#george p. cosmatos

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Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday - Tombstone (1993)

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Cobra, Spanish lobby card. 1986 Submitted by @videorecord

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My birthday is a few days away.

(Of Unknown Origin, 1983, George P. Cosmatos)

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Cobra (1986) // Dir. George P. Cosmatos

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A truly inexplicable film.

George P. Cosmatos's Cobra (1986)

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COBRA, 1986 Directed by George P. Cosmatos

Starring Sylvester Stallone, Andy Robinson, Brigitte Nielsen, Brian Thompson

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4.22.24

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Tombstone (1993)

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Cobra, Spanish lobby card. 1986 Submitted by @videorecord

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Sylvester Stallone in Cobra (1986)

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Movie Review | Leviathan (Cosmatos, 1989)

This gets a big boost from its pretty great cast putting in good work across the board. You get Peter Weller as a boss who doesn’t put up with nonsense in the workplace, although I probably wouldn’t have given him that note to end on. You get Meg Foster giving sinister stares through the TV screen as the management representative you can totally trust to not fuck everybody over in the moment of crisis. You get Ernie Hudson, espousing the movie’s anti-capitalist, pro-labour message. (“Welcome to the union, boss. We’re all expendable.”) You get Hector Elizondo, who is worried about catching herpes. You get Daniel Stern, who embodies the concept of sexual harassment in the workplace. You get, uh, some English chick and the guy from that one episode of Miami Vice where Crockett hangs out with the community theatre group. (It’s not one of the better episodes.) You get Lisa Eilbacher, who I had hoped to see in the new Beverly Hills Cop, they should put her in the next one, and maybe bring back Theresa Randle too, she was one of the few good things in the third, and how they can explain it is that Lisa decided get married to Eddie and move back to Beverly Hills and start a family, but Eddie, sly dog that he is, also started a family with Theresa in Beverly Hills, and the way he juggles them is by pretending that Bogomil got shot so he’s gotta fly to Beverly Hills, just for the weekend, just week after week of Bogomil supposedly getting shot, until Lisa decides to visit Beverly Hills, and Eddie’s gotta put his fast talking skills to the test or worlds will collide! And you have last but not least Richard Crenna, who I sometimes find stodgy but is very good in this, getting the most depth out of any of the characters and also one of the best lines. (“Loosely translated: Don’t fuck with Mother Nature.”)

I haven’t seen The Abyss which came out around the same time and this was meant to cash in on, but this pretty transparently takes after Alien and The Thing. I don’t think George P. Cosmatos is as strong a craftsman or stylist as either Ridley Scott or John Carpenter, but considering he’s mostly known for having his name on movies ghost directed by their stars, I thought he did a pretty good job here, going through the tropes pretty convincingly, letting the actors get their moments even if not all of them have especially deep characters, letting the frequently gross special effects pop, and letting us soak in the bulky, clunky production design while showering us in steam and fire and other elements and serenading us with clanging sounds even when things aren’t goopy and gory. So this is a good time, although as I alluded above, I probably wouldn’t have picked that note to end on.

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Of Unknown Origin, 1983, George P. Cosmatos