![]() ![]() He is also a fighting machine that will not stop until his objective is complete.”ĭe Souza: “One morning I walked into Arnold’s house for a script meeting and heard this noise: “Mi-mi-mi-mi-maaaaaa!” He was taking a singing lesson. I had only done Conan and Terminator, but now I got to play a gentle, loving father. I do this picture.”Īrnold Schwarzenegger (‘John Matrix’): “Commando was a big step forward for me. I’m not a robot from the future or caveman from the past. Then he stood up and said, ‘I like this part. I quickly went, ‘Hey, I do all the greats… Want to hear my Cary Grant?’ He laughed. Then I got to the bit where Matrix says, ‘Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last? I lied’, and I realised I’d accidentally slipped into my cocktail-party impression of him. Then I drove to his house and acted it out for him. Not the movie they made!”ĭe Souza: “I revamped the story to suit Arnold’s bigger-than-life persona. **Joseph Loeb III (writer, original draft): **“Our story was about an Israeli soldier who has turned his back on violence. If you find a movie for him that can be done for under $12 million, I’ll greenlight it immediately.’ We did a marathon reading session of every action script on the lot and decided that Commando, by the guys who’d written Teen Wolf, was the one.” His first day on the job, he said, ‘This guy Schwarzenegger is a phenomenon. Steven de Souza (screenwriter): “Barry Diller had just become head of 20th Century Fox. Mark Lester (director): “It’s the granddaddy of action films as we know them today. Once you’ve gone* Commando*, there’s no going back.* "You're a funny guy, Sully. There are ludicrous villains, glaring continuity errors, saxophone riffs on the score and a wildly inappropriate power ballad at the end, featuring the lyric, “I am a mountain, surrounded by your love.” It’s the most pleasurable of guilty pleasures, and today still commands a legion of devoted fans. He can carry an entire tree on his shoulder, pick up a phone booth with a person inside it, and jump off planes in mid-air without getting a scratch. How supremely daft is Commando*? Well, the hero is called John Matrix. Instead, lightning struck and the silliest, most relentlessly entertaining action epic in history was created. ![]() A 1985 vehicle for up-and-coming star Arnold Schwarzenegger, it could have been just another mindless B-flick. SNJ025 currently retails on Seiko’s website for $525 USD but you can find them for around $375 on Macy’s website and Amazon.Your average cult movie is black-and-white, involves dwarves and/or talking rabbits, and isn’t much fun to watch on a Saturday night. The watch became associated with Schwarzenegger to the point that it was nicknamed the “Arnie.” Additionally, the watch was rereleased in 2019 with some minor updates. It was also engineered for the elements with the Seiko engineers testing it at -40c and up to +60c. This Seiko was the first dive watch to feature a digital alarm chronograph with combination analog display. In Predator Arnold wore a Seiko Solar Diver Ref. Schwarzenegger plays Major Al “Dutch" Schaefer leading the team of commandos that the Predators hunts. The film centered on a team of commandos being hunted by an alien (the Predator) in Central America. One of the first films in which Arnold is seen wearing a watch is the 1987 movie Predator. He has also been spotted wearing different timepieces in some of his movies over the years. Schwarzenegger’s wristwear has not been relegated only to his off-screen life. You can pick up a vintage 1970s Rolex GMT 1675 Root Beer on the secondary market for around $40,000 USD. 1675 “Root Beer.” This watch is 40mm and indeed looks pretty small on a young Arnold. One of the first watches I found a picture of Schwarzenegger wearing is the gold Rolex GMT Ref. This may be simply due to the fact that there weren’t that many very large watches made at the time (and they weren’t in style). The brand now appears to be defunct, but that hasn’t stopped Arnie from rocking a wide range of different timepieces.Įarly in his career, circa the late 1970s, Arnold’s watches seemed to be smaller in size. Schwarzenneger is a well-known watch collector, to the point were he started his own watch brand, released at Baselworld in 2015. I will take a look at the watches he’s worn throughout his career, as well as some of the pieces he wore in his movies. It only makes sense to now take a look at the watches of the Terminator himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger. I have gone through the collections of some of the prominent watch collecting celebrities, including Sylvester Stallone and Mark Wahlberg. ![]()
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