The right question is not whether Arnold sabotaged his movie. The right question is, why did Arnold sabotage the State of California?
That is easy to answer, his biggest flops are not his three movies since he left Sacramento—those only cost wealthy investors millions of dollars. His biggest flop was his governorship. During his seven years he created more than $140 billion in deficits, allowed the pension system to collapse. Now they are forced to raise rates by 50%.
As governor he started the process to release more than 50,000 prisoners so they can roam the streets. As the leader of his Party, he tried to bankrupt it, took every opportunity to denounce it and refused to raise money for it. Then, the used his office to appoint judges, 50% of who were NOT Republicans—he packed the bench with leftist Democrats.
With his movies, rich people, investors, lost their movie. As governor, 38 million people lost money, jobs and opportunities. Arnolds’ AB 32 was the best piece of legislation he got passed, for Texas—hundreds of thousands of California jobs moved to Texas thanks to Arnold.
Did Arnold Schwarzenegger ‘Sabotage’ His Movie Comeback?
by Christian Toto, Breitbart, 3/28/14
Did Arnold Schwarzenegger’s RINO-esque turn as California Governor derail his movie star appeal for good?
Schwarzenneger became one of the most improbable A-list stars in the 1980s. The muscle-bound actor routinely got bullied by his dialogue, and his dramatic chops made fellow action heroes look positively Shakespearean by comparison. He headlined a series of massive hits all the same, from the comedy Twins to the iconic Terminator films.
So where did all his fans go?
Schwarzenegger traded the silver screen for politics in the early 2000s, becoming Governor of California and leaving the action genre to the new superheroes on the block. Now, with his film return in full swing, it’s clear his appeal has ebbed dramatically.
Was it something he said … or did?
Schwarzenegger’s new film, Sabotage, opens today, and few are expecting it to return him to the top of the box office charts. While the actor’s best films mixed humor with bracing action, Sabotage is alternately ugly and grim, a far cry from the movies that cemented his appeal.
His last film, Escape Plan, drew a tiny American audience, as did his 2013 solo vehicle The Last Stand. Both films would fit perfectly into the ’80s action hero genre, yet stateside audiences stayed away in droves. Sabotage, frankly, would be ignored during the Reagan era, and for good reason.
The actor never stood atop a soap box like a Sean Penn or Oliver Stone, but he embraced a right of center political mindset during the height of his movie fame. More importantly, he embodied a conservative’s vision of the American success story. He was an immigrant who came to America, put in the work and saw the fruits of his protein-packed labor.
Yet as Governor he hardly mirrored his predecessor, Ronald Reagan. More recently, he’s been attached to climate change headlines and marital woes. He admitted to having an affair on his wife, news correspondent Maria Shriver, a fact that doesn’t help his box office appeal.
And, let’s face it, few could point to the “Governator’s” tenure as a smashing success.
It’s tough being a 60-something action hero, but fellow stars Clint Eastwood and Liam Neeson pulled it off beautifully. Schwarzenegger remains the vision of health, and his well-earned crow’s feat hardly dent the perception that he could bring pain to the bad guys with impunity on screen.
Yes, audiences will likely show up with he returns to the Terminator franchise, but the era of Arnold Schwarzenegger, box office titan, appears confined to the past.
"As governor, he commence the process to release more than 50,000 prisoners so they could roam the streets. As the leader of the Party, he was trying to bust it, taking every opportunity to denounce it and refused to raise money for it. then used his office to appoint judges, 50% of those were not his Republican-packed bench with the left-wing Democrats. "I not familiar enough with things like this.
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March 31, 2014 at 8:14 pm
"…and his well-earned crow’s feat…"
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March 31, 2014 at 5:49 pm