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post #1 of 43
5/9/09 at 8:44am
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Stallone and Kurt together. Need I say more.
How could anyone not love this combination together?

1) "Rambo is a pussy."
2) "Ah...I don't think theres a golf course in here."
3) "Hey look! Its Conan!"

One of the last great buddy cop movies ever. Loved the prison sequences.
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post #2 of 43
5/9/09 at 1:53pm
Never been able to finish it, just can't do it.
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post #3 of 43
5/9/09 at 1:56pm
Tango & Cash is a fabulous adventure that I can watch at any time and enjoy it. The only thing I don't like is that stretch of the movie starting with Kurt in drag and ending with Teri Hatcher's suggestive massage on the couch. That section is such a drag and I always fast forward. But then it kicks into high gear again when they assault Perret's compound with their souped-up SUV/Tank. I like the villains too, but I wish Marc "They're all CONNECTED!" Alaimo (Total Recall) had more screentime. He's supposed to be a equal member of the evil cabal and he just steps into frame and gets shot and killed basically. Such a waste.
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post #4 of 43
5/9/09 at 1:59pm
As much as I love watching Kurt and Sly together, it's really Palance who helps keep the film riveting upon repeat viewings. So dastardly.
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post #5 of 43
5/9/09 at 2:16pm
I like how Palance has a little maze in his office that he can stick a pair of rats in to provide a visual metaphor for what he plans to do with Tango and Cash. Any villain worth his mettle should be able to show, not tell.
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post #6 of 43
5/9/09 at 3:07pm
I was just watching my Blu-ray copy AGAIN last night. This really is one of the last great buddy cop flicks as felix mentioned. It's so insane, yet still grounded in reality. Especially when Perret has all his trucks with machine guns on them come out, and then that friggin' monster truck.

When I saw this movie as a 6 year old off a tape my brother made of it from HBO I thought it was one of the greatest things ever. Then I saw that end sequence and knew it was one of the greatest things ever.

Gotta give an applause for Brion James too. He really works as Requin. Even though his accent isn't really working, it's still awesome to hear him say "You fucking wanker!"
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post #7 of 43
5/9/09 at 3:21pm
I love the newspaper shot at the end, with the headline that reads "Ask not what the critics say!" Indeed!
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post #8 of 43
5/11/09 at 3:11am
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Originally Posted by Rene (Mr.Eko) View Post
It's so insane, yet still grounded in reality.
Grounded in reality? Care to explain?
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post #9 of 43
5/11/09 at 7:15am
Great movie. Nothing beats Plan B
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post #10 of 43
5/24/09 at 5:19am
Oh ghud I just saw this at a midnight movie two weeks ago. It kicked ass. The Kirk Russell in drag doesn't bother me as this is one of my milder fetishes in film. Oh and yes why don't they give Mark Alaimo much screentime? I had a great time meeting him at a Star Trek convention back in the 90's. His Gul Dukat character on Deep Space Nine was one of my favorites. Anyway I'm glad I got to finally see this on the big screen. It was worth the wait.
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post #11 of 43
8/22/09 at 11:30am
This is really a superhero teamup movie disguised as a buddy cop movie. Since when do individual cops end up on the front page every day like celebrities? Throw in the James bond gadgets and this movie is retarded awesome.
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post #12 of 43
8/22/09 at 2:29pm
How many times have you watched your Blu-ray, Rene? I haven't even BOUGHT it yet! But I will be eventually... Also, you saw it when you were 6? Damn, and I was still trapped on obsessing over Problem Child and Clifford, though I loved Batman Returns and The Naked Gun at that age.

Yeah, nothing but great for Tango & Cash. What does The Man do when he fucks over John Rambo and Snake Plissken? HE GETS FUCKED BACK A LOT FUCKIN' HARDER!!!! And Jack Palance chews scenery like it's no one's business. Super hot Teri Hatcher. Robert "Matt Cordell" Z'Dar! Outback Brion James gets a grenade to the cock! James Bond gadgets! Oil tankers filled with coke! Rambo's a pussy!

Yeah, this movie is nothing but great.
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post #13 of 43
8/22/09 at 3:17pm
Love this movie. Didn't know it was on blu ray, gotta pick that up now! I remember seeing this in the theater when it first came out and being amazed at how bad ass it was... I wanted that SUV, it also made no sense at the time there would be an MI6 Q type guy working for the LA PD.

Reminding me of this makes me sad Kurt isn't going to be in the Expendables.
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post #14 of 43
8/22/09 at 3:30pm
Yeah Hunter, I saw it at 6 and immediately realized it was one of the greatest things ever. I honestly can't count how many times I saw that vhs of it my brother recorded for us off of HBO. That and Extreme Prejudice was another he recorded for us and sent to us by mail. Yeah, I've been involved in B-Action since I was a kid. Big thanks to my parents!

I've seen the Blu-ray at least twice. It's a damn great deal for $14.99. No extras sadly. I really wish there was a Stallone/Russell commentary. That would have been gold.

To answer Crazy Jim, yeah, it's insane by flying off the hook at the end with the RV from hell and all the trucks with mounted machine guns at the airfield (can't NOT love that entire sequence) but it's reality based at least to me anyway, because the big bad guy isn't some archvillain out to conquer the world. He just want's to take out Tango&Cash because they are making him lose money.
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post #15 of 43
8/22/09 at 7:45pm
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"You're looking awlfully Anemic. I think what you need is some...iron."

Love that line.
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post #16 of 43
8/23/09 at 3:59am
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His Gul Dukat character on Deep Space Nine was one of my favorites.

THANK YOU. That has always bugged me watching DS9.
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post #17 of 43
8/23/09 at 10:05pm
Echo all the sentiments... PLUS... love the main music theme. Let's do it!
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post #18 of 43
8/24/09 at 11:31am
Once upon a time a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of mine asked Edgar Wright while watching Hot Fuzz alongside him if he'd cribbed from this movie that shot of Pegg & Frost running away from that ticking seamine in the farmer's cabin.

"Uh... no", he replied.

LIAR!!!

Another gem from the last movie my grandma ever watched theatrically:

-"Fuck you."
-"I prefer blondes."
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post #19 of 43
8/25/09 at 11:11am
Does anybody else find that Stallone watches his sister longer than necessary when she's giving Kurt a massage? She's making all these grinding movements and mewing noises and all he does is adjust his glasses?

Something very strange about that family.
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post #20 of 43
7/2/10 at 1:57am
I just watched this movie on instant netflix. It felt like it was written by a twelve-year-old me. It was one big cartoon. One big glorious cartoon that is. I was amazed by the amount of penis jokes Russell and Stallone make throughout it.
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post #21 of 43
7/2/10 at 2:13am
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Echo all the sentiments... PLUS... love the main music theme. Let's do it!
No disrespect to Axel F, but TANGO & CASH is Faltermeyer's best work. Just a pleasure for the ears.
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post #22 of 43
7/2/10 at 11:56am
Kurt's mullet in this movie is basically its own character. I hated this movie the first time I saw it but its uber-cheesiness has grown on me. It really is a big, dumb, extremely homo-erotic cartoon. It may be the gayest 80s movie since Top Gun.
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post #23 of 43
7/2/10 at 1:00pm
Maybe it's just a sign that I'm not too much of an action movie fan, but I think almost every great action movie is equal parts action and comedy. Tango & Cash is a very funny movie and good reminder of why Stallone was a movie star. Mumble mouth or not, he's so effortlessly charismatic and funny in this.
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post #24 of 43
7/2/10 at 1:24pm
Rambo...is a pussy.

Love how Tango and Cash are basically notorious superheroes, complete with gadgets and a Secret Society of Supervillains plotting against them.

Plus young Teri Hatcher as a stripper.
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post #25 of 43
7/2/10 at 2:00pm
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Plus young Teri Hatcher as a stripper.
Kind of.
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post #26 of 43
7/2/10 at 2:03pm
Some sort of dancer, right? It's been a while. I do remember a wailing sax.
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post #27 of 43
7/2/10 at 2:09pm
Ive just realized I dont own this, and must correct it inmediatly.
Also, count me in for the love for its insane final action sequence...if i remember right, the last location even had dirt ramps for the truck to jump!
Just cause it would be cool, right.
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post #28 of 43
7/2/10 at 3:01pm
Love it, it's almost insultingly stupid but it's so much fun and charming that I don't care. Stallone looks like the most unconvincing yuppie ever, just realised that Will Smith in BAD BOYS is a bit of a rip off.

It also has the best 80's action movie trademark - a young couple screwing being interrupted by a shoot out/action scene resulting in a quick flash of awesome 80's tan-line tits.
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post #29 of 43
7/2/10 at 3:10pm
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No disrespect to Axel F, but TANGO & CASH is Faltermeyer's best work. Just a pleasure for the ears.
No dice, Molt.

Faltermeyer's best is Fletch.
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post #30 of 43
7/2/10 at 3:14pm
Yeah, I'll never forget that time in the shower.

I have nothing but love for this ridiculously fun romp. Russell and Stallone are pure magic, and I actually dig Sly's performance a wee bit more than Kurt's. This is one of my sentimental favorites in my collection.
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post #31 of 43
7/2/10 at 3:36pm
It's a known fact that EVERY action movie in the very late 80s had an obligatory monster truck show up.
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post #32 of 43
7/2/10 at 3:43pm
I've never seen more sexual tension between too leads in my life.

Wade and Dalton in Roadhouse runs a close second.

Bodhi and Johnny Utah for third.
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post #33 of 43
7/2/10 at 3:46pm
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I've never seen more sexual tension between too leads in my life.

Wade and Dalton in Roadhouse runs a close second.

Bodhi and Johnny Utah for third.
Im amazed they didnt do the rope slide getaway together at the same time.

Also, you left out Speedway squad! of that list.
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post #34 of 43
7/2/10 at 5:13pm
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Some sort of dancer, right? It's been a while. I do remember a wailing sax.
Pole Dancer, Bart. Pole Dancer.
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post #35 of 43
7/2/10 at 9:55pm
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It also has the best 80's action movie trademark - a young couple screwing being interrupted by a shoot out/action scene resulting in a quick flash of awesome 80's tan-line tits.
My favorite example of this is Arnold and Bill Duke going through the wall of the hotel room in Commando.
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post #36 of 43
7/2/10 at 10:10pm
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No disrespect to Axel F, but TANGO & CASH is Faltermeyer's best work. Just a pleasure for the ears.
Agreed. Tango & Cash has a wider variety of HEART PUMPING SYNTH tracks than any of Harry's other movies. Fletch has a really good main theme and that's about it.
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post #37 of 43
7/2/10 at 10:13pm
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My favorite example of this is Arnold and Bill Duke going through the wall of the hotel room in Commando.

The one thing I never really paid attention to in this scene, because I was too preoccupied with seeing big tits, is the fact that the girl is BEHIND the guy.
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post #38 of 43
7/7/10 at 3:18pm
I dropped the soap ... and don't flatter yourself.
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post #39 of 43
7/25/10 at 3:03pm
I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who loves Tango and Cash. I haven't watched it in a while, but I watched it a lot back in the day. Jack Palance was on a roll as a villain in late-'80s movies with Tango and Cash, Batman, and Young Guns.
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post #40 of 43
7/25/10 at 3:30pm
Totally agree that Palance owns this movie, but Russell is a close second.
One of the finest 80's action movies without a doubt.
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post #41 of 43
7/25/10 at 6:12pm
I watched this in its entirety for the first time last week, and had been under the impression it was gritty. It was not.

It was fun, but without nostalgia I was left wishing there was more Russell solo. He's always compelling as a badass or a smartass, while Stallone is just more funny through violence (Rambo II, that last Rambo). The best thing was the sheer economy of sitting Jack Palance in a room full of TVs for a day, having him overact with various props, and boom, there's your villain. I've never seen Plan 9 but I feel this is something like what Wood did with Lugosi.

Faltermeyer sounds like he recycles the Fletch theme during the prison escape.
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post #42 of 43
7/26/10 at 5:54am
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No dice, Molt.

Faltermeyer's best is Fletch.
You're both wrong. It's Kuffs.

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Originally Posted by Rene (Mr.Eko) View Post
To answer Crazy Jim, yeah, it's insane by flying off the hook at the end with the RV from hell and all the trucks with mounted machine guns at the airfield (can't NOT love that entire sequence) but it's reality based at least to me anyway, because the big bad guy isn't some archvillain out to conquer the world. He just want's to take out Tango&Cash because they are making him lose money.
Little late to the game on this response but I've always felt that the strength of Tango & Cash was that it wasn't reality-based at all and understood that. Antagonists in buddy or solo cop films are hardly ever the "hell bent on world domination" type. I think from the moment we see Palance, it's clear that we're getting the cigarette-smoking sinister guy in a business suit prototype we've come to love in nearly every Joel Silver movie. I just can't see "reality-based". I think this movie is borderline buddy cop parody, like maybe a step away from the fantasy "Jack Slater IV." world of Last Action Hero.

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I've never seen Plan 9 but I feel this is something like what Wood did with Lugosi.
You'd be incorrect. At least in the case of Plan 9, which was put together after Lugosi's death by shoehorning footage they'd filmed for another project and connected through the use of an unconvincing double. Though Wood tried similar tricks with a living Lugosi in two of his other films - Glen Or Glenda? and Bride of the Monster.
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post #43 of 43
7/26/10 at 6:08am
I'll give you that much on the borderline parody stuff, Jim. Palance does ham it up awesomely, and no police station in the real world would have a James Bond-esque weapons division.

I still think Palance is at least partially reality based, but barely. It really is way out there, and that just adds to the insane magic.
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