In this episode of our 80s Icons series we are carving out time to talk about one of the foremost action heroes of the era, Arnold Schwarzenegger. And on this occasion we are discussing the 1985 Commando. Over the course of our sprawling and detailed debate you will hear us talk about how ridiculously quickly this movie came together, how one of its writers Steven de Souza wanted to show Arnold’s playful side and how the film ended up competing in the arena of on-screen violence with one of the year’s box office juggernauts, Rambo II. We also talk about Commando legitimizing Arnold’s one-liners, the idea of humanizing an outsized unit with superhuman abilities by putting normal people around him, the notion that Commando is clearly queer-coded when it comes to its villains and much more!

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