Arnold Schwarzenegger: C/D, S/D

ha the accent: CtB kinda excuses it cos he's Cimmerian, but then they meet Osric, "once a powerful northman like my master," played by Max von Sydow (ie an actual powerful northman) and he sounds like Olivier.

I think Last Action Hero did, didn't it? I haven't seen it in a long time, but I thought that was one of its meta jokes.

Arnold: "blah blah AHNULD"

Predator: "ssssssssssssssssssssss"

eh, no.

I can see what's offensive abt it as its so damn cartoonish.

Rambo is much better. I like the action a pieces a lot more.

Tom Arnold?

Oh, I guess I'm supposed to offer an opinion or something. It was a pleasant and welcome diversion when I was bored out of skull at my mom's place last X-mas. Pretty good sci-fi, with a good performance by Arnold as he's forced to team up with his own clone to defeat the bad guys. He's once again cast as a caring, loving family man. In fact I think the whole reason he's in the pickle in which he finds himself, is because he was trying to procure a clone of the family's recently deceased dog. Something like that. Bob Duvall's in it too.

Predator 2 4-Ever

Mongolian trainee: The open steppe, fleet horse, falcon on your wrist, wind in your hair!

Mongol General: Wrong! Conan, what is best in life?

Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!

Mongol General: That is good.

Quato's a mutant, so don't get upset when you see 'im.

(partly) Responsible for some of the most entertaining genre films from 1981 to 1991, and some actual great science fiction, too. The Terminator flicks(first two), Predator, Running Man, Total Recall, as well as kick starting the sword & sorcery 80s genre(with thanks to Lucas & Coppola-friend John Milius)

Commando is a riot

fear:

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Twins 2. My brain.

Oh and I missed THIS detail:

Back in March, The Hollywood Reporter first revealed that Universal and Montecito Picture Co. were working on developing a sequel to Twins entitled Triplets which would bring back Schwarzenegger, his co-star Danny DeVito, and introduce Eddie Murphy as their long-lost third brother.

I'm actually kind of looking forward to it! Yeah it'll be terrible but he's like Nic Cage to me, I'll see anything he's in. Schwarzenegger has always been a hero to me. When I was 9 my Dad was a Major in the Air Force on the other side of the country (my parents had just divorced). He winds up meeting Arnold at some military event and he calls me and somehow convinces him to talk to me on the phone for half a minute or so...I don't remember exactly what he said he did refer to me by name, and as a 9-year old that was pretty much the greatest thing that ever happened to me.

All downhill from there, then?

That was around 1995, so it kinda was for both of us

The ex-governator in his labyrinth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJLgUjBGjm0

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lollllllll

http://youtu.be/FeHpSdQSH0c

Why wasn't I aware this was opening soon??

you know what, he’s genuinely really good in twins

Is the movie good other than him? I've been hesitant to revisit it.

Just watch terminator again instead

He's great in Total Recall.

I’m watching Terminator 1 right now. Every time I come back to it I’m surprised at how great it is. I guess Arnold doesn’t have a lot of room to flex in it, but he’s absolutely perfect and I’m reminded of just how fucking good Cameron can be. Ruthlessly intense, doom-laden film.

Just watch terminator again instead

― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, May 5, 2019 12:54 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He's great in Total Recall.

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, May 5, 2019 1:48 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol. I've watched both of those in the past few months.

And he's great in them!

he is legitimately outstanding in Escape Plan

probably the closest modern comparison to Arnold would be Dwayne Johnson, but I think Arnold is a better actor. Johnson is maybe more naturally charismatic and more of a goofy dude but I think Schwarzenegger has an intensity and ambition w/his projects that the Rock doesn't compare to.

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I'm not an expert on the subject but he doesn't strike me as very Greek sounding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7MUP0FImZo

I'm not an expert on the subject but he doesn't strike me as very Greek sounding

― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Thursday, January 27, 2022 1:22 PM (forty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

It's my understanding that he has actually had to work with a dialect coach to retain his trademark Austrian accent since moving to America. If that's the case, maybe he could make the pivot.

I bet Arnold is going to be great in whatever Super Bowl commercial that's for

Oh, that makes so much sense.

At a festival or something, reportedly:

"They did an additional Predator and the director (Dan Trachtenberg) has been doing a great job of that,” Arnold begins. “Now, he wants me to be in the next Predator. We’ve talked about it. As a matter of fact, FOX studios has kind of rediscovered “Arnold”. They’ve come to me and said, 'We want you to do Predator, we just got a script for you to do Commando 2’."

“They just hired a fantastic writer/director who did Tom Cruise’s last four movies,” says Arnold. "They just hired him (Christopher McQuarrie) to write and direct King Conan.”

“Now, what they do is that they write the part," Arnold explains. "They don’t write them like i’m forty years old, you write it to be age-appropriate. I’ll still go in there and kick some ass but it will be different."

"With King Conan, its a great old story that Conan was forty years as King and now he gets forced out of the kingdom and there’s conflict, of course, but somehow he comes back and there’s all kinds of madness, violence, magic and creatures and stuff like that. And now, of course, there’s all kinds of special effects. The studio has plenty of money to make those movies really big so i’m looking forward to all of those projects.”

Modern science is impressive but it is unlikely they can improve on the perfection that is Commando.

They could at least pump up the death toll a little, adjusted for inflation.

I often wonder what Arnold Schwarzenegger means to young people today. From my generation's point of view he went from being an unlikely movie star, to the biggest box-office draw in the world, and then his career faltered a bit - but as a second act he moved into politics! And in a rational world the next step would have been presidency of the United States, which must have seemed ludicrous in the 2000s but seems less ludicrous now. In our present, tonight.

It's as if there was a correct path that the world either didn't, or couldn't take. On top of which the general stereotype of the muscly action hero seemed to evaporate with him.

Also it's generally frowned upon nowadays to have an Aryan superman gunning down masses of Latin American henchmen with an M60. That kind of thing is a bit iffy.

Schwarzenegger cannot legally be President. Naturalized citizens can’t run for President but their children can.

Also it's generally frowned upon nowadays to have an Aryan superman gunning down masses of Latin American henchmen with an M60. That kind of thing is a bit iffy.

Seems like we're kinda coming back around on this one tbh

Yeah at the time there was talk of that, but it always ended with his Constitutional ineligibility.

oops, xp!

These days it's pretty much only tech bros or Eastern Europeans/Russians that get enlisted as fodder.

I think today's muscle men learned a lot from Arnold, esp. his comedic chops. John Cena, the Rock, Jason Mamoa, Dave Bautista, they have Arnold's instincts of when to lean into their inherent ridiculousness, and when to play it down. Which is hard to do when you are huge, but the aforementioned seem to know how to smartly downplay their size when needed. Or at least the directors they work with, also raised on Arnold, know how to do it for/with them.

It's funny, the closest thing we have to run and gun action movies these days are now largely anchored to relatively normal shaped guys, in the Bruce Willis/"Die Hard" mold. Jason Statham, Keanu, Tom Cruise, even Liam Neeson or Bob Odernkirk. One of the many jokes of "Ballerina" is that Ana De Armas is clearly the size of Arnold's forearm, but she can carry the illusion that she can fight and fling baddies with the best of them.

Maybe that's the legacy of Arnold, transcending suspension of disbelief, that this almost inconveniently huge guy with a thick accent can fit into all the situations he finds himself in. Really elevates the fantasy and escapism of action movies, pushing plausibility into this sort of cartoonish post-realism that counter-balances all the very realistic depictions of blood and explosions.

I was thinking about this a couple days ago, growing up with movie stars like Arnold and Jim Carrey who were such unique screen presences that their personas overtook whatever character they were playing...unless their character's name was the title of the movie nobody would ever remember it. The only reason I remember he's John Kimble in Kindergarten Cop is because of the way he delivers the line "I'm Detective John Kimble!". Nic Cage has a similar thing going on. Maybe even Adam Sandler? All of these actors kind of test your suspension of disbelief because if you ever met a person like that in your day to day life your reaction would immediately be, what the fuck is up with that guy??

Don't feel like today's stars have that quality at all, most of them are just too good and too versitile to qualify and even the action stars are way too self-aware. The Rock in Fast Five is pretty close I guess but I never got the impression he really understood what was so funny about his performance, but Arnold seemed like a guy who always got it