Ian McKellen is actually playing a specific version of Death from an old movie called Seventh Seal; that Death had a sense of morbid humor and a neutral perspective on his job, just like this version.
I wonder if that portrayal influenced Terry Pratchett to write his Death character as a neutral person who is the anthropomorphic personification of a natural force.
teacher forced us to watch that in I think german class in high school. I found it boring but glad to know the movie references. Maybe it is a good movie but I was like 14 and it was very artsy.
Guys. F. Murray Abraham's biggest role and the one he won the Oscar for was for Amadeus where he plays Salieri who wages a psychological war against Mozart. You should really watch that movie.
What this guy said. It's in my top 10 movies of all time. And I think Mozart's music is all public domain so you shouldn't have a problem with copyright.
Even though I was not rooting for the villain, I cheered the first time I saw the scene on the roof. "No, I just left one chamber empty". I was like FINALLY there is an intelligent bad guy who will trick the hero out from behind his cover instead of continually taking useless pot shots. That was one of the best twists on the trope I've ever seen.
The problem is, he isn't using a revolver he's using a semi-auto pistol. There is no "one chamber" to leave empty. At best he could have dud round there, but then the action wouldn't have cycled when he pulled the trigger so he'd have to cycle it manually.
@@topomusicale5580 He IS using a revolver in that scene. They even specifically zoom in to show the last bullet in the cylinder rotating right before he shoots Arnold.
@@topomusicale5580 Haha, I had to do a quick bit of research to verify I wasn't talking out of my ass, because I was so sure it was a revolver. A pretty pimped-out revolver, in fact.
@@daved2352 Iagree. Though both actors at that time could play amazing villains, I think Dance gives a naturally menacing vibe to his character that works as the perfect counterpart to the goofy tone of the movie. He stands out against the rest for the right reasons. Rickman would've been fantastic too, but I think he would've gon more along with the comedic general tone, making his character less villainous. I've had the pleasure to meet Dance in real life (he once came to have lunch at my restaurant in London) and the man is super menacing and imposing in person, even though when speaking to him he's quite nice haha
The Mozart reference is about F. Murray Abraham's character in "Amadeus", a fictionalized version of Mozart's ascent into stardom and ultimate demise. It's a fantastic critically acclaimed film and I highly recommend watching it. The director's cut is a bit long, but well worth the time spent.
The whole: "Take his shoes!" sequence, where Benedict learns how crime works in the real world, is one of my favorite movie scenes ever. Just chilling!
Arnold used to really hate this movie because it was a box office bomb, but I think it was one of the smartest movies he ever did. I wonder if he has changed his mind over the years? The 555 thing in movies was a reaction to phone numbers coming up more in tv and movies, the owners of the phone numbers started to complain because people would call the numbers. Either the phone company or the movie industry set aside the 555 prefix after that. Eventually you could (and possibly still can) call the 555 numbers to get a list of movies/tv shows that used said number.
Also, five five five one two one two was directory assistance in any area code. Those are the only 555 numbers I knew of. I'm not sure if it is still functional now, but that is how you found a number before the internet. If you knew a person or business was in a certain area, you'd call that and ask the operator for the number. The person would give it to you unless they requested an unlisted number.
@@tylerfoster6267If that’s the case I hope he realizes it’s become a bit of a cult classic by now.
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Both phone companies and the movie industry came to an understanding, because it would have been useless for Hollywood to use a prefix that the companies would then give out, or for the phone companies to reserve a prefix that was then not used by Hollywood.
I don't think he hated it, he hated the bad timing of the release (a week after Jurassic Park), and the reviews and reactions to it which he thought were unjustified, and he was right.
All the cameos that are in this blew my little mind as a kid...Sharon Stone as Catherine Tramell (Basic Instinct), Robert Patrick as the T1000, Tina Turner as the Mayor and Danny DeVito as Whiskers...then on the red carpet as themselves were Tom Noonan, Jim Belushi, Jean Claude Van Damme, Chevy Chase, Little Richard, MC Hammer, Maria Shriver and Damon Wayans...
The crazy part is, the film turned 30 on June 18, 2023! Premiere release across the US was on June 18, 1993. What makes this reaction more special is you had it uploaded on the the film's first premiere in Westwood, CA on June 13, 1993!
31:06 They are referring to the 1984 eight oscars rewarded movie "Amadeus" by Milos Forman. That movie is a must see... and yes, F. Murray Abraham is in this (he got an oscar for best actor). I am surprised both of you have not heard of it. There's your next reaction!
Benedict is my all time favorite villain. So many great one liners, and so perfectly played. Also the Mozart joke is a reference to the movie Amadeus, which I cannot recommend enough. Also, the movie I would want to be "sucked into" is a tie between Who Framed Rodger Rabbit--I would love to hang out in real life at a bar where I drink to Donald Duck literally trying to kill Daffy, but everything else is close enough to my word that I think I could squeaky by, or Limitless, because if I could get my hands on that magic pill, I would be a super genius and not have to worry about my city being outright destroyed in an alien attack or because Superman got tossed through the building I just happened to drinking a latte in.
I remember absolutely loving this when it came out and being really shocked that all my friends hated it. Even more shocked when it bombed at the box office. So glad that it’s beginning to get the credit it deserves!
Yeah I remember it bombing hard and I avoided it for that reason, plus I don’t think I would have understood the nuances in the script. It was definitely way ahead of its time, perhaps too much so.
I can't speak for all the people who dislike it, but for me the main problem is the central performance of Austin O'Brien. I pretty much love everything else in the film but let's face it, Austin was closer to Jake Lloyd (in either Phantom Menace or Jingle all the Way, take your pick) than to Haley Joel Osment. For me his performance was almost nails-on-chalkboard bad. Everyone else was great and while the story was "Purple Rose of Cairo for action nerds" it was still quite imaginative.
@@snowdenwyatt6276 I have to agree. Austin O'Brien comes off pretty smarmy sometimes even in the scenes where he should be overwhelmed by what's happening. Obviously, as a child actor I wouldn't pin it on him. It would seem to fall on a director's choice, or conceding that Austin wouldn't be able to pull it off any other way. But, yea, I loved this movie from the get go. I was pretty disappointed of its flop status, because it meant it would be a one off for this type of film.
The primary reason this one didn't too well at the box office was due to it being released the same week as Jurassic Park, which would dominate the box office for pretty much most of 1993.
There was a toy line for this movie, like all action movies in the 90’s did. The BEST thing about the line is that they actually made an action figure of Arnold as Hamlet. It features a skull headed missile that can be loaded into a slot in his arm so he can do his famous soliloquy and then launch out to blow up some bad guys. The toy very much felt in keeping to the tone and humor of the movie.
I love the 'Arnold Braunschweiger' bit! Early in his career, Arnie was told to use a screen name cause no one could pronounce 'Schwarzenneger' (he did for at least one early role), and here even he can't pronounce it 😂
Yeah he was billed as Arnold Strong or something wasn't he? Also I remember reading something about a Nigerian mom telling her kid not to start going by a name that English people find easier to say because "people learned how to say Tchaikovsky and Schwarzenegger properly so they can learn your name" which I thought was nice.
The references to Mozart are because F Murray Abraham also played Salieri in Milos Forman's Amadeus, in which Salieri's ambition is largely responsible for Mozart's death. It's a very good film.
18:58 pause it the moment it hits 18:59 when he falls off his chair. I've never noticed this until now, but when charles dance falls you can tell that it is clearly not charles dance lol. I'm assuming this was an easter egg to these movies having body double cuts. Watched this movie 20 times never noticed that lol
4 actors with 5 oscars between them F Murray Abraham- 1 Art Carney - 1 Mercedes Ruell -1 Anthony Quinn - 2 Also of note that the teacher talking about Mozart was Joan Plowright, married to the greatest Shakespearean actor Lord Olivier
@halomek_3154 omdeed Scanning the actors on IMDB those with Oscar acting nominations but no wins also include Joan Plowright Sharon Stone Michael V Gazzo Danny De Vito
This movie and Twins really showed that Arnold was more than just action one liners, he's a great straight man in a comedy team. I forgot how many goofy gags this movie had. Arnold pretending to be the voice of an Italian mobster saying "help me get me out of here," in his squeaky ass voice with that accent never ceases to make me chuckle.
I was nine years old when Last Action Hero was released in 1993. This movie turned 30 on June 18. Damn, I'm old. RIP Anthony Quinn, Robert Prosky, and Tina Turner.
The question George asked at 6:50, is there any action series franchise where the hero dies and that is the end of the franchise, the answer is yes, there are a few of them. At least 3 where we know that the hero actually died and several others where they implied he died, but there is some question about it.
I remember going to see this in the cinema, I loved it and continue to regard it as a classic. Incredibly underrated, amazingly smart, somehow it just works.
This was totally underrated and criticized as a big failure by a lot people. I saw it and knew that it was ahead of it’s time. A great parody movie with a great sound track. It’s a shame that it just didn’t catch on when it was first released.
"Look Elephant" is in my top 3 favourite lines ever! I remember laughing so hard the first time I heard it. Left a couple of years before I rewatched, forgot the moment he said it and then laughed so hard again! Right below "You bow to no one" I would put it.
Arguably one of the most underrated films of all time.. absolutely brilliant. I'm praying AI can make that Arnold Hamlet movie a reality in the near future 😅
I love everything about this film. The stark contrast between the fantasy world and real world. The fact the man with the glass eye is actually competent and not just a run of the mill villain. All of the action movie easter eggs and references. It's so good. Also to answer Georges question on bullet proof vests. Yeah after a few rounds they are pretty much useless as it breaks the material on the inside of the lining.
As for the helmet scene in Saving Private Ryan, surely the soldier took the helmet off to look at it because he was in shock at surviving a bullet to the head rather than because the helmet was rendered useless by taking a hit?
I'm so pleased with how you 2 received this movie. You all totally got it. A lot of people didn't back in the day, and it wasn't as successful as it should have been. It's has one of the best soundtracks ever. Watch the movie Mozart, pretty good as well🤘
This was a childhood favorite of mine. I even bought the soundtrack, which was a banger. ACDC, Alice in Chains, Megadeth, Aerosmith, Def Leppard, Queensryche.
I love this movie. And it introduced me to Ian Mckellen as an actor and I was so taken in by his performance and how subtle yet powerful he was. I became the biggest fan of his stage work and when I heard he was cast as Magneto AND Gandalf the Grey can't describe that feeling of happiness.
My family could NOT stop watching this movie. Parody, fun and full of action and a whole house laughing their guts out pretty much non stop! It was a gem.....and received nothing in return. I was inconsolable. Having a Screen Superstar like Anthony Quinn and TV star like Art Varney (from The Honeymooners) in this movie really added spice to this movie. Then...Sir Ian McKellan as 'Death' was just icing on the cake.
IMO one of Arnold's best and also most underappreciated movies. All the joyful deconstruction of action movie tropes and tongue-in-cheek meta-references were clearly not a lot of people's cup of tea when it was released but I absolutely love this movie.
Art Carney, who plays Schwarzenegger's or Jack Slater's favorite second cousin, was in the popular TV show from the 50s called The Honeymooners along with Jackie Gleason.
I'm not sure if someone else mentioned this, but... F. Murray Abraham killed Mozart (or was accused of doing so) in the movie Amadeus (1984) in which Murray played rival composer Antonio Salieri.
If you're interested in (my opinion) Charles Dances' almost perfect role casting, I'd thoroughly recommend the Going Postal mini series. He may not exactly have the look of the character from the book, but my god he nails the personality perfectly. The ruthless tyrant you can't help but like...
@@simonclifton7541 I'm in the unfortunate position of disliking most adaptations of books I love, so the only Discworld adaptation I could stand was the animated Soul Music one, mainly because it was fun to hear the songs that are only referenced in the book.
5:50 *"When did movie theaters get rid of ushers?"* 1960s, 1970s. Many of the tasks who had been serviced by a fleet of ushers since the silent era got gradually overtaken by technology. For instance at some point, people''s exact seating could be printed directly on the ticket stub, so ushers were no longer needed to guide you to a seat. Tiny details like that. Originally, there was a huge difference between dime theaters and movie palaces. You paid extra to go see a big premiere in a movie palace. And you dressed up for the occassion, like some people still do for the opera. And you were treated accordingly by the ushers, like you had walked into First Class on the Titanic. It was truly an event to go to a big movie premiere, much more than it is now. And all through the silent film era, the movie palaces often had a whole symphonic orchestra accompanying an entire big premiere film, while the dime theaters usually had one guy hammering away at a saloon-style piannie. This was en era when social class was really huge. You showed your class going to see a movie. That is usually frowned upon these days. It was a cultural thing and taste changed, most movie goers ended up preferring to pay less for a movie ticket and receive less service. The rundown movie theater in this film is definitely a love song to that bygone era.
36:42 Ian Mckellen playing Death from The Seventh Seal movie by Ingmar Bergman from 1957. Good movie. Watch it at your own pace and when you are in a good mood, not in a depressing one.
"Ahead of its time" is such an overused phrase, but it's apt here: box office bomb at the time, often maligned, but I think audiences are now more ready for meta commentary. The whole meta thing was why this disappointed a 13-year old me and now I like it more than most straight 80s action. Credits in front of the movie can kinda spoil a movie in that way, yeah. In American tv shows, there used to be a requirement that if a character appears in the credit sequence, they need to appear in a certain numbers of episodes. Babylon 5 once wanted to play nasty with it but was stopped by this. But this was in the 90s and by the time one of Simone's favorite shows came around to its final seasons in the 00s, the rules were different. And yes, there are American movie franchises where the main character dies at the end. Sometimes it turned out not to be the end.
I think it bombed because people at the time wanted and expected another "serious" big blockbuster Schwarzenegger action movie after Terminator 2 and were disappointed when instead they got a spoof that joked on the exact thing that they wanted, today most people are more willing to joke about that period of over the top action movies so it's received much better, it's one of those movies that time only did it good.
@@E_y_a_l That's exactly what happened to me. At the time, I wanted more of the same, but these days, I'm not as fond of many straight 80s action movie, whereas a parody and metacommentary like this is right up my alley.
@@E_y_a_l I think there's 2 big reasons it failed: one is that it was advertised as largely being a straight action film so that's what people went in expecting, and they were disappointed because it simply wasn't what they were expecting. Had it been advertised as more of a comedy movie, it may have attracted a different audience and been better received. More importantly, though, it came out the week after Jurassic Park, which was such a big movie that it almost didn't matter what else was playing. People went to see Jurassic Park the week it was released, and then went back to see it again the next week. Had Last Action Hero been released a couple of weeks later (or earlier) it likely would have done much better.
I didn't get it as a kid either, but now I'm older I can really appreciate it for what it is, a satirical cemmentary on the typical tropes of overblown action movies
Questions answered and observations - in the opening, the villain is Anthony Quinn, fantastic actor and Cousin Frank is played by Art Carney who is Norton from the classic TV show the honeymooners. He was the inspiration for Barney Rubble -- the Mozart reference is for the movie Amadeus in which F Murray Abraham played the villain -- Kevlar body armor is not only is less effective once used, it also has an expiration date -- die hard reference is because director john mctirenan directed die hard (and predator) The Le Brea tar pits are leftover from dinosaur times, LA is covered with oil rigs -- slater v soundtrack guy was mc hammer -- death was played by ian mckellan - look for other people like Sharon stone, Tina Turner, etc..
I love this movie! I saw it in the theater, and I never understood why so many people didn't like it. But it does seem to have garnered a cult like following since then. Charles Dance plays my favorite movie villain in this. I just think he nailed the part and then some, and I remember having a smile on my face every scene he was in.
The La Brea Tar Pits. Yes, they are a real place. Yes, they have excavated bones from extinct Pleistocene animals there. (Wooly Rhinos, Mammoths, etc).
The thing about bulletproof vests is that they do stop the bullet, but not ALL of the force. So the wearer ends up with a big bruise, and a tight vest putting pressure on it. So, presumably the reason they take the vest off so quickly is because it's painful.
My dad is a big Arnold Schwarzenegger fan and has most of his movies on DVD or Blu-Ray, so I'm pretty sure I've seen like 96% of his movies, and this may be my favorite one by the tiniest bit. I just loved the meta nature of it overall, even if it is really depressing that the villain was right that in our world, the bad guys can win (and in fact are running things in most places and industries). The question of which movie I would go to (assuming I am still me) is a really hard one to answer. I'd have to do some serious research. As a wheelchair user, many movie worlds would be a death sentence for me, and if you add my other medical issues, there aren't many great options left. You said it would only be possible to enter the scene in the movie, and off the top of my head I can't think of any Cyberpunk setting movies with scenes that take place in a quality medical setting. But if I could have some cybernetics implanted to fix my physical issues, I'd go in a heartbeat. Even better if I could transfer my mind into an artificial brain or something while I'm there to escape mental illnesses as well. If I couldn't find an appropriate futuristic scene for cybernetics (or just for medical cures beyond what is currently possible) I really have no idea what movie I'd want to enter. Something safe, interesting, and accommodating to my personal challenges. Bonus points if it includes single queer girls around my age. ✌🤓
This is why I always choose the Star Trek universe to travel to: Utopian post-scarcity society with free advanced health care. I'd just go and say "hey, please take me straight to the med bay, I need some work done." And then I'd almost die of some weird space common cold, or maybe I'd give them COVID or something. So just don't stay long enough for the plot to get dangerous!
@@Chasmodius Honestly, if you just stay on Earth you'll be fine. And there have to be something equivalent to vacation tours that you can take to more exotic locales; just pay attention to dates so you can avoid the Borg and Dominion wars.
I love how Megadeth was asked to make a song for this movie and they made literally one of the sickest, best songs of all time just for it to be played for 15 seconds for a cheesey movie parody's trailer/opening inside a movie.
Almost the entire soundtrack was great, but yeah, Angry Again ranks high in my favourite Megadeth tunes. I was lucky enough to see them play it live too (unlike AC/DC fans who loved Big Gun, boo).
I saw this in the theater and was immediately sucked in. The whole concept, to me then and now, is just pure awesome. I was able to go watch this every night for the week it was on and it just kept being great. Even now, it's just one of my movies to throw on when I'm not in a good space. Great reaction to a super fun film. 🐾
Regarding credits spoiling things, there have been villain reveals where the person isn't in the credits or trailers... without social media it used to be possible to keep the surprise for a little bit.
I love Simone's 'I will just help Frodo and Sam along the way' and George pointing out how that would not end well. You can see her really struggling with 'In place of a Dark Lord, you would have a Queen. ALL SHALL LOVE ME AND DESPAIR!!!'
Bulletproof vests can be shot multiple times, even in a place they’ve been hit previously, but they’re always discarded/replaced after being hit once out of liability issues. It’s also a action movie trope that they’re discarded on screen right after being hit.
You could tell that the actors must have had huge fun doing this, like Ian McKellen as Death saying, "I don't do fiction. Not my field." It's a very underrated comedy. I think people didn’t know how to take it when it came out, which is too bad.
Incredibly underrated. And yeah the metaness of it all completely went over the heads of viewers and critics at the time. Which is surprising to me because it's not like parody didn't exist. But maybe because the parody in this film is relatively low key and mostly sight gags that you could miss if you weren't paying attention. I guess in the 90s everything needed to be in your face like a Hot Shots or Naked Gun. I know when I was a kid and watched this when it first released I definitely didn't get any of it. But then when I watched it as an adult in my mind 20s on a whim I realized it's actually shockingly good
@@LordVolkov Did you get the pun there? Most people seem to miss it. Cartoon cat. Animation. Suspended for a month. Suspended animation. Terrible, isn't it? :)
The Mozart line is a reference to Amadeus. F Murray Abraham played the part of Salieri in that movie, and there's an implicacation that he murdered Mozart (with poison that made him sick).
'...here is a couple of acres...' is a pun on the words 'acres' and 'achers' - the pair of 'achers' are the mans balls lol, pretty clever actually, never caught that joke
19:08 The answer is: it largely depends on the rating of the vest and the type of round used. A ceramic plate that has been hit by a 300 Win Mag rifle round within 1,000 meters is probably done if it gets hit again in the same area, whereas soft body armor like Kevlar wouldn't stand a chance. However, that same soft armor may be able to protect against a whole barrage of 9mm
I've always thought this movie was ahead of it's time and maybe Arnie's most underrated. I read an interview recently and he actually feels the same way about it.
The Mozart reference is for the movie Amadeus. Can’t really say anything about it because of spoiler if you haven’t seen it but F. Murray Abraham is in it.
Unfortunately, Jurassic Park hit the theaters at the same time and sucked all the ticket sales away from this film. It wasn’t the big summer hit they expected because of that. But it’s still one of my favorites.
It must be acknowledged that with Charles Dance in this film, Alan Rickman in Die Hard and Jeremy Irons in Die Hard With The Vengeance, John McTiernan has completed the unique trilogy of working with 3 of the best English villain actors of their generation
@@cyberleadr I'm not saying it's subtle, and I agree with you. But look at reviews from the time. People for real did not understand that the absurd action was tongue-in-cheek. They thought it was 100% serious. So they gave it bad reviews for not being realistic. No kidding it's not realistic! It's magic and all of the action is deliberately absurd!
@@cyberleadr I think the idea of "tropes" wasn't as widely understood by the average person back then as it is in today's way more media-savvy culture. Regular folk who weren't either in the movie/tv industry or movie/tv nerds may not have understood what all was being made fun of, leaving a lot of the jokes to be missed, misunderstood, and/or fall flat. Also, I imagine a lot of the moviegoing public went in expecting a typical Ahnuld-style action movie and were disappointed to find a silly comedy poking fun at action movie clichés and tropes. Personally, I remember seeing it in the theater when it came out and LOVING it, then being surprised shortly afterward when it got such bad reviews and bombed as hard as it did. So, yeah, I think it's not so much an intelligence thing as it is a difference in culture-wide interests between then and now. Pop culture is VERY different these days. Not only is there A LOT more of it and a lot more passionate interest in it, because of how widespread, accessible, popular, and prevalent tv/movies/games and media-craft are now, seemingly every person under 35 these days can talk extensively and relatively knowledgably about shot composition, set dec, lighting, CG/FX, sound design, screenwriting/storytelling, cameras, editing, etc, etc. Back then, that definitely wasn't the case. As a tv/movie/videogame/filmmaking nerd from pretty much all the way back, I can tell you that, if you talked to most people about behind-the-scenes stuff, media-craft, or even used a phrase like "set dec" or "CG" or "tropes" back in the day, most folk would look at you with blank expressions. It just wasn't as big a part of the zeitgeist as it is now so the self-referential stuff was probably lost on a lot of people.
The tar pits are also surprisingly small. There was a fast food chicken place next door when I went there in the 90s. I ate chicken and looked at a small pond of tar (by comparison to how it looks in the movies) . :)
One of my favorite movies as a kid. To answer your question, I’m in my 30s and still watch “TV TV“. Mostly live sports, some comedy shows, history channel, and anything else that catches my eye
I was one of the few who saw this in the theater, and I think I was exactly the target audience. Most of the people there were laughing, getting the jokes, etc. But there was one point where I groaned and laughed and realized I was the only one laughing. And I think it got past the two of you as well. It's a truly terrible multi-layered pun. So, the cartoon cat at the police station. Pretty random, yes? It's only there for the pun. "He's supposed to be back on duty. He was only suspended for a month." He's a cartoon cat. An animated cat. Animation. And he was suspended for a month. Therefore he was... suspended animation. Aargh. Terrible, isn't it? :)
23:31 - ANTHONY QUINN (Vivaldi) - Acted for over six decades. Hollywood legend and twice Academy Award winner inc. best supporting actor as 'Paul Gaugin' in 'Lust for Life' opposite Kirk Douglas. In 1984, artist Eloy Torrez produced a 70-foot-high portrait mural of Quinn titled both 'Anthony Quinn' and 'The Pope of Broadway' in Los Angeles. Depicting Quinn in his famous 'Zorba the Greek' role, it remains one of the largest portrait murals in California.
So Danny has a magic ticket that helps him go into the events of whatever _movie_ he's watching. 🤔Imagine someone taking this ticket to an _adult_ movie.
Well, this movie should add two more to your list: Amadeus from 1984 starring F. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce, which I'm surprised you haven't done yet given the number of Oscars it won, and The Seventh Seal from 1957 starring Max von Sydow and written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, which is the movie Death came from.
Bulletproof vests do lose effectiveness the more times they are hit. However, in most movies, the vest is taken off (or just exposed) to show that it was the vest that saved the character, not because it was useless.
Love this film!- grew up on action movies, & huge props to Arnie for being game to take the mickey out of himself and his genre, makes me respect him all the more! I seem to recall (I think!) this wasn't very well received critically or commercially, but it's one that's gained something of a following over time & is one of my fave Arnie movies!
I think I'd do something like the end of Elysium or one of the Star Trek movies. Basically something with incredible scanning and medical tech compared to what we have now. Get a medical scan and fix anything and everything possibly wrong with my body, and get some good augments while I'm at it.
This movie scores horribly on Rotten Tomatoes, but I still love it to this day. I think it's a fun movie and has a really cool concept. The scene with the bloated dead body that gets kicked into the tar pit is something I will never forget. I am 37 as of today and still remember it from when I was a kid! Took me forever to get the "want to be a farmer?" joke Here's a couple of achers/acres as he kicks him in the crotch.
It bombed at the box office and the film critics hated. They just didn't get it. It's so obvious it's Spinal Tap situation but it went over thier heads.
@@russellward4624 Yeah, I just thought it was a fun movie when I saw it for the very first time, but as I got older, I understood it better. Same feeling with Starship Troopers. Satire propaganda film and this is a satire on how ridiculous action movies are.
This movie is the textbook definition of an underrated and overlooked gem.
10000% Agree will always be a classic idc about Ratings
Exactly! This is Arnold Schwarzenegger not only making fun of himself but the film genre that made him a global superstar.
This film does get some attention, unlike "Eraser", you can't find jackshit on youtube.
It's not "overlooked" it was attacked by the MSM in retaliation for Schwarzenegger coming out as a Republican. It was cancel culture.
It was just too far ahead of it's time.
Ian McKellen is actually playing a specific version of Death from an old movie called Seventh Seal; that Death had a sense of morbid humor and a neutral perspective on his job, just like this version.
The most iconic character of one of the best film of all times.
RIP Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman
Plus Ian McKellen is awesome.
I wonder if that portrayal influenced Terry Pratchett to write his Death character as a neutral person who is the anthropomorphic personification of a natural force.
teacher forced us to watch that in I think german class in high school. I found it boring but glad to know the movie references. Maybe it is a good movie but I was like 14 and it was very artsy.
Guys. F. Murray Abraham's biggest role and the one he won the Oscar for was for Amadeus where he plays Salieri who wages a psychological war against Mozart. You should really watch that movie.
Add Amadeus to your watch list!
That is the movie reference.
The guy Practice killed?
" Mo Tzart?...."
What this guy said. It's in my top 10 movies of all time. And I think Mozart's music is all public domain so you shouldn't have a problem with copyright.
Even though I was not rooting for the villain, I cheered the first time I saw the scene on the roof. "No, I just left one chamber empty". I was like FINALLY there is an intelligent bad guy who will trick the hero out from behind his cover instead of continually taking useless pot shots. That was one of the best twists on the trope I've ever seen.
The problem is, he isn't using a revolver he's using a semi-auto pistol. There is no "one chamber" to leave empty. At best he could have dud round there, but then the action wouldn't have cycled when he pulled the trigger so he'd have to cycle it manually.
@@topomusicale5580 He IS using a revolver in that scene. They even specifically zoom in to show the last bullet in the cylinder rotating right before he shoots Arnold.
@@TheLanceUppercut You're right, it was so dark on my screen I couldn't make out the cylinder
@@topomusicale5580 Haha, I had to do a quick bit of research to verify I wasn't talking out of my ass, because I was so sure it was a revolver. A pretty pimped-out revolver, in fact.
It wasn’t a trick though. He literally looked at his gun in confusion when it didn’t fire a round.
Charles Dance won the part after Alan Rickman turned down the part due to salary. Dance wore a shirt that said “I’m cheaper than Alan Rickman!” On set
I think Dance suits the role more than Rickman would have anyway.
That is absolutely hilarious and something I would totally see Dance do.
@@daved2352 Rickman did the "original" one already in Die Hard, though
lol
@@daved2352 Iagree. Though both actors at that time could play amazing villains, I think Dance gives a naturally menacing vibe to his character that works as the perfect counterpart to the goofy tone of the movie. He stands out against the rest for the right reasons. Rickman would've been fantastic too, but I think he would've gon more along with the comedic general tone, making his character less villainous. I've had the pleasure to meet Dance in real life (he once came to have lunch at my restaurant in London) and the man is super menacing and imposing in person, even though when speaking to him he's quite nice haha
The Mozart reference is about F. Murray Abraham's character in "Amadeus", a fictionalized version of Mozart's ascent into stardom and ultimate demise. It's a fantastic critically acclaimed film and I highly recommend watching it. The director's cut is a bit long, but well worth the time spent.
this movie needs to be reacted to
F. Murray Abraham's performance was fantastic in "Amadeus".
What a cool reference of all time in a movie
George: "It's weird to find out you're a character, that you're not real"
Nobody tell him.
The whole: "Take his shoes!" sequence, where Benedict learns how crime works in the real world, is one of my favorite movie scenes ever. Just chilling!
Arnold used to really hate this movie because it was a box office bomb, but I think it was one of the smartest movies he ever did. I wonder if he has changed his mind over the years?
The 555 thing in movies was a reaction to phone numbers coming up more in tv and movies, the owners of the phone numbers started to complain because people would call the numbers. Either the phone company or the movie industry set aside the 555 prefix after that. Eventually you could (and possibly still can) call the 555 numbers to get a list of movies/tv shows that used said number.
Also, five five five one two one two was directory assistance in any area code. Those are the only 555 numbers I knew of. I'm not sure if it is still functional now, but that is how you found a number before the internet. If you knew a person or business was in a certain area, you'd call that and ask the operator for the number. The person would give it to you unless they requested an unlisted number.
He has said in recent interviews that this was the most heartbreaking failure of his career, and it sounds like it's because he loved the film.
@@tylerfoster6267If that’s the case I hope he realizes it’s become a bit of a cult classic by now.
Both phone companies and the movie industry came to an understanding, because it would have been useless for Hollywood to use a prefix that the companies would then give out, or for the phone companies to reserve a prefix that was then not used by Hollywood.
I don't think he hated it, he hated the bad timing of the release (a week after Jurassic Park), and the reviews and reactions to it which he thought were unjustified, and he was right.
All the cameos that are in this blew my little mind as a kid...Sharon Stone as Catherine Tramell (Basic Instinct), Robert Patrick as the T1000, Tina Turner as the Mayor and Danny DeVito as Whiskers...then on the red carpet as themselves were Tom Noonan, Jim Belushi, Jean Claude Van Damme, Chevy Chase, Little Richard, MC Hammer, Maria Shriver and Damon Wayans...
The crazy part is, the film turned 30 on June 18, 2023! Premiere release across the US was on June 18, 1993. What makes this reaction more special is you had it uploaded on the the film's first premiere in Westwood, CA on June 13, 1993!
31:06 They are referring to the 1984 eight oscars rewarded movie "Amadeus" by Milos Forman. That movie is a must see... and yes, F. Murray Abraham is in this (he got an oscar for best actor). I am surprised both of you have not heard of it. There's your next reaction!
Amadeus was a Oscar winning film from the mid 80’s
Based on a stage play about the relationship between Mozart and Salieri.
Benedict is my all time favorite villain. So many great one liners, and so perfectly played. Also the Mozart joke is a reference to the movie Amadeus, which I cannot recommend enough.
Also, the movie I would want to be "sucked into" is a tie between Who Framed Rodger Rabbit--I would love to hang out in real life at a bar where I drink to Donald Duck literally trying to kill Daffy, but everything else is close enough to my word that I think I could squeaky by, or Limitless, because if I could get my hands on that magic pill, I would be a super genius and not have to worry about my city being outright destroyed in an alien attack or because Superman got tossed through the building I just happened to drinking a latte in.
I'd pick My Neighbor Totoro: no villains, comfy giant rabbit-troll to use as a bed, what's not to like?
My favorite is how Sharon Stone and Robert Patrick cameoed in the police station.
I remember absolutely loving this when it came out and being really shocked that all my friends hated it. Even more shocked when it bombed at the box office. So glad that it’s beginning to get the credit it deserves!
Yeah I remember it bombing hard and I avoided it for that reason, plus I don’t think I would have understood the nuances in the script. It was definitely way ahead of its time, perhaps too much so.
I can't speak for all the people who dislike it, but for me the main problem is the central performance of Austin O'Brien. I pretty much love everything else in the film but let's face it, Austin was closer to Jake Lloyd (in either Phantom Menace or Jingle all the Way, take your pick) than to Haley Joel Osment. For me his performance was almost nails-on-chalkboard bad. Everyone else was great and while the story was "Purple Rose of Cairo for action nerds" it was still quite imaginative.
@@snowdenwyatt6276 I have to agree. Austin O'Brien comes off pretty smarmy sometimes even in the scenes where he should be overwhelmed by what's happening. Obviously, as a child actor I wouldn't pin it on him. It would seem to fall on a director's choice, or conceding that Austin wouldn't be able to pull it off any other way. But, yea, I loved this movie from the get go. I was pretty disappointed of its flop status, because it meant it would be a one off for this type of film.
The primary reason this one didn't too well at the box office was due to it being released the same week as Jurassic Park, which would dominate the box office for pretty much most of 1993.
There was a toy line for this movie, like all action movies in the 90’s did. The BEST thing about the line is that they actually made an action figure of Arnold as Hamlet. It features a skull headed missile that can be loaded into a slot in his arm so he can do his famous soliloquy and then launch out to blow up some bad guys. The toy very much felt in keeping to the tone and humor of the movie.
I had that toy, as well as others from the series, lmao.
@@tucci06I had the Hamlet. It was the only one I had.
those toys would cost now a fortune lol
@@tucci06 I had jack who threw dynamite, I think and benedict with a suitcase with his different eyeballs
I had the car with the trunk that ejects dynamite. I used to call it his "dynamite collection".
I love the 'Arnold Braunschweiger' bit! Early in his career, Arnie was told to use a screen name cause no one could pronounce 'Schwarzenneger' (he did for at least one early role), and here even he can't pronounce it 😂
For his very first movie work, they just dubbed in another person's voice.
Yeah he was billed as Arnold Strong or something wasn't he?
Also I remember reading something about a Nigerian mom telling her kid not to start going by a name that English people find easier to say because "people learned how to say Tchaikovsky and Schwarzenegger properly so they can learn your name" which I thought was nice.
@@treetopjones737Hercules in New York?
The references to Mozart are because F Murray Abraham also played Salieri in Milos Forman's Amadeus, in which Salieri's ambition is largely responsible for Mozart's death. It's a very good film.
18:58 pause it the moment it hits 18:59 when he falls off his chair. I've never noticed this until now, but when charles dance falls you can tell that it is clearly not charles dance lol. I'm assuming this was an easter egg to these movies having body double cuts. Watched this movie 20 times never noticed that lol
4 actors with 5 oscars between them
F Murray Abraham- 1
Art Carney - 1
Mercedes Ruell -1
Anthony Quinn - 2
Also of note that the teacher talking about Mozart was Joan Plowright, married to the greatest Shakespearean actor Lord Olivier
Sir Ian McKellen, who played Death in this movie, doesn't have an Oscar - but he has two nominations.
And she shows Olivier’s Hamlet in the class.
@halomek_3154 omdeed
Scanning the actors on IMDB those with Oscar acting nominations but no wins also include
Joan Plowright
Sharon Stone
Michael V Gazzo
Danny De Vito
This movie and Twins really showed that Arnold was more than just action one liners, he's a great straight man in a comedy team. I forgot how many goofy gags this movie had. Arnold pretending to be the voice of an Italian mobster saying "help me get me out of here," in his squeaky ass voice with that accent never ceases to make me chuckle.
I was nine years old when Last Action Hero was released in 1993. This movie turned 30 on June 18. Damn, I'm old. RIP Anthony Quinn, Robert Prosky, and Tina Turner.
I'm there with ya 😅
The question George asked at 6:50, is there any action series franchise where the hero dies and that is the end of the franchise, the answer is yes, there are a few of them. At least 3 where we know that the hero actually died and several others where they implied he died, but there is some question about it.
Always loved this movie. It's silly but it's clever. Such a good time!
I remember going to see this in the cinema, I loved it and continue to regard it as a classic. Incredibly underrated, amazingly smart, somehow it just works.
This was totally underrated and criticized as a big failure by a lot people. I saw it and knew that it was ahead of it’s time. A great parody movie with a great sound track. It’s a shame that it just didn’t catch on when it was first released.
It was "a big failure" because it lost money.
"Look Elephant" is in my top 3 favourite lines ever! I remember laughing so hard the first time I heard it. Left a couple of years before I rewatched, forgot the moment he said it and then laughed so hard again! Right below "You bow to no one" I would put it.
Arguably one of the most underrated films of all time.. absolutely brilliant. I'm praying AI can make that Arnold Hamlet movie a reality in the near future 😅
You must be a fan of the movie.usually underrated gems get recognition 20 30 years after the movie.this one still has low ratings why?
I love everything about this film. The stark contrast between the fantasy world and real world. The fact the man with the glass eye is actually competent and not just a run of the mill villain. All of the action movie easter eggs and references. It's so good.
Also to answer Georges question on bullet proof vests. Yeah after a few rounds they are pretty much useless as it breaks the material on the inside of the lining.
As for the helmet scene in Saving Private Ryan, surely the soldier took the helmet off to look at it because he was in shock at surviving a bullet to the head rather than because the helmet was rendered useless by taking a hit?
I'm so pleased with how you 2 received this movie. You all totally got it. A lot of people didn't back in the day, and it wasn't as successful as it should have been. It's has one of the best soundtracks ever. Watch the movie Mozart, pretty good as well🤘
“Arnold is the Ring Girl” that legit caught me off guard and about made me choke 🤣
This was a childhood favorite of mine. I even bought the soundtrack, which was a banger. ACDC, Alice in Chains, Megadeth, Aerosmith, Def Leppard, Queensryche.
I've still got the soundtrack. And it is a banger. 🤘
Ha ha, same. I listened to it waaaay too many times.
Saaaamee. Still have the cd😂 forever obsessed with this movie, it’s too perfect for what it tries to do.
I love this movie. And it introduced me to Ian Mckellen as an actor and I was so taken in by his performance and how subtle yet powerful he was. I became the biggest fan of his stage work and when I heard he was cast as Magneto AND Gandalf the Grey can't describe that feeling of happiness.
My family could NOT stop watching this movie. Parody, fun and full of action and a whole house laughing their guts out pretty much non stop! It was a gem.....and received nothing in return. I was inconsolable.
Having a Screen Superstar like Anthony Quinn and TV star like Art Varney (from The Honeymooners) in this movie really added spice to this movie. Then...Sir Ian McKellan as 'Death' was just icing on the cake.
Ian McKellan doing Seventh Seal, played deadly serious in the midst of this fourth wall breaking insanity, is so wonderful.
@@LordVolkov Absolutely agree. It was a real treat!
The, "He killed Mozart." Is a reference to one of my favorite movies, Amodeus.
IMO one of Arnold's best and also most underappreciated movies. All the joyful deconstruction of action movie tropes and tongue-in-cheek meta-references were clearly not a lot of people's cup of tea when it was released but I absolutely love this movie.
Art Carney, who plays Schwarzenegger's or Jack Slater's favorite second cousin, was in the popular TV show from the 50s called The Honeymooners along with Jackie Gleason.
Ive been waiting all week for this upload😄such an underrated Arnie movie and Sir Ian as death is amazing great reaction guys 😊
I'm not sure if someone else mentioned this, but... F. Murray Abraham killed Mozart (or was accused of doing so) in the movie Amadeus (1984) in which Murray played rival composer Antonio Salieri.
If you're interested in (my opinion) Charles Dances' almost perfect role casting, I'd thoroughly recommend the Going Postal mini series. He may not exactly have the look of the character from the book, but my god he nails the personality perfectly. The ruthless tyrant you can't help but like...
But then, I also recommend Hogfather as a perfect Christmas movie 😉
The turtle moves
@mattymoowhite and here comes the pTerry army to insist on a viewing 😉
Oh man, Charles Dance is such an effing PERFECT Vetinari 🫀
@@simonclifton7541 I'm in the unfortunate position of disliking most adaptations of books I love, so the only Discworld adaptation I could stand was the animated Soul Music one, mainly because it was fun to hear the songs that are only referenced in the book.
5:50
*"When did movie theaters get rid of ushers?"*
1960s, 1970s. Many of the tasks who had been serviced by a fleet of ushers since the silent era got gradually overtaken by technology. For instance at some point, people''s exact seating could be printed directly on the ticket stub, so ushers were no longer needed to guide you to a seat. Tiny details like that.
Originally, there was a huge difference between dime theaters and movie palaces. You paid extra to go see a big premiere in a movie palace. And you dressed up for the occassion, like some people still do for the opera. And you were treated accordingly by the ushers, like you had walked into First Class on the Titanic. It was truly an event to go to a big movie premiere, much more than it is now. And all through the silent film era, the movie palaces often had a whole symphonic orchestra accompanying an entire big premiere film, while the dime theaters usually had one guy hammering away at a saloon-style piannie. This was en era when social class was really huge. You showed your class going to see a movie. That is usually frowned upon these days. It was a cultural thing and taste changed, most movie goers ended up preferring to pay less for a movie ticket and receive less service.
The rundown movie theater in this film is definitely a love song to that bygone era.
If you enjoyed this, which you clearly did check out Stay Tuned staring John Ritter. Same concept Simone was talking about in the review.
This and maybe Quantum Leap.
36:42 Ian Mckellen playing Death from The Seventh Seal movie by Ingmar Bergman from 1957. Good movie.
Watch it at your own pace and when you are in a good mood, not in a depressing one.
"Ahead of its time" is such an overused phrase, but it's apt here: box office bomb at the time, often maligned, but I think audiences are now more ready for meta commentary. The whole meta thing was why this disappointed a 13-year old me and now I like it more than most straight 80s action.
Credits in front of the movie can kinda spoil a movie in that way, yeah. In American tv shows, there used to be a requirement that if a character appears in the credit sequence, they need to appear in a certain numbers of episodes. Babylon 5 once wanted to play nasty with it but was stopped by this. But this was in the 90s and by the time one of Simone's favorite shows came around to its final seasons in the 00s, the rules were different.
And yes, there are American movie franchises where the main character dies at the end. Sometimes it turned out not to be the end.
I think it bombed because people at the time wanted and expected another "serious" big blockbuster Schwarzenegger action movie after Terminator 2 and were disappointed when instead they got a spoof that joked on the exact thing that they wanted, today most people are more willing to joke about that period of over the top action movies so it's received much better, it's one of those movies that time only did it good.
@@E_y_a_l That's exactly what happened to me. At the time, I wanted more of the same, but these days, I'm not as fond of many straight 80s action movie, whereas a parody and metacommentary like this is right up my alley.
@@E_y_a_l I think there's 2 big reasons it failed: one is that it was advertised as largely being a straight action film so that's what people went in expecting, and they were disappointed because it simply wasn't what they were expecting. Had it been advertised as more of a comedy movie, it may have attracted a different audience and been better received.
More importantly, though, it came out the week after Jurassic Park, which was such a big movie that it almost didn't matter what else was playing. People went to see Jurassic Park the week it was released, and then went back to see it again the next week. Had Last Action Hero been released a couple of weeks later (or earlier) it likely would have done much better.
I didn't get it as a kid either, but now I'm older I can really appreciate it for what it is, a satirical cemmentary on the typical tropes of overblown action movies
Reminds me also of Mystery Men with Ben Stiller spoofing superheroes
Questions answered and observations - in the opening, the villain is Anthony Quinn, fantastic actor and Cousin Frank is played by Art Carney who is Norton from the classic TV show the honeymooners. He was the inspiration for Barney Rubble -- the Mozart reference is for the movie Amadeus in which F Murray Abraham played the villain -- Kevlar body armor is not only is less effective once used, it also has an expiration date -- die hard reference is because director john mctirenan directed die hard (and predator) The Le Brea tar pits are leftover from dinosaur times, LA is covered with oil rigs -- slater v soundtrack guy was mc hammer -- death was played by ian mckellan - look for other people like Sharon stone, Tina Turner, etc..
I love this movie! I saw it in the theater, and I never understood why so many people didn't like it. But it does seem to have garnered a cult like following since then. Charles Dance plays my favorite movie villain in this. I just think he nailed the part and then some, and I remember having a smile on my face every scene he was in.
The La Brea Tar Pits.
Yes, they are a real place.
Yes, they have excavated bones from extinct Pleistocene animals there. (Wooly Rhinos, Mammoths, etc).
Charles Dance as a villian is always fun. if you haven't seen it yet. pls add The Golden Child to your list. An underrated Eddie Murphy movie, imho.
I will always enjoy Charles Dance in Ali G Indahouse. He plays fantastic villains.
My dear brother Noomsy!
Please.
I I I... want the kniiiiife.... pleaaaase....
@@Dan-Dillon You beat me to it... Damn it Gumby!!!!
@@migcap7356 I am not fit to walk among you! I should purged, for I am swine!
The thing about bulletproof vests is that they do stop the bullet, but not ALL of the force. So the wearer ends up with a big bruise, and a tight vest putting pressure on it. So, presumably the reason they take the vest off so quickly is because it's painful.
My dad is a big Arnold Schwarzenegger fan and has most of his movies on DVD or Blu-Ray, so I'm pretty sure I've seen like 96% of his movies, and this may be my favorite one by the tiniest bit. I just loved the meta nature of it overall, even if it is really depressing that the villain was right that in our world, the bad guys can win (and in fact are running things in most places and industries).
The question of which movie I would go to (assuming I am still me) is a really hard one to answer. I'd have to do some serious research. As a wheelchair user, many movie worlds would be a death sentence for me, and if you add my other medical issues, there aren't many great options left. You said it would only be possible to enter the scene in the movie, and off the top of my head I can't think of any Cyberpunk setting movies with scenes that take place in a quality medical setting. But if I could have some cybernetics implanted to fix my physical issues, I'd go in a heartbeat. Even better if I could transfer my mind into an artificial brain or something while I'm there to escape mental illnesses as well. If I couldn't find an appropriate futuristic scene for cybernetics (or just for medical cures beyond what is currently possible) I really have no idea what movie I'd want to enter. Something safe, interesting, and accommodating to my personal challenges. Bonus points if it includes single queer girls around my age. ✌🤓
This is why I always choose the Star Trek universe to travel to:
Utopian post-scarcity society with free advanced health care. I'd just go and say "hey, please take me straight to the med bay, I need some work done." And then I'd almost die of some weird space common cold, or maybe I'd give them COVID or something. So just don't stay long enough for the plot to get dangerous!
@@Chasmodius Honestly, if you just stay on Earth you'll be fine. And there have to be something equivalent to vacation tours that you can take to more exotic locales; just pay attention to dates so you can avoid the Borg and Dominion wars.
This was probably my favorite Arnold movie ever. It was super clever, and was a massive barrel of laughs for all the right reasons.
I'd choose Firefly/Serenity. I've always wanted to be a starship pilot, and I love that crew and their ship.
I love how Megadeth was asked to make a song for this movie and they made literally one of the sickest, best songs of all time just for it to be played for 15 seconds for a cheesey movie parody's trailer/opening inside a movie.
Almost the entire soundtrack was great, but yeah, Angry Again ranks high in my favourite Megadeth tunes. I was lucky enough to see them play it live too (unlike AC/DC fans who loved Big Gun, boo).
When they reference Mozart and that guy killing him, they are referring to the movie Amadeus, very good! I'm sure you looked it up by now though lol
39:27 You're describing the show Sliders with Jerry O'Connell and John Rhys-Davies.
I saw this in the theater and was immediately sucked in. The whole concept, to me then and now, is just pure awesome. I was able to go watch this every night for the week it was on and it just kept being great. Even now, it's just one of my movies to throw on when I'm not in a good space. Great reaction to a super fun film. 🐾
Regarding credits spoiling things, there have been villain reveals where the person isn't in the credits or trailers... without social media it used to be possible to keep the surprise for a little bit.
I think it happens in Seven. Don't spoiling who is "John Doe"
I love Simone's 'I will just help Frodo and Sam along the way' and George pointing out how that would not end well. You can see her really struggling with 'In place of a Dark Lord, you would have a Queen. ALL SHALL LOVE ME AND DESPAIR!!!'
Bulletproof vests can be shot multiple times, even in a place they’ve been hit previously, but they’re always discarded/replaced after being hit once out of liability issues.
It’s also a action movie trope that they’re discarded on screen right after being hit.
You could tell that the actors must have had huge fun doing this, like Ian McKellen as Death saying, "I don't do fiction. Not my field."
It's a very underrated comedy. I think people didn’t know how to take it when it came out, which is too bad.
Arnie and the captain talking about the cartoon cat detective might be my favorite bit, especially when it's Danny DeVito and he saves the 2nd act.
Incredibly underrated. And yeah the metaness of it all completely went over the heads of viewers and critics at the time. Which is surprising to me because it's not like parody didn't exist. But maybe because the parody in this film is relatively low key and mostly sight gags that you could miss if you weren't paying attention. I guess in the 90s everything needed to be in your face like a Hot Shots or Naked Gun. I know when I was a kid and watched this when it first released I definitely didn't get any of it. But then when I watched it as an adult in my mind 20s on a whim I realized it's actually shockingly good
@@LordVolkov Did you get the pun there? Most people seem to miss it. Cartoon cat. Animation. Suspended for a month. Suspended animation. Terrible, isn't it? :)
"He killed Mozart!" gets me every time, hahaha
It's a great rule of 3 joke. "He killed Mozart" "Danny said you killed Mo Zart..." "The guy Practice killed?!"
Simone's hair in this video is sooooo cute! I love that style and color.❤
Most self aware and REAL action hero film. Greatest end to an era , and amazing that Arnold went with it.
The Mozart line is a reference to Amadeus. F Murray Abraham played the part of Salieri in that movie, and there's an implicacation that he murdered Mozart (with poison that made him sick).
This is probably my greatest 'guilty pleasure' film. Excited to see you guys experience the ridiculousness.
'...here is a couple of acres...' is a pun on the words 'acres' and 'achers' - the pair of 'achers' are the mans balls lol, pretty clever actually, never caught that joke
19:08 The answer is: it largely depends on the rating of the vest and the type of round used. A ceramic plate that has been hit by a 300 Win Mag rifle round within 1,000 meters is probably done if it gets hit again in the same area, whereas soft body armor like Kevlar wouldn't stand a chance. However, that same soft armor may be able to protect against a whole barrage of 9mm
Man! That was my fav movie growing up! I love the sound track when Arnold falls out that window or balcony!.
I've always thought this movie was ahead of it's time and maybe Arnie's most underrated. I read an interview recently and he actually feels the same way about it.
The Mozart reference is for the movie Amadeus. Can’t really say anything about it because of spoiler if you haven’t seen it but F. Murray Abraham is in it.
Unfortunatly, Cinebinge has yet to realize they are also characters in a fiction
@@billthomas478Simp
Unfortunately, Jurassic Park hit the theaters at the same time and sucked all the ticket sales away from this film. It wasn’t the big summer hit they expected because of that. But it’s still one of my favorites.
Charles Dance is from the town of Redditch. Also where Harry Styles is from. I was a student there.
It must be acknowledged that with Charles Dance in this film, Alan Rickman in Die Hard and Jeremy Irons in Die Hard With The Vengeance, John McTiernan has completed the unique trilogy of working with 3 of the best English villain actors of their generation
The "killing of Mozart" is a reference to the highly fictionalized movie "Amadeus" co-starring F Murray Abraham (and a good movie too)
This movie was too clever. People didn't get it and it didn't do that well. But I'm glad they made it. It's so funny.
If that's true, then people are even dumber than I already thought they were. I like this movie, but it's not exactly what I'd call 'subtle.'
@@cyberleadr I'm not saying it's subtle, and I agree with you. But look at reviews from the time. People for real did not understand that the absurd action was tongue-in-cheek. They thought it was 100% serious. So they gave it bad reviews for not being realistic. No kidding it's not realistic! It's magic and all of the action is deliberately absurd!
@@cyberleadr I think the idea of "tropes" wasn't as widely understood by the average person back then as it is in today's way more media-savvy culture. Regular folk who weren't either in the movie/tv industry or movie/tv nerds may not have understood what all was being made fun of, leaving a lot of the jokes to be missed, misunderstood, and/or fall flat. Also, I imagine a lot of the moviegoing public went in expecting a typical Ahnuld-style action movie and were disappointed to find a silly comedy poking fun at action movie clichés and tropes.
Personally, I remember seeing it in the theater when it came out and LOVING it, then being surprised shortly afterward when it got such bad reviews and bombed as hard as it did.
So, yeah, I think it's not so much an intelligence thing as it is a difference in culture-wide interests between then and now. Pop culture is VERY different these days. Not only is there A LOT more of it and a lot more passionate interest in it, because of how widespread, accessible, popular, and prevalent tv/movies/games and media-craft are now, seemingly every person under 35 these days can talk extensively and relatively knowledgably about shot composition, set dec, lighting, CG/FX, sound design, screenwriting/storytelling, cameras, editing, etc, etc. Back then, that definitely wasn't the case. As a tv/movie/videogame/filmmaking nerd from pretty much all the way back, I can tell you that, if you talked to most people about behind-the-scenes stuff, media-craft, or even used a phrase like "set dec" or "CG" or "tropes" back in the day, most folk would look at you with blank expressions. It just wasn't as big a part of the zeitgeist as it is now so the self-referential stuff was probably lost on a lot of people.
12:55 you cut 2 cameo : T-1000 and catherine tramell (basic instinct) come out of the police station.
The Death character at the end is from 'seventh seal'
The tar pits are also surprisingly small. There was a fast food chicken place next door when I went there in the 90s. I ate chicken and looked at a small pond of tar (by comparison to how it looks in the movies) . :)
I was hoping to see them react to the cameos of the T-1000 and Catherine Trammell, since they just did Basic Instinct.
This film has so many references... it's great, every time you rewatch you find another. It's a treat.
By far my favorite Arnold movie.
One of my favorite movies as a kid. To answer your question, I’m in my 30s and still watch “TV TV“. Mostly live sports, some comedy shows, history channel, and anything else that catches my eye
I was one of the few who saw this in the theater, and I think I was exactly the target audience.
Most of the people there were laughing, getting the jokes, etc. But there was one point where I groaned and laughed and realized I was the only one laughing. And I think it got past the two of you as well. It's a truly terrible multi-layered pun.
So, the cartoon cat at the police station. Pretty random, yes? It's only there for the pun. "He's supposed to be back on duty. He was only suspended for a month." He's a cartoon cat. An animated cat. Animation. And he was suspended for a month. Therefore he was... suspended animation. Aargh. Terrible, isn't it? :)
Yeah, I missed that one. I assumed it was just a take on Roger Rabbit.
23:31 - ANTHONY QUINN (Vivaldi) - Acted for over six decades. Hollywood legend and twice Academy Award winner inc. best supporting actor as 'Paul Gaugin' in 'Lust for Life' opposite Kirk Douglas. In 1984, artist Eloy Torrez produced a 70-foot-high portrait mural of Quinn titled both 'Anthony Quinn' and 'The Pope of Broadway' in Los Angeles. Depicting Quinn in his famous 'Zorba the Greek' role, it remains one of the largest portrait murals in California.
Movie was absolutely ahead of it's time 👏
So Danny has a magic ticket that helps him go into the events of whatever _movie_ he's watching. 🤔Imagine someone taking this ticket to an _adult_ movie.
That's probably where _I_ would go, by the way, if I had this ability. You can tell, I've been putting some thought into this.
Well, this movie should add two more to your list: Amadeus from 1984 starring F. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce, which I'm surprised you haven't done yet given the number of Oscars it won, and The Seventh Seal from 1957 starring Max von Sydow and written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, which is the movie Death came from.
I haven’t seen this in AGES!!! Sir Ian McKellan played death!? I never knew that! His voice is so iconic! That’s awesome!!!
40:12 I got a feeling that despite naming other movies, most people would likely pick an adult/erotic flick to go in.
Bulletproof vests do lose effectiveness the more times they are hit. However, in most movies, the vest is taken off (or just exposed) to show that it was the vest that saved the character, not because it was useless.
Man I LOOOOOVE this movie
Such a shame it bombed, it's such a good parody/spoof without being either.
Wonderful movie. Possibly my fav Arnie flick
Love this film!- grew up on action movies, & huge props to Arnie for being game to take the mickey out of himself and his genre, makes me respect him all the more!
I seem to recall (I think!) this wasn't very well received critically or commercially, but it's one that's gained something of a following over time & is one of my fave Arnie movies!
I think I'd do something like the end of Elysium or one of the Star Trek movies. Basically something with incredible scanning and medical tech compared to what we have now. Get a medical scan and fix anything and everything possibly wrong with my body, and get some good augments while I'm at it.
Thr mozart reference is to "Amadeus" (1984) a fantastic movie that won eight academy awards and definitely worth a reaction.
The soundtrack is amazing to this film especially What The Hell Have I tune from Alice in Chains
So bloody great! AC/DC as well. The music was stellar!
This was my childhood movie. It came out 5 years before I was born but it was still my favorite for a long while
Please watch the Star Trek movies.
Yes once a plate in a vest is damaged it needs replaced. Many have slots to remove the plates and install new ones.
This movie scores horribly on Rotten Tomatoes, but I still love it to this day. I think it's a fun movie and has a really cool concept. The scene with the bloated dead body that gets kicked into the tar pit is something I will never forget. I am 37 as of today and still remember it from when I was a kid! Took me forever to get the "want to be a farmer?" joke Here's a couple of achers/acres as he kicks him in the crotch.
It bombed at the box office and the film critics hated. They just didn't get it. It's so obvious it's Spinal Tap situation but it went over thier heads.
@@russellward4624 Yeah, I just thought it was a fun movie when I saw it for the very first time, but as I got older, I understood it better. Same feeling with Starship Troopers. Satire propaganda film and this is a satire on how ridiculous action movies are.
I think the movie would’ve done better at the box office if it didn’t come out the same week as Jurassic Park
My favorite. Especially, the beginning where Arnold is playing Hamlet.