Text; SmexySmuppets69

[eatdavesbabies]

so with recent events - recent events i.e. my ass getting teleported to this hellscape straight out of every piece of 90s dystopia fiction - i find myself asking the important questions. I need to get my ass some serious intel.

what's the best 80s-90s Arnold Schwarzenegger movie?

shit like jingle all the way can auto get fucked.

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[eatdavesbabies]

so i’m torn on last action hero.

it’s a great arnold movie, but that’s the thing: it can only be and is devised as an arnold movie. in order to even exist the language of both who arnold is as a star and the language of the roles and movies he played in had to be set already. they had to come first, to act as a rosetta stone so to speak.

on one hand this is a weakness. it’s a movie that exists, and only could, in a specific time period under certain circumstances and only in a culture that knows who arnold schwarzenegger is to fully get the joke of it. the merits of such a limited joke are up for some debate, since its entire strength is its derivative.

but that’s also the incredible power of it. it’s this flash of fucked up insane action culture and if you know it it’s brilliant. it’s not simply derivative, like tarantino’s flicks are, it’s also self-referential. it is a movie fully aware of itself and the culture around it. it’s stupid shit, but it’s brilliant stupid shit due to its own hyper awareness.