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Post by rocco on Jul 20, 2007 6:57:26 GMT -5
I was in Salonicco (Greece) this week and that movie aired on TV........
What can I say........?
Well, first of all my interest in what Sly does/did is so huge that I can't avoid watching. As a matter of fact, though, I "recognize" him only in drama/action movies. Never watched "stop or my mum will shoot" or "Oscar", I like when he's funny while he's playing the action hero 
That brings us back to COBRAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The movie is........I mean I can't find the words!
The screenplay might have been written by few little kids in the kindergarden 
"you are disease........I am the cure"
"here is where the law stops........and I begin"
I think that the real GREATNESS of Sly is to let you have goosebumps when you hear him saying such things which, let's face it, should make anybody with an averagish level of intelligence laugh so hard to risk having a stroke for that! ;D
Mamma mia, I don't think there are many movies worse than COBRAAAAAAAAAAAA, when it hit the theathers back in 1986 we were so high on Rocky IV that we felt we owed the guy the price for the ticket to this truly awful movie
Guys it is such a terrible movie that somehow it makes sense only if you watch it as an unintentionally funny one!!!!!!!!
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Post by Mrs B on Jul 25, 2007 16:48:52 GMT -5
LOL, love the lines that you quoted there, Rocco! I havent seen this flick (in fact, there are so many of Slys flicks that I havent seen - its almost embarrasing  ) - but it does sound like a typical, cheese infested Sly action flick! ;D Like you say, if you take such films with a pinch of salt and watch them for simply what they are - a whole bunch of muscles and cliches - then they are actually quite enjoyable. I'd watch it for for the freakin eye candy that is Sly, circa late 80s |
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Post by rocco on Jul 26, 2007 7:46:29 GMT -5
BTW, Dawn, there's a scene in Cobra when the Sly-dude eats cold pizza cutting it with scissors........ 
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Post by masterofdisaster19 on Aug 14, 2007 10:03:10 GMT -5
I'm surprised you'd never seen this one, brother, because it's on most people's turkey list. It really is sensationally awful, in every concievable way. Sly talks like he has some sort of impairment throughout the film, the sometimes improvised dialogue is a crime against humanity. But it's Sly, and it seems a snapshot of the excessive 80's at the height of their excess. You have to appreciate that on some level.
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Post by rocco on Aug 14, 2007 10:37:18 GMT -5
I'm surprised you'd never seen this one, brother, because it's on most people's turkey list. It really is sensationally awful, in every concievable way. Sly talks like he has some sort of impairment throughout the film, the sometimes improvised dialogue is a crime against humanity. But it's Sly, and it seems a snapshot of the excessive 80's at the height of their excess. You have to appreciate that on some level.
Not to mention, we had to attend another outstanding acting performance by Brigitte Nielsen, which at least this time around shows us her perfect shape in that bikini photo-shooting montage |
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Post by kent on Aug 19, 2007 21:42:14 GMT -5
As I've gotten older, I've noticed some of Stallone's films, as much as I HATE to admit it because I am a HUGE fan of his, are films that don't have very deep stories. But look at it this way...his career was at its peak during the eighties. A time in film in which action movies, at least here in the U.S., were either about U.S. Vs. USSR or just shoot 'em up flicks. I see nothing wrong with that. I prefer some of those over some of today's deeper storyline films that seem to have so many meanings to them.
Cobra is one of my favorites of his and it is an underrated classic.
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Post by thebumfromthedark on Aug 20, 2007 16:59:52 GMT -5
"Cobra" is what Sly wanted "Beverly Hills Cop" to be when he was starring as Axel Foley. Dig that.
It's shocking to think that the man who wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for "Rocky" also wrote this.
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Post by masterofdisaster19 on Oct 29, 2007 11:01:01 GMT -5
I think the screenplay was based on some gooey romance novel called Angel of the City, and Brigitte Nielsen's character in Cobra was more the focus of the book, wheras Sly made the secondary hero-stud-romancer character the star in the screenplay and retitled it.
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Post by rocco on Oct 29, 2007 12:24:48 GMT -5
I think the screenplay was based on some gooey romance novel called Angel of the City, and Brigitte Nielsen's character in Cobra was more the focus of the book, wheras Sly made the secondary hero-stud-romancer character the star in the screenplay and retitled it.
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Post by thebumfromthedark on Oct 29, 2007 13:06:02 GMT -5
^^Quoted for truth...
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Post by kent on Jan 4, 2008 14:10:53 GMT -5
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) - but it does sound like a typical, cheese infested Sly action flick! ;D 
