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Dull as heck. Avoid, unless you are high on yet another unsurprising teen slasher.
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Looking at the top box, was that a remake of Prom Night you saw? Seems like these 2000 remakes all aren't improvements, or just suck.
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Leave it to Arnie to bring that wonderful 80s ass-kicking action alive on gorgeous 720p HD. Still loving it to bits.
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Agree on Commando. When I first saw it, I wasn't expecting much, just an action flick, but it was actually rather good.
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...on gorgeous 720p High-Def. They just don't make films like this anymore.
"The name is Plissken."
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Escape from NY is a classic, but I recently saw Escape from LA on netflix, and was very disappointed. Russell really didn't have anything to work with, but he was a pale caricature of Snake. Script/plot was really just a big step down from NY. Hope I don't offend anyone who liked it. I watched the whole thing, but would never recommend it.
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Put this on with really low expectations, even though it's directed by a fantastic Asian horror maker.
Surprisingly, I loved it.
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Sounds like something I'd like to check out. Did you rent that?
I know Arnold's acting is strange, but he's actually very good in many aspects of acting - specifically expressing the basic emotions and other queue's that the character is asked to do. He's able to evoke empathy from the audience, which also assists him with comedy; and then likability. (not in every role)
Classic case study is Total Recall. If you watch the remake and compare it to the original, you see the intrinsic value of Arnold. The remake barely had a hero at all -- I didn't know him, and I didn't care about him. Arnold's character I believed and cared about. Which is a bit impressive considering he played a duo good and bad-guy role, and the film had classic 80's tongue-in-cheek humor about it (though it was 1990 film).