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Post by janntosh on Apr 15, 2021 3:42:21 GMT
I thought it was going to be a full out comedy focusing on Arnold’s interactions with the kids with a token comedic action scene near the beginning. Instead it was mostly an action drama with some comedic bits. I was not expecting people getting shot on screen, dead bodies, swearing, a guy setting a fire at a school then pointing a gun at a kid and then Arnold shooting him dead with right there in the school and Arnold himself getting shot and bleeding. Overall this movie is awesome . Also prime example of a film that would never get made today.
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Post by moviemouth on Apr 15, 2021 3:57:41 GMT
I first watched it when I was a kid and have seen it many times since. It is a fun movie.
What makes the movie as good as it is is that it is a combination of genres and is a crime movie posing as a family film. I think it mixes drama, comedy and action quite well and what makes it even better is that it has heart.
It also cleverly turns the Arnold Schwarzenegger persona on it's head.
7/10
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Post by kolchak92 on Apr 15, 2021 4:20:04 GMT
A lot of people have that reaction to it I think.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Apr 15, 2021 8:36:51 GMT
Richard Tyson, as the sleazy, yet cunning and ruthless villain Cullen Crisp, might not be among the more typical of the over the top and powerful Arnie baddies of the 80s and 90s, but then again, Kindergarten surely were not your "typical" Schwarznegger movie either.
Sure, it starts up in a similar hard hitting manner, with Arnie doing his bad ass usual stuff, and where some scenes even felt like they could easily belong in one of the Terminator movies, and then suddenly it changed into a very different film, and where Arnold gets to show off a different side of himself, more fragile, even though Twins a few years earlier had already shown he could handle the mix of comedy and drama, as packing a punch as well.
Tyson for me, delivers one of my favorite Arnie villain parts/speeches early on:
Also a huge fan of the great movie score by Randy Edelman, brings forward so much emotions and nostalgia:
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Post by Power Ranger on Apr 15, 2021 9:11:02 GMT
Schwarzie was actively trying to transition from violent action films to films with broader demographic appeal. Kindergarten Cop is the strange hybrid.
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Post by Marv on Apr 15, 2021 9:59:06 GMT
Arnold always seemed to be one of the more varied action stars. Able to fit well enough in multiple genres.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Apr 15, 2021 11:40:04 GMT
Arnold always seemed to be one of the more varied action stars. Able to fit well enough in multiple genres. I often see people ridicule and bad mouth his acting, specially compared to Sly or Bruce Willis. But whenever I have came over a Sly or Bruce Willis "comedy", I wonder how the hell they could end up in stuff like The Kid, those god awful films with Matthew Perry, Oscar, Avening Angelo or Stop! Or My Mum Will Shoot. But then I guess Stallone saw what Arnie had done with his comedy efforts, and thought he might succeeed as well. Bruce, I believe wanted to take a long break from making action films, and stepped in with more success on the serious roles, but his comedy ones, was surely very uneven, at "best". Still, Stallone and his boxing comedy, much later on with Robert De Niro, were not all bad, and I guess the main reason to why I still have two copies of Avening Angelo, in my collection, is because of the stunning Madeleine Stowe. But the comedy parts, with jokes about "farting squirrels" being trapped inside the walls, Sly dressed up in big diapers, and yeah, terrible, terrible attempts on comedy. But I believe Stallone even admitted, he goot fooled into making some of those films, and did not even bother reading the script. Not sure if that is all true, or his way of trying to make up for starring in those roles an films, but amusing little story of his rivalry with Arnie:
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Post by politicidal on Apr 15, 2021 12:21:36 GMT
7/10. A family picture!
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Post by Mulder and Scully on Apr 15, 2021 14:24:17 GMT
It's a 90s Arnold classic. It does a good job of combining the action, drama and comedy elements and gives Arnold something interesting to do. There are some really funny lines in this movie.
Tyson gives a great performance as the unhinged villain Cullen Crisp.
The score is decent as well.
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Post by lowtacks86 on Apr 15, 2021 14:31:49 GMT
Twins was not what I expected (a decent Schwarzenneger comedy)
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Post by Mulder and Scully on Apr 15, 2021 14:50:25 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2021 15:02:28 GMT
“Ets Naught a Tooommaaaa!”
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Post by janntosh on Apr 15, 2021 15:10:42 GMT
You found me. You there as well? |
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Post by Archelaus on Apr 15, 2021 16:06:58 GMT
I personally found the movie to be narratively inconsistent. It starts out as a usual Arnold flick with the violence that's way too strong for the family audience, and then becomes a classroom comedy before returning back to the action movie tropes. Still, the classroom scenes are the highlight of the film with some hilarious one-liners. I give it a 6/10.
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Post by Mulder and Scully on Apr 15, 2021 17:52:17 GMT
You found me. You there as well? I used to be. They permanently banned me because I disagreed them and called them idiots. A bunch of idiot snowflakes over there lol. |
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Apr 15, 2021 23:32:03 GMT
I'll still pass on it, I think
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 16, 2021 20:07:29 GMT
Haven't seen it.
Only the brief bits and the sound clips used for phone pranks.
"I am a cop you idiot!"
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