Rank an Actor’s Filmography

[Anders]

Arnold

1. T2
2. Total Recall
3. The Terminator
4. Predator
5. Commando
6. Conan the Barbarian
7. True Lies
8. The Running Man
9. The Last Stand
10. Kindergarten Cop
11. Conan The Destroyer
12. Red Heat
13. Last Action Hero
14. Twins
15. Eraser
16. T3
17. Escape Plan
18. Raw Deal
19. The Expendables 2
20. The 6th Day
21. End Of Days
22. The Expendables
23. Red Sonja
24. Stay Hungry
25. The Expendables 3
26. Terminator Genisys
27. Terminator: Dark Fate
28. Collateral Damage
29. Aftermath
30. Maggie
31. Sabotage
32. Junior
33. Batman & Robin
34. Around The World in 80 Days
35. Jingle All The Way
36. Hercules in New York
37. The Jayne Mansfield Story
38. The Villain
39. Iron Mask
40. Killing Gunther

Not included a couple of movies where he was uncredited or very low on the casting list (like The Long Goodbye, Scavenger Hunt, Happy Anniversary And Goodbye and The Kid & I) or documentaries.

[The Argonaut]

what a star that guy is, damn

[Anders]

Fully agree. Look forward to seeing Escape Plan soon.

[bada]

Arnold was my #1 in the 80's and early 90s. He peaked in '91 and slowly came down through '94. After that he kind of lost me. I still watched his movies but it wasn't the same.

I'll rank up to '94. All the movies are classics really except Raw Deal. That's his only crap 80's flick.

Arnold

1. The Predator
2. Conan the Barbarian
3. The Terminator
4. T2
5. Commando
6. Total Recall
7. The Running Man
8. Red Heat
9. Conan The Destroyer
10. Twins
11. Kindergarten Cop
12. True Lies
13. Last Action Hero
14. Red Sonja
15. Raw Deal

[Anders]

Watched Stay Hungry (Arnold won a golden globe for it), and the Jayne Mansfield Story. Out of the movies I hadn’t seen before, they seemed more significant than a couple of others from his pre-blockbuster era, where he had very minor roles, even uncredited a couple of times.

The Jayne Mansfield Story was just bad, among his very worst.

Stay Hungry had a 70s charm to it, and Arnold was good. The story and was too simple though, and the execution not great. Jeff Bridges was good.

[Anders]

Arnold was my #1 in the 80's and early 90s. He peaked in '91 and slowly came down through '94. After that he kind of lost me. I still watched his movies but it wasn't the same.

I'll rank up to '94. All the movies are classics really except Raw Deal. That's his only crap 80's flick.

Arnold

1. The Predator
2. Conan the Barbarian
3. The Terminator
4. T2
5. Commando
6. Total Recall
7. The Running Man
8. Red Heat
9. Conan The Destroyer
10. Twins
11. Kindergarten Cop
12. True Lies
13. Last Action Hero
14. Red Sonja
15. Raw Deal

Can’t disagree with this, as all of your top 13 is in my top 14. Only one of my top 15 is from this century.

I need to watch (or possibly rewatch from my childhood), Red Sonja and Raw Deal.

[bart]

Nah you really don’t

[Bammer]

Can someone rank another damn actor please!?!

[Anders]

Ryan Gosling

1. Drive
2. Blade Runner 2049
3. The Notebook
4. La La Land
5. The Big Short
6. Blue Valentine
7. Remember The Titans
8. The Ides Of March
9. Crazy Stupid Love
10. Fracture
11. The Nice Guys
12. First Man
13. The Place Beyond The Pines
14. United States vs Leland
15. Gangster Squad
16. Only God Forgives
17. Lars and the Real Girl
18. The Believer
19. The Slaughter Rule

Not yet seen: The Gray Man, Murder By Numbers, All Good Things, Song To Song, Stay, Half Nelson.

[VinylGuy]

I was huge Arnold fan back in the day. I chose him over Sly as a kid. These days I’m not sure.

I need to dig into IMDb to really think how many movies I saw from him.

[Anders]

Nah you really don’t

Have seen them and ranked them now. Both were worth watching.

The five I still haven’t seen:

Escape Plan - own this. Expect it to be fairly good. Something like Eraser/Raw Deal in quality would be good. At best something like The Last Stand

Sabotage - expecting this to be fairly low on the overall list

Maggie - expecting this to be fairly low on the overall list

Killing Gunther - expecting this to be near the bottom of the list

Iron Mask - expecting this to be near the bottom of the list

Will watch Escape Plan soon.

[VinylGuy]

Escape Plan is not good. I blame the director mainly. Maggie was good enough. It’s more of a drama and Arnold is very good in it.
Sabotage is awesome. The best movie he did in his latter phase of his career.

[bart]

Sabotage is awesome.

I can’t stand it

[Anders]

Sly

1. Rocky
2. First Blood
3. Rocky II
4. Rocky Balboa
5. Creed
6. Cop Land
7. Demolition Man
8. Judge Dredd
9. Cobra
10. Antz
11. Rocky III
12. Rocky IV
13. Tango & Cash
14. Cliffhanger
15. Creed II
16. Guardians Of The Galaxy vol 2
17. The Suicide Squad
18. Assassins
19. Escape Plan
20. The Expendables II
21. The Expendables
22. Daylight
23. The Specialist
24. Grudge Match
25. Over The Top
26. Rambo 2
27. Rambo 3
28. The Expendables 3
29. Get Carter
30. Rocky V
31. Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
32. Escape Plan: The Extractors

Do not include cameos and uncredited parts, documentaries or movies the actor didn’t really take part in. Can include some small but significant parts, and also significant roles in animated movies.

Not seen: Rambo: Last Blood, Rambo (2008), Samaritan, Death Race 2000, Escape To Victory, Nighthawks, Bullet To The Head, Escape Plan 2, Driven, Lock Up, Oscar, D-Tox, Rhinestone, Paradise Alley, F.I.S.T., Backtrace, Shade, Avenging Angelo, Reach Me & Rallying Cry.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[wease]

First Blood
Copland
Rocky
Literally who cares. His fame baffles me.

Love Copland. You need to check out Tulsa King.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

First Blood
Copland
Rocky
Literally who cares. His fame baffles me.

I feel similar. Maybe to a lesser degree than you, but I don't get it either.

[Anders]

I think Stallone is an underrated actor. Probably ended up making too many sequels.

Arnold’s career was stellar from 82-94, and his top 4-5 movies are incredible, but if you compare the total output of the two from 1976-2023, it’s pretty even.

[Anders]

Thinking about doing Robert De Niro.

[Anders]

Hope someone else will contribute with full lists as well.