Last Action Hero: Arnold Schwarzenegger's Biggest Flop or a Secret Masterpiece?

[@RyguyAlpha]

I loved how the villain discovered that murder in the real world didn’t result in immediate police response. “I shot him on purpose!” always gives me a chuckle.

[@jimthompson8947]

"Hey, shut up down therre."

[@travisjohnson622]

You just reminded me of that part! And Benedict was totally shocked to be in a world that was just as cold as he was. We're desensitized to it, but it totally blew his mind. Good writing through and through.

[@alswearengine4867]

Benedict was a great movie villain.

[@alexandroskupenga63]

My mate and I (still to this day) say... I just farted I did it on purpose... I said I just flatuated, and I want to confess.... shut up down there 😅

[@54scottie]

I think The Last Action Hero is a massively underrated film. In many respects it’s like ‘Demolition Man’ in that it’s a film that wasn’t appreciated when it was out, but is now getting a reappraisal

[@octoman_games]

Demo Man is one of my favorites too! Scary how a lot of what happens in Demo Man is happening now!

[@joseoctaviomorenorodriguez9541]

I hope Demolition Man gets a sequel. I still do.

[@Jffeeney3rd]

Loved demolition man from day one.

[@perfectallycromulent]

no, Demolition Man didn't have a crappy child actor in it. movies are almost always worse when a child plays a major role. there are just too few capable of acting competently compared to the number of roles. plus they have a fixation on casting brown-haired white boys with certain hairstyles. it really limits things.

[@delaceylehane7758]

@@perfectallycromulent Bullshit

[@SoCloseToToast]

One of the movies I rewatched so much as a kid. The soundtrack really put me onto some good tunes

[@trapcobain6778]

Hell ya i was acdc crazy after this

[@Yvolve]

Such a great movie! I rewatched it recently and it holds up so well. The sarcasm, self-awareness, fourth-wall-breaking and the plot which is both insanely over the top 80's action movie style, and pretty deep with the relationship between Arnold and the kid (bad with character names). It's a weird combo which shouldn't have worked, at all, but did so perfectly. Same goes for The Last Boyscout, which is super underrated but an absolute gem.

[@leejohnstone4663]

Love Last Boy Scout

[@tazinboor3913]

This movie has really inspired me to eventually start developing my animated film ideas with its good humor, action, and meta moments.

[@leejohnstone4663]

Charles Dance has the best line. "If god was a villain, he'll be me

[@DurkMcGerk]

>bad with character names He’s Danny Madigan. He’s a kid.

[@tazinboor3913]

@@DurkMcGerk 1. Cool profile picture 2. Who are you responding to?

[@section8usmc53]

One of the best Schwarzenegger movies overall, and definitely the funniest. The puns. The cameos. The off color jokes. The clichés. The whole premise of the movie. I laughed until I could barely breathe the first time I watched it. One of the more underrated movies ever, and I think that's mainly due to the crappy release and lack of exposure, even over time. So many people just never knew about it. When they do watch it for the first time, it's almost always "this is awesome ! How have I never seen this before ?!" Let's not forget the EPIC soundtrack. One of the best ever. Still one of my favorite albums. With so many total garbage movies that have made it big, it makes it that much more of a shame that this movie didn't get its proper due.

[@CordeliaWagner]

I watched my parents old VHS cassettes. I LOVE this movie. It's brilliant. Not every beloved movie is reckocknized as a masterpiece at it's time.

[@elichilton7031]

A filmmaker once said it is bad if your film is behind in the times or ahead of it's time because audiences will deride it for being passe or shunning it because it is not being understood. LAH is strangely in the middle, but time has been kind to this actioner and I enjoy it for what it is an absurdly entertaining movie.

[@Artofficial1986]

I really loved this movie. I remember how cool it was to see the regular life of an action movie star - like when he got home to his small apartment and killed an assassin in his closet so casually and how lonely and empty his life was away from the insane action scenes.

[@WyattWillis88]

This was my first movie ever seeing in theaters at 5 years old. I already loved action movies. All 3 Rambo films, Rocky terminators predator and this cemented my love for the genre even more. It really hit home with a boy who didn't have any father figure and looked up to action heroes for examples of strong male role models. The character of Danny was living out my fantasy I'm sure many fatherless young boys of teaming up with your favorite action hero💪

[@supersonical8770]

For me, it felt like a bit of a good send off for Arnold's golden era with Terminator and Junior. It is highly underrated and ahead of it's time. It's a little existential as well with the implications of the actors more or less being responsible for the pain and suffering the characters would have to go through (besides the writers of course). It felt natural in a way. I would definitely recommend this to someone that h

[@Mandrake42]

I loved this when it came out and would sing its praises to a mostly underwhelmed audience. I still love it today though I find when I speak to people about it its actually fairly fondly remembered by a lot of Arnie fans despite it being a flop back in the day. Edit: I do acknowledge that nostalgia is definitely part of how I feel about this film but it was also one of those cases of me liking it back in the day despite the bad press. In fact Id argue that the bad press is part of why I liked it. My dad used to run a video store back in the day and when this came out we had both read the bad reviews but of course got it for the store anyway (it was Arnie) and when we watched it we were both surprised how good it was. It got such a panning we went in with super low expectations and were pleasantly surprised.

[@peterrealar2.067]

Here's the thing though. I've NEVER seen this movie before today. It works SO WELL because it plays with the tropes, wrote the playbook for pointing OUT the tropes, and it even has a real world that's all too familiar. Heck, all it's missing is people being seen making fires and the cops being hurt by New York's citizens. It's SCARY accurate. Like looking at the current times from an older perspective. It even has theaters being SHUT DOWN. I'm like dumbfounded at this movie.

[@MegaSting1981]

Carrie Fisher? I had no idea haha! This is genuinely one of my most favourite movies of all time. Just love it. Charles Dance is brilliant as the villain. It's still rather underrated.

[@Supertomiman]

I watched it as a kid in the early 2000s and I loved it. I watched again yesterday and I loved it even more. I never would have imagined that it flopped in its day.

[@Madnezz4Ever]

Last action Hero wasn't that bad of a movie in my book. The whole idea of going into a movie or taking things out of one, would be an interesting idea for a TV Series.

[@coisasnatv]

I love Last Action Hero, the best! The problem is, some critics want to analise it from a point of view of God Father or something like that.

[@MrAsh1989]

It was a masterpiece. It basically sold America to me, a British kid. If it wasn't for that film, I wouldn't care half as much about America as I do now.

[@shoesncheese]

Charles Dance was fantastic in this movie. He reminded me of Gene Hackman's Lex Luthor in a good way. And I still think about "how do you get to Carnegie Hall" as a traitor reveal from time to time. I have no idea why it didn't do better at the box office. It was better than Eraser and on about the same level as Commando. It was better than Cobra (which took itself too seriously). Was it just because it went up against Jurassic Park? I don't know. I didn't see either movie in the theater, but watched them both on cable many times.

[@locomadman]

Ngl. I liked Eraser. Robert Pastorelli was a great actor, was just thinking about him yesterday in this role & the one he played in TV’s Murphy Brown in fact. RIP Mr. Pastorelli. You were taken from us far too soon.

[@thereviewber6754]

This movie is so underrated.

[@Bluboy30]

I'm aging myself here but I still remember the summer of 1993 movie season. It's heavily promoted as Sly vs. Arnold, the so-called box office "experts" all predicted that both Cliffhanger and Last Action Hero were going to be huge hits. No one predicted the biggest hits of that summer, Jurassic Park and The Fugitive, were going to be hits. I enjoyed Last Action Hero but it's an uneven and McTiernan was the wrong choice to direct the film.

[@uchidaoginome]

My high school was near Times Square so I was on my way home from school one day when they were shooting the "Jack Slater Premier" scene at the end. The cops asked me to walk an extra block or two to another subway station. I only heard the next day that they were shooting a Schwarzenegger movie and I was only a few feet from the hero of our youth. Anyway, I saw the movie when it owned the next summer and loved it! I couldn't understand why it got such a lukewarm or even negative reaction from audiences. I rented out a number of times on VHS and DVD over the years and always thought it was a great parody of the genre (particularly how action movies were made in the 80s and very early 90s) and it's silly tone helped keep it light until they enter the real world. As a kid, I think I was 15 or 16 when it came out, its willingness to mock kept things joyful until you need them to turn dark when he enters the real world in the final third. It was especially cool for me as a New Yorker because most of those cool action movies were made in LA and Chicago. I think that was the first time Arnold did anything in NYC! I've heard from industry people that it's just so expensive to shoot movies here, and because the land masses are so small and crowded with people, trucks cars and so much construction (hey real estate is big in this town) that it's difficult to make an action movie here. It's why you are so many more dramas, comedies and independent films made here. Smaller productions don't need to stop traffic, hire stunt drivers or clear blocks for explosions. Anyway, years later, as an adult, I'm listening to the Radio vs The Martians Podcast and in their episode on this movie, one of the guys says it perfectly. This movie was meta before there was meta. There was always parody but in the 70s it was the comedy writer and director taking on action movie tropes in movies like Airplane. John McTiernan helped revitalize and redefine the genre with Predator, Due Hard and Hunt for Red October and now he was mocking it! It was just too much for the public to bear in an area where people still took this genre very seriously and sincerely. Most of the movie going audience at the time just wasn't ready for a movie that was a meta commentary on its own genre. They were probably expecting a straight action comedy starring the biggest action star in the world at the time and felt betrayed. I still love this movie and recently when it was on Netflix I watched it with him with my own kids. 14 and 12 and they loved it! When I tried to watch Terminator 2 with them, they weren't scared or anything, but they just thought it was unnecessarily violent and not fun. That's the set of eyes of a new generation on movies that we took very seriously in the 80s and 90s. How could you enjoy movies about rogue, ruthless police commandos robots that are just going around cursing at each other and hurting people? The last Action hero's time... is now!

[@robvegas9354]

Great movie, got to see there about 3 times in cinemas back in the day. The difference that is portrayed between the real world and the hollywood world is brilliance!

[@cry2love]

I don't care if it was flop or not. For me, it was my favourite movie in my childhood in the 90s. I was pretty surprised when I found out this movie was not a hit when it came out.

[@filmbuff2777]

This movie introduced me to Ingmar Bergman, & although I didn't see his films until years later, I definitely knew of him because of this film when I did.

[@89tilinfinity29]

People praise Scream for satirizing the slasher genre but this did the same thing for the action genre imo. I grew up on this film as a kid and never knew it was a flop till I was an adult, i loved it. Its a secret masterpiece to me.

[@AlejandroVarasHinojosa]

In spite of all the chaos mentioned on the video, Last Action Hero was a movie ahead of its time and was an action comedy before the genre was even a thing. Loved it when I saw it for the first time as a kid.

[@bobr7380]

The problem that the movie faced was that it opened against major blockbusters. It's a fun movie.

[@Kaitschi]

Awesome Movie directed by the one and only John McTiernan and Charles Dance killed it as the Main-Villain.

[@markoutwithmark]

The movie was totally ahead of it's time. It was meta before meta was cool and poked fun at the absurdity of what the industry was becoming. And look where we are today - they were right!

[@toraganaboozehound3995]

TLAH is one of my all time greats along with Big Trouble, fantastic underrated movies that are finally getting the recognition they deserve 😁

[@mikevderderian]

I watched it at a the Concorde Theatre in Amman when it was released in Jordan. It was extremely fun, and mentioned in your video ... Groundbreaking and way ahead of its time. Meta before the Deadpool movies and the current multiverse collision trends.

[@krissanders987]

I still think it’s a classic 90’s masterpiece. The idea for the movie was brilliantly done. And the action and comedy couldn’t been pulled off better. Even the villains, both Benedict and ripper was some of best villains ever in action films. And you get two of them in same movie damn movie. As far as acting, I think this was one of Arnold’s best performances as well.

[@WorldofMrGrey]

This was one of my favourite movies in the 90s in my early teens. So i thought i would watch it while back as a full blown adult, as maybe it was only good because i was young? Still loved it, comedic timing is on point in that film.

[@ScarysReviews]

if only Hollywood made actual Jack Slater films, or followed up last action hero, but he does tell Benedict ''no sequel for you'', but imagine what they could have done. Hook made over 300 million, and is a fine film, great effects, music, best version of Peter Pan since the Disney classic

[@mountbuckekreative4044]

Even as a 14 year old kids we had figure out that action movies had some unrealistic traits, ideals and tropes runnning. Seeing these even more overacted in TLAH , was insanly great, even more when Jack had to face the 'real' world in the later part of the film and his ways did not work as usual. This flick made a great comedy and satire, and we never took this as a seriuous action movie at any point. It sounds to me, that the marketing did exaxtly that and announced it as a 'serious' one like Predator or Terminator, so it is no surprise that the audience looking for this was quite dissapointed. For me this is one of the greatest(and probably most quoted-e .g Moe Zart. To be or not to be, There is always one in there etc.) Arnie movies.

[@darinpearson2554]

Last Action Hero is always a fun watch for me. I have watched it many times and I will watch it many more times. Still, I can certainly understand why most people find it too quirky and even bizarre. People have vastly different levels of appreciation for humor and satire. I love LAH and it perpetually disappoints me that it wasn't and isn't more popular. I wouldn't call it a masterpiece ("T2" is a masterpiece) or even great ("True Lies" is great) but, for me, it does qualify as a cult-classic (eg. a box-office failure that later finds a niche audience that loves it). It's been great to read the comments on this video and realize that there is a niche audience that appreciates LAH as much as I do. Good video "JoBlo Originals". You provided a nice forum for the fans of LAH to express our appreciation.

[@jc.1191]

It's a great movie with an excellent cast. The one mistake was probably the kid is too young. Most of Arnold's non adult fans would have been teens. It's hard for teens to relate to young kids as cool. Despite that, the actor does a great job with what it is.

[@Dielawn69]

Always liked this movie. Never knew it was considered a dud until the last few years. I think it's a perfectly entertaining parody of 80s action movies.

[@christaran]

I was 12 when this came out, the perfect age for this, but from the first marketing I saw I always thought this movie looked absolutely terrible. Years later I would watch it and have my childhood concerns completely verified. If they couldn't win over a 12 year old, no wonder this thing bombed, lol.

[@andrewz732]

Last Action Hero is an underrated masterpiece

[@tobiasblack1749]

Great movie. It never gives credit because people couldn't wrap their mind around the unique idea at the time. I know I watched it in the theater. For what it tries to do it’s a masterpiece. Charles Dance was amazing in this and I believe this is his best performance. Yeah I said it Game of Thrones fans. Edit: I have decided I want a Whiskers spin off.

[@mikesim6589]

It was a great movie and it really was ahead of its time. Granted I was 11 or 12 when it aired. But I'm sure it's still good today. It made fun of itself. Excellent acting. Pointing out all kinds of ridiculousness of Hollywood. And Sylvester Stallone got to be the terminator.

[@gondorknight83]

I remember the marketing for this movie. The studio advertised like a standard issue Arnold action vehicle. When people went to see it and didn't get that they dumped on the film. Shame. I've always loved it. Maybe because I got it right off the bat.

[@robertrussell4035]

Maybe that is why danny always wanted to go see a movie instead going to school. Maybe him and his dad use to go to see action movies together and after his dad passed it was the only way he felt like he was still spending time with his dad. Would make sense

[@guyfranchise934]

The is one of my favorite movies of all time. I watched it when it came out, owned the soundtrack and even bought the action figures 🤘 A few months ago I bought the movie at a dollar store. My two sons watched it when we got home and now it's one of their favorite movies too 🤘

[@wileytheacmesalesman7760]

I still have the Jack Slater action figure. He came with a bundle of TNT that he could throw. I also have his gold convertible car. I loved that action figure. I would use that action figure as Jack, the Terminator, and just about every other Arny character I could. I’m happy my parents let me keep about every toy I ever had.

[@NavajoNinja]

"Why you do a 360 on me?!" "Its 180 you twitt! If i did a 360! I'd end up at the same place!" Also, im 40. Loved this movie at 12 or 14 yrs old.

[@theweysermanisback5205]

It’s not the worst Arnold Schwarzenegger movie by a long shot, and I am there for Arnold, himself, and Austin O’Brien.

[@chrisgill261]

This movie flopped because people in the 90s didnt know shit. Office Space was also a "flop".

[@DaddyOfTheSugarVariety]

I was 19 when I first saw this movie. I remember liking it.

[@pong86r]

You can say it's not the best action movie ever made, but it really is in the top 20. I remember we named my bowling team "Big Guns" that year because it was so badass... we were 12/13

[@TheIrritsBand]

Watching this movie as a kid on the day of release was a feeling of pure awesomeness!

[@Jackfargo91]

The best thing about this movie is how Arnold calls the kid Denny the whole time instead of Danny

[@carter358]

The movie was meh, but the soundtrack was AMAZING!! Two tracks from Alice in Chains in their prime, a killer Megadeth track, an AC/DC anthem, and the highlight is one of Anthrax's best songs. All killer, no filler.

[@VanishedPNW]

Last Action Hero is flawed in some ways, but not nearly as much as critics suggest. I have long been surprised at how it has never been reclaimed or reappraised. It was plagued by inexplicable marketing. Columbia seemed baffled by Last Action Hero, and one gets the idea that they watched it and had no clue what it was about, then went into panic mode trying to figure out how to market the film. They eventually tried a few incongruous marketing approaches, and each different piece of marketing feels like branding for a completely different film release when compared. Some trailers promoted the comedy, some the action, some had random low budget sketches that had nothing to do with the movie at all, etcetera. This apparent Columbia exec befuddlement can be felt if anyone owns a home copy of LAH. Any copy will do, as the film packaging has never been updated with an aesthetic makeover or additional features a single time since 1993. The front cover is perhaps the ugliest and most amateurish box art of the 90s for a big budget film. Schwarzenegger's fave is spliced in half for some reason, and there's an out of focus, generic explosion behind him, the Pontiac Bonneville painted by hand in the inferno. The titles are super weird, squeezed onto each side of the box like a bootleg, or something. Then, on the back, part of the theatrical poster is present, which itself is odd, to say nothing of the poster itself. Worst of all, they slapped a one-sentence fluff summary which reads like the ost generic word salad ever on the back of the VHS and e wry subsequent release from Laserdisc to Blu-ray. I mean...did they even watch the movie? Lol. It it that tough to come up with a succinctly written abstract? Other marketing was also strange, including the beautifully painted theatrical poster and other materials. The poster is gorgeous, and whoever conceived the theatrical poster understood the tone of the film, but strangely felt the urge to dangle the leads from a helicopter, which never happens in the film. Why not dangle them from a wrecking ball, which actually DOES happen in the film? Lol. The artist squeezed every character imaginable on the poster, which was another weird choice, as many of the people on the poster are not essential in the film. Then, the toys and tie-in merchandise all has similar, pop-art painted motifs, but they're also super odd, often featuring characters doing things they never do in the actual movie, holding things that aren't in the movie, driving cartoon vehicles, etc. One gets the impression that nobody involved with the marketing even saw the film. It's that strange and discordant when one is familiar with the movie. I never understood the universal panning it received, and thought it was fuckin brilliant. The humor is smarter than it seems, and on repeat viewings you always catch some new, subtle joke, most of which are meta commentary about celebrity worship and the absurdity of Hollywood. As the kids today say, it's very "meta," and the self referential slapstick is hilarious. Schwarzenegger's finest "artistic" hour, imo.

[@josephshepard2962]

This film has always been a guilty pleasure. Granted, it's mostly from the soundtrack, but the movie is a pretty good satire of the action genre. I always felt that the movie going audience took it at face value, which they weren't supposed to do.

[@johnsimpson8974]

I wouldn't mind seeing them do a horror version of this idea "Last Horror Hero".

[@kennywagner4025]

I was thinking about this awhile back: it was probably my least favorite of Arnold's films at that time. Later on, when I thought about its' satire of action flicks, I came around to liking it more. When I first watched Commando I was thrilled with the action and it became one of my favorites as a kid, but when I watch it now as an adult, the entertainment value is in the ridiculousness (al a Riff Tracks)

[@maths1az]

I'm 52 and I love this film. One of best Arnie's movies.

[@Sitharii]

I could never understand why this movie didn't go well commercially(saw it in VHS back then and enjoyed it a lot) , until i saw this video . It was released just few weeks after ..... *Jurassic Park* ?? oh my God !!! .... talking about some serious bad timing indeed !!

[@user-sh3vz3ol3j]

I remember watching this in theatres when it came out the summer Jurrasic Park came out. Despite it being directed by John McTiernan (Die Hard), it was rated PG-13 to get the kids contrary to most Arnold action flicks and it sucked balls real hard.

[@SumDumGy]

I say neither. It’s a decent and fun film with a unique premise not executed in a way that drew audiences.

[@jademonolith]

Loved the movie and loved the soundtrack! The film was strangely out of place in 93 though. It would have been a hit in the 80s or the 2000s

[@MrAce-lm8es]

Last Action Hero - Highly Underrated

[@theunseencret4629]

This was great. Not Arnold's best but worth repeating. Definitely one of the best music soundtracks

[@jopadfoot]

Definitive film of my childhood. Ey Claudius... You killed my father. Big mistake. That version of Hamlet knocks Shakespeare out the park.

[@chadhiggins9944]

I LOVED this movie when I was younger.

[@danielmankowski922]

This is a great action movie….with one of THE BEST soundtracks of the 90’s! Wore out 2 cassettes of it!

[@paulmidgley8040]

Me and my pal went to watch this out of our heads on acid. Didn't have a clue what was going on but it looked fantastic. 30 years later it's one of my favourite arnie movies.

[@brandonhall7968]

I loved this movie as a kid and love it even more today

[@ivane5110]

If I remember right, I saw this on VHS rental after it was widely accepted as a flop. I do know I was pleasently surprised by it either that or the second time I watched it. Odd to say about such a film but it aged well for me. I'm surprised more big level movies haven't been made about most kids' dream--stepping through the screen right into your favorite movie. And it even does a nice job of exploring the alternate Earth; showing Sly having played in the T movie. It's those small touches sci fi and alt. history nerds like me love. And the skirted great premise of unleashing movies' greatest villains as an invading army threatening the real world is too awesome to pass up; yet they did (sigh).

[@homelessjesse9453]

A flawed but still good, solid movie. I think the movies problem was that it was a little too meta. It’s something that should have been released during winter. It never felt like a summer blockbuster.

[@dmatthews7423]

I loved this movie as a kid! it introduced me to the 'breaking the 4th wall' concept

[@diymicha2]

I actually liked that flic. So many cameos and references to other movies :)

[@AdaptiveRider]

It's great to read all the love in the comments for this movie. I watched it 100 times on HBO as an HBO kid

[@loringbush1455]

I always liked this amazing 🎥 and it's still one of my favorite Arnold Swatzanger films! Yes I still remember seeing it on opening weekend!

[@williamshaw9047]

Saw this when I was 16 and taking Driver's Ed. I've watched it maybe four times and I want to like it, but it still sucks. It's one of those movies like "1941" where you can't believe it's so bad despite Spielberg, an all-star cast, a big budget, lots of special effects including fun scenes like a fighter plane crashing on Hollywood Blvd and a Ferris wheel going off the Santa Monica Pier.

[@cjewe1z]

This film is the definition of meta long before meta was born. McTiernan knows how to make an action film better than anyone else in Hollywood. It's more than just a "fun piece of entertainment" or "intriguing curiosity".

[@cjewe1z]

@@matthewdaley746, what? I had to check my eyesight to be sure that what you wrote was real. 'The Thomas Crown Affair' and 'The 13th Warrior' were great action films, especially the former.

[@Will-nq3fo]

The movie is pure gold and holds up. My daughters loved it when I showed it to them.

[@TheNameisPlissken1981]

I remember sitting in the theater with my friends the year after we graduated from high school. We were all disappointed, especially, when you consider Shane Black AND William Goldman re-wrote the script!! From the director of Die Hard and the writer of Lethal Weapon...I always thought the problem with the Last Action Hero was the movie within the movie sucked! If it was taken seriously and not plaid for silly laughs, then I probably would have enjoyed it more. If Jack Slater was more John McClain and less Frank Drebin, there'd be real stakes involved. Otherwise, it's just a silly cartoon.

[@brettbaratheon9776]

I love this movie as a kid. In still love it today and enjoy it with my own kid now. This movie rocks.

[@danielvandersall6756]

I've always liked this film; particularly the brilliantly over the top world inside movies. From everyone being a perfect 10 to the flying cars that explode if you look at them wrong, it's just a brilliant send up--a meta masterpiece.

[@donnakennedy3763]

I loved it!! I watch it every chance I get. I loved how Arnold Schwarzenegger made fun of himself.

[@georges5233]

Maybe because I was a kid. But I loved and still love this movie. I quote it all the time.

[@alekskot9240]

I never understood why this one and the End of Days movie people hated! They are both great!!!

[@evenOnZdarkestDay]

I could care less about what critics said or thought; that movie was AWESOME 👌🏾👏🏻😎🥰

[@CYI3ERPUNK]

great/excellent film ; only really held back by releasing along side Jurassic Park and the advertising/marketing for LAH was not good [obvs the studios spent the $ on JP]

[@jonathanfeldheim6554]

A movie ahead of its time. The moment the bad guy starts talking to the camera and the camera crew's reflection can be seen in the mirror....either the greatest stroke of genius or the biggest moment of zen ever caught on film.

[@santos8468]

"If God was a villain, he'd be me,".

[@chickencharlie1992]

I mean, if you only watch Hollywood blockbusters then yeah I guess it's a life changing moment or whatever

[@jonathanfeldheim6554]

@@chickencharlie1992

[@chickencharlie1992]

@@jonathanfeldheim6554 I mean idk if it's the biggest moment of Zen ever caught on film, there are many films that are zenny. For example, "A Touch of Zen"

[@jonathanfeldheim6554]

@@chickencharlie1992 IDK I mean, if I wanted a funny movie I wouldn't recommend Funny People, and if I wanted a scary movie ... you know where I'm going

[@dylancoleman5995]

This really is one of the best Schwarzenegger movies ever made. It had heart, a really heartfelt message to it and was a lot of fun. It's a play on the genre and knows exactly what it is the whole way through, a really really smart movie.

[@tazinboor3913]

This movie has really inspired me to eventually start developing my animated film ideas with its good humor, action, and meta moments.

[@toomanyaccounts]

if you read the original screenplay it was a deconstruction of action movies. the theater guy was implied to be the devil

[@tazinboor3913]

@@toomanyaccounts yeah you know honestly I agree with the guy in the video that the projectionist Nick ended up being good instead of bad I think that was better.

[@tazinboor3913]

Also I don’t, really know what the heartfelt message is unless it’s that your better off if your self-aware.

[@dylancoleman5995]

The message was that sometimes you can get caught up in fantasy so much that it hurts the ones you love. It's also about embracing reality and having a world to live in between the two instead of being consumed by only one. Even if real life is terrible and hard, you can still push through and become something or someone you want to be.

[@nassmatic]

I saw this in the theatre in '93. Great movie. Very underrated. Action movie star in his prime makes fun of himself. Even the Simpsons made fun of it when Chief Wiggum said, "Magic ticket my ass McBain!"

[@georgemetcalf8763]

And just like with the Broncos, fate would fix this film's reputation.

[@micksawyer1112]

Such an underrated film and really was ahead of its time. One of my personal favorites from Arnold and it's a film me and my son bond over.

[@jamesmorant1406]

People just didn't understand it

[@micksawyer1112]

@@jamesmorant1406 Agreed

[@bondgabebond4907]

Absolutely. The whole movie was a joke and so many didn't get it.

[@tazinboor3913]

This movie has really inspired me to eventually start developing my animated film ideas with its good humor, action, and meta moments.

[@lesslycarthan4963]

Isn't this being John malkavich or nick cage talent movie today

[@PTurbo86]

I think it's genius. It played on all its own tropes and cliches. The moment he's firing his gun in the real world and runs out, realistically, after just the 7 or 8 shots and Tells Danny "Not one word... NOT ONE WORD!...." was hilarious. "My hand, it really hurts..." :D

[@vegeta8169]

The cars didn't blow up😁

[@alswearengine4867]

Yeah, he didn’t run out of ammo, he was just shocked that shooting the car didn’t make it explode.

[@shainewhite2781]

One of the funniest action comedy movies ever made, and also one of the greatest action movies ever made, as well.

[@joebro391]

Mr. Benedict is one of the most underrated villians of all time

[@anubusx]

"I've just shot shot someone."

[@mermadone6465]

Cam't go wrong with Charles Dance

[@postaldude117]

This is literally my first ever favorite movie and I was only 3 or 4 when I watched it. I love this movie and it defined me and my childhood soo it means a lot to me. Lol It's my earliest memory's as a kid so I can't help to feel nostalgic about it. 🙂 Sorry I know it's cheesy it was just a huge part of my life! Kick started my love for action movies for sure. 😅

[@Xainfinen]

It's literally the same for me, every point. I've watched it countless time as a kid, at least 2 times a day. It's the movie that ignited my love for cinema and made me wanna be an actor thought it was brilliant then and as an adult it's just a timeless classic.

[@NeedleDropRules]

I never understood all the hate this movie got when it came out. I remember seeing it in the theater when I was in college, had a great time watching it, and came out thinking it would be a really big hit. I still like it a lot today!

[@locomadman]

Well Stacey, the rest of the comments seems to concur with your sentiment here. Looks like you’re in fine company indeed. 👍🏽✌🏽

[@verbalfonders]

One of my top 10 movies of all time. We just weren’t ready to get meta on action movies at the time and poke fun at ourselves for liking them.

[@abehambino]

I wouldn’t say ready, more like unprepared. This movie really was perfect. We just didn’t realize what it was perfect AT. Demolition Man has gotten a fresh perspective because its content and themes are becoming more relevant, but this one is different. Its resurgence and reevaluation is due to us the audience finally being in on the joke.

[@jordan_velasquez]

This piece of art captured the 90s era of movie making. It can never be replicated or duplicated. It literally was in a league of its own. Watching this movie in theaters left me in awe as a kid. It really felt like you were part of the movie!

[@a-train3503]

A true masterpiece, I don't know where to begin with how complex the writing is for this film, imagine an actor seeing the character he plays in the same room with him, but has his own conscience, the idea of this is so beyond what we had seen on film, it's the same person but not the same person at the same time, wow! I've been a movie lover all my life, no movie has been more thought provoking, not even The Matrix, which is the only movie I've watched maybe more times than this, for different reasons of course, Arnold is the only one who could've made it work the way it did, the ultimate "character" that he is. The characters reacting to things not in the script, giving the impression that there's no cameras filming them, that they are real people, with their own conscience, being able to think outside the lines written for them, like they're in another dimension, not on a movie set, when the kid talks about things in the movie, the characters can't understand how he knows this stuff, I could go on and on dissecting each actor/character relationship, but I'll just say again, a true masterpiece, a true work of art.

[@GmasterB89]

I watched it countless times on VHS and loved it back then. Watching it now it is pretty silly but still enjoyable. Charles Dance is amazing as Benedict, a performance that always stuck with me.

[@nork24]

I was the same age as the kid in the movie when this came out and this one holds a special place in my heart to this day‼️