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	Last Action Hero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Because the reputation of an artist is frequently tied to the genre in which he or she works, it allows for a reading of a star image to feed into the reception of a particular genre through the criticism and commentary that surrounds the medium.
		Last Action Hero illustrates the confusions and the cultural politics which are at stake for Schwarzenegger's heroic action image.
		This film within a film allows the hero to dodge bullets, bombs, bad guys and light cigars with sticks of dynamite in a whirlwind world where anything is possible… a world which itself is a pastiche of previous "action" star vehicles in Schwarzenegger's filmography.
	www.nottingham.ac.uk /film/journal/filmrev/last-action-hero.htm (1248 words)

	Last Action Hero
		All the thought, wit and skill that went into the exhilarating trailer are missing from the finished product--a parody of action pictures that is neither funny nor exciting.
		Last Action Hero is so sloppily put together you'd swear it didn't even have a director.
		Last Action Hero is a poorly executed in-joke where everyone in the audience–Schwarzenegger fans included–feels left out.
	members.dca.net /~dnb/reviews/lastactionhero.htm (681 words)

	Pinball Archive Rule Sheet: Last Action Hero
		Last Action Hero is probably a registered trademark of Data East Pinball and some really big film company I can't think of at the moment.
		Last Action Hero has a ball saver that is active during the first few seconds of a ball being plunged.
		Like the Last Action Hero award, it is based on how many rounds you complete, and how well you did during the LAH round.
	www.pinball.org /rules/lastactionhero.html (4536 words)

	Last Action Hero, a Review by Bill Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Because Last Action Hero did not make clear what it's story was asking its audience to feel, or make clear what was at stake in a way the audience could feel a sense of the drama over its outcome, viewers did not fully become engaged by the movie.
		Because they feel strongly the emotions they wish the action of the story and its characters to evoke, they can imagine the action of their stories generates the same intense feelings to their readers.
		Last Action Hero's dramatic movement toward its fulfillment was overshadowed by clever ideas and action scenes that didn't tie tightly enough into the underlying emotional states of the main characters; or establish a clear purpose toward a goal that the viewers could identify with as revolving around the story's premise.
	www.storyispromise.com /wlasta.htm (2246 words)

	The Last Action Hero
		They started out with the story of a legendary action hero named Jack Slater and a kid who uses a magic ticket to enter Slater's comic-book movie world.
		That theme, of course, had already become an old standby, going all the way back to Buster Keaton's 'Sherlock, Jr.' 'Last Action Hero' focused itself much more narrowly on the conventions of the '80s action genre -- although you probably noticed that it keeps changing those rules, inventing them on the fly.
		'Last Action Hero' was mostly about the franchise of Arnold Schwarzenegger's name itself.
	blogs.salon.com /0000014/stories/2003/10/08/theLastActionHero.html (833 words)

	Last Action Hero News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Last night's gubanatorial debate in California featured everything a prospective voter might need to know who to vote for this coming November.
		Joan Plowright got through 'Last Action Hero' and 'Dennis the Menace' without smudging her reputation, and in a near fatally genteel mode, 'Mrs.
		California governor and former Hollywood action star Arnold Schwarzenegger was recovering Monday after being slightly injured in a motorcycle accident near his Los Angeles home, according to his office and...
	www.topix.net /movies/last-action-hero (655 words)

	The Last Action Hero
		The time for heroics was over… until one day, he boarded a passenger plane in Thailand with a knife and a sportsman's parachute in his carry-on bag and ordered the flight crew north to Saigon.
		His only boyhood memory of his father was seeing him in a prison camp; after his mother was released from her own four-year term, she and 7-year-old Kevin journeyed deep into the jungle, two days by train and one day by water-buffalo cart, for a 30-minute visit with Quang.
		After that, he and his mother and sisters lived clandestinely in Saigon, working odd jobs and avoiding police who would ship them back to their rural village, where they knew there was little food and no chance of education.
	citypaper.net /articles/031199/coverstory.shtml (4818 words)

	Gamecrap: Last Action Hero
		Last Action Hero takes your basic game formula and takes a hard, giant, crusty poop on it.
		It seems as though the boss was taken out at the last minute, most likely because it was just tooo hard to beat.
		Recent studies on monkeys suggest that the most common action while viewing Last Action Hero was gauging the eyes out with a potato peeler.
	www.gamecrap.com /snes/last/last.html (847 words)

	Silver Screens - Movie theaters in movies
		Last Action Hero was expected to be 1993's number one blockbuster, but failed to attract huge crowds.
		We will remember the scenes shot on an awful 42nd street (although it is hard to imagine today a street with so many movie palaces, so close to one another), the visit inside a soon-to-close-down palace, and a crazy vision of Hollywood.
		For those who think the good old times were better, it is fair to add that movie theaters in the area could be really dangerous, with drug traffic, mugging, and sometimes worse.
	www.silverscreens.com /cinesaucine/en/lastaction.html (639 words)

	Last Action Hero - Movie Review
		'Last Action Hero' might have its faults, but lack of originality certainly isn't one of them.
		Perhaps our young hero should have found something a bit more modestly timed to try out his celluloid gateway on.
		Not as bad as the critics made it seem when this film was first released, The Last Action Hero is the Governator is fairly decent film.
	www.movie-gazette.com /cinereviews/707 (512 words)

	LAST ACTION HERO: MONEY TALKS
		One widely noticed trend of the last 30 years or so is how movie budgets have skyrocketed.
		And McTiernan himself was no slouch in the action department - in addition to PREDATOR, he had directed the first DIE HARD, which was a box office smash and received some pretty good reviews as well.
		But LAST ACTION HERO is a mess - albeit a sometimes entertaining one.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/movies_90s/110520 (405 words)

	Last Action Hero
		Just a typical action story about mob families joining forces, gun battles, explosions, the whole nine yards.
		During a chase scene the ticket goes into action and Danny winds up in the back seat of Slater's car.
		I hope you people enjoy this movie, if your a film buff who knows all there is to cheesy action flicks you might like it a bit more.
	www.badmovieplanet.com /inferno/archives/lastactionhero.html (720 words)

	Last Action Hero (1993)
		Schwarzenegger has so regularly subjected himself to self-deflation on screen that it is hard to imagine any other popular action star being able to carry off such a parody of one's own image as he does here.
		At one point the script has a remarkable soliloquoy where the action hero stands up to his real-life counterpart (ie.
		In dispelling all the myths created by the action movie and (it seems) in trying to examine their cycle of overblown mindless spectacle, the film almost reaches a point of moral responsibility.
	www.moria.co.nz /fantasy/lastactionhero.htm (575 words)

	Amazon.com: Last Action Hero: Video: Arnold Schwarzenegger,F. Murray Abraham,Austin O'Brien,Art Carney,Charles ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Director John McTiernan churns some nifty scenes out of this setup, although the fiction-to-reality shuffle is not as deft as in, say, Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo, and the plot needs the kind of logic and discipline found in that classic when-worlds-collide film Back to the Future.
		But the humor was so tongue-in-cheek so often that it probably didn't bode well with the average action-junkie film fan.
		"Last Action Hero" made fun of itself as it unfolded, and one would need a certain sense of humor to fully appreciate it on its intended level.
	www.amazon.com /Last-Action-Hero-Arnold-Schwarzenegger/dp/0800125789 (1466 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Last Action Hero [1993]: Video: Arnold Schwarzenegger,Austin O'Brien,F. Murray Abraham,Art Carney,Charles ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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		Wide screen version of the action adventure film which centres around a boy with a magic theatre ticket.
		Arnie is brilliant as Jack Slater, the blundering Hollywood action hero whose real life and screen life are exactly the same thing.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Last-Action-Hero-Arnold-Schwarzenegger/dp/B00004CP2K (411 words)

	Amazon.ca: Last Action Hero (Widescreen/Full Screen): DVD: John McTiernan,Arnold Schwarzenegger,F. Murray Abraham,Art ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I loved the action, the humor, (which is basically making fun of typical action films and just how absurd they are, even the ones that are meant to be taken seriously) and the one-liners.
		This is not another dumb action movie, this is a film pokeing fun at dumb action films (including some of the ones Swartzenagger's made).
		Last Action Hero has an almost Willy Wonka quality to it.
	www.amazon.ca /Last-Action-Widescreen-Full-Screen/dp/0800177975 (1878 words)

	GameStats: Last Action Hero
		Danny Madigan has a magic movie ticket that lets him move between the real world and movie world with ease.
		Now, Danny and film action hero Jack Slater must team-up to defeat the most dangerous criminals imaginable.
		Defeat the arch villains and ensure a happy ending in LAST ACTION HERO.
	www.gamestats.com /objects/010/010421 (158 words)

	Last Action Hero
		His world is every film action movie stereotype rolled into one, and there are some great laughs when we are treated to it.
		We are forced to follow the back-story of Danny Madigan; a kid whose life sucks and his only escape is seeing his favorite hero Jack Slater on the big screen.
		I think Last Action Hero is best watched about halfway through; you get a pretty decent comedy until you do yourself a favor and turn it off if your not a big Arnold fan.
	www.digitalmonkeybox.com /last_action_hero.htm (796 words)

	DVD Empire - Item - Last Action Hero / DVD-Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		During one of the action climaxes Danny is transported into the movie, into a world following other rules than the real one.
		Jack is Danny's hero and it turns out that Danny really gets to be Jack's hero in the end.
		If u were ever lonely as a child and wished your fictional hero's chould be your friends, even for a little bit..
	www.dvdempire.com /Exec/movie.asp?movie_id=299 (304 words)

	Last Action Hero - DVD - Title L Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Last Action Hero : Is This A Joke?
		Last Action Hero must surely rate as Arnie’s worst movie ever.
		Based on an incredibly silly and overcomplicated plot it never seems to make up its mind on whether it is one of his usual violent offerings or a lame attempt at comedy whilst achieving neither end to any great effect.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /dvd-title-l/last-action-hero (214 words)

	The Last Action Hero (1993) - Channel 4 Film review
		Austin O'Brien (a strong contender for most irritating child star of all time) is a movie devotee who finds himself thrown into the latest adventure by his favourite star, Jack Slater (Schwarzenegger).
		The action drifts between movie and 'reality' as the pair dart back and forth trying to outwit bad guy Dance.
		Cue some decent action sequences and hit-and-miss film industry one-liners.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=105148 (146 words)

	Last Action Hero mistakes, goofs and bloopers
		It is clear there is a pole supporting the gun.
		Deliberate "mistake": Just before Danny enters the action movie, Jack Slater (Arnold) arrives at his 2nd cousin's house.
		Jack exits his car and jams his desert eagle pistol into his waistband.
	www.moviemistakes.com /film2053 (628 words)

	The Last Action Hero (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Arnold Schwarzenegger and director John McTiernan join forces again in, THE LAST ACTION HERO, a heart racing thriller in which a young boy uses a magical ticket to infiltrate his favorite movie.
		There is a lot of action in Last Action Hero, but the underlying story never ever quite works.
		Certain The Last Action Hero article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
	www.rottentomatoes.com.cob-web.org:8888 /m/last_action_hero (610 words)

	Last Action Hero - MobyGames
		Danny Madigan is watching a sneak preview of the latest film of his favourite hero, Jack Slater, when he is mysteriously catapulted inside the screen; now standing next to his favourite idol.
		You are Jack Slater, an action movie hero, who takes on the ax maniac “The Ripper”, who is holding a school under siege, and Benedict, a villain who wants to use Danny’s ticket to bring terror to the real world.
		The game, based on the film of the same name, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, is very different for each platform.
	www.mobygames.com /game/last-action-hero (227 words)

	Last Action Hero (1993) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Genre: Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy (more)
		Trivia: The explosion of Jack Slater's ex-wife's house was used from The Last Boy Scout (1991), also written by Shane Black.
		Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Last Action Hero (1993)
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0107362 (325 words)

	Chantel Narducci’s HUM 205 Blog » Blog Archive » Last Action Hero
		Chantel Narducci’s HUM 205 Blog » Blog Archive » Last Action Hero
		I did like the cameo appearances of other movie stars. It caught me by surprise and I enjoyed seeing that.
		This entry was posted on Thursday, April 13th, 2006 at 12:59 am and is filed under Uncategorized.
	cnarducci.uniblogs.org /2006/04/13/last-action-hero (258 words)

	Amazon.com: The Last Action Hero: DVD: Arnold Schwarzenegger,F. Murray Abraham,Austin O'Brien,Art Carney,Charles ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Amazon.com: The Last Action Hero: DVD: Arnold Schwarzenegger,F. Murray Abraham,Austin O'Brien,Art Carney,Charles Dance,Frank McRae,Tom Noonan,Robert Prosky,Anthony Quinn,Mercedes Ruehl,Ian McKellen,Professor Toru Tanaka,Joan Plowright,Jason Kelly,Noah Emmerich,Tina Turner,Billy D. Lucas,Ryan Todd,Apollo Dukakis,Patrick Flanagan,John McTiernan
		For more information about "The Last Action Hero" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
		Last Action Hero (1993) - Original 1 Sheet Movie Poster - Arnold Schwarzenegger (Price: $15.99)
	www.amazon.com /Last-Action-Hero-John-McTiernan/dp/0800177975 (1218 words)

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		Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien), a young cinema fan is crazy about his all-time great movie hero, L.A. cop Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger).
		Danny is blasted through the big screen and into the action alongside his celluloid hero, who is more than a little puzzled by his presence.
		Fasten your seatbelt, as the daredevil duo dodge bullets, bombs and bad guys in a whirlwind world where anything is possible!
	www.videoloft.co.uk /video_display.asp?VideoID=370 (155 words)

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