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Steven de Souza is among the handful of screenwriters whose films have earned over two billion dollars at the box office. ...
Steven de Souza is among the handful of screenwriters whose films have earned over two billion dollars at the box office. ...
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (German pronunciation IPA: ) (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian-born American bodybuilder, actor, and politician, currently serving as the 38th Governor of the U.S. state of California. ...
Rae Dawn Chong (born February 28, 1961 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian born actress and daughter of Tommy Chong. ...
Vernon Wells (born December 30, 1945 in Rushworth, Victoria, Australia) is an actor. ...
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James Olson (born October 8, 1930) is an American actor from Evanston, Illinois and graduate of Northwestern University who did stage work in and around Chicago before his 1956 film debut in From that point, he continued to appear in numerous film and television productions all the way through the...
David Patrick Kelly (born January 23, 1951) is an American actor and musician who has appeared in several films, including some major roles. ...
Alyssa Jayne Milano (born December 19, 1972) is an American actress and former singer. ...
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James Roy Horner (born August 14, 1953) is an American composer of orchestral and film music. ...
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Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (German pronunciation IPA: ) (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian-born American bodybuilder, actor, and politician, currently serving as the 38th Governor of the U.S. state of California. ...
Synopsis Schwarzenegger plays retired colonel John Matrix, a special forces soldier who once led an elite unit and has left the armed forces to live in a secluded mountain home with his daughter Jenny (Alyssa Milano). Unbeknownst to Matrix, the members of his former unit are being killed one by one. Even though Matrix' friend General Franklin Kirby gives Matrix armed guards, attackers manage to kidnap Matrix and Jenny. Matrix learns that Bennett (Vernon Wells), a former member of his Matrix' unit who was presumed dead has kidnapped him to try to force Matrix to do a political assassination for a man called Arius (who calls himself El Presidente), a warlord formerly bested by Matrix who wishes to lead a military coup in his home country. Since Arius will have Jenny killed if Matrix refuses, Matrix reluctantly accepts the demand. Alyssa Jayne Milano (born December 19, 1972) is an American actress and former singer. ...
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After Matrix is taken aboard an airplane heading to the foreign country, he kills the henchman guarding him ("Don't disturb my friend. He's dead-tired.") and jumps into a swamp just as the plane is leaving the runway. Matrix then sets his stopwatch for the approximate time of the flight. Matrix commandeers the car of Cindy, an off-duty flight attendant (Rae Dawn Chong), and enlists her help by explaining the disaster that has befallen him and Jenny. The two follow Sully, and Matrix kills him by dropping him off the side of a mountain ("I let him go.") Rae Dawn Chong (born February 28, 1961 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian born actress and daughter of Tommy Chong. ...
After Matrix learns where Arius' mansion is located and, presumably, where Jenny is being held, he breaks into a gun shop and steals a veritable one-man arsenal of both smallarms and heavy weapons. After commandeering a seaplane from a nearby marina run by Arius, Matrix and Cindy land the plane off the coast of the island where Arius was located. Matrix instructs Cindy to contact General Kirby and then proceeds to Arius' villa. Matrix uses the weapons and explosives to kill most of Arius' forces, and then proceeds to Arius' villa, where he kills Arius with a shotgun. Although Matrix finds Jenny in the basement, Bennett shoots Matrix in the arm. Matrix then taunts Bennett into facing him in a knife fight ("Throw away that chickenshit gun") to which Bennett falls for. After a fierce struggle, Matrix gains the upper hand and Bennett, defeated reaches for a gun. Matrix then impales Bennett with a steam pipe ("Let off some steam Bennett!"). After Kirby's men arrive, Matrix, Cindy, and Jenny fly off into the sunset as the pop song "We Fight for Love" plays in the background. left to right: Robert Palmer, Andy Taylor, John Taylor, and Tony Thompson Power Station was a pop group made up of singer Robert Palmer, bassist John Taylor and guitarist Andy Taylor of Duran Duran, and former CHIC drummer Tony Thompson; two other CHIC members, Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers were...
Reception Commando earned $7,700,000 during its opening weekend, playing on 1,495 screens in the United States. It went on to gross $35 million in the United States and $57 million worldwide.
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The M202A1 FLASH (Flame Assault Shoulder Weapon) is a type of rocket-launcher that was designed to be a replacement for the flamethrower, which was already coming of age after World War II. The M202A1 is lightweight, and features four tubes that can load 66mm incendiary rockets, generally filled with...
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Cast Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (German pronunciation IPA: ) (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian-born American bodybuilder, actor, and politician, currently serving as the 38th Governor of the U.S. state of California. ...
Vernon Wells (born December 30, 1945 in Rushworth, Victoria, Australia) is an actor. ...
Rae Dawn Chong (born February 28, 1961 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian born actress and daughter of Tommy Chong. ...
Dan Hedaya Dan Hedaya is a prolific character actor who was born on July 24, 1940, in Brooklyn, New York to a Sephardic Jewish family. ...
David Patrick Kelly (born January 23, 1951) is an American actor and musician who has appeared in several films, including some major roles. ...
James Olson (born October 8, 1930) is an American actor from Evanston, Illinois and graduate of Northwestern University who did stage work in and around Chicago before his 1956 film debut in From that point, he continued to appear in numerous film and television productions all the way through the...
Alyssa Jayne Milano (born December 19, 1972) is an American actress and former singer. ...
Bill Duke (born February 26, 1943) is an American actor and film director. ...
Predator is a 1987 science fiction, action and horror film directed by John McTiernan and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers and Jesse Ventura. ...
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DVD releases The first DVD of Commando was released in region 1 in the U.S. on May 25, 1999. Common with early DVD releases, the disc featured a non-anamorphic video transfer, a basic 2.0 surround track, and only the US theatrical trailer as an extra. DVDs released in other regions soon followed, some with anamorphic transfers, but the 2001 UK region 2 DVD was censored by the BBFC (approximately 12 seconds of cuts) due to violence. These cuts were brought over from the 1985 original release. However, a German master was used for the UK DVD, meaning the film was cut even more than it should have been, leading to 56 seconds of cuts instead of the BBFC's 12 seconds. If the film had been resubmitted to the BBFC, it would be passed uncut under the BBFC's new more liberal rules. This has proven to be the case as the BBFC's website indicates that both versions of the film for the new DVD were passed uncut on June 11, 2007. This means the film will be uncut in the UK for the first time outside the UK laserdisc. DVD (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is a popular optical disc storage media format. ...
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On June 5, 2007, 20th Century Fox officially announced that a completely unedited and unrated director's cut of the film would be released on region 1 DVD on September 18, 2007. Through seamless branching, this new disc will not only feature the new unrated cut (which they claimed would clock in at 95 minutes but in truth it is only 91 minutes with a mere 92 seconds of extra footage), but as a bonus, will also contain the original 90 minute R-rated US theatrical cut. Aside from this, the new DVD will be a special edition, featuring an audio commentary from director Mark L. Lester (strangely only on the theatrical cut), additional deleted scenes, a "Pure Action" featurette, a "Let Off Some Steam" featurette, and four photo galleries with over 150 photos. On a more technical note, the transfer will be anamorphically enhanced and will feature a new 5.1 audio mix. is the 156th day of the year (157th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
A directors cut is a specially edited version of a film, and less often TV series, music video, commercials or video games, that is supposed to represent the directors own approved edit. ...
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Production - In the second scene of the movie, Cooke kills a car salesman. In the screenplay, this scene features Sully, not Cooke.[1] The reason for the film departing from the script in this instance is not known.
- The song that plays at the end credits is "We Fight for Love" (also known as "Somewhere, Somehow, Someone's Gotta Pay") by the Power Station.[2]
- A sequel was considered, but never filmed; Arnold Schwarzenegger, by his own admission, was not interested.
- The house in the opening scene where Cooke and Diaz kill the first of Matrix's men was the home of screenwriter, Steven E. de Souza.
- This movie was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Special Effects, but lost to Back to the Future.
- In the scene aboard the plane, one of the flight attendants is actress Chelsea Field; this film is one of her early roles.
- Bill Paxton also makes a small appearance as a radar operator. He has also appeared with Schwarzenegger in The Terminator and True Lies.
- The movie references Val Verde, a fictional country frequently used by Hollywood. The airport in the fictional country is actually Long Beach Airport.
- Bill Duke, who plays Cooke, later played alongside Schwarzenegger again in Predator.
- Composer James Horner, who crafted the film's distinctive themes, also worked on 1986's Aliens and won an Academy Award for his score on Titanic.
- In the scene where Matrix dangles Sully over a cliff, an editing flaw is visible. Although it appears Sully's doom is imminent, he is completely free from harm's way, as he is supported by not only the strength of Matrix but a cable attached to his leg. The dummy 'Sully' glimpsed as he is dropped off the cliff also has ripped clothes from multiple attempts at the shot.
- Shortly after Matrix kills Sully, a continuity error occurs. When Matrix flips Sully's car, damage on one side is clearly visible. However, when they drive away the car appears unscratched. Also, during the chase sequence, the driver's side rear view mirror falls off of Sully's Porsche due to contact with Matrix's car. Later during the chase it is reattached.
- In the fight scene between Matrix and Bennet, when Bennet has Matrix up against a cement column, Matrix clearly throws Bennet into another column but a second later shows the two flying through a metal door into the furnace room.
- Matrix kills 89 people on camera in Commando and quite likely dozens more off-camera with the sheer number of explosions he sets off in the island climax.
- Screenwriter Jeph Loeb, in a 2008 Word Balloon podcast at newsarama.com, recalled that Gene Simmons, Nick Nolte and Walter Hill were originally involved in the development process.
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Steven de Souza is among the handful of screenwriters whose films have earned over two billion dollars at the box office. ...
The Saturn Award is an award presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films to honor the top works in science fiction, fantasy, and horror in film, television, and home video. ...
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Chelsea Field is an actor, perhaps best remembered as Teela from the 1987 film adaptation of Masters of the Universe. ...
William Paxton (born May 17, 1955) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actor and film director. ...
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True Lies is a 1994 action/comedy remake of the 1991 French film La Totale!. It was directed by James Cameron, and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Bill Paxton, Tia Carrere, Charlton Heston and Art Malik. ...
Val Verde is a fictional country used by Hollywood filmmakers when they require a South/Central American country without getting into legal or diplomatic hot water. ...
Long Beach Municipal Airport is located in Long Beach, California, and to a degree, serves Los Angeles, California and Orange County, California. ...
Bill Duke (born February 26, 1943) is an American actor and film director. ...
James Roy Horner (born August 14, 1953) is an American composer of orchestral and film music. ...
Aliens is a 1986 science fiction/action/horror film starring Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Carrie Henn, Bill Paxton and Paul Reiser. ...
Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ...
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References in popular culture - In an episode of The Simpsons, Rainier Wolfcastle (a parody of Arnold Schwarzenegger) references Commando while holding a piece of pie and glaring at it and says: "Remember when I said I would eat you last? I lied."
- The World of Warcraft instance "Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj" references Commando when Lieutenant General Andorov says: "Remember, Rajaxx, when I said I'd kill you last? I lied..."
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World of Warcraft (commonly abbreviated as WoW) is a massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Blizzard Entertainment and is the fourth game in the Warcraft series, excluding expansion packs and the cancelled Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans. ...
Toy line Diamond Toymakers released a line of action figures in 1986 in an attempt to cash in on the success of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. Matrix now leads an elite special forces unit called C-Team, made up of Spex, Blaster, and Chopper, against the forces of F.E.A.R., led by Psycho and consisting of Lead-Head, Stalker, and Sawbones. There was an assortment of 4" figures, containing all of the above, a series of 8" figures, consisting of Matrix, Spex, Blaster, Psycho, Lead-Head, and Stalker. Oddly, Chopper and Sawbones are absent. Finally, there was an 18" John Matrix that came with a pistol, an M-16, and a grenade. The toy line was criticized (as was competing lines for RoboCop and Rambo) for making toys marketed to children out of Rated-R movies that few of them should have seen. Zarbon action figure from Dragon Ball Z made by Bandai An action figure is a posable plastic figurine of a character, often from a movie, comic book, video game, or television program. ...
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Track listing - "Prologue/Main Title" – 3:58
- "Ambush and Kidnapping" – 2:35
- "Captured" – 2:14
- "Surprise" – 8:19
- "Sully Runs" – 4:34
- "Moving Jenny" – 3:44
- "Matrix Breaks In" – 3:30
- "Infiltration, Showdown and Finale" – 14:32
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