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Thursday Aug 19, 2021
Ep. 84 - The Running Man
Thursday Aug 19, 2021
Thursday Aug 19, 2021
The Running Man is about as deep as a puddle, so it's fair to say that we put more thought into the plot details than the people who made the movie did.
Ah-nuld is the innocent man falsely accused in this pure '80s kill extravaganza. He's miscast, but the bigger problem is that the script (based on Stephen King's terrific book) is mostly just a string of repetitive one-liners. However, the flick was prescient about pop culture and reality TV, not to mention fake news (no, ACTUAL fake news). Also, smarmy game-show host Richard Dawson gets to play a smarmy game-show host. Oh, and if you like Predator, then the other action pic that Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura made together that same year came up a lot too.
So place your bets on the overdogs, you bloodthirsty wagerers, as we underdogs have fun racing through The Running Man.
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