Last Action Hero for SEGA Genesis

[pbj]

Ho boy, it’s not often you play a game this bad.  Despite what some will tell you, this movie was a turd when it came out and became the very thing it was mocking.  The pinball machine is oddly pretty damn good and I’ve never been able to get my hands on one for the game room.

But wow.  Even with the invincibility code, which is a must, you are still barely beating the clock in this game.  No point in doing any move besides the jumping split kick.  The driving stages are insanely hard.  The last boss is a cake walk.

And, as usual, some decent elements.  Graphics aren’t terrible.  Music is like 20 second loops. 

So I’ll just spare you the 30 minutes and show you the amazing ending.



That’s it.

 

There’s about four enemies. They all have weapons.  You never get a weapon.  It’s not often you play a game this bad.

 

[bobbyb13]

Agree about the movie.

In spite of having a few people I have liked in other things I remember even back then at the end thinking... what the hell did I just watch?

Remarkable that the pin is good when everything else is lame.

[nitrogen_widget]

I watched that movie once.
i think it was too many times.

[opt2not]

No wonder you’re all weird with genre nomenclature, your judgment is getting all clouded by playing this crap. 

[Zebidee]

I'm going to stir the pot and disagree. I liked the movie, even if it was stupid. However, I also agree that the pinball was pretty damn good too.

Over-the-top 90's action movies... well, it was making fun of itself, even while it was pumping the Kool Ade. I thought Jamie Less Curtis was great, and I loved seeing Bill Paxton in action as a sleazy used-car salesman. If anything, his performance was my highlight. Game over, man. RIP

I was always disappointed, even back when, by the racial stereotyping going on with the bad guys and middle-eastern or just plain eastern negative vibes.

The bridge scene was great. Harrier jet thing was fun, and ridiculous.

Why did Jamie never wonder what her boring Arnie husband did to have huge muscles? I used to be a gym junkie, and I know that to have definition remotely like that you'd be spending 3-4 hours each day working out. But we never see any of that. If I was married to a guy who had one without the other, I'd worry that he was secretly The Terminator. Seriously.

[KenToad]

You're confusing True Lies with Last Action Hero. The former is good, but problematic, as you described. The latter is garbage.

[pbj]

Oh, zebidee, is there nothing you haven't done?   

I personally think the most problematic scene in True Lies was the creepy strip tease.  Stood out to me as extraordinarily strange even at that tender age.  Very telling it wasn't a problem for you, though.

[Zebidee]

Yeah confusing my movies again - last action hero was so forgettable I literally forgot it

PBJ, you simply are a worry.

[pbj]

Duly noted.

Cash in hand for that True Lies pinball machine.   

[Zebidee]

Time for a proper response.

Oh, zebidee, is there nothing you haven't done?   

Most of my bucket list has been ticked off. Guess I will die happy.

I personally think the most problematic scene in True Lies was the creepy strip tease.  Stood out to me as extraordinarily strange even at that tender age.  Very telling it wasn't a problem for you, though.

I just wanna say: There are a great many movies with which I have problems, maybe often even the same problems you see, but I do not feel that it is my responsibility to point them all out to anybody. I am not your mother, and your problems are not mine. 

[bobbyb13]

I liked True Lies myself (as neo-campy as it was.)
JLC has always been hotter than the tarmac at PHX in August
- at noon.
Must've been a struggle for her to feign awkwardness for that silly scene.

I was living in Rhode Island and got diverted from my normal route to go surfing at a spot down the road when they were setting to shoot the sequence at that "home" on Bellevue Ave for that film.

[Zebidee]

JLC is an example of something that only gets better with age. Like a good wine, or a Stradivarius violin.

I did feel uncomfortable myself with that scene, first time I saw it, the contrivance and bad behaviour going on by the "hero". You have to suspend your disbelief a bit to watch it. The good thing is that she got her revenge on him in the end, scored one for the team.