Also interesting how he said at the end that he wanted Tom Arnold to STFU at times for talking too much, while he himself talked over a few great one-liners, sadly, such as this one.
@@darchon5 Yeah - bad habit, when the reactor talks constantly and misses lines and important moments. The stfu line applies to you, bud, Omn1media. I would subscribe and listen to more if you could curb that, if you care to.
Jamie Lee Curtis did her own stunts in the limousine on the bridge, including being pulled out of the skylight by a helicopter and dangling beneath it. That shot of her face from the helicopter as she's screaming, "HARRY!" was true fear!
Hell yeah! Such a great film - and I unironically think that THIS is the performance that should've won Jamie Lee Curtis the Oscar for Supporting Actress. She had to do it all in this film, and she carries it off amazingly. :)
I heard that the car window Arnold smashed with his fist was an actual window. They had a prop window set up but he hit the wrong window. Tom Arnold mentioned it during an interview and said Arnie had to take off long enough for his hand to heal because he had injured it pretty bad. My mom accidentally gave me an ambien instead of an allergy pill one day. Let's say I will *never* voluntarily take ambien again. I thought I was dying. Everything started spinning and I got super dizzy before I passed out for several hours. Jamie Lee Curtis actually got to do the helicopter stunt herself as a birthday present.
Fun fact: Jamie Lee Curtis dance scene? She fell for real and Arnold was ready to check if she's okay but sat back down bcuz he got be in character and they were still rolling 😂🤣
So many great moments in this movie but i think my favourite one has to be 'battery aziz'. Such a serious moment and then something so mundane as the battery going flat and the henchman getting nervous just kills me everytime😂😂😂
40:56 - Jamie Lee Curtis rolled a Natural 20 to fire the gun, but a Natural 1 to handle the kickback, and the DM couldn’t think of a good way to reconcile them.
You have to see Trading Places. Excellent 80s comedy, and that's where Jamie Lee OFFICIALLY changed her good girl image. And yes, Fish Called Wanda is another great one
I’d put this in the second tier of Cameron’s films, right below the top tier of like Aliens and T2. But I think True Lies is overwhelmingly great and definitely Cameron’s funniest film. It’s also one I can watch repeatedly with no fatigue because of the humor. I mean-you get spoiled when you know how an action scene plays out, but if a scene is funny it’s still funny decades later.
As a french, I knew the original movie first (La Totale) but when I was a kid, as every kid of my age, I was an Arnold fan, so I was so happy to see him in an american remake of the movie. It was very different of course, but I really loved to see what stayed and what changed.
When Arnold was seconds away from launching the missile, I was thinking “don’t say it don’t say it you’re really not gonna say it” and sure enough Arnold said it; you’re fired
"Have you ever killed anyone?" "Yeah, but they were all bad." Fun Fact: The USMC supplied three Harriers and their pilots for a fee of $100,736 ($2,410 per hour). Art Imitates Life Fact: At one point in the movie, Gib tells a story about his second wife taking everything when she left him, even the ice cube trays from the freezer. This is a direct reference to Tom Arnold's divorce from Roseanne Barr that was happening at the same time. Barr was reported to have taken his ice cube trays when she left him as well. Arnold told the story to James Cameron on the set and Cameron incorporated it into the film. That's Hot Fact: The set of bra and matching panties worn by Helen Tasker during the striptease scene were Jamie Lee Curtis's own. Curtis rehearsed the scene extensively with director James Cameron, and it was there that the fall she makes in the middle of the dance was conceived (it didn't happen spontaneously during the actual shooting, as is often claimed). Arnold Schwarzenegger was not told of this beforehand, and this is hinted at when Harry briefly sits up in alarm, realizes that he is breaking character, and then relaxes.
"I married Rambo!" -- One of the best one-liners in the show (esp. considering the rivalry between Arnold and Sylvester), and you skipped over it??? Arnold said his personal favorite role was Kindergarten Cop. If you haven't seen it, now you will.
Had a small TV/VHS player at my parents house in the computer room. I like background noise. True Lies stayed in that TV for around 4 years on constant replay. I've seen it (heard it) well over a thousand times lol.
I loved your reaction. I don't know who watches people reacted to movies they haven't themselves seen already, but it's not me. So I'm not missing anything if you talk over something. I enjoy your enthusiasm.
This is a classic. A near perfect blend of action, comedy and classic "Arnold" one liners. Done right. It is only fitting that James Cameron would direct this movie.
Two actresses who became action stars themselves. Arnie’s daughter Dana played by Eliza Dushku, the anti-heroine Vampire Slayer Faith in Buffy and Angel TV series. Juno Skinner played by Tia Carrere who played an Indiana Jones/Lara Croft character in the TV series Relic Hunter.
Thanks, Captain Obvious. Why do people come to RU-vid comment sections to copy/paste Wikipedia articles like they’re experts or something? Most people already know this information.
@@Bishop228 Not an expert, just a fan of the shows (Buffy, Angel , Relic Hunter) and both characters. Stood up a date to see True Lies in theater and just sharing how pleasantly surprised at how Eliza Dushku later turned out. Who reads Wikipedia?
Great reaction Omni!! Jamie Lee Curtis has actually done some spicy scenes before this movie, I haven't seen Trading Places but i know that's one of the films, maybe put it on your poll?
I LOVE this movie. Underrated Arnold film. Arnold and James Cameron really came up with such an unexpected hit. So many great lines and action. Glad you enjoyed it.
That's the most obscure reference to the great Bill Paxton you could possibly come up with😂 Thats like seeing Leo Dicaprio and going "Yeah that's the guy from Growing Pains."
This movie was a blast to see in the theater on opening weekend. One of the loudest movie crowds I’ve ever witnessed. Also, same thing happened to me when I tried Ambien lol.
The strategic value of fully automatic fire is to create a "beaten zone" which forces enemies into cover. This is also known as "suppressing fire" and is mainly a psychological threat as most weapons on fully automatic (and not stabilized on a mount) are horrendously inaccurate.
As a kid who grew up in a religious home with a lot of biblical epics, I was really surprised to see Charlton Heston as Arnold's boss with the eye patch. Like a lot of things in my beloved 80s and 90s, some things really don't age well, but that's what I love about these kinds of movies. They're not just good movies, they're a trip back to a time that might have been better in a lot of ways, but there are things that make me cringe in 2024.
A lovely piece of work by Cameron. This was remake of a short film from France. "La Totale!" which was released the same year as T2. 'Bigger than average' genre film and that worked like a charm. TL is exactly what it's suppose to be. Hardcore Spy/Comedy where the laughs and blasts are on the same level. Arnold personally wanted Jamie Lee Curtis at top billing as the lead actress. Because her character meant as much to the story as her husband's did. The studio changed their tune and were wrong about putting her name under the title's name. The late Bill Paxton as Simon the fake (3rd film with Cameron) was quite the performance. Prior to this film, Cameron (a Marvel fan) was originally involved with Spider-Man and X-Men becoming films which had the industry losing their minds. Also the late, great Charlton Heston as the boss of the Omega sector resembled classic Nick Fury. Other than that, it was great to see Cameron and Arnold working together again. There was a tv series and it lasted one season (2023). I wasn't into watching anyway. Just not my thing.
If you’ve not seen it, another awesome movie from around the same timeframe is Demolition Man. The combination of the leads doest sound like it would work but it’s perfect, Stallone, Snipes and Bullock!
Yes Biscuit was a saying. It was made famous by a line calling Chelsea Clinton a biscuit. Maybe someone here can remember where that was from. I feel like a Dennis Leary standup special.
This film has to be watched as a big budget parody of a Bond film, which was the ‘default’ spy-action films franchise at the time. Ultra charismatic lead in a tuxedo. World’s most beautiful women can’t resist him. Exotic locations and fancy gadgets. Start with the climax of the previous mission. Then start the main story, which will have a link to the opening seen. All of that is Bond. Even the classic Arnie one-liners (“cool off”) were being done by Bond since the 1960s. Only the secret family life doesn’t fit into the Bond tropes, and obviously that is the heart of the film.
Great reaction! One of my favorites from my adolescence. Saw it in theaters with my family, love this movie! I’m an 80’s baby so I grew up with all the “B” Arnold movies, except most of them weren’t “B” movies 😆 I would love to see your reaction to his catalog of movies from the early days of Conan & Red Sonja thru to Last Action Hero and The 6th Day.
There was a sequel all set up to film,but 911 happened.One of the big action sequences in the script involved a terrorist taking over a plane and crashing into a high-rise building.Agter 911,all the studios pretty much canceled terrorist themed action movies.
Check out 1985's "PERFECT". A terrible movie with John Travolta and Jamie-Lee plays an aerobics instructor. Image that dance but for like for 2 hours. 😏
See...some of the chase scenes in this movie (and most others) irritate the fuck out of me. Not because they're "bad" or anything, but because people will fuckin GUSH over something like the chase at the beginning with the snowmobiles... But then shit out their own balls over how ridiculous the Leia chase scene in Obi-Wan was. "She's a little girl, how is she getting away from these guys!" Yeah...and Arnie's on fucking foot, how is he outrunning goddamned snowmobiles? He sure ain't using the trees. The pursuers are equally stupid in both cases. And the idea of the chase is equally stupid in both cases. The problem is how each was filmed. True Lies the chase scene is jumpy and wildly broken, with few close-ups. In Obi-Wan, each shot is far too long, too slow, too smooth, and spends too much time too often on the girl's face. The ridiculousness of the chase is identical in both...but one is just executed somewhat better.
There are exceptions like Predator, the Terminators, I'd include Jingle All The Way and Last Action Hero as well, but he made a LOT of action movie schlock during his run!
