Fallout-NL
Member
I don't know, but these have got to be up there.
People who have never even seen the movies know this scene.
Openings people, openings.
I don't know, but these have got to be up there.
People who have never even seen the movies know this scene.
Openings people, openings.
"Is the intro to Last Action Hero the greatest scene in motion picture history?"
The scene in which Charles Dance gets his dogs to do stuff is the best scene.
That does not infer we're only talking about intros
Love that Last Action Hero is finally getting its due. It was so meta and ahead of its time.
Loved this scene in LAH:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMxY0Lxo_ow
No lies here.
Why did this movie not do poorly critically and commercially ? I get that the answer is that it was ahead of its time but in what way were the audience of that era unable to appreciate the movie?
This movie is extremely underrated. I love it. It's a great opening but there are better openings and better scenes in the movie. The Hamlet scene was awesome.
People didn't get it and found it stupid. Lie imagine somebody going to see The Other Guys with will Ferrell and mark wahlberg and expecting a gritty buddy cop movie and bthat ing dissapoijted. Maybe it was the advertising of the timeWhy did this movie not do poorly critically and commercially ? I get that the answer is that it was ahead of its time but in what way were the audience of that era unable to appreciate the movie?
It was a typo, I meant to ask why did it not do well and was a critical and commercial failure.Not do? It was a critical and commercial disappointment
People didn't get it and found it stupid. Lie imagine somebody going to see The Other Guys with will Ferrell and mark wahlberg and expecting a gritty buddy cop movie and bthat ing dissapoijted. Maybe it was the advertising of the time
This and Josie and the Pussy cats were 2 movies that just weren't received well because expectations weren't set correctly or marketing wasn't done right. The Josie and the oussycats trailer gives no indication that it's going to parody boy bands and pop culture
The movie clueless also had the same issue with how it was marketed but it ended up being a hit still
But also today like it kinda would've been spoiled and all of the suprise would be gone.Josie and the Pussycats is actually a pretty good example.The marketing gave no indication it was a parody and the movie never breaks character and stays with it the whole way through. Outside of quality of the writing/etc, the audience wasn't primed at all for what it was and a lot of people slammed it for the stuff it was trying to make fun of.
I think if you released those two movies today with all the meta comedy being around, they'd do a lot better.
Why did this movie do poorly critically and commercially ? I get that the answer is that it was ahead of its time but in what way were the audience of that era unable to appreciate the movie?
But this was also Arnold. More than one film can coexist at the box office. It didn't have to be a massive hit. The reviews and poor word of mouth killed any chance against jurassic parkIf you're asking why it did so poorly at the box office the simplest reason is that it came out about a week after the release of Jurassic Park. JP was the juggernaut film of the year and had massive buzz around it all year due to the promise of photoreal dinosaurs and the fact that the marketing was very careful not to give any good shots of the creatures. There was no way any film wasn't going to get creamed if they released immediately after Spielberg's movie.
You should watch Eraser that came out in '96. Another underrated Arnie action film.It has actually gotten a lot better with time. I recently bought the bluray for 4$ and had a blast. The practical effects and action scenes now look and feel so much better than the CGI infested shakycam with 200 cuts per second movies, and it's funny and original too.
Back when it came out, it flopped and signaled the end of Arnold's action career
Oh Sonia Blade
But this was also Arnold. More than one film can coexist at the box office. It didn't have to be a massive hit. The reviews and poor word of mouth killed any chance against jurassic park
If you're asking why it did so poorly at the box office the simplest reason is that it came out about a week after the release of Jurassic Park. JP was the juggernaut film of the year and had massive buzz around it all year due to the promise of photoreal dinosaurs and the fact that the marketing was very careful not to give any good shots of the creatures. There was no way any film wasn't going to get creamed if they released immediately after Spielberg's movie.
Every human being I have ever talk to says that the intro to last action hero is a masterpiece of modern film
Also, the soundtrack is god tier.
But this was also Arnold. More than one film can coexist at the box office. It didn't have to be a massive hit. The reviews and poor word of mouth killed any chance against jurassic park
Love that Last Action Hero is finally getting its due. It was so meta and ahead of its time.
The greatest scene in an action movie ever probably comes from Terminator 2
Where does it say that in the title?Openings people, openings.
Agreed but I think it's the scene near the end. The night time high way semi truck chaseThe greatest scene in an action movie ever probably comes from Terminator 2
Slightly OT but I'm always impressed that John McTiernan released two films in 87/88 there were opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of action heroes.
On one side you've got Predator which is literally the most masculine, testosterone ridden, 80's film that'll ever likely be made. You've got characters shrugging off bullet wounds, men literally attacking a forest with a mini-gun and grenade launchers, someone killing a huge wild boar with a knife and bare-hands and someone outrunning a nuclear blast!
On the other side you've got Die Hard, generally accepted as the birth of the modern day action hero. Someone who's an everyman, someone who's filled with self-doubt, every injury causes great pain, regularly gets the crap kicked out of them, struggles to reconnect with his wife.
I think it's amazing that he not only made successive films with such different views as to what constitutes an action star but to actually make them both bona-fide classics and release them one year after the next is astounding!
Haha, took me a couple viewings as well. In my defense, I was 11 years old when I first saw it and English was not my native language.