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    Commentary: Why Schwarzenegger, Stallone and nostalgia for ‘80s action movies are back

    by Nick De Semlyen, Los Angeles Times Jun 16, 2023 3 minutes
    Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in Netflix series“ FUBAR” as Luke Brunner, a covert CIA agent on the verge of retirement, or so he thinks.

    Threats from Moscow. Rampant inflation. A deadly disease resisting eradication. Worries about the replacement of American workers. Sly. Ahnold.

    Looking at the news of the past several years, we might think we’ve been rocketed back to the 1980s, just with less neon and fewer Rubik’s Cubes. History is repeating itself, and not only through fractured politics and the threat of a new Cold War.

    In the ’80s, a parade of one-man armies marched into movie

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