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- Trey
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- Ewing
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Am I wrong or did you compare me to Bill Burr during the great drunk dial conversation a few nights ago?
Also, let me get this straight, you all did a movie with John McTiernan, Shane Black and Arnie, and it wasn't my beloved? You tease. Anyway, I saw Last Action Hero in theaters when I was a kid. Loved it then, like it now.
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10 2013-05-27 14:30:05 (edited by Ewing 2013-05-27 14:30:43)
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- WhiskeyDick
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In the grand scheme of things Basic was not that bad. There is a good story to be told within the script. I wish I could take a crack at a rewrite, because I believe it had potential.
- Trey
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- Jimmy B
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Indeed. It's nowhere near as ridiculous as The Running Man from the same year. Any action star could play Dutch in Predator, it just so happens to be Arnie (who has to have a couple of quips in there for good measure). The film is a great action-Sci-Fi flick rather than an Arnie film.
Actually, The Running Man and Predator would be a good comparison piece. Both from the same year, both at opposite ends of the Arnie/action spectrum.
- bullet3
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The thing that's great about Predator (aside from EVERYTHING), is that its the only time Arnie has been up against a bad guy that's so formidable that you as the audience are thinking he's completely outmatched and is going to die. Terminator 2 is the only other example of this, but in that one he's a robot, so the "pain" aspect is less impactful. In this he's just a guy, and gets the absolute shit beat out of him, which is super rare and makes him an under-dog in the movie.
But ya, Last Action Hero. I actually really, really like that Title. If you think about it, it was weirdly prescient, as the 80s style of action movie would be completely dead in less than 10 years, completely replaced by comic book movies and Michael Bay destructo-flicks.
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22 2013-05-28 10:27:34 (edited by MartyJ 2013-05-28 10:28:53)
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Most of those custom-made posters come from the communist era (and it really was a "special" time 
). Now we usually get the generic posters.
- Snail
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"Life is about movies; anything else is a bonus!"- Me 
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