who saw this in 1986

I saw it as a midnight feature when it first premiered in Scottsdale, AZ with a few of my High School buddies in '86.

I saw this film in the theater when it first came out with my mom, younger brother, and older sister.

I've been chasing grace/ But grace ain't easy to find

I graduated HS in '86, I saw this that summer in a 2nd run theater...because I pretty much saw ALL my movies in a local 2nd run theater in those days.

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Saw it during my senior year at high school.

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Wow.....I remember watching this movie way back in '86 when I was in Jr high. If I remember correctly, I saw it at the Mann Theater at the Old Town Mall in Torrance, CA on Hawthorne Blvd. Even as a kid, I recognized the cheesy and questionable quality of this film. I still recall that the audience gasped when Cobra wrecked his cool Mercury car.


~It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: The music is nothing if the audience is deaf.~

In '87 when I was 12, my next-door neighbor, Bill, 22, had a VCR, and after lots of hounding him, I finally got to rent and watch Rocky IV at his house, which I'd been wanting to see since it came out in '85. About a week later I was hanging out at his house and his girlfriend (and future wife), Mary, came home from the store with two movies that she thought I'd like, which was a surprise; I had no idea she was going to rent movies and neither did Bill. The two movies were Cobra and Ninja III: The Domination.

She rented Cobra because she knew how much I liked the Rocky movies and figured I'd like any Stallone movie. I was a bit skeptical because I didn't really like the idea of Stallone in a non-Rocky role, but I ended up loving the movie. I thought Ninja III was awesome too, though not as good as Cobra.

In hindsight, both movies are cheesy, but I don't care. I own them both on Blu-ray and watching them on an HD projector and 100" screen from 10' away is just as good as seeing them in a theater; better actually, because I don't have to deal with the crap that goes along with going to a theater.

I saw it at the movies, back in 1986.