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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.
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Posted: April 07 2016 at 06:35
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.
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Posted: April 07 2016 at 06:55
`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).
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Posted: April 07 2016 at 07:42
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.
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Posted: April 07 2016 at 09:38
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.
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