Arnold Schwarzenegger to Star in David Ayer's Sabotage

[galmorzu]

Just saw this. My favorite part was the two families that came into the 10pm showing with six kids, boys and girls, between 6-10 years old (youngest girl was carrying her teddy bear with her). Yay, Schwarzeneggar movies are fun!

Took them 20 minutes before walking out, too.

 

[bullets]

I want to see Arnold play a villain again. He's a criminal in Escape Plan but definitely not the villain

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Just saw this. My favorite part was the two families that came into the 10pm showing with six kids, boys and girls, between 6-10 years old (youngest girl was carrying her teddy bear with her). Yay, Schwarzeneggar movies are fun!

Took them 20 minutes before walking out, too.

I can only assume people like this got lost in the multiplex and spent the 20 minutes trying to figure out what to do upon realizing their mistake.

 

[Simo]

I can only assume people like this got lost in the multiplex and spent the 20 minutes trying to figure out what to do upon realizing their mistake.

Well there was the one time I saw A History of Violence when it was released and there was a 4 year old running up and down the theater aisles during the movie.....

Saw Sabotage last night and it was pretty decent but not as good as I was expecting it to be. Arnold is pretty low key throughout the whole movie and doesn't really get his moment until the end.

Honestly though the main characters are all scumbags with no likable traits so I really didn't care what became of them, Arnold borderline joining them.

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

It really is disheartening to me that this is not going to do well domestically right now it's only at #7 for the weekend with $1,825,000 I didn't think it would be box office gold but it looked better than his last few efforts, that and they promoted the hell out of this thing.

 

[bullets]

I thought it was really good. There was definitely a lot of one liners and funny banter. The team wasn't well developed but they were fun to watch. The theater erupted when Arnold made the fat comment during the interrogation. It's shockingly gory and depressing , but this was my kind of film. I really liked Arnold's performance. Also liked the end better than I was expecting.

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

The BF% joke made me laugh so insanely hard that my eyes teared to the point of crying, I absolutely loved that scene.

 

[TheVileOne]

People don't want to see old Arnold acting like younger AHNALD.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Arnold cant catch a break since his come back, not in his solo movies outside of The Expendables anyway, dont know when this is out in Aus but I like the look of this.

 

[Supernova]

Arnold is too old now to still be doing his own lead action pics. He lost his prime years as governor if you ask me. Now it's just sad.

 

[bullets]

Arnold can still looks like he can kick some ass and some day he'll be gone so I hope to get more of him. This really felt like a role he should be doing. He can great for ensemble action films.

 

[Octoberist]

Ow. The film only opened to 5.3 million and finished at 7th place. Another bomb for the Austrian Oak.

http://collider.com/weekend-box-office-noah-launches-with-44-million-sabotage-falls-flat/

 

[TheVileOne]

Arnold cant catch a break since his come back, not in his solo movies outside of The Expendables anyway, dont know when this is out in Aus but I like the look of this.

His comeback is nonexistent.

His time as an action star is long gone. Paramount needs to recast him in Terminator already.

 

[Supernova]

Its different times now, anyone can be action stars. Christ even chris evans is one with the hero movies. The 80's and 90's were arnolds time. Why does this surprise anyone? Excrpt for expendables all these old farts cant produce a hit.

 

[Gold Samurai]

Let's face it. The general audience have lost interest in a Schwarzenegger movie.

I worry about Terminator 5

 

[TheVileOne]

Conan 4 or whatever starring Arnold from Universal, IMHO, will never see the light of day.

This is three flops in a row for him now.

 

[dark_b]

why is everyone talking about action stars . is Sabotage an action movie with a main hero? come on.

lets be happy that we got this movie from Arnie before he retires.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Let's face it. The general audience have lost interest in a Schwarzenegger movie.

They might be more interested if the movies were actually good. All he's actually done is pick up where he left off over a decade ago: making b-grade actioners like The 6th Day and Collateral Damage.

And now with Terminator 5, Triplets and King Conan on the upcoming list he's trying to recapture the past even further. I had originally hoped he was going to try for a better class of script with his return but it looks like he's settled for churning out a series of bland quickies to pad out his bank account instead.

 

[bullets]

I think Sabotage and The Last Stand were more enjoyable than his decline before running for Governor.

Terminator and to a lesser extend Conan are more iconic. He has a better chance with those. Also I think he'll be in the Avatar sequel. Escape Plan was a big hit overseas.

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

This film is NOTHING like the movies he was doing before he was governor, this is probably the most different film in terms of tone alone that he's done since he started doing family comedies.

 

[Kane52630]

Saw it yesterday...I enjoyed it. Arnold was best, I think, in the final scene where he plays gunslinger. I kinda wish they would've made a movie like that...it would be David Ayer's Taken set in Mexico.

I will say I was really impressed by Mireille Enos...at times she looked attractive but mostly...she is scary as all hell.

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

Saw it yesterday...I enjoyed it. Arnold was best, I think, in the final scene where he plays gunslinger. I kinda wish they would've made a movie like that...it would be David Ayer's Taken set in Mexico.

I will say I was really impressed by Mireille Enos...at times she looked attractive but mostly...she is scary as all hell.

She was quite teriffic in the movie, and I still feel this is one of Arnold's best performances ever, other than them though the acting wasn't the best.

 

[samsnee]

I love Arnold but wouldn't be surprised if his next movie Maggie doesn't go straight to video or VOD the same day.

 

[dude stannis]

I love Arnold but wouldn't be surprised if his next movie Maggie doesn't go straight to video or VOD the same day.

It has the same budget as the next Steven Seagal DTV movie, I guarantee a VOD release, and you know what? Why not? Man of Tai Chi, The Frozen Ground, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, plenty of interesting little movies get released VOD.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Never heard of any of those. Direct to VOD basically means they don't think anyone will go see it in theatres which isn't a good thing for Arnold's popularity.