Lines uttered by Arnold Schwarzenegger (as John Matrix) in "Commando"

You're a funny man, Sully, I like you. That's why I'm going to kill you last.

Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last? I lied. [Matrix releases Sully, who falls to his demise]

Cindy: What happened to Sully?
Matrix: I let him go.

I eat Green Berets for breakfast. And right now, I'm very hungry!

[Cooke aims a gun at Matrix]
Cooke: Fuck you, asshole!
[Cooke squeezes the trigger, but the gun clicks empty] Matrix: Fuck *you*, asshole.

Gen. Kirby: Leave anything for us? Matrix: Just bodies.

[reading about Boy George in a pop magazine] Why don't they just call him Girl George? It would cut down on the confusion.

Ha Ha. You know when I was a boy and rock'n'roll came to East Germany, the communists said it was subversive. [thinks and smiles] Maybe they were right.

Matrix: Don't break radio silence until they see me.
Cindy: How will I know?
Matrix: Because all fucking hell is going to break loose.

[after killing a man in the plane] Don't disturb my friend, he's dead tired.

u forgot the the most unintentionally overtly homoerotic fight scene in action cinema!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj1L94hM8eY

FWIW, Arnie vs. David Patrick Kelly, obv.

I've always been an "I let him go" guy.

Also, when I first saw this at the theater, the film melted part way through. First time I ever saw that happen!

Gotta go w/ "I let him go" for awesome proto-McBain moron wisecrack shit, but thread also needs "why don't you let off some steam" or whatever from the ending

Arnie escaping from the plane that's just taken off is probably the best thing he ever did in any of his films

I take poops bigger than you. And right now, I'm pretty constipated!

The one answer per line poll layout has pwnd your poll :-(

yeah:-(

but thread also needs "why don't you let off some steam" or whatever from the ending

― EMPIRE STATE HYMEN (MPx4A), Friday, June 5, 2009 10:10 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

*slaps forehead* d'oh!

[Cooke aims a gun at Matrix]

classic line

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-tRErs5UcI

The 'Boy George morelike Girl George amirite?' line.

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I was bummed when I realized how many people I've told I'd kill them last, until I realized this means I'll get to say "I lied" all but one.

Matrix: Keep an eye out, they'll be coming. You're downwind, the air currents might tip them off
Jackson: Downwind?
[looks at Matrix like he's crazy]
Jackson: You think I could smell them coming?
Matrix: I did.

i missed some good ones:-/

really feel like a schmuck for not putting "let off some steam, Bennett"

Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last? I lied.

(How awesome that line sounded when I was ten)

it's like, 20X awesome-r now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd1kzNBt4f4

JOHN MATRIX.

and yes, that David Patrick Kelly character looks like he should be a bartender at a small town gay bar.

[Cooke squeezes the trigger, but the gun clicks empty] Matrix: Fuck *you*, asshole.

i can hear this in my head so clearly. matrix for president.

also the ridiculous way Sully says "you fucken whoooore" to that woman who rejects him

'Don't disturb my friend, he's dead tired.'.

last time i saw commando, i realised that there's zero sense of a knowing wink when he delivers this line. it's soooo cold. it's like he forgot he wasn't the t-800 for that scene.

Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last? I lied. [Matrix releases Sully, who falls to his demise]

This, because it's not even a quip. It's just fucking cold.

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It is awesome how lame the Vernon Wells villain is in this movie, and also that a young Arnie has to act as if this comical, flabby armed Australian is dangerously close to overpowering him at several points

In The Warriors, David Patrick Kelly looks like a fucked up version of Russell Mael in the 70s, and in this film he looks like a fucked up version of Russell Mael in the 80s

http://www.deadline.com/2010/04/fox-to-remake-famed-schwarzenegger-pic/
EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Fox is going Commando again, setting David Ayer to write and direct a reboot of the 1985 film that became one of the building blocks that transformed Arnold Schwarzenegger from bodybuilder to superstar. Erwin Stoff and John Davis will produce the new version.

Ayer is the former Navy soldier who wrote Training Day and moved into directing with the dark dramas Harsh Times and Street Kings. He will put his own real-world spin on this original premise: a retired elite special forces operative sees his daughter kidnapped and is told she’ll die unless he gets on a plane and kills the rival of a nasty exiled dictator. In the original, Schwarzenegger jumped off the plane before takeoff, and killed everyone involved in the kidnap plot, in a real beefcake turn that followed Terminator. Ayer’s protagonist will be less brawny, but more skilled in covert tactics and weaponry. Hopefully the new version will hang onto some of the fun spirit of the original, the first of several film collaborations between Schwarzenegger and producer Joel Silver where they blew up everything in sight. Rae Dawn Chong played the flighty flight attendant who became the commando's reluctant accomplice, Dan Hedaya played the diabolical dictator, and a young Alyssa Milano played the kidnapped daughter.

It's the second big reboot of an Arnie action film for Fox. The studio has a July 9 release date on Predators, a new chapter of a franchise launched by Predator, the 1987 Schwarzenegger classic.

"He will put his own real-world spin on this original premise"

yes because what this movie needs is a "real-world spin"

EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Fox is going Commando again

this is exactly the kind of movie that in old school hollywood would be remade with a different title, only now the branding/franchise is so much more important than a popular, resonant plot structure.

I remove the windpipes of guys like you to relax! And right now, I feel a little stressed!

http://www.twitter.com/CptBennett
"let off some steam, Bennett!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FFQ_g8OoQM&feature=player_embedded

why did he tear the seat out of the convertible

-the flight attendant's lines made the movie feel like a GTA game
-commando is the blueprint for all first person shooters, isn't it? like if a first person shooter was filmed irl

-opening credits were totally awesome

-the mall is the most well-guarded mall in america, it had like 200 rent a cops

commando is so great

i wish i could see it again, for the first time

yeah on this rewatching the only part I remember from the time I watched it as a kid was the part where he's arming himself and camo-ing up, that was badass

when you think about it, arnie's life before his daughter gets kidnapped is kinda creepy - just him and his daughter hanging out in lone mountain house, nobody around for miles, arnie chopping some wood, feeding some deer

the free jazz soundtrack was p cool too

some friends of mine created a 16 page fanzine based entirely on the "Beach Scene" where Arnie tools up prior to destroying all the bad guys.