Last Action Hero

[The Morningstar]

I always loved this exchange.

Danny Madigan: You think you are funny, don't you?
Jack Slater: I know I am. I'm the famous comedian Arnold Braunschweiger.
Danny Madigan: Schwarzenegger!
Jack Slater: Gesundheit.

Charles Dance had some killer lines too.

Benedict: Hello?! I've just shot somebody. I did it on purpose!

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

^^ Lol, love those lines!

 

[Kane52630]

 

[3rdstone]

Yeah, this flick is shamelessly underrated. I watched it at the cinema, and perhaps once more on TV some years later, but I really need to watch it again since it's been ages now. Too bad it bombed, it deserves better.

I think the humour was better than most other movies in which a certain genre is parodied. But I need to see it again to see if I still think the same.

 

[Kane52630]

Yeah I saw it a couple years back and it's still awesome. This is THE film that pays parody/homage to the 80's/90's action genre for me.

 

[Jack Napier]

Going up against "Jurassic Park" was probably not the wisest release strategy back in '93.

My only complaint is when the villain gets the ticket and threatens to bring Dracula, King Kong, and all these movie monsters in to fight Slater. It's like, WHY THE HELL DIDN'T THAT HAPPEN??

If that actually took place, and Arnold really fought these classic characters, I'd consider this one of the best movies ever.

 

[titansupes]

^ Yeah, imagine that. Schwarzenegger vs Darth Vader, anyone?

Excelllent movie.

 

[Spider-Fan83]

I always liked the joke about Sylvester Stallone being the terminator t, instead of Arnold...

... lol

 

[samsnee]

I liked this movie but it was a half hour too long. I think the setup just took too long for the kid to actual get inside the movie.

 

[Thought Crime]

I still have the VHS version of this. It's good a for a few laughs. Liked the villains. And not a terribly bad soundtrack either.

 

[Slushy]

One of Arnold's best films!!!

Benedict: Hello?! I've just shot somebody. I did it on purpose!

Hey, shut up down there!

 

[Punisher Rising]

Hard to believe this movie will be 20 years this June. I still remember going to see this when it was released just a couple of weeks after I turned six. I'm sure had it been released maybe a month or two later after Jurassic Park, it would've done far better.

 

[Drizzle]

Let's not forget how hot Bridgette Wilson was in this movie.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Thought Crime]

There was a video game? I don't ever remember there being one, but ... okay.

 

[nite-owl]

I never understood why Charles Dance was never a villain in other hollywood movies.

 

[Thundarr]

A sequel probaby won't ever happen, seeing as this movie bombed so badly at the box office, but I do wonder what a Last Action Hero 2 could've been like.

Danny's 18 years old and all grown up. He takes the magical golden ticket to the XXX Movie House and hilarity ensues!

 

[Thundarr]

Going up against "Jurassic Park" was probably not the wisest release strategy back in '93.

My only complaint is when the villain gets the ticket and threatens to bring Dracula, King Kong, and all these movie monsters in to fight Slater. It's like, WHY THE HELL DIDN'T THAT HAPPEN??

If that actually took place, and Arnold really fought these classic characters, I'd consider this one of the best movies ever.

Maybe they were planning on that for the sequel. The old theatre owner uses the golden ticket to visit the movie world. He passes away of natural causes while in the movie. It happens to be an old Universal Monster Movie (Dracula perhaps). The movie's villain gets his hands on the golden ticket and uses it to pass through into the real world. The villain then gets the same idea as Benedict, bring movie villains into the real world where they can actually win. Danny's in the audience as Dracula (or whoever) steps into the screen of whatever movie he's watching (Halloween, A Nightmare On Elm Street, Star Wars, whatever) and convinces the villain to join him in the real world. The new movie villain agrees and they both exit the screen and enter the theatre. Somehow Danny manages to get the ticket away from the lead villain. He runs to a movie theatre that's showing a Schwarzenegger Movie Marathon. He jumps into the screen of Jack Slater IV and reunites with Jack. They return to the real world to confront the movie villains, but find they're too much for Jack to defeat alone. So they go back to the Schwarzenegger Marathon and recruit other characters Arnold's played. Conan, the reprogrammed T-800 from T2, John Matrix from Commando, etc. So Arnold ends up playing all of these other characters at the same time (multiple green screen and stunt double shots). Then it's Danny & Team Arnold vs The Movie Villains.

The other way to go about it would be some psycho finds the lost half of the golden ticket and discovers what it does. He goes around to all the movie theatres releasing villains from action and horror movies onto an unsuspecting populace (because he's crazy). Danny realizes what's going on and gets the old movie theatre owner to help him gather movie heroes to combat them. Danny being a huge Schwarzenegger fan chooses all characters that have been played by Arnold (Conan, T-800, Dutch, Matrix, etc). Then whackiness ensues.

 

[Thundarr]

I never understood why Charles Dance was never a villain in other hollywood movies.

Are you sure? I could've sworn I'd seen him play villains in other movies.

 

[Thundarr]

For years I thought I was the only one who loved this movie. It was awesome to see the levels of spoofing the nonesense of action movies received. I mean dude, who doesn't love a movie where Arnold casually kicks a guy in the nuts so hard he flies 15 feet over his head and crashes behind him? His solution to being drenched in tar...TAR is to use one sheet of a paper towel. I just reveled in its crazyness and fun. I always saw this as a key example of Arnold having a sense of humour and being able to laugh at himself. (Compared to dead serious Steven Segal)

I guess you've never seen The Onion Movie.

 

[nite-owl]

Are you sure? I could've sworn I'd seen him play villains in other movies.

He plays a lot of villains here in England but I don't think he did a lot of movies in America.

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

I loved this film as a kid, never saw it in theaters cause that was the summer of Jurassic Park which I was obsessed with. But I watched this over and over when it played on HBO, and I have the dvd in my collection today. I still watch it from time to time and agree that it's one of Arnold's most underrated films, always a fun and enjoyable view.

 

[Drizzle]

SLATERRRRRR!!!!!!!

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[Nathan]

Yeah I saw it a couple years back and it's still awesome. This is THE film that pays parody/homage to the 80's/90's action genre for me.

This. The Movie is awesome and I still love it.

 

[Dave McFly]

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still one of my fave scenes in the movie, to this day I want a large late 60s Pontiac drop top t:.