[TerrorFirmer]

Originally Posted by luvbulmers01

But see that the whole point it was a terrible movie in some parts like Arnie being a one man army, but cheesy puns and one liners are what made it great. you kind of proved my point there, without Arnie in it would anyone even know of Commando never mind like it? It was his presence alone in that film which to this day still gives that film its fanbase.

Again yes there both better actors, Stallone as in Copland proved but never got much credit for, also Willis again better actor. But Arnies films werent about dramatic acting but all about the sillyness really which is what made them so lovable. I love Willis and Stallone also the likes of De Niro in Taxi Driver. But the films like Arnie made in the eightys although not as credible in acting terms or there plots still have there place aswell. I love all types of films depends on the mood.

I agree completely, Arnie created the perfect balance within many of his films and it was his very presence that made them so entirely watchable. I love Commando, but it is undeniably a dreadful film - but Arnie's performance is the glue holding the whole thing together, and with anyone else at the helm it would have been destined to be simply a silly 80's action movie that would have faded into obscurity. Arnie is entirely synonymous with Commando - it's not simply 'that' great movie in which Arnold Schwarzenegger happens to play the lead role. Effectively he IS the movie.

Case in Point: Red Scorpion, another 80's action film with Lundgren in the lead role. Not an awful movie, and certainly more competent than Commando, but entirely forgettable as a decidedly generic action film.

No-one would ever claim that Arnie was a better actor than most, if any, of his contemporary rivals, but he had an undeniable charm that added something to the movies he starred in beyond acting ability, and he always played to that strength.

[MrStuffins]

Originally Posted by OldeCinemaSoz

Nothing in the remake is going to beat Arnie's classic line
when he rips off Ironside's arms and finally dumps him with
the quip

"See you at the party, Richter!!!"

Sharon Stone: "But baby, we're married!"

Arnie shoots Stone in the head

Arnie: "Consider that a divorce!!"

[Our man in Havana]

Originally Posted by MrStuffins

Sharon Stone: "But baby, we're married!"

Arnie shoots Stone in the head

Arnie: "Consider that a divorce!!"

Classic Arnie right there.

[Mr. Loverman]

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[MrStuffins]

Tony, the ridiculously ugly one-eyed alien stops Arnie as he's walking upstairs in the club

Tony: "You've got a lot of nerve showing your face around here"

Arnie takes a look at his mush....

Arnie: "Look who's talking!"

[FlashD]

Originally Posted by pixelburp

And as for Commando; no, my point was that it's famous because of it's cheesy lines, that it's a poster-boy for the overly-earnest, yet cheesily-godawful alpha-male action movies of the 1980s. Ultimately it's only well-known because the internet took hold of it and celebrated its cheese with an ironic tongue in cheek. Not unlike Chuck Norris et al.

What a crock!


It's famous because Arnie's in it, that's why all us 80's kids used to rent it back in the day.

We didn't need no internet back then to tell us about its chessy goodness, we already knew what we were getting cause Arnie was in it.

No Arnie, no cheese, get it!

[Brendog]

Its going to be so bad. Not so bad that its good, just bad

[pixelburp]

Well as is the style these days, a trailer... for the trailer has been released. Though as it's the first proper look we've got at the film in action, this trailer-trailer is actually kinda useful

Certainly stylistically it seems to be channeling Bladerunner / Deus Ex more than the Futureworld of the original film. Not sure that's a good choice as it could simply make the film seem even more derivative than it already runs the risk of doing.

[krudler]

well it certainly looks nice, how much of the Arnie one is part of the original novel?

[indough]

Originally Posted by krudler

well it certainly looks nice, how much of the Arnie one is part of the original novel?

they just used the concept really, it was only a short story so there wasnt much room to be too faithful to it

[locustfurnace]

Originally Posted by krudler

well it certainly looks nice, how much of the Arnie one is part of the original novel?

Spoiler: [B] Whats the difference betwen the book and the film? [/B]




The book is very serious and the film is an entertaining action Arnie movie. What's surprising about "We Can Remember it for You Wholesale" is how close it is to Total Recall at least, up to a point. Both the story and the movie follow Douglas Quaid, an everyday guy in a loveless marriage who is inexplicably drawn to Mars. Realizing that he'll never be able to go to the planet in person, Quaid visits the offices of Rekall, Incorporated (traveling there and back in a taxi driven by a robot as in the film), where he elects to undergo a process that will insert the memories of a trip to Mars into his brain a trip where he adopts the role of a secret agent. Trouble is, before the process can even begin, Rekall's technicians discover that those memories already exist in Quaid's mind: he is a secret agent, and he did go to Mars. Having now remembered his other life, Quaid finds himself pursued by shadowy security forces intent on killing him.

Where the short story and the movie part ways is directly after this point. In the film, Quaid/Arnie heads off to Mars and gets involved in a Martian revolution. All of that was bolted on to Dick's story by Verhoeven and his writers, Dan O'Bannon et al; Dick's tale ends with Quaid returning to Rekall voluntarily to avoid being killed, there to have another, more outlandish memory implanted to override the secret agent/Mars one leading to a nice twist that's even more insane than what's gone before. But although the story and the movie diverge here, prior to this juncture they run along remarkably similar lines right down to those robot taxis.

[Sad Professor]

Argh! Enough with the Inception horns alrea-

Ooooo, totally gratuitous shot of Kate Beckinsale's ass. Yep, Len Wiseman is directing this.

[transylman]

Originally Posted by pixelburp

Well as is the style these days, a trailer... for the trailer has been released. Though as it's the first proper look we've got at the film in action, this trailer-trailer is actually kinda useful

Certainly stylistically it seems to be channeling Bladerunner / Deus Ex more than the Futureworld of the original film. Not sure that's a good choice as it could simply make the film seem even more derivative than it already runs the risk of doing.

Trailers for trailers, when did this start?

[Marty McFly]

Originally Posted by transylman

Trailers for trailers, when did this start?

Its not a new thing teaser trailers have been around a while.

[Sad Professor]

The first I noticed of it was with Prometheus. Apple had a three day count down to the release of the first trailer with snippets of it.