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ButterflyBlood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-03 12:38 PM
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Ironically, Arnold's movies are pretty left wing
I was thinking of that today. In Total Recall the bad guys are a bunch of xenophobic corporate scumbags, and the Terminator ones appear to have an anti-militarism and anti-nuclear weapons message. agree?
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AngryYoungMan Donating Member (856 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-03 12:41 PM
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1. You're right.
Actually, Stallone was the guy making jingoistic action movies through the '80s, not Arnold.

Including Cobra, the worst right-wing cop movie ever made.
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kmla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-03 12:54 PM
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7. "You're the disease...
... and I'm the cure."

Who was the idiot writer that wrote that line? Got to be one of the worst lines ever recorded in contemporary cinema...

:puke:

Cobra. A movie that is practically unmatched in it's level of dreck.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-03 12:42 PM
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2. YEAH
but their main star is a MYSOGYNISTIC PIG.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-03 12:43 PM
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3. not as much as Steven Segal's movies
Segal is a terrible actor, and he has a particularly stupid-looking pony tail (as if they all aren't stupid-looking), but his movies are surprisingly left wing
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ButterflyBlood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-03 12:44 PM
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4. aren't they most pro-environmentalist?
n/t
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-03 12:48 PM
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6. pro-enviromentalist and often anti-corporatist
Edited on Thu Sep-18-03 12:48 PM by mitchum
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wyldwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-03 12:46 PM
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5. Favorite Arnold line from a movie...
True Lies:

Jamie Lee Curtis: Have you actually... killed people?
Arnold: Yes... but they were all baaaad!
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Champion Jack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-03 12:56 PM
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8. Ahhnuld was only the actor....
He shows up, they tell him what to do, what to say and they give him a check. I seriously doubt if he was consulted on the story points.
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-03 04:15 PM
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10. Congrats Champion_Jack!! 600 posts
:toast:

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samsingh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-03 12:57 PM
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9. i noticed that
if this were a movie, he'd be fighting the repugs and showing them their evil and hypocrasy.
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