Films in Schwarzenegger/Stallone: The Rise of Beefcake Cinema

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  • The Terminator
  • James Cameron

  • James Cameron's low-budget sci-fi action thriller launched Arnold Schwarzenegger to stardom in his role as an unstoppable cyborg assassin programmed with a nicely deadpan sense of humour.

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  • First Blood
  • Ted Kotcheff

  • Sylvester Stallone had his first non-Rocky hit playing lovable sociopath John Rambo in this lean, mean action thriller, in which the eternally misunderstood killing machine is hunted through the forests of the Pacific Northwest by an army of cops and National Guardsmen.

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  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  • James Cameron

  • Having had his switch flipped from "Evil" to "Good," Arnold Schwarzenegger's invincible cyborg returns to protect the adolescent future leader of the human resistance from another, even more formidable Terminator.

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  • Cliffhanger
  • Renny Harlin

  • In this white-knuckle, physics-defying thriller, Sylvester Stallone plays an alpine rescue ranger battling a gang of high-tech thieves who have landed on his mountain looking to retrieve their lost loot.

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  • Conan the Barbarian
  • John Milius

  • Arnold Schwarzenegger crushes his enemies, sees them driven before him and hears the lamentations of the women as the mighty, sword-swinging warrior in John Milius' mildly fascist fantasy epic.

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  • Demolition Man
  • Marco Brambilla

  • A disgraced 20th-century cop (Sylvester Stallone) is released from his cryogenic prison in a utopic future to hunt down his psychotic, recently defrosted nemesis (Wesley Snipes).

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  • Total Recall
  • Paul Verhoeven

  • Arnold Schwarzenegger teams up with Dutch master of excess Paul Verhoeven (RoboCop) for this stupendously violent, gleefully nasty and polymorphously perverse science-fiction thriller.

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  • Daylight
  • Rob Cohen

  • Sylvester Stallone continued his quest to redefine himself for the 1990s in this old-fashioned disaster film, playing a former Manhattan EMS chief who descends into a collapsed, rapidly flooding tunnel to lead the survivors to safety.

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  • The Running Man
  • Paul Michael Glaser

  • Stephen King wrote the source novel for this sci-fi action flick, in which a wrongly accused man (Arnold Schwarzenegger) in a dystopian future must battle his way through a deadly gladiatorial game show to regain his freedom.

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  • Rocky
  • John G. Avildsen

  • Sylvester Stallone went from bit player to overnight sensation as the writer and star of this much-loved, Academy Award–winning underdog tale.

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