I’d actually argue that Demolition Man did its premise far better than Last Action Hero. Check out the original script so you could see what I mean, as if it wasn’t for the producers interfering, the movie that we could’ve gotten would’ve been three times better than what we got now.
@@One.Zero.One101 nah it's really not, I'll watch Cassie react to it but that doesn't mean I would subject myself to watching this movie. At least Cassie admits that she has bad taste, the Philistines in this comment section are actually claiming this is high satire and that it didn't do well because it was "ahead of its time" 🤣🤣🤣
It was so wholesome to see Cassie getting references to the movies she's seen over the years of reacting, like Amadeus, Witness, Terminator 2 and Die Hard. :D
This movie didn’t do as well when it was released in 1993 as it was Schwarzeneggers first movie after the successful Terminator 2, however this movie lives up till today, you just need to get the humor of it
@billyboy5150 It was probably due to audiences not being ready for this very meta film , something i don't think people expected from a SCHWARZENEGGER film . i Think it's great fun really , spotting all the references the way it cleverly plays off that ! 90's films oh how we need entertainment like this again !!
@@harveylee51 , that doesn't make sense since Demolition Man came out that same year which also poked fun at cliche action movie tropes and LA. I feel like the film failed due to pacing and the weird tonal shifts.
@@mallninja9805 2 things...I don't think most people knew it was going to be satire, and felt hoodwinked. More importantly though, it opened either right before or right after Jurassic Park.
Lots of Cameos...Van Damme, Tina Turner, Jim Belushi, Little Richard (friend of Arnold and singer of the famous Chopper scene in Predator, long tall Sally)...and big Cast with Anthony Quinn etc...and thetypical thugs from that time, Al Leong for example. And the mexican who drives the pick up in the first chicken play scene is the leader of the crazy gang at the beginning of Predator 2...
You are talking about the great Thomas Rosales Jr. He's been a small part of so many classic films! And he was probably killed in 80 percent of them, lol @@drhkleinert8241
Schwarzenegger singled out that movie as his most underrated: "Last Action Hero was great - it wasn't fantastic, but it was underrated. Now, more and more people are seeing it and saying, "I love this movie." I'm getting the residual checks, so I know it's true. It made money - that's always an important thing for me. Because it's show business, right?" Later, Charles Dance said: "I think they just didn't time the release very well. It came out more or less at the same time as something very big", referring to Jurassic Park. "But it was fun to do." He also praised Schwarzenegger: "Arnold is a very smart man, oh yes. Very definitely. And very funny, and very aware.
I liken it to Big Trouble in Little China - a satire of its own genre that went over a lot of people's heads at the time but way more appreciated in the years after.
There's a great video out about how brilliant (accidentally?) this movie really was. In the scene where Charles Dance gets the ticket and realizes he's in a movie but can go to the real world, he starts looking at and talking to the camera (breaking the 4th wall). He walks to the side and you can see the camera crew's reflection in the windows. Unknown if this was an accident or intentional, but it is seriously freaky to contemplate if he starts seeing the other side too.
It's a bit weird, since the line is Hamlet contemplating whether to live or not, and Arnold's Hamlet chooses not to live. Then again, it plays well into the, "it sounds cool but doesn't make any sense if you think about it."
Yes! Death is Magneto/Gandalf/Ian McClellan! He's portraying Death from the 1957 Swedish Ingmar Bergman movie The Seventh Seal. The film stars Bengt Ekerot as Death and the incredible Max von Sydow as Antonius Block, a knight, on his way back home to Sweden. He is disillusioned and exhausted after a decade of battling in the Crusades. They run into one another on a desolate beach and the knight challenges him to a fateful game of chess. You can't get more of a film noir than that! It is a classic that everyone should see.
I love the fact that the false movie was a Franco Columbo production. Franco Columbo was a competitive bodybuilder and friend of Arnold's. Great little Easter egg.
I admit(as fellow Star Trek fan!) I cackled when you were all about using the ticket to visit Star Trek but were all "maybe a less intense ship than the Enterprise." 😂 Girl I love you don't ever change...
The black and white film kids watch in school is Hamlet from 1948. It stars Laurence Olivier. The Class Teacher is Joan Plowright, is widow of Olivier... just amazing nod and the Arnold Hamlet, still love that scene so much.
I love how the kid assassinates Hollywood tropes! Arnold exiting the LaBrea Tar Pits with not a spot on him, the supermodel employees at the video store, the 555- phone numbers, etc...
and so, within the world of Jack Slater, to top the list, Stallone IS the Terminator - his best role ever! Does that mean Dwayne Johnson was Rocky and Mel Gibson was Superman? LOL
Premiere magazine listed Arnold Schwarzenegger as one of the top 20 most powerful people in Hollywood after T2. After this movie they upped him to top 10 saying that a movie that makes over 100 million dollars and is considered a bomb means Arnold was that powerful of a force in the industry.
Finally - someone noticed the finger pull. TBF there is so much going on in the foreground & background, movie references and trope riffs that you cannot possibly spot it all on a first viewing.
Something I just realized. The name of the director of the “Jack Slater” films was Arnold’s bodybuilding buddy, Franco Columbu. He also made an appearance in Conan the Barbarian.
And he played one of the skin suit terminators in terminator 1, in the flash back of Kyle in the underground base, when the dogs start barking and a terminator pulls out a laser gun. Thats Franco as the terminator.
Also in 1993, Columbu starred in a straight-to-VHS action movie in which Arnold had an extended cameo... as Columbu's character's bodybuilding buddy. It was a very low budget (and very bad) movie that Arnold likely did for free to help the movie get made and distributed (he and his name are even prominently on the VHS cover, despite being in it for only 10 minutes). He was definitely trying to help his pal get recognition in Hollywood around that time.
@programmerontheloose Franco Colombu was also a licensed Chiropractor and competed in the inaugural "World's Strongest man competition "💪 were he placed 5th he was known for performing amazing feats of strength on shows like "That's Incredible " RIP Franco Colombu 🙏
One of the most overlooked movies in the React era. I have always liked this one. Even disrespected when it came out. Great film! Happy to see you're watching it!
In hindsight, this film does run into several flaws that I feel like wouldn't have happened if the producers stuck to the original script instead of trying to make it "family friendly".
This movie wasn't disrespected, it's simply not that great. That's not to say I don't enjoy it, but I like plenty of bad movies. This movie suffers from the same issue as the recent Thor movies: They went too heavy on the absurdity. The NEXT film for Arnie, though, is where they got it right. I have said for years that TRUE LIES did what they were TRYING to do with this movie: Satirize the genre while still making a great genre movie. It has all the campiness without being so heavy-handed with it. I'm not saying people shouldn't enjoy this movie. As I said, I really enjoy it myself. But just because we like it doesn't mean we need to pretend it's some high-art piece that "plebes" just don't "get."
@@Bad_Wolf_Media Nobody has even intimated this is "high art" nor labelled anyone a "plebe". Everyone has a right to an opinion, and, evidently some don't match "we's"
Yeah, I love this movie for what it is: a family friendly satire to the action genre of the 80's and 90's. Most people disliked this movie because since it had Arnold they were so entrenched on what they thought he should have done, they couldn't enjoy what they were given.
I'm glad you enjoyed it. At this time, his kids were afraid of him becoming the the T-800 from Terminator. It was at that moment that he realized that most of his films to this point weren't kid friendly, and that he wanted to try and branch out a little bit more to distance himself from that image.
Originally from Germany, Braunschweiger is a type of sausage made from ground pork livers, along with other pork scraps, then blended with various seasonings and ground into a smooth texture then stuffed into a casing that is typically smoked.
@@nickinderrieden7630 Arnold Sausageman, ok, that's funny too. I always thought of it as a play on colors, schwarz and braun, as in German for black and brown, I honestly just now realized he didn't call himself Braunsnegger!
Death (played here by Ian McKellen, damn what a CAST this film had) is from the Ingmar Bergman film, the Seventh Seal, with Max von Sydow. It's a FANTASTIC film, and definitely one you should watch here.
Hi ST!, I just made this similar comment then saw yours! I couldn't agree with you more! Yes! Death is Magneto/Gandalf/Ian McClellan! He's portraying Death from the 1957 Swedish Ingmar Bergman movie The Seventh Seal. The film stars Bengt Ekerot as Death and the incredible Max von Sydow as Antonius Block, a knight, on his way back home to Sweden. He is disillusioned and exhausted after a decade of battling in the Crusades. They run into one another on a desolate beach and the knight challenges him to a fateful game of chess. You can't get more of a film noir than that! It is a classic that everyone should see.
"Who's he talking to?" It was an embarrassingly long time before I understood why Benedict broke the fourth wall at this point in the movie. He understood after using the ticket that he was in a movie and for him to be in a movie, he knew there had to be an audience watching. So he was bragging to the audience. So, to answer the question, he is talking to you, in one of the first and most bone-chilling fourth-wall breaks.
On top of that: as with several villains of movies, Benedict is the stereotypical "british villain"; not in nationality (although I think that was never expanded in the context we get of him), but he has the accent, the mannerisms... and the Shakespeare quotes/tropes. One trope Shakespeare uses for his villains/characters (because there were no narrators back then in theather to explain complex details of a character's psyche) was the soliloquy, where (basically) the villain speaks his mind... to you. For example; here in Richard III: ruclips.net/video/pjJEXkbeL-o/видео.html So, Benedict not only has figured out there is a fourth wall that can be broken... the intelligence to easily get the concept and play with it is, accidentally, already written in his character :P. And that's brilliant.
I guess he is technically talking to the audience in the world of Danny, but of course adresses us in our world at the same time. So he breaks 2 fourth walls at once.
Twins is mandatory for the channel. Commando, nah, she won't get that Commando is secretly a hilarious comedy. Junior was a monumental flop. I actually want to watch it again, it's probably not THAT bad.
It just dawned on me, if they wanted, they could make a 2nd last action hero movie. The actor who plays Danny is still alive in his 40s, Annie is still alive, the ticket hasn't been destroyed. Maybe Danny became a scriptwriter, gave Jack Slater a happy life, goes into Jack Slater 15 for one more adventure and Jack Recognises him, that would be an emotional moment.
And, with the new age-retarding digital technology available, who can say how wondrously lachrymal such a reunion could be made to be? A commendably clever concept, and one deserving to come to the notice of an ambitious filmmaker (such as I once dreamt of becoming). 😎
They probably have to explain some of the biggest plot holes of this movie then. Like if Death is still in the real world. Anyone noticed that too? Like we never see if Death got transported back to the movie world.
@@osmanyousif7849 That's not a plot hole. Death already exists in this world, the movie just turns death into a physical manifestation, he's working according to his lists - in other words if it isn't your time to die you're perfectly safe.
This is where the line between sweet dreams and nightmares becomes blurred. It would be fun to have heros come out of movies, but it would be downright scary for villians to come out of movies.
Especially archvillains like Thanos or movie monsters like the xenomorphs. On the other hand I am curious - would few different Hannibal Lecters work together or fight each other?
On top of that, I love the overlooked idea that if it's an over the top movie, villains will be over the top too: the film is PG-13, kids won't die and stuff... but that doesn't mean the character hasn't done the most messed up stuff off-screen ("I've killed people far wiser and younger than you"); the only thing saving Danny from death/harm in the house scene is (literally) "plot armor" provided by rating.
@@toro5280 I guess that depends on the circumstances: if there is an interesting foe to defeat? Yes. If they are brought togheter to chit char about life and music? They would probably end up killing each other out of boredom.
This movie is very similar to an earlier movie that was made by Woody Allen called THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO (1985), which starred Jeff Daniels and Mia Farrow. The same basic idea happens, where the real world and the movie world collide. It’s a charming film that you would really enjoy.
If you turn on Closed Captioning when Lieutenant Dekker, Jack's supervisor, is yelling at him & Danny & sounding like gibberish, those subtitles are CRAZY, lmao! He mentions the California Raisins are doing an all-male version of 'The Diary of Anne Frank', something about the mayor & a library bush & Tiny Tim on a totem pole & going to the beaches & finally you take the chicken out of the bag & stick it UP!🤣🤣🤦🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️ 🤣🤣 I love that guy. That's Frank McRae, btw, he is parodying a similar police chief character that yells in '48 Hrs.' & he parodies this same kinda character once again in 'Loaded Weapon 1'.. I love that guy's performances, man..😂 He sadly passed away in 2021 of a heart attack at age 80.. Rest in Peace, Frank. You were legendary bro..❤🙏🏻
John McTiernan didn't direct many films but some are classics. Predator, Die Hard, The Hunt For Red October, Last Action Hero and Die Hard With A Vengeance.
And this one, which is great. Then again, he did Rollerball, which would have blown a hole through any lesser directors career big enough to jump a bus through.
@@oscardiggs246 Rollerball was taken out of his hands, the script, the production, etc. - that's what caused the issues with the fbi, because he taped phone conversations that were people talking about how the FFFed him over with the Rollerball movie and were forcing him to direct it even though he didn't approve of anything being done with it
This movie was an important part of my childhood. I still feel like a ten-year-old kid when I watch it. Like Danny, I loved Arnold movies at that age, still do.
This movie was way ahead of it's time with the meta theme. It got slaughtered by critics, but I think it's so much fun, underrated and creative! And You HAVE to check out the music video for the song "Big Gun" by AC/DC. Arnold asked the band personally to write a song for the movie and he starred in the music video wearing a school boy uniform just like AC/DC's guitarist, Angus Young, doing the duck walk and all. It's hilarious!
Something that took me forever to notice is that the henchmen aren't wearing squibs, so when they're shot, they just rattle around and fall over, no bullet holes or blood or anything.
@@Emilysbrother1 I mean, eventually every action franchise that starts with hardcore action needs the money of the general market... which means aiming for a lower rating (even today that's one of the reasons super hero films started in the PG zone, much to several fans' dismay, and didn't dare to go into R ratings, until several experiments proved they weren't a commercial disaster, because there is enough audience today to make a profit). How times and stereotypes of ratings change :P.
"Pre-screening" a film was the best fringe benefit of working at a movie theater. You get to see a film before everybody and their mom can spoil it, no crowd except for a few coworkers, and if you're the off-duty projectionist running the screening you literally get paid to sit on your ass and watch a movie.
Yep, that was awesome. We would usually send someone out to pick up food before we started; anywhere that was open past midnight. I still know how to build, break down, and thread the film through the projector. Everything is digital now, so they basically just put in a dvd and hit play.
Love this movie! I know critics tore this movie apart, abd that it bombed at the box office, $137 million dollars against a $75 million dollar budget, opening the same week as JURASSIC PARK , but it's a fun wild action comedy film.
I remember seeing this as a kid a few times, but it was only when I watched it again last year that the Grim Reaper was played by none other than Sir Ian McKellan.
I love Charles Dance, who also played Tywin Lannister in Game of Thornes, in this movie! He's brilliantly hammy and pantomime like Alan Rickman in Robin Hood. My favourite line is when he first arrives in the real world "I SAID I just shot somebody and I did it on PURPOSE!!" 🤣🤣 Also the Robert Patrick cameo as the T-1000 from Terminator 2 and Sharon Stone as her character Catherine Tramell in Basic Instinct
"Look an elephant" was basically what my friends and I said in HS during any situation we didn't want to deal with and we'd just walk away. A few other students knew the quote, but teachers and adults were always confused.
I remember this was in the theaters when Jurassic Park was, and it did not fair well. Partly because of Jurassic Park, but also because people did not seem to get that it was a parody of itself and all action movies, as well as Arnold Schwartzenegger. I loved this from the time I saw it in the theater, to the plethora of times I have watched it since. I find myself paraphrasing and quoting this movie quite often. I believe it to be one of those gems that people need to experience at some point in their life. And Charles Dance as the villain is one of my all time villain roles. He was so amazing, and I love when he breaks the fourth wall and does his monologue about "if God were a villain... he'd be me."
@@alanbixler6131 How can someone say something so insanely idiotic with such confidence? 7 years? Do you not know how to use Google? Do you even know how to count?!? They are both Summer of 1993 movies, and this came out literally like A WEEK AFTER "Jurassic Park." I should know, I saw them both in theaters that summer. 🤦♂️🤦♂️
@@oscardiggs246 I remember seeing this movie in high school and seeing Jurassic Park while I was in the army, so I have a weird separation in memory. Sorry, not a robot. Just got my wires crossed.
There was a huge ad campaign for this flick. They were really trying to capitalize on Arnold's mega-success post T2. Everyone wanted to get a piece. There was a big promo campaign with Burger King (you could get collector cups with your Kid's Meal), trading cards from Topps, action figures from Mattel, video games, etc. You name it, it was plastered everywhere! This was kind of a crazy summer for movies, too. Jurassic Park, Dennis the Menace, Cliffhanger (you gotta react to that one), Sleepless in Seattle, Hocus Pocus, In the Line of Fire and The Fugitive among others. I remember taking my nephew to see this and we both loved it. We totally embraced the joke and just went with it. In ways, it was ahead of its time. As far as the movie world I would want to be real, having the enormous sweettooth that I have, it would be Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Give me some of those giant gummy bears and a river of chocolate and I'm good to go!
My Mom died on Monday. I know it's off-topic, but I appreciate the distraction, Cassie. This movie flopped because it opened in theaters the same weekend that Jurassic Park opened. Very underrated film. In fact, I believe this is Arnold's most underrated film. And Charles Dance's Benedict is so much fun to watch.
I remember just adoring this film as a kid of about 7. Arnold was GOD. I didn't realize how poor the film did or how bad the reviews were because it still holds up so well! If I could go into a movie, I think I'd go into Pleasantville. I'd love that. Loved your reaction, as always!!! ❤
This one of the things that made Arnold the winner of the Schwarzenegger/Stallone wars of the 80s and 90s. Arnold was WAY better at laughing at himself.
@@osmanyousif7849 That's what I mean, Arnold laughed at himself. Stallone laughed at Arnold. Usually, anyway. Stallone just seemed to take himself more seriously (which might be appropriate, since he's a WAY better, more serious actor).
I loved in Twins when Arnold saw a poster of Stallone for Cobra and tried comparing his physique to him and said, "Nah," like he didn't measure up to Stallone.
@@ashleywilliams1060 - Always interpreted that as the complete opposite, Arnold waving off Stallone as not measuring up to him. ruclips.net/video/soiaEPpFYAw/видео.html
Yes, that was Ian McKellan (Magneto) playing the figure of Death (apparently from the film The Seventh Seal). Also I was overjoyed that you got the idea of the other half of the ticket before the characters realized
I love the bit about Arnie not being able to pronounce his own name! Arnold Braunschweiger indeed. Early in his acting career, he was convinced to use a simpler name "Arnold Strong" in Hercules in New York. Execs apparently told him no one could pronounce "Schwarzenegger"!
Cool to see it in original language, listen to Arnold when he drives on Bad Guys entrance and Danny say Schwarzenegger, Arnold answers Gesundheit (bless you)...And at the door by Dannys mom he says his Name Arnold Braunschweiger...in german synchro he said Arnold Beckenbauer (the famous soccer player)...
Choosing a movie to go into is extremely hard, but I would enjoy meeting the McCann brothers from "Secondhand Lion." I think you both would enjoy that movie if you haven't seen it.
Imagine what you would have thought about this movie when you started your channel here on RUclips. If your previous watching experiences was almost exclusively romcoms I don't think you'd have picked up on most of the tropes in this one. This one was definitely designed to be watched a way into your journey, as you did.
"Leo the fawt is gonna pass gas one mooah time." An action gem. There were a few films around then that were self-aware and poking fun at the genre's tropes. Idk if audiences were ready then, but It's aged well I think
7:53 fun fact: title of the movie says it’s Franco Colombo film. Franco Colombo is Arnolds friend, bodybuilder who played a terminator in small episode. Never have seen this detail until today))
I am Hungarian, so I apologize if what I want to say is difficult to understand. What's shocking to me is how popular superhero movies are today. But when this movie was released in theaters it was not popular and this movie never became a classic. However, its theme is the same, and in many ways more thought-provoking than today's superhero films. For example, the question of who would use that ticket for what, if such a movie ticket came into their possession. This movie should be a classic.
Loved this movie as a kid, the story is so original you can't help but get sucked in. Underrated still imo. Edit- Arnold's daughter in the movie is Bridgette Wilson, who also played Veronica Vaughn in the movie Billy Madison.😍
I worked at a movie theater in 1993 - and I've tried several times to jump into a screen...to no avail.😅 We did get to "Check Prints" for Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Indy and a lot of other stuff...they were shipped in film canisters. You can had to splice like 6-8 reels together, add trailers, previews and see it was ok. Heaviest movie? Dances with Wolves....maybe 80-100 pounds.
This brings back so many memories of when I was a kid. My dad used to record multiple movies on long vhs tapes so right after Last Action Hero was Tom and Jerry the Movie then after that was Secret Garden
8:18 This is legendary actor and Oscar-winner Anthony Quinn, whose career in movies began in 1936 and lasted until 1999. He died in 2001. He’s acting here with another legendary actor, Art Carney, who was most famous for playing Ed Norton on the classic TV sitcom The Honeymooners.
The line that always gets me in this movie is when Slater says to Schwarzenegger "I don't even like you." So surreal and such a strange thing to make someone say about themselves.
Yeah. I always felt that was meta. I can believe if Arnold saw that scene now he'd be like "Man, I didn't realize how much I was looking in the mirror and talking to myself."
I think lots of people wouldn't really get along with or like themselves, if they had a clone. For myself, I have some shortcomings, and I think it's more inspiring to be around people who don't share the same shortcomings, but instead show another way I could be. Conversationally I'd probably get along with myself okay, but it would be a boring conversation. Some people I know would fight with themselves though, because they're very talkative or prone to interrupting, etc and they'd get frustrated by a clone who is equally aggressive.
my favorite subtle 4th wall break in this movie is when the villain turns to the camera and gives his "if god was a villain" monologue you can see the sound stage in the mirror behind him.
You could tell that the actors must have had huge fun doing this, like Ian McKellen as Death saying, "I don't do fiction. Not my field." It's a very underrated comedy. I think people didn’t know how to take it when it came out, which is too bad.
I'm so glad watch a reaction to this movie, i love it the very first time i saw it, it is truly one of the MOST UNDERRATED movies of all time, a REAL MASTERPIECE as it makes criticism out of the very same action movies that were saturating the theaters on those days and at the same time says to really appreciate and fight in the real wolrd as if we were on a movie... It is in my very top 3 movies of all time.
oof, it's a poor movie my review: "strong performances carry this otherwise poor movie, making it seem better than it is to many Very compelling pieces for a story, but mostly focuses on all the wrong things, doesn't develop how it could (or much of anything at all), failing to be as meaningful or impactful as it should be given the content, and ultimately serving as an ignorant-messaging indoctrination of "primitive humans" and that homogenization is good - awful (it soft-peddles a 'humans are special...like a retrded lesser species) There are vague ideas floating around (bonding between strangers needing help, her emotional struggle) and present but they aren't at all thought out and Carpenter's execution of half-assed ideas present them as they are, half-assed and unfulfilling/shallow pretending at depth/wanting to be more than it was able, reducing it to forced drama, forced plot movement, forced everything, mostly feeling very empty as it floats from vague idea to vague idea. it's like E.T.-lite written painfully badly and with globalization messaging thrown in where it could be 4.4/10"
37:30 I just now noticed this, but the Black EMT in this scene is actor-director Melvin Van Peebles, who was a pioneering Black independent filmmaker most famous for his 1971 film SWEET SWEETBACK’S BAADASSSSSS SONG. His son is actor-director Mario Van Peebles, who has made such films as NEW JACK CITY (1991) and PANTHER (1995).
I saw this movie in the theater and really enjoyed it. Never understood why it faded away pretty quickly but it really hit my lifelong fantasy of entering a movie and living within that world. To this day I still use that premise to help me go to sleep, imagining going into and move or show and being all powerful so I can basically do what I want. Fun times.
This is like graduate level film geek stuff, I'm proud of you for getting all the references and just having fun with it. The Director of Die Hard and the writer of Lethal Weapon obviously love the genre enough to poke fun at it. Also I will forever associate this movie with Burger King, such was the insane level of marketing for this movie back in 1993. It tastes like... nostalgia. Love the reaction! Keep'em coming!
Lightly slapping his hand for blowing up his ex-wife's house is one of my favorite jokes of all time.
*ex-wife
That's why it's funny.
So weird that both Last Action Hero and Demolition Man weren't appreciated when they came out... they're both really good.
I’d actually argue that Demolition Man did its premise far better than Last Action Hero. Check out the original script so you could see what I mean, as if it wasn’t for the producers interfering, the movie that we could’ve gotten would’ve been three times better than what we got now.
they were, I appreciated them at least
Nah last action hero is a dumpster fire, you're dumb if you like it.
@@d.jparer5184 It's even dumber coming here for a movie that you hate.
@@One.Zero.One101 nah it's really not, I'll watch Cassie react to it but that doesn't mean I would subject myself to watching this movie. At least Cassie admits that she has bad taste, the Philistines in this comment section are actually claiming this is high satire and that it didn't do well because it was "ahead of its time" 🤣🤣🤣
It was so wholesome to see Cassie getting references to the movies she's seen over the years of reacting, like Amadeus, Witness, Terminator 2 and Die Hard. :D
This movie didn’t do as well when it was released in 1993 as it was Schwarzeneggers first movie after the successful Terminator 2, however this movie lives up till today, you just need to get the humor of it
The fact that it was released one week after Jurassic Park just killed it.
It also came out at almost the same time as a little movie called Jurassic Park, which was the monster hit of that summer.
@billyboy5150 It was probably due to audiences not being ready for this very meta film , something i don't think people expected from a SCHWARZENEGGER film .
i Think it's great fun really , spotting all the references the way it cleverly plays off that !
90's films oh how we need entertainment like this again !!
@@harveylee51 , that doesn't make sense since Demolition Man came out that same year which also poked fun at cliche action movie tropes and LA. I feel like the film failed due to pacing and the weird tonal shifts.
It's the greatest!!
I absolutely love how self-aware this movie is. A perfect example of what a satire should be.
This movie didn't get a lot of love when it came out, and I never understood. It's a great send up of the genre and the man.
@@mallninja9805 2 things...I don't think most people knew it was going to be satire, and felt hoodwinked. More importantly though, it opened either right before or right after Jurassic Park.
Favorite part, which you didn't mention here Cassie, is when they walk into the police station past the T1000.
And Sharon Stone's Catherine Trammell. Although I'm not sure Cassie would want to check that film out yet....
Lots of Cameos...Van Damme, Tina Turner, Jim Belushi, Little Richard (friend of Arnold and singer of the famous Chopper scene in Predator, long tall Sally)...and big Cast with Anthony Quinn etc...and thetypical thugs from that time, Al Leong for example. And the mexican who drives the pick up in the first chicken play scene is the leader of the crazy gang at the beginning of Predator 2...
You are talking about the great Thomas Rosales Jr. He's been a small part of so many classic films! And he was probably killed in 80 percent of them, lol @@drhkleinert8241
Yeah , we all expect she saw that one.
"Im the famous comedian Arnold Schweinsteiger " just brilliant
Schwarzenegger singled out that movie as his most underrated: "Last Action Hero was great - it wasn't fantastic, but it was underrated. Now, more and more people are seeing it and saying, "I love this movie." I'm getting the residual checks, so I know it's true. It made money - that's always an important thing for me. Because it's show business, right?" Later, Charles Dance said: "I think they just didn't time the release very well. It came out more or less at the same time as something very big", referring to Jurassic Park. "But it was fun to do." He also praised Schwarzenegger: "Arnold is a very smart man, oh yes. Very definitely. And very funny, and very aware.
This movie was ahead of its time. No one knew how to market it. If it came out 10 or 20 years later it would've done much better.
I remember a lot of critics complaining that it wasn’t heavy on action despite being called “The Last Action Hero”
Instead it came out the 2nd week Jurrasic Park was in the theatre and got buried under it's own hype.
I liken it to Big Trouble in Little China - a satire of its own genre that went over a lot of people's heads at the time but way more appreciated in the years after.
Most underated movie ever.
There's a great video out about how brilliant (accidentally?) this movie really was. In the scene where Charles Dance gets the ticket and realizes he's in a movie but can go to the real world, he starts looking at and talking to the camera (breaking the 4th wall). He walks to the side and you can see the camera crew's reflection in the windows. Unknown if this was an accident or intentional, but it is seriously freaky to contemplate if he starts seeing the other side too.
Another fun fact, the teacher that showed the Laurence Olivier movie at school was Joan Plowright, Laurence Olivier’s widow
Wow lol.
Fun Fact, Plowright would be a great porn name
John McTiernan with the throw back to his own Hans Gruber death scene when Jack fell from the Elevator 😂
Gruber: twirling and falling Gun- Slater: twirling and falling piece of elevator...McTiernan is so underrated...
“To be or not to be…not to be” is still one of the best lines of ever
Who says im fair?
It's a bit weird, since the line is Hamlet contemplating whether to live or not, and Arnold's Hamlet chooses not to live. Then again, it plays well into the, "it sounds cool but doesn't make any sense if you think about it."
You want to be a farmer? Here's a couple of ache-ers.
I still wish for that over-the-top ridiculous Schwarzeneggar Hamlet.
Such a shame, we’ll never get Arnold Schwarzenegger as Hamlet.
Yes! Death is Magneto/Gandalf/Ian McClellan!
He's portraying Death from the 1957 Swedish Ingmar Bergman movie
The Seventh Seal. The film stars Bengt Ekerot as Death and the incredible Max von Sydow as Antonius Block, a knight, on his way back home to Sweden. He is disillusioned and exhausted after a decade of battling in the Crusades. They run into one another on a desolate beach and the
knight challenges him to a fateful game of chess. You can't get more of a film noir than that! It is a classic that everyone should see.
If one is pressed for time, you can watch Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey instead. It's only a slight drop in film quality.
Death cheats, too.
That doesn't sound much like it's Film Noir at all... unless you just meant to say (in French) that it's a dark film, irrespective of genre.
Ian *McKellen
@@mblackwl I was about to say... so that's where this "play against Death" idea came from!
My brother passed away last Jan. He and i saw this in the theater. I was 13. Good times.
I love the fact that the false movie was a Franco Columbo production. Franco Columbo was a competitive bodybuilder and friend of Arnold's. Great little Easter egg.
Same. Tickled me.
Charles Dance is the best at playing evil.
Golden Child!
@@MitchClement-il6iq 'Brother Noompsey!'
A 180! If i had done a 360 i woulda ended up where i started!
He's always chilling!
@@cmondevilsTrust me! **BOOM**
I admit(as fellow Star Trek fan!) I cackled when you were all about using the ticket to visit Star Trek but were all "maybe a less intense ship than the Enterprise." 😂 Girl I love you don't ever change...
Very underrated 90s action movie. The way it pokes fun at all the old action movie tropes is hilarious. 😂😂😂
The black and white film kids watch in school is Hamlet from 1948. It stars Laurence Olivier. The Class Teacher is Joan Plowright, is widow of Olivier... just amazing nod and the Arnold Hamlet, still love that scene so much.
"I just left one chamber empty" is one of my favorite villain moments of all time.
I love how the kid assassinates Hollywood tropes! Arnold exiting the LaBrea Tar Pits with not
a spot on him, the supermodel employees at the video store, the 555- phone numbers, etc...
Angie Everhart played the counter girl. GOD I loved Angie back in the day (she still looks damn good)...
My favorite trope roasted here is the angry black police captain screaming at the hero.
"you know, tar actually sticks to some people!"
and so, within the world of Jack Slater, to top the list, Stallone IS the Terminator - his best role ever! Does that mean Dwayne Johnson was Rocky and Mel Gibson was Superman? LOL
@@andrewmurray1550 Dwayne Johnson wasn't famous back then
Very underrated movie, I love how they made fun of the genre.
Premiere magazine listed Arnold Schwarzenegger as one of the top 20 most powerful people in Hollywood after T2. After this movie they upped him to top 10 saying that a movie that makes over 100 million dollars and is considered a bomb means Arnold was that powerful of a force in the industry.
Finally - someone noticed the finger pull. TBF there is so much going on in the foreground & background, movie references and trope riffs that you cannot possibly spot it all on a first viewing.
Ah yes the finger pull and the sight fart as the watch starts counting. Always found that hilarious
Something I just realized. The name of the director of the “Jack Slater” films was Arnold’s bodybuilding buddy, Franco Columbu. He also made an appearance in Conan the Barbarian.
And he played one of the skin suit terminators in terminator 1, in the flash back of Kyle in the underground base, when the dogs start barking and a terminator pulls out a laser gun. Thats Franco as the terminator.
Also in 1993, Columbu starred in a straight-to-VHS action movie in which Arnold had an extended cameo... as Columbu's character's bodybuilding buddy. It was a very low budget (and very bad) movie that Arnold likely did for free to help the movie get made and distributed (he and his name are even prominently on the VHS cover, despite being in it for only 10 minutes). He was definitely trying to help his pal get recognition in Hollywood around that time.
Originally the character was named Arno Slater in the script.
that's a coincidence...Peter Falk's character in "Columbo", first name was FRANK.
@programmerontheloose Franco Colombu was also a licensed Chiropractor and competed in the inaugural "World's Strongest man competition "💪 were he placed 5th he was known for performing amazing feats of strength on shows like "That's Incredible "
RIP Franco Colombu 🙏
One of the most overlooked movies in the React era. I have always liked this one.
Even disrespected when it came out. Great film! Happy to see you're watching it!
Every time a reactor reacts to an Arnold action movie I suggest this one.
In hindsight, this film does run into several flaws that I feel like wouldn't have happened if the producers stuck to the original script instead of trying to make it "family friendly".
This movie wasn't disrespected, it's simply not that great. That's not to say I don't enjoy it, but I like plenty of bad movies. This movie suffers from the same issue as the recent Thor movies: They went too heavy on the absurdity.
The NEXT film for Arnie, though, is where they got it right. I have said for years that TRUE LIES did what they were TRYING to do with this movie: Satirize the genre while still making a great genre movie. It has all the campiness without being so heavy-handed with it.
I'm not saying people shouldn't enjoy this movie. As I said, I really enjoy it myself. But just because we like it doesn't mean we need to pretend it's some high-art piece that "plebes" just don't "get."
@@Bad_Wolf_Media Nobody has even intimated this is "high art" nor labelled anyone a "plebe". Everyone has a right to an opinion, and, evidently some don't match "we's"
Yeah, I love this movie for what it is: a family friendly satire to the action genre of the 80's and 90's. Most people disliked this movie because since it had Arnold they were so entrenched on what they thought he should have done, they couldn't enjoy what they were given.
I'm glad you enjoyed it. At this time, his kids were afraid of him becoming the the T-800 from Terminator. It was at that moment that he realized that most of his films to this point weren't kid friendly, and that he wanted to try and branch out a little bit more to distance himself from that image.
"I know I am funny, I am famous comedian Arnold Brownswagger"
Originally from Germany, Braunschweiger is a type of sausage made from ground pork livers, along with other pork scraps, then blended with various seasonings and ground into a smooth texture then stuffed into a casing that is typically smoked.
@@nickinderrieden7630 Arnold Sausageman, ok, that's funny too.
I always thought of it as a play on colors, schwarz and braun, as in German for black and brown, I honestly just now realized he didn't call himself Braunsnegger!
@@nickinderrieden7630 fun fact.. Brunsviger is also the name of a danish cake, typically served at birthdays..
@@Wirenfeldt1990 oooh that looks so good. Looks easyish to make. Might give it a go.
@@nickinderrieden7630 It's pretty much just half sugar 40% butter and the rest is sponge cake.
You were able to tell Whisker was Danny Devito’s voice and Death was “Magneto” Glad you had a kick out of this movie! I speak for us all, we love you!
Death (played here by Ian McKellen, damn what a CAST this film had) is from the Ingmar Bergman film, the Seventh Seal, with Max von Sydow. It's a FANTASTIC film, and definitely one you should watch here.
And the great, venerable, award-winning Anthony Quinn. Yes, a great cast!
Dude, don't make her watch a Bergman movie. They are psychologically disturbing. His movie "Persona" is so messed up.
His first Hollywood role actually...
Hi ST!, I just made this similar comment then saw yours! I couldn't agree with you more!
Yes! Death is Magneto/Gandalf/Ian McClellan!
He's portraying Death from the 1957 Swedish Ingmar Bergman movie
The Seventh Seal. The film stars Bengt Ekerot as Death and the incredible Max von Sydow as Antonius Block, a knight, on his way back home to Sweden. He is disillusioned and exhausted after a decade of battling in the Crusades. They run into one another on a desolate beach and the
knight challenges him to a fateful game of chess. You can't get more of a film noir than that! It is a classic that everyone should see.
@@DoerOfThings8The Seventh Seal is very accessible and powerful. I haven’t seen any other Bergman but I love this one.
"Who's he talking to?" It was an embarrassingly long time before I understood why Benedict broke the fourth wall at this point in the movie. He understood after using the ticket that he was in a movie and for him to be in a movie, he knew there had to be an audience watching. So he was bragging to the audience. So, to answer the question, he is talking to you, in one of the first and most bone-chilling fourth-wall breaks.
Ahh...i never got that! That is creepy.
@@JStrange13 It really is a well-written movie. I like any movie I can pick up something new every time I watch it.
On top of that: as with several villains of movies, Benedict is the stereotypical "british villain"; not in nationality (although I think that was never expanded in the context we get of him), but he has the accent, the mannerisms... and the Shakespeare quotes/tropes.
One trope Shakespeare uses for his villains/characters (because there were no narrators back then in theather to explain complex details of a character's psyche) was the soliloquy, where (basically) the villain speaks his mind... to you. For example; here in Richard III: ruclips.net/video/pjJEXkbeL-o/видео.html
So, Benedict not only has figured out there is a fourth wall that can be broken... the intelligence to easily get the concept and play with it is, accidentally, already written in his character :P. And that's brilliant.
I guess he is technically talking to the audience in the world of Danny, but of course adresses us in our world at the same time. So he breaks 2 fourth walls at once.
Underrated gem... Great for my boys and I to see together. We loved it!
Claudius...you killed my fadah. Big mistake. Hamlet's taking out the trash. 😂 Such an underrated movie ahead of its time.
"To be or not to be?" (Flips lighter) "Not to be." (Lights cigar and boom)
Imposible not to read it in Arnold's voice
@@Nerivean Right? It wouldn't be right without his voice
"Back to the Future." I've always been fascinated with time travel.
Please watch "Twins". It's with Arnold and Danny DeVito.
A must-watch!
Twins and Junior double feature would be awesome
And Commando.
Twins and commando Solid.. junior meh not bad but not good either
Twins is mandatory for the channel. Commando, nah, she won't get that Commando is secretly a hilarious comedy. Junior was a monumental flop. I actually want to watch it again, it's probably not THAT bad.
@10:09 Cassie "ok, ok ok ok ok" What a a great "Leo" impersonation from Lethal Weapon! 😂
Nice! 😂
It just dawned on me, if they wanted, they could make a 2nd last action hero movie. The actor who plays Danny is still alive in his 40s, Annie is still alive, the ticket hasn't been destroyed. Maybe Danny became a scriptwriter, gave Jack Slater a happy life, goes into Jack Slater 15 for one more adventure and Jack Recognises him, that would be an emotional moment.
I would love this
This is now head-canon for me.
And, with the new age-retarding digital technology available, who can say how wondrously lachrymal such a reunion could be made to be? A commendably clever concept, and one deserving to come to the notice of an ambitious filmmaker (such as I once dreamt of becoming). 😎
They probably have to explain some of the biggest plot holes of this movie then. Like if Death is still in the real world. Anyone noticed that too? Like we never see if Death got transported back to the movie world.
@@osmanyousif7849 That's not a plot hole. Death already exists in this world, the movie just turns death into a physical manifestation, he's working according to his lists - in other words if it isn't your time to die you're perfectly safe.
This is where the line between sweet dreams and nightmares becomes blurred. It would be fun to have heros come out of movies, but it would be downright scary for villians to come out of movies.
Especially archvillains like Thanos or movie monsters like the xenomorphs.
On the other hand I am curious - would few different Hannibal Lecters work together or fight each other?
Very true.
On top of that, I love the overlooked idea that if it's an over the top movie, villains will be over the top too: the film is PG-13, kids won't die and stuff... but that doesn't mean the character hasn't done the most messed up stuff off-screen ("I've killed people far wiser and younger than you"); the only thing saving Danny from death/harm in the house scene is (literally) "plot armor" provided by rating.
@@toro5280 I guess that depends on the circumstances: if there is an interesting foe to defeat? Yes. If they are brought togheter to chit char about life and music? They would probably end up killing each other out of boredom.
@@DocuzanQuitomos It is an interesting concept for sure and it would take a lot of work and talent to really pull it off.
This movie is very similar to an earlier movie that was made by Woody Allen called THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO (1985), which starred Jeff Daniels and Mia Farrow. The same basic idea happens, where the real world and the movie world collide. It’s a charming film that you would really enjoy.
If you turn on Closed Captioning when Lieutenant Dekker, Jack's supervisor, is yelling at him & Danny & sounding like gibberish, those subtitles are CRAZY, lmao! He mentions the California Raisins are doing an all-male version of 'The Diary of Anne Frank', something about the mayor & a library bush & Tiny Tim on a totem pole & going to the beaches & finally you take the chicken out of the bag & stick it UP!🤣🤣🤦🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️ 🤣🤣 I love that guy. That's Frank McRae, btw, he is parodying a similar police chief character that yells in '48 Hrs.' & he parodies this same kinda character once again in 'Loaded Weapon 1'.. I love that guy's performances, man..😂 He sadly passed away in 2021 of a heart attack at age 80.. Rest in Peace, Frank. You were legendary bro..❤🙏🏻
John McTiernan didn't direct many films but some are classics. Predator, Die Hard, The Hunt For Red October, Last Action Hero and Die Hard With A Vengeance.
And this one, which is great. Then again, he did Rollerball, which would have blown a hole through any lesser directors career big enough to jump a bus through.
@@oscardiggs246 Rollerball was taken out of his hands, the script, the production, etc. - that's what caused the issues with the fbi, because he taped phone conversations that were people talking about how the FFFed him over with the Rollerball movie and were forcing him to direct it even though he didn't approve of anything being done with it
This movie was an important part of my childhood. I still feel like a ten-year-old kid when I watch it. Like Danny, I loved Arnold movies at that age, still do.
+1
This movie was way ahead of it's time with the meta theme. It got slaughtered by critics, but I think it's so much fun, underrated and creative! And You HAVE to check out the music video for the song "Big Gun" by AC/DC. Arnold asked the band personally to write a song for the movie and he starred in the music video wearing a school boy uniform just like AC/DC's guitarist, Angus Young, doing the duck walk and all. It's hilarious!
Highly underrated film. Didn't get the respect it deserved when it came out.
Something that took me forever to notice is that the henchmen aren't wearing squibs, so when they're shot, they just rattle around and fall over, no bullet holes or blood or anything.
@Emilysbrother1
PG-13 in 1993
@@Luciphell True (also feels like the Slater movies were R-rated until 4 was PG-13, like Die Hard would eventually be).
@@Emilysbrother1 I mean, eventually every action franchise that starts with hardcore action needs the money of the general market... which means aiming for a lower rating (even today that's one of the reasons super hero films started in the PG zone, much to several fans' dismay, and didn't dare to go into R ratings, until several experiments proved they weren't a commercial disaster, because there is enough audience today to make a profit).
How times and stereotypes of ratings change :P.
I am sure it is made right that way, its a typical "error" in many PG 13 movies. No-Blood-Shotwounds. In Slaters World its less blood and realism...
"Pre-screening" a film was the best fringe benefit of working at a movie theater. You get to see a film before everybody and their mom can spoil it, no crowd except for a few coworkers, and if you're the off-duty projectionist running the screening you literally get paid to sit on your ass and watch a movie.
Yep, that was awesome. We would usually send someone out to pick up food before we started; anywhere that was open past midnight. I still know how to build, break down, and thread the film through the projector. Everything is digital now, so they basically just put in a dvd and hit play.
But there's the unspoken curse of entertainment: You work when everyone else plays.
Tywin Lannister (Charles Dance) is one hell of an actor. He was even good as Sardo Numspa in The Golden Child 😊
Whoa I forgot Anthony Quinn was in this, the old guy in the loud shirt who introduces Mr. Benedict. Total film legend, worth looking up!
yes, and the uncle or cousin (i forget) he kills is played by the great Art Carney
Love this movie!
I know critics tore this movie apart, abd that it bombed at the box office, $137 million dollars against a $75 million dollar budget, opening the same week as JURASSIC PARK , but it's a fun wild action comedy film.
I remember seeing this as a kid a few times, but it was only when I watched it again last year that the Grim Reaper was played by none other than Sir Ian McKellan.
'I don't do fiction.'
Yeah, it took me a ways into adulthood to realize who that was and how cool it was.
I rented this at 23. I remember not liking it then. But now watching Cassie's react, I can appreciate it more.
I love Charles Dance, who also played Tywin Lannister in Game of Thornes, in this movie! He's brilliantly hammy and pantomime like Alan Rickman in Robin Hood. My favourite line is when he first arrives in the real world "I SAID I just shot somebody and I did it on PURPOSE!!" 🤣🤣
Also the Robert Patrick cameo as the T-1000 from Terminator 2 and Sharon Stone as her character Catherine Tramell in Basic Instinct
Meta before it was cool! I love this movie! I saw it in the cinema.
"Look an elephant" was basically what my friends and I said in HS during any situation we didn't want to deal with and we'd just walk away. A few other students knew the quote, but teachers and adults were always confused.
I remember this was in the theaters when Jurassic Park was, and it did not fair well. Partly because of Jurassic Park, but also because people did not seem to get that it was a parody of itself and all action movies, as well as Arnold Schwartzenegger. I loved this from the time I saw it in the theater, to the plethora of times I have watched it since. I find myself paraphrasing and quoting this movie quite often. I believe it to be one of those gems that people need to experience at some point in their life. And Charles Dance as the villain is one of my all time villain roles. He was so amazing, and I love when he breaks the fourth wall and does his monologue about "if God were a villain... he'd be me."
@@alanbixler6131 How can someone say something so insanely idiotic with such confidence? 7 years? Do you not know how to use Google? Do you even know how to count?!? They are both Summer of 1993 movies, and this came out literally like A WEEK AFTER "Jurassic Park." I should know, I saw them both in theaters that summer. 🤦♂️🤦♂️
I sincerely apologize. I remembered that way wrong and failed at Imdb. @@masterelmstreet5886
I deleted my response 'cause it was super wrong. Dunno how I fouled that up.
It didn't help that they marketed it as if it was a straight Ah-nold action vehicle rather than as a satire.
@@oscardiggs246 I remember seeing this movie in high school and seeing Jurassic Park while I was in the army, so I have a weird separation in memory. Sorry, not a robot. Just got my wires crossed.
A very good and underrated action comedy of the 1990s.
Its funny that Cassie remembers Ian as Magneto, but not as Gandalf. I mean his voice is unique and hard to miss.
No beard.
Yeah, the no beard makes it tough
@@DarkPaladin24 Also he wears a prosthetic nose as Gandalf.
@@Emilysbrother1 I didn't notice that
@@Emilysbrother1it's a coincidence that I didn't know that Gandalf is Ian McKellen too because of the same reason.
There was a huge ad campaign for this flick. They were really trying to capitalize on Arnold's mega-success post T2. Everyone wanted to get a piece. There was a big promo campaign with Burger King (you could get collector cups with your Kid's Meal), trading cards from Topps, action figures from Mattel, video games, etc. You name it, it was plastered everywhere! This was kind of a crazy summer for movies, too. Jurassic Park, Dennis the Menace, Cliffhanger (you gotta react to that one), Sleepless in Seattle, Hocus Pocus, In the Line of Fire and The Fugitive among others. I remember taking my nephew to see this and we both loved it. We totally embraced the joke and just went with it. In ways, it was ahead of its time.
As far as the movie world I would want to be real, having the enormous sweettooth that I have, it would be Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Give me some of those giant gummy bears and a river of chocolate and I'm good to go!
Love this movie. Arnold is great poking fun at himself. Charles Dance is a fantastic villain. Great parody movie.
One of my all time favorite Robert proskie roles. He was such a good actor.
"I just shot someone and I did it on purpose!"
My fave.
This concept was used in an episode of Charmed (original).
"I said I've just murdered someone and I want to confess!!"
"Hey shut up down there."
LMAO
My Dad and I saw this in the theatre. I was the perfect age range (13) in 1993 so I ate this movie up. It remains very much a favourite.
I'd go and fetch Christopher Reeve's Superman if I could pull someone out of the films.
If you could pick only one fictional movie character to bring into our world he's truly the only rational choice.
Great choice. Can't think of a better one off the top of my head.
I might get batman '89 and team them up
Or just Christopher Reeve. 😪
But in real life it would be an Actor looking like Christopher Reeve with a cape...no superpowers
Definitely ahead of its time. People didn't know what to make of it when it came out. Charles Dance steals the film for me.
My Mom died on Monday. I know it's off-topic, but I appreciate the distraction, Cassie. This movie flopped because it opened in theaters the same weekend that Jurassic Park opened. Very underrated film. In fact, I believe this is Arnold's most underrated film. And Charles Dance's Benedict is so much fun to watch.
I am so sorry for your loss.
@brianhatcher2799 thank you bud.
‘To be or not to be, not to be’. My favourite Arnold line ever!
I remember just adoring this film as a kid of about 7. Arnold was GOD. I didn't realize how poor the film did or how bad the reviews were because it still holds up so well! If I could go into a movie, I think I'd go into Pleasantville. I'd love that. Loved your reaction, as always!!! ❤
This one of the things that made Arnold the winner of the Schwarzenegger/Stallone wars of the 80s and 90s. Arnold was WAY better at laughing at himself.
Ironic how Demolition Man came out that same year with the movie taking dabs at Arnie.
@@osmanyousif7849 That's what I mean, Arnold laughed at himself. Stallone laughed at Arnold. Usually, anyway. Stallone just seemed to take himself more seriously (which might be appropriate, since he's a WAY better, more serious actor).
I loved in Twins when Arnold saw a poster of Stallone for Cobra and tried comparing his physique to him and said, "Nah," like he didn't measure up to Stallone.
Well, Stallone had Stop or my mom will shoot.
@@ashleywilliams1060 - Always interpreted that as the complete opposite, Arnold waving off Stallone as not measuring up to him.
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You really don't get any more nerdy than speculating which movie you would like to visit for a holiday. Well done, girl!
Yes, that was Ian McKellan (Magneto) playing the figure of Death (apparently from the film The Seventh Seal). Also I was overjoyed that you got the idea of the other half of the ticket before the characters realized
I love the bit about Arnie not being able to pronounce his own name! Arnold Braunschweiger indeed. Early in his acting career, he was convinced to use a simpler name "Arnold Strong" in Hercules in New York. Execs apparently told him no one could pronounce "Schwarzenegger"!
Cool to see it in original language, listen to Arnold when he drives on Bad Guys entrance and Danny say Schwarzenegger, Arnold answers Gesundheit (bless you)...And at the door by Dannys mom he says his Name Arnold Braunschweiger...in german synchro he said Arnold Beckenbauer (the famous soccer player)...
The actor who “killed Mozart in Amadeus” 1984 is F Murray Abraham as the rival composer Antonio Salieri
Now that was an incredible performance.
F - MURRAY - ABRAHAM (Simpsons reference)
Choosing a movie to go into is extremely hard, but I would enjoy meeting the McCann brothers from "Secondhand Lion." I think you both would enjoy that movie if you haven't seen it.
I saw this with cliffhanger at a stockton drive in. Bats flew by the screen all night.
This movie is so underrated. I love how silly this love letter to action moves is.
So many golden age of Hollywood stars in this!
Imagine what you would have thought about this movie when you started your channel here on RUclips. If your previous watching experiences was almost exclusively romcoms I don't think you'd have picked up on most of the tropes in this one. This one was definitely designed to be watched a way into your journey, as you did.
"Leo the fawt is gonna pass gas one mooah time." An action gem. There were a few films around then that were self-aware and poking fun at the genre's tropes. Idk if audiences were ready then, but It's aged well I think
so Leo caused "Volcano" in the La Brea tar pits.
7:53 fun fact: title of the movie says it’s Franco Colombo film. Franco Colombo is Arnolds friend, bodybuilder who played a terminator in small episode. Never have seen this detail until today))
2:42
Aw man,......the late great Tina Turner ladies and gentlemen.
R.I.P.
I am Hungarian, so I apologize if what I want to say is difficult to understand.
What's shocking to me is how popular superhero movies are today. But when this movie was released in theaters it was not popular and this movie never became a classic. However, its theme is the same, and in many ways more thought-provoking than today's superhero films. For example, the question of who would use that ticket for what, if such a movie ticket came into their possession.
This movie should be a classic.
I absolutely love this movie, I watched it repeatedly as kid. It’s so dumb and cheesy but also kind of wholesome at the same time.
Loved this movie as a kid, the story is so original you can't help but get sucked in. Underrated still imo.
Edit- Arnold's daughter in the movie is Bridgette Wilson, who also played Veronica Vaughn in the movie Billy Madison.😍
And also Sonya Blade in the first Mortal Kombat
I worked at a movie theater in 1993 - and I've tried several times to jump into a screen...to no avail.😅 We did get to "Check Prints" for Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Indy and a lot of other stuff...they were shipped in film canisters. You can had to splice like 6-8 reels together, add trailers, previews and see it was ok. Heaviest movie? Dances with Wolves....maybe 80-100 pounds.
Another movie based around a similar idea is Woody Allen's "The Purple Rose of Cairo". A rare case where he does not star in his own movie.
Show this movie to your boys Cassie. Come on, be the cool mom who lets her kids watch cool movies. 😉
This was one of my favorite action movies as a kid when I was 9. I loved all the meta humor about action films.
This brings back so many memories of when I was a kid. My dad used to record multiple movies on long vhs tapes so right after Last Action Hero was Tom and Jerry the Movie then after that was Secret Garden
8:18 This is legendary actor and Oscar-winner Anthony Quinn, whose career in movies began in 1936 and lasted until 1999. He died in 2001. He’s acting here with another legendary actor, Art Carney, who was most famous for playing Ed Norton on the classic TV sitcom The Honeymooners.
The line that always gets me in this movie is when Slater says to Schwarzenegger "I don't even like you." So surreal and such a strange thing to make someone say about themselves.
Yeah. I always felt that was meta. I can believe if Arnold saw that scene now he'd be like "Man, I didn't realize how much I was looking in the mirror and talking to myself."
I think lots of people wouldn't really get along with or like themselves, if they had a clone.
For myself, I have some shortcomings, and I think it's more inspiring to be around people who don't share the same shortcomings, but instead show another way I could be.
Conversationally I'd probably get along with myself okay, but it would be a boring conversation. Some people I know would fight with themselves though, because they're very talkative or prone to interrupting, etc and they'd get frustrated by a clone who is equally aggressive.
But this was specifically related to Jack Slater having to live with his son dying, and the actor never gave it another thought.
@@johnnybraccia452 Yes, it makes perfect sense in the movie's context.
then the kid says "what are you talking about?" you spent four weeks undercover as a Kindgarten teacher!
my favorite subtle 4th wall break in this movie is when the villain turns to the camera and gives his "if god was a villain" monologue you can see the sound stage in the mirror behind him.
You could tell that the actors must have had huge fun doing this, like Ian McKellen as Death saying, "I don't do fiction. Not my field."
It's a very underrated comedy. I think people didn’t know how to take it when it came out, which is too bad.
I've always liked this movie... I got it
I'm so glad watch a reaction to this movie, i love it the very first time i saw it, it is truly one of the MOST UNDERRATED movies of all time, a REAL MASTERPIECE as it makes criticism out of the very same action movies that were saturating the theaters on those days and at the same time says to really appreciate and fight in the real wolrd as if we were on a movie...
It is in my very top 3 movies of all time.
Im still waiting for your reaction to “Starman”. I know you like Jeff Bridges. His acting in this movie received an Oscar nomination.
He was such a lovable alien. Didn't hurt that he looked like he late husband.
Starman is probably John Carpenter’s (director) best movie. Also this movie isn’t considered a horror movie like most of his movies.
oof, it's a poor movie
my review:
"strong performances carry this otherwise poor movie, making it seem better than it is to many
Very compelling pieces for a story, but mostly focuses on all the wrong things, doesn't develop how it could (or much of anything at all), failing to be as meaningful or impactful as it should be given the content, and ultimately serving as an ignorant-messaging indoctrination of "primitive humans" and that homogenization is good - awful (it soft-peddles a 'humans are special...like a retrded lesser species) There are vague ideas floating around (bonding between strangers needing help, her emotional struggle) and present but they aren't at all thought out and Carpenter's execution of half-assed ideas present them as they are, half-assed and unfulfilling/shallow pretending at depth/wanting to be more than it was able, reducing it to forced drama, forced plot movement, forced everything, mostly feeling very empty as it floats from vague idea to vague idea.
it's like E.T.-lite written painfully badly and with globalization messaging thrown in where it could be
4.4/10"
Jack waved at the kid at the end was wholesome knowing he was watching
This is one of my all time favorite movies.
37:30 I just now noticed this, but the Black EMT in this scene is actor-director Melvin Van Peebles, who was a pioneering Black independent filmmaker most famous for his 1971 film SWEET SWEETBACK’S BAADASSSSSS SONG. His son is actor-director Mario Van Peebles, who has made such films as NEW JACK CITY (1991) and PANTHER (1995).
I love how she still says Riverdale instead of Rivendell.
maybe she actually meant Riverdale 😁😁
I saw this movie in the theater and really enjoyed it. Never understood why it faded away pretty quickly but it really hit my lifelong fantasy of entering a movie and living within that world. To this day I still use that premise to help me go to sleep, imagining going into and move or show and being all powerful so I can basically do what I want. Fun times.
From the director of Die Hard one/three, and Predator!
and The Hunt for Red October
13th Warrior is good too, not excellent like the others, but still good
This is like graduate level film geek stuff, I'm proud of you for getting all the references and just having fun with it. The Director of Die Hard and the writer of Lethal Weapon obviously love the genre enough to poke fun at it. Also I will forever associate this movie with Burger King, such was the insane level of marketing for this movie back in 1993. It tastes like... nostalgia. Love the reaction! Keep'em coming!