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October 10, 2010

The Insights of Auteur Schwarzenegger
— Ace

The commentary track for Total Recall.

These are often monstrously boring and uninformative, but I think Schewarzenegger and VerHoeven hit a new standard of oblivious obviousness here.

Via Ben Domenech.

Soooo Funny: "Total Recallin'."

Thanks to JavaJoeX.

Posted by: Ace at 01:26 PM | Comments (31)
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1 Just saw this: Judge allows Amicus denying Obama's eligbility as President and citizenship. The document also says he's guilty of treason. The document is linked at the article.

Posted by: ChicagoJedi at October 10, 2010 01:30 PM (WZFkG)

2 I have that movie on Blu-Ray still in the wrapper. My wife picked it up in the cheap stack at a sale a year ago and I still haven't opened it up and watched it even though I don't have that many Blu-Rays yet.

Posted by: Vic at October 10, 2010 01:32 PM (/jbAw)

3 Would love to see a vid recapping Tom Clancy ripping Clear and Present Danger.

Posted by: logprof at October 10, 2010 01:34 PM (BP6Z1)

4 the Conan one is entertaining. LotR informs you of why certain scenes were added - often so Gandalf could put in some PC crap. Man on Fire has the little girl speak in it when she is ~7 years old.

Posted by: A.G. at October 10, 2010 01:34 PM (oAVyq)

5 Yikes, ChicagoJedi. Who is Judge Henry Hudson? Hint: Michael Vick knows!

Posted by: Peaches at October 10, 2010 01:36 PM (zxpIo)

6 It beats listening to a bunch of actors telling each other how "awesome" they are and how some actor schmuck ia a "genius."

Posted by: Moi at October 10, 2010 01:37 PM (Ez4Ql)

7 I'm waiting for the commentary track on Arnold's two terms as CA governor. Maybe he'll let us in on the secret of what caused him to transform into the Dems' sniveling little cabana boy midway through his tenure.

Posted by: Cicero at October 10, 2010 01:37 PM (Jl3/t)

8 One of the best commentaries I've ever heard was for Moonraker. Together, the writer, director and producers had a MST3K session on their own movie.

Posted by: Gran at October 10, 2010 01:39 PM (kmmbv)

9 Cicero, same reason the nutmeg will be their bitch if she wins. You don't just walk into Sacramento cold and start telling those crapweasels what to do. He didn't know the game, he didn't know the players, he didn't know where the bodies were buried and he tried to piss in their sandbox. That isn't tolerated in Sacto.

Posted by: Peaches at October 10, 2010 01:40 PM (zxpIo)

10 7 Maybe he'll let us in on the secret of what caused him to transform into the Dems' sniveling little cabana boy

Two words: Mrs. Schwarzenegger.

Posted by: Gran at October 10, 2010 01:41 PM (kmmbv)

11 Fun fact: Arnold requested and was paid $40,000 to do that commentary.

Posted by: Ego at October 10, 2010 01:42 PM (d4et5)

12 New post!!

Posted by: Peaches at October 10, 2010 01:43 PM (zxpIo)

13 My McBain: Let's Get Silly is much better but standup is under appreciated. And ze commentary track on it is primo.

Posted by: rainier wolfcastle at October 10, 2010 01:44 PM (oLT/p)

14 Soon a CGI Arnold will arise to crush its enemies, see them driven before it, and hear the lamentation of their women.

Posted by: eman at October 10, 2010 01:44 PM (zjx6L)

15 Maybe he'll let us in on the secret of what caused him to transform into the Dems' sniveling little cabana boy midway through his tenure.

Easy: Google (in sequence) Maria Shriver's political party, then the concept of "husbands sleeping on the couch".

Posted by: Drumwaster at October 10, 2010 01:45 PM (dWFSK)

16 I understood every word he said.

I didn't know I spoke Austrian!

Posted by: joe biden, intellectual at October 10, 2010 01:45 PM (oLT/p)

17 Easy: Google (in sequence) Maria Shriver's political party, then the concept of "husbands sleeping on the couch".

Posted by: Drumwaster at October 10, 2010 05:45 PM (dWFSK)

I keep hearing that theory propounded. The problem is, how naive and uninformed does a person have to be to think that Arnold relies on Marie for his, uh, carnal needs?

Posted by: Peaches at October 10, 2010 01:46 PM (zxpIo)

18 Two words: Mrs. Schwarzenegger.
Maria, my heart is breaking.

I'll be at the bar.

Posted by: rainier wolfcastle at October 10, 2010 01:47 PM (oLT/p)

19 I'm beginning to think that Gary Coleman would have been a better replacement for Gray Davis than Ahnuhld...

Posted by: Drumwaster at October 10, 2010 01:48 PM (dWFSK)

20 Oh, no! Which double post will be wiped from the memory card of life and have its comments enter the Gray Zone?

Posted by: rainier wolfcastle at October 10, 2010 01:50 PM (oLT/p)

21 The problem is, how naive and uninformed does a person have to be to think that Arnold relies on Marie for his, uh, carnal needs?

It isn't the tang that I mean (and I will ignore the pathetic attempts at insult) - it's the steady drip-drip-drip of continuous reinforcement of the kind of "go along to get along" that has ruined so much of California State politics since the early 70s. If you actually had someone in your life, you would not be able to prevent having some of the differences between you being compromised away, either. (Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.) The farther apart those beliefs are, the farther from your original position you will end up. And Arnie was a pretty squish 'R' to start out with. He only stood out against Gray Davis.

But since you know that Arnie's cheating on Maria and everything, links, please...

Posted by: Drumwaster at October 10, 2010 01:55 PM (dWFSK)

22 But since you know that Arnie's cheating on Maria and everything, links, please...

Posted by: Drumwaster at October 10, 2010 05:55 PM (dWFSK)

No links, Drumwaster, but I saw it once in person. I think it was Jackson Hole. Some board-betty. Maria was at the Clinstones' second inaug that weekend. Arnold was on the loose. He even checked me out.

Posted by: Peaches wants a hot dog at October 10, 2010 02:01 PM (zxpIo)

23 Dis is de pawt vere I put my large fist in de bad guy's face. See dat? Dat vas my fist. I put it in de bad guy's face. See? It hurt him. And den he had to giff me de secret location. Because he did not vant to get hit in de face again. Okay, dis is where I go to de secret location...

Posted by: rdbrewer at October 10, 2010 02:14 PM (Tafh6)

Schwarzenegger and Boorman sound baked in the Conan commentary.

I've linked this several times, but here it's obligatory.

Posted by: Cincinnatus at October 10, 2010 02:53 PM (xdQ+B)

25 Damn, i have been mocked by spam.

Posted by: Vic at October 10, 2010 03:40 PM (/jbAw)

26 Maybe he'll let us in on the secret of what caused him to transform into the Dems' sniveling little cabana boy midway through his tenure. The voters. When he tried to push through some of the things heÂ’d promised, we told him we wanted him to talk tough, not be tough. We voted down his proposals and voted in every proposal that promised to Â“spend more by borrowingÂ”. When faced with voter incoherence, he turned out not to have the fortitude of his movie roles.

Posted by: Jerry at October 10, 2010 05:27 PM (7Ahkq)

27 Jerry - Arnold thought politics could be scripted like one of his movies. You line up all the bad guys and take them on all at once and when the dust clears and the credits roll you're the one walking off triumphant.

In the real world you pick off your adversaries in detail. You pick today's battles so that a victory makes tomorrow's easier. He was either too ambitious, too naive, or too badly advised to figure this out.

He could have won with one or maybe two of the most important initiatives. He could have gotten controls on union money, or redistricting reform, or maybe even both. Then you go back for the next round the following year, and so on. Take little bites over two or three years.

Arnold went for the big splatter scene and once the unions were done lining up against him he's the one that got bloodied.

What's even worse, though, is that after that he rolled over like a poodle and went almost full-Democrat. And worse still he pitched himself to the left as a green crusader.

Useless.

Posted by: JEM at October 10, 2010 09:17 PM (o+SC1)

28 JEM: Absolutely agree on all of thatÂ—and did at the time. Too bad he didnÂ’t have morons advising him. Stopping the vicious cycle of government spending being laundered via union dues to lobby for more government spending is the one I would have chosen. My point being, though, that it wasnÂ’t his wife who triggered the change; it was his (at least partially self-inflicted) defeat at the polls.

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