What is your favourite Schwarzenegger movie?

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2004-05-06 08:52am

Conan the Destroyer was teh w!|\|. cause a camel spits on ahnuld and he knocks him the fuck out for it. Fucking Camel...

Dargos · Post by **Dargos** » 2004-05-06 09:57am

For those who have not seen Conan the Barbarian I have only four words for you.

GO RENT IT NOW

I would have to say it was THE best action/adventure/fantasy film I've seen
Music is A1+

skip Conan the Destroyer...it just didn't click for me.

Jon · Post by **Jon** » 2004-05-06 10:04am

True Lies is fantastic, one of my favourites actually- I'm proud to say that, because um, it's good.

I hope he finds time to stop being a politician and make a sequal.

Post by **RogueIce** » 2004-05-06 10:27am

Kindergarten Cop, if only because, like The Punisher, it was unabashedly set in Tampa and it's fun seeing all the local landmarks.

Zaia, if ever you see an Arnie movie, make it Commando. It has Arnie in a speedo. What isn't there to love about that?

T2 was badass, as was True Lies. I loved those one liners! Tom Arnold is da man!

I can't remember any of the rest offhand though. I'm Arnie-deprived. Gotta take a trip to the video store now.

CrimsonRaine · Post by **CrimsonRaine** » 2004-05-06 10:37am

I'm stuck between Terminator 1/2 or True Lies. The Terminator movies (well, the first two as I didn't see the third) are just badass, but I also really liked the plot and Schwarzy's character in True Lies. So I'm stuck.

'Raine

CrimsonRaine · Post by **CrimsonRaine** » 2004-05-06 10:38am

President Sharky wrote:True Lies and Predator tie it for me. I just loved all the one liners in TL

JAMIE: Have you ever killed anyone?

ARNIE: Ya, but they were all bad.

or

"Are we gonna die?"

"Yup!"

too great

"Denial. It's just not a river in Egypt anymore, is it, Harry?"

Favorite fucking line.

'Raine

Post by **haas mark** » 2004-05-06 11:11am

Total Recall. Marginally. I have a general distaste for all his movies.

PeZook · Post by **PeZook** » 2004-05-06 11:15am

True Lies

"I married Rambo..."

and Last Action Hero, of course

"Oh no, Mr. Slater. I just left one chamber empty..."

T2 was incredible as well, though I like the first two better.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2004-05-06 11:24am

My favorite parts of The Last Action Hero is where the kid imagines what Olivier's Hamlet would be like if Jack Slater (Schwartzenegger) was Hamlet.

"To be or not to be?....not to be. "

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2004-05-06 11:28am

The one and only Schwartzenneger movie that I absolutely hated the first time I saw it was Red Sonja. Gaaaaagh!!

This was a fairly early Arnold movie so you know a movie has got to be pretty bad when Arnold is clearly one of the best actors in the movie.

I've kind of grown to somewhat like this movie now for the cheese factor.

<---------bonus: My current avatar is from one of Arnold's movies.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-05-06 11:30am

hrrm. kinda torn on what to put down. suppose i could do a top 5.

1. Predator
2. Conan the Barbarian
3. Terminator 2
4. Terminator 1 (yup, i actually liked the sequel better than the original.

)
5. End of Days (surprised nobody mentioned that one. was a pretty fun flick.)

Tsyroc wrote:<---------bonus: My current avatar is from one of Arnold's movies.

that's easy. One of the conan movies, though i forget which one exactly. i'm wanting to say conan the barbarian.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2004-05-06 11:35am

True Lies was great. I loved the little segues into Arnold's fantasy world (such as when he back-fists the used car salesman or cracks the binocular lens). The best shot in the movie is when he breaks into the salesman's trailer and finds him feeling his wife up. Even through his ski mask, you see Arnold's eyes bulging out of their sockets. Absolutely hilarious.

Conan's fun, too. Give a kid a giant stick and let him push it around in the dirt, and 20 years later, you've got Mr. Universe.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2004-05-06 11:36am

Darth_Zod wrote:
Tsyroc wrote:<---------bonus: My current avatar is from one of Arnold's movies.
that's easy. One of the conan movies, though i forget which one exactly. i'm wanting to say conan the barbarian.

Yep, it's a variation on the symbol for Thulsa Doom's cult.

Black Sun, Black Moon, two snakes...but they are one.

It shows up during the end credits of Conan the Barbarian.

I like to refer to it as the smiley face of doom.

Incidently, I like End of Days. For some reason I didn't get all that into the first time I saw it but I still enjoy rewatching it. It's creepy and Gabriel Byrne is a real bastard as "The Man".

Robert Walper · Post by **Robert Walper** » 2004-05-06 12:00pm

Darth Wong wrote: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.

Out of the entire list you provided, I'd pick T2/T3. It's difficult to pick either of those two, since I like them both. I think T2 would win by a hair.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2004-05-06 12:56pm

Here's the list of every movie Arnie did and some where he had a small part

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2004-05-06 01:07pm

Terminator 2
True Lies
Total Recall
Commando
End of Days
6th Day
Predator

Those are just the ones I can think off the top of my head, there are many more good Arnold movies.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-05-06 01:11pm

Far too many to mention, but he's generally the best action movie star I'd say. He can just about act unlike Stallone and has the brawn to play certain roles convincingly such as a barbaric hero or a cyborg from the future. Also has a sense of humour for his comedies.

Post by **RogueIce** » 2004-05-06 01:12pm

*smacks* End of Days and Predator. How could I forget?

Oh, and I thought his little cameo in The Rundown was pretty damn funny.

Zoink · Post by **Zoink** » 2004-05-06 01:23pm

Conan the Barbarian
Conan the Destroyer
Terminator 1
Predator
Total Recall

Those are my favorites in that order. I am somewhat partial to Conan simply because I was a huge Conan fan (comics, etc) as a kid. I remember being upset when Arnold cut his hair for Terminator because that meant he probably wasn't going to film another!

Ted C · Post by **Ted C** » 2004-05-06 01:31pm

Answering the original question without reading the thread...

1) T2
2) Conan the Barbarian
3) Commando
4) Predator

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2004-05-06 03:04pm

In Order:

Terminator 2: Judgement Day (What can I say, this is probably the best action movie ever, let alone Arnie movie)
True Lies
The Terminator
Conan the Barbarian
Predator
Total Recall
Kindergarten Cop
Conan the Destroyer
Eraser
Running Man
Commando
etc
etc

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2004-05-06 03:56pm

Predator - this film is tied with ghostbusters for being my favourite, it's one of the films where they did almost everything "right" in it as far as I'm concerend for my film-going pleasure.

Favourite scene: Arnie getting his ass handed him by the predator, in hand to hand combat, and the cocky walking it does when removing it's hardware.

Favourite line: UUUUARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Terminator 2 - See above, but this time with cyborgs from the future, although i think i would've preferred it with the expanded future war sequence.

Favourite scene: the biker scene at the beginning, to be desecrated totally by t3. Alternatively, the bike-truck chase scene, or the car chase nearer the end. Reminds me of Twisted Metal on the ps1.

Favourite line: My CPU is a neural net processor, a learning computer (if only for it's use in the Arnie calls Gateway mp3 floating around on the net)

Terminator 1 - I liked it alot, not as good as t2, but still full of greatness.

Favourite scene: Police station shootout.

Laird · Post by **Laird** » 2004-05-06 04:08pm

Durandal wrote:True Lies was great. I loved the little segues into Arnold's fantasy world (such as when he back-fists the used car salesman or cracks the binocular lens). The best shot in the movie is when he breaks into the salesman's trailer and finds him feeling his wife up. Even through his ski mask, you see Arnold's eyes bulging out of their sockets. Absolutely hilarious.

Thats Bill Paxtion; poor guy...he's been killed by arnie twice(he was one of the thugs in T-1, carsales-men.) Also killed by a predator, xenomorph in aliens, etc....
He's like got the crappiest character shields ever....(he dies in every movie he's in.

)

Ma Deuce · Post by **Ma Deuce** » 2004-05-06 04:18pm

I would say my favorite is Commando (classic "turn off your brain and enjoy" flick), followed by Total Recall, and Terminator 2.

Alferd Packer · Post by **Alferd Packer** » 2004-05-06 04:19pm

I liked True Lies a lot, but I also thought The 6th Day was good lark, too. Those would be my two picks.

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