Greatest Schwarzenegger Film
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Topic: Greatest Schwarzenegger Film
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Subject: Greatest Schwarzenegger Film
Date Posted: June 08 2010 at 01:01
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Arnie made a lot of films before becoming Californian Governor - but from the list above which is best?
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Posted By: TheClosing
Date Posted: June 08 2010 at 01:06
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T2 OBVIOUSLY
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: June 08 2010 at 01:10
Conan The O'Brien? True Heboobies? 
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: June 08 2010 at 05:47
| Total Recall. |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: June 08 2010 at 05:48
| Total Recall or Terminator 2, I don't know... |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: June 08 2010 at 06:38
| Total Recall or Predator, I'll go for Predator as it doesn't have any votes at the mo. |
Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: June 08 2010 at 06:50
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Posted By: deathlifereborn
Date Posted: June 08 2010 at 07:09
TWINS!!!!!  ------------- 'What happened to our innocence, did it go out of style' |
Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: June 08 2010 at 12:27
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Total Recall brings up more interesting ideas and concepts (and executes them with more accuracy and quality) than any other of his films.
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Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: June 08 2010 at 16:42
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Terminator. The second is really good, but the first is a bit more original and fresh IMO.
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: June 09 2010 at 10:48
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there is no such thing as a great or good Schwarzie film
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Posted By: CyberDiablo
Date Posted: June 09 2010 at 11:06
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Hasta La Vista Baby..... I'll be back....
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: June 09 2010 at 11:09
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Terminator I, excellent movie, the most realistic (despite the sci fi) and interesting, Terminator II was a joke and the II is less than a parody.
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Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: June 09 2010 at 11:17
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I love Schwartzi! Conan (eternal gratitude for the avatar of mine) , Terminator 1 & 2, Total Recall, they're all great, hands down. However, I voted for - don't laugh now - Last Action Hero. The movie was a commercial flop, it's not a masterpiece but it's good, damn! A good combination of parody and criticism of action movie stereotypes. It might look like a kids movie on the surface, but there are some healthy in-depth 'messages'. Moreover, there are some immortal scenes. Very underrated movie. ------------- |
Posted By: Evolutionary Sleeper
Date Posted: June 09 2010 at 11:32
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T2.
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: June 09 2010 at 11:50
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Man T1 is beating T2 - I thought it was masterful oh well
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Posted By: CyberDiablo
Date Posted: June 09 2010 at 11:57
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Did you know %97 of the world can't spell schwarzenegger?!
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Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: June 09 2010 at 14:26
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What, no Jingle All the Way?
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Posted By: deathlifereborn
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 06:04
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T2 (Arnie comes over for tea, a second time ) ------------- 'What happened to our innocence, did it go out of style' |
Posted By: MFP
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 07:17
| Total Recall followed by T2 and T1. |
Posted By: arkiknecht
Date Posted: June 19 2010 at 13:20
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T2, then Total Recall, and thereon his Conan films..... (I think.) T2 is really a diseased piece of movie, I watched it when I was a kid, Arnold as a huge killing machine..... superb.... The Guns n roses video "you could be mine" also rules.... Arnie entering the no good bar in all the leather on his iron motorcyclic horse. COOOOL.
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Posted By: jampa17
Date Posted: June 19 2010 at 13:30
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"I'll be back..."
T2 for me... but Eraser and Predator are two great films as well... he did a great job in all the Terminator saga... you are right.. he was a killing machine...!!! ------------- |
Posted By: Tursake
Date Posted: June 19 2010 at 13:45
T2 is easily the best, but for the 2nd place it would be much harder to choose a movie... Conan, Total Recall and The Running Man are all such awesome movies 
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Posted By: AbrahamSapien
Date Posted: June 19 2010 at 13:55
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Voted for True Lies because it gave me a good laugh. Are movies like TL, LAH, Twins parodies orjust so stupid? After seeing Chan's The Armor of Gods everything can be possible. |
Posted By: arkiknecht
Date Posted: June 19 2010 at 13:56
| running man i crazy beyond limits, it is simply genuine trash........ |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: June 19 2010 at 14:24
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I will correct something...I voted for the best not for the greatest Schwarzenegger film, because none of his moviesreaches the "great" level.
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 19 2010 at 15:09
...was all downhill from there.------------- What? |
Posted By: SergiUriah
Date Posted: June 21 2010 at 02:26
His roll as Governator counts also as best film??
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Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: June 21 2010 at 13:25
| I'm partial to True Lies for the hawtness that is Jamie Lee Curtis. |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: June 21 2010 at 13:28
That's one of those guilty pleasure movies. Richard Dawson is a total douche in that movie. His best work since Hogan's Heroes. Why hasn't Hollywood remade Hogan's Heroes into a movie? Andy Richter as Schultz? Bob Saget as Col. Hogan? |
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Date Posted: June 21 2010 at 15:40
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Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: June 21 2010 at 15:46
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The Terminator films are overrated pieces of garbage. True Lies gets my vote. |
Posted By: Bitterblogger
Date Posted: June 21 2010 at 18:47
| Ivan called it--"Greatest" and "Schwarzenegger" don't fit. But the action sequences in T2 are enjoyable, so I'll go with that. |
Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: June 21 2010 at 22:54
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While I am a big fan of the oft-maligned Total Recall, I have to give the nod to T2, one of the best sci-fi/action films ever.
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: June 22 2010 at 04:47
| Kindergarten Cop wasn't mentioned but I remember it as a very funny movie (I did see it as kid 20 years ago, though). |
Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: June 22 2010 at 05:29
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Most Schwarzenegger movies makes me think of progmetal conceptalbums. Storytelling on steroids. I did enjoy Total Recall when I saw it though. ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: Matthew T
Date Posted: June 22 2010 at 16:29
Terminator (1) Great Sci Fi with great action. Total Recall is as good but Terminator was 1st. He has done some stinkers ( Junior) comes to mind immediately Love Commando too ------------- Matt |
Posted By: Progist
Date Posted: June 25 2010 at 07:53
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End of Days, then Commando
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: July 04 2010 at 08:08
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The Terminator franchise is going well - i am T2 fan. Love Total recall though and True Lies - Jamie Lee Rrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaooowww -------------
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Posted By: FordPrefect
Date Posted: July 04 2010 at 08:28
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Terminator 2 is the best from A.S. 'Commando' is one hell of a comedy! ------------- Don't panic |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 02:31
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T2 is my vote -------------
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Posted By: Roj
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 07:34
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Total Recall first with Predator and Terminator 1 and 2 next.
I also thought Last Action Hero was pretty funny. To be or not to be? Not to be.
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: July 11 2010 at 01:52
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hmm, Conan (the sequel Conan the Destroyer wasn't in the poll BTW), then T1 |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: July 11 2010 at 07:50
oh yeah... the man is a born actor first Conan.. then Predator... that movie was SO badass.. helped by the best..err.. most badass cast ever assembled by man. also... famous for the greatest handshake in Hollywood history ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Geizao
Date Posted: July 14 2010 at 13:43
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Predator, then Terminator |
Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: July 18 2010 at 09:18
| T2 with Predator a close second. |
Posted By: Morningrise
Date Posted: July 20 2010 at 10:40
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T2 |
Posted By: krishl
Date Posted: December 07 2010 at 16:30
| The Terminator |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 07 2010 at 17:04
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You know that one? Where he kills a lot of people?
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Posted By: Lark the Starless
Date Posted: December 07 2010 at 19:16
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Predator is alright ------------- 
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Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: December 07 2010 at 19:47
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: April 07 2016 at 06:24
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It is a hard choice between Conan and Predators. I guess I'll go with the former as it very eloquently dances around the fact that Arnie can't act. He doesn't need to though...especially in this flick. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Skalla-Grim
Date Posted: April 07 2016 at 06:35
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Two of "his" films are really good, "Total Recall" and "The Terminator". Though it isn't Schwarzeneggers participation that makes them good. I think Predator is watchable. I don't really like his other films, as far as I remember them. ------------- "4/4 - That's 5/4 minus one." - Don Ellis (1934-1978) |
Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: April 07 2016 at 06:55
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`Commmando', one of the greatest pure action films of all time. A big dumb fast-paced comic-book action fest with a larger than life hero and plentiful homoerotic laughs, and one of the greatest body counts in film history (from what I recall, 99 dead baddies in an 88 minute length film! ). Up there with the best flicks of the one-man-army action flicks like `Hard Target', `The KIller', `Hard Boiled', the fourth Rambo film, etc. Although he's seriously made a ton of great action flicks (and his recent Sly Stallone team-up `Escape Plan' was a ripper too). |
Posted By: Skalla-Grim
Date Posted: April 07 2016 at 07:42
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In my opinion, "Hard-Boiled" and "The Killer" are on a totally different level. The action sequences in those films are masterpieces of choreography and cinematography. "Commando" is rather a run-of-the-mill 80s action flick with a certain irony because it never tries to conceal how stupid it is. The action sequences are rather average in my opinion. ------------- "4/4 - That's 5/4 minus one." - Don Ellis (1934-1978) |
Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: April 07 2016 at 09:38
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To 80's action fans, the likes of `Commando', `Cobra', `The Punisher', `Invasion USA', etc are Holy Grails! I could name endless examples that fans adore. A lot of the enjoyment of those films comes from the nostalgia factor, as in pretty much growing up with them, and having a good sense of humour about how larger than life and absurd they are. I would still happily take even the poorer, most bone-headed films from that period over many of the charmless, drab, deadly serious garbage that gets sold as action films these days - `The Bourne Identity' sequels - I'm looking at you! Thank goodness for currently active action directors like Isaac Florentine who completely embrace the 80's/90's influence of both Eastern and Western pure action flicks. (That sh*t is pretty much exactly what I see whenever I close my eyes!  And of course those Woo flicks are on another level, hugely influential too, and both hold up very well. But I have to say, not really a single outright bad film on that Arnie list above. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: April 07 2016 at 09:52
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Destroying all his films would be in the best interest of mankind......and one demerit to Guldbamsen for restarting this thread. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: April 07 2016 at 10:04
Oh, Wu, it's like you've taken a Delorean back in time to my childhood/teenage years and kicked me square in the nuts! 
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Posted By: AEProgman
Date Posted: April 07 2016 at 10:11
I did not see his real life action film, The Governator so I voted for Predator. Still watch that thing once a year... ------------- 
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 07 2016 at 15:08
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Posted By: jayem
Date Posted: April 07 2016 at 17:42
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Total Recall, at least before the final butchery. Dreaming or not dreaming, etc. We escape from those eternal blue-grey-white-black colours we find in tons of action films, like... ...films like T2. T2 is very well made and has all its coolness despite some poor choices and ideas. A good souvenir, the more because of the T1000 concept that foreshadows one of the greatest futuristic projects we have good reasons to believe as feasible: microbots that combine and shape into any appearance we'd program them to shape. PLUS we owe T2 the magnificent Hot Shots 2 ending !! Commando also nominated for the decided-man-on-the-dinghy scene and what follows... Schwarzie has an amazing career record! If I only could laugh for good, and not think about how those films would shed a positive light on soldier jobs and would encourage people to enlist for real... ------------- http://www.digger.ch/?lang=en" rel="nofollow - Support mine-clearing ! https://bandcamp.com/machinechance/?lang=en" rel="nofollow - bandcamp collection |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: April 07 2016 at 20:19
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Only one? CONAN ------------- |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: April 07 2016 at 22:46
Kindergarten Cop |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: April 08 2016 at 06:26
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Maybe it's because we are about the same age, but I share Michael's romantic connotations to the 80s action movies. For a couple of years my film diet consisted entirely of Bloodsport, Kickboxer, American Ninja, Commando, Lion the Streetfighter, Rambo, Rocky, Predator and the likes. Hell I was even a fan of Michael Dudikoff and Dolph Lundgren at one point I remember watching Bloodsport every day for an entire summer vacation. I ended up being able to do splits and all sorts of cool manoeuvres - much to the discontent of my fellow playmates - who all were incredibly jealous. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: addictedtoprog
Date Posted: April 08 2016 at 11:18
| Terminator 2 |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: April 08 2016 at 11:59
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Terminator 2 was full of effects, but Terminator I is an excellent movie. It was original, interesting and solid while T2 was pure paraphernalia and melodramatic. -------------
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Posted By: TeleStrat
Date Posted: April 08 2016 at 12:14
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There are some very good movies here and a couple of so-so movies as well. My boys and I (not so much my daughter) watched a lot of action movies back then and still do today. The biggies already have a lot of votes (but I was not impressed with Total Recall). I really liked True Lies, Eraser and End Of Days and voted for End Of Days.
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 08 2016 at 15:54
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T2??? really...wow. Yet another example of never being able to account for tastes. Nothing on the original much less Conan or Predator. Get to the Choppa!!!! here was the best part of T2 for me.. GnR baby!!!! ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: April 08 2016 at 17:14
Arnold was pretty damn funny in that movie. Everybody onto dah cah-pet! ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |