Best Arnold Schwarzenegger Movies (in my opinion): 1. Terminator 2: Judgement Day 2. Total Recall 3. Last Action Hero (Underrated movie) 4. Predator 5a. Twins 5b. Kindergarten Cop (only bc I was younger when I saw it, loved it)
1990, last day of Junior year in H.S. going into senior summer. Me and 12 friends went to the afternoon showing of it.... WOW, what a great way to start the summer!!
I just saw Arnold Schwarzenegger in "The Long Goodbye" from 1973. He played a hoodlum. He's in two scenes, with no lines, and I didn't even realize it was him until the second scene where the crime boss has everyone in his office take off their clothes to prove a point to Elliot Gould. You read that correctly.
Conan the Barbarian was amazing when I was 12 years old. Lakewood Center 1982 - action, good music, standard 80's topless scene, Darth Vader, and surfer icon Gerry Lopez!
I remember a few friends from the neighborhood and I went to see this at the local theater. It was a good family movie. It's an excellent right before movie. Right before Basic Instinct for Sharon Stone and Terminator 2 for Schwarzenegger. Amazing special effects. Even moreso when you realize this was pre CGI
Need to be giving props to make up/effects man Rob Bottin. They praise all of his work, but don't bother to look the man up. He's a legend at this point.
You guys should definitevly re watch "Predator" Arnold's best movie and performance, not to mention one of the best action movies of all time that has aged extremely well.
Saw it on exceptionally good quality pirate video the week after it was released in US cinemas. Watched it three times in the one night I borrowed it. It blew my mind. Probably my fave Arnie action movie. Though Terminator 2 is up there too.
Ah Marshall Bell, I loved the very short lived show he was in called G vs E. Man that was a period on TV when gold was just being cancelled left and right.
The guy doing all the raspy voice impressions reminds me of the stoner guy from, The Cabin in the Woods. It's making the podcast way better than it already is.
I have to agree though that Total Recall was a big boost for Arnold in achieving his Apex Mountain period within 1990 and 1991, with Terminator 2 being the big peak as being one of the last classic big summer blockbusters that still stand the test of time. Caralco Pictures actually produced and distributed the two films back-to-back with Arnold’s business skills in getting the stories to the screen so this was their Apex Mountain as well, before crashing and filing for bankruptcy in 1995.
Lots of funny one liners in this movie. I like when he tips Benny and tells him take his kids to the dentist based off Benny's teeth. Dino De Laurentiis Is an actual real producer. I believe he is actually the grandfather of Giada De Laurentiis one of the Food Network's cooking personalities.
Elle & Benedetta . . . . Paul Verhoeven is still at the peak of his film-making craft, provocative & witty, masterfully ambiguous & subversive. Consistent brutality as well as heartfelt humanity. Few filmmakers are genuinely progressing the medium & art of the Cinematic Exploration to the degree that Verhoeven is today. Especially a man whose reaching a certain age where others may have retired or become satisfied with just coasting through safe & uninspired studio crowd pleasers, he has nothing to prove & such an impressive career to look back on, yet shows absolutely no signs of lost passion or creative drive.
Speaking of Ironside and Starship Troopers, that's a good movie for a rewatch - it even has Neil Patrick Harris as a fascist to add to the unintentional comedy.
1. Terminator 2 2. Predator 3.True Lies 4. Total Recall 5. You could put any number of movies here honestly but I’ll go with Eraser Just my opinion on my favorite Arnold movies
LOVE Conan The Destroyer, hugely entertaining! My favourite Arnold Schwarzenegger films are the original Terminator (a genuinely suspenseful and scary sci fi thriller), Commando, The Running Man, Red Heat and Total Recall.
Recasting couch for the guy who sold Quaid the Recall vacation: Jim Carey! He would have been perfect for the sleezy salesman role. And it's actually plausible, for that point in his career. 1990 was the year he joined In Living Color - 4 years before he became a movie super star.
The "Wrecking Crew" 1969, Sharon Tate vs Nancy Kwan. First women real fight scene. Didn't last long but still... And I think Arnold first became aware of his self parody/caricature persona, in the movie the Villain(1979), as the handsome stranger.
Safety deposit box scene: why is that employee so weird and creepy?! He gives Arnold an odd look even. He reminded me of Pee wee Herman but I thought there was something so odd about that scene that had always stuck with me.
i will say Total Recall is so big in its production and ideas, is film meant for Arnold. it was so gargantuan that no matter if you were to remake it, it would feel small compared to this version. And, the remake was even with it all of it's vfx! Is it Arnold's very best? It is in its top 5 this film fits into the big persona which Arnold has. Even with T2 as big as it did, and as wild as Commando was, this film fit perfectly with Arnold's movie star status. Total Recall is a sci fi film which had to go big to match it's star, where as compared to most where the stars had to go big to meet the scifi ideas
Tough call. I think of Arnold the first thing that comes to mind is The Terminator. My favorite is Conan. But Predator is a classic as well. The running man is fun
I stump people on the is it a dream or not argument every time with this. It can’t be a dream or the memories from recall because the movie has such things as external characters on screen talking and doing things without Douglas Quaid in the scene. If he’s dreaming or these are memories how are other characters interacting with each other without him involved. In order for this to be a dream he would have to be literally in every single scene participating. It makes no logical sense otherwise. If Quaid is dreaming then how is Richter and Cohagen talking in a completely different location conversing and planning without Quaid?
While they're shocked at the cost of production for Rambo, let's take account that they shot a lot of that on location in the jungles (obviously not Vietnam, but probably either somewhere in lower Mexico or the Philippines--I haven't looked up production on that-- that really runs up equipment/crew costs), they paid for Sly at his commercial apex, and they probably had to spend a lot shooting all the helicopter work with those Russian Mi's (or had to design the rigging to furbish copters that looked like Russian Mi's).
It's underrated for sure.. Terminator 2 has to be the number one, and Predator is up there, Total Recall is probably third best Arnold film.. if he didn't let his ego get the best of him and go into politics he would have made the sequel which in the end became Minority Report... and they obviously rewrote it and Spielberg and Cruise jumped on the project
@@blakeharris58 Yup and they made the Arnold's Terminator be a cyborg with a conscience not a vicious, unstoppable killer like he was in first Terminator.
@@blakeharris58 You can just say the kid's acting was bad. When you say it aged poorly that makes it sound like his acting was ok when the movie came out. Personally his acting never bothered me.
Arnold was one hundred percent in on the joke. He went out of the way to study how other action heroes succeeded and realized one liners were a big deal. They became a staple of his career.
Bill Paxton would not have been a good choice to play the Recall salesman to Arnold? You said he needed to be a used car salesman-type? Guess what role he played to a T just a few years later to Arnold in True Lies????
bill it looks like there is a little drama between your commentators? no ? i like it ... do you see it and look to build it in a 'healthy' way like competitive sports bball etc?
Predator is his best movie. How do they skip over that and go to total recall. Predator still holds up today.
Nope. Terminator 2 and True Lies.
But, that’s just my opinion too.
Yeah, I'd say Predator and The Terminator are his top 2. I just re-watched Predator recently and Schwarznegger's acting is really GOOD.
i'll take conan the barbarian over predator.
Commando
You can hate the look of the credits but I gotta draw the line at "terrible music". Jerry Goldsmith brought his A-game with the opening
Best Arnold Schwarzenegger Movies (in my opinion):
1. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
2. Total Recall
3. Last Action Hero (Underrated movie)
4. Predator
5a. Twins
5b. Kindergarten Cop (only bc I was younger when I saw it, loved it)
41:30 lol whenever I have a reason to say 'Two weeks" I say it twice and see if the other person reacts.
I always say "two weeks" in the glitchy way it is said in the movie.
TWWWWOOOO WWWWEEEEEEEEEKKSSS!!!! 🥴
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1990, last day of Junior year in H.S. going into senior summer. Me and 12 friends went to the afternoon showing of it.... WOW, what a great way to start the summer!!
How's retirement, old skool?
@@raisinbigdaddykane9723 been pretty good, been on a six week bender since the shut down!!
@@topedaddy7838 nice.....me too....I'm 41 so its not like I'm young. You believe in this shit or you think its a government ploy?
Random, but can we get a Jason, Bill, and Chris Ryan rewatchable for Jackie Brown?
Just recently rewatched it. It's still great.
@@dvowls120 It's so good!
I saw this in theater. The trailer for it was great it played in front of war of the roses
I just saw Arnold Schwarzenegger in "The Long Goodbye" from 1973. He played a hoodlum.
He's in two scenes, with no lines, and I didn't even realize it was him until the second scene where the crime boss has everyone in his office take off their clothes to prove a point to Elliot Gould.
You read that correctly.
The Long Goodbye is a classic but I don't class it as an Arnie movie because, as you said he has no dialogue
Watched this movie all the time growing up. Such a great movie. I put this at the top with Predator and Terminator with best Arnold movies.
Sharon stone with 80’s hair is boss!!!
I couldn't click on this fast enough.
wait did Simmons just totally brain fart on Predator? rookie.
Michael Ironside's apex mountain is unquestionably Scanners, the scene with the head explosion will not be topped
We need the True Lies rewatchable
Conan the Barbarian was amazing when I was 12 years old. Lakewood Center 1982 - action, good music, standard 80's topless scene, Darth Vader, and surfer icon Gerry Lopez!
Yup agreed still a great rewatch for the things you listed.
My 2nd fave after Predator
Yes, Conan the Barbarian is great. Conan the Destroyer is an awful cash grab after He Man came out.
I remember a few friends from the neighborhood and I went to see this at the local theater. It was a good family movie. It's an excellent right before movie. Right before Basic Instinct for Sharon Stone and Terminator 2 for Schwarzenegger. Amazing special effects. Even moreso when you realize this was pre CGI
Need to be giving props to make up/effects man Rob Bottin. They praise all of his work, but don't bother to look the man up. He's a legend at this point.
You guys should definitevly re watch "Predator" Arnold's best movie and performance, not to mention one of the best action movies of all time that has aged extremely well.
That’s rubbish compared to total Recall
Saw it on exceptionally good quality pirate video the week after it was released in US cinemas. Watched it three times in the one night I borrowed it. It blew my mind. Probably my fave Arnie action movie. Though Terminator 2 is up there too.
I alwasy thought it was a dream. The "Blue sky on Mars" line did it for me. Great debates on whether or not it was a dream.
The red bars during the opening credits are those pole things they used to free the oxygen at the end of the movie 😉
Ah Marshall Bell, I loved the very short lived show he was in called G vs E. Man that was a period on TV when gold was just being cancelled left and right.
The guy doing all the raspy voice impressions reminds me of the stoner guy from, The Cabin in the Woods.
It's making the podcast way better than it already is.
Baby, you make me wish I had 3 hands
T2 was Arnold’s best, and the widespread critical and commercial success confirms this.
I have to agree though that Total Recall was a big boost for Arnold in achieving his Apex Mountain period within 1990 and 1991, with Terminator 2 being the big peak as being one of the last classic big summer blockbusters that still stand the test of time.
Caralco Pictures actually produced and distributed the two films back-to-back with Arnold’s business skills in getting the stories to the screen so this was their Apex Mountain as well, before crashing and filing for bankruptcy in 1995.
Lots of funny one liners in this movie. I like when he tips Benny and tells him take his kids to the dentist based off Benny's teeth. Dino De Laurentiis Is an actual real producer. I believe he is actually the grandfather of Giada De Laurentiis one of the Food Network's cooking personalities.
Ronny Cox and Micheal Ironside make this movie. You have to have great villains or its just not going to work. And these two are the best.
Best line of this movie :
See you at the party Richter!
Elle & Benedetta . . . .
Paul Verhoeven is still at the peak of his film-making craft, provocative & witty, masterfully ambiguous & subversive. Consistent brutality as well as heartfelt humanity. Few filmmakers are genuinely progressing the medium & art of the Cinematic Exploration to the degree that Verhoeven is today. Especially a man whose reaching a certain age where others may have retired or become satisfied with just coasting through safe & uninspired studio crowd pleasers, he has nothing to prove & such an impressive career to look back on, yet shows absolutely no signs of lost passion or creative drive.
I love that these are on TH-cam
Only thing I can disagree with is Bill calling the music bad. I love the score for TR.
almost a direct copy of the conan the barbarian soundtrack.
score was awesome. Not sure what BS is going on about.
@@bikingchupei2447 and Conan is almost a direct copy of Capricorn One. Goldsmith revenge.
HE WAS ABSOLUTELY IN A SIMULATION.
He matches the “custom” woman and it was the same woman in the dream.
That’s what let’s you know it’s a dream
Speaking of Ironside and Starship Troopers, that's a good movie for a rewatch - it even has Neil Patrick Harris as a fascist to add to the unintentional comedy.
I know this is a year late, but with Verhoven, it's never unintentional ;)
Excellent stuff, things like this, the entertainment factor of it, it's exactly what's needed RN when so much is boring AF
Yea, I'll take predator over total recall, simply because it reverbitrated across Hollywood
Close call but I still give the nod to Total Recall because of it's sly humor.
1. Terminator 2
2. Predator
3.True Lies
4. Total Recall
5. You could put any number of movies here honestly but I’ll go with Eraser
Just my opinion on my favorite Arnold movies
LOVE Conan The Destroyer, hugely entertaining! My favourite Arnold Schwarzenegger films are the original Terminator (a genuinely suspenseful and scary sci fi thriller), Commando, The Running Man, Red Heat and Total Recall.
It's Terminator. Duh.
Concepcions voice nearly made me crash my car....
Jean Claude van Damme & Stallone being 'huge' guys is kind of hilarious. Strong for sure, but also short.
It's an absolute classic, a must watch
One of the best action scores Jerry Goldsmith who did the scores of "Rudy", "Hoosiers", Rambo 1-3, Alien, and Star Trek TMP.
Running Man is the best Arnold movie and we are about 5 minutes away from it being real life. And JCVD was a dancer which made his fights better.
Nah predator.
@@leemcqueen500 JCVD *was* Predator, but he was also a dancer. 😉
Wow! Great Richard Dreyfuss impression!
The original comments for this video are INSANE
The most expensive movie was actually Rambo 3.
Recasting couch for the guy who sold Quaid the Recall vacation: Jim Carey! He would have been perfect for the sleezy salesman role. And it's actually plausible, for that point in his career. 1990 was the year he joined In Living Color - 4 years before he became a movie super star.
The "Wrecking Crew" 1969, Sharon Tate vs Nancy Kwan. First women real fight scene. Didn't last long but still...
And I think Arnold first became aware of his self parody/caricature persona, in the movie the Villain(1979), as the handsome stranger.
While Dino is a nickname, De Laurentiis is his actual name, Bill
Safety deposit box scene: why is that employee so weird and creepy?!
He gives Arnold an odd look even.
He reminded me of Pee wee Herman but I thought there was something so odd about that scene that had always stuck with me.
1. Predator
2. T2
3. Running man
4. Total Recall
Hate to break to you all but “Jingle All The Way” is Arnold’s magnum opus. “Put the Cookie Down Ted”.
You misspelled Terminator 2 Judgement Day
Michael Ironside apex mountain: the third time, out of 3, he survived cancer: bowel, prostate and thyroid!
i will say Total Recall is so big in its production and ideas, is film meant for Arnold.
it was so gargantuan that no matter if you were to remake it, it would feel small compared to this version.
And, the remake was even with it all of it's vfx!
Is it Arnold's very best? It is in its top 5
this film fits into the big persona which Arnold has. Even with T2 as big as it did, and as wild as Commando was, this film fit perfectly with Arnold's movie star status.
Total Recall is a sci fi film which had to go big to match it's star, where as compared to most where the stars had to go big to meet the scifi ideas
gotta disagree, that intro and the music sets the tone so well to me.
My Aunty also says she finds Arnie unintentionally hilarious!!
“WAT DAH FAK DID I DOO WRANG!?! TELL MAY!!!”
Spot-on Dreyfuss impersonation.
1. Predator
2. T2
3. Conan the Barbarian
4. Terminator
5. Total Recall
1, Predator, no question in my opinion. 2nd, Terminator 2 Judgement Day
Arnold low key has an incredible collection of movies
Low key?? The guy was the biggest movie star in the world for many years.
The two weeks scene is more rewatchable
Perfect example of "Betteridge's law"
Tough call. I think of Arnold the first thing that comes to mind is The Terminator. My favorite is Conan. But Predator is a classic as well. The running man is fun
I got all the way to the part where he said the opening credits are terrible.. So stupid the opening credits are great I just disagree
Ringer please post the Tommy Boy episode
Do Fletch. Then do blow out. Then do under siege two
It’s another great anti-fascist, anti right wing classic by Paul Verhoeven (Robocop, TR, Starship Troopers)...
I never seen this movie someone let me know if it’s worth the 3.99 I’m gonna have to pay apple to rent it.
Why does everyone put T2 over T1 Arnie is so unforgettably badass in T1!
I agree, he was much better performance-wise in the first movie.
Yes, next question
True Lies and the first 2 Terminators are my favorite Arnold films but Total Recall like all Arnold films was entertaining as hell for sure
I stump people on the is it a dream or not argument every time with this. It can’t be a dream or the memories from recall because the movie has such things as external characters on screen talking and doing things without Douglas Quaid in the scene. If he’s dreaming or these are memories how are other characters interacting with each other without him involved. In order for this to be a dream he would have to be literally in every single scene participating. It makes no logical sense otherwise. If Quaid is dreaming then how is Richter and Cohagen talking in a completely different location conversing and planning without Quaid?
RIP Michael Champion
Great pod, but Apex Mtn for Arnold has to be the Governor of California, cmon now, jk, lol
While they're shocked at the cost of production for Rambo, let's take account that they shot a lot of that on location in the jungles (obviously not Vietnam, but probably either somewhere in lower Mexico or the Philippines--I haven't looked up production on that-- that really runs up equipment/crew costs), they paid for Sly at his commercial apex, and they probably had to spend a lot shooting all the helicopter work with those Russian Mi's (or had to design the rigging to furbish copters that looked like Russian Mi's).
Rambo 3 and it makes sense it cost that much actually.
Paul Verhoeven-- ROBOCOP , TOTAL RECALL, BASIC INSTINCT, STARSHIP TROOPERS...NUFF SAID
It's a good movie. But the best Arnold movie is Terminator 2.
Very debateable.
It's his second best after The Running Man. My top 5...
1) The Running Man
2) Total Recall
3) Predator
4) Conan
5) Terminator 2
carnifex2005 I’d put predator at 2 but other than that your right.
rewatchables without chris is like the rolling stones without mick jagger
No because Running Man exists
I haven’t seen Total Recall since 1990.
After T2 and just behind True Lies
So was it a dream or reality?
close second...Commando
PREDATOR !! How can that not even get a mention?! What in sam hell is going on here?
It's underrated for sure.. Terminator 2 has to be the number one, and Predator is up there, Total Recall is probably third best Arnold film.. if he didn't let his ego get the best of him and go into politics he would have made the sequel which in the end became Minority Report... and they obviously rewrote it and Spielberg and Cruise jumped on the project
Terminator 2 aged poorly because of Edward Furlong.
@@blakeharris58 what the hell are u talking about? the film holds up..
@@TomDeLaCruz the film holds up as far as effects, story and most performances. It is a hard rewatch due to the annoying kid.
@@blakeharris58 Yup and they made the Arnold's Terminator be a cyborg with a conscience not a vicious, unstoppable killer like he was in first Terminator.
@@blakeharris58
You can just say the kid's acting was bad. When you say it aged poorly that makes it sound like his acting was ok when the movie came out.
Personally his acting never bothered me.
Arnold was one hundred percent in on the joke. He went out of the way to study how other action heroes succeeded and realized one liners were a big deal. They became a staple of his career.
All the way back to the original Bond, Dr. No.
Much respect to the the Rock but there isn't a single Rock movie that's worth a rewatch, lot's of fancy explosions very light on plot.
Bill Paxton would not have been a good choice to play the Recall salesman to Arnold? You said he needed to be a used car salesman-type? Guess what role he played to a T just a few years later to Arnold in True Lies????
Shea is a national treasure
bill it looks like there is a little drama between your commentators? no ? i like it ... do you see it and look to build it in a 'healthy' way like competitive sports bball etc?
That is the movie,👍🏾I also liked the remake but it's not really total recall the dialogue wasn't that great, but great action, thanks for the post 👌🏾
I loved Total Recall, but it's nowhere near as good and T2 or Predator.
Better than T2, equal to Predator.
The bad guys kill the guy before he becomes the human shield for Arnold.
This is vid is a terrible mistake. It should be about ‘Predator’
Buncha slack jawed ... around here!
Terminator 2 is the best movie Arnold is in. But I gotta say the best Arnold movie(there is a difference) is Predator.
2001: Space Odyssey invented FaceTime 46:43
Yup. Nailed it.
I listened for Mars.
Predator
Commando
T1
T2
Total Recall
Running Man
Predator
Conan the Barbarian
T1
Commando
Total Recall
Running Man
T2
Reading the comments: Total Recall IS his best flick.