The Iron Mask

What do you guys make of this?



Pretty sure this is not a movie I'd love, but I'm half tempted to watch it just for a laugh - The novelty of seeing Arnie in a period piece and acting alongside Jackie Chan. Plus, you know, dragons.

Oh man, they are REALLY trying to avoid showing people's lips moving in this trailer, and when they did it was usually really off apart from Arnie. Must be an international flick primarily for Chinese audiences. SUPER interesting to see Arnold as part of an ensemble cast, though, rather than having a lead role. He seems very much out of place, and for that I'll bet he's enjoying himself, and it sure makes me curious to see him in this setting. Its on my calendar!

Paeter wrote:Oh man, they are REALLY trying to avoid showing people's lips moving in this trailer, and when they did it was usually really off apart from Arnie.

Wow. I didn't pick up on that at all.

AdamCollings wrote:

Paeter wrote:Oh man, they are REALLY trying to avoid showing people's lips moving in this trailer, and when they did it was usually really off apart from Arnie.

Wow. I didn't pick up on that at all.

I dislike feeling "tricked" into watching a dubbed movie, so in recent years I've become tuned in to the signs while watching trailers.

Looks like fun. Could be a movie made for Chinese audiences that got a well-known Western actor to play a non-starring role. It's also possible that Arnold isn't in the film as much as the trailer makes him out to be. This is fairly common on different scales. See Adrien Brody and Tim Robbins in Back to 1942, Scott Adkins in Wolf Warrior, Frank Grillo in Wolf Warrior 2, Joseph Fiennes in The Last Race, Bruce Willis and Adrien Brody (again) in Air Strike, etc.

On the other hand, it could be another Skiptrace where there's a fairly even mix of Chinese and English dialogue and the top Western actor (in that case Johnny Knoxville) is front and center a lot of the time.

Paeter wrote:

AdamCollings wrote:

Paeter wrote:Oh man, they are REALLY trying to avoid showing people's lips moving in this trailer, and when they did it was usually really off apart from Arnie.

Wow. I didn't pick up on that at all.

I dislike feeling "tricked" into watching a dubbed movie, so in recent years I've become tuned in to the signs while watching trailers.

Fair enough. They should be up-front about it.
I went back and re-watch the trailer but still couldn't notice.