Fun fact: the studio didn't want to invest in this movie, but Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito believed in the project so they agreed to be in the film with no salary, only with the promise of a percentage from the film's profits. Off a budget of just 18M, it earned 216 million raking them in a lot of money.
I believe this film was Arnold’s biggest payday, and is one of the reasons that studios stopped making those kinds of deals and offering a share of the gross.
@@dansmith7009 They got bit a couple of times like this, but Star Wars and Back to the Future were the big ones. They gave Lucas merchandising and other rights. Then they paid the BttF actor percentages of the profits, (The actor who played Bif says the studio claimed for decades the BttF lost money). Studios stopped making these deals so quickly, then they tried again with DowneyJr on Ironman. Marvel might have flopped, Downey was unreliable, but the result was the MCU, and Downey made a fortune.
43:16 The girlfriend was played by Kelly Preston. Sadly she passed away in 2020 of cancer. She was in a lot of movies over the years, and was married to John Travolta for 29 years, until her passing.
The stuff with Vincent discovering what the doctor thinks about him and how Julius explains their different experiences in life... it hits different as an adult. As a kid I thought of DeVito's character as more of a joke and as an adult I see him as the real pathos of this story. Yes, it's a silly comedy. But also, there's a lot of heart here.
Kelly Preston was my first celebrity crush. That scene where Arnolds character joins hers in the back of the sedan will forever be burned into my memory.
I remember her probably the first big impression .. "Space Camp" but also enjoyed her in "The Experts". Wish she was still around since they are talking up a "Sky High" sequel.
I love the fact that Arnold and Danny became incredibly close friends through this movie. I also love the fact that Danny tricked Arnold into getting high as fuck on the set of this film.
@@demetriusreynolds8178 You may also like Mischief, Amazon Woman Of The Moon, Christine and SpaceCamp to name a few of her films. Not to mention her appearance on an episode of Tales From The Crypt season 2 episode 2 titled The Switch, which Arnold Swarzennegger directed!🤗🧟🎥👍
Im a twin born in Santa Fe NM. I loved this movie growing up. My brother and I reenacted the suit walk in front of the St. Francis cathedral when we were kids. I went to middle school in a building 50 ft from where they're standing in that scene.
Wow, this movie was made for you, lol. My mom lives in Santa Fe, it's maybe my favorite place on Earth. I've seen it crowded, but never with throngs of people walking across San Francisco St, like in this movie. 😄
@Johnny_Socko It happens a couple times of year but it definitely has to be a special event to see that many people. Zozobra or Indian Market or Pancake breakfast.
The woman who plays “Mama” Mary-Ann Benedict is Bonnie Bartlett. She is married to William Daniels, the voice of KITT on Knight Rider as well as Mr. Feeny on Boy Meets World. My favourite role of Bonnie Bartlett’s is as Grace Snyder on Little House on the Prairie. Any fellow Little House fans here? 😁
@@busimagen I find it to be a great show to watch for motivation to start new projects, especially the first few seasons. Hard to believe the show is 50 years old now!
I never saw anyone ever smoke in a super-market. Born in 1975, so lived all through the 80's. But they did have smoking sections in restaurants until the late 1980s... never seen smoking in restaurant past 1990.
Jesus Ashleigh! Your face after you said you'd let Arnold throw you around nearly killed me! I almost choked on my crispy chilli chicken I was laughing so hard🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
25:53.... his iconic catchphrase... "I'll be back" ... for a few years he always tried to fit that into his movies. It became a thing to look out for it.
Twins was proof that Arnie could be funny. Until then he was only known for playing tough guys and the Terminator. Looks like you need to watch Ruthless People (very underrated comedy) and Romancing the Stone for more 80s Danny De Vito and Conan the Barbarian for more young Arnie. Also True Lies, his action comedy with Jamie Lee Curtis.
Arnold proved he could do comedy before "Conan." Look for a late 70s western called "The Villain." Also, "Pumping Iron" is good for Arnold's unintentional comedy.
Ikr? I've been waiting for this since that news first came out, still waiting for it. It would be so funny 😂 I really hope we still get that movie one day.
@@Overlord0011 It's not going to happen according to Arnie after Ivan Reitman died the movie got screwed and cancelled and Jason Reitman didn't want to move forward with the project!🧐😮🙆🤔
@@TheBraunMachine2K24 Sorry Tripets has been cancelled due to the death of Ivan Reitman who was set to direct and his son Jason doesn't want to move forward with the project according to Arnold.
The scene with the Stallone poster was an easter egg. The two of them were major action film rivals during the 80s and 90s, and this was a playful jab at Stallone.
@@christopherlarock9062 I always loved that moment in LAH, such a memorable scene. "The man is an artist, it's his best performance ever." "But that was you, you were in that movie."
Ashleigh be like “They're smoking in a store ! He’s reading a Playboy in a store!” We had a LOT more freedom in the 80s. I was there. (Incidentally, I saw this movie while on a date when I was in high school. It’s hard to conceptualize that you weren’t even born yet.)
Smoking wasn't banned in hospitals until 1997 here in Michigan. I grew up eating in the smoking section of restaurants until my senior year when the indoor smoking ban of 2009 was enacted.
@@firedoc5 I have vague memories of me sitting in the baby seat by the handles, with my mom smoking while pushing the shopping cart through the aisles of the grocery store, and tapping the ashes into an ashtray attached to the cart handle.
Because the studio was so reluctant to put Arnold in a comedy, he, Danny and director Ivan Reitman all agreed to not take a salary upfront; in exchange they got percentage points on the gross at the box office. According to Arnold, he makes so much residual money off of TWINS, he’d never have to do another movie ever again.
OMG Junior...one of the most cursed movies ever. I saw it when I was 9 and that is a VERY confusing movie for a gay closeted 9 year old boy to watch lol
This movie came out the same year as "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" and "A Fish Called Wanda." 1988 was a pretty wild year at the movies insofar as comedies.😆🤣
The lady playing Vince Benedict's secretary also had a small role in the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie Total Recall, as did the actor who played Webster, the guy who was meant to steal the car.
I love this movie so much. Danny and Arnold work together so well. And the innocence that Arnold portrayed. 😂 Great performance. Odd to see him play so gentle and pure.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was absolutely brilliant to go into comedy after Predator and Terminator. The contrast enhances the humor endlessly...it's not a tumor!
IIRC, his very first movie was "Hercules in New York". Might fit in to the "so bad it's good" category, or maybe it's just plain bad. They didn't trust Arnold's accent, so all his lines are dubbed over. Co-stars another Arnold - Stang.
Aqua Velva is a notoriously inexpensive after shave that is one of the most popular of all-time. Back in the 70's, the 3 most popular after shaves for men were Brut, Old Spice, and Aqua Velva. Virtually EVERYONE wore 1 of the 3, as colognes weren't as popular for working class men as they are now.
"Lassie! I've never seen that movie." LOL! Ashleigh, I love you so much! You knew it was a movie first! I didn't even know that, though I knew it was based on a book. The first movie "Lassie Come Home" (1943) was filmed in the US, but took place in Scotland-Yorkshire, and starred Roddy McDowell. However, "Lassie" was best known as a TV show in the US that aired 1954-1974. Also, Lassie was almost always a male dog actor. 💙
Ashleigh, i love your reactions. Got to say as someone who was adopted at birth in 1981 and finally finding and meeting my biological mum 8 years ago any confused thoughts and questions went out the window as soon as i saw her. We just looked at each other had a cr6 and just hugged. I knew it wasnt her fault. A young single 19 yr old from a Catholic family she was forced to give me up. I have a whole extra family now with 3 half brothers and nieces and a nephew. ❤
@@muppetsstoogesfan1I loved that movie as a kid. I had the musical soundtrack on vinyl record, and my older sister, Debbie, played Olive Oyl in a live stage ballet version.
@@muppetsstoogesfan1 It is the only other real choice for Duvall in a lead role... sure, Roxanne is a good supporting option, but that is Steve Martin skipping chewing and just choking down all the scenery he can get, meaning even Damon Waynes, Fred Willard, Michael J Pollard, & Daryl Hannah become glorified extras to the One Man Show of Steve and the Rhinoplasticians Nightmare
In 1992 I moved from California to Tennessee and was blown away by people smoking in the Piggly Wiggly. There were ash cans at the ends of the aisles and there was a group of people hanging out at the bakery drinking coffee and smoking. It was the weirdest thing. California's indoor smoking ban was still a couple years down the road, but I'd still never seen smoking in a grocery store before.
Oh this is such a great feel good movie! There were talks of a Sequel, TRIPLETS, with Eddie playing the role of a third brother, but production on the film was cancelled due to the death of director Ivan Reitman in 2022.
Arnie and DeVito paired up again in Junior in 1994. People tell me it's a bad movie (but then they say the same about Twins and I think it's fun) but I remember enjoying it, if you wanna see more of these two :)
Manual drive (AKA stick shift), as opposed to automatic transmission. Car phones would be installed by the buyer. Sadly, Kelly Preston (Arnold's girlfriend) passed away in 2020 at the age of fifty-seven, after a battle with breast cancer.
Also Kelly Preston was married to John Travolta up until her death (about 20 years), and they had 2 children, (one of whom also sadly passed away in 2009, so yeah John Travolta has gone through some tough times over the couple decades.
This movie shares a number of very similar moments with the movie "Rain Man" which came out the same year. My screenwriting teacher in film school had a pet theory that both projects were developed from the same script or pitch but developed in different directions.
"Arnie's little girlfriend" in this movie is Kelly Preston. She was a pretty well known actress in her day. Was the real life wife of John Travolta, and has sadly since passed away. I'd agree though, she was always a pretty lady, but she's drop dead GORGEOUS in this film.
Resident old dude here 👴. Smoking in public areas used to be very common. Hell, movie theaters actually used to have ashtrays built into the arms of the seats. As a teenager in the 70s (I know I started very early) I used to smoke while watching the weekend matinee in the theater balcony. When they started to eliminate smoking in public venues, the smoking area moved exclusively to the balcony until the theater was abandoned. Ironically, having been closed for twenty years after smoking was banned in theaters, it was destroyed by a fire during restoration by the historical preservation society. Who could've guessed. I miss that place every time I drive passed that parking lot😢.
Another person you might not have noticed is David Caruso as the Parking Attendant. Caruso would go on to star in TV shows like NYPD Blue and I believe CSI Miami.
Re: car phones, yes, you could get one as a dealer option or (most likely) an aftermarket add-on. Little over 20 years ago, my mom had a '94 Ford Explorer gifted to her by a family from church that had a carphone _and_ a CB radio. I miss that truck.
This movie was a childhood favorite of mine I love it, and Kelly Preston.. sheesh for a young teenage boy back in the day she did a number on me... that hotel scene, have mercy. Ashleigh Devito and Arnold team up again in the movie Junior, its fantastic and funny and endearing as well. Please watch it soon!
@@NightRanger-lz6tp She wouldn't have that problem on Rumble. Reactions and reviews are exceptions to established copyright laws since they are transformative in nature. RUclips doesn't seem to understand that.
13:46 They were sold separately from the car for the most part, a few luxury car brands did have them as a feature (but not cars like Ford, Chevy, Nissan, etc). Car-phones were the "cheap" way to access mobile phone signals, in the early days of cellphone technology (in 1984), A car-phone cost $2k and a cellphone cost $4k (plus $25 a month, and unto 40 cents a minute). The first cellphone was the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X it weighed 2 pounds, and was about 12" long, 2" wide, and 4" thick. It looked like a fancy version of the Vietnam era military radio communicators (without the giant battery and transmission backpack).
Smoking was allowed everywhere until 2009. Hell, smoking wasn't banned in hospitals until 1997 here in Michigan. My mother's doctor told her to go take a smoke break around the hospital to stimulate labor for me in 92.
I smoked in my hospital room the night before having my tonsils out in 1975. Nurses might come in and have a smoke break with you. Things have really changed!
My dad surprised me by loving this movie, lol. He later watched it with his grandsons when they were 2 and 3, and they came home talking about it. Happy you enjoyed it. Hoping you are well, and all is great. Oh, and hi from Manitoba, Canada!
13:36 Some luxury cars were sold with car phones pre-installed as an option, but most of the time car phones were an aftermarket add-on. The phones themselves were a few thousand dollars, and the service was fairly pricey too, so car phones were mostly for the upscale, wealthy driver.
Why aren't you wearing the shirt Ashley? No they are not identical. No we can't mention his hair. He's never been off the island. That is Slyver staolone as Rambo. He's meeting the world for the very first time. Vincent is renting his furniture. Aquavelvaa is Aftershave. You had to have the Carphone put into your car. They were the Cellphones before Cellphones. Yes the doctor lied at birth. Kobe was no older then 12 in 1988. This came out before Kindergarden Cop. It was her the whole time. Yeah the woman who played Arnold Girlfriend here is Kelly Preston aka Mrs. John Travolta.
Roots is a miniseries, followed by another miniseries. Highly recommend the whole thing. I can recite the lineage in it by heart. It's very compelling and full of character.
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Arnold and Danny both played Batman villains 😂
In cold/frozen environments no less.
Their origin stories
And their mother was later known as Linnea, Destroyer of Worlds.
Twins indeed.
Who would have thought The Penguin and Mr. Freeze would make good twins. 😂
Fun fact: the studio didn't want to invest in this movie, but Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito believed in the project so they agreed to be in the film with no salary, only with the promise of a percentage from the film's profits. Off a budget of just 18M, it earned 216 million raking them in a lot of money.
Otoh Donald Sutherland wanted no part of Animal House and insisted on straight salary.
I believe this film was Arnold’s biggest payday, and is one of the reasons that studios stopped making those kinds of deals and offering a share of the gross.
Eighteen...MILLion dollars!! 💰
He's still making money from the film, his percentage included TV rights, merchandising etc.
@@dansmith7009 They got bit a couple of times like this, but Star Wars and Back to the Future were the big ones. They gave Lucas merchandising and other rights. Then they paid the BttF actor percentages of the profits, (The actor who played Bif says the studio claimed for decades the BttF lost money). Studios stopped making these deals so quickly, then they tried again with DowneyJr on Ironman. Marvel might have flopped, Downey was unreliable, but the result was the MCU, and Downey made a fortune.
43:16 The girlfriend was played by Kelly Preston. Sadly she passed away in 2020 of cancer. She was in a lot of movies over the years, and was married to John Travolta for 29 years, until her passing.
Poor John Travolta. Great actor, but how much suffering in his life. He lost 2 life partners to the same disease (breast cancer) and lost his son.
@@ScarlettMand 2 best friends. Olivia Newton John and Kirstie Alley.
@ScarlettM
Scientologists probably lose more people than average.
Afaik medication could have saved his son. Not sure about the others.
Kelly Preston was also John Travolta’s wife
@@stephenmackey2051 that's they said. Married to Travolta for 29 years
Smoking in a grocery store? Car phones? It was the 80s!
DNA test?
Good times
Smoking indoors. Nothing was lost!
Crazy how people just smoked *everywhere* lol.
I remember when we used to live in a free country
R.I.P. Bob Newhart. 9/5/1929 - 7/18/2024. He had a great run.
oh no!
@awkwardashleigh Bob Newhart was the principal in "In & Out" which you reviewed not that long ago. RIP Bob Newhart.
no, bro - he just woke up is all, show 3 of the newhart show ended, now he's on to #4.
Grew up watching reruns of The Bob Newhart Show in the 90s. Always loved his dry wit! He will be missed!
It's been a hard week with celebrity deaths
"You're a bonus"
I love you for that, Ashleigh.
"She's got those pants pulled up so tight she's gonna give herself a yeast infection!" My wife spit her drink out! 🤣👍
LMFAO!!!
The stuff with Vincent discovering what the doctor thinks about him and how Julius explains their different experiences in life... it hits different as an adult. As a kid I thought of DeVito's character as more of a joke and as an adult I see him as the real pathos of this story. Yes, it's a silly comedy. But also, there's a lot of heart here.
It's the whole "nature vs nurture" thing. But to the extremes.
They gave audiences a little more credit back then, movies had layers
@@kingcosworth2643Movies are like onions...Shrek would agree!
I think you mean pathos, but I totally agree
@@jduncanandroid shoot, did I flip those?
Kelly Preston was my first celebrity crush. That scene where Arnolds character joins hers in the back of the sedan will forever be burned into my memory.
My wife laughs at me because I never notice blonde women exist and I think Preston is the reason why
She was a complete smoke show! RIP
Mischief = first time saw this woman. 😮
Same brother, same
I remember her probably the first big impression .. "Space Camp" but also enjoyed her in "The Experts". Wish she was still around since they are talking up a "Sky High" sequel.
Arnold & Danny are such a perfect odd pairing. You should check out Junior with them back together.
Ashleigh eyeballing Arnold and saying what a specimen he is…. lol fricken hilarious
Imagine when she gets to Thor: Love & Thunder!
That seat gonna get damp! 🤣
And yet she also referred to his costar as "Daddy" Devito. Ashley's got some wild tastes.
7 time “Mr Olympia”
i think that was John Travolta's wife.
@@internetsideshowshe has a broad spectrum of taste, as any true aesthete does
Arnold's post coitus expression will never not make me laugh!
Right? He's in Heaven lol XD
I've never heard "She's just a welcome mat" exclaimed with such jealousy :D
I love the fact that Arnold and Danny became incredibly close friends through this movie. I also love the fact that Danny tricked Arnold into getting high as fuck on the set of this film.
Danny being a mischievous but good hearted gremlin is my favorite thing about him.
you need to watch pumping iron/stay hungry, arnold cokes out when lifting and reefs out when feeding
"I miss Danny Devito.", President Schwarzenegger (the Simpsons movie)
Aqua Velva is an after shave that would have cost about $3.00 back then, it's the thought that counts.
There's something about an Aqua Velva man.
My old man? Aqua Velva and Old spice. Depending on his mood.
Aqua Velva, Brut, Hia Karate all cheap aftershave/cologne from the era.
Aqua velva... The Axe body spray of the 50s, 60s, and 70s.
"A man wants to smell like a man" - Pete Rose
RIP Kelly Preston. She was gorgeous. First movie I saw her in was Space Camp in 1986.
First movie I saw her in was a year before that in Secret admirer with C Thomas Howell and Lori Laughlin
@@demetriusreynolds8178 You may also like Mischief, Amazon Woman Of The Moon, Christine and SpaceCamp to name a few of her films. Not to mention her appearance on an episode of Tales From The Crypt season 2 episode 2 titled The Switch, which Arnold Swarzennegger directed!🤗🧟🎥👍
i loved space camp
And she was married to John Travolta.
@@alamc200 Yes I know and his sister is Ellen Travolta who was on Happy Days and Charles In Charge as Scott Baios mom on both shows LOL!🤗🧐📺♥
How could we cut "I did nothing, the pavement was his enemy" lol
one of the best lines ever.
Ikr? It's such a classic line lol 😂, I just loved Arnold's delivery.
Ikr? It's such a classic line lol 😂, I just loved Arnold's delivery.
Im a twin born in Santa Fe NM. I loved this movie growing up. My brother and I reenacted the suit walk in front of the St. Francis cathedral when we were kids. I went to middle school in a building 50 ft from where they're standing in that scene.
Wow, this movie was made for you, lol. My mom lives in Santa Fe, it's maybe my favorite place on Earth. I've seen it crowded, but never with throngs of people walking across San Francisco St, like in this movie. 😄
@Johnny_Socko It happens a couple times of year but it definitely has to be a special event to see that many people. Zozobra or Indian Market or Pancake breakfast.
@@Johnny_Socko Hope your mom loves Santa Fe!
The woman who plays “Mama” Mary-Ann Benedict is Bonnie Bartlett. She is married to William Daniels, the voice of KITT on Knight Rider as well as Mr. Feeny on Boy Meets World. My favourite role of Bonnie Bartlett’s is as Grace Snyder on Little House on the Prairie. Any fellow Little House fans here? 😁
She's also in Home Improvement
But Daniels's most important role is John Adams in 1776. That's ICONIC.
They were both in the series "St. Elsewhere". They have been married for 73 years!
@@busimagen I find it to be a great show to watch for motivation to start new projects, especially the first few seasons. Hard to believe the show is 50 years old now!
I grew up on Little House. Classic stuff.
Gotta respect the "badguy" who realised he was a small time car thief, and gave him the 5 million anyway.
All he cared about was the delivery is why, didn't matter who delivered it. :)
"I dont think thats the only thing that got bigger"
Ashleigh getting really thirsty over here
"are y'all smoking in a supermarket?!"
80's baby!
They ain’t just a Smokin’ cigs.
I remember smoking in the theatre watching this movie.
I never saw anyone ever smoke in a super-market. Born in 1975, so lived all through the 80's. But they did have smoking sections in restaurants until the late 1980s... never seen smoking in restaurant past 1990.
Yep. Used to have ashtrays at the ends of the aisles.
@@serinx Here in Nevada they still have smoking and non-smoking sections in restaurants :) There also smoking and smoke free hotel rooms.
Jesus Ashleigh! Your face after you said you'd let Arnold throw you around nearly killed me! I almost choked on my crispy chilli chicken I was laughing so hard🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Since you liked the combo of Danny & Arnold you should see “Junior” next, it’s hilarious too.
Oh most definitely I love them together in Twins but Junior is so much better imo
Yes
@@Katherine_999 I have to agree, Twins is great but Junior is hilarious: "I want my Larry, I don't wanna see you." 😂
I worry how it'll hold up with modern sensibilities, but, yes, I remember it being hilarious.
YES!!! One of my fave movies.
The biggest joke in this film is Arnie in a comedy, that in itself was a funny enough idea for a movie when this came out lol
Kindergarten Cop wasn't his best comedy, but has its charms as well. 😂
@@bethanyhanna9464it wasn't? What was then? I always thought of this as his training wheels when he went solo for "Kindergarten Cop".
He's been in lots of comedies. His first movie was Hercules in New York.
"An incredible specimen of human." - Ashley Burton 😂✌️
"My back teeth are floating" means ya really gotta go number one really bad.
I have been using it since seeing this as a kid.
@@christopherlarock9062 I think I picked it up in college myself, which was years before this even came out. But then I'm really old.
25:53.... his iconic catchphrase... "I'll be back" ... for a few years he always tried to fit that into his movies. It became a thing to look out for it.
Along with driving vehicles into buildings...
@@SpectreNUT Rubber baby buggy bumpers! Ha! I bet didn't think that was what I was going to say!
Twins was proof that Arnie could be funny. Until then he was only known for playing tough guys and the Terminator. Looks like you need to watch Ruthless People (very underrated comedy) and Romancing the Stone for more 80s Danny De Vito and Conan the Barbarian for more young Arnie. Also True Lies, his action comedy with Jamie Lee Curtis.
Arnold proved he could do comedy before "Conan." Look for a late 70s western called "The Villain." Also, "Pumping Iron" is good for Arnold's unintentional comedy.
All excellent choices. I’ve never seen anyone react to Ruthless People.
Growing up in the eighties we ALWAYS had a tall glass of milk with dinner, no matter what we were eating.
Truth.
The dairy industry had pretty aggressive marketing.
@@CliffSedge-nu5fv Milk! It does a body good!
2:31 That's Heather Graham, the lead actress of Austin Powers 2 (seeing as you've already watched it), playing the young version of their mother.
OMG I didn't even notice
@@awkwardashleigh Boogie Nights.
Just saying.
@@notjustforhackers4252 Boogie Nights is a great movie but I'm not sure it's RUclips-friendly.
@@notjustforhackers4252 That one would take a *lot* of editing.
*A lot*
A planned sequel called Triplets,with Eddie Murphy as the 3rd triplet has been mooted for years!🎩
I've never heard that before and now there is nothing I want more.
Ikr? I've been waiting for this since that news first came out, still waiting for it. It would be so funny 😂 I really hope we still get that movie one day.
That would sound so great
@@Overlord0011 It's not going to happen according to Arnie after Ivan Reitman died the movie got screwed and cancelled and Jason Reitman didn't want to move forward with the project!🧐😮🙆🤔
@@TheBraunMachine2K24 Sorry Tripets has been cancelled due to the death of Ivan Reitman who was set to direct and his son Jason doesn't want to move forward with the project according to Arnold.
41:55 And notice that, just like the scenes when they were babies, Vincent's babies are crying like he was and Julius' babies aren't.
Notice that Vincent's babies are the real twins that played Vincent as a baby, and Julius' babies are the real twins that played Julius as a baby.
The scene with the Stallone poster was an easter egg. The two of them were major action film rivals during the 80s and 90s, and this was a playful jab at Stallone.
A similar joke was done in Last Action Hero at the video store where Stallone as the Terminator was a cardboard stand-up.
@@christopherlarock9062 I always loved that moment in LAH, such a memorable scene. "The man is an artist, it's his best performance ever." "But that was you, you were in that movie."
stop it gurl! The smile after the "id let arnold throw me like that"!!!!! im d-e-d
Not Ashliegh predicting the mom and then being surprised at the reveal 2 minutes later.🤣🤣🤣
RIP, Bob Newhart.
Was he in this movie? I don't know him by his face so I couldn't tell.
@@SimoExMachina2he isn't
You need to find somebody reacting to "Catch 22", or "Cold Turkey".
@@creech54 Or Elf, or Hell Is For Heroes, or First Family
@@HemlockRidge Yes, how could I forget about "Elf"! 🙂
Ashleigh be like “They're smoking in a store ! He’s reading a Playboy in a store!”
We had a LOT more freedom in the 80s. I was there. (Incidentally, I saw this movie while on a date when I was in high school. It’s hard to conceptualize that you weren’t even born yet.)
I remember stores having ash trays set up down certain isles.
@@firedoc5 I remember ash trays being built into the shopping carts.
Smoking wasn't banned in hospitals until 1997 here in Michigan. I grew up eating in the smoking section of restaurants until my senior year when the indoor smoking ban of 2009 was enacted.
@@Thundarr100 Yep, in bigger stores.
@@firedoc5 I have vague memories of me sitting in the baby seat by the handles, with my mom smoking while pushing the shopping cart through the aisles of the grocery store, and tapping the ashes into an ashtray attached to the cart handle.
The whole reaction I was expecting hubby to stroll through wearing Ashleigh's shirt.
Notes from a men's urinal...
Flushing first reduces splash-back due to the waterfall
You learn something new every day.... :)
It also reduces the smell from the previous user.
"I did nothing! The pavement was his enemy!" 🤣
Because the studio was so reluctant to put Arnold in a comedy, he, Danny and director Ivan Reitman all agreed to not take a salary upfront; in exchange they got percentage points on the gross at the box office. According to Arnold, he makes so much residual money off of TWINS, he’d never have to do another movie ever again.
You can wear that shirt for a "Junior" movie.
I hope she watches that 😂
OMG Junior...one of the most cursed movies ever. I saw it when I was 9 and that is a VERY confusing movie for a gay closeted 9 year old boy to watch lol
Omg My dream would be ashleigh going in blind to that movie and seeing her expression as the plot evolves 🤣 it is the kookiest arnold movie ever.
This movie came out the same year as "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" and "A Fish Called Wanda." 1988 was a pretty wild year at the movies insofar as comedies.😆🤣
Other movies like Rain Man, Bloodsport, Coming to America, and Rambo III also came out in ‘88.
My kids cracked up the first time I said, "over the lips and through the gums. Look out stomach here it comes".
The lady playing Vince Benedict's secretary also had a small role in the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie Total Recall, as did the actor who played Webster, the guy who was meant to steal the car.
I love this movie so much. Danny and Arnold work together so well. And the innocence that Arnold portrayed. 😂 Great performance. Odd to see him play so gentle and pure.
The drama with the shirt is hilarious!
@14:27 that's Kelly Preston who would later marry John Travolta. She passed away of breast cancer several years back. RIP Kelly.
2 years ago. July 2020 Rip
Arnold Schwarzenegger was absolutely brilliant to go into comedy after Predator and Terminator. The contrast enhances the humor endlessly...it's not a tumor!
IIRC, his very first movie was "Hercules in New York". Might fit in to the "so bad it's good" category, or maybe it's just plain bad. They didn't trust Arnold's accent, so all his lines are dubbed over. Co-stars another Arnold - Stang.
Indeed! Who needs logic when you have an axe?
Fun fact: DeVito roofied Arnie's stogie with reefer on the set and got him stoned.
arnold was a stoner when he was lifting professionally - watch pumping iron/ stay hungry
@@swk38 Yeah, that moment in Pumping Iron was pretty memorable.
Aqua Velva is a notoriously inexpensive after shave that is one of the most popular of all-time. Back in the 70's, the 3 most popular after shaves for men were Brut, Old Spice, and Aqua Velva. Virtually EVERYONE wore 1 of the 3, as colognes weren't as popular for working class men as they are now.
"Lassie! I've never seen that movie." LOL! Ashleigh, I love you so much! You knew it was a movie first! I didn't even know that, though I knew it was based on a book. The first movie "Lassie Come Home" (1943) was filmed in the US, but took place in Scotland-Yorkshire, and starred Roddy McDowell. However, "Lassie" was best known as a TV show in the US that aired 1954-1974. Also, Lassie was almost always a male dog actor. 💙
Ashleigh, i love your reactions. Got to say as someone who was adopted at birth in 1981 and finally finding and meeting my biological mum 8 years ago any confused thoughts and questions went out the window as soon as i saw her. We just looked at each other had a cr6 and just hugged. I knew it wasnt her fault. A young single 19 yr old from a Catholic family she was forced to give me up. I have a whole extra family now with 3 half brothers and nieces and a nephew. ❤
0:41 "Tonight is your night Bro!"
You gotta be "one" of my favorites. Thank for the joy when we need it the most.
You gotta watch Junior now! Another one with Arnold and Danny!
Underrated!
Love this movie !
"Three Fugitives" - another great comedy from 80s with Martin Short. Consider reacting.
Such a fun film!
Three Fugitives was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid. I had a little boy crush on Meg.
And Nick Nolti
@@BobbiTopacio Yes, of course. Nolti was very hot in that movie. But I don't think Ashleigh knows who he is. Pretty sure she knows Martin Short.
Shelley Duvall? Shannen Doherty? The Shining and Heathers are must watches.
I didn't hear about Shelley Duvall! 😮
Ashleigh already did The Shining. I'm hoping she watches the live action Popeye for Shelley Duvall.
@@muppetsstoogesfan1I loved that movie as a kid.
I had the musical soundtrack on vinyl record, and my older sister, Debbie, played Olive Oyl in a live stage ballet version.
@@muppetsstoogesfan1 It is the only other real choice for Duvall in a lead role... sure, Roxanne is a good supporting option, but that is Steve Martin skipping chewing and just choking down all the scenery he can get, meaning even Damon Waynes, Fred Willard, Michael J Pollard, & Daryl Hannah become glorified extras to the One Man Show of Steve and the Rhinoplasticians Nightmare
@@TxSonofLiberty And it's also on the list of movies that Ashleigh's already watched on the channel.
I just realized that the bad guy is the same one from Total Recall.
He was the good guy in total recall
Lol Ashleigh sliding out of her chair whenever Arnie takes his shirt off
i'm always happy to see so many people love this movie
In 1992 I moved from California to Tennessee and was blown away by people smoking in the Piggly Wiggly. There were ash cans at the ends of the aisles and there was a group of people hanging out at the bakery drinking coffee and smoking. It was the weirdest thing. California's indoor smoking ban was still a couple years down the road, but I'd still never seen smoking in a grocery store before.
I have been requesting this movie for YEARS!!!! So happy Ashleigh is finally getting to experience this classic. 😃
My wife is a twin. People ask me if I ever find it hard to tell which is of them is my wife, but she doesn't have a beard
I think you'd really like True Lies -- action-comedy starring Arnold S. and Jamie Lee Curtis.
It's already on her channel. Great reaction.
Oh this is such a great feel good movie!
There were talks of a Sequel, TRIPLETS, with Eddie playing the role of a third brother, but production on the film was cancelled due to the death of director Ivan Reitman in 2022.
there is talk of it happening but who knows if its true. would be very interesting to see eddie murphy play the third brother.
It was Eddie originally, but they had moved on to Tracy Morgan.
Your quips are totally underrated 😭 you’re hilarious. “DeVito has to duck to get in a car?” 💀
Arnold and Danny= Gold
I've seen Junior... let's not lie to ourselves... Twins is great, Junior is the leftover crud that ran down the leg and somehow made a baby.
@@TxSonofLiberty oh yeah, forgot that one. It's really weird. Some funny moments but meh.
This movie deserves a sequel. Danny and Arnold are still with us, could be about their kids that are now having twins..
Arnie and DeVito paired up again in Junior in 1994. People tell me it's a bad movie (but then they say the same about Twins and I think it's fun) but I remember enjoying it, if you wanna see more of these two :)
Pretty much bettin' Ashleigh has left a man with that Arnold grin once or twice.
That one girl was in Ghost Busters 2 as Bill Murrays guest on his psych show, the one who met the 👽 at the bar.😄
@13:38 Both! I remember my mom bought one of her cars with the car phone installed but did not turn it on lol.
Manual drive (AKA stick shift), as opposed to automatic transmission.
Car phones would be installed by the buyer.
Sadly, Kelly Preston (Arnold's girlfriend) passed away in 2020 at the age of fifty-seven, after a battle with breast cancer.
Also Kelly Preston was married to John Travolta up until her death (about 20 years), and they had 2 children, (one of whom also sadly passed away in 2009, so yeah John Travolta has gone through some tough times over the couple decades.
damn.. I didn't know all that about Travolta.
Watch Kelly Preston in Secret Admirer with Lori Laughlin from Full House. Hilarious 80s teen ROMCOM
Every Europeans Know ho it work and we don't need a "special" driving licence
@supreme3376 ho does hat work?
This movie shares a number of very similar moments with the movie "Rain Man" which came out the same year. My screenwriting teacher in film school had a pet theory that both projects were developed from the same script or pitch but developed in different directions.
She totally NEEEDEEEDS to see Rain Man!
"Arnie's little girlfriend" in this movie is Kelly Preston. She was a pretty well known actress in her day. Was the real life wife of John Travolta, and has sadly since passed away. I'd agree though, she was always a pretty lady, but she's drop dead GORGEOUS in this film.
Resident old dude here 👴. Smoking in public areas used to be very common. Hell, movie theaters actually used to have ashtrays built into the arms of the seats. As a teenager in the 70s (I know I started very early) I used to smoke while watching the weekend matinee in the theater balcony. When they started to eliminate smoking in public venues, the smoking area moved exclusively to the balcony until the theater was abandoned.
Ironically, having been closed for twenty years after smoking was banned in theaters, it was destroyed by a fire during restoration by the historical preservation society. Who could've guessed. I miss that place every time I drive passed that parking lot😢.
Another person you might not have noticed is David Caruso as the Parking Attendant. Caruso would go on to star in TV shows like NYPD Blue and I believe CSI Miami.
he was on one of the first csi's
Yup, CSI: Miami.
Re: car phones, yes, you could get one as a dealer option or (most likely) an aftermarket add-on. Little over 20 years ago, my mom had a '94 Ford Explorer gifted to her by a family from church that had a carphone _and_ a CB radio. I miss that truck.
I'm still waiting/hoping for Goldeneye and Casino Royal!
She wasn't teasing Arnold. She was on hands and knees saying baby please.😂😂😂
RIP Kelly Preston.
This movie was a childhood favorite of mine I love it, and Kelly Preston.. sheesh for a young teenage boy back in the day she did a number on me... that hotel scene, have mercy. Ashleigh Devito and Arnold team up again in the movie Junior, its fantastic and funny and endearing as well. Please watch it soon!
So what happened to Austin Powers 2 and 3? Did Franchise Fridays fizzle out?
I think she mentioned that they are in Copyright limbo.
@@NightRanger-lz6tp Shall we Copywrite now or shall we Copywrite later?
@@NightRanger-lz6tp God/the universe seems to have some strong opinions on Franchise Fridays...
@@NightRanger-lz6tp She wouldn't have that problem on Rumble. Reactions and reviews are exceptions to established copyright laws since they are transformative in nature. RUclips doesn't seem to understand that.
13:46 They were sold separately from the car for the most part, a few luxury car brands did have them as a feature (but not cars like Ford, Chevy, Nissan, etc).
Car-phones were the "cheap" way to access mobile phone signals, in the early days of cellphone technology (in 1984), A car-phone cost $2k and a cellphone cost $4k (plus $25 a month, and unto 40 cents a minute).
The first cellphone was the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X it weighed 2 pounds, and was about 12" long, 2" wide, and 4" thick. It looked like a fancy version of the Vietnam era military radio communicators (without the giant battery and transmission backpack).
Smoking was allowed everywhere until 2009. Hell, smoking wasn't banned in hospitals until 1997 here in Michigan. My mother's doctor told her to go take a smoke break around the hospital to stimulate labor for me in 92.
I smoked in my hospital room the night before having my tonsils out in 1975. Nurses might come in and have a smoke break with you. Things have really changed!
smoking bans in public buildings started in the early to mid 90s.
@@jamiemacdonald436 Not in Michigan.
That smile after "I'd absolutely let Arnold throw me around." was just perfect.
21:40 - Salad...?
My dad surprised me by loving this movie, lol.
He later watched it with his grandsons when they were 2 and 3, and they came home talking about it.
Happy you enjoyed it.
Hoping you are well, and all is great.
Oh, and hi from Manitoba, Canada!
Danny: "You're a virgin!"
Arnold: "That's private. Besides, I'm saving myself for the housekeeper."
One of my favourite movies Junior is another with Danny Devito & Arnold Schw
Still waiting for Austin Powers 😢
13:36 Some luxury cars were sold with car phones pre-installed as an option, but most of the time car phones were an aftermarket add-on. The phones themselves were a few thousand dollars, and the service was fairly pricey too, so car phones were mostly for the upscale, wealthy driver.
Why aren't you wearing the shirt Ashley? No they are not identical. No we can't mention his hair. He's never been off the island. That is Slyver staolone as Rambo. He's meeting the world for the very first time. Vincent is renting his furniture. Aquavelvaa is Aftershave. You had to have the Carphone put into your car. They were the Cellphones before Cellphones. Yes the doctor lied at birth. Kobe was no older then 12 in 1988. This came out before Kindergarden Cop. It was her the whole time. Yeah the woman who played Arnold Girlfriend here is Kelly Preston aka Mrs. John Travolta.
I just remembered that Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger both played villains in Batman movies. They really should make a Twins sequel.
These guys work so well together. You should watch “Junior”
Roots is a miniseries, followed by another miniseries. Highly recommend the whole thing. I can recite the lineage in it by heart. It's very compelling and full of character.
Kelly Preston on the motel bed, and Linda Kozlowski by the river in Crocodile Dundee.... Those scenes were pretty mind-blowing for the time!!
This was one of _the_ movies of my childhood. One of the ones i watched over and over and over, like The Princess Bride and Willow.