• Sarmyth@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    I watched Last Action Hero a few years ago for the first time, and it honestly didn’t even feel that dated. It held up!

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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      7 days ago

      I think Last Action Hero is an overall good movie with some flaws.

      It takes a little too long to get going, the bit at the front that mostly establishes that his life is kind of dull and he prefers to go to the movies drags a bit. They play the “BECAUSE THIS IS A MOVIE” note a little too often and Slater just outright doesn’t believe him for a little too long, he should have started to buy it before they go out into the real world. And the ending kind of just putters out? The bits where it’s a send-up of action flicks is really fun and it’s worth seeing for that, though I think True Lies is a better loving send-up of action flicks.

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        7 days ago

        Haha, we need to open source movies before production. Put the script on GitHub and check those pull requests!

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          6 days ago

          Man, if the Internet has taught me anything via The Internet Plays Pokemon, Arnie wouldn’t make it past the first scene.

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          6 days ago

          Lol, some movies only back a small change to be improved. Take Passengers as an example, simply have Jennifer Lawrence choose to wake a passenger and cut there. None of the passengers waking up to everything bring all green crap

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      6 days ago

      Saw it for the first time since I was a kid a couple months ago and was shocked at how well it aged. The dialogue works in layers, too. My wife and I enjoyed it at least as much as our 8-year-old.