Very much from the era that “a box office flop means it’s a bad film”. It’s way ahead of its time with meta stuff and action comedy mix. Which wasn’t the fashion against the straight action movies of the time.
I think you’ll enjoy it. There’s a particularly funny bit where Arnie (playing himself) starts hawking Planet Hollywood to an interviewer on the red carpet and gets chastised by his other half.
Demolition Man
A guilty pleasure, I saw it in the theater for crying out loud.
Morgan (2016) A tidy little 90 minute Science Fiction thriller with a stellar cast (Kate Mara, Anya Taylor-Joy, Toby Jones, Michelle Yeoh, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Giamatti.) Well worth it if just for Giamatti’s single scene.
The twist ending was a bit predictable, but that didn’t take anything from the film.
Demolition Man and Last Action Hero came out the same year and they’re kind of thematically the same, basically commentaries about 80s action movie heroes but in “the modern day” though Demolition Man has the setting in a Sci-Fi utopia and Last Action Hero in “the real world”
I think Demolition Man executes the premise far better.
I watched this a couple of nights ago. Decent show, and would recommend.
I’ve posted it a couple times over the last couple years: If you want to see Arnold act, watch Maggie with Abigail Breslin and Joely Richardson. Abby is a farm girl slowly turning into a zombie and Arnold is her father who doesn’t want to let her go. Arnie hired an acting coach and it shows: there’s only a faint trace of an accent and the rest of his performance is simply outstanding.
I’ve never even heard of that film.
Not a great movie, but nice to see Arnold in something like this. No action or muscles required.
I saw A Real Pain on Hulu today. It’s written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg, who also stars along with Kiernan Culkin. It’s very good but not completely what I expected.
I just watched on DVD Little Ceaser (1930), starring Edward G. Robinson.
The Right Stuff 1983
I can’t believe it came out 40 years ago.
I read the book by Tom Wolfe, and saw the movie when it was in theaters.
It holds up pretty well. The slow pacing will probably be an obstacle for younger viewers.
It tells the story of the early Jet pilots and Mercury Seven, astronauts in the space program very well. I think the Space Program connected more strongly with my generation because we lived through it.
Although I was barely born when Glenn orbited the earth. The Apolo missions were my personal history. I remember in elementary school that the teachers set up a tv in the library. We saw a couple launches live.
I recommend watching with your family. It’s valuable history.
I was in early grade school when Mercury started flying. My folks weren’t really space buffs but they got me and my younger sister up to watch the early launches because they said we’d want to remember this as history.
The excitement of the early space program is hard to explain to people today. Every Apollo mission tested new techniques and technology. NASA learned step by step until they were ready for the moon mission.
NASA had a massive marketing campaign for funding and support of space exploration.
The Mercury seven were given a publishing deal with Life Magazine and a free Corvette from Ford. They were bigger than life heroes. Every kid dreamed of being an astronaut or at least a jet pilot.
NASA took a huge gamble by making the astronauts larger than life heroes. Any accidents like the Apollo 1 tragedy that killed three astronauts was massive news. The Soviets were more secretive and covered up accidents.
The book goes into much greater detail than the movie.
It’s totally different today. I don’t know the name of any active duty astronauts. I’d have to use Google to remind me who’s on the space station.
The Influence section discusses the astronaut perks.
Chevrolet made the Corvette.
That would be even more extraordinary if Ford gave out corvettes. 
It was Chevrolet.
Glenn refused to accept one. But the other Mercury seven did and speeded around Cape Canaveral.
The book and Wiki explains they were only drawing military flight pay. The perks were a bonus provided by Life Magazine, Chevrolet and other sponsors.
It was a $1 lease orchestrated by a Florida Chevy dealer. Schirra and Carpenter wouldn’t drive a Chevy if you paid them.
And Nixon had a speech already prepared in the event the moon landing went all wrong. Several speeches, actually.*
*Not actually. Or at least not most of these.
Watched it (Carry-On) last night, and agreed. A fun ride.
However…my pick-apart (not spoiled because it doesn’t affect the plot, just the premise): if your leverage is “we’ve got a sniper aimed at your girlfriend”, how does that work when the sniper is in a van in the parking lot and your girlfriend works inside a building? “Hold on, could you move your girlfriend in front of a window, while we move the van”? Which actually happened.
The Outsiders Complete Novel Francis Ford Coppola 1983
I can’t think of another great film that launched so many careers. Maybe The GodFather films? Coppola always found promising young talent for his movies.
Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Patrick Swayze, Ralph Macchio, C. Thomas Howell, Diane Lane what a cast and future they’ve had.
I’ve seen the Outsiders many times. Coppola restored 22 minutes in the complete version. It clears up some questions that always bugged me.