Word: cobras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Take the case of Marion Cobretti (Sylvester Stallone), already better known to readers of the movie ads as Cobra. A man of few grunts (and no beeps at all), he is a member of the Los Angeles police departmentment "zombie squad," which means that his specialty is wasting homicidal psychopaths without much ado about Fifth Amendment rights. In the present instance they are coming at him in serried ranks, all members of what seems to be a satanic religious cult, whose chief form of worship is serial killing. Ultimately their evil energy is focused on a model, played by Brigitte...
...Cobra's dispassion, his amoral languor when he is not squeezing off a few rounds (and even when he is), evokes not even queasy sympathy, much less rooting interest. One starts to study action-movie technique for want of anything to think about. And that's not good enough to keep the viewer going either. The best one can say for Cobra is that it is too dopey to pose any threat to the highest values of the republic. May the rest of the movie summer be similarly absent of malice...
...Righteous Brothers' songs performed by Bill Medley. After a twirl on the dance floor that left guests mesmerized, the couple dashed off for a one-day honeymoon at a Los Angeles hotel. Next morning Sly and "Gitte" were back at work on the set of their conjugal star vehicle, Cobra--an action movie, of course. Rocky and Rambo never did have much time for relationships...
...rooftop helipad. A Marine jerked the arm down smartly onto the broken glass, and as the Marines waited for their deliverance, they alternated between studying the sky to the southeast and raking arms across the glass to keep the Vietnamese at bay. A Chinook-46 escorted by six Cobra gunships came fluttering in from the sea. The Marines dropped canisters of tear gas onto the crowd below, and then they boarded their Chinook. But they had also gassed themselves. As Journalist David Butler writes in his new book The Fall of Saigon, "They forgot that a settling helicopter sucks...
...President threatened to declare a state of siege, and the national police's "Cobra" antiriot unit took up positions around the National Assembly and the Supreme Court in the capital of Tegucigalpa. Was the army about to take control again in Honduras, a U.S. ally that has been under a military dictatorship for all but three of the past 20 years? It was not, but President Roberto Suazo Cordova, who ordered the deployment of his security forces last week, nonetheless spoke of a "technical coup"--one carried out not by the army but by the legislature...