"The Running Man" held interest as one of the precursors to the Hunger Games with both having the same general theme of the government is bad and evil so kill it and that's along with the heartwarming sub-theme of killing people for entertainment on TV sure is a gas.
Both go to extreme lengths to show the awfulness of the government but there's even less rationale to it behind "The Running Man" than in "Hunger Games" and, even for a Schwarzenegger movie, it's in-your-face obvious.
Where "The Running Man" gets the lifetime achievement award for awfulness in material purported to be sci-fi is at the end with the most unbelievably pukey song as Arnold and Maria look goo goo at each other and may even share a tender kiss.
Like I said ... awful.
Mostly the movie selections for quite a while have resulted in some type of insight into some things which many probably regard as hopelessly boring but they're kozmikal to me so I dig them. "The Running Man," however, is in the same class of awful as "World War Z" in which the movies are more awful than any other movies and even more awful than any movie which will ever be made in the future.
Meanwhile there was the glowing epiphany yesterday after looking at sci-fi titles for the seventies and eighties, the seventies sci-fi was generally deeper and so heavy, man. The eighties were mostly characterized by "Star Wars" but that's no closer to real sci-fi than "Toy Story" is near to the Encyclopedia Britannica.
May review that some more as it does seem generally credible.
Both go to extreme lengths to show the awfulness of the government but there's even less rationale to it behind "The Running Man" than in "Hunger Games" and, even for a Schwarzenegger movie, it's in-your-face obvious.
Where "The Running Man" gets the lifetime achievement award for awfulness in material purported to be sci-fi is at the end with the most unbelievably pukey song as Arnold and Maria look goo goo at each other and may even share a tender kiss.
Like I said ... awful.
Mostly the movie selections for quite a while have resulted in some type of insight into some things which many probably regard as hopelessly boring but they're kozmikal to me so I dig them. "The Running Man," however, is in the same class of awful as "World War Z" in which the movies are more awful than any other movies and even more awful than any movie which will ever be made in the future.
Meanwhile there was the glowing epiphany yesterday after looking at sci-fi titles for the seventies and eighties, the seventies sci-fi was generally deeper and so heavy, man. The eighties were mostly characterized by "Star Wars" but that's no closer to real sci-fi than "Toy Story" is near to the Encyclopedia Britannica.
May review that some more as it does seem generally credible.
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