I watch Commando a few weeks ago. If there is one movie that can sum up the tendencies of most action films from the 80s, I feel that Commando could be that movie. Excessive violence? Check. Nudity (breasts) for no reason? Check. Synth heavy score? Check. Really terrible one-liners? Check. Moments out of left field? Check. The levels of ridiculousness in Commando is kind of beyond belief (in the opening credit Schwarzenegger and Alyssa Milino pet a wild fawn). But honestly, I'm glad I saw it. Because the score, by Oscar winner James Horner (he did Glory, Titanic, Apollo 13, and Braveheart), was so amazing. Commando might be the only action film with a score that feature both steel drums and pan flute. This movie was bananas but of a kind of good in a so bad it is good kind of way. The script is terrible with so many bad one-liners delivered by that great thespian Arnold Schwarzenegger. And the poor main bad guy has a physique like a regular 40-year old man (kind of chunky with a beer gut), and they dress him in leather pants, a chain mail sleeveless shirt, with a leather choker and then make the actor and Schwarzenegger contemporaries/members of the same special forces team (implying that one guy kept up his training and the other let himself go). Oh and Dan Hedya (who is of Syrian descent) is cast as a wannabe Central American dictator. Oh the 80s, you were adorable.
And here is part of the score for your listening pleasure:
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