Wednesday, March 30, 2011

High (I think): Arnold to potentially return to screen in "The Governator"



Put this one down in the strange but possibly true category. It seems that Arnold Schwarzenegger is seriously considering making a movie called "The Governator," mainly because he "thought the word was so cool," as he was recently quoted as saying. Arnold has had a pretty good little run, and at this point people want to see him in movies whether they are just a little bit bad or run for the hills, Ed Wood Jr. bad. They would see him in good movies too, but let's get real. I can't imagine how they could write a movie called "The Governator," but if they do, Arnold will stand there and say the lines. That much we know. Here's a man who was roided up with super models for almost all of the 70s; was in just about every bad action movie Sly Stallone and Jean-Claude Van Damme weren't in during the 80s and 90s; then becomes the governor of California in the 2000s in a turn of events that was too silly to make the cut in one of his own movies. With his political career now in the rear view, there's clearly no one to stop him from making a movie called "The Governor," so you might as well sit back and enjoy the carnage. To me, Arnold has always been sort of an expensive clown in the general domain. Just put the camera on him, then let him figure out whether it's a movie or a political debate. But somewhere back in the day, they started paying him so much money that I simply assumed he really thought he was Conan the Barbarian. The more likely scenario, though, is that Arnold was laughing his ass off the whole time. Now I'm imagining him with an Austrian buddy, a pile of weight-lifting crank (legal at the time, actually), and a never ending amount of jokes about how much they're paying him to say crazy shit that doesn't make sense. Hey, I would say lines like "If it bleeds....we can kill it" too if I can make a living doing it. It's almost as if Arnold has had his own personal inside joke for the last four decades, and the joke just keeps getting bigger and bigger.

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