The Reel Rejects - LAST ACTION HERO (1993) WAS AHEAD OF ITS TIME!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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Starting point is 00:02:41 Very much appreciate you guys for Stoke in the Flames of Conversation. this was insane in the best way and oh my god i think i think i can speak for all of us when i say this was a blast and a half oh yeah and i think this and robocop are the two most of me movies i had never seen the robot cop is is seminal to that as well i miss and that are the two most how did i miss this formative piece of my childhood oh boy all right gabriel in the comments is starting us off here's a pretty obvious one we'll be the judge of that thank you for chiming in if you could be transported to the universe of any movie which would you pick me probably go for the breakfast club which seems like the best combination of having a

Starting point is 00:03:25 fun time and feeling safe to live through it unharmed that's a great question man because there's like movies it would be fun to be in but then you have to consider danger who would I be in that movie so as much as I love horror movies I'd be like I don't think I want to do any of that No, no. Golly. What's a movie you guys would want to jump into? A universe you would like to be absorbed. My God, there's so many.

Starting point is 00:03:51 Most of my favorite movies are so violent and dark. I mean, who framed Roger Rabbit would be a very fun movie to jump into. Simply because of the duel. Like, you would get to take advantage of the cartoon physics and the cartoon contraptions. And, you know, you would get to walk around. I could meet Bugs Bunny and Daffling Duck. daffy duck uh you know so i think that would be pretty sweet uh as a kid i always want to be sucked into the page master which is a movie about a kid being sucked into books uh i'm gonna go across the

Starting point is 00:04:24 spider verse i was gonna say that i feel like it's safe i feel like there are stakes but no one can really die i also think it'd be cool to meet spider man's plural uh i i want safety comfort great soundtrack and i wonder what my universe would look like because it's so multiversal like what would my world look like that. Maybe this is a multiverse of a Spiderverse I'm already in right now. There you go. There you go. I'm going to go Spiderverse adjacent and say Intergalactic. Because

Starting point is 00:04:50 Kid Cuddy and the art style is really cool and it's very colorful and it looks like to have a lot of fun in that movie. Okay. Okay. I see a Knight's Tale, but I feel like I want indoor plumbing. I feel like I'd love to you know. It doesn't seem like it would be like that

Starting point is 00:05:06 much of an issue. Camios. There's just a whole block of cameos. Cameron Stone, Karen Duffy. Yeah, I was going to say. She was just busting through. I saw someone who looked like Sharon Stone in there. And they got to credit all these other people from like other movies. It must have been nice to go to the premiere of this and see a premiere of a movie that is about premiere.

Starting point is 00:05:24 Like that was so, this must be the most meta premiere. Oh, yeah. And then Kevin Meek wants to know. And if you happen to, you know, oh, Billy Hank Hooker and Buddy Joe Hooker, get them hooker stunts going. Hooker boys? The Hooker, please. If you think of any. Hunker brothers.

Starting point is 00:05:41 On the phone, snap. I'll pay any price. If you think of any more, feel free to throw them in, but we're going to move on to Kevin Meek. Kevin Meek wants to know. I don't remember much from the movie, but I'm excited to watch it again with the boys.

Starting point is 00:05:55 Stop boys. My cousin gave me the soundtrack after we watched it when I was about seven, and I fell in love with that CD. It's amazing if you're into 90s heavy music. Allison Chains is a hidden gem on there, plus Megadeth, Anthrax, Cypress Hill,

Starting point is 00:06:09 Chris Hill and Tesla. Queens Reich. It freaking slaps. Do you have a movie soundtrack you treasure more than the actual film? Do they still make? Samfrax separate soundtracks versus scores, or was that a 90s 2000s trend during the CD boom? Another one I think of is Godzilla 98 with Green Day Jemiriqui, Ben Folds 5, and that one guy with the baby oil.

Starting point is 00:06:32 I was about to be like, we don't talk about, and you didn't talk about correct. That soundtrack is as good or better than the movie. soundtrack that, yeah, that overshadows the movie. I got three. Okay, let's hear it. Saw 2, amazing soundtrack. Not a big fan of the movie. Saw 2 does have a remix of Queens of the Stone Ages Burn the Witch. It's a very good soundtrack.

Starting point is 00:06:51 Spawn, better soundtrack than movie. I love the spawn soundtrack. And I love the movies. I do, but the underworld soundtracks, I think, are as good or better. I think The Crow is the greatest soundtrack of all time, but the movie is also exceptional. And The Matrix, my favorite film of all

Starting point is 00:07:08 time tied with fight club both have amazing soundtracks fight club and the matrix do but the movies are as good so I would say saw to the underworld films and spawn damn that's a lot of options I like soundtracks a lot dang soundtracks are Top Gun also as good as the movie

Starting point is 00:07:24 that's tough I own these on vinyl my first mine was musical I was like I thought I mean I was like is Hamilton I don't know I don't think Hamilton it's a stage film It's a play that was filmed

Starting point is 00:07:39 So I counted as a movie Because for lack of options I'm going to say Hamilton Okay There's a lot of options I can't think of a single one I got to check the movie There's one that came to mind

Starting point is 00:07:53 I mean I am a Twilight movie Apologist You know So take the qualitative movie assessment With a grain of salt But it's either It's either New Moon or Eclipse that has like such a banger-ass soundtrack that you sit there and you go, man,

Starting point is 00:08:11 if this movie felt exactly like this, this would be amazing. And yeah, they do still sometimes do like the soundtrack with popular music songs versus the score soundtrack. Also Daredevil, the 2003 one. Okay. Oh, good cause. That does seem like a needle drops movie for show. Oh, my God, no, come on.

Starting point is 00:08:33 Give me the soundtrack track list. There's one that has like a muse song and a dead weather song and like a Beck song and a bat for lashes song and Florence in the machine. Heavy in your arms is on that soundtrack. It's one of those. It's either New Moon or Eclipse. But but yes. I want to go live in Mallrats. Oh. Because it's nerdy people like me, but it's the 90s and the world was better then. Okay. It's not like the 50s where we were better. But like actually I feel like the 90s was like pre phones, pre-internet. There was like rudimentary internet. We had plumbing. We were connected, but not too connected. People still celebrated each other. Community still existed. The mall rats era. Let's go. For curiosity, I'd love to live with them.

Starting point is 00:09:14 I'd like to visit the world of her, the movie Her. I'm a her fan. I feel like that's coming, man. We're not far off. Give it some time. Twilight Saga Clips, although that might be one of the best Twilight movies. But yes, also just got a few comments. Ethan Holgate says, hell yes, going to love the last action hero, I think, and you thought correctly.

Starting point is 00:09:34 Thank you for chiming in. Star Dust and Madness says No question but love But Last Action Hero is one of my favorite Arnold movies I hope you guys have a ball watching it We absolutely did Flying Scotsman 4072 Last Action Hero is an underrated

Starting point is 00:09:48 Arnold movie A movie that came out ahead of its time And my question is What is your favorite parody-esque movie Or something similar in the vein Of a Last Action Hero A Movie Within a Movie That's a tricky one

Starting point is 00:10:03 because this is a, you know, this is a specific kind of meta movie about movies come to life. I mean, like, in a way, to me, it is sort of like a Roger Rabbit with Toontown. I think Pagemaster is a great, like, meta, but not this. Princess Bride is a good one. For sure, that's a really good one.

Starting point is 00:10:23 I mean, it's not the same. I mean, Hot Fuzz, I think, is like a really great articulation of action tropes, clearly a parody, clearly referencing movies, but also doing its own thing as a comedy and at least has some level of like, they're watching the movies in the movie and then doing the movie stuff in the movie. Goodwill hunting two hunting season.

Starting point is 00:10:46 Oh, golly. Applesauce. Where is that? I need to see. You've never seen Jal and Samprake back? Oh, it's so your jam, dude. Like my, cartoonishly, your jam. Yeah, yeah. I don't like them apples, Will.

Starting point is 00:11:00 Oh, you'll see. All right. Well, that does us for a patron question. The stab. Black Dynamite probably be mine. Oh, that's a fun one. That's a fun one for sure. I like the stab universe within the screen universe.

Starting point is 00:11:15 That's a fun one. The stab movies. Absolutely. Absolutely. Well, gang, thank you for stoking the fires of conversation patrons. We appreciate our royal rejects very much. And this was absolutely a joy. This was everything I was hoping it could be.

Starting point is 00:11:30 Gang, what are we thinking? And Aaron, why don't you start us off? I will start us off. I thought this movie was a lot of fun. I had no idea what to expect going into it. But it was a pleasant surprise, not only it being a 90s Arnold movie, but playing on the legacy and the popularity of him as an action star at the time. Not to mention it's love for film and then poking fun at the ridiculous tropes of 80s and 90s action films. Yeah, it's funny because when we're first starting the movie, though, even though it's not a super popular.

Starting point is 00:12:01 comparison but it reminded me the beginning of the movie argyle how that was like kind of over the top and sort of parody-esque um but yeah i i really worked better yeah for sure for sure worked better but this movie was yeah everything i didn't know i needed and i liked that it had a commentary about you know how how cold the world world is as in juxtaposition to you know the the craziness of the last action movie or the jack was is it um jack slater x slater or film right slater universe yeah i thought it was a lot of fun i think that uh arnold he he he wasn't like the the star of the comedy per se he didn't make a lot of jokes directly but i think the fact that he got a chance to you know be outside of the film

Starting point is 00:12:56 then seeing the comedy of that and seeing the comedy of how serious he was taking it when he was in the the world and the movie was a lot of fun but yeah uh quick shots quick thoughts i thought it was really funny and really cool and really ridiculous absolutely coitus i wonder if this inspired the writer of jack racher because it definitely felt like it was such an inspo for an archetypal hero beyond obviously referencing it felt like it feels like this was in 93 it was so far ahead of its time so it was looking back at the 80s but it is such a piece of today's culture like we are such a meta time. There's a reason Deadpool does well. There's a reason like tongue and cheek self-awareness does well. We're certainly living in. I think the internet is such a mirror

Starting point is 00:13:39 to us that we are having a mirror to society in our art. I think it's like when you go in a mall and there's mirrors on each sides and everything becomes a reflection of a reflection of a reflection. I think it's why we have so many sequels. I think it's why we lean on a nostalgia so much, but I think there's a comfort and familiarity. And sometimes that's comfort and familiarity is like Plato's the cave where the more shadows, it becomes less of an actual fragment and it becomes more of a concept of itself. So this to me feels like the origins of the modern day meta. Like this is way ahead of what meta is today in a way that is a little bit smarter

Starting point is 00:14:11 at times. It is written by a man who gave us the very things that it's spoofing with lethal weapon and McTiernan doing diehard. Like this is literally the lethal weapon writer and the diehard director making a commentary on their movie starting the guy from all the other ones that aren't those two franchises of the time. So it does a really interesting thing. I mean, if this was today, it'd be if, I don't know, James Gunn was writing a Russo Brothers directed movie, but starring Keanu Reeves.

Starting point is 00:14:41 Like, it's so interesting how it's an amalgamation of these disparate parts that are better served for today's audiences. Like, I don't think this did well, because I think I would have heard of it more. I'd heard of it because of Shane Black, but clearly it didn't have the impact that it should have because it's more of a today movie. and I don't know if there was a nostalgia yet for the present, because this is a nostalgia for the present, and I wonder if this had been made 10 or 15, 20 years later, if I'd heard of it. I wonder if it got made now if it would do well.

Starting point is 00:15:11 I mean, we're remaking Running Man, we're remaking Predator, we're remaking all the things that this is kind of in the vein of. So I found it really interesting just from like a societal studying of, you know, an archaeological human standpoint of, is this too soon for our arrested development of the present? Absolutely. Golly.

Starting point is 00:15:31 It made me think about impressive. I was wrapped up in that. Is there how I watch things now? And sometimes it's good and sometimes like this enhance this movie. It often hinders my experience of movies today because I'm thinking about what we're not

Starting point is 00:15:45 getting by focusing so much on the past when we were happy. And so this is beautiful because it's a present happiness that's being extrapolated on as opposed to a stagnancy of a bygone era. Yeah. Well, and this is like a really fun. obviously riff on the kinds of action movies

Starting point is 00:16:01 that it's portraying Jack Slater at the center of but I think it's also like a nice at least as of this first honest to goodness watch for me like it has that quality about like you know it's speaking to the cinephiles out there

Starting point is 00:16:17 it's speaking to those movie kids who are glued to whatever they can get in front of them who just love cinema and I feel like that can go a bit too schmaltz and a bit too like okay get over yourself sometimes and that can also there are a lot of ways to go

Starting point is 00:16:35 too far into schmaltz or into gatekeeperism or whatever with that but I felt like this was a movie celebrating like a love of cinema and like an addiction to cinema in a way that didn't feel too it felt like just the right amount it's like Danny knows these movies

Starting point is 00:16:51 and he's obviously like this is his sanctuary is you know in this old picture house with this old guy who's also you know know a lover of films and he shows him all this stuff and you know this is his social life this is his father figure this is a lot of things and like for us throughout time stories and entertainment of varying stripes you know is form it even though you know you don't always want to cop to the idea that like this stuff affects us like it can be formative especially when you're a kid and I thought that this had like a cozy version of that without over romanticizing that if that makes sense

Starting point is 00:17:27 like his knowledge of the movies comes in handy but there is like it also a grappling with like but the real world is like really harsh and you can't spend all your time in a movie but why do you go to these movies because they do demonstrate some sense of control or at least

Starting point is 00:17:43 a comfort in the tropes you know a comfort in knowing that yeah in this universe people don't get hurt the same way they do and in this universe the bad guys don't win and in some movie universes they do you know and even that is sort of explored you want me to bring like all the worst villains to your reality where bad guys can win

Starting point is 00:17:59 and where people don't just rush over the second you know you pull some nefarious act you know it's not not I'm not going to necessarily say that like the main focus of this movie is having a treatise on real life versus fiction but it is like a strong ingredient of the soup and that's

Starting point is 00:18:18 a lovely thing about this and I think you know there are certain elements I think this had the right amount of like leave them wanting more ism where it's like it touches on a lot of possibilities of like what the ticket can do. And when Jack Slater comes to the real world and starts having sort of an existential crisis that isn't like too over the top, but it is acknowledging like, I'm not even real. I'm just that guy and that guy is the real version of me and he's not even like me.

Starting point is 00:18:43 You know, I don't even like this world that I'm in now because, yeah, my sense of confidence and my knowledge of how things work has been completely flipped upside down. And just like all those things, it's a risky move, I think, because this is like a four. act movie. It really is. The fourth act is the most meta somehow. Yeah. And like once you get to that act three of the in-movie movie, the Jack Slater four movie where they're, you know, dropping in the tarpits and the fart bombs going off and all that stuff, you almost expect like, okay, the movie's going to end. They're going to bring him back home and the movie's going to end. But then, you know, you go into act four and that act four thing can be, it's an ask for the audience,

Starting point is 00:19:23 I think, because once you get to that part where they're in the tarpits, I could, feel myself just sort of instinctually going oh yeah the movie's going to end soon and then it's like another half hour at least and that was when it got today's world our world heavy well hello again huel hughel today's video

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Starting point is 00:21:42 in after that. 100%. Yeah, yeah. This kid was in a tonne around this era and then nothing now. Like, it was in lawnmower man, last action hero, prehistoria, which I haven't thought of since, probably 93. My Girl 2, Apollo 13. babysitters club from 92 to 95 and then lawnmore man too

Starting point is 00:21:58 and then like nothing lately like all tiny stuff like he's still working he was in something to 2015 but it was a short like this is crazy he had such a huge career from 91 to 96 wow probably set him up for life I hope he's like this vibe in man yeah do you guys only guess what this movie got on Ron Tomatoes

Starting point is 00:22:14 dude do you want to guess it's probably not as good as I'm on as good as I hope it would be let's guess I give it a four to four and a half out of five, which would be an 80 to 90%. Okay. I'm going to say, when it came out is when the critics would be tallied, 42. John, what do you think?

Starting point is 00:22:34 Oh, wow. That's a little lower than I was going to guess. And now I'm second guessing myself. I was going to say like 54. 54. You guys are both going super low. Yeah. Corey, you're really close, 41.

Starting point is 00:22:46 Damn. Damn. I cut my experience in half. I was really close. I was really, I was really, I got. Okay, what about, do you believe in audiences, guys? What do you think audiences gave this? Oh, boy.

Starting point is 00:22:58 I think the only audiences that would go vote for it would be one seeking it out and ones that are super contrarian, like people that, like, actively hated or actively love it. So I'm going to say 78. 78, okay. John, what do you think? Audiences. I'm just going to throw one out there because I have faith in the people, and I'm going to say 85. 85.

Starting point is 00:23:20 Quay, 78. 48. Wow, guys. What the hell? This was awesome. This was awesome. All right, guys, IMDB, 170,000 votes. IMDB gives everything like a 6.7. Is that your guess?

Starting point is 00:23:39 Because this one's bad. I'm going to guess it's like a 5.4. John was so close. 6.5. It's always in the 6.0.0. Sometimes you get up to a 7. Something. You're like, wow, this must be great.

Starting point is 00:23:53 I gave this four to four and a half out of five. That's my letterbox. Like I use letterbox for my ranking. So four to four and a half for me. And that's what Amazon gave it too. It's got 5.2,000 views, four and a half stars. I thought this was the right amount of meta, the right amount of self-aware. I think it's way too early.

Starting point is 00:24:07 I think it's ahead of its time. And I think that hurt it. This is so good. This was and then too, like all the whack. Like it had just enough incredibly silly things. Like you got Humphrey Bogart clipped out and he's in the lobby and you've got the T-1,000 walking out. And you've got. you know, whiskers

Starting point is 00:24:24 and, like, it's a movie that begs you to go back and to pause and to scrub and I'm sure that there are, that one scene in particular where they first enter the precinct is like, there have to be so many references. This would be a franchise today. Like, you would have a last action hero, comma, again.

Starting point is 00:24:40 Tropic Thunder. How did I not think of tropic thunder during that patron question? Like, that's one of those movies. This is like that. It's in that that is in this tradition, for sure. But this would get a franchise today. We'd see another one of these. It would be able to jump into universes i mean they tried to do it with wreck at ralph well and this this feels like uh again like arnold certainly is a guy who could have stayed in one mode but especially in this era of

Starting point is 00:25:03 his career was doing a lot of was trying to take swing like certainly doing big action too but also trying to take swings trying to yeah rise above being typecast is just the big strong dude kindergarten cop and yeah kindergarten cop and then you go into like the family stuff after that you get like a jingle all the way and then back to action and then to drama and then to And yeah, and like this feels like, yeah, the kind of choice you would make if you're kind of sharp about the business and you're aware of yourself and like I could feel everyone cooking on this. And like, yeah, the fact that he wanted to do it and he was so gung ho about it. And like it doesn't skewer him the movie. But it does like really bother to check all the detailed boxes of like, we're all waiting for you to say I'll be back, you know, or don't take every opportunity to plug planet Hollywood. And, yeah, to get John McTiernan, of all people, you know, who's done some big scale, you know, seminal action works for everybody to get together. And, yeah, to kind of do a loving roast of the genre that also has, like, a charming father-son dynamic between Arnold and Danny.

Starting point is 00:26:09 And a really cool mom. I like that the mom wasn't the villain. Like, I didn't go, like, where were you? Like, the mom was always more understanding that you expect. It's like Pleasantville, too. It's like, it's got that Pleasantville thing where, yeah, you got this, like, magical kind of, or there's like a slight magic around. this old guy who runs the theater and yeah like there's a nostalgia but that's like i don't know it's from an earlier moment where we weren't so steeped in that and i feel like this has the right

Starting point is 00:26:35 amount of like but no danny got to go in the real world and and arnold got to go to the movie world and and you know they they learn where they belong and i feel like if you made this movie now my fear would be that you know the that side wouldn't hit as hard because we do cling harder to our nostalgia now and we want to crystallize it whereas I feel tribalized movie going. Yeah. Yeah. And I feel like this manages to do that in a way

Starting point is 00:27:02 that doesn't feel you do this because you want to shake up the thing not because you want to freeze it in time forever, you know? That's not I was kind of speaking to about it being too early and now I don't think this could exist in this tone but I also think that you're right like it's a beautiful piece of the time because

Starting point is 00:27:17 we weren't so tribal about movies yet. Like this kid was a weirdo because he loved movies so much. Now we are real rejects. Yeah. Now loving movies is a job you can have. Yeah. Like this is the most meta movie we could have watched because we're watching it with you. We're a bunch of Danny. We're Danny with

Starting point is 00:27:33 the internet. Oh, shoot. Yeah. So like I kept thinking about that dirty. It too. I was like, I'm being watched, watching a movie about loving movies. And we're loving movies with people that love movies. Loving us loving movies. It is like an or a boris of cinema. Right? It's a cinematic

Starting point is 00:27:49 Of any movie, I think we've reacted to, I was like, I think this one broke the fifth wall. Yeah, because if you are the fifth wall, dear viewer. Oh, my God. Arnold's looking at us and now, we're looking at you. Arnold could watch us watch. He could. He could. Arnold's coming below.

Starting point is 00:28:06 Arnold and Patrick just chilling out on a Saturday watching Last Action Hero reaction. And someone could be watching Arnold, watch us, watch Danny, watch him. That's right. It never has to stop. I've got to text Shane and talk about the writing of the movie of us. watching him. You get him on the horn right now. Shane,

Starting point is 00:28:24 I finally seen it. I think the, what's the last, 21 Jump Street movies fall under this kind of. Kind of, yeah. Certainly. Not movie within a movie,

Starting point is 00:28:34 perhaps until the second, the end of the second one. But yeah, like definitely like meta, referential to the tropes and the, yeah, commenting on smartly how all the tropes have now changed. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:28:44 And I feel like this is interesting because this almost takes on a timelessness because there's, Just enough old classic cinema represented that that is just a flavor in the soup, but also like so many of these tropes have endured for so long now that like they're still relevant and this movie's language in general feels just as akin to the now as I'm sure it must have felt at the time, if not more so. So like that's pretty special.

Starting point is 00:29:13 Like I feel like in a weird way, even though this does date itself in some ways, it like time, it renders itself timeless in other ways. It goes back 50 years, so it goes forward 50 years in its own way. Yeah, it's wild. Like, this is a truly unique movie. I love this. From a time where I feel like this was a tradition that I do miss where it's like, here's a big

Starting point is 00:29:32 kind of high, this is a good concept because it's super high concept, but I could easily imagine how you could sell this. But also on top of that, you had this wave of action movies, especially in the late 80s and the early 90s where like they do what they say on the 10 but there's more going on under the hood than you would expect and there's like a greater sense of maybe satire or some other level of humor or observation of the form or some level of commentary and I think that it's fun that so many of these movies are sort of being reappraised you know robocop is a great example of like it looks cool on the outside but it's like it's got some actual oomph to its themes or even like a starship troopers and there's actually articles about that I was just looking that up where you were talking about it's considered a long burn not a bomb because it is eventually

Starting point is 00:30:19 made 1.6 time its production budget, so it's almost in the black. Wow. It grossed 137.3 million on an $85 million budget. So, marketing wise, you know, if you go by today's numbers, it would need to clear 170. It made 1.6, so it's not quite in the black,

Starting point is 00:30:36 but marketing might have been cheaper than either way. They had a lot of ads in it too. Like, you know, we saw... Oh, they had plenty of... But 1.6 times your budget is not great for the team up of the dire director and lethal weapon writer in their heyday. yeah with arnold like this should have been 500 million right oh my god dude well gang any other thoughts before we thank you for joining us for a great like maybe my favorite uh

Starting point is 00:30:59 of my type of movie on this channel like i think the abyss is my favorite reaction because i didn't expect to have be blown away this one i was like shame black i'm gonna like it and then it was even better than i thought so this was this was a joy yeah absolutely yeah i know i had a great time watching this and yeah i look forward to seeing other shame black films yep this wall break this was a lovely love letter thank you for joining us for peak cinema this afternoon morning or evening wherever what time you're watching and uh hey we'll catch you on the next one oh yeah yeah jameson mackintosh mickintosh jameson my dude

Starting point is 00:31:39 how cool would it be if we could use a magical ticket to venture into any movie world we want John, what do you think Jameson, what movie he'd like to go to? Kind of movie you would want to go to? Yeah. Let's see. How about one of those English countryside movies where it's all just people being catty, but in a very subtle way? Yeah. You know, like a room with a view or some kind of Jane Austen shit.

Starting point is 00:32:05 Okay. That would be really fun. Very specific. Yes, definitely. I think that, not, no. What movie? Room with a view. No, what is a room with a view?

Starting point is 00:32:17 it's a fair would you throw jameson into this world the world where it's like you can just live in this this is a because it's going to be the arnold version just like in how the last action here we see arnold doing shakespeare now we're going to see arnold in like a classic literary environment and jamieson's going to be there too because jameson has an action movie guy name already so you are going to be like the other suitor played by daniel de lewis who uh arnold has to take on This makes a lot of sense. Definitely does. And then you're going to bust through the walls of that movie

Starting point is 00:32:52 into a totally different movie, Kindergarten Cop. All right. And then we can be cops together and hang out with children, as I assume you would have fun doing. Congratulations. John really sold you the best pitch.

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