Cobra

Well, it seems that I am falling back into the habit of not posting.

So anyway, I was cleaning my house for some houseguests on Saturday (Krissy's family coming over to go through some of her things). and I turned on the TV for some noise while I was cleaning. On Spike TV there was a mid to late 80s film called "Cobra" This film was clearly made during the height of the Stallone/Schwarzenaggar action film era. It had all the cliches. The beautiful damsel being hunted by the highly organized crew of killers. The police lieutenant on his case, the big shootout at the end, even ending in a factory/foundry.

Now let's get to the unreal part of the movie, basically, all of it. Some psycho killer just happens to have an entire army of killers at his disposal, how or why is never explained. Sylvester Stallone wiping all of them out, without getting a single scratch, bruise or blemish. Everytime Stallone shoots, a bad guy dies. When the bad guys shoot they miss by a mile. Stallone flips his car, and come out of it without any harm. The star of the movie gets to lay the beautiful damsel in distress.

In one scene, they make this big deal of Stallone putting his gun together with all the clicks, snaps, pings etc, making tons of noise. Then he turns his head and notices that the beautiful damsel is awake and he actually asks the question, "Can't sleep". DUH! You just spent the last 20 minutes assembling a gun as noisily as anything possible.

Don't ask me why I kept watching this film. It must have been some curiousity at a really bad action film. Cause is just doesn't make any sense. Now granted, when I was younger, the lack of a real plot and the unrealistic BS that occurs in this film would have been quite entertaining. But now that I am older and prefer good movies...well this film just totally sucked.

It did have one redeeming quality though. The bad guy was Brian Thompson (who vaguely resembles Arnold Schwarzeneggar) who has appeared numerous times in Star Trek. And Andrew Robinson (DS9's Garak) was a police detective that gives Stallone a lot of grief.

The Geek strikes again! And I can honestly say that if I ever see this movie on the TV again I will instantaneously change the channel.