It was 1993 when Arnold Schwarzenegger came out with one of his most unique tough guy movies, \u201cLast Action Hero.\u201d<\/p>\n
A mix of action and comedy that follows a boy with a magic ticket, who suddenly is transported through the big screen and into the latest movie of his favorite actor, Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger), it\u2019s filled with huge fight scenes, gun fights, explosions, and fun jabs at Schwarzenegger and the action movie genre.<\/p>\n
But nobody went to see the movie.<\/p>\n
With a 37% Rotten Tomatoes rating and a $137 million worldwide gross (which doesn\u2019t even crack the top ten for that year), the movie was considered a colossal disappointment.<\/p>\n
However, looking back on it now, Schwarzenegger believes there were a lot of forces against him around the time the movie came out.<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t forget that the year that movie came out it was the year to beat on Arnold,\u201d Schwarzenegger told Business Insider.<\/p>\n
Before the movie opened the Hollywood trades had constant coverage of its shaky production, which finished just months before it opened in theaters, along with reports on the movie getting negative test scores.<\/p>\n
But Schwarzenegger feels even the newly-elected president, Bill Clinton, had something to do with the movie\u2019s poor performance.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was one of those things where President Clinton was elected and the press somehow made the whole thing kind of political where they thought, \u2018Okay, the \u201880s action guys are gone here\u2019s a perfect example,\u2019 and they wrote this narrative before anyone saw the movie,\u201d Schwarzenegger said, while promoting his new movie \u201cKilling Gunther\u201d (currently available on streaming and in theaters Friday).<\/p>\n
Schwarzenegger, who is a Republican and former governor of California, felt that the combination of bad press surrounding the movie and the entrance of a Democrat into the White House led to a situation where he couldn\u2019t win.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe action hero era is over, Bill Clinton is in, the highbrow movies are the ‘in’ thing now, I couldn\u2019t recuperate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He did though \u2014 a year later. Teaming with his \u201cTerminator\u201d movies director James Cameron, they made the spy action movie \u201cTrue Lies,\u201d which earned over $378 million worldwide and was the third-highest-grossing domestic release of the year.<\/p>\n
And as the years have passed, \u201cLast Action Hero\u201d has been rediscovered by new audiences.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think more people would have seen it if the press treated it differently, but now the good thing is that with streaming people can go and watch it,\u201d Schwarzenegger said.<\/p>\n
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Source: Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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