Last Action Hero
-
Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Austin O'Brien
Trioxin_Zombie — 14 years ago(April 22, 2011 02:15 PM)
I just watched it tonight for the first time in almost a decade, it arrived from amazon this morning. It is a part of a double billed DVD - Schwarzenegger Action Pack (The 6th Day/Last Action Hero). It has lost none of it's charm this movie. And the memories all came flooding back as soon as the movie started. I watched this movie to death on video back in the ninties.
Thanks Austin for a memorable movie :).
"Send for the General, there's Witches to burn. The day of your judgement draws nigh." -
Trioxin_Zombie — 14 years ago(December 07, 2011 03:15 PM)
Yeah I know what you mean pal. You realize how quickly time goes by when you take trips down memory lane.
In my mind I can still see me sitting watching the VHS copy that I still own to this day. All the memories are as fresh today as they were back then.
You don't get many fun action movies like this these days. It's all over the top CGI action movies or tiresome and predictable alpha female driven horror movies. I miss the type of movies we had once upon a time. Mainly the late 70s and the whole of the 80s. Those were eras where the atmosphere in the movies are unchalleged. And they were also the era's where men actually stood a chance at surviving and not being killed like moronic buffoons. Men were the equal of the women back then in the action and horror genres. Not these days. It's all feminist appeasing crud. And we've to either accept it or be sexist if we stand up against it
Sorry about the rant lol
There truly is no more real action heroes. It's all about pretty boy vampires who sparkle in daylight and robots who "transform" and other mindless pap!.
"The only thing cooler than a Panda would be a Panda that can do Kung Fu." -
stalin-hadzman — 14 years ago(December 07, 2011 03:31 PM)
maybe that is why the movie is called
'LAST ACTION HERO'
I lost all my VHS tapes and changed them for DVD'S and now Bluerays.
At least those tapes made cool dominos.
I used to also used them for making building or bridges.
It was fun, i guess i was young.
it used to be sexist back in the day to simply potray women as the damsel in distress, but hell i think it should be sexist now to always view the women now as the one who should be taking charge.
it does get rather annoying. -
Trioxin_Zombie — 14 years ago(December 20, 2011 04:30 PM)
Sorry for the long delay pal.
I know what you mean with the whole video box thing. They were huge so they were. Look at the space they took up compared to the space the DVD selection takes up. I think it works out at about 2 or 3 DVDs to one VHS tape in terms of space on the shelve.
I only have a tiny Blu Ray collection. Most of my collection is on DVD and I still buy on DVD to this very day. Infact I tend to opt for DVD over Blu Ray every time unless I am dying to see a movie and it's sold out on DVD and the Blu Ray is on the shelve in the store. Even then I might not buy it due to the price tag that Blu Ray's get slapped with in stores when they are first released.
Dawn of the Dead (1978).
My Name Is Bruce.
Dead Snow.
The Butterfly Effect Trilogy.
This is my entire BR collection. Not much is it.
I am no slagging off Blu Ray or anything by the following but see in the Asda store near where I live. They are doing loads of Blu Ray's for under 10. Most are like 6 or 8 each. And still no one is touching them. The Blu Ray section in Asda never has anyone at it when I am in the store. I visit the Asda store regular as well. It's like an old wild west ghost town scene in the blu ray section. Tumble weed blowing across the floor with eerie music in the background.
Most people just do not seem to be interested in Blu Ray for what ever reason it might be with tb68hem. The same goes for the Blu Ray section in HMV as well. It is abandoned and everyone flocks to the DVD section. It could be for the same reasons they ignore the Blu Ray section in Asda. AND also that HMV are beep robbing bastards when it comes to how much each movie costs. You could buy a bomb for the price of a couple of Blu Ray discs in HMV. The bastards in HMV want something like 35 for Quantum of Solace on Blu Ray. And yet the DVD of the same movie is somewhere between 5 to 8. Not much of a difference is there LOL.
I found it annoying to see the woman in distress role all the time. But at the same time it is even more annoying to see women being portrayed as the sole survivors in most horror movies. Only a minority of horror movies don't have that. You see no matter if it's the damsel in distress or the alpha female both in any large doze get irritating.
Back on topic for a second: LAH is the only thing I've seen Austin in. I've not seen anything before or since. I can see on his IMDb page that he's done a few things. Maybe some day I'll catch up on some more of his work. Since LAH is the only thing I've seen him in I keep thinking for some reason that he still looks the way he does in the LAH movie lol hardly since it's like 18 years or so ago. But all the same it doesn't stop me from thinking that from time to time. I guess it's because it's all I've got and seen that has had Austin in it.
"The only thing cooler than a Panda would be a Panda that can do Kung Fu." -
stalin-hadzman — 14 years ago(December 20, 2011 06:01 PM)
yup, how do these movie producers expect to kill piracy by selling movies at $20-$40 per disc. Its madness.
Movie piracy was not as strong before the coming of the CD and DVD.
LAH, is the last movie i could think of as a movie of a good past.
But i was happy when the Expendables came along and the Expendables 2 is coming, it was as if Stallone had been given 'whispers' of millions of devoted and sincere action movie fans of want they really wanted and what they miss in 'action' movies.
The Expendables franchise will surely be the LAH of the 21st century, i kid you not, in 20 years if we have children, they will talk of those movies as we are talking about LAH. -
Trioxin_Zombie — 14 years ago(December 23, 2011 02:48 PM)
That is so true about piracy. They only have themselves to blame for it's sharp rise since the introduction of DVDs. It made movies easier to copy. And at the same time I finally saw the light. I saw the movie companies for what they really were beep robbing bastards!. They do not play fair with the movie fans.
I started buying DVDs back in 2000 and at the time I thought 19.99p for one movie was the way it must be. This is because I was young and didn't know any better. I soon woke up and saw the light. It might have taken me four or five years to do so (2004/05) but it happened. I stopped buying movies for such insane prices and waited till they dropped in price before purchasing.
See here in the UK there is a frozen food store called Iceland. It sells frozen foods and non-frozen foods16d0 (big named brands and own brand stuff) at affordable prices. Two movies at full price on DVD could buy enough food for one person for a whole week. So they can't justify the cost of those movies when just two movies can cost a weeks worth of food. To try and do so is them fortifying their greed. Two movies costs around 28 here in the UK. I do not ever buy a movie that costs more than 10. That is the most I am willing to pay for a movie but it has to be one I want to see. I am not paying good money for a movie I will watch maybe once. It's not worth it.
I usually wait till most movies are reduced to about 3 or 5 or something like that. This is for movies I am not sure about for some reason or that they look appealing but not the 10 price tag type appeal. PRICE IS EVERYTHING!.
I read not long ago that DVD sales went down 8.3% and it's not because people dislike the format. It's because of the price and variety (or lack of it). Needless sequel after needless sequel, remake after remake, prequel after prequel. Very few original movies appear these days. It's CGI over practical effects. Which makes movies look even more fake with the over the top use of CGI.
I know what you mean pal about The Expendables it doesn't PC it like most of those maggots in mainstream Hollywood are every so keen on doing. In The Expendables there is no alpha female type characters to be seen. And it's a breath of fresh air in an extremely stale world of alpha female dominated movies. The horror scene is the guiltiest party for this crime!.
The Expendables is like an injection of 1980s action into your veins when you watch it.
"The only thing cooler than a Panda would be a Panda that can do Kung Fu." -
stalin-hadzman — 14 years ago(December 24, 2011 09:08 AM)
don't you just love it to finally realize that DVD'S should have just cost 5-8 dollars from the start. If the movie producers were not such greedy douches, piracy might not have been so rampant. Its their own fault.
I can't wait for Expendables 2, I had tears of joy after i saw the trailer, it was like, people like us, the people responsible for the rise of the action genre were finally given a damn.
Most of these actors are practically near their end, at least we movie fans will be given an awesone trilogy (i hope so) before they retire from TRUE ACTION MOVIES.
I really feel like True Action Hero was a foreshadowing of how true action movies were coming to an end. -
Trioxin_Zombie — 14 years ago(December 24, 2011 01:48 PM)
Looking back now I wonder why it took me so long in realizing this about the price thing. Mind you, before DVD, we had VHS and in the UK the only time we had a reduced price for a VHS movie was when it came out on "4 Front" I think the label was called or something like that. It was a label that brought out movies that had done their rounds a few years back and released them again but at half the cost of it's original price. And even then not all movies made it to that range. Yes indeed prices were exceptionally high back in the 80s and 90s for VHS. We're talking on average b6814.99p per tape some cost more than that.
It was only when DVD arrived that things changed big time. Movies sat at retail price for so long then dropped in price. Movies finally became more affordable. But you had to wait for them to be that. Maybe two to three months after release and you'd get the movie in question in Asda for half the original asking price. Take "Senna" for instance. I bought it yesterday on DVD the 2 disc edition at 7. He was my favourite F1 driver and when he got killed my interest in racing more or less dwindled to nothing within 3 years of his death.
The point here is that DVD "Senna" was 13.97p for the past two months or so in Asda. It sat there doing nothing on the shelf. It just sat there and sat there and sat there at the price tag of 13.97p and I was surprised when I went into Asda yesterday and saw it on the shelf for 7. That's half of the original asking price. So if they can sell it at 7 just now they could have beep done that from the start!. If enough people boycott the dreadful asking prices of new movies then the dicks who make them will think twice about trying to rob us of our cash and start to show us the buyer a little more respect.
Vote with your wallet folks!.
PS
I've not seen anything on The Expendables 2 yet. I am waiting on it coming to DVD before I see it. I wont visit the cinema or look at trailers or anything. I am waiting on it coming to DVD. I am not much of a cinema goer. They rob you at the cinema as well. It's something like 8 per ticket so two going to the cinema is 16. That's more than the asking price for the DVD!. It's cheaper to buy DVDs and watch movies at home. In peace and quiet.
PPS
You know it says a lot about todays action scene when the old school actioners (the ones Stallone brings in to join him) can make a better action movie than most of the so-called next generation of actors in Hollywood can do themselves. To craft the future they must look to the past. What was it Rob Halford sang in the song Resurrection "The peace of mind I thought was lost. Was right in front of me on paths I've crossed." to go forward Hollywood's action scene needs to look back first.
"The only thing cooler than a Panda would be a Panda that can do Kung Fu."