Commando (film): Difference between revisions

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'''Matrix''': [[The Stoic|No]]. }}

Possibly the most [[So Bad ~~Its~~ Good|awesome]] film [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] ever made, and certainly the most [[Ho Yay|homoerotic]]. ''Commando'' tells the story of John Matrix (Arnie), a retired special forces [[Colonel Badass|colonel]] whose daughter is kidnapped. To get her back he must, like, kill a prime minister or something? But thankfully he decides to [[Rash Equilibrium|ignore these demands]] and [[Hilarity Ensues|just kills them all instead.]]

Possibly the most [[So Bad It's Good|awesome]] film [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] ever made, and certainly the most [[Ho Yay|homoerotic]]. ''Commando'' tells the story of John Matrix (Arnie), a retired special forces [[Colonel Badass|colonel]] whose daughter is kidnapped. To get her back he must, like, kill a prime minister or something? But thankfully he decides to [[Rash Equilibrium|ignore these demands]] and [[Hilarity Ensues|just kills them all instead.]]

Best known for Schwarzenegger displaying his distinctive tongue-in-cheek humor for this kind of over-the-top action film.

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** Also:

{{quote| '''Arius''': Mr. Bennett, my soldiers are patriots.<br />

'''Bennett''': [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy|Your soldiers are nothing]]. [[Badass|Matrix]] and I can [[One Man Army|kill every single]] [[Mooks|one of them]] [[Hilarity Ensues|in the blink of an eye]]. [[Foreshadowing|Remember]] [[Lampshading|that]]. }}

'''Bennett''': [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy|Your soldiers are nothing]]. [[Badass|Matrix]] and I can [[One-Man Army|kill every single]] [[Mooks|one of them]] [[Hilarity Ensues|in the blink of an eye]]. [[Foreshadowing|Remember]] [[Lampshading|that]]. }}

* [[Banana Republic]]: Val Verde.

* [[Beyond the Impossible]]: Early on, Matrix is trying to chase some bad guys but the power to his truck is cut, so he ''pushes it and drives it down a hill''. Then there's the plane escape.

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*** A more subtle one: Matrix is impeded by a padlock and chains, so he just rips them off.

*** Killing a group of heavily armed soldiers with spare gardening and hardware tools found in a shed.

* [[Bond One Liner]]: Schwarzenegger has always been good at these, but ''Commando'' contains some of his greatest efforts.

* [[Bond One-Liner]]: Schwarzenegger has always been good at these, but ''Commando'' contains some of his greatest efforts.

** After killing a man on a plane and [[Of Corpse He's Alive|disguising him as if he's asleep]], he turns to a stewardess and says: "Please don't disturb my friend. He's dead tired."

** After dropping Sully off a cliff, and then being asked where he's gone: "I let him go."

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* [[The Dragon]]: Bennett.

** [[Dragon Their Feet]]: The [[Big Bad]] is Arius, not Bennett. He got his own dose of buckshot before Matrix deal with Bennett though.

** [[Dragon in Chief]]: As quoted above, Bennett claims (correctly) that he's a bigger threat to John than Arius' and his army.

** [[Dragon-in-Chief]]: As quoted above, Bennett claims (correctly) that he's a bigger threat to John than Arius' and his army.

* [[Elite Mooks]]: Cooke boasts about being a former Green Beret. Matrix is unimpressed.

* [[Expy]]: General Kirby is basically [[Rambo (Franchise)|Colonel Trautman]]. Matrix himself is basically a tongue-in-cheek version of Rambo.

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** Interestingly, Matrix puts all the equipment on, including his vest and then puts camo paint on his arms and face. Later, he loses the vest and now he has camo paint on his manly chest. Which means, after the [[Lock and Load Montage|lock and load montage]], he must have taken all the equipment '''off''' again to paint it on, as he was obviously ''planning'' to lose his shirt later.

* [[Mandatory Unretirement]]

* [[Mean Character Nice Actor]]: Yes, '''Bennett''' of all people has an actor who is a very nice person off camera, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjkp-Qtq2Ss as Arnie himself recalls].

* [[Mean Character, Nice Actor]]: Yes, '''Bennett''' of all people has an actor who is a very nice person off camera, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjkp-Qtq2Ss as Arnie himself recalls].

* [[Mook Horror Show]], especially the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B5xEBASwgE toolshed sequence].

* [[More Dakka]]: Most of the movie revolves around dakka exchange between fighting parties: trimming bushes with machine gun fire, entire squad [[No One Could Survive That|dakka-venting the barn with The Ahnold inside]], et cetera, et cetera.

* [[Nice Job Guiding Us Hero]]

* [[Not Even Bothering With the Accent]]: Justified (or handwaved, at any rate) by mentioning early in the film that Matrix hails from East Germany.

* [[One Man Army]]: Hoo, boy, is Matrix ever.

* [[One-Man Army]]: Hoo, boy, is Matrix ever.

** Could have been called [[One Man Army]]: [[The Movie]].

** Could have been called [[One-Man Army]]: [[The Movie]].

* [[Only a Flesh Wound]]: Subverted. When Matrix is shot in the shoulder by Bennett, his right arm is ''mostly'' out of the fight, he even comments on it and can't use it for much aside for holding impromptu shields and weapons, seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL5diYxDmP8#t=4m here from 4:10 to 6:43.] It seems fine by the end though.

** Played completely straight throughout with Matrix's leg and abdomen wounds, suffered after a being a little to close to a live grenade.

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* [[Roaring Rampage of Rescue]]: The movie of the trope.

* [[Shout Out]]: At least three of Arnie's lines are things he said in ''[[The Terminator]]''. His one-word answer, "Wrong," before blasting away his first [[Mooks|mook]], his [[Catch Phrase]] "I'll be back" (of course), and the line, "Fuck you, asshole!" This was his first big movie after ''[[The Terminator]]'' and his first big movie with more than five lines.

* [[Show Some Leg]]: Matrix has Chong pretend to be a hooker in Sully's hotel room. Doesn't quite work as Cooke is still wary, but he still misses Matrix hiding behind the door until the [[Hey You Haymaker]].

* [[Show Some Leg]]: Matrix has Chong pretend to be a hooker in Sully's hotel room. Doesn't quite work as Cooke is still wary, but he still misses Matrix hiding behind the door until the [["Hey You!" Haymaker]].

* [[Shur Fine Guns]]: When Cook is knocked into the next room while fighting Matrix, he fires his last two rounds while he's tumbling backwards, resulting in the exchange in the [[Narm]] entry.

* [[Soft Glass]]: Played with. Arnold plays this straight, but his friend who ran the car dealership is badly cut when he's driven through a window. It's possible the shards killed him, that or being hit by the car, as seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwq9V7AEhi0 here from 3:00 to 3:16.]

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* [[What Could Have Been]]: This was originally offered to John McTiernan of ''[[Predator]]'' and ''[[Die Hard (Film)|Die Hard]]'' fame. Now watch the first half hour of ''Predator'' and ask... [[Sincerity Mode|which is more awesome]]?

** ''[[Die Hard (Film)|Die Hard]]'' was originally intended to be a sequel to ''Commando''.

* [[What Do You Mean ~~Its~~ Not Awesome]]: EVERYTHING, from walking through a mall to getting into an airplane.

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: EVERYTHING, from walking through a mall to getting into an airplane.

** And getting off of one.

* [[What Measure Is a Mook]]: Completely averted. Matrix has no problem killing someone, be it a random henchman or a main villain.

* [[What Measure Is a Mook?]]: Completely averted. Matrix has no problem killing someone, be it a random henchman or a main villain.

* [[Zerg Rush]]: How many security guards does that mall have?

* [[We Hardly Knew Ye]]: A handsome Val Verdan in a fur-lined jacket with a [[Goatee of Evil]] is introduced in a manner that indicates he's [[The Dragon]], taking part in the opening assasinations and shooting one of Kirby's [[Red Shirt|redshirts]]. He stays behind to deliver the [[I Have Your Daughter]] ultimatum... until Matrix blows him away with a shotgun.