Last Action Hero released 25 years ago today

Discussion in 'Visual Arts' started by mBen989, Jun 18, 2018.

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  1. SamS

    SamS Forum Legend

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    Can't remember much about the movie, but the soundtrack is great!!
     
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  2. Rick Bartlett

    Rick Bartlett Forum Resident

    "Iced that guy, to cone a phrase"
     
  3. Jayson Wall

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    I saw it at the Fox Village in Westwood in 8-track SDDS, and enjoyed it. I don't think I've seen it since that screening, but at some point, I will revisit it.
     
  4. realkilroy

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  5. daglesj

    daglesj Forum Resident

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    Wow I remember this was going on when I visited the USA for the first time.

    The movies playing were The Last Action Hero - Cliffhanger and Jurassic Park.

    Went to see Jurassic Park at the Universal Studios Cinema in LA. So we got to see it with THX and at least three months before the folks back home in the UK.

    This historic incident also happened while I was there I remember on the news...

    PIZZA HUT’S BIGFOOT BLIMP ACCIDENT.

    Those were the days.
     
  6. daglesj

    daglesj Forum Resident

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    Reading that article it looks like it would be interesting for someone to stump up some cash for a proper re-edit.
     
  7. Holy Diver

    Holy Diver Senior Member

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    I used to rent it on VHS back in the day. I like it.
     
  8. artfromtex

    artfromtex Honky Tonkin' Metal-Head

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    We had the EXACT same experience with this film.
     
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  9. Chris DeVoe

    Chris DeVoe RIP Vickie Mapes Williams (aka Equipoise)

    It's unlikely that all the raw footage still exists to make a re-edit possible. I watched it again last night to make sure I wasn't misremembering the film. Nope, I still enjoyed it. The bad guy killing Jack Slater's son was extreme, but tragically reality has provided much worse in the years since this film was released. This isn't the only critically loathed film I enjoy and will defend.
     
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  10. daglesj

    daglesj Forum Resident

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    Yeah I did consider that point about the other footage but you never know. The other issue is "Why throw more good money after bad?"
     
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  11. HenryH

    HenryH Miserable Git

    I've only seen this movie once, possibly as a rental VHS. I really enjoyed it, and wouldn't mind picking up a blu-ray release.
     
  12. blind_melon1

    blind_melon1 An erotic adventurer of the most deranged kind....

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    [​IMG] Love it!
    It’s great fun :)
     
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  13. mBen989

    mBen989 Senior Member Thread Starter

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    Is it worth mentioning this was the first film released in Sony Dynamic Digital Sound? It was supposed to be Hook but some technical issues had to be worked out.

     
  14. TheVU

    TheVU Forum Resident

    Uh huh...uh huh...yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah...
     
  15. Chris DeVoe

    Chris DeVoe RIP Vickie Mapes Williams (aka Equipoise)

    Re-editing a film that failed at the box office. To quote that great thinker Rocket J. Squirrel "That trick never works!" My wife and I are two of the handful of people who love Francis Ford Coppola's One From The Heart, which we had discovered on home video. It was going to be shown at Chicago's Music Box theater, and unbeknownst to us, they had reedited the film for this release, addressing some of the criticisms. The re-edit didn't get anyone to reevaluate it, and destroyed what we loved about the film.
     
  16. kanakaris

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    Saw it first when released and loved it . I don't care about super hero movies , but this was great fun. Had another look recently and liked it very much. One of the few Arnold movies that aged well.
     
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  17. swandown

    swandown Under Assistant West Coast Forum Resident

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    Overrated when it came out, underrated 25 years later.
     
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  18. John Moschella

    John Moschella Senior Member

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    I agree, and I'm not a big action movie or Arnold fan.
     
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  19. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    don't get the Mill Creek version. : )
     
  20. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    because the movie has a following and we'd love to see it! LOL...
     
  21. kreen

    kreen Forum Resident

    I laughed out loud reading this!
     
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  22. keefer1970

    keefer1970 Metal, Movies, Beer!

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    Inspired by this thread, I revisited "Last Action Hero" this afternoon on Roku Channel with my 10 year old son. As I mentioned in my earlier post in this thread, I'd seen "L.A.H." before but it's been so many years that I remembered next to nothing about the movie.

    Anyway, I enjoyed it more than I expected after reading so much about what a mess it was (not just here, but pretty much everywhere over the past 25 years)... it's definitely way overstuffed with a too many throwaway gags and it felt like it could've ended fifteen minutes sooner, but overall I was entertained and my son got a big kick out of it.
     
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  23. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    I yearn for an extended Directors Cut. : )
     
  24. Vidiot

    Vidiot Now in 4K HDR!

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    I didn't hate One from the Heart, but I did see it and think, "why the F did this movie cost so much to make?" $26 million for a movie like this in 1982 was absolute insanity. I would've just shot it all conventionally on location, forgoing all the fancy effects, and do it for $10M. Same story, same actors, same dialogue, same emotion, same sets. At least that would've lost a lot less money. It's not an awful movie, but it's not very good, either. It's a far better movie than Last Action Hero, which is a horrific example of 1990s Hollywood wretched excess.
     
  25. Chris DeVoe

    Chris DeVoe RIP Vickie Mapes Williams (aka Equipoise)

    He shot it the way he did because it was the only way to get the shots and transitions he was after. Like the floating shot up above the Golden Nugget, coming down over the street, and into the window of the travel agency. Or the scrim transitions between the heroes and heroines apartments. There was a deliberate level of artifice to the film, and reality just wouldn't have served. More importantly, it was Coppola's love letter to the studio musicals of his childhood - most of which were shot on soundstages.

    What's fascinating is that everything he was criticized for doing - directing via video tap, for instance - is now standard operating procedure.
     
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