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Thats more advendture" than action" ain't it tho?
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Thats more advendture" than action" ain't it tho?
It’s Arnold. Cruise is top boy right now, but Arnold paved the way in the 80s.
True Lies was his last legitimately great movie, agreed. But his high watermarks are higher than everyone else’s - Terminator, T2, Total Recall, Predator & Commando really are the best of the best. Nothing Cruise or Stallone (aside from maybe Rocky) can realistically compete with those.
Cruise’s body of work is unfathomable, frankly, but he’s still only able to push out blockbusters year after year because Arnold created the market for them.
我操You know he’s a Scientologist?
Not that I care ultimately but I thought they denied that. Or at least his wife did. She says they hang with people from all backgrounds.You know he’s a Scientologist?
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They got slick Willy to join their cool aid club
Well now I feel more okay with level of dislike I carry for his son
Pretty crazy to think that Cruise is the top guy now...and he made Top Gun 34 years ago.
I love Arnold but has any action movie of his really been significant since...True Lies? That's aside from shitting on his own legacy with Terminator 5 and 6 and eating poop like everyone else that appeared in The Expendables series as anything but the villains.
Tommy has been at it for 26 years or so of continuous significant material since Arnold made True Lies. At some point, it just adds up...
Since True Lies, Sly still has given us Rambo 4, Rocky 6, Cop Land, Creed movies if those count. And a bunch of dog shit too. But I'm struggling to name something that is worth mentioning for Arnold since 1994 or so.
I really liked his performances in Aftermath and Sabotage, but nobody else cared about those movies, or Maggie where he was decent, but it wasn't an action movie.
For what it's worth, I was fine with End of Days, the 6th Day and Collateral Damage, but again, nobody but me seemed to really like them. The guy was a god from 1982-1994 though.
I dont think Arnold is as much as a film connoisseur as Sylvester is. Sly knows how to create an action film and I'm not sure if Arnold does. I think Sly might have contributed more to the overall genre and definitely is on the Mount Rushmore of Action icons.
Arnold really benefited from working with, what I consider to be the action icons James Cameron, John McTeirnan and, Paul Verhoeven. Who the hell did Sly work with? Nobody really. Sly carried his movies pretty much himself no question.
It is not a coincidence that the last "good" Arnold action film was directed by James Cameron.
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