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Arnold Schwarzenegger

In retrospect, it’s sort of silly that Schwarzenegger was such a giant movie star at all — he’s a big, beefy slab of granite, and make no mistake, he’s a genuinely terrible actor. But he was a smart guy who hitched his wagon to the right talent (Cameron, specifically), and generated a lot of good will by refusing to take himself too seriously. But his star was already falling fast (remember The 6th Day? End of Days? Collateral Damage?) when he decided to switch from movies to politics, and that didn’t go so well — budget nightmares, massive cuts to public services, a sex scandal, the works. Now that he’s done with that, he’s making a serious play for more movie stardom, appearing with Stallone in the Expendables films and the upcoming prison drama The Tomb, as well as threatening to make that fifth Terminator movie that nobody’s asking for. We wait with something less than bated breath.