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What is your favourite Schwarzenegger movie?
Posted: 2004-05-05 11:25pm
by Darth Wong
A partial list:
- Conan the Barbarian
- The Terminator, T2, or T3
- Commando
- Predator
- The Running Man
- Red Heat
- Twins
- Total Recall
- Kindergarten Cop
- True Lies
- Eraser
There's too many options for a poll so I won't do one, but I'm curious. I think the most high-quality movie out of that list would be T2, but my personal favourite Arnold performance is either Commando (so comically over-the-top!) or Total Recall, which is simply an awesome combination of humour and sci-fi.
Posted: 2004-05-05 11:27pm
by Ghost Rider
Of all of them; Conan the Barbarian(the Crom line as well what is life are great), or Terminator are my personal faves.
Total Recall ranks high as well.
So many choices.
Posted: 2004-05-05 11:31pm
by Grand Moff Yenchin
Conan the Barbarian, Terminator I, II, Predator, Total Recall are my favorites, especially Predator.
Posted: 2004-05-05 11:32pm
by Gandalf
- 1. Terminator 1/2
2. True Lies
3. Predator
4. Terminator 3
5. Total Recall
Those are the 5 favourites. I consider T3 to be a seperate entitly to T1/2.
Posted: 2004-05-05 11:34pm
by Montcalm
Deffinitly Conan the Barbarian,the Terminators trilogy comes in second then true lies mostly for some of the comedic scenes in it,then
Total Recall
Running Man
Predator
Twins
Kindergarden Cop
Red Heat
Eraser
Commando
Posted: 2004-05-05 11:35pm
by Stark
Commando is way up there for its insane brand of action-movie humour; any movie that features both the line 'I let him goooo' and the Freddy Mercury bad guy had it going on
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Posted: 2004-05-05 11:38pm
by Darth Wong
Stark wrote:Commando is way up there for its insane brand of action-movie humour; any movie that features both the line 'I let him goooo' and the Freddy Mercury bad guy had it going on
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Let off some steam, Bennett!
Posted: 2004-05-05 11:38pm
by Patrick Degan
Conan The Barbarian. Just way too many good scenes and memorable lines in that movie —especially Conan's prayer to the god he doesn't believe in:
"Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, and why we died. All that matters is that today, two stood against many. Valour pleases you, so grant me this one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, then the HELL with you!"
Posted: 2004-05-05 11:40pm
by TrailerParkJawa
T2 is my favorite of his older movies.
Of the recent stuff I really liked the 6th Day even if it was bad sci fi.
True Lies was pretty good, but I only recently saw that one on cable.
Re: What is your favourite Schwarzenegger movie?
Posted: 2004-05-05 11:44pm
by Stofsk
Conan the Barbarian
I liked Conan the Destroyer more, for some reason. It just had funnier lines, though I like both.
The Terminator, T2, or T3
Terminator 2, although this isn't to suggest Terminator 1 was bad or anything. I just thought he acted better in T2. T3 was a piece of shit, but not because Arnie was in it.
Commando
It's been a long time since I saw it. But I remember liking it.
]Predator
I love this film.
The Running Man
Same with Commando, I'll need to watch it again. But I do remember liking it.
Red Heat
Meh.
Twins
Meh.
Total Recall
Meh.
Kindergarten Cop
Heh.
True Lies
Meh. It did have a Harrier in there at some stage, which made things interesting. But I was just bored for most of it so...
Eraser
Never saw it.
From the above list T2 is my favourite. It was something cool to see Arnie get clobbered, shot, empaled, and still get up for more. Conan (either one) is a second favourite, just because he runs around in his undies for the majority of the film without any shame. Oh, and he kills lots of arseholes.
Re: What is your favourite Schwarzenegger movie?
Posted: 2004-05-05 11:48pm
by Gandalf
Stofsk wrote:True Lies
Meh. It did have a Harrier in there at some stage, which made things interesting. But I was just bored for most of it so...
I felt True Lies to be highly underrated.
Why do people seem to find it so bad?
Re: What is your favourite Schwarzenegger movie?
Posted: 2004-05-05 11:51pm
by TrailerParkJawa
Gandalf wrote:Stofsk wrote:True Lies
Meh. It did have a Harrier in there at some stage, which made things interesting. But I was just bored for most of it so...
I felt True Lies to be highly underrated.
Why do people seem to find it so bad?
I never gave it a chance at the time. Which was not fair, I "assumed" it would be typical crap but I found that I actually liked it.
Re: What is your favourite Schwarzenegger movie?
Posted: 2004-05-05 11:51pm
by Montcalm
Gandalf wrote:Stofsk wrote:True Lies
Meh. It did have a Harrier in there at some stage, which made things interesting. But I was just bored for most of it so...
I felt True Lies to be highly underrated.
Why do people seem to find it so bad?
Not everyone found TL bad......"YOU'RE FIRED"
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Posted: 2004-05-05 11:51pm
by Vympel
Conan the Barbarian. It was the role he was made for- and it had the best beginning ever:
"Let me tell you of the day sof HIGH adventure ...."
*cue Anvil of Crom theme*
Posted: 2004-05-05 11:53pm
by Zaia
Out of those movies, the only one I've seen is T2, and I haven't even seen it all the way through. So, I guess that one gets my vote!
Re: What is your favourite Schwarzenegger movie?
Posted: 2004-05-05 11:53pm
by Stofsk
Gandalf wrote:I felt True Lies to be highly underrated.
Why do people seem to find it so bad?
I find it to be highly
overrated - I don't know why people think it's so good.
I've just seen better. And I think the comedy was too overplayed. Rather than being an action film with the occasional gag, it was a comedy with a lot of action. I just didn't like it. I'm not saying it was necessarily a bad film, it just didn't rock my boat.
Posted: 2004-05-06 12:00am
by Gandalf
Zaia wrote:Out of those movies, the only one I've seen is T2, and I haven't even seen it all the way through. So, I guess that one gets my vote!
*Gasp*
I mean...
*Gasp*
Posted: 2004-05-06 12:02am
by Darth Wong
We obviously need to go to Zaia's house with some DVDs and popcorn for a Schwarzenegger intervention.
Posted: 2004-05-06 12:02am
by Zaia
Hey, I've never heard of the guy. Why should I watch his movies?
You're on, D.W.--next Saturday at 10pm, say?
Posted: 2004-05-06 12:05am
by Crown
True Lies it was an awesome combination of comedy and action, and Jamie Lee Curtis doing a strip tease? Yay!
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Posted: 2004-05-06 12:05am
by Gandalf
Zaia wrote:Hey, I've never heard of the guy. Why should I watch his movies?
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Never heard of the guy?
Isn't he a crucial part of Western civilisation?
Posted: 2004-05-06 12:05am
by Kintaro
Gandalf wrote:Zaia wrote:Out of those movies, the only one I've seen is T2, and I haven't even seen it all the way through. So, I guess that one gets my vote!
*Gasp*
I mean...
*Gasp*
My thoughts exactly.
I love all of Arnold's movies. Lots of action, with funny one-liners
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Posted: 2004-05-06 12:07am
by Stofsk
Gandalf wrote:Never heard of the guy?
Isn't he a crucial part of Western civilisation?
Absoultely. And I thought
I was sheltered...
Posted: 2004-05-06 12:10am
by Zaia
Know what else? The word "sarcasm" isn't on Webster's online dictionary either. Weird, huh?
Posted: 2004-05-06 12:17am
by GoldenFalcon
Who remembers Raw Deal?
Not that I imply I liked it anyway, never actually saw it but heard it was bad even for a B-movie.