Movie review thread...
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@canefan said in Movie review thread...:
Loves Arnie
I think he's an under-rated actor. Does great action stuff but also great comedy too. Watched him in Aftermath a few years back and he was excellent in a straight, serious role.
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Right, so - I don't remember much of last night - pretty sure I didn't even manage to finish watching Commando - so giving it another go now. (Imagine how drunk some fluffybunny must be to not finish Commando! Or to forget it.)
Starting from the point where he's rowing to shore - with a completely clear ocean behind him. -
@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
Starting from the point where he's rowing to shore - with a completely clear ocean behind him.
I can't believe I'm saying this (to you). But if you are concerned about the transparency of seawater in an Arnie movie you simply aren't drinking enough.
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@nostrildamus I didn't mean the ocean water was transparent - but the horizon was clear. He was supposed to be rowing towards the island... but... no island in sight.
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@canefan said in Movie review thread...:
Maybe this is the start of an Arnie-palooza, discussion about all of his best films.....
I never noticed before, but is that actually real footage from the movie?
Mac is one tough sumbitch, and he's screaming as he's firing. Arnie looks like he's just chilling
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@canefan said in Movie review thread...:
@canefan said in Movie review thread...:
Maybe this is the start of an Arnie-palooza, discussion about all of his best films.....
I never noticed before, but is that actually real footage from the movie?
Mac is one tough sumbitch, and he's screaming as he's firing. Arnie looks like he's just chilling
…….and good old Billy in the background.
He’s worth a google and how he was on the set of Predator. Sounds like a lunatic.
Throw in Jesse the body Ventura and Carl Weathers……wow, what a cast of units !!!
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Commando its THE quintessential (and greatest) 80s action movie. Over the top hero. Over the top villains. One liners all over the shop. A plot that barely survives any in-depth thinking (and if you are doing that you are doing it wrong anyway), and a body count that would make the Black Plague proud. Some fucking great deaths too.
Excellent in every way.
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@canefan said in Movie review thread...:
discussion about all of his best films
bro, an almost unmatched set of credits. ranking them is almost impossible.
Commando
Predator
Conan the Barbarian
True Lies
T2
T1
Red Heat
Raw Deal
fuck, Total Recall!
The Running ManTwins and Junior and Kindergarten Cop...
No two rankings are going to be the same
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@mariner4life said in Movie review thread...:
@canefan said in Movie review thread...:
discussion about all of his best films
bro, an almost unmatched set of credits. ranking them is almost impossible.
Commando
Predator
Conan the Barbarian
True Lies
T2
T1
Red Heat
Raw Deal
fuck, Total Recall!
The Running ManTwins and Junior and Kindergarten Cop...
No two rankings are going to be the same
Would add Conan the Destroyer and take out Junior.
Last Action Hero is fun but probably doesn’t make the shortlist .
Very hard to actually rank them though
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
To further add to the Arnie circle jerk…..
I can’t believe people mention Sly as a serious rival.
Arnie has an X factor SS could only dream of
It’s not even close.
Not to mention Jean Claude, or Dolph. And don't even get me started with the new breed like Vin Diesel, who aren't fit to lace Arnie's combat boots
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The original Conan is a classic, all that moody steroid-enhanced existential brooding. And the face behind Darth Vader's voice. And a snake to make lair of the white worm look like a common garden adder.
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
To further add to the Arnie circle jerk…..
I can’t believe people mention Sly as a serious rival.
Arnie has an X factor SS could only dream of
It’s not even close.
Sly has been in some tremendous movies and deserves his place on the Mt Rushmore of Action
Rocky I, II. III, IV
Paradise Alley
First Blood
Tango & Cash
Cliffhanger
Judge Dredd
Cop Land
Get Carter
Creed
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@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
To further add to the Arnie circle jerk…..
I can’t believe people mention Sly as a serious rival.
Arnie has an X factor SS could only dream of
It’s not even close.
Sly has been in some tremendous movies and deserves his place on the Mt Rushmore of Action
Rocky I, II. III, IV
Paradise Alley
First Blood
Tango & Cash
Cliffhanger
Judge Dredd
Cop Land
Get Carter
Creed
Tulsa KingYep, no need to throw shade at Sly to raise Arnie up.
You didn't eveh include Escape to Victory where he held his own acting with pro soccer players.
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@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
To further add to the Arnie circle jerk…..
I can’t believe people mention Sly as a serious rival.
Arnie has an X factor SS could only dream of
It’s not even close.
Sly has been in some tremendous movies and deserves his place on the Mt Rushmore of Action
Rocky I, II. III, IV
Paradise Alley
First Blood
Tango & Cash
Cliffhanger
Judge Dredd
Cop Land
Get Carter
Creed
Tulsa KingYep, no need to throw shade at Sly to raise Arnie up.
You didn't eveh include Escape to Victory where he held his own acting with pro soccer players.
His best flick was Demolition Man.
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
To further add to the Arnie circle jerk…..
I can’t believe people mention Sly as a serious rival.
Arnie has an X factor SS could only dream of
It’s not even close.
Sly has been in some tremendous movies and deserves his place on the Mt Rushmore of Action
Rocky I, II. III, IV
Paradise Alley
First Blood
Tango & Cash
Cliffhanger
Judge Dredd
Cop Land
Get Carter
Creed
Tulsa KingYep, no need to throw shade at Sly to raise Arnie up.
You didn't eveh include Escape to Victory where he held his own acting with pro soccer players.
His best flick was Demolition Man.
Yeah, thats a good one,.
I think he had a better mid career than Arnie in that some of his 90s films were decent and some fun and he made a classic, and was great in it, in Copland.
I also loved Cobra and Over the Top as a kid.
But then again JCVD movies were great in the 80s early 90s too. Fuck even Seagal's early stuff was great action for the time.
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Seagal movies were great, watching Under Siege with Erika Eleniak is a memory that stands out from when I was young.
