{"id":171,"date":"2017-02-28T03:26:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T03:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ratandfox.net\/billpaxtonmovieguide\/?p=171"},"modified":"2017-02-28T03:27:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T03:27:54","slug":"true-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ratandfox.net\/billpaxtonmovieguide\/2017\/02\/28\/true-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"True Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-172\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ratandfox.net\/billpaxtonmovieguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/trulie01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"104\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-173\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ratandfox.net\/billpaxtonmovieguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/trulie02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"104\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-174\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ratandfox.net\/billpaxtonmovieguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/trulie03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"104\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-175\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ratandfox.net\/billpaxtonmovieguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/trulie04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"104\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I had to beg for my life and say I had a little penis. That line would have scared off a lot of lesser men, but I relished it.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Bill Paxton<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Arnold Schwartzenegger is Harry Tasker, a secret agent whose wife thinks he&#8217;s a boring computer salesman. Tasker&#8217;s wife, Helen, longs for a little excitement, and ends up getting more than she bargained for when she stumbles into one of her husband&#8217;s cases.<\/p>\n<p>I had high hopes for this film when I first saw it, but it never quite came together for me. The action scenes were great, but the comedy aspects made me cringe. I hated the way poor Helen Tasker was treated, and I really hated what they did to Bill. Not that I don&#8217;t enjoy some good character torture, but I can&#8217;t quite get behind kidnapping and assault played for laughs.<\/p>\n<p>Bill plays Simon, a sleazy used car salesman who&#8217;s attempting to romance Tasker&#8217;s wife. Simon spins outrageous tales and sets up elaborate scenarios to get women into bed with him, apparently with only limited success. He&#8217;s not a particularly nice guy, but he&#8217;s too pathetic to be really bad. He mostly makes me want to shake him and tell him things would work out much better for him if he just didn&#8217;t try so hard. Shall we all say it together: &#8220;Size doesn&#8217;t matter!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ratandfox.net\/billpaxtonmovieguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/bom.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"27\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve done their best to make him scuzzy in this one, but even so he manages to look awfully cute at times. What is it about that mustache? I don&#8217;t generally like them, but on Bill it only makes him look like more of a little boy. Screen time is fairly substantial for a supporting role, and we do get to see him in his underwear.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-142\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ratandfox.net\/billpaxtonmovieguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/star-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"30\" height=\"29\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-143\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ratandfox.net\/billpaxtonmovieguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/halfstar-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"30\" height=\"29\" \/>One and a half stars, for the bit with the Harrier jet, and for Bill&#8217;s willingness to completely humiliate himself on screen.<\/p>\n\n<div class='easySpoilerWrapper' style=''>\n<table class='easySpoilerTable' border='0' style='text-align:center;' align='center' bgcolor='FFFFFF' >\n\n<tr style='white-space:normal;'>\n<th class='easySpoilerTitleA' style='white-space:normal;font-weight:bold;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle;font-size:120%;color:#000000;'><a href='' onclick='wpSpoilerToggle(\"spoilerDiv5a498001\",true,\"Show\",\"Hide\",\"fast\",false); return false;' onselectstart='return false;' style='text-decoration: none;color:#000000;'>Dead or Alive?<\/a><\/th>\n<th class='easySpoilerTitleB'style='padding:0px;text-align:right;vertical-align:middle;font-size:100%; white-space:nowrap;'><a href=''  class='easySpoilerButton' style='font-size:100%;color:#000000;background-color:#fcfcfc;background-image:none;border: 1px inset;border-style:solid;border-color:#cccccc;display:none; margin: 3px 0px 3px; padding: 4px; ' align='right'>Select<\/a><a href=''  id='spoilerDiv5a498001_action' class='easySpoilerButton' value=\"Show\" align='right' style='font-size:100%;color:#000000;background-color:#fcfcfc;background-image:none;border: 1px inset;border-style:solid;border-color:#cccccc;display:none; margin: 3px 0px 3px 5px; padding: 4px;'>Show<\/><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr><td class='easySpoilerRow' colspan='2' style=''><div id='spoilerDiv5a498001' class='easySpoilerSpoils'  style='display:none; white-space:wrap; overflow:auto; vertical-align:middle;'>\n<strong>Alive!<\/strong><br \/>\nTerrified within an inch of his life, but he does survive. Last seen left to fend for himself on the edge of a dam in his underwear. Wet underwear.<\/p>\n<p>I know, I know, it&#8217;s supposed to be funny, but all I can think is, poor Simon&#8217;s going to be scarred for life.\n<\/div><\/td><\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class='easySpoilerConclude' style=''><table class='easySpoilerTable' border='0' style='text-align:center;' frame='box' align='center' bgcolor='FFFFFF'><tr><th class='easySpoilerEnd' style='width:100%;'><\/th><td class='easySpoilerEnd' style='white-space:nowrap;' colspan='2'><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class='easySpoilerGroupWrapperLastRow' colspan='2' style=''><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I had to beg for my life and say I had a little penis. That line would have scared off a lot of lesser men, but I relished it.&#8221; &#8211; Bill Paxton Arnold Schwartzenegger is Harry Tasker, a secret agent whose wife thinks he&#8217;s a boring computer salesman. 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