'The Train Job'
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I just caught the end of True Lies on AMC (it is, apparently, an American Movie Classic). Man, how great is that movie? It's a ridiculously overblown action flick with a good sense of humor. Now that I think about it, it's actually kind of like Alias: The Movie.
I, err, have to leave the room when it plays, because it's one of the most astonishingly offensively sexist things I've ever seen.
I'm with Plei. That movie made me bugfuck.
True Lies has possibly the most appalling view of women ever filmed, with the added insult of gratuitous ethnic stereotyping. I would have walked out, except that I was paralyzed by anger.
But it is a wonderful parable of Arnold's barely repressed homosexuality. He stays away from JLC so he can hang out with his overcompensating buddy Tom Arnold and his quirky vaguely foreign coworker. He becomes obsessed with big moustache Paxton after Paxton speaks of boy's asses.
Sure, it's no Commando, but even Tia Carrerre only gets his attention because he loves to dance.
Oh, man, that movie is only appreciated by me in any way because I thought Tom Arnold was great.
Other than that, sheer hatred, and I'll never watch it again.
The only time I've seen True Lies was when it was dubbed into Spanish, and oddly, I kind of liked it. That might be because my Spanish is pretty poor so I didn't understand most of the dialogue and I also didn't have to listen to the Arnolds (Schwarzenegger and Tom) voices.
I loved True Lies for the reasons P-C mentioned. I don't remember feeling it was sexist, but I'll have to keep an eye out for that the next time I run into it.
Oh, man, that movie is only appreciated by me in any way because I thought Tom Arnold was great.
ita is me on this.
But aside from Tom Arnold, what Plei, 'Suela and GInger said.
I laughed from moment one to moment last of TA:WP. The songs are the best thing in the whole wide world.
The songs are the best thing in the whole wide world.
I loved the songs a lot. But I think I lauged loudest when two of the TA:WP were trapped in the room with the panthers - that turned out to be two black housecats. But then there were parts of that where I was the only one laughing, so maybe it's just me....