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January 30, 2005
See Jurgen Suck!
A&E was once a quality network... but what happened to the "Arts" or even the "Entertainment?" Their film See Arnold Run is a perfect example of someone trying to cash in on the old "movie of the week" formula - pump out (pun intended) a quick, cheap story about something that is hot in the news and throw it on the airwaves. That worked back when we only had three networks to choose from.... heck, anything was better than Lawrence Welk.
The story is told in two distinct eras - the modern Arnold (Jürgen Prochnow) , and the young bodybuilder Arnold (Roland Kickinger.) The Kickinger Arnold is a good story of a motivated immigrant, the Prochnow Arnold is a hack job. There is probably no impersonation easier to do than that of Schwarzenegger's thick Austrian voice, and amazingly, nobody in history has ever done a worse take than Prochnow. If A&E expects us to overlook the fact that he is a peanut compared to the Austrian Oak, at least make it a peanut that can do the voice.
Politically, it is nothing but a smear campaign against Arnold. It paints him as a savant-like, greedy, megalomaniac. He is also portrayed as a loud-mouthed, dullard that is "whipped" by the domineering Maria Shriver (don't get me started on how horrible her casting was) and buys the election.
Posted by CDogg at January 30, 2005 08:42 AM