1993 Directed by John McTiernan
Danny is obsessed with a fictional movie character action hero Jack Slater. When a magical ticket transports him into Jack's latest adventure, Danny finds himself in a world where movie magic and reality collide. Now it's up to Danny to save the life of his hero and new friend.
Arnold Schwarzenegger Austin O'Brien Bridgette Wilson-Sampras F. Murray Abraham Art Carney Charles Dance Frank McRae Tom Noonan Robert Prosky Anthony Quinn Mercedes Ruehl Ian McKellen Professor Toru Tanaka Joan Plowright Keith Barish Jim Belushi Chevy Chase Chris Connelly Karen Duffy Larry Ferguson Leeza Gibbons M.C. Hammer Little Richard Robert Patrick Maria Shriver Sharon Stone Melvin Van Peebles Damon Wayans Jason Kelly Show All…
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Absolutely stupid brilliance. A magnificent, reflexive, fun, schlocky "love letter" (hate the phrase but it's true!) to action films. The first hour of this is so divine, and the second half dives into strange meta-commentaries on celebrity that I had totally forgotten. Charles Dance is fantastic. And this thing is cameo city– a buncha random appearances that make you feel like they just sent a massive email to anybody who was available. Do not understand the crossover audience for some of these gags, but that just makes me love them more. A big chunk of the script for this Arnold Schwarzenegger action film is references to The Seventh Seal. For who? For me! (I have not seen The Seventh Seal. Not enough explosions.)
When the Hollywood hamster wheel gets down to redoing films that were both critically and commercially panned, I would like to be in charge of writing this reboot! Okay, thank you!
This film has the most insane amount of cheesy one liners.
This film has Professional Evil Brit Charles Dance.
This film has some unbelievably impressive action sequences.
This film completely takes the piss out of itself.
This film is about movie magic.
How can I not love this film?
There are many films wherein a character creates a false reality in order to help cope with some trauma they've suffered, a devastating break-up (Annie Hall) or a haunting death (Romancing in Thin Air). This is the only film I know wherein a character moves from a false reality to a real one in order to cope with a trauma he's suffered in the fictional world.
And of course, that catharsis is facilitated by a character (a young boy, of course) moving from the "real" world to the fictional one.
"I don't like you. You've brought me nothing but pain."
Worst part is that in 2019 this kid probably has a popular youtube channel where he points out plot-holes and inaccuracies in movies.
simultaneously one of the great action parodies because beyond the expertly crafted looney tunes visual gags, on a filmmaking level it's frequently indistinguishable from the real thing (god mctiernan) and one of the best movies about a movie star literally wrestling with their own hollywood fantasy image and myth. "you've brought me nothing but pain."
Tony Vivaldi... and the Torelli mob... are joining forces............ I’m outta here...
There definitely should have been a greater effort made to distinguish the look and feel of the movie and real worlds. The kid sidekick character does occasionally grate on the nerves ("Holy cow!"). And there's an entire sequence involving the funeral for a flatulent gangster which is just kind of sad. But this movie is a lot more successful and interesting than it is often given credit for.
For folks studying the field of Schwarzeneggenomics (and trust me there are A LOT of us -- okay, just me) this is one of the key texts, because Schwarzenegger interrogates his own image for us. In so many of his movies he plays characters with double lives; usually figuratively (as in TRUE…
This movie cannot make up its mind on what it wants to be, unlike me on Halloween in 1997 when I melded my Captain Hook costume from the past three years with my Foxy Loxy costume from our spring ‘97 kindergarten play, “The Sky is Falling!”. Captain Fox, I called him, and told my mother he was what the fox from the Richard Scarry cartoon I liked was for Halloween, cementing it as a legitimate cosplay. For years, I thought I convinced my mother that I had dressed as a real character. Looking back, I now know she was simply humoring me, in the same way a mom says something is “silly” whenever you’re trying to do some comedy for her. No, mother, my Fletcher (Liar Liar, ‘97) impression is not “silly”, it is straight up funny!
sorry but no one can convince me this isnt an underrated masterpiece when theres a scene of arnold playing hamlet and the voice over says "theres something rotten in denmark...and he's taking out the trash!" like how is this not supposed to become one of my favorite movies???
