{"id":195,"date":"2002-08-14T18:20:49","date_gmt":"2002-08-14T21:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=195"},"modified":"2002-08-14T18:20:49","modified_gmt":"2002-08-14T21:20:49","slug":"true-lies-1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"True Lies (1994)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span>&#8216;ve<br \/>\nwatched several Schwarzenegger movies and there&#8217;s something that came<br \/>\nup my mind the other day: Schwarzenegger always has the best<br \/>\n&#8216;one-liners&#8217;. I&#8217;m wondering, if script-writers (directors?) especially<br \/>\nfor him change the script. I&#8217;ve never seen him saying too much. Or<br \/>\nsaying something highly <em>erudite.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But back to the movie: <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0111503\">True Lies<\/a><br \/>\nhas the world&#8217;s favourite bodybuilder playing a spie, besides trying to<br \/>\nbe a good husband for not-all-time-boys-favourite Jamie Lee Curtis. No:<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not a fan of Curtis nor&nbsp;mr. Bodybuilder&nbsp;but&nbsp; the<br \/>\nmovie has some interesting turns, effects and stunts. However,&nbsp;the<br \/>\nstoryline really <em>drags<\/em>. Three-quarter of the movie we see an<br \/>\nobsessed Austrian trying to find out if his wife has estranged him. But<br \/>\nof course she didn&#8217;t (I mean, this is Hollywood, remember?) and that&#8217;s<br \/>\nwhat Schwarzie and Curtie want us to know.&nbsp;So&nbsp;why bother<br \/>\nwatching? Because of the Sea Harrier stunts and effects at the<br \/>\nend.&nbsp;And fans of mr. Muscle-Bundle will enjoy hearing Arnold<br \/>\nsaying his traditional one-liner&nbsp;before he finishes off the <em>evil-doer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you need to see this film, take a nap for 1 hour and then wait<br \/>\nfor that Sea Harrier scene. In any other case, make sure that you&#8217;re<br \/>\nnot going to see <em>True Lies 2<\/em>. Which apparantly is scheduled for 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8216;ve watched several Schwarzenegger movies and there&#8217;s something that came up my mind the other day: Schwarzenegger always has the best &#8216;one-liners&#8217;. I&#8217;m wondering, if script-writers (directors?) especially for him change the script. I&#8217;ve never seen him saying too much. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=195\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}