Or it’s the best part, depending on whether you accept the movie’s goofy tone or not. 

In that, it is a kind of film they don’t make anymore: an action escapade that takes itself just seriously enough, but never too seriously

I think what makes this movie work is Arnie. Just his hulking presence in this movie as a guy pretending to be a milquetoast tech salesman does a lot of the heavy lifting in communicating to the audience exactly how much suspension of disbelief is expected of them. Contrast that to any of the many, many, many other…

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I love that in JATW he’s...a local mattress salesman. There were dozens of musclebound Reagan-era action heroes but very few of those actors’ careers survived the 80s but Arnie had more to him than sheer beef.

True Lies is a movie that I’ve always loved, despite the various questionable aspects. The dialogue is great, the performances are top notch and it doesn’t take itself too seriously which is nice.

That’s always one of the classic things in Arnie films, particularly of this era (Jingle All the Way) - That this giant Austrian bodybuilder has a name like Harry Tasker or Howard Langston and absolutely nobody seems to notice he’s unlike anyone else in size and physique. 

Depends, are you a lawyer for Marvel/Disney? If so, he definitely wasn’t...

Charlton Heston was playing Nick Fury, wasn’t he? 

I enjoy the unspoken joke of a guy who looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger  going through life pretending to be an unassuming software salesman and everyone just buys it.

You do kinda think there’s a certain limit, as goofy the movie is, for the cartoon stuff, but then Charlton Heston rocks up as their boss and he’s got a goddamn eyepatch, and a healthy apetite for the scenery.

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The dumbest thing they did was not re-widen the theatrical exclusivity window when pandemic restrictions loosened.

What kind of idiot doesn’t understand that when you change your entire delivery model that your entire delivery model will change?

“When we dammed the river, we weren’t expecting this lake to form!”

She was also great alongside Michael Palin in Time Bandits. May she rest in peace.

i’d even go as far as saying that advance ticket sales/pre-selected seats fucked theatres even before that.

I like going to the movies, so, selfishly, I hope theaters survive. But I think audiences have made pretty clear that there are really only a handful of movies per year that they’re willing to pay for a full theatrical experience to see. And I don’t think that makes them assholes or philistines.

Exactly - the choice between “old man who’s not all there” and “proudly evil old man who’s not all there” should really be an easy one.

Yeah it’s a damn shame that we don’t have a duly elected, Constitutionally sanctioned office-holder whose entire job is to take over from the President in case of physical or mental incapacity. Like some sort of Assistant or "Vice" President. Quite the oversight if you ask me.

To be fair, it’s been 12+ years, and some peoples’ voices ‘age’ better than others. Also, there are a dozen other little factors that might be throwing their voices off a bit.