Arnold stays in acting.

I am just throwing out this idea randomly, what if swartenegger stays with his acting career and...

A) Becomes very successful
B) Is a wash-up
C) Does a related job which is not acting (i.e. hosting, producing)
D) Has some legal troubles.
 

MacCaulay

Banned
I can only believe that he'd still be bankable. I mean, The 6th Day wasn't very good, and neither was Collateral Damage or End of Days or Terminator 3. But they were still good box office draws because they had Ahnold in them throwing things around and making his famous gurgling throat noise.

So I can only say...Arnold goes on and does an amazing motion capture role in Terminator:Salvation, taking the role of hundreds if not thousands of T-800s.

By the way: I mean amazing in a George-Lucas-Episode-I-sure-LOOKED-good sort of way, not amazing in a George-Lucas-Episode-VI-sure-WAS-good-sort-of-way.
 
I am just throwing out this idea randomly, what if swartenegger stays with his acting career and...

A) Becomes very successful
B) Is a wash-up
C) Does a related job which is not acting (i.e. hosting, producing)
D) Has some legal troubles.

A. He already was
b. He would have to become more a has been than a wash up at that point. This is possible.
C. Quite possible. He was certainly popular enough to do it.
D. It depends on what you mean by "legal troubles".
 

Hendryk

Banned
I could see him follow the same career path as Clint Eastwood in OTL, playing aging tough guys who have to face the fact that they aren't as good as they used to be, but who make the most of what skills they still have. The fact that he played in spoof movies like "Kindergarten Cop" and "Last Action Hero" shows that he could do irony and self-deprecation.
 

MrP

Banned
I can only believe that he'd still be bankable. I mean, The 6th Day wasn't very good, and neither was Collateral Damage or End of Days or Terminator 3. But they were still good box office draws because they had Ahnold in them throwing things around and making his famous gurgling throat noise.

So I can only say...Arnold goes on and does an amazing motion capture role in Terminator:Salvation, taking the role of hundreds if not thousands of T-800s.

By the way: I mean amazing in a George-Lucas-Episode-I-sure-LOOKED-good sort of way, not amazing in a George-Lucas-Episode-VI-sure-WAS-good-sort-of-way.

One of the problems with later Arnie films - 6th Day was an offender - was that he appears already to have decided to go into politics, and had therefore decided to cut down on the obscene level of violence. I've always felt his funniest films had the most OTT stuff, and when he cut down they got worse. That said, Last Action Hero was cruelly under-rated at the time of its release.
 

MacCaulay

Banned
I completely agree about Last Action Hero. That movie pretty much summed up his entire career.

And I can totally see now what you're talking about with the violence level. The comedies he did that worked were ones that could be easily put next to some pretty violent film the next year.

Stallone was alot like that. That was probably why Tango and Cash worked. Yes, that's right. I'll go down fighting for Sylvester Stallone's ability to act: First Blood, Rocky I, Rocky Balboa, Tango and Cash, and Copland all seem to prove out the point.
 
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