment type of movie.
Cindy aka Rae Dawn Chong was so awesome. Her comedic relief is to die for. She is basically talking for us as the audience. I mean all the ridiculous event that she has to witnes like Arnonld ripping out the car seat, to ARnold swinging like tarzan in a shopping mall! To killing a man with stake through the chest. Filpping the phone booth. Cindy's comments let us know, "this is bannas" and not to take this movie too seriously.
Cindy is awesome. Almost up there with Sarah Connor and Ripley!
Kudos for them also not making her a love interest, at least not explicitly
I love the part where Arnold and Bill Duke start slugging it out in that tiny motel room and Rae Dawn Chong hides in a corner and basically starts riffing on the movie. "I don't believe this macho bullshit!" "These guys eat too much red meat!"
Eh, nothing against the actress, but her lines in this film feel phoned in. Like listen to how she says "NO!" at 16:37. Seriously, Wonder Woman's "Kal-El, no!!!" feel more legit, then hers.
She's the daughter of Tommy Chong.
General Kirby- 'Did you leave anything for us?'
Arnie- 'Just bodies'
My favorite movie as a kid so much fun. Your reactions were great, such a cutie pie.
One of the best Arnie movies with all of the 80s tropes to liven up your day. This one is the original "Taken" in my book. This man has some "skills."
"Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last?"
"That's right, Matrix! You did!"
"I lied."
(Sully Screams "Oh La La!")
"What happened to Sully?"
"I let him go."
Fun Fact: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Vernon Wells have remained close friends ever since the making of the movie.
Location Location Fact: The shopping mall (Sherman Oaks Galleria) used is the same one that was used in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), also starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Since both films wrapped, the mall has been remodeled.
Black Belt Fact: Martial arts expert and fight choreographer Michael M. Vendrell worked with Arnold Schwarzenegger on the film, and, by the end of production, Vendrell estimated that Schwarzenegger had become a second degree black belt.
Vernon Wells’ other iconic role was Wez in Mad Max 2, where his SM leather and red Mohawk was even more radical than his chain mail in Commando😂
The fact that Arnie took his martial arts training so seriously that he achieved the equivalent of a second-degree black belt doesn't surprise me at all.
For a person who was Mr. Universe and went on to be an accomplished actor who couldn't understand his English lines in his first starring role, and then on to become the Governor of California, and on to be a champion for the mentally challenged, why, you could tell me that he designed a machine to cure cancer, end world hunger and reverse the aging process and I wouldn't doubt it one bit.
It takes a superior internal drive, commitment to the betterment of one's self and a humble grasp of identity to do all the things that he has achieved in his life.
Arnie is a 100% class act!
Best to you-
His knitted wool 'chainmail' 😆
@@stuartwesthall he looked like the Biker in Village People😆
Nobody can get a 2nd degree black belt in less than 3-4years unless it’s a Micky mouse black belt 😂😂😂
Bennet being fairly calm for the most part made his screeching at Matrix awesome and funny at the same time. Showed how he was truly afraid of Matrix.
I love me some Terminator and Predator, but something about Commando hits different. I'm so hyped to watch your reaction! Lets go!
Your reaction to Sully dying got me dying XD
She has such an evil laugther at that moment. Hahaha...
It's so cute that you're questioning yourself what his profession is, while the movie is called Commando! 🤗😉
You gonna love Arnold in True Lies (1994)! 🥰👌🏼✌🏼
lol it honestly didn't even click. I always thought "commando" meant going without undies lmao😂
@@LoveLaurenn 🤣👌🏼✌🏼
"Crazy Bastard??, You Took His Daughter"
Proof that there's nothing that a devoted dad wouldn't do to help his child
This is the most 80s action movie possible. Nobody ever stops to question it while watching but here is a dude just endlessly firing thousands of rounds from a machine gun that never runs out of ammo and he isn't left up to his knees in shell casings. A point parodied perfectly in the hot shots movies.
I forgot to mention, please check out Arnold's 1987 film, "the running man." It's frickin awesome, set in a dystopian future. The action is incredible and Arnie's on top form.
Absolutely, The Running Man is great, definitely one to check out.
Isn't that the one movie that, like the movie Battle Royale, got its inspiration from the book "The Hunger Games?"
;)
EDIT: I forgot about online trolls...
(YES I WAS BEING SARCASTIC)
The Running Man isn't perfect, but it's an awesome flick to watch and I'd love to see the LoveLaurenn take on it.
Best to you-
@@martinboyle9163 gotta love the 80s cheese, mixed with some brutal action.😂👍
@@opiejaye hope she does. I'm guessing she'll love it.
Rae is just the right level of annoying where she isn't a hated sidekick for Arnie and she helps in clutch moments.
I love films like this where Arnie legit has superhuman strength and no-one bats an eyelid. 😂😂😂
I always thought the title of this movie should have been “One-liner Commando”
Perfect 80s blend of comedy and action. Loved this movie. Great review, keep up those awesome vids. Thanks for posting and bringing back great memories!!
I remember MAD Magazine did a hilarious spoof with the cover title “Commandork” and had the tagline “Somewhere, somehow, someone is gonna pay for this movie”😂
I'm a fan of the one-liners lol I find it comical😄Another great 80s film, loved it! Thanks for the kind words Dan and thank you for watching🙏
Commando is my favorite 80's Arnold film so many great one liners my friends and I had it on repeat in the background while hanging out all the time growing up. We'd quote it at each other all the time.
It was the 2nd movie where he says “I’ll be back” and again in “The Running Man”, then it became his signature catch phrase since.😎
@@nickchang5293 my favorite is when he kills the guy on the plane and says don't bother him he's DEAD tired
Fun fact...well, goof but when John is chasing Sully and crashes into the lamppost for a split blink and you'll miss it second you can see the dummy of Cindy's head fly off before it cuts back to John asking "Are you alright?"
Arnold is King of one liners. We need a short video of all the Arnold impressions Lauren has done. Let off some steam, Lauren! Lol
Regarding the tree Arnold is carrying at the beginning, that is not a real tree. If I remember correctly there was a throwaway story in an interview where Arnold said the crew wanted him to carry a real tree and he had to explain to them that even he is not that strong which caught them quite by surprise.
His nickname back then was The Austrian Oak😎
The differences between bodybuilder (which Arnie is) and strongmen are staggering.
Not to say bodybuilders aren't stronger than average because they totally are. But strongmen are in a whole other league.
“I eat Green Berets for breakfast and right now I’m very hungry!”😂, Jesus H this flick had Arnie’s cheesiest lines but it worked lol. I remember it was released the same summer as Rambo 2 and my dad thought Rambo was a much better film, but I loved Commando for its silliness😆
I've met David Patrick Kelly, who plays Sully, the creep who "doesn't" die last. He's also majorly creepy in films like "The Warriors" and "The Adventures of Ford Fairlane". In "John Wick" he leads the clean-up crew. He's actually the sweetest guy.
He was also in Dreamscape, The Crow and another great Walter Hill flick, 48hrs😎
@@nickchang5293 His character in Dreamscape is one of my favorite villains of all time. He's such a detestable little creep in that movie, it's glorious.
He's also got a small part in Twin Peaks. He comes back in Twin Peaks: The Return for one of the more absurd subplots.
Fun fact: David Patrick Kelly was ALSO in the FMV adventure game from 1996, Ripper, as Joey Falconetti. A cyberpunk thriller set in 2040 about a futuristic Jack the Ripper who kills people through cyberspace. It also had Christopher Walken, Karen Allen, John Rhys-Davies, and Burgess Meredith. My mother and I both played it.
That is the mark of a GREAT actor!
When a guy with the humble, accessible and likeable golden personality of David Patrick Kelly makes you want to take a shower to clean the muck off after watching him perform as a villain!
Best to you-
I love it - every vehicle blows up with 500 gallons of petrol. Rae Dawn Chong's constant screaming would be a good model for Mrs. Steven Spielberg's screams in INDY JONES & TEMPLE OF DOOM.
"He Was In Terminator And Aliens"
His name's Bill Paxton, he was also in True Lies costarring with Arnold as well as being in Predator 2 and a whole bunch of other movies
Scene that cracks me up is when he lets Sully go. Listen to what he screams - “oooh La La” 🤣
The filmmakers wanted Arnie to actually hold Sully like that, to which Arnie said Are you crazy I can't do that!
Arnie is not a national treasure. He's a global treasure.
Regarding the big guns and recoil, an M60 is usually fired from a helicopter on a mount, or on the ground on a tripod, there is zero chance you could shoot one from the hip and hope to hit anything with any degree of accuracy. Arnie and Sly have both mentioned in more recent interviews about the ridiculousness of the gun physics in their movies, as they both went higher and higher in an attempt to trump each other.
Chuck Norris also did it in his MIA flicks but he wielded his M60 with both arms, since he wasn’t as buff as Arnie or Stallone😅
When I was in in boot camp in 1987 the ability to shoot an M60 from the hip was laughably discussed by the sergeant instructors for US Weapons.
I also remember sometime around that day being called into the senior drill sergeant's refreshingly cool air-conditioned office, where he was giving myself and a few other nobody privates the low-down on the next morning's detail we were assigned to do.
"Invasion USA" was playing on his office television. It was at the end of the movie when Chuck Norris brings out his light anti-tank weapon and shoots it from the hip and blows the villain, Klaus Kinski, somewhere into next week.
I distinctly remember my sergeant's redneck-accented, post-Vietnam voice as we all watched that movie's segment in totality, "Was that the correct deployment of an M72 LAW, privates?"
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"NO SERGEANT!"
Remembering that brings a smile to my face even to this day...
Best to you-
Funniest thing about recoil in this movie is that when Rae Dawn Chong fires the rocket the wrong way it has no effect on her, but when she fires correctly she gets dumped on her kiester...
@@dezzconnor8360 her recoil was for comedic affect. Rocket launchers, even a quad-barrel, are recoilless.😆
I always imagined that this movie was Dutch's story before the events of Predator happened haha. Which would make the last line of the movie even more hilarious. This is such a great movie though. Glad you loved it Lauren!
And Cooke in Commando reincarnated as Mac in Predator lol.
@@nickchang5293 Mac was Cooke's twin brother 😉😂
Bill Duke also directed the film Deep Cover. Very talented and imposing fellow😎
@@nickchang5293 Yeah! I noticed that in Commando he looked taller than Arnold.
@@FutureBoy85 he’s 2 inches taller than Arnie
The tree is fake. Arnold had to tell the director that he couldn’t carry a real one…they thought he could! My favorite Arnold movie is “True Lies,” by James Cameron. Another fun 80’s flick with Rae Dawn Chong is “The Principal,” which also stars James Belushi. James Belushi stars with Arnold in another movie, “Red Heat,” also a fun movie. The actor playing Sully is best known for his role in “The Warriors.” I know you’d love that one. Another good one with him in is “Dreamscape.”
They also had to hang sully in a harness over that cliff, even though he’s a small dude he’s still too heavy to hold like that.
You might be able to carry a pine log like that simply by balancing it on your shoulder, but the sheer physics of the momentum of the wood when turning would make it difficult.
Body builders aren't necessarily strong, as their weight lifting is to shape muscles rather than build strength.
Look at weightlifters.
I'm 6'2", I like the aisle seat on a plane so I can stretch my legs out. I'm a big fan of the 80's Arnold action movies, he was usually an ex military badass with very funny one liners.
I was 7 when this came out. Back then I thought it was the coolest action movie ever. Watching it as an adult, it's still awesome, but in an 80s cheese nostalgia sense. As I recommended in your Predator reaction, you have to watch the musical version. Check out "Commando the Musical" on YT. It's a short, hilarious, summary of this movie just like "Predator the Musical".
I highly recommend Arnold's movie "Conan the Barbarian". It's one of his first big movies. It's an awesome sword and sorcerer genre movie with great bloody action and a great soundtrack.
So you mention 2 "musicals"... and Conan... but not Conan the Barbarian the musical? :P
@@marcusott5054 Yep. there's one of those too. Just search RUclips for them. They are as hilarious as Honest Trailers and Bad Lip Reading.
This movie is freaking hilarious 😂
Especially Bennett getting super-charged after getting electrocuted 😂😂😂
Me and my brother used to watch this on VHS every day after school back in the good old days!
Saw an interview with Arnie where he said Vernon Wells (Bennet) was the nicest guy you'd ever want to meet, and then the director would call action and he'd turn into a very scary crazy man. Great reaction as per usual 👍
15:32 You should see Antonio Banderas kicking ass as a mall cop in "Security" (2017). A recently retired Marine Captain desperate for employment to support his family in civilian life, Banderas takes a job as a security guard on the graveyard shift at a small town shopping mall. His first night on the job turns into a life and death battle to protect a little girl who has fled to his mall in the middle of the night pursued by a team of mercenaries that has just massacred the convoy of US Marshals who were transporting her as the key witness against a mob boss.
Great tip for an entertaining Film! It was a nice surprise when I reluctantly watched it for the first time. Good role for Banderas and the supporting cast is great as well. Banderas allways brings an interesting energy in most of his roles, like being the only good thing in Expendables 3 for instance!
Absolutely wonderful reaction! I'm so happy you loved it! Commando is one of my all time favorite Arnold movies. It is the PERFECT 80s cheesy (in a good way) action movie! Also the perfect 90 minute action movie, it doesn't over stay it's welcome at all. The one liners, the action, the story. All of it. Just a great fun movie! Glad you enjoyed it!
This was my favourite movie as a kid. I remember the day it released in the video rental store. I was visiting my uncle in London with my parents and my uncle took me to the store to rent it. Man, I must've been about 6/7 years old at the time. The movie blew my tiny mind lol. Arnold looked like some kind of superhero to me. It's also the film where I got my first crush, Alyssa milano. 😂
Love this movie too saw it on tbs in 1998 I was 14 at the time 💛
I watched this movie so much as a kid that I have a lot of the movie’s dialogue completely memorized.
@@1massboy crazy how that stuff sticks in your head after all these year's.
@@mikesilva3868 shame they never did a follow up to it. I'd have liked to see that.
Thanks for sharing that memory Retro man! I didn't even realize that jenny was alyssa milano til afterwards when I looked up the cast! I was like wait WHAT!? lol Was a great movie, loved it. Thanks for watching😄
This movie easily has some of the best Arnold one-liners of his career 👏
If you want some great action comedy with Arnie, I highly recommend The Last Action Hero. That movie is criminally underrated and was kind of misunderstood by critics at the time.
Kindergarten Cop is also fun to watch, highly recommend that one. And True Lies, that one is amazing.
For more comedy, there are Twins, Jingle all the Way and even Junior, though that one makes me uncomfortable.
And for other Arnold movies there is Barbar Conan and the sequel...
There are so many Arnolds movies, I cannot list them all.
Last Action Hero was one of the first major, mainstream movies to dive into what we now call "meta" storytelling, and man, people were NOT ready for it. Going back and watching it now, it's brilliant what they were doing, but Boomer movie critics were just so confused.
@@wolfofthewest8019 Yeah, the movie came ahead of its time.
@@wolfofthewest8019 The film also had a rocky production. The studio head, Mark Canton, rushed it without allowing any time to do proper reshoots and editing because he thought he could beat *Jurassic Park,* and even test-screened an unfinished version of rhe film. There was no way to avoid bad buzz under those circumstances.
Yeah, Last Action Hero is awesome, it's was a satire on the state of action movies at that time lampooning all the tropes of a typical Arnie style blockbuster
I really should watch "Last Action Hero" again. It was pitted against "Jurassic Park" in a competitive way, and why not what with Schwarzenegger coming off "Terminator 2." I wanted to like it; it appeared to have all the ingredients I wanted with Schwarzenegger, big action scenes, and John McTiernan as director. I don't think I have seen it since.
I love the frequent "I'm/he's gonna smash your face in" type foreshadowing in the film!
David Patrick Kelly (Sully) is one of my favorite bad-guy actors, he just oozes maliciousness.
He was great baddies in The Warriors, Dreamscape and The Crow
If you noticed, those weapons John got from the Surplus Store were not part of the stores public display. They were kept in a secret room. Makes no sense for a store like that to have that many weapons, especially an M202 rocket launcher, or that John would know that the store even had weapons on site in a locked room. The machine-gun John was using doesn't have an overwhelming amount of a recoil, but it is heavier than a normal rifle. Probably not an issue for someone with Arnold's build, but the weapon itself isn't very accurate fired with one hand. In most scenes he is firing from the hip, and the accuracy would be terrible. A good 80's action movie.
A classic! A movie that has so many quotes. My favorite of course is the one that you placed to start off the video when someone click to watch it. “Remember Sully when I promised to kill you last?” “That’s right Matrix. You did.” “I lied.” “AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!”
Some refer to it as the oo la la scream!!! It kinda sounds like he says it as he falls
@@STILuVa yeah I even thought of what to use for the actual spelling for his falling so I went with the simple “ahh” part
This movie is completely ridiculous and over the top, and that is what makes it awesome.
"Hey, That Guy Was In 'Predator' "
Yup, that's Bill Duke, who played Mac in Predator, he also costars with Carl Weathers in "Action Jackson"
The opening daddy/daughter montage is one of the funniest/lamest tropes in 80s television… so when they did this at the beginning of an Arnold action blockbuster, it was like *chef’s kiss* f***ing GOLD.
29:20 It's complicated. AKs don't really have a ton of recoil, but more than other guns like AR-15s, but even light recoiling guns can be hard to control on full auto. One shot is just one little push, but a bunch in rapid succession will usually cause the muzzle to rise. To answer your question, they're kind of real guns, but modified to fire blanks, that have a gun powder charge but no bullet, and blanks have much less recoil than normal cartridges firing bullets cuz physics. It's firing blanks that made it so easy to control. That's a "real AK" modified and firing blanks that he's shooting in that scene.
I was probably 7 or 8 when i first saw this (The made for tv version probably). Arnolds character to a 7 year old boy back then was almost surreal, and mythical...i don't know how to explain it. To see him get injured really felt like he was injured back then...things just had such an impact at that age. Thanks for watching these classics
Here's an official description of what a commando does: Commandos are raid specialists of the armed forces. They strike in the cover of darkness and employ various means to get to their target undetected. They infiltrate territories using airborne raids, helicopter assaults or sea landings. A commando has to move further, faster and fight harder than any other soldier
Yep. You're right again. Bill Paxton was the blue haired punk in The Terminator and one of the Colonial Marines in Aliens. And if you watch Predator 2, you'll see him again as a cop. -OG
Awesome, one liners a plenty in this!!! Thank you for this, I know I'm gonna love it.... let's go!!!
FYI, Bennett was played by Vernon Wells who played Wez (mohawk guy) in The Road Warrior.
Regarding next time, it's said Commando 2 turned into Die Hard (Bruce Willis). Love Commando. Watched it a few dozen times. Great 1980's action along with Death Wish 3.
Lauren,
No. NONE of that backroom stuff is sold at a surplus store. Even in the 80s. This was meant as a black market secret room the store owner had to sell illegal weapons of all kinds.
I also recommend watching the bodybuilding docudrama Pumping Iron, Conan the Barbarian, Raw Deal, The Running Man and Red Heat. This released the same year as Sylvester Stallone's films, Rambo: First Blood Part 2 and Rocky IV, both of which grossed over $300 million at the box office. Matrix's daughter is played by a young Alyssa Milano, while the bald guy is played by the same actor who played Mac in Predator. Cindy is played by Tommy Chong's daughter
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Good eye ! It's Bill Paxton :) I loved that guy. It really saddened me when he suddenly passed away. He was also in Predator 2. Another movie you could check some day. Very underrated sequel.
As for Commando - I grew up on Arnold's movies so what can I say, absolute classic. Thanks for the lovely movie reaction :)
Lauren,
It done properly you can get hit by a car and walk it off like it was nothing. I actually did it.
Many, many moons ago in my high school days my school had Open Lunch which meant students, 10th - 12th grades, could go off campus and get lunch at places like McDonalds or wherever. One day I was with my friends and we were actually talking about this exact kind of stunt and how it's performed with stunt safety in mind. The next day I came out of the school into the parking lot to meet my friends to go to lunch. Well, my friend drove his Volkswagon Bug up the straightaway of the parking lot right towards me. I stopped in the straightaway to wait for him but he didn't stop. He hit me dead on and I performed the stunt exactly like we talked about the day before.
My hands hit the hood (trunk lid) of his car and his front bumper pushed my legs out and back and I rolled up over the hood, up and over the windshield, on top of the car and I rolled off to the passenger side. I distinctly heard people off to the side shout, "HOLY SHIT! He just hit him with the car!' I then landed on my feet, opened the passenger door, got in, closed the door and we left for lunch.
My friend thought I would move at the last second and he'd brake but it didn't work out that way when I didn't move. We had a laugh about it and went about our day.
OMG Shadow what a wild story! I'm glad you're okay!
Great 80's Movies - Conan The Barbarian - Highlander - 48 Hour - The Howling - The Hitcher - Blade Runner - Fright Night - Lost Boys
In only her second movie role, a very young Alyssa Milano.
The action, one-liners, and body count quickly grows in this classic Arnie film.
This movie was my first introduction to Arnold. As kids, back in the day, we never knew his real name so we always referred to him as "Commando" whenever we saw him in any subsequent movie 😆😆😆
Hey Lauren, the actress who plays the flight attendant that helps Arnold is Rae Dawn Chong, the daughter of Comedy legend Tommy Chong and one half of the comedy duo Cheech & Chong
"True Lies" is the best non Terminator/Predator Arnold Schwarzenegger movie! It’s really a great movie! PS ~Jamie Lee Curtis is in it too! "Bennet" played the guy with the Mohawk in "Mad Max: The Road Warrior"
the swinging scene in the mall is so cool, no CGI, actual stunt person made that leap, major props to all stunt workers from the 80s legit death defying work lol
I always find it funny how the opening music goes from dramatic to prime time family Hallmark channel soap opera back to dramatic. Also Sully yelling "OOH LALALA" when he gets dropped off the cliff 🤣
Arnold beats an entire army single-handedly in this and survives jumping from a plane during takeoff without a scratch, but the most unrealistic thing in the movie is that the CIA overthrew a fascist dictator to install a democratic president in Latin America
First of all...anyone else waiting for a compilation of LoveLaurenn's Arnold-isms 😂🤣
First watched this when it aired on TV here in the UK years and years ago. I heard somewhere that this was supposed to be an answer to Sly Stallone's Rambo. That interaction between Matrix and Cook while fighting.... 'I eat green berets for breakfast', was supposed to be a shot at Rambo LOL !!
After all these years, its still one of those movies you can enjoy after the 50th time. Cheesy, gung-ho, gratuitously violent and non-sensical...I miss these types of movies !!
That's not a bad idea lmao I may have to do a compilation of my impressions of Arnie I think it would be silly😂Thanks for sharing your experience and love of this film! I definitely enjoyed it too, even the cheesy one-liners--I enjoyed that the most actually🤣
Back in the 80s when the Arnold and Stallone movies came out there was a rivalry between the two as in who had the biggest muscles , who had the most and biggest guns , who fired the most bullets , who had the most and biggest explosions and who had the most body counts just too name a few .
Lauren, the actress who plays Arnold's daughter in this movie is A really young Alyssa Milano( she was about 8 or 9 when they'd filmed this movie)
C'mon... you gotta react to "Conan The Barbarian"! It was one of Arnie's first big budget movies.
Good reaction, looking forward to the next one :)
Cindy's character man lol! Goes from normal citizen doing intelligent stuff like trying to escape kidnapping to firing rockets at cop paddy wagon's in like 2 hours flat!! : D I saw this last when I was like 14. I probably thought it was so realistic at it's time. Thanks for posting.
"There were instructions with the rocket launcher?"
Yes. You could see the instructions in the shopping cart when Matrix and Cindy were wheeling the loot out to the car.
Great to see Freddy Mercury as "Bennet" fight Arnold in the final fight scene. Here I thought Freddy was only a great singer. Didn't know he can act. 😃👍
The deal is the aisle gets some extra leg room and easiest access to the bathroom, the window gets the window and a wall to lean on, and the center seat gets two armrests.
I like the fact that the lady tagging along, ended up being exactly what he wanted in a partner. She rightly mistrusted him at first, had his back with a rocket launcher. She knew a special skill (flying) and she was good with his daughter. So he found his new family after he lost his military one. So Commando is actually a deep film 😄👍 Cheers ms lady, you do a fantastic job
More classic 80's Arnold Sweet!
I remember seeing this in the theater when I was 10.
Cindy's little red sports car is either a Sunbeam Alpine or Sunbeam Tiger
Laurenn your reactions are so fun and expressive. Your humor always improves my mood.
A name that doesn't make sense (John Matrix), cheesy one liners, and insane 80s action. Commando is pure quintessential Arnold turned up to 11. The scene where Arnold drops Sully off the cliff is one of the funniest scenes in any movie ever lmao To answer your question, Arnold has a ton of classics, but T2 is my favorite Arnold movie.
15:31 If there are any Paul Blart fanboys in existence, their brains just exploded.
P.S. Your Arnold impression is in the Hall of Fame of great impressions 💯
Loved that scene with Sully, thought it was hilarious. He just held him there like a little rag doll😂Glad you like my Arnie impressions lmao Thanks awakeee
Lots of guns, knives and heavy weaponry used by Arnold during this movie, but who could have guessed that the violent act which provoked the strongest reaction from you would have involved a simple saw blade? Well, now that I think about it, I suppose a lot of people could have guessed it, if they are familiar with that particular scene. After all, saw blades are not typically used for scalping people. Loved the reaction from you, Lauren, just like I expected.
The funny thing about Rocket Launchers and RPG's is they always come with instructions written and with picture's on how to load and launch. 😂
Exactly! Just like how claymore mines have "front toward enemy" written on them. Not every soldier is the brightest crayon in the box, and it never hurts to give the instructions a second glance...
Best to you-
This is a great movie Lauren, my dad loved this Movie!!
It came out a few months after Rambo 2 and my dad thought Rambo was much better for its seriousness, but I liked Commando more for its silliness😆
I feel the same way about the seats. Middle is the worst but window or aisle, I can make them work. Odd fact, I’m a huge twilight zone fan so I want to one day get a window seat right over/next to the wing and play the theme music (loud enough for others to hear) as I look out the window.
😂😂😂love that
That guy Arnold dropped of the cliff is David Patrick Kelly, the "Warriors, come out and play" guy!
In my teens I did an unofficial death count on one of my many viewings of this film. I had to concirvatively round things a bit with the buildings he blew up. But in the end I think I came up with something like 327 deaths. It wouldn't surprise me if there's a site or someone else out there these days that has a count as well. Fun film.
Fun fact.....The guy who plays Scully is the cleaner that brings in the crew that cleans up after John Wick kills all the guys at his house in the first John Wick movie.
Terminator, Predator and Commando are considered the classic Arnie triumvirate. Another great team up between Arnie and James Cameron (The Director of Terminator and Aliens) is True Lies. Its a great action movie
I don't know if you've noticed, but in this movie there is a tremendous continuity error.
After the cliff scene, when they change the car to the yellow Porsche, the camera shows the driver's side completely destroyed and when it cuts to the next scene where they drive away the car is perfectly fixed.
That car was the daughter of a 1958 Plymouth Fury.
It's awesome that Bennett is the same actor who played Wez in The Road Warrior.
I also love his cameo in Weird Science.”
I remember the first time I saw this. Thinking to myself "Did this dude just suplex a phone booth??" This had to be a tribute/love letter to Arnold's film career thus far and I loved every minute of it. Great reaction as always Lauren!!
28:44 after he hacks off the arm, apparently Arnie gave the one-liner "do you need a hand?". This was cut from the film as considered in bad taste.
Interesting fact, that guy who got his arm lopped off has been in soooooo many cool action flicks. Running man, one of the robocops, raw deal just to name a few. I think he was also a stunt man
Bennet, who got kicked from Matrix's squad for "Liking killing too much" never actually kills anyone in the movie.
That guy you recognized from terminator and aliens is Bill Paxton. Pretty famous dude, was also in predator 2, true lies, apollo 13, twister and titanic
Sooooo glad you watched this!! NEXT UP: You MUST MUST MUST… ‘tis a MORAL IMPERATIVE that you watch THE RUNNING MAN!!!
I'm happy to see you enjoy this film as much as I did when I first saw it and that was more than 30 years ago. Actually in my hometown in Poland they didn't even show it in the regular movie theater they hired a sports arena and put a giant screen and that's where they screened it. That was amazing. When Arnold is carrying that log his bicep was like six yards wide. And the one-liners - me and my schoolmates were quoting those at least till the end of the school year, and then some. It was a genre-defining film. It's been quoted, mocked, parodied and used as a yardstick for comparison. For a decade or so action movies were either better or worse than commando they had either more explosions or fewer than commando they had either a higher or lower body counts than commando.
I kind of feel people should have warned you how violent this movie is. Mind you, I was only 8 the first time I saw it, been a favourite of mine ever since
Commando is pretty much THE Arnie movie. It has everything, the insane plot, an army of bad guys who couldn’t hit a cow’s arse with a banjo, the one liners. Big guns, big booms. What more do you need?
There's a tiny tenuous link between Commando and Die Hard 2. In Commando Schwarzenegger's character is forced to knock out former president Arius's, successor. In Die Hard 2, General Esperanza is being transported as a prisoner from Val Verde to Washington DC before he hijacks the aircraft to link up with colonel Stewart.
22:02 "get in loser, we're going shopping" you should have voiced dubbed it so Arnold was saying that to the girl 😂 a true classic, Rae Dawn Chong is the daughter of Tommy Chong, from "Cheech and Chong" two characters from the 70's and 80's pot head movies. great reaction! 👍
Loved the reaction!
This was Arnie's first movie after the success of The Terminator and it was a little weird for me as I was actually used to Arnie being the "bad guy". I had only seen two of Arnie's films by then with The Terminator and Conan the Barbarian (Arnie had a few films under his belt but these were his two breakout films in the early 1980s).
I was 15 years old when I watched this in the theatre in 1985. This was non-stop action and came out the same year as "Rambo: First Blood pt 2" with Sylvester Stallone. Arnold and Stallone were in direct competition with each other as to who would be the top Action Star of the decade. By the way you should definitely watch the Rambo films starting with First Blood from 1982.
Damn was this movie ever a cathartic release watching him kick everyone ass!
Again- great reaction!
Thank you Kevin! Glad to read you loved my reaction😊Thanks for sharing your experience with the film! I will definitely consider watching the Rambo films I hear they are packed with action so I think it's right up my alley. Thanks for watching😄
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Hell yeah i definitely enjoyed your reaction it was awesome. Gotta love arnold i mean this was back in his prime and he used to be a real body builder in the early 70"s. I personally subscribed to your channel and would love to see more of your videos. You are awesome
My dad and I watched Rambo 2 and Commando together in Theaters, because I wasn’t old enough then to go into an R movie by myself. He liked Rambo a lot more because it had higher production values and more serious tone, so he called Commando a cheap Rambo knock-off lol. That was actually the reason why I liked Commando more, so I watched it again with my friend and his parents in a theater a week later, and many times on VHS, DVD and HD since.😁
You should watch True Lies. One of Arnold's best.
I’m very disappointed that TL isn’t on Blu-ray☹️
It is... though finding out what happened to Eliza Dushku during the making of it has really soured my enjoyment of it to the point I can't watch it again.
@@carn9507 I can't really blame the film. She didn't tell anyone and only talked about it many years later. I remember Cameron saying when he found out that if he knew then there would have been no mercy for the guy and he would have done everything he could to make sure his life was over.
@@richardb6260 Dushku says she did tell someone. "She confided to an adult female friend, who then allegedly confronted Kramer on the set. Dushku said that she then broke ribs in a stunt that went awry, calling it “no small coincidence”. She said Kramer “was responsible for my safety” on the film."
"Minors must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian during production, but Sue Booth-Forbes, who was Dushku’s guardian on the set, says that she had failed to protect the child actor. Booth-Forbes told Variety and Deadline that Dushku is “telling the truth,” and said she reported what she called Kramer’s “inappropriate sexual behaviour” at the time to “a person of authority” and that no action was taken. She did not identify the person to whom she reported the alleged incident. "
David Patrick Kelly is one of my favorite actors.
He's an awesome protaginist, and a completely superhuman villain in the sense that he makes your flesh crawl every time he speaks a creepy line.
I thoroughly recommend that you watch every movie he has ever made, and at a minimum, see "The Warriors," one of the greatest film adaptations of all time, where, in my opinion, the movie surpasses the book.
Perhaps you could react to that classic if you have yet to see it.
When Rae Dawn Chong says, "From here, it looks like a nightmare," it was a direct, tongue-in-cheek reference to his recent role in Dreamscape in 1984.
It was a movie where he would jump into a victim's dream to make it a nightmare.
(Not a bad one to react to either, if I haven't spoiled it for you.)
In Dreamscape, Dennis Quaid does far better acting than in most of his other films, and David Patrick Kelly reminds you just how legendary his performances can be.
I had truly forgotten how awesome Commando was and just how many great actors showed up for shooting, and just how many great lines are contained within it.
This movie showcases Arnie at his best, and now I MUST see it again to really give the full appreciation this phenominal action flick truly deserves.
I absolutely love your reactions and I feel that you would be a great person to know.
I wish you the very best and want to thank you for another great and entertaining video! Keep them coming!
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