commando – Around the World in 80s Movies Podcast

The Delta Force (1986)

September 14, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

Cannon Films and Golan-Globus productions push out this ultra-patriotic film in the middle of the 1980s whereby American elite commandos kick major butt when trying to secure the freedom of a plane full of hostages hijacked by a group of Lebanese terrorists. Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin head the super-soldiers to action on the hope […]

Commando (1985) | Mark L. Lester

September 8, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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In this onscreen persona-defining movie, Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Col. John Matrix, a highly-trained military special-ops expert whose unit was disbanded and now live under secret identities in retirement. Matrix spends his days as a single father taking care of his spirited young daughter, Jenny (Alyssa Milano), to whom he has promised not to go […]

Predator (1987) | John McTiernan

August 30, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Major “Dutch” Schaeffer, who, along with his crew of elite special ops commandos, is sent to the jungle of a hostile Latin American country on a covert hostage rescue mission. However, he soon finds out there’s more to the mission than he had originally been told by his old friend, Major […]