Cobra

Cobra (1986), directed by George P. Cosmatos, Shout! Factory remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including 5.1 track from the 70mm theatrical release, original theatrical Ultra Stereo, director's commentary track, Rifftrax, and subtitles in 23 languages.

IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090859/

Video encoded in two-pass 11.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available.

Subtitles in various formats converted and repositioned as appropriate. Some of these were already fairly low quality VobSub, and I've left those as they were.

Note : It's establishment crypto-fascist vs. revolutionary neo-fascists in this peak 80s action trash, which of course features Sylvester Stallone, Brigitte Nielsen, and an constantly sweaty Brian Thompson, as well as the dad from Hellraiser for some reason, but we all know the real star of the show is that fucking mall ninja knife. The quips are moronic, the violence incredibly fetishistic, everyone is ridiculously committed to the bit, acting intensity is off the scales, and the ending in a stereotypical 80s abandoned flame factory is sadistic and extreme. Cocaine, people, this is what it hath wrought.

Marion "Cobra" Cobretti (yea) is a renegade cop who doesn't play by the rules, man, and that's good, because he's about to come up against an underground gang of neofascist thugs who murder people at random, except when they get really fixated on the leggy blonde who's just Cobra's type. Chief Social Darwinist perspirator "The Night Slasher" is out for blood, and Cobra has to skip town with the girl and save the day, but not before murdering the shit out of an enormous amount of people, using standard LAPD weapons and methods like hand grenades, machine pistols with ridiculously large laser sights, and setting people on fire intentionally.

This remaster is pretty nice looking, I applied a very slight degrain to take down the mildly peaky grain, but otherwise it's nice and sharp, but not oversharpened. Both the 5.1 track and the stereo sound good, the commentary track is a bit underwhelming, with the director mumbling his way through, and the Rifftrax is very good on this one.

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