Ep 32: Commando

This episode of CFX is action packed (literally!) since we discuss the 1985 Arnold Schwarzenegger action film, Commando.  While the film is not one of the mega Schwarzenegger box office blockbusters, Commando, with its explosion filled action sequences, overt homo-eroticism and clever one-liners, has had an outsized influence on the genre. But does it still hold up? We not only evaluate the film, but do a full plot point by plot point walkthrough and also play a shelved and rarely heard Access Hollywood on-set interview with the star. And, as usual, along the way, we find out…

• What strange book was like the Schwarzenegger “family Bible”
• Why the film is really the love story between two men
• What the f@&$ was going on with those opening credits
• About the economic tourist miracle of a small Latin American former military dictatorship
• How a makeshift, fake mall bar and grill is no longer a good place for bad guys to “hunt slash” (Note: This scene inspires one of Slip’s finest character impressions of all time)
• How Arnold uses his superhuman strength to defy the laws of physics (though it’s Jeff can’t keep track of Newton’s laws…)
• Who delivers the worst “brown face” performance in history (clue: it ain’t Charlton Heston)
• The origin of the famous “Eating is not cheating” Schwarzenegger infidelity excuse 
• How many rounds of automatic weapons can be fired without hitting any targets (most notably: Arnold of course)

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