Talk:Commando (film)

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Contents 1 Page move 2 Freddy Mercury as Bennett? 3 New Catagory 4 (Too Many Parentheses) 5 What are those 2 cars.. 6 "Considered to be one of the best films of all time" 7 DVD Cover Copyright Issues

[edit] Page move

This page was moved from "Commando (movie)" to "Commando (film)" as per the naming convention set out at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (films) – Ianblair23 (talk) 06:17, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Freddy Mercury as Bennett?

Can anyone confirm this with a source? I've never heard this before, and it sounds made up. 24.57.203.238 04:51, 2 April 2006 (UTC) Haha very funny.Jayteecork 20:47, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Catagory

They should create a new catagory soley for this film called 'The Greatest Film Ever' : ) Modulus86 10:23, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

The article quibbles about the body count - it lists two very different figures. It would be interesting to go through the film on DVD and come up with a definitive breakdown of how many people Arnie kills. That would please me no end. There is a brief mention in Commando of Matrix being a kid in East Germany; I don't know how much backstory the writers came up with. Probably none. But that would be worth mentioning. The article also claims that the script for Commando II became Die Hard. But Die Hard was based on a novel by Roderick Thorpe. One of the screenwriters of Die Hard also worked on Commando and it would probably be better to say that elements of Commando II were folded into Die Hard, along with a source to attest this. -Ashley Pomeroy 20:27, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] (Too Many Parentheses)

This article is glutted with them.

[edit] What are those 2 cars..

In one particular chase scene between Sully, Matrix and Cindy, I need help identifying the two cars involved. I know one was a Porsche 911, but the other one I can't quite figure out. IIRC, it was a small, 2 seater open top sports car, along the lines of a Porsche 356 or a VW Karmann Ghia. Anyone know what this 2nd car was?

It's an Alpine Sunbeam Tiger (60's British) Did anyone pickup the 'goof' with Sully's Porche? At the end of the chase scene he flips iton it's side smashing the drivers door in. When Matrix and Cindy drive off in it the door and car are undamaged. TIG76.179.132.177 15:42, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm almost certain that it was on purpose.

[edit] "Considered to be one of the best films of all time"

Not only is this not NPOV, it's also a blatant lie added into the article by some fan of the movie.

The film has a 5.8/10 at IMDB, It has an average rating of 5.9/10 at Rotten Tomatoes (71%). The movie has never been listed in any serious film critic's top movies of all time list, nor has it won any awards. It is not considered one of the greatest films of all time by any measurable means.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.114.118.85 (talk) 19:49, 25 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] DVD Cover Copyright Issues

I have uploaded the scanned DVD cover several times, and it keeps getting deleted recently. I've chosen the "DVD Cover" option each time. Is there another option I should be selecting? I'm not trying to cause any trouble. I just don't understand why it keeps happening. I created this article several years ago, and the same cover was unaltered for a long time. Please tell me what I'm doing wrong. Thanks.