whos this Nick Fury everyone in the comments keeps mentioning? probably some indie movie character that no ones heard of, thats probably why neither of us thought of him as a good guy with an eye patch. yep.

The jet is a Harrier and is a real military aircraft. It’s specifically designed for vertical takeoff and landing. It also uses a f*ck ton of fuel according to Cameron. The actual jet was used in only a few scenes for that reason. Most of the scenes at the tower were life sized mock-ups and models.

Simone: "You can't put a guy in with an eyepatch and say he's a good guy." Nick Fury: "Am I a motherfucking joke to you?"

26:47 Why is it shooting? Strangely enough, that is actually realistic. When it falls on the back end, the momentum is enough to cycle the action. And since this weapon has a fixed firing pin, that means a shot goes off, even if the trigger is not pulled and the action cycles again. These days, most submachineguns have an internal safety to prevent that from happening, but older models often had this flaw. And, yes, the AV-8B can take off vertically. However, it would have literally melted the road, the cars, and anybody in the vicinity.

That “Just Kidding” edit was amazing😆 You totally got me.

George: "Trying to think of one good character that has an eye patch. Can't think of any." Kurt Russell: "Call me Snake."

Harriers are some of the most amazing aircraft ever built. I once watched one fly sideways down the runway. The movie exaggerates some of the maneuverability. In the James Bond movie The Living Daylights on takes off from within a building.

Such a perfect blend of comedy, drama and action, and such a fine demonstration of Arnold's capabilities as an actor. The man's often underestimated.

You guys were laughing through the entire movie -- the way it's supposed to be. I have to admit, this is one of my favorites. Arnold is perfect, Tom Arnold is perfect, and Jamie Lee is perfection personified. And a bonus final act from 'Faith' of Buffy fame. Wish more reacters would do this one.

My favorite joke in this whole thing was "I remember the first time I was shot out of a cannon", yet neither of you seemed to get it. It was a joke about her helmet.

Yes, they can take off like that. It's called a VTOL - Vertical Take-Off and Landing. That particular one is a Harrier, made by the British. Fun fact: James Cameron really wanted to use a real Harrier for the shot, but the jets melted the road almost instantly. They had to surface the highway with the same stuff they surface aircraft carriers with. That patch of road is still there.

"Have you killed people?" "Yea, but they were all bad." "Are we going to die?" "yep" I love the part where Dana steals the key. And her reaction to seeing her dad flying the Harrier.

I'll keep repeating myself: Arnie in this is wayy scarier while glaring (in particular the look while seeing Simon in between Helen's legs) than as the Terminator!

30:35 the scene is obviously exaggerated but yes, those plane can do a vertical takeoff without a runway. Burns a shit load of fuel though.

The dance is iconic! Also, Jamie Lee fell for real! Arnold stood up to go help her, but she got back up, and they continued with the scene. This movie is so funny. Also, love watching teen Eliza Dushku already being a badass.

The Jamie Lee Curtis scene is iconic and was used in commercial skits and comedy skits for years,and virtually started the stripper pole craze.

When she’s doing the sexy dance, she actually fell and that was Arnold’s real reaction 😂 he went to check on her but she got up so fast he went back into character

I loved Tom Arnold in this movie, before this I only knew him as Roseanne's husband, but he really delivered on his comedic lines in this.

The music Simone was asking about in the beginning is the theme for Mission Impossible.

Thank you for reacting to one of my favorite movies! Fun facts: The tango in the beginning with Arnold and Juno was the inspiration for the actress who played Juno (Tia Carere) when she was on the US Dancing with the Stars. When you both laughed at the joke with Tom Arnold saying about the ice cube trays from the freezer, it was a statement for Tom’s divorce with Rosanne Barr. I got to meet and ask him about it! 🤣

This is one of my favorite Arnold movies. The chemistry between him and Jamie Lee was perfect. Jamie Lee's dance was great! We've been dying for a sequel. Here's a title idea: More True Lies: The Taskers.

So, the one question always asked is “how did they know where to find him in the hotel?” But, what a lot of people miss is, there’s a seemingly “throw away” line that Tom Arnold’s character says about setting up a suite under the name Harry Ranquist, just before he goes in and talks to Juno at the museum. So it was (most likely) still that same suite that they used since it would have already been there, and unused for anything other than a cover story. Since the terrorists had the name it was reserved under, they would have easily been able to find out where he was, especially if they were watching the room.

The Harrier really can take off, fly and manoeuvre like that, although the amount of fuel needed is immense. Its the reason that British aircraft carriers didn't have catapults for some time. They are now no longer in service with either the Royal Navy or Royal Air Force, however the US Marines still use them as does the Spanish Navy. They were the inspiration for the current F35.

"Battery, Aziz!" Still the best line in the movie 🤣🤣🤣

My brothers and I are all in our 30s and this was one of our favourites growing up. When we all catch up, one of us yelling “Give me the goddamn page!” still gets us laughing.

That plane at the end is a Harrier jump jet. It takes off vertically. It's real.

"Spy boss with eye patch" was actually a trope in the 70s and 80s ("Archangel" on Airwolf comes immediately to mind). Most of this movie is really a send up of late 70s and 80s spy movies l.

I love this movie!! Jamie Lee Curtis is an absolute legend! I'm so glad you guys enjoyed her hilariously awkward dance as much as I did. 😁

“Just kidding.” Hats off… so perfectly executed. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

The story of this movie is interesting. It is an adaptation of the French movie "La Totale!" From Claude Zidi, a legendary french comedy director. The plot is pretty much the same, sans the atomic bomb and harrier jet. Claude Zidi came to a US film festival in LA and made english subbed versions of his movie. Some time after that, Arnold's Brother in law watched the movie and loved it, he invited Arnold over to watch it and he also loved it. And he said that he would love to do an american version of it, but that some parts needed to be reworked to have more dynamism and action. He knew that at the time, Cameron's project of shooting a Spiderman movie was nowhere and got canned. So he called Cameron, talked about his idea, and Cameron accepted directing it. Since Cameron couldnt make a MARVEL movie he still put a Nick Fury look a like character in the movie (the agency boss with the eye patch). Cameron contacted Claude Zidi to buy the rigths to the movie adaptation, Ge sold it for a symbolic 1$ and instead negotiated a % on the movie incomes. It is unfortunate that this is the ONLY comedy ever directed by Cameron, cause man is it absolutly brilliant.

32:10 I laughed throughout this entire reaction, but George's mocking of our 1990's noise cancellation technology had me dying!

Arnie has a bunch of comedies. Jingle All the Way, Twins, Kindergarten Cop. That man is comic gold, even when he's not trying to be.

This film was a pleasant surprise when I saw it in cinemas. The original was a French comedy and is also good. Jaime Lee smashed this role out of the park.

"You can take the spy out of the spy place..." and "That's why you never carry guns while walking near stairs" are my favorite quotes of the day. Thanks, Simone.

The actor playing the main villain is a genius in this movie because he had to somehow be funny and scary for different scenes.

I lived in Marathon, FL when this was filmed- that's the area with the bridge that's out, etc. BTW, Jamie Lee Curtis did the 'hanging from the helicopter' stunt herself! It was wild to see. Also, yes, the Harrier actually flies like that- it's a precision aircraft and can hover, move sideways, etc. It's amazing to see - the only thing is it's loud.

Simone got the entire plot from the tagline, good job!

A few notes - Good character with eye patch - Odin VTOL - Vertical Take Off and Landing is the term for planes that can do that Other good Arnold comedies - Kindergarten Cop, Twins, Red Heat (which is kind of action/comedy like True Lies was) Other Jamie Lee Curtis films that are a must watch - Trading Places, A Fish Called Wanda (both comedies)

That cut at 21.06 is one of the greatest things I have seen on KZfaq. Great job!

Last Action Hero is a must. One of my childhood favorites, especially because I was a Arnold nut as a kid lol.

I was driving down to the southern U.S. for a wedding years ago, near a military base and every half mile there was a harrier jet hovering, all in a line. It was some kind of exercise but it was cool and scary at the same time. I forget how many there were, I think maybe 7 or 8, but it was definitely something I’ll never forget.

This was such a joy to see in the theater. I don't think anyone expected what they got, but everyone seemed to love it. This is by far my favorite Tom Arnold role. He nails this character in every way.

The plane Arnold's character is flying is an AV-8 Harrier, a fighter/strike aircraft built specifically to hover, take off and land vertically. Otherwise known as a VTOL aircraft (vertical take-off and landing). There is also a new variant of the F35 that does this.

This is my 2nd favorite James Cameron film only behind The Terminator. It's actually funnier than most pure comedies. It's one of Arnie's best performances. Jamie Lee Curtis actually won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy Film. And Tom Arnold was hilarious. The actor playing the villain hit all the right comic notes, too.

Gets criminally overlooked this film, it's absolutely brilliant

The musical theme you asked about at the beginning of the movie is the Mission Impossible theme. Arnold's boss who looks like a bad guy is Charlton Heston aka Moses from The 10 Commandments, Judah Ben-Hur from Ben-Hur and George Taylor, the main character from the original Planet of the Apes. The planes are British Harrier jump jets. They are designed for vertical takeoff and then transitioning to normal jet plane flight. They were extremely effective in the Falklands war between Great Britain and Argentina. On a side note, Bill Paxton has a normal sized penis. It is not abnormally small.

Did u know Jamie Lee Curtis really did fall in that dance scene and Arnold broke character. U can see in that split sec him wanting to get help to help Jamie but say back down when she got up and continued dancing. The crew thought it was too funny to leave out. Also, u should see Jamie Lee Curtis in House Arrest. Best 90's comedy ever!! Also, Jennifer Love-Hewitt was in it as well. I believe it was her debut movie.

In case you are not aware of it: "True Lies" is a remake of a French film "La Totale!" from 1991, but with more explosions.

"Guys with eyepatch's are bad guys" Snake Plissken "begins breathing heavily"

"Talk to your wife. That's a lot easier than surveillance." This young man has much to learn

Arnold has some really fun comedies I think you two would enjoy. Twins, Junior, Kindegarten Cop... you can't go wrong

When I lived in Los Angeles from 1997-2001 my buddy and I were regulars at the Skybar at the Mondrian Hotel on Sunset. We were grabbing a parking spot on the side street and we seen a older gentleman that looked like Woody Allen,it wasn’t him,walking with Tia Carrera,the Asian chick in this movie, and he had his arm around her waist as they were walking up the same side street towards Sunset. My buddy yells “Only in America bro!” and Tia turned around and smiled. We park and head into the Skybar and who do we see sitting up at the bar? Them two. We bought them around and talked to them for a little bit. Turned out he was a producer and they were talking about a upcoming role for her. At least that’s what he told us. The cool thing about living in LA was that you would run into celebrities on occasion. I met the cast of 90210 there,I had the biggest crush on Tiffany-Amber Theisen ever since she was Kelly Kaposki on Saved by the Bell. She was/is so beautiful. I met Pamela Anderson at the Skybar along with Andy Garcia and a bunch of other B and C list actors and actresses. The owner of the company that I worked for lived in Malibu and my lease on my condo was coming up and the owner,Rob, and I became really good friends. His license was suspended because of a DUI for a year so he said just for me to move in with him so that it would be convenient for me to drive him while his license was suspended. He had a Porsche 911 targa at the time and told me that I could use it whenever he didn’t need it and that I wouldn’t have to pay rent there in Malibu. That was a deal and a half to me. The place he had in Malibu looked like one huge house but it was actually 3 condo type things where each floor was it’s own place. One day I went out on the balcony to smoke a joint and I hear a voice say “is that you Rob?” I said that it wasn’t that I was Robs new roommate and then it hit me that the voice was very familiar. I move towards the edge of the railing and look up and I see Drew Barrymore looking down at me. I was like WTF are you serious? We got to know one another and when we had company BBQ’s on Saturday she would come hang out with us and play football on the beach with us. She was one of the coolest chicks I’ve ever met,forget the movie star part. She was just a genuine down to earth person,so cool and laid back. Everyone would give me shit around her because I had never seen “ET”. I still haven’t seen it to this day and im 45 years old lol. One day Drew gave me a autographed VHS tape,yes it was that long ago,of ET and she wrote a personal message to me on the tape. I still have the VHS tape in a box at my moms house. I had a great time living in LA for those few years.

36:02 - Ah'nuld's comedies certainly were unique. Practically none of them were "misses" but some were more batshit than others. Ones to try: THE LAST ACTION HERO - one of Hollywood's first forays into meta-humour in a blockbuster film. Very high concept. Directed by John McTiernan! KINDERGARTEN COP - probably the funniest Arnold comedy, but also easily one of the darkest film he's ever been. It goes in really violent places. TWINS - this one's dated a lot, but its a fascinating cast and concept. JUNIOR - this one is absolute batshit. Strangely watchable, but also just very weird and uncomfortable (and designed to be). JINGLE ALL THE WAY - really good kids movie (but not actually safe for kids to watch). How much you enjoy it as an adult really varies on how much you buy into the premise. COMMANDO - not intentionally a comedy, but boy its laugh-out-loud funny in hindsight. A must see.

Oh my gosh, I don't know what was more humorous, you two laughing at the scene or the scene itself? Great reaction guys! I was literally stomach laughing

Your Shaun of the Dead and True Lies reactions were the two movies that made me decide to try your Patreon this past month! Keep up the amazing work. And don’t forget what you do matters. It gives so many of us a break/distraction from pain and other things like life. Love to you both! 🍿

It is impossible to detonate an atomic bomb with an explosion or any other kind of damage. In order to set off such a bomb a multitude of small charges within have to detonate in a predetermined order in predetermined direction with an accuracy of less than a microsecond. If this procedure does not happen exactly as planned, the plutonium core is not compacted into the size needed to set off the fission chain reaction but instead it is just blown to bits.

A 90s classic action film. They don't make them like this anymore! I saw this in theaters at the age of 14. What an experience. Oh and it's based on a French comedy, those are the other writers. Cameron took their film and rewrote it. Also, those Harrier jets really take off that way. They can hover.

I highly consider True Lies to be Arnold’s last great film to date. I remember sneaking into the theater to see this alone as a 12 year old. As for the hotel/horse chase sequence, the hotel I believe is actually the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles that was also used for the final act of In The Line of Fire.

This movie came out when I was in HS. He Cameron released it on 35mm and 70mm film. We drove across town to see it in 70mm. I would liken it to IMAX of the time. 3x the size of regular experience. Everyone begged for a sequel at the time.

The just kidding part really got me and the look on your faces when Jamie Lee Curtis was dancing was priceless!!!!

The juxtaposition of Jamie being a totally sexy and beautiful and awkward and regular house wife all at the same time is a big part of why this works so well. And that includes the dance move. Though no where near as awkward as Elaine dancing on Seinfeld 🤣

Arnold and Danny DeVito comedy: "Twins"; Arnold at Christmas: "Jingle All the Way"; another good Arnold comedic drama: "Kindergarten Cop"; thank you for sharing your reactions with your KZfaq viewers.

Oh that was amazing, I never thought you'd be reacting to one of my favorite movies! Always liked the mix of action and comedy, it worked so well with the story and the actors so I can understand why you laughed so much despite there being an actual action side to the movie. The awkward dance is priceless to be honest.

My favorite Ahnold film ever. The action scenes so over the top, I'm actually surprised they did have him reload, mimicking his old bubblegum action movies, but still having a neat story. Jamie Lee Curtis is the perfect choice for this role. Extremely sexy, but a great enough actress that she can play the frumpy housewife who can become sexy, without looking like a sexy woman pretending to be frumpy.

34:29 - the film is very faithful to the French movie "La Totale!". The embellishments from Cameron are basically the action sequences - the gunfights, horse chase, Harrier-jump jet sequence, the nuclear weapons plot are all his additions. The original film has all of the other elements though - a guy who works as a spy, but his family isn't aware, the wife being seduced by a used car salesman who lives in a trailer park, the spy making his wife do a fake mission, the seduction scene in the hotel room, it's all there. The nuclear weapon threat is actually a plot to launch a missile at a football stadium in Paris. James Cameron gets top marks though for translating French farce humour to ultra-violent American slapstick and also for getting to do his trademark 5th Act mega-action beat i.e. using a fighter aircraft to attack a building. But the plot twists, character arcs and premise is all lifted directly from the French film.

The tango song is Por Una Cabeza. Iconic and widely used in films. Th jet they use toward the end is the Harrier. Vertical/short takeoff and landing (V/STOL). They were designed to be like that.

You two should definitely watch James Cameron’s most underrated gem of a film: “The Abyss”. Specifically the directors cut. James Cameron’s directors cuts are always better than the theatrical cuts.

I miss seeing batshit crazy things like this in the theaters. This makes me go WOW! in a very different way than most CGI spectacles.

I think Kindergarten Cop is Arnold’s funniest film, but this is right up there as among his best for comedic gold. You guys should do Twins as well. That’s another one Arnold is truly funny in.

A bit of trivia when Arhnold punched the window of the SUV, he accidently hit the wrong window. He punched though the real glass not the candy glass. Tom Arnold's reaction was real in that scene

the guy with the eye patch is Charlton heston he won the oscar for best lead actor in 1959 for Ben Hur, he also played Moses in The Ten commandments both are 2 of the greatest films of all time, true epics. you also saw Heston in tombstone.

Simone: She looks pretty good for a middle aged woman. Me: No. She looked amazing for any women. And I'm not even into Jamie Lee Curtis. Also that jet was a harrier. They can take off just about anywhere.

Another one of my favorite action comedies from the nineties is Grosse Pointe Blank. For more Tia Carrere you could check out Wayne’s World.

I love the way the weapons just keep getting bigger and bigger until the finale

Simone, you absolutely, 1,000%, belong on stage doing standup, or sketch comedy (maybe you do or have, I haven't looked into it). You have a serious gift. And that face loves the camera, or camera loves the face, idk... not trying to be weird... Your sense of humor is so refreshing. Cracks me the flup pup.

I remember back when they were filming this movie in downtown Miami there was a harrier being held up by a crane in downtown Miami. All we knew was they were filming a movie and Arnold Schwarzenegger had something to do with it. That wasn't a model of the bridge blowing up, they built a new 7 Mile bridge to key West. They blew up the old bridge, section of it.

Jaimie Lee Curtis' dance has got to be one of the MOST paused movie scenes ever!

Harrier jets (capable of vertical take offs and landings) first flew in 1967. I guess these two are way too young to know about technology that old, but I would have thought they'd have seen one in some other movie.

BTW, the guy who played Simon (the used car salesman…) is also known for "Game over, man, game over!" in another James Cameron movie.

I'm glad the bit made it when Tom Arnold says "You know, I think she might be telling the truth." Always cracked me up as much as anything in this movie.

The "horse in the hotel" scene was filmed in the lobby and elevators of the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.

"Twins": and a lighthearted comedy, "Kindergarten Cop"

It's a remake of a French comedy. The writers of that were also credited for the screenplay here. The original movie pretty much ended with the fight on the island (where the machine gun tumbles down the stairs). Everything after that is pure Cameron.

That was one of my fav movies when I was a kid. FYI, the aircraft that Arnie piloted is known as the Harrier Jumpjet... One of their trademark moves is definitely the hovering thing, but not sure how much exaggeration they add into the movie...

It really was jamie lee curtis hanging from the helicopter. She didn't want to do that stunt at first, so james cameron actually did it himself to convince her it was safe. It worked. She did it. And yes, there are jump jets, which are vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles (VTOL).

Yes its a Harrier Jump jet, it takes off vertically, used by Marines as close ground support

Arnolds best comedies other than this are Twins, Kindergarten Cop, and Last Action Hero... just off the top of my head.

A good guy who wears an eyepatch? What about one Nicholas J. Fury?

Great reaction ! Don’t know if someone told you that but it’s actually a remake from a french movie called La Totale. The director is mentioned as a screenwriter with James Cameron.

This movie is so great, and it mostly holds up. "Twins" is another good Arnie comedy.

26:45 While it's a bit exaggerated for the movie, that gun continuing to fire as it bounces down the stairs actually is very possible. Open-bolt designs like the Uzi can and will "run away" when in full-auto, meaning that even if you aren't still holding the trigger back the gun will keep firing, especially if something is bumping the back of the gun. It's more unbelievable that the gun still had ammo for the entire fall down the stairs. 28:10 Correct. Nukes are actually really hard to set off, hitting it with a normal explosion won't do anything except destroy it and spray some radioactive debris around the area. 30:35 That's a Harrier jet...they are one of the few planes that can perform a vertical take-off and maneuvering like that, but it's insanely inefficient to do (burns a crazy amount of fuel). If y'all want another great (though far less humorous) movie about nukes, look up Crimson Tide (also from the mid-90s).

2:33 Speaking of that music, you guys should react to Scent of a Woman (1992) starring Al Pacino. I personally think that Eraser (1996) makes for a good Arnie double feature w/ this film. Also, check out James Cameron's The Abyss (1989), preferably the special edition.

Be honest, would you rather watch the movie you watched, or one where they go to couples counseling? There is a reason movies don't always follow conventional logic, because people want something to take them out of reality for a couple hours.

The original french movie, La Totale, was fun (i'm french) but Cameron brought it to another level :)

Did you save Salescarsman? I LOVE IT! Unintentional humor is the best kind. Keep up the good work.

"The Steven Wright-looking guy...." ROFL!!! Yeah, I can see that. Side note, though I wouldn't doubt someone may have already mentioned it, Jamie Lee Curtis did her own stunt when she was dangling from the helicopter. She was a badass in this movie!

The one with Danny Devito is "Twins". A good one :) Not that much action. But fun and a "feel good" comedy movie.

The guy in the eye patch is the great Charleton Heston star of Ben Hur, The Ten Commandments, and the original Planet of the Apes.

That "just kidding" break - perfection!! 🤣🤣

This is such a fun movie! Probably in my top 3 Arnie films.