Classic Arnold before T2, what a great 80's popcorn movie.

I'm glad you singled out Richard Dawson for praise. He was fantastic in this movie. The whole cast was great, but he was absolutely pitch-perfect.

@feck2594

2 жыл бұрын

All it needed was some creepy mouth kissing from Dawson lol.

"I live to see you eat that contract. But save some room for my fist because I'm going to ram it into your stomach and break your goddamn spiiiine!" Pure poetry.

@matthewdaley746

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but, unfortunately, it also, proved, why, for the most part, he didn't string together terribly long sentences, that often.

@tvrtkoceric5681

2 жыл бұрын

Shakespeare on steroids ...

@matthewdaley746

2 жыл бұрын

@@tvrtkoceric5681 Difficult to listen to, especially, for the very original time.

@crxtodd16

2 жыл бұрын

So much power. You go Arnie!!!

@matthewdaley746

2 жыл бұрын

@@crxtodd16 Just try not to listen to it with any real alarming regularity.

Brings back memories. Awesome time when Arnie was at the top of his game. Also love the videogame spiritual adaption Smash T.V.

The Running Man Is My All Time Favorite Arnold Movie, it has Great Actors, Definitely my Favorite Arnold performance he a badass Hero in the movie, Has an Awesome Action packed Story, Having a Beautiful 80s Music/ Scores even Great Song In the End Credits, Badass Fight Scenes, & A Better Verison of The Hunger Games. This movies kick a lot of ass and Rulez!! to this day of how Action movies were great back in the day which I really missed, I love this Action Movie next to other action 80s films Cobra, Cyborg, Predator, & First Blood.

One of the most fun movies from the 80s, the ending was excellent

@Juno-ue9vs

2 жыл бұрын

I agree this Movie Is Great from Start to Middle and to Finished, The Running Man Is A Fun/ Adrenaline rushed Action Packed movie that Still holds up being a Badass film with Story, Music, Cast of Actors who has Charisma/ Talent, & A Great Ending with Amazing song playing. This movie Rulez and I missed great action movies back in the day.

@DereliqueMahBAWLS

2 жыл бұрын

I miss the 80’s and 90’s story quality

"That boy is one mean motherf*cker!!" I LOVED this movie.

Love the one liners: "Hey Cutie pie, one of us is in big trouble." "Hey Killian, I'll be back". "Only in a rerun." "I have to score some steroids.," "What a hothead." "Where's Buzzsaw?" "He had to split." "Need a light?" Throws flare at Fireball, then he blows up. "Hey, over here, Christmas Tree!"

@ianashby6294

2 жыл бұрын

Hey killian here's subzero now plain zerp

@mike91mdk45

2 жыл бұрын

''That boy's one mean motherf*cker!''

@AdamGoldbach

2 жыл бұрын

“You better leave enough room for my fist, cuz’ I’m gonna ram it into your stomach and break your goddamn SPINE!” 😂

@ianashby6294

2 жыл бұрын

Ment to write zero

@feck2594

2 жыл бұрын

Those are last years winners , no last years losers .

One of the best Schwarzeneggar movies, ever!

One of Arnold's best movies

@aranerem3767

2 жыл бұрын

@Brittany Thalia did a great job as Killian

I like it when, just moments before dying, Buzzsaw makes a woman's high pitched squeal. Appropriate considering where his saw blade is at that moment.

Sven-Ole Thorsen is still not Dutch, but Danish. Other country, really.

@RedDeathShinigami

2 жыл бұрын

does'nt even sound dutch. I just hate that americans just say "Ah Europeans, alle the same."

@towermoss

2 жыл бұрын

@@RedDeathShinigami Ya'll is tho!

@i-never-look-at-replies-lol

2 жыл бұрын

@@RedDeathShinigami That's not entirely true: we think all you Europeans are the same...unless you're French: everybody hates the French

The line "I'm going to punch you so hard in the stomach, it's gonna break your GD spine!" is one of the best movie threats of all time!

My brother and I used to watch this every summer during our beach trip. A classic in my family, and maybe the funnest Stephen King movie.

@Cloudburst2000

2 жыл бұрын

It is only very very loosely based on the Stephen King book.

This could've been just a decent action flick. Richard Dawson elevated this to excellence! A genuine casting coup to hire the biggest gameshow host on American TV as Killian.

Like all Schwarzenegger-Movies back then, I loved it of course ;-)

I'd love watching this on cable when I was younger, probably one of the most underappreciated action films from the 80s!!!

Still a great movie! And almost as prophetic as Demolition Man! We live in strange times when Schwarzenegger and Stallone movies from 35 and 30 years ago are thought-pieces about where our society is heading!

The book by Richard Bachman aka Stephen King is so different from the movie.

@thr4017

2 жыл бұрын

Right, they are different but both have their strong sides.

@SubCapt

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed : the movie seems much more inspired by French director Yves Boisset's 1883 movie "Le Prix du Danger" (aka 'The Prize of Peril'), based on a short story bearing the same title by Robert Sheckley, which had been adapted already by German Television as "Der Millionenspiel" in 1970.

@MrThomasHart

2 жыл бұрын

@@SubCapt Stephen King stole essentially the adaptation of Sheckley in "Das Millionenspiel" to write "The Running Man". No wonder he could write the book in a week

@madaemon

2 жыл бұрын

I kinda prefer when the movie and the book are on opposite wavelengths, since you're not just getting a live action version of something that already exists on the page. The one exception is when a movie all but ignores what the book was about (e.g. "I am Legend" with Will Smith or King's own "Lawnmower Man"), but if it's in the same general direction, I think it's not necessarily a knock against the movie that it's "not like the book." Still, if it does deviate heavily, it should at least be good in spite of it: Stephen King famously hates Kubrick's version of the Shining because it's so different narratively, but at the same time it's still a visually striking film.

@feck2594

2 жыл бұрын

@@SubCapt in a way all great stories are changed , adapted, sometimes downright stolen ( I'm not justifying it ) but it does many times pay respect to great original ideas.

Here is Sub Zero now plain 0! 😂

Love this series. Keep them coming.

Great video. One of my absolutely favourite Schwarzenegger films as well. Dawson is just incredible, and the score! Pure gold.

My number one favorite movie of all time

Love that theme song from that movie that plays in the end ~

@biguy617

2 жыл бұрын

Too bad they don’t make movies like this anymore

This is a classic film

This is one of my favorite Arnold Schwarzenegger movies that never gets any recognition it's a bad ass slice of 80s action

It would have been interesting to see how Christopher Reeve would have been in the role, since he was originally attached before Schwarzenegger

@matthewdaley746

2 жыл бұрын

Pretty much all he did that wasn't Superman was a disaster, before his unfortunate injury, we totally dodged a bullet.

@Mellowcanuck33

2 жыл бұрын

@@matthewdaley746 My guy hasn't seen Street Smart.

@matthewdaley746

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mellowcanuck33 Neither, has anyone else, and, that's more Stopped Clock than anything else, Morgan Freeman Playing Against Type was the far greater story.

@GlennDavey

2 жыл бұрын

Ohhh yeah I can totally see that, damn

@matthewdaley746

2 жыл бұрын

@@GlennDavey He only did Superman IV because the studio financed that other film.

True story: When American Gladiators premiered a year or so later, I was thinking "Running Man Lite".

It's one of the best 80's action movies

I was born in 1987 but I definitely loved this movie when I was old enough to fully appreciate it

One of the best and underrated movies!

Classic,miss the 80s and 90s action flicks

I liked what I saw so I subscribed, gave a thumbs up, and turned on alerts for your channel. Thanks for putting together a good show!

Such a great badass 80's movie! Plus the song at the end of the movie has gotten stuck in my head after years of watching the movie Lol great song by John Parr

You get two Super thumbs up from me for recognizing that this was the "Hunger Games" before it was the hunger games. Great job!

Its a great satire film. Reminds me a lot of Paul Verhoeven works

Comedy Gold from start to finish.

Great movie I got kudos, I chose this to see on a Friday night over some other action move that came out the same weekend everybody loved it.

Sub zero! Now plain zero!! Haha love 80s gems. Ps i always wanted to fly down those tubes. I used to go to water parks and pretend i was in running man lol

One of my favourite movies from when I was a kid 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

I love Arnold Schwarzenegger Movies

This was better than most videos on this channel. I wish it weren't so inconsistent. Well done

My cousin Dave God rest his soul was connected to a group of international video pirates in the 80's and 90's. I got a copy of Running Man more than a year before it's release it showed buzz saw getting cut by the chainsaw from his groin to the waist, when it cut to the split belt on the floor. That was missing in the eventual release.

Awesome performance by Mike Lindell as Captain Freedom.

"Dutch strongman: Sven-Ole Thorsen" He's danish. Why does people keep mixing up Holland and Denmark?

@dondalle

2 жыл бұрын

American education xD

@JUUJJII

2 жыл бұрын

It’s all in Europe

@lithuaniaball

2 жыл бұрын

The same reason people keep pretending to be dumb on the internet, no one really gives a fuck anymore, and you wouldn't be able to feel good about yourself if you didn't have someone to put down for making a mistake you already purport to be common

@FragginWagon76

2 жыл бұрын

It's all Swedish to me.

@judsongaiden9878

2 жыл бұрын

@@FragginWagon76 Norwegian, not Swedish.

The pen gag 9:13 is genius and makes me laugh every time!

Great song at the end by John Parr, "Restless Heart" is one of my favorite 80's power ballads.

@matthewdaley746

2 жыл бұрын

Amazing that he's know for this, Man in Motion, and, pretty much nothing else.

Its scary how close we are coming to movies like Death Race 2000, The Running Man. Elysium.

this movie scared me as a kid, but now it's hilarious

Spot on mate. I first saw this aged 9 or 10 and it blew me away. I have Still not got around to reading the book but I will one day. This movie had some really good world building and fleshed out characters. I would love to see all the unused footage for it.

i was 11 and one of my favourite Arnold movies

A fun entertaining worthy classic... HBO & Cinemax used to show this almost every week

Awesome film 🤟🎥🤟🎥

Great flick, great frigging flick, the movie is brilliant

One of the best movies from my childhood

This movie is pure badass! At the time, an outlandish Arnie action film. Watching it today in the past few years, where is the lie?

@michaelmarama-de4gx

Жыл бұрын

Both Running Man and Predator are my equal favorites

Very underrated gem 👍

Don’t forget Dynamo was also the boxer in Robin Williams’ Popeye.

truly a really good action classic.. full of just the right pun, while having genuine blood n guts flying everywhere.. Dawson is spot on.. as for Glaser shooting it like a tv show.. i thought that made it "work", not hurt, the film..

Would love to see an updated version of this ….. not sure who should be in the main role though.

This was the first R-rated movie I saw in a theater. Still my favorite Schwarzenegger movie.

9:32, "Well, that hit the spot."

One of mine Favorite Movie's watching growing up the Classic one liners the action scenes just good fun Entertainment It's Arnold at his best 8.6/10 ⭐⭐⭐1/2

I want hideo kojima to direct a remake of this.

I think the term “singing soprano” came from the death of buzz saw

I love this channel, you guys are doing all my childhood favorites…. If I could add one movie suggestion it would be EXPLORERS. I loved this movie as a kid and I think it could fit in the best movie you never saw category. I figure you guys will get to it eventually anyway because you have such great taste in movies, just a thought really lol

@feck2594

2 жыл бұрын

I hate remakes but always wondered why that hasn't been . I rented that movie at least 20 times as a kid .

"It's time... to start... RUNNING!"

Are The Running Man and Robocop in the same Universe? You decide.

@Wotan420

2 жыл бұрын

I'd buy that for a dollar!

@nemesisut8793

2 жыл бұрын

Same year 1987... those were golden years for Hollywood

Very underrated, with only 10 out of 10 Stallones ;)

Yea give Yaphett Koto his flowers...

Erland was great in stir crazy and the wanderers. loved him when i w a kid... sadly missed :(

I love Richard Dawson in this movie. Basically a sleazy version of his Family Feud persona.

@djquinn11

2 жыл бұрын

He played himself

“Now just plain zero!” Awkward, hilarious, factual. The dystopian advertisements in this movie and Robocop rock my world. Disappointingly in real life we climb down for dollars, because it requires less effort 💀

In 2022 I feel it's only a short time before we all have court appointed theatrical agents One of the all-time worst adaptations of a Stephen King book, but as a movie this is 100% pure, uncut, 1980s Arnold Schwarzenegger, and it's fuckin awesome And oh yes, Mr. Richard Dawson is legendary, the man is a straight boss

This film was basically the original Hunger Games

@NaginataMike

2 жыл бұрын

This and 2072 by Lucio Fulci. 🙂

I love this movie, I find it much better then the book. Though the book is great for other reasons.

This movie predicted so many correct trends and technologies. For example, Ben Richards books a flight on a home computer.THE INTERNET !!

The old lady stole that movie lol loved it

Dawson was amazing in this! Yeah, the puns were a little much, but hey - it was the 80's. Dweezil fighting alongside Fleetwood Mac. Maria Conchita Alonso❤. Synthesizer soundtrack. Badasses with chainsaws. Arnold. Who could ask for anything more? Lighting in a bottle for sure💖.

Arnold and Sharon Stone in (total recall-1990) I think is Arnold ‘s best on-screen kiss. I mean it’s Sharon Stone!

Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe.😉

In the original story Running Man was played all across America. The “contestant” had to send one video per day to the people at the Games Corp so thy could show it on TV. The person that reported the contestant that resulted in a kill got paid a huge sum of money with a similar prize for the runner. Richards eventually steals an enormous aircraft and crashes it into the Games Corp building. Much darker ending than the one in the film.

The french adaptation of Robert Sheckley's The Prize of Peril is quite good to. The director chose a more contemporary angle and more "reality show" than for Running man. But I think it's closer to the sci-fi short story than the schwarzenegger movie.

If you want an underrated 80 s action movie , Remo Williams, The Adventure Begins

Ventura is such a badass

The book is fantastic. Richard Bachman. The Running Man

Richard Dawson was amazing on Hogan's heroes also.

A classic tale of survival! Richard Connell wrote "The Most Dangerous Game" in 1924, adapted in cinema by Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel in 1932. Robert Sheckley wrote "The Prize of Peril" in 1958, same story with the modern social dimension of television. Elio Petri made the movie "The 10th Victim" in 1965. Stephen King wrote the more futuristic "The Running Man" in 1982 under the name Richard Bachman. In 1983 Yves Boisset made "The Prize of Peril", and then Paul Michael Glaser made "The Running Man" in 1987. Different adaptations of the same universal and eternal tale of survival 👍

I think "Climbing for Dollars" still has potential to make it as a series; let's do a pilot episode and put it out there...

I'll watch anything with Dweezil Zappa in it!

Historic tidbit. Eugene Jarvis who one of the developers of DEFENDER and ROBOTON 2024 for Williams electronics. Used the inspiration from running Man for the arcade game SMASH TV.

I think my favourite I’ll be back is in the running man.

so many good lines. "sun zero is not just PLAIN ZERO!!!" those are last years winners!! "NO, LAST YEARS LOSERS"

Love that movie. An 80s classic to be sure. Though its fair to say movie script did more then just limit the locations, the book was a lot more of a downer.

10 out of 10 Stallone's? Is this equivalent to 10 out of 10 Jason Statham's? Asking for a friend.

12:56 Not quite as good as Dynamo, but pretty decent effort. The vibrato was a bit off.

@madaemon

2 жыл бұрын

Lol. I've watched the film numerous times, and I never noticed that part until this video.

The narrator talks like he barely has a pulse but other than that it's great

"Running Man" is such an 80s movie with such an 80s vision of the future.

This movie hands down feels like it takes place in the same universe as RoboCop.

one of my favorite movies growing up in the 80s. I was a bit surprised to read the book later in my 30s, many people always say the books are better...not sure if I agree with this one the book was good but it didn't do it for me that this classic did.