"Would a spy pee himself!?"

_“And a pair of titties, makes you want to stand up and beg for buttermilk.”_

You’re fired!

"My horse is getting tired" *confused look*

That, her setting off the MAC-11 killing terrorists, and “I married Rambo” had me laughing.

We think we had it good because the standard for a quality movie nowadays is so low.

Such truth. I miss those days :(

I had never noticed the callback to Alien. Tom Arnold telling Bill Paxton that "it's game over" /Chefs kiss

I think as movies try to appeal to a larger demographic to pay for the larger budgets. It just has created superficial bloated stories. If you look at A24 and Blumhouse they make movies on a significantly less budget. In general those movies are some of the best financially and critically. So cut the budgets and let people be creative for niche audiences. True Lies was made for 100 million in 94 or 200 million in 2022. The box office was about *4 the budget.

Love your profile name.

Before you die, would you like to make love to Drinker?

That scene absolutely creeped out my female cousins. They said that it was awful how a husband tricks his wife into doing all these things out of fear of death. I never saw it that way when I watched it at the cinema as I imagined that it was a misogynistic case of the ends justifying the means.

Heck, 27-year old me thanked him....

​@OZTutoh Sounds like you were woke ahead of your time. In reality, James Cameron actually showed that Helen (a woman) could transform from housewife to secret agent with ease. That's what you should take away from it. Unless you're just looking for an excuss to hate men.

You're a good dad, Mark!

Your son was right!

I'm toying with the idea of showing my eldest son this, he's 9. The dancing sexy wife bit might be a tad too much, I don't know. How old was yours?

@@smallbluemachine a little bit older but not much. Yes definitely that's the only qualm as the violence was cartoon and there was no language

@@markwoodhouse4284 Thanks very much.

"and what makes you think you can do all that?" "You know my handcuffs?' "Mmm" "I picked them..."

Yeah it was a brilliant fucking scene and one of my favorites in that movie

"Then we'll talk..."

Truth hurts

Cameron gets the absolute best out of actors. That was A+ scene from Arnold.

“Ass like a 10 year old boy. HaHaHaHa!”

What i didn't really get was "she's got an ass like a 10YO boy".....Saw this in the theater and still don't quite get it. I mean why boy? Why when I would imagine that there isn't much overall difference. That being said, loved this movie and rarely hear it referenced. And Tom Arnold was great considering anything I've seen him in....I mean, when he hid "behind" the light pole he was wider than, he pulled off the "how did that not hit me?" reaction pretty well. :P

Bill Paxton stole every scene he is in the movies.

Omg yes!

I feel this is Bill Paxton funniest performance I’ve seen, god I wish we’d gotten more of his comedy work.

CGI is when movies started getting bad

@@dickenstom exactly. There was no more need to be creative.

@@dickenstom I think that's a bit unfair to CGI and the effects industry as a whole. CGI is pretty old having first started being used in the 1970s and the first entirely CGI character appeared in Young Sherlock Homes in 1985 so there have been loads of good films that used. Some of the more famous examples are the original Star Wars Trilogy and the first six Star Trek films - the Genesis planet sequence from Wrath of Khan (1982) was the first ever all-CGI sequence in a feature film and was created by the Computer Graphics Project team at Lucasfilm who were later spun off as a separate company which became Pixar. When done right, CGI often goes unnoticed and it has enabled films to be made that would have been impossible without it or would have looked jarringly unrealistic. The problem is overuse: There's too much CGI in films/not enough time and money given to those creating it so they don't have the time to make it look as good as it needs to be Directors are using it to create scenes that would be impossible to film using practical effects, but they're so over the top that they're obviously fake and it destroys suspension of disbelief CGI gets used where practical effects would do a better job because it's often cheaper, especially when there's a lot of re-shoots or footage that doesn't make it into the final edit.

It's interesting because you can increase a films scale with cgi however I like it when its mixed effectively with practical effects like Mad Max Fury Road

Okay, so how would Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow have been made with "REAL special effects?" Or the Star Wars prequel trilogy? Or Hostiles? Or The Lord of the Rings trilogy? Or the Stephen Sommers Mummy movies? Or the Harry Potter series? Or Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy? Or Gladiator? Or Hollow Man? Or O Brother, Where Art Thou? The X-Men movies? The Blade trilogy? Or Evolution? Or A.I. Artificial Intelligence? Or the Jurassic Park movies? Or DUNE? Black Hawk Down? Or Kung Pow Enter the First? Or Starship Troopers? Or The Time Machine? Or Minority Report? The Men In Black movies? Or Reign of Fire? Or the Stuart Little movies? Or S1M0̸NE? Or Adaptation? Or Equilibrium? The Dark Knight trilogy? Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes movies? The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus? Drag Me to Hell? The Hurt Locker? Public Enemies? District 9? Inglorious Basterds? Mongol? Tropic Thunder? Where the Wild Things Are? Saving Private Ryan? Valkyrie? Shall I go on?

That must have been awesome. Remember watching "The Colony" Cracking horror/action film. Laurence Fishburne and Paxton if I recall, along with the Canadian actor from "Dawn of the Dead" How were you involved? 🙂

@@willk1756 I was the on set visual effects supervisor.

I'm envious, he was always one of my favourite actors.

@@PetersonZF Worked with Arnold this year. He was totally professional but not nearly as chatty with the crew as Bill was.

I got sprung.

I would have preferred it be Tia Carrere doing the dance...

@@able34bravo37 Good god, wouldn't we all....

@@able34bravo37 sad thing is, she is the type of person that would have agreed to it. So we missed out on that.

@@able34bravo37 Tia is prettier, but I’d bet $100 that JLC had a way more bangin body at the time.

Of course, now had Cameron done it he would have his toxin producing balls shot off.

Genuinely funny moment. It's almost 4th wall breaking because we can't believe he got out of there unscathed and neither can he.

I think the Ice Cube trays line was improvised. Cause that what Rosanne really did.

Women! Can't live with them... can't kill 'em.

Absolutely, the way he was a deeply flawed man with serious character issues, no real family and his only friends being his forced co-workers, yet so overly confident and yappy as a character made him very relatable in the sense that is exactly how you would picture him and made for so much comedy relief.

(Wife)"Say something!!!!......" (Husband)........''That's a magnificent animal "

Agreed.

Amen!

True Lies, Big Trouble in Little China, and Rush Hour 2.

I'd add "Armor of God" to that list.

Oh that's a very clever "double-up" of two disparate movies. You're right, you get back late at night (well when you were younger anyway) and in a slight stupor of booze and good times flick on the late-night tv while guzzling something edible from the fridge and perhaps rehydrating in a mild panic... you catch Big Trouble In Little China or True Lies on, and have to sit down and enjoy watching the rest of the movie to the end before stumbling off to bed in the wee hours... knowing tomorrow will be that much worse!

No such thing as too much Drinker. Just ask Tatiana.

Just shows you care about making a comment more than watching the clip.

I sometimes read comments in my head with Drinkers voice if my brain thinks its something he would actually say lol

@@mikcnmvedmsfonoteka I'm glad to see I'm not the only one with a Critical Drinker commentary in my head on occasion.

@@PhantomFilmAustralia or they just thought of it and wanted to mention it? How would they know he would say it?

It was definitely meant to be a funny scene with her trying to get over her awkwardness while simultaneously fulfilling her fake mission, as well as Arnold's character bungling the tape recorder a bit and becoming shocked by her releasing her self-suppressed sexiness, but at the same time you can't help but find the whole scene arousing as hell. At least that is my opinion.

@@kommisar. oh Yeah! Absolutely! That and that flash in Trading Places i saw at a tender age.

@@roberthoffhines5419 Yeah, she was underrated for sure in the looks department. I wish there were more boob shots of hers.

Dude, this Bill Paxton's most underrated role and in my opinion is his best. His acting was on point and he was funny as hell. I can't recall him doing any other comedic roles besides this one, which is a shame since he was so great at it. I haven't seen this movie in years and never noticed the plastic wine glasses. I'll be on the lookout for it if I get to see it again.

@@kommisar. Aliens is a pretty serious movie but Hudson is great comic relief

I always feel like Tom Arnold is just playing Tom Arnold in this movie. 😆

"What kind of sick bitch does that?"

"What kind of a sick bitch takes the ice cube trays out of the freezer?"

Who does that!?

That is based on a very real conversation Tom had with Schwarzenegger that Schwarzenegger than relayed to Cameron. Tom Arnold was going through, or had just been through, his very public and tumultuous divorce with Rosanne at the time and he said she literally took the ice trays. “What kind of sick bitch takes the ice cube trays.”

It was alleged that "what kind of sick bitch takes the ice cube trays?" (not a verbatim quote) was based on the end of his marriage to Roseanne

@@caldodge: I've seen that, too.

Far and away his best film role. I was surprised by a very good performance he turned in as a guest star on Franklin & Bash as a reality tv dad who’s an idiot, but realizes what he’s doing is setting his kids up for failure and will do anything to stop it. Not what I expect from a guy who usually is competing with Rob Schneider for “Most Annoying Character” awards.

"Get lost dipshit" hes got so many great lines in this film

@@caldodge if I split with my partner I'm taking the ice cub trays. It took me 20 years to find ice cube trays of EXACTLY the right size and I'm not losing them now. She can have the dog.

It's the laugh that comes afterwards that cracks me up!

That wasn't a knockout. That was a kill of Saitama proportions.

“What are we talking about? Pussy right?” “ABSOLUTELY!” So funny

And ever since I can’t stop exclaiming “ass like a ten year old boy !!! “ while laughing like a maniac .

God I love that part especially where Arnold sinisterly squints his eyes at him 😂

In all fairness, that is how it works for heroes in action films. :)

Game Over man! Game Over! RIP Legend!

Amen to that.

100% ...if you haven't seen "Frailty", highly recommend

@@jdeez1401 Oh yeah, absolutely well done movie. Really too bad we didn't get more from him as a director.

Billy “The Extreme”

Cameron wrote the book on how to develop strong female characters in movies in a credible manner and the idiot woke crowd should be taking notes. Do it right and everyone loves it, do it wrong and its a sh-tshow

"The codename of your contact will be Boris. And your codename will be--" --"Natasha?" "No; Doris."

@@chazzmccloud36 That's a great example of how the film pokes fun at its characters (Arnie's not very imaginative choice of codenames) without demeaning or belittling them.

The scene where he’s gonna jump the horse and it’s like “Not happening dude.” 😂

When he grabs his nuts and is like "thank God" lmao

Great visuals. I dont even care how they did it, just looks great!

Arnold: THE BRIDDDDG IS OUUUUU! Helen: waatttt?

Another movie scene that hits me with similar feels is when Neo saves Trinity from the crashing helicopter in (obviously) The Matrix

Do you know she did that stunt in that scene ?

@@ashdoglsu She was in a harness but it was really her hanging from the helicopter. Respect!

THE BRIDGE IS OUT! HARRY! THE BRIDGE IS OUT!

one of my favourite arnold lines of all time in that scene. along with "GET TO DA CHOPPA!"

@@revpembroke3082 The swell of the musical score as they both realize they're only going to get one more chance to grab hold of each other before the limo hits the breach gives me fucking goosebumps every time.

I played this for my wife a few years ago. She got a good kick outta it too.

I watched it for the first time in years and I was laughing my ass off as well. Except I was thinking "wow this is bad"

So bad you love it? I was surprised at the number of jokes I just missed as a kid lol

@@ogrefreak5222 no just a bad movie I fell asleep around at the end of the first act.

@@seanjenkins5505 Let me guess, you're roughly 20 years younger than the rest of us?

No time to die is not a James Bond movie.

I'll never consider No Time To Die a James Bond movie.

I remember at the time Arnie was saying Bond was over now. Who needed him when True Lies existed. Bond was a relic. He was right then. As to now....what the fuck even is Bond these days?

@@jamesmaybrick2001 Dead isn't he? ;-)

True Lies is the best Bond film. Galaxy Quest is the best Star Trek movie.

Your dad has been immortalized. What a way to remember a loved one. Most of us will die, and be forgotten. Your dad won’t.

Hudson is my favorite movie character of all time thanks to that man. Great actor

Did Bill ever do a bad movie? I can't recall any.

Chet in Weird Science is still the go-to for me. Hudson was basically the same character but in space.

Same thing happens to Dick Jones at the end of Robocop, another classic movie

The Apprentice is the made for TV remake of that moment.

@@centerfield6339 If only the contestants were sent on their way attached to a Sidewinder missile!

Maybe if the concept was better executed, it may have been a success.

agreed. Audiences just weren't ready for that Scary Movie style of film. But i think now people can appreciate what they were trying to do a lot more (hopefully)

I don't know why it gets so much flack. I like it, and it doesn't hurt that one of my favorite Megadeth songs was written for that soundtrack, originally.

The failure of the movie can be almost entirely attributed to the fact that the kid was annoying AF.

Movie was just okay. That soundtrack though was awesome! I still listen to it.

It was a success for the period at the box office but was not a smash hit.

It had the misfortune to come out around the same time as Jurassic Park as well as being a bit misunderstood at the time.

@@jimmyboy7817 Americans don't take very kindly to any parody of what they consider their own culture.

Exactly - I never understand the negativity about the movie. It's a classic.

Hey, you wanna be a farmer? Here's a couple of acres.

There were just so many good films then, we were spoiled

I remember at the time it was sometimes unfairly dismissed as Arnie trying to be Bond, rather than appreciating it for what it was.

Very cool.

Now that's the kind of wholesome IRL stories I need more of heh.

That’s pretty cool. I’m entertaining the idea of building one of those harriers used in the film. (Plastic model kit)

That must have been so much fun for him... as if being an airframe specialist looking after USMC Harriers wasn't cool enough already! Please pass on my thanks for helping create some of the coolest film sequences I've ever seen. The scenes with the Harriers were easily my favourite in the whole film - I was blown away by them and coming out of the cinema they were all I wanted to talk about.

That's pretty cool, a crewmember had their baby on set? That's bizarre.

I know right

Yes. Schwing!

Tia was so hot then. She was my Fantasy when I was an adolescent!

@@jfb.8746 Shaaaaaaa-wing!

If Tia Carrere was a president, she'd be Babe-raham Lincoln.

@@MrX-zz2vk: I thought she'd be Gorgeous Washington.

Shut your mouth…AIENS

100% agree.

Ooh. Even better than his performance as Hudson from Aliens?

@@reikun86 Chet, from Weird Science, takes some beating 🤣🤣

game over man.....game over !

Back then my dad had a friend who was really deep into audiophile stuff and expensive TVs. He had a dedicated cinema room an 80" back projection TV, like a million speakers all around and those giant Laserdiscs that were all the rage in the 90s. The movie that he used to showcase us his whole setup was True Lies.

@@ericgonzalez8382 One of my friends ran a business selling top end audio visual equipment in the 90's, his showroom too had True Lies running with a laserdisc hooked up to a huge 56" back projection TV and surround system, the opening scene with the ski chase used to shake the floor

Like @Eric Gonzalez says, the Laserdisc was used as reference material in audiophile shops. I attended an industry pr gathering at a very high end shop in NY, and met Dr. David Wilson who founded Wilson Audio; very smart and a true gentleman. The main room had the three centerl chanels connected to Wilson's $60,000 speakers and the subwoofer was an insane coffee table with a granite top. When they played the harrier jets roaring into action, my pant leg flapped like a flag in the wind. Overall, the setup with Krell amplifiers and a whole bunch of other things was about a quarter of a million dollars (in the 90s) and I marveled at how it was the best sounding system that I had ever heard. Then, of course, I stopped myself and though, "For a quarter of a million, it better be!"

Of all the things in the world to test, why this particular film? Is it because of the wide range of soundscapes in the film?

@@ekscalybur i remember the ski chase the bullets would ping all around from different speakers, it was the best 6 channel demo i had ever heard

I'm sure it could have if they had chosen a different actor than Arnold! He really does a great job here, one of my favorite movies with him, but imagine the exact same movie with any other established action star! It would instantly become much more badass! Bruce Willis could have been a great Harry Tasker, for example. But not Stallone! I don't think Sly could have pulled this role off.

@@Ricardo-cl3vs Bruce Willis isn’t even in Arnold’s league and the movie would be worse with anyone but Arnold

@@breesybird9207 That's right. Willis was the much, much better actor.

@@Ricardo-cl3vs Bruce Willis was boring, Arnold is incredible entertaining and charismatic and he’s the greatest action star ever.

@@breesybird9207 That might be your personal opinion, fanboi, but objectively Arnold is not a good actor, not at all. "Willis has a MUCH wider range, any acting coach will tell you that! Being an, or even the greatest "action star" does not mean he can act. Many action stars can only do action but nothing else. I love Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Willis, also Statham and Keanu, I grew up with them but I never considered them to be great actors with a wide range, none of them. But from all the 80s action stars, Arnold is one of the worst actors. He became one of the greatest stars _despite_ his awful accent and wooden acting, that's what made him so sympathetic! And btw: "Die Hard" with Willis changed the way action flicks were made and put an end to the Schwarzenegger/Stallone 80s action movie era. Sorry you didn't get the memo...

That pelican was part of Harry's team.

Go back and look at the best movies and biggest movies from the 1990s there are lots of gems to watch from that period. The new hip directors from that period Tarantino, Singer, Coens, Fincher and Darabont made some fantastic movies. LA confidential is a movie from that period that got 9 academy nominations but today it is not really recognised or spoken about and has a brilliant cast as well.

..she missed the 'pole' though... +1 for getting UP faster than "french" Harry/Arnold!

@@dallesamllhals9161 One of the best unscripted/goof moments ever left in a motion picture.

Sir you have won the comment section. 🏆

I certainly saw her in a new light after that.

Yep! Not only is it good to see a woman not talk and shut up for a second and just act and dance like we've been telling every Hollywood celebrity actor for years, it's great to watch this scene! I love it! It's Jamie's best role and she get's to shine here! Also, this is her first time in a James Cameron movie! What a time and a fitting scene for this movie! It's great!

Same, we had it on VHS as a kid, mainly because my mum was a MASSIVE Arnold fan and had ALL of his movies on VHS and she’d let us watch whatever we wanted. As kids we knew what scared us and what didn’t so I was watching like Terminator 1+2 at like 8 years old, but Alien, Gremlins and IT would scare the shit out of me 😂

I think it was the last genuine Cameron movie.

Terrorist: "Get out of my waaayyy!" *Engine revs* Arnold: *Crashing and horse neighing* "Sorry!"

Drinker recently did one about The Long Kiss, I believe.

“And hurry up, my horse is getting tired.” “Your horse?” 😆

Arnold scolds the horse. Great.

It is not a great movie in terms of art but it is a thrill ride and should be how a lot of big budget movies should be made. Definitely a sort of movie a kid or teen would like as would an adult.

@@bighands69 100%, it was an awesome popcorn action spectacular Too fun not to enjoy

I agree, I've heard some reviews mention that as a bad thing, but I really like the way it changes up the story and tone for the middle section of the film.

"You're fired."

Oh ya. That scene is awsome

the best in the world using great movie lines in real life for the rest of your life. the opportunity presents itself and you hit it, and it just feels great. mega bonus points if another catches it and "knows"

That's funny lol.

Have you found her in the movie?

I've often wondered who was the body double for the sexy dance scene

@@MrCdnBeef Savage compliment.

So, I doubt she was, you haven't responded to this.comment defending her... hmmm. 🙄

@@BleachDemon707 no one cares what you think.

A sequel would have worked if it was made two or three years later.

The Wokesters would just ruin a sequel now anyways.

Be very afraid. A TV version will be broadcast next year, and the preview video doesn't impress me. The only possible saving grace is the fact that at least the first episode was written by Matt Nix (creator of "Burn Notice")

They tried to make a sequel starring Eliza Dushku as Dana Tasker, but I don't know that it ever got released.

@@caldodge I liked Burn Notice, so that gives me some comfort. Other than that...I hope they don't butcher it.

Yeah, Cameron was at the peak of his powers during this period. From 1986-1993, he delivered a cutting edge special effects fest, two sci-fi action summer blockbusters that became cultural milestones in their own right, and a fun popcorn spy flick, and made it look effortless.

Can confirm. Took a chance and it's.. fine. Until Cameron finally (ever?) gets around to approving a new transfer, it'll do.

THIS is good lookin out.. Thx

That's what I did. It's so good that if Cameron ever gets around to making it available in 4K I'm not sure I would "upgrade". The video is just that crisp.

I heard the Spanish copy is not an official BR but a pirate copy.

yep yep

Cameron has been stalling on a high definition release, he regrets that he portrayed muslims as terrorists in this movie.

@@TheRocco96 Every non-English-speaking country has played the villain at one time or another. Cameron's balls dropped off when he sank that ship.

Get the Spanish edition Blu-Ray. It has an English audio track.

Get the Spanish edition Blu-Ray, and select the "angles" audio track. You'll want it for your collection.

@@caldodge why was it only released in Spain though?

@@GamezGuru1 Bootleg I think, not an official release. It's been on cable and streaming in HD, so they put that version on blu-ray. It's not really a polished HD release, I think they just scanned a 35 mm print, there's a lot of scratches and other issues that haven't been fixed on the print.

Madam you didn’t like Terminator 2 better?

"Do you know what this is?" "I know what dis is. Dis is a snowcone makah." "..." "...is it an espresso machine?"

That "Yup!" when she asks if they're going to die is a priceless gem

It's been released in HD on cable and streaming, currently I think it's only available on Hulu. It's funny seeing it in HD at home, in a lot of shots you can clearly see it's a stunt man and not Arnold. You could get away with it at the time with it going by so fast in the cinema, and on VHS/DVD low resolution at home, but in HD at home it's very obvious. Maybe they will do a CGI faceswap like was done for T2, once it comes out on 4K.

His joy at how fucked up Harrys marriage is makes me laugh so hard 😂 he’s like ‘this just keeps getting better and better!’ 🤣