Last Action Hero (1993)

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Wikidata Q858840, film, IMDb tt0107362, TMDB 9593: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Shane Black as writer (Iron Man 3).

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Who talked about it

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The Big Picture

Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says it drew on another film or person.

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Arnold Schwarzenegger: 2 lines verdict ×1 career ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): Last Action Hero → Arnold Schwarzenegger. Sean wants to rescue Last Action Hero as a clever, misunderstood movie.
    “Last Action Hero, the Schwarzenegger movie, which I always thought was like a really clever movie”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:08:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

Battleship: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Battleship → Last Action Hero. Sean's 'bad movie' show would rescue reputations rather than revel in the badness of Battleship.
    “not me reveling in the badness, the shittiness of battleship”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:08:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Last Action Hero. Jen worshipping Shu Lien and living her dreamed-of story is very Last Action Hero.
    “It's very last action hero.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:07:21 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)

Shane Black: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Shane Black → Last Action Hero. Black's Last Action Hero is called the downfall that followed his boy-genius era.
    “He wrote Last Boys Guy, who wrote Last Action Hero, which is sort of his downfall.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:11:31 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Last Action Hero → Arnold Schwarzenegger. Last Action Hero is the favorite McTiernan film of one host, a parody where Schwarzenegger riffs on himself.
    “riffing on themselves, basically”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 1:39:06 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Shane Black → Last Action Hero. Black's Last Action Hero is called the downfall that followed his boy-genius era.
    “He wrote Last Boys Guy, who wrote Last Action Hero, which is sort of his downfall.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:11:31 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Battleship → Last Action Hero. Sean's 'bad movie' show would rescue reputations rather than revel in the badness of Battleship.
    “not me reveling in the badness, the shittiness of battleship”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:08:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Last Action Hero. Jen worshipping Shu Lien and living her dreamed-of story is very Last Action Hero.
    “It's very last action hero.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:07:21 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (verdict): Last Action Hero → Arnold Schwarzenegger. Sean wants to rescue Last Action Hero as a clever, misunderstood movie.
    “Last Action Hero, the Schwarzenegger movie, which I always thought was like a really clever movie”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:08:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Last Action Hero: Sean's 'bad movies' show would rescue reputations: Last Action Hero was on Andrew Gruttadaro's Ringer list.
    “my version of a bad movies podcast is not me reveling in the badness”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:08:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.