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Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2025 4:53 am Post subject:
Very difficult choice here, from these listed options. However, my favorite movie of his would have to be TrueLies. Apart from the usual Ahhnold bad-assery, Bill Paxton is comedy gold in this, and even Tom Arnold holds up surprisingly well. (And by this time, Schwarzenegger had figured out how to offer comedic charm as well.) Jamie Lee Curtis as the goody two shoes wife who has that scene in the short cocktail dress where she thinks she's seducing someone else but it's actually her husband, classic. Tia Carrere (most guys probably like her for other reasons, ha) is also a personal favorite.
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Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2025 9:29 am Post subject:
What about "The Running Man"? _________________ You are under no obligation to remain the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or even a day ago. You are here to create yourself, continuously. - Richard Feynman
This. Easilly supplants Last Action Hero in most Arnold-phile's list.
"It's not a tumaaaah!"
I can't pick from that list though, it's just too hard between Commando/T1/T2/Predator/Total Recall. I've watched those movies over 100 times combined easily. My brother's friend's family had a VHS rental place in the 80s and for some reason we had copies of Aliens/Commando/Robocop. It was the only movies we owned and I watched them over and over again.
If any of those movies are on TV I'm watching.
*edit* - F...struggled with it but I'm going with T2 by a hair. _________________ KOBE
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Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2025 12:22 pm Post subject:
cathy78 wrote:
Wasn't there a strange movie about him being governor of some state west?
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I'll give some love to Last Action Hero. It did that metta/sefl-aware/self-parody Deadpool thing way before it became cannibalized by modern hollywood. It was written by Shane Black, and it's very sharp witted and clever.
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Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2025 6:03 pm Post subject:
i was trying to put kcop and true lies and running man on the poll but either it maxed out or i.m an idiot, prob both _________________ http://chickhearn.ytmnd.com/
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Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2025 6:07 pm Post subject:
panamaniac wrote:
I'll give some love to Last Action Hero. It did that metta/sefl-aware/self-parody Deadpool thing way before it became cannibalized by modern hollywood. It was written by Shane Black, and it's very sharp witted and clever.
Also, T1 is way better than T2.
agreed on everything
action scenes, an iconic performance by robert patri k and the motorcycle chase make t2 a monster but t1 was so much more terrifying and hopeless, and brad fiedel's score for t1 was a millionx better. _________________ http://chickhearn.ytmnd.com/
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Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 2:27 pm Post subject:
Total Recall for sure. This is the one I always come back to whenever I'm jonesing for a hit of the good stuff. What hooked me on Total Recall is the grimy futuristic sci-fi setting, the over-the-top gory violence and the, at times, overtly farcical tone of the proceedings. The fantastic musical score by Jerry Goldsmith seals the deal.
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