The Running Man
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Why was it so bad? Not trying to be an ass, genuinely wondering.
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Shit plot and story. 100% felt like they got away from what made the original running man good.
the forced lines trying to be funny like Arnold was abysmal. All the people coming together to fight the evil capitalist at the end was beyond retarded. Honestly I don’t even remember the end. I think Josh Brolin the bad guy died.
spoiler alert movie sucked cock
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So the original running Man movie was better correct?
I guess the point or the question I'm asking is whether or not the movie is fun or entertaining compared to the original and that sounds like it isn't, or at least that's what you think.
It's not like the damn Stephen King story was some highbrow fiction, so I'm not even going to take that stuff into account. Who knows how much Colombian marching powder he did when he even wrote The novella.
Sounds like it's just a bad movie then compared to the first one.
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I started off liking it at the beginning, thinking it was gonna be like a side quest in cyberpunk and it just went to shit.
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Fair enough, I want to say the Oliver Harper guy that I posted his review of said the third act kind of didn't stick The landing.
I'll probably still check it out whenever it's just floating out there.
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Right. Most of his movies were cheeseball corny. Like Stallone. You can't replicate that kind of lightning in a bottle with lesser actors. Those guys were cartoon characters brought to life. And most of their movies were played off each other with them trying to one up each other. You just went to see them kill a bunch of people in neat ways. The plot and other characters were unimportant.
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Saved me a watch. I knew it was trash but I was on the fence about allowing it to get put on during a future movie night. No longer.
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The original SK/RB story is a Sci-Fi/near-future dystopian 1984 game show where the runner has to hide for a month? Ending is a bit of a shocker, not a twist
Runner hijacks? a plan and crashes it into the high rise offices of the network, killing the studio head, IIRC after being told that fortune seekers invaded his home looking for him and killed his family.
Arnold did his 80 muscle magic on it and made it 100x more fun and interesting than it would have been otherwise. John Carpenter's The Running Man would have been a great version to see as well.
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I enjoyed it but I was a fan of the novel before the arnie version
It follows the book far closer, but really does fall apart at the end.
I can see fans of the arnie version being very disappointed, much the way I felt with the total recall reboot, but it's a bit unfair to compare the two.
I do wonder if it would have worked better as a limited series. What I like about the book vs Arnie's version was the fact it was out in the open world, where everyone hunting you, and while this version did do that, it never felt overly menacing because it there wasn't enough time to build up and the paranoia.
It follows the book far closer, but really does fall apart at the end.
I can see fans of the arnie version being very disappointed, much the way I felt with the total recall reboot, but it's a bit unfair to compare the two.
I do wonder if it would have worked better as a limited series. What I like about the book vs Arnie's version was the fact it was out in the open world, where everyone hunting you, and while this version did do that, it never felt overly menacing because it there wasn't enough time to build up and the paranoia.
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lasted 5 minutes or so.
This was our Saturday night
I d/l down cemetery lane/road because we saw it pimped on Graham Norton we watched 6 minutes and I deleted it all
I d/l this hunk o shit and we watched 5 minutes or so before I deleted it
Then we watched the new Knives out movie.
This was our Saturday night
I d/l down cemetery lane/road because we saw it pimped on Graham Norton we watched 6 minutes and I deleted it all
I d/l this hunk o shit and we watched 5 minutes or so before I deleted it
Then we watched the new Knives out movie.
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Frère Jacques Ska rap opening theme? What the fuck even is that? People listen to this bullshit? Enough to use it as a movie opener?
Worst fucking soundtrack of all time.
And Michael Cera and William H. Macy are the supporting actors? Two of the most pathetic beta losers in Hollywood?
This thing was doomed from the start. Glenn Powell had nothing to do with ruining this stinker.
Worst fucking soundtrack of all time.
And Michael Cera and William H. Macy are the supporting actors? Two of the most pathetic beta losers in Hollywood?
This thing was doomed from the start. Glenn Powell had nothing to do with ruining this stinker.