One of the best "so bad its good" movies I've seen in a while.
I really enjoy that Cobra diet shames his partner and the love interest. Sylvester, the actor, can't help but put his own obsession with diet into the movie, and its hilarious that it bleeds thru to the character. Kept waiting for Cobra to look at the camera and tell us to eat more veggies, or go on Keto.
The movie is basically proto "Judge Dredd," which is just proto "The Punisher." As in "Cops are the good guys, but they need more violence and killing to actually be effective against the Evil gangs, murderers, and terrorist that want to kill innocents."
It's depressing how many people think this, but also how made up their view of reality is. MS13, Terrorist, Antifa, the homeless, burglars and thieves are all just minutes away from murdering you, kidnapping your kids, stealing everything you own, etc.
The mirror image of this movie for the left is so comically impossible to imagine existing. A cool, sexy trans person Labor organizer, with a match in their lips in case they need to start a fire later has to go around killing cartoonishly evil landlords (like, sweaty gross people with a cigar banging on poor, photogenic tenants doors demanding rent with a 10% increase) while flirting with the impossible attractive whistle blowing journalist. Throw in a scene where they dom a cop and maybe a cool break dancing montage. By the end, the main character has single handed freed an entire city from the grips of landlords and everyone lives happily ever after. Sets up the sequel with Pay Day Loans.
edit: actually the steamy main character would have organized and educated a whole city to defend themselves against the evil landlords, but would have to kill the big baddy landlord themselves in the climax
A cool, sexy trans person Labor organizer, with a match in their lips in case they need to start a fire later has to go around killing cartoonishly evil landlords (like, sweaty gross people with a cigar banging on poor, photogenic tenants doors demanding rent with a 10% increase) while flirting with the impossible attractive whistle blowing journalist. Throw in a scene where they dom a cop and maybe a cool break dancing montage.
Keep going, god I'm almost there
there's a whole extended scene where the main character, who has an amazing ass, showers and explains the labor theory of value, then makes a dope free throw after buying an unhoused person some food
Also the chase scene is really good, and my theory is that Sylvester handed off the entire scene to someone with actual experience and expertise with chase scenes and stunts to the point that it doesn't even feel like its the same movie
the movie is good (by being so bad) and worth watching. its a window into Sylvester's twenty-somethings brain. plus, its barely an hour, so its a easy watch. I followed it up with 'Hardcore Henry,' which is like 2 hours and change and, while similarly a great window into a certain sort of persons brain, really drags by the end.
was trying to joke that your title meant you and Stallone sat and watched his movie together
My favorite part is when the gang of axe murderers all hang out together in an abandoned warehouse and bang their axes together in unison with blank expressions on their faces
During shooting of the movie, they obviously only did one day of shooting of that scene, because the same clips of it are used during the beginning and end of the movie. But because so much time had passed in movie, it feels like it's another gang of axe murderers MeetUps. But theres a extra that had on a goofy suit and tie, being an axe murderer, that you notice him both times. So it strongly implies, to stoned me at least, that the gang members have assigned standing spots during the axe banging bits of the meetings
Sounds terrible and definitely not up my alley. I'll watch it to warn the others
Oooh, right. Was trying to remember where in the plot that happened, but it didn't happen in the plot
Stallone has some gems out there.
I highly recommend Cop Land. That movie was made in the 90s when his career was on a down turn and he was desperately trying to prove he could still act. It has a bunch of Sopranos and mob film actors, as the movie is set in New Jersey and is about a small town where all the NYPD police officers come to live. Stallone is this sheriff of the small town and the NYC cops who are living there outside their jurisdiction see Stallone as someone they can easily manipulate and he will turn to look the other way from their corruption.
That movie gets into the 'blue code' and how cops will protect each other, but also how city cops accurately build "cop towns" out in the rural areas and small towns. They will buy homes outside of the city they work and basically do a white flight, and that small town becomes a cop land for them. The people who just so happen to live in these cop towns are scared shitless.
Over The Top is, well, over the top. Very stupid yet entertaining. It's about a truck driver who competes in an arm wrestling championship and is trying to get custody of his son
I like to point at the screen and say "look! It's Garak from Deep Space Nine" because I am a baby brain who poisoned themselves with Star Trek.
But yeah, excellent movie. My two favourite things are his shitty 1950s looking car with his AWSOM 50 plate which you just know Stallone thinks is the coolest thing ever, and the fact that Cobra cannot stop picking things up and touching stuff. He is constantly playing with something. There's a whole scene where he's just sort of fucking around at a market stall full of Bric-a-brac like he's a child.
The movie becomes that much funnier when you realise that the character truly is just a moron with the mind of a child. He literally does stuff that a child would think is cool.
How Did This Get Made did a podcast about this movie years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rawRgu809Ng
