Sorry, not even Arnold movies are always <just> Arnold movies (eg. "Kinder- garten Cop") They usually/often have subtexts that are socially interesting, and insofar as they instance a popular <genre> there is a level of meaning beyond that of the individual film at play. Take "Terminator" 1 and 2. A subtext here is the nuclear family and "family values", and much of the plot of T1 and T2 is spent with constituting and reconstituting these relationships under adverse (but paradigmatically contemporary??) conditions. The fate and salvation of the nuclear family is a prominent theme in 1950's SF and it reappears, eg., in "Alien 2", which literally ends with the constitution of a new nuclear family (complete with pet, if you count androids in this category). Jesse Kalin