Three Best Of - Arnold Schwartzenegger

Arnold Schwartzenegger. The action movie icon of the 1980's and 1990's. Let's face it...odds are, you are never going to hear someone say, "And the Academy Award for Best Actor goes to Arnold Schwartzenegger". But, boy...could he make a kick-butt action film.
So, without further adieu...in my humble opinion...the three best movies of Arnold:
1) "The Terminator" (1984). Without a shadow of a doubt, this is the movie that made Arnold a superstar. He was already famous before this movie...but after his first stint as the Terminator, EVERYBODY knew who he was. In the two sequels, Arnold's Terminator became the good guy...but here, Arnold not only played the bad guy...he played it to perfection. The Terminator's straight-ahead, take no prisoners, kill 'em all approach was chilling...and if ever a person was the model of what a cybernetic assassin is supposed to look like, here was the guy.
2) "Twins" (1988). By this point in Arnold's career, he had pretty much made playing a one-man killing machine into an art form. Often times, when an actor goes against what he plays best...it has a tendency to backfire horribly (can anybody say "Rhinestone"?). However, Arnold not only played a comedic role...he played it brilliantly. Seeing the usually stoic and uber-violent Arnold playing a pacifist intellectual was amusing in and of itself...but when you factored in that he was the fraternal twin brother of Danny DeVito...it just kept getting better.
3) "True Lies" (1994). Arnold returned to his roots for this one, playing a secret government agent who leads a double life. In his "other" guise, he is a mild-mannered and quite boring computer tech. Arnold plays the two roles quite well...giving a James Bond turn in one scene, and returning to domestic bliss with Jamie Lee Curtis in the next. The scene where Arnold and Jamie Lee have been captured, and Arnold is drugged with truth serum is quite possibly the best part of the whole movie.
Honorable Mention - "Predator" (1987) and "Eraser" (1996).
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