Back when I was seven or eight, this was the film that I wanted to see more than anything.
I would see the film on bus stops around my home city with Sylvester Stallone, matchstick in mouth, holding a lazer gun (I was a kid Goddammit!) and with a pistol - bearing a cobra emblem on the handle.
The poster didn't just look bad ass, it was B-A-D A-S-S.
I wanted to see this film so bad.
When I visited my American relatives who were based on an air force base in Germany, the first meeting I had with my cousin involved me asking him about this movie.
My uncle and aunt introduced us and, as a way to break the ice, they asked him to take me to the bookcase that was in the corner of the living room where a library of films not yet released in the UK stood waiting for me.
'Have you got Cobra!?'
They didn't.
Three weeks later, on the evening before I departed for home, my cousin told me that he thought I was cool (well, I don't know if he termed it that way but it was positive feedback) however, he did say he thought I wouldn't be as the first impression of me being overly keen on seeing Cobra.
To cut this long story by an inch, I did get to see the film.
It took twenty-six years, though.
I was doing online shopping a week ago and noticed that there was a 2 for £12 offer on Blu-ray movies. I looked through the list of titles and Cobra was there. I bought it.
It was what you would expect from a Sylvester Stallone 1980's action movie - one liners, guns, explosions and car chases.
It also had a brilliant 80's soundtrack that really put it in its place as being something that wouldn't fly in 2013.
I refuse to say I hated it because I know for a fact that there is a young boy out there in another timeline who would have loved it.
Trivia note -I titled today's post 'The Real Beverly Hills Cop' because Cobra was spawned from the original script to Beverly Hills Cop.
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