The actor knew he could have some fun with Commando, and maybe even stick it to Stallone in the process-even if it didn’t quite work out that way in the end.
But when both actors passed, the role made its way into the meaty paws of Schwarzenegger, who was just coming off of the disaster, Red Sonja. The film’s original writer, Jeph Loeb, envisioned it as the more downbeat story of a retired, world-weary Israeli super-soldier called out of retirement starring KISS front man Gene Simmons (don’t laugh, he was pretty good in 1986’s Wanted: Dead or Alive) and, later, Nick Nolte. It’s interesting to watch Commando today knowing that it wasn’t originally intended to be a Schwarzenegger vehicle. And while Commando may traffic in some of the same themes as Rambo, Ahnuld would bring his own arsenal of signature touches to the proceedings, racking up a ridiculous body count, adding a dash of shameless melodrama (he’s a papa bear out to protect his cub), and uncorking a string of some of either the best or worst one-line zingers in action-flick history depending on your taste for such things. Sunset Boulevard // Getty Imagesĭeep down, Schwarzenegger wanted to out-Stallone Stallone. But when those very same goons kidnap her, he has no choice but to strap on his ammo belt, smear on some greasy eye black, and pick up a rocket launcher.Īrnold Schwarzenegger and a young Alyssa Milano on the set of Commando. He wants nothing from life these days besides the freedom to chop wood and go fishing with his daughter (a 12-year-old Alyssa Milano). Like Stallone’s John Rambo, Matrix is a reluctant hero. deSouza about a retired elite Special Ops colonel named John Matrix (no joke) who’s called out of retirement to waste a group of Central American thugs looking to overthrow the fictional banana republic of Val Verde. But Schwarzenegger’s innate sense of competitiveness (first seen in the 1977 body-building documentary Pumping Iron) eventually piqued his interest in a script from Steven E. That film, in which Sly’s scarred Vietnam Vet alter ego returns to Southeast Asia to bring back American POWs, managed to rack up $300 million worldwide, making it the second-biggest hit of the year after Back to the Future. In May of 1985, Stallone would release the rah-rah, Reagan-approved pop-culture juggernaut Rambo: First Blood Part II. The A-list only had room for two ripped action titans at the time. Sure, there was Chuck Norris and Charles Bronson, and there would soon be Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal (not to mention straight-to-video wannabes like Jeff Speakman, Michael Dudikoff, and Don “The Dragon” Wilson), but they were the guys you went to only when you’d already cycled through the lesser Schwarzenegger and Stallone entries like Raw Deal and Cobra. Since the early ‘80s, the two had a hammerlock on the big-budget action genre. But first, it’s worth pointing out that back in 1985, the friendly box-office rivalry between Schwarzenegger and his comrade in cinematic sadism, Sylvester Stallone, was at its alpha-male pinnacle.
We’ll get to what makes Commando such an insane slice of Neanderthal nostalgia in a moment.
If you were into that sort of thing back in 1985 (and 15-year-old me most definitely was), then Commando has to get your vote as the most self-aware and homoerotic kill-fest of the Reagan era-an era, by the way, that had no shortage of such things. And it’s also a pure shot of straight-no-chaser Ahnuld that somehow manages to both fetishize his ham-sized pecs and ubermensch physique in every frame while turning squib-happy ultraviolence into something so giddily excessive that it unspools like a live-action Tex Avery cartoon (for the record: Scxhwarzenegger scores 81 kills). It’s a deliriously over-the-top slice of Joel Silver-produced macho kitsch that has its tongue firmly planted in its cheek.
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But it’s certainly his most ‘80s action movie of the ‘80s. Released on this day 35 years ago, 1985’s Commando may not be the Austrian Oak’s greatest action movie of the ‘80s. Still, there’s one film from that period that tends to get overlooked far too often. That’s a pretty amazing run of red-meat spectacles right there. Olympia-turned-unlikely-Hollywood heavyweight cranked out Conan the Barbarian, The Terminator, Predator, The Running Man, Total Recall, and Terminator 2: Judgment Day. In the decade between 19, the seven-time Mr. Back in the fall of 1985, it was impossible to be bigger than Arnold Schwarzenegger, both in terms of movie-star wattage and sheer Joe Weider muscle mass.
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