# Movie: Motorcycles coming out of C130

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**Created:** [June 8, 2017, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-motorcycles-coming-out-of-c130/788453 "2017-06-08T20:15:41Z")\
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Yes, another “What was this…” thread.

I remember seeing this movie around 90 (I’m guessing it was an 80s-era action movie) and my Google Fu is failing me but I do remember these scenes very distinctly:

1. Mercenaries of some sort who drove their motorcycles out of the open tailgate of an in-the-air C130. They were parachuting into a jungle and several of them got their bikes hung up in trees.

2. An “old school” soldier who was always singing the “[We pull upon the risers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzs90IdCJV8)” song except he had some nastier lyrics. I remember one line involved shoving a knife up the Second Louie’s ass.

If I am misremembering this movie correctly, there was a young girl who was kidnapped and the old soldier was in the group who rescued her. I think the girl was the daughter of a politician or something along those lines.

Does any of this ring a bell?

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**Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-motorcycles-coming-out-of-c130/788453/2 "2017-06-09T12:45:29Z")

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Was it **Megaforce**?

It starred Barry Bostwick (Brad!) and is the only other film I saw Persis Khambatta in. It is wonderfully awful, but supposedly the stuntmen working on the film loved it, because the motorcycles and the weird vehicles built for the film were very “practical”.

It came out in 1982

> **[Megaforce](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaforce)**
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> Megaforce (or MegaForce) is a 1982 action film directed by former stuntman Hal Needham and written by James Whittaker, Albert S. Ruddy, Hal Needham and André Morgan based on a story by Robert S. Kachler. The film starred Barry Bostwick, Persis Khambatta, Michael Beck, Edward Mulhare, George Furth, Evan C. Kim, Ralph Wilcox, Robert Fuller and Henry Silva. The film was poorly received by critics, bombed at the box office and was nominated for three Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture...

> **[Megaforce (1982) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084316/)**
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> Megaforce: Directed by Hal Needham. With Barry Bostwick, Michael Beck, Persis Khambatta, Edward Mulhare. Story about a rapid deployment defense unit that is called into action whenever freedom is threatened.

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**Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-motorcycles-coming-out-of-c130/788453/3 "2017-06-09T13:03:47Z")

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Gads no, though I appreciate the Megaforce scene where Bostwick’s character flies his motorcycle into the C130:

The movie that I am thinking of is quite a bit more serious than Megaforce.