Arnold Turns 79. We Settled the Terminator vs T2 Argument for Good
He arrived as a bodybuilder nobody would insure to carry a movie, with a surname casting directors could not pronounce and a voice they wanted to dub. Arnold Schwarzenegger turns 79 this Thursday, July 30, and the joke is that every single thing they told him to hide became the reason we remember him. He understood something most action stars never do: that he was funniest when he was most sincere, and most frightening when he stopped smiling. Here are the ten that made him, ranked.
Everything after this gets thinner, though Last Action Hero is a misunderstood swing worth revisiting now that its meta streak looks ahead of its time. But the argument at any bar is only ever the original versus the sequel, and the sequel wins. Put one on tonight. He earned the rewatch about forty years ago.
