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.
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.
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!"
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!
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.
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
@@Mellowcanuck33 Neither, has anyone else, and, that's more Stopped Clock than anything else, Morgan Freeman Playing Against Type was the far greater story.
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.
@@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
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.
@@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.
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
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.
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
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..
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.
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 👍
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💖.
As a boy there were many films I was not allowed to watch. Tripe like Iron Eagle or anything with that flag sucker Norris for example. But when it came to Arnie movies it was open season! My dad introduced me to this and Predator is '87. So good!
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
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
“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 💀
If they ever do remake this movie they can't do it like this. This is PERFECT. They'd have to do it like in the book. I want to see the book version because it has my all time favorite ending of any book I've ever read. Also made me laugh the absolute hardest out of any book I ever read too.
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 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
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.
German public TV aired a very similar movie in 1970, called Das Millionenspiel (The Million Game). Wonder if that was the model for the Schwarzenegger movie? 🤔
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.
All it needed was some creepy mouth kissing from Dawson lol.
Brings back memories. Awesome time when Arnie was at the top of his game. Also love the videogame spiritual adaption Smash T.V.
One of the most fun movies from the 80s, the ending was excellent
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.
I miss the 80’s and 90’s story quality
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 Arnold's best movies
@Brittany Thalia did a great job as Killian
One of the best Schwarzeneggar movies, ever!
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!"
Hey killian here's subzero now plain zerp
''That boy's one mean motherf*cker!''
“You better leave enough room for my fist, cuz’ I’m gonna ram it into your stomach and break your goddamn SPINE!” 😂
Ment to write zero
Those are last years winners , no last years losers .
I'd love watching this on cable when I was younger, probably one of the most underappreciated action films from the 80s!!!
Great video. One of my absolutely favourite Schwarzenegger films as well. Dawson is just incredible, and the score! Pure gold.
This is one of my favorite Arnold Schwarzenegger movies that never gets any recognition it's a bad ass slice of 80s action
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.
It is only very very loosely based on the Stephen King book.
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.
Like all Schwarzenegger-Movies back then, I loved it of course ;-)
"That boy is one mean motherf*cker!!"
I LOVED this movie.
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!
One of the best and underrated movies!
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!
Love that theme song from that movie that plays in the end ~
Too bad they don’t make movies like this anymore
True story: When American Gladiators premiered a year or so later, I was thinking "Running Man Lite".
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.
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!
Sven-Ole Thorsen is still not Dutch, but Danish. Other country, really.
does'nt even sound dutch. I just hate that americans just say "Ah Europeans, alle the same."
@@RedDeathShinigami Ya'll is tho!
@@RedDeathShinigami That's not entirely true: we think all you Europeans are the same...unless you're French: everybody hates the French
This is a classic film
You get two Super thumbs up from me for recognizing that this was the "Hunger Games" before it was the hunger games. Great job!
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
Love this series. Keep them coming.
I was born in 1987 but I definitely loved this movie when I was old enough to fully appreciate it
I love Arnold Schwarzenegger Movies
Great song at the end by John Parr, "Restless Heart" is one of my favorite 80's power ballads.
Amazing that he's know for this, Man in Motion, and, pretty much nothing else.
My number one favorite movie of all time
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.
It's one of the best 80's action movies
It would have been interesting to see how Christopher Reeve would have been in the role, since he was originally attached before Schwarzenegger
Pretty much all he did that wasn't Superman was a disaster, before his unfortunate injury, we totally dodged a bullet.
@@matthewdaley746 My guy hasn't seen Street Smart.
@@Mellowcanuck33 Neither, has anyone else, and, that's more Stopped Clock than anything else, Morgan Freeman Playing Against Type was the far greater story.
Ohhh yeah I can totally see that, damn
@@GlennDavey He only did Superman IV because the studio financed that other film.
Classic,miss the 80s and 90s action flicks
This was better than most videos on this channel. I wish it weren't so inconsistent. Well done
Comedy Gold from start to finish.
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?
Both Running Man and Predator are my equal favorites
The book by Richard Bachman aka Stephen King is so different from the movie.
Right, they are different but both have their strong sides.
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.
@@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
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.
@@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.
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
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.
Its a great satire film. Reminds me a lot of Paul Verhoeven works
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
Would love to see an updated version of this ….. not sure who should be in the main role though.
The pen gag 9:13 is genius and makes me laugh every time!
Here is Sub Zero now plain 0! 😂
One of my favourite movies from when I was a kid 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
One of the best movies from my childhood
Awesome film 🤟🎥🤟🎥
this movie scared me as a kid, but now it's hilarious
I want hideo kojima to direct a remake of this.
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..
A fun entertaining worthy classic... HBO & Cinemax used to show this almost every week
Very underrated gem 👍
Great flick, great frigging flick, the movie is brilliant
Awesome performance by Mike Lindell as Captain Freedom.
Its scary how close we are coming to movies like Death Race 2000, The Running Man. Elysium.
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.
i was 11 and one of my favourite Arnold movies
I would love to see a remake that is much closer to the book.
A classic and Hollywood should leave it alone.
No need for a remake
Very underrated, with only 10 out of 10 Stallones ;)
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'll watch anything with Dweezil Zappa in 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💖.
The old lady stole that movie lol loved it
Don’t forget Dynamo was also the boxer in Robin Williams’ Popeye.
As a boy there were many films I was not allowed to watch. Tripe like Iron Eagle or anything with that flag sucker Norris for example. But when it came to Arnie movies it was open season! My dad introduced me to this and Predator is '87. So good!
"It's time...
to start...
RUNNING!"
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
I hate remakes but always wondered why that hasn't been . I rented that movie at least 20 times as a kid .
This was the first R-rated movie I saw in a theater. Still my favorite Schwarzenegger movie.
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
This movie predicted so many correct trends and technologies.
For example, Ben Richards books a flight on a home computer.THE INTERNET !!
My only complaint is that Richard Dawson didn’t smooch enough ladies
“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 💀
I love this movie, I find it much better then the book. Though the book is great for other reasons.
This film is a fun action satire from start to finish.
If they ever do remake this movie they can't do it like this. This is PERFECT. They'd have to do it like in the book. I want to see the book version because it has my all time favorite ending of any book I've ever read. Also made me laugh the absolute hardest out of any book I ever read too.
I think the term “singing soprano” came from the death of buzz saw
I wonder who has that ICS heavy weight title belt Capt. Freedom was wearing? That looks like the NWA TV title style.
so many good lines. "sun zero is not just PLAIN ZERO!!!" those are last years winners!! "NO, LAST YEARS LOSERS"
This film was basically the original Hunger Games
This and 2072 by Lucio Fulci. 🙂
I love Richard Dawson in this movie. Basically a sleazy version of his Family Feud persona.
He played himself
The narrator talks like he barely has a pulse but other than that it's great
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.
Erland was great in stir crazy and the wanderers. loved him when i w a kid... sadly missed :(
"Dutch strongman: Sven-Ole Thorsen"
He's danish. Why does people keep mixing up Holland and Denmark?
American education xD
It’s all in Europe
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
It's all Swedish to me.
@@FragginWagon76 Norwegian, not Swedish.
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.
12:56
Not quite as good as Dynamo, but pretty decent effort. The vibrato was a bit off.
Lol. I've watched the film numerous times, and I never noticed that part until this video.
German public TV aired a very similar movie in 1970, called Das Millionenspiel (The Million Game). Wonder if that was the model for the Schwarzenegger movie? 🤔
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...
9:32, "Well, that hit the spot."
"Running Man" is such an 80s movie with such an 80s vision of the future.
Arnold and Sharon Stone in (total recall-1990) I think is Arnold ‘s best on-screen kiss. I mean it’s Sharon Stone!
Are The Running Man and Robocop in the same Universe? You decide.
I'd buy that for a dollar!
Same year 1987... those were golden years for Hollywood
Ventura is such a badass
Frankly, I'd pick this version of today any day simply due to lack of social media alone.
The book is fantastic. Richard Bachman. The Running Man
If you want an underrated 80 s action movie , Remo Williams, The Adventure Begins
This movie hands down feels like it takes place in the same universe as RoboCop.