Cobra The Rewatchables
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Most Rewatchable Scene

Supermarket shootout

In the discussion (16)
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  • The supermarket scene is floated as a pick: a genuinely scary gunman, slow motion reportedly used to avoid an X rating, and Cobra arriving with his match toothpick, unafraid.
  • He navigates the aisles in huge heeled boots, and his mumbled lines ("go ahead, I don't shop here", the disease and the cure) needed subtitles; it ends with a knife throw and a cowboy finish and is called a really good action scene.
  • Product placement runs through the shootout: Pepsi Free and Coors Light logos, a warm Coors Banquet slurped, and a Toys R Us commercial; product placement is floated for Apex Mountain.
  • Crew can be seen in his sunglasses; outside, everyone is furious at him, and a TV reporter asks about brute force until he lifts the body blanket, a First Blood callback.
  • A Heat aside imagines a reporter asking Vincent Hanna whether Seismore really needed to die.
  • At his beachfront apartment he moves guys parked in the wrong spot, rips off his tank top to reveal a taped microphone shown three times, and cuts frozen pizza with scissors into Dorito-sized pieces, taking the toothpick out to eat; nobody said no.
  • Serial-killer cult scenes: Brigitte drives past a murder and is followed; the Night Slasher's stocking mask is terrifying compared with Michael Myers or Jason.
  • The hospital attack works: the van rams the elevator, and the empty hospital with cloth partitions is borrowed from Halloween II and Silent Rage.
  • The downtown LA car chase with the 1950-something car is 'dollar store Ronan' with continuity jumps, and the chaser and chased switch midway; still it works.
  • The diner scene is terribly written: Brigitte drowns her fries in ketchup and he asks if she has a life preserver.
  • Asked whether the giant cheeseburger was scripted or found on set, the answer is 100% ad lib. — Bill Simmons
  • In the final shootout nobody suspects the evil female cop who calls the Night Slasher from six feet away; it ends in a fire-and-meat-hook factory, the standard action finale of the era, like Schwarzenegger fighting Bennett amid steam and fire, and Terminator 2.
  • The Night Slasher has no backstory, only 'I want your eyes, pig' and a we-are-the-future manifesto; the finale has 'this is where the law stops and I start', a meat-hook death and the match lit for a gasoline-soaked killer.
  • Asked for the most rewatchable scene, the answer is the grocery store scene: nightmarish yet funny.
  • Another pick is the first 15 minutes: the supermarket, the aftermath and the scissors pizza.
  • Made to choose between the apartment pizza scene and the grocery scene, the grocery scene is the best scene. — Bill Simmons