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Favorite Arnie Movie

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by jeneric, Jan 1, 2006.

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  1. Conan

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  2. Terminator

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  3. Predator

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  4. The Running Man

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  5. Twins

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  6. Total Recall

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  7. Kindergarten Cop

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  8. Terminator 2

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  9. Last Action Hero

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  10. True Lies

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  11. Junior

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  12. Eraser

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  13. Jingle All the Way

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  14. End of Days

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  15. The 6th Day

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  16. Collateral Damage

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  17. Other - You can post it, someone might care

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  18. Why are you wasting my time?

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  1. jeneric

    jeneric New Member

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    Curses to you, you create new poll button....
     
  2. tripp

    tripp Which it's a 'ybrid, ain't it?

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    "Conan! What is best in life?!?"

    ... "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women."
     
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    "The Terminator" was the best movie he was in but I voted for "True Lies" as his best movie.
     
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    I don't see the movie where he ran for governor. What was the name of that one...?
     
  5. TonyPSchaefer

    TonyPSchaefer Your Friendly Moderator
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    True Lies and it has nothing to do with Arnie.

    Two words: strip dance.
     
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    "Wrong!!!... You! What is best in life?"

    "Pie."

    "Yeah!!!!"
     
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    Christopher Guest: Smart, funny, married to Jamie Lee Curtis, and now a member of the House of Lords.

    Lucky sod.
     
  8. tripp

    tripp Which it's a 'ybrid, ain't it?

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    Christopher Guest is merely a personality that Nigel Tufnel likes to step into from time to time.

    hmmm... pie.
     
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    Dude.. you forgot Commando...

    "Remember when I said I'd kill you last? I LIED."

    :lol:
     
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    tripp Which it's a 'ybrid, ain't it?

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    Best line in that movie!

    Where does Commando sit in the Arnold Canon?
     
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    Terminator 2


    For whatever reason, I remember wearing a tux to the premiere...

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    (awesome poll by the way!)
     
  12. bookrats

    bookrats New Member

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    I think it sits in the Rae Dawn Chong section. (Either that, or the Dan Hedaya section (one of my very favorite character actors -- Clueless, Buckaroo Banzai).

    (And shouldn't that be "Arnold Cannon"? :) )
     
  13. daniel

    daniel Cat Lovers Against the Bomb

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    To pick a favorite from an actor's movies implies that you do not detest the actor. Pardon me for using the word "actor." Arnold is not an actor. He's a muscle man who's been trained to speak lines. His movies are the most disgusting sort of pornography.
     
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    bookrats New Member

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    Well, a lot more goes into a movie than the lead actor; to my mind, the director and writer have a lot more impact on the film than anything.

    I'm not saying Arnold is a great actor, or even a good one; but I'd argue that Terminator 2 is one of the best science fiction films I've ever seen. Most of this is due to James Cameron, I'd bet.
     
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    The mark of a great writer/director is to make the most of any actor, no matter the quality. Terminator 2 is an example of that. Arnold was BORN to play that part, and Cameron leveraged the strong performances of all of the other actors in the film, plus good old quality story-telling to make something extremely great.
     
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    where's pumping iron? Arnie's first movie. it was during his bodybuilding days so he was JACKED. plus some of the funniest things the future governor of california has said on camera.

    Mike
     
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    I still have several thousand films that I would like to see before I die and they certainly don't include a single film that might include Arnold, even if he gets 500 Oscars and his movies are getting trillion dollars in return. These merits will not persuade me to see his films. To me film is more of an art form than entertainment but even if I settle for entertainment I prefer sloppy cartoons over action type flicks that Arnold is involved in. I abide to my viewing of films by following certain critics whose tastes are very similar to mine and they seem to always give Arnold films 0 stars.
    No offense to screenwriter, costume designers and other people who are involved in his films and who may actually deliver.
     
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    I would have voted for Pumping Iron had that been an option. But then it is, after all, a documentary and completely unlike anything that followed.
     
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    Rancid13 Cool Chick with a Black Prius

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    I voted 'Other' because Terminator 3 wasn't on the list. I did love T2, but he actually had a sense of humor and was self-deprecating in T3.