tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post841379451165216746..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Arnold and Sly and Maria and BrigitteUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-19464278500890289122011-05-19T15:01:33.092-07:002011-05-19T15:01:33.092-07:00Over at Ace of Spades, they are saying that Arnold...Over at Ace of Spades, they are saying that Arnold was a RINO-Dem. Proof? The LAT killed the Arnold illegitimate kid story.Whiskeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01854764809682029464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-80544953357931720122011-05-19T14:56:54.437-07:002011-05-19T14:56:54.437-07:00Oh yes, yes yes yes. Roissy has brought around Ste...Oh yes, yes yes yes. Roissy has brought around Steve to the darkside!Whiskeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01854764809682029464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-26597445525472930622011-05-19T13:56:35.627-07:002011-05-19T13:56:35.627-07:00As for left-wing, well, there is something a bit r...As for left-wing, well, there <i>is</i> something a bit radical about scene where an unstoppable badass takes out an entire police precinct. I think that's a fantasy that transcends the left-right spectrum, to an extent. But on balance it does seem more lefty than righty.<br /><br />And there's quite the Luddite tone to the fear that the machines we create are going to exterminate us. The Unabomber probably would have liked <i>Terminator</i>, if he could relax long enough. But again, the Unabomber kinda transcended the left-right spectrum, even if, again, he was probably more left than right.Svigorhttp://majorityrights.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-63690899673235467232011-05-19T13:44:24.106-07:002011-05-19T13:44:24.106-07:00I read somewhere that the predator suit in Predato...I read somewhere that the predator suit in <i>Predator</i> was initially to be worn by Jean-Claude van Damme, and the predator was going to be agile and acrobatic, not huge and imposing. But van Damme didn't work out. Apparently he complained too much about the suit, too hot, too confining, and he injured another stunt man "on purpose." Also, runty van Damme was looking ridiculous next to guys like Ventura. Talk about your happy accidents.<br /><br />Should I bring up Sonny Landham's absolutely nutty politics? Ventura and Schwarzenegger weren't the only actors on that location with political aspirations.<br /><br />Oh, and the "nerd" of the group, the guy with glasses, is Shane Black. He got the part as a reward for a script he wrote, maybe <i>Lethal Weapon</i>? He apparently wanted to be an actor, not a writer.Svigornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-6245426122593203142011-05-19T12:55:23.128-07:002011-05-19T12:55:23.128-07:00I've always been impressed by how Stallone wro...I've always been impressed by how Stallone wrote Rocky, and then refused to sell it for a hundred grand or whatever it was while his career was going nowhere, and would only agree to the movie being made if he was the star. That's pretty cool, too, rather similar in a way to how Cameron did art on <i>Terminator</i>.Svigorhttp://majorityrights.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-26420108948040533312011-05-19T12:52:44.925-07:002011-05-19T12:52:44.925-07:00But the original Terminator movie is better than a...<i>But the original Terminator movie is better than all of the Rocky and Rambo movies combined, as good as some of them are. The storytelling is on par with the Bible, the visuals overwhelm the senses, and the soundtrack echos the picture perfectly, from dread to hope to triumph.</i><br /><br />There just aren't many sci-fi movies as good as <i>Terminator</i>. I'd be much happier with the series if it had lived up to the first film.<br /><br />Cameron was had a dream and designed the endoskeleton himself based upon it. That's just cool.<br /><br />Like Lucas, he got a bit deranged/fat after making it huge in H-wood, going back and "improving" his films by making them inferior.Svigorhttp://majorityrights.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-88817537962553734982011-05-19T12:46:14.995-07:002011-05-19T12:46:14.995-07:00I actually have fond memories of seeing Cobra and ...<i>I actually have fond memories of seeing Cobra and Arnold's Raw Deal, which came out around the same time. The dialog was so awful my friends & I got more than our money's worth making fun of them for weeks afterwards.</i><br /><br /><i>Raw Deal</i> was an awful Chicago movie. At least, I think it was a Chicago movie. It has a lot of the same old recycled Chicago actors, IIRC, the telltale sign.<br /><br /><i>Cobra</i>, on the other hand, was wonderfully cheesy, with all those great villains, and Stallone playing the oleaginous Italian thing right to the hilt. The bit where he rips the greaser's shirt and says "clean up your act" is hilarious.Svigorhttp://majorityrights.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-22283140704807931762011-05-19T01:20:45.333-07:002011-05-19T01:20:45.333-07:00Crazy gentiles.Crazy gentiles.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-59964332599238980152011-05-19T01:14:27.379-07:002011-05-19T01:14:27.379-07:00future governor jesse ventura
Eh?<i>future governor jesse ventura </i><br /><br />Eh?Janehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17887069039136113224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-31478487887821201642011-05-19T00:08:54.791-07:002011-05-19T00:08:54.791-07:00eh. predator was better than first blood, which is...eh. predator was better than first blood, which is the only good rambo movie, and was based on a book. well, it was the only good rambo movie until the 2008 rambo which was also good. james cameron had a hand in both predator and first blood part 2: rambo, extending the mark he left on action movie culture even further.<br /><br />predator is seriously a touchstone of 80s action movies, it's referenced way more now by guys than rambo is. i remember a few years ago howard stern raving about predator and how he watched it once a month. there might be no more manly scene EVER than...well, pick a scene from predator, it's just an over the top ridiculous volcano of testosterone and one liners. dutch arm wrestles apollo creed, future governor jesse ventura accuses his team of being a bunch of slackjawed faggots, then explains that he ain't got time to bleed, the list goes on. highly, highly quotable stuff. who could forget the coup de grace. "Get to the choppa!"<br /><br />rambo turned into kind of a generic action franchise like lethal weapon, with rambo himself becoming kind of a punchline and guys going around telling other guys to "Settle down, Rambo." got lampooned in weird al's 1989 movie UHF, and by stallone himself in tango & cash.jodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-8939227664717270832011-05-18T22:02:37.968-07:002011-05-18T22:02:37.968-07:00http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WowEpH_bck
At Sly...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WowEpH_bck<br /><br />At Sly's crib.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-71024402011016845592011-05-18T21:59:02.455-07:002011-05-18T21:59:02.455-07:00I think it's unfair to characterize Arnold as ...I think it's unfair to characterize Arnold as a 'musclehead' or 'muscledude' or 'musclewhatever'. He's actually a very charming, savvy, and smart guy. He was a riot in PUMPING IRON, quick with his wits as big with his muscle. It's too bad that Hollywood mainly used him as a muscle man or colorless robot. He has a very engaging natural personality and could have been a more versatile star. He might have done okay as a politician too if he'd been elected governor of Cal in the 60s, 70s, 80s, or early 90s. But he became governor when Cal was no longer governable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-17015944994350999302011-05-18T21:55:39.540-07:002011-05-18T21:55:39.540-07:00Geez, at least Tiger Woods got some good-looking b...Geez, at least Tiger Woods got some good-looking babes. Maybe Arnold needs some hormone injections. Maybe Tiger can supply him with some.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-86222480574369507352011-05-18T21:28:24.265-07:002011-05-18T21:28:24.265-07:00Steve, you are so naive.
Maria Shriver WAS the ac...Steve, you are so naive.<br /><br />Maria Shriver WAS the actual governor of CA on her pet issues. That was their deal. She had him by the balls.<br /><br />And of course it all becomes public now that he's out of office. He probably gave up on the dream of potus or president of the north american union due to the birth related acrimony surrounding obama this spring ... and told Maria there would be no future runs for higher office ... and so then she goes straight to the divorce lawyer because there is no longer a reason to remain his wife. <br /><br />That's hardball politics i.e. reality.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-24022754199257402802011-05-18T20:45:03.498-07:002011-05-18T20:45:03.498-07:00Steve,
In case you haven't seen the purported ...Steve,<br />In case you haven't seen the purported pictures of the nanny/love-child baby mama:<br /><br />http://egotastic.com/2011/05/arnold-schwarzenegger-love-baby-mama-revealed/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-28094325916461332112011-05-18T20:40:53.258-07:002011-05-18T20:40:53.258-07:00I was actually quite surprised when i saw pictures...I was actually quite surprised when i saw pictures of the woman he had a child with. I didn't think she was the least bit attractive.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-6711227590144548742011-05-18T20:24:37.917-07:002011-05-18T20:24:37.917-07:00***I believe he did that with Lou Ferigno, Franco ...***I believe he did that with Lou Ferigno, Franco Columbo and some trusting kid he encouraged to scream during the kid's bodybuilding poses on stage, ***<br /><br />Remember a lot of the stuff in Pumping Iron was exaggerated to heighten the drama. For instance, Ken Waller didn't really hide Mike Katz' shirt. <br /><br />I had read that story about Arnie setting up Stallone with Neilson somewhere else. Their rivalry is quite interesting, I'd recommend 'Fantastic' by Lawrence Leamer & also Wendy Leigh's unauthorised biography 'Arnold' (which according to Leamer, Stallone helped with). I understand they're on better terms these days.Kiwiguynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-48033102962817753862011-05-18T20:20:34.543-07:002011-05-18T20:20:34.543-07:00The Terminator films were not left-wing, unless yo...The Terminator films were not left-wing, unless you think that Skynet is an allegory for GOP. It's about a computer that starts a nuclear war because it wants humans out of the way. Even the angry feminism of Linda Hamilton's character in the second film isn't celebrated, she's clearly portrayed as half-crazy (maybe more) in the context of the story. The first Terminator film is one the best constructed science fiction stories ever put to film.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-55002947314593869462011-05-18T19:46:00.841-07:002011-05-18T19:46:00.841-07:00"Terminator 2, which was overly PC."
I ...<i>"Terminator 2, which was overly PC."</i><br /><br />I struggling to remember what about T2 was overly PC aside from having a black lead scientist.Formerly.JP98https://www.blogger.com/profile/13106631196827299736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-60963579730193737412011-05-18T19:41:45.854-07:002011-05-18T19:41:45.854-07:00Thanks.Thanks.Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-9458970386137730882011-05-18T19:37:06.284-07:002011-05-18T19:37:06.284-07:00SteveHis script for "Rocky" was likely t...Steve<i>His script for "Rocky" was likely the most influential screenplay of the 1970s.</i><br /><br />Steve, why do you say that? The story of the unknown underdog putting up a challenge to the champion goes back before we were using fire. It's not too hard to see some movie in the mid-1970s being made along the same lines or damn close to it. <br /><br />And anyway, Stallone's original script was <i>vastly</i> different from what was filmed. As in, darker. Sly's original vision of Balboa was a lot more of an anti-hero: he was going to take a dive in the bout with Creed. In that sense Stallone was merely doing what most American filmmakers of the Nixon-Ford years were doing--cynical, antiheroic, and revisonist potshots at the American Dream.<br /><br />What turned the screenplay on its head was the real-life fight between Ali and Chuck "The Bayonne Bleeder" Wepner. And <i>who</i> forced Stallone to do it? The ones everybody likes to say stifle genius and creativity: THE SUITS.<br /><br />The Ali-Wepner bout inspired them to force the changes to fit the old David-Goliath trope, which suddenly seemed more marketable. Rocky became a man nobody was going to pay to throw a fight because nobody believed he stood a chance against the champ to begin with. With that change, you could still have Apollo Creed be a noble (although overconfident) character, and all the while make a film that was as believable as it was inspiring. <br /><br />And that <i>did</i> change everything. With Rocky as filmed, you then had Star Wars, you had Superman, you had the whole return-to-optimism that characterized the top-grossing films of the late 70s and beyond, and heralded the advent of the Reagan years.<br /><br />But it was the Hollywood suits, not Stallone, that saw the potential in going back to the old storytelling conventions and giving audiences something to cheer wildly about.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-36489644233845702322011-05-18T19:22:53.174-07:002011-05-18T19:22:53.174-07:00"Arnold went on to make a bunch of forgettabl..."Arnold went on to make a bunch of forgettable movies, including the hideously left-wing Terminator movies"<br /><br />Only if you mean the ones after 1985, i.e. Terminator 2, which was overly PC.<br /><br />But the original Terminator movie is better than all of the Rocky and Rambo movies combined, as good as some of them are. The storytelling is on par with the Bible, the visuals overwhelm the senses, and the soundtrack echos the picture perfectly, from dread to hope to triumph.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-29027788348015233622011-05-18T18:48:47.617-07:002011-05-18T18:48:47.617-07:00"but he was also Rocky and Rambo, two iconic ..."but he was also Rocky and Rambo, two iconic American characters."<br /><br />I'd agree Stallone is the greater artist. His script for "Rocky" was likely the most influential screenplay of the 1970s.Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-12176319384684139992011-05-18T18:44:49.894-07:002011-05-18T18:44:49.894-07:00The 'account' from Maria's view remind...The 'account' from Maria's view reminds me of the rule of thumb that tells you when you need to replace a belt with suspenders. "If the belt buckle points downward, the pants will fall downward. Time for suspenders."<br /><br />Similar rule used by females: "If the man is up and his career path points upward, stay on him. When his path starts to point downward, fall off."Polistrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09594313902571823549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-82768105926848206712011-05-18T18:17:16.670-07:002011-05-18T18:17:16.670-07:00Rocky Balboa knocked out Ivan Drago (Soviet boxer)...Rocky Balboa knocked out Ivan Drago (Soviet boxer) and Mr. T (black guy). Does that make him racist and xenophobic?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com