Talk:Last Action Hero

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Contents 1 For the love of god... 2 Whiskers 3 tar pits 4 "Jack Slater III" 5 Alan Rickman Vs William Atherton 6 Mozart 7 Trivia

[edit] For the love of god...

Seriously... people... the repeated 'Schwarzchenegger' spelling is bad enough in that he's one of the most famous actors in the world AND the governator of California...

But whoever put this up had the picture right there too, with the name in big 3D block letters!

Please, at least TRY.

... its called a movie poster. The person posting didn't add the font.

[edit] Whiskers

The article doesn't mention that at one point they are saved by a talking cartoon cat.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.54.110.182 (talk • contribs).

...probably because it isn't a significant enough point in the movie. I'd be fine listing all the "over the top" movie clichés the movie has, but it isn't important to the plot summary. EVula 19:48, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] tar pits

I don't remember tar pits in Jurassic Park (the DNA was taken from blood preserved in amber, not tar, which preserves only bones). How likely is it that LAH spoofs a movie released only one week before? —Tamfang 03:51, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Jack Slater III"

In response to this edit, it is the climax of the film; just a few minutes after the kid goes up to the projectionist's booth, the credits are rolling. Just a note (it happened to be on HBO just the other day). EVula 17:43, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Alan Rickman Vs William Atherton

If somebody has the novelisation of the film, can we put the debate to rest as to who the novel suggested was originally going to play Bennedict. I'm going to edit the trivia back to saying 'William Atherton' as putting in Alan Rickman makes the possible Ghostbusters connection in the trivia incorrect.

[edit] Mozart

Okay, there's nothing suggesting or supporting that Mozart doesn't exist in the Jack Slater universe... so what if he hasn't heard of him until that point? I'd bet some people today haven't heard of him. Kingpin1055 14:08, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I really don't interpret his "he killed Mozart" as meaning that, in-universe, Mozart was murdered and therefore unknown, more that the actor who plays the character also played a character who killed Mozart. Slater just hasn't heard any of Mozart's work because that's not the sort of thing he would listen to under normal circumstances (and leaving your fantasy world by way of a magic ticket certainly doesn't fall under "normal circumstances"). I removed the "all movies come from a common history" bit as that was pretty wild and fantastic speculation, without a single source. EVula 15:08, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Yeah... It'd always been Danny trying to concvince Slater that John Practice was a bad guy because he was played by F. Murray Abraham. :) It was an interesting theory, but I think the guy went a bit wild with the speculation. Kingpin1055 19:32, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

I think the non-existence of Mozart in Jack Slater's Universe is based on the fact that Action Movies don't use Classical Music in the soundtrack (and I was surprised that Mozart was *not* in the Last Action Hero CD!). The logic of the movie seems to imply that there is no Classical Music at all in that Universe.Albmont 00:50, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm not that surprised about it not being included, film soundtracks are usually commercially released music... and I bet that the average person interested in Last Action Hero wouldn't buy the soundtrack for a Mozart piece. I think it is a bit if a leap to say, that because the film doesn't feature classical music... then it doesn't exist. If they'd intended such a thing I'm sure the filmmakers would've implied it anymore... a perfect opportunity being when Jack heard Mozart for the first time, asking "What kinda music is that?", etc etc. Kingpin1055 19:01, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

For the record, I find myself in 100% agreement with Kingpin1055's response. Pretty much exactly what I would have said. :) EVula 19:18, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia

Pretty much every article has a Simpsons reference, why not this one too.99DBSIMLR 13:41, 22 January 2007 (UTC)