That joke was exactly the same in English, the movie is very meta, and some of the best parts are the kid trying to convince Arnold he exists within a movie. People don’t give the script written by Shane Black enough credit, I appreciate that not only does it have a bunch of gags but also that it actually questions…

The movie was really just ahead of its time. With advances in special effects and audiences more willing to sit through a 2+hour comedy, there could be a much more effective action parody in this style now.

Count me in!

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

Last Action Hero is a great movie! How dare you sir!

When’s Last Action Hero 2 coming out?

Beverly Hills Cop 3 was one of the worst movies I have ever seen. It’s a classic hollywood mistaken example of the school that says “sequels must have more of everything because more = better”.

Whatever happened to Judge Reinhold? I think my favorite movie of his has to be Ruthless People. God that movie was funny and the casting was so great. Bill Pullman as Earl was by himself worth the entire movie.

(I’m totally lying, but it seemed like a good reason)

That’s because the film you watched—the film we’re discussing—isn’t a thoughtful meditation about how a person is socialized to become a racist. You’re criticizing a piece of art for not being another piece of art.

I haven’t seen this yet, but it seems unfair to me that someone with a rotten character flaw can’t also carry some good in them. Otherwise everyone’s just a stereotype, and that’s not particularly interesting.

Totally disagree. Rockwell’s character is ostracized by the other members of the police force because his bigotry and violence show him to be an unprofessional bad cop who is an embarrassment to everyone around him. His attempts at “redemption” are merely selfish acts to heal his own sense of self-worth and get him…

I don’t think the billboard guy forgives the racist cop. He gives him some orange juice when they find themselves in the same hospital room, but a small act of kindness toward someone who’s wronged you isn’t necessarily forgiveness.

It’s just the way it’s going to be from now on because it’s just so easy. No need to read up on film history, learn about cinematography etc. Some of reviews now imply that reviewer may not have even watched the movie. You just check the cast and crew list and sort by gender, race etc to apply some kind of checklist,…

Jeez... I love film criticism... and I’m progressive... but we’re getting to a horrible social media version of the era when every single book and play was filtered through a feminist and racial critique. (Thankfully, Twitter users aren’t getting to the Marxist criticisms yet.) I don’t think these are bad approaches,…

I agree that Seven Psychopaths was very full of itself for no reason at all. And I’ll even agree that The Guard had a little bit of that smugness as well. However Brendan Gleeson’s performance in The Guard was masterful and makes that movie well worth it.

It seems like people are upset that the characters are not caricatures of people they dislike that they have already caricatured. That is no way to tell a story.

I love that these conspiracies are somehow all-powerful, yet also clumsy enough for some barely educated rube to uncover

The idea that it’s “offensive” to suggest we might see our preferred cultural targets as anything less than one-dimensional monsters is a reminder that when people say they like art that’s “challenging” and “subversive”, they don’t really mean it.

So, we complain about the trend of movies bowing to audience expectations, and then we slam movies for not being as woke (or the wrong kind of woke) as we expect them to be?