Why The Running Man Still Hits In 2026

This week on Movies Worth Seeing, we crank the dial back to peak ’80s insanity with The Running Man — and honestly, this movie rules.

What looks like a dumb, muscle-bound action flick is actually a viciously funny, cynical satire wrapped in neon spandex and one-liners. Game shows, fake news, manufactured villains, and entertainment built on public humiliation — somehow this film feels more relevant now than it did in 1987.

We break down:

• Why this is one of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s most underrated roles
• How the movie balances brutal action with sharp social commentary
• The outrageous villains, practical effects, and iconic kills
• Jesse Ventura, Richard Dawson, and a supporting cast having an absolute blast
• And why The Running Man is pure rewatchable fun that still hits today

It’s loud, ridiculous, politically incorrect, and unapologetically entertaining — exactly what great ’80s cinema should be.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:16

Hey everyone and welcome to another episode of Movies Worth Seeing. Today's episode we're delving deep into the classic Arnold Schwarzenegger action futuristic uh The Running Man. Film The Running Man. This was inspired by the fact that Edgar Wright is just about to release the remake, The Running Man. And I was thinking to myself, what better time than to go back and revisit the original 1987 classic? I've always had a soft spot for it. It's such a cheesy movie, but it's so damn entertaining. And I'm very excited to see what Glenn Powell brings to the table and the fact that Edgar Wright is writing and directing this remake, which feels so fucking random to me. Why? Because he never does like remakes or it'd be like Martin Scorsese doing like a remake of Robocop or I don't know, I haven't delved too much into Daniel Running Man.

SPEAKER_00 1:22

Is the remake remake? Is the reboot? Is it a sequel or is it just a little bit?

Remake Shock: Edgar Wright And Glenn Powell

SPEAKER_03 1:26

That's meant to be a remake. So I well actually film, right? It's not the same film, and I think that they're gonna change some things. So it's a reboot in a sense. It's probably a reboot. Or I can already tell from the trailers some weird differences that they made, which to be honest, I feel like overcomplicates it. Possibly. Tend to do that nowadays. Like in the original Running Man Killian, played by Richard Dawkins, it seems like there's two separate characters, one being the villain and one being the TV presenter host. Whereas when I was watching this, I thought this was perfect, how they did it with the TV presenter representing the evil TV Corporation.

SPEAKER_00 2:14

Yeah. And it's it's I get it because it's not realistic. And I think with the modern cinema they're going for a lot more real realism. Obviously, look at the 1987 version. There's nothing realistic about it. It's it's cool though.

SPEAKER_02 2:28

It's cool.

SPEAKER_03 2:29

Like it's cool is one way to say I love just questioning with you whether or not Arnold Schwarzenegger's actually a good actor, or if he's if he's a terrible actor who just looks great, or he's actually the perfect actor for this movie. Because tonally, it's absolutely brilliant.

SPEAKER_00 2:52

I mean, don't I don't know, he's but like is an I I don't know. I don't know, he's the only one that's terrible. So is it on purpose or is he an actual bad actor at a time? That's the question.

SPEAKER_03 3:10

But then again, the movie doesn't really give him a lot except one line.

SPEAKER_00 3:14

Because it's all one line. I said, I've got a feeling that he was just giving free, a free whole pass to do whatever the fuck he wanted.

SPEAKER_03 3:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:22

And they wrote the character for him, being like, I'll be back. Yeah.

One-Liners, Tone, And Arnold’s “Acting”

SPEAKER_03 3:29

I love that line though, because the villain had the perfect comeback in the rerun. Only in a rerun. I was like, that's just brilliant. It's good. I love that Schwarzenegger was the one of the only people to get a catchphrase that transcended into every movie, even if it didn't make sense for the story. True. It just became his thing.

SPEAKER_00 3:52

I know it's his brand, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_03 3:54

Yeah. This movie is very much his brand. That's why I was so shocked that they were doing a remake of it or reboot, whatever, and someone like Edgar Wright was involved and Glenn Powell. Like, I just did not see that coming.

SPEAKER_00 4:11

I like Glenn Powell, so I'm curious to see what I think.

SPEAKER_03 4:14

Oh, yeah. Like, I I'm happy as hell to see him in something like this. And the trailers alone showed that fun atmosphere while making it a bit more modern and flashier. Yeah. So I'm excited to see where they take it. But what did you think separately, like this being the first time you watching the 80s version?

SPEAKER_00 4:36

Um being the first time watching the 87 version of The Running Man with Arnold Schwarzenegger, which was a complete surprise to me that he was in it because I went in it completely blind. Off-putting and entertaining at the same time. I love just there's so much of the element of not giving a single fuck about anything doing this film. Which I love because it's entertainment. You know you're going to be entertained watching this film because it's meant for entertainment and nothing else. Which is great to watch. But then it off-putting that 50% of all of Arnold Schwarzenegger's dialogue is just cheesy one-liners. And they're funny at times, not all of them, but sometimes it's just shut up. Just shut up. It's just here is sub zero.

SPEAKER_02 5:30

Now plain zero.

SPEAKER_03 5:33

Brilliant. It's funny. Like the force to just for the writer to just be like, This is what he's gonna say. Yeah, but sometimes too much. No, I definitely look, it's uh somehow it it's not as bad as like Batman and Robin level, where every single one-liner is an ice pun, but it's still yeah, it's still some triple cheese on that pizza. But it's fucking so funny. It's so damn funny.

SPEAKER_02 6:05

I just can't help but love it.

2017 Dystopia, Reality TV, And Relevance

SPEAKER_00 6:06

No, because it is funny, but it's sometimes it's just a little bit too much. Yeah. But then again, you're looking at the 80s, so you gotta look at from that perspective through those glasses.

SPEAKER_03 6:17

And this is the quintessential, like peak 80s. Yes. Trying to be set in the year 2017, but it is so obviously not. As in the year 2017. Yeah, that's what it said at the start. Oh. You were looking at your phone and you missed that key detail. I don't think it was that key of a detail, but well, I just wanted to find it's all it's funny because it's like some of the shit is still well, it's still not perfect. Some of the stuff that's in this, even though it was like eight years ago, that it's supposedly set in. But it's also funny to see like how reality shows are still fucking awful and trash, and they predicted that it would be trash. Yeah, and I mean, we're not quite at that level of like convicts killing each other, but you never know. That's forever, probably.

SPEAKER_00 7:10

I don't know, you never know.

SPEAKER_03 7:11

Um I still find the Kardashians are more disturbing more trashy than that. Yeah, yeah, big time. Morally bankrupt show. The Kardashians is a more morally bankrupt show than a TV show that pits convicts against stalkers where they kill each other for views.

SPEAKER_00 7:35

Yeah, yeah, that kind of does make more sense to be entertained by than the Kardashians. Still blows my mind that that's a thing. Interesting about the world building that I would say, right, that I mentioned while watching the film as well. It really reminded me of 1984.

SPEAKER_03 7:51

Like Awesome Wells 1984. Fuck.

SPEAKER_00 7:54

Have you read it? Is there a movie about 1984?

SPEAKER_03 7:58

Should be. It's there's so many movies influenced by it, like Blade Runner and Blade Runner? I would feel like Blade Runner's inspired by it. I mean, I know Blade Runner's more influenced by uh this book, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? But um I would feel that a lot of dystopian future, futuristic movies are inspired by 1994.

SPEAKER_00 8:24

The thing that really makes me see the resemblance between 1984, George Orwell, and this film is the need for one leading um party to get as many people as possible glued to the TV. And the super strict rules. You break one thing, they will lie, and do whatever they need to do to make you disappear.

SPEAKER_03 8:45

Dude, it's still relevant now. Look at the BBC getting caught for editing, you know, Trump's.

1984 Parallels And Media Control

SPEAKER_00 8:55

It's bullshit. But that's that's corporation against corporation in a sense. But now they're not doing it against individuals on a gr on a big scale. Whereas in 1984, that's quintessential in the whole story. You do one thing wrong, you go into correctional facility, you're going into the Ministry of Re-Education. The mini packs. Um yeah, what's it called again? Mini Pax, Mini Love. I think it's mini love, Ministry of Love. This way what you you're screwed. You basically get unalived or however they called it again. Is well in this it was called re-education. In this it's called re-education, right? With the promise you'll be fine or whatever. But now in 1984 you get you disappear of reality and they change the history to make sure you have never existed. Kinda overlaps with this film. So I wonder what the sour if 1984 was the source material for. Stephen King? So funnily enough.

SPEAKER_03 9:48

Well, that's the other thing that very big question I have is like so it was based on a Stephen King novel, apparently, but it's not Stephen uh Stephen King put it under a different name. He wrote it under a different name for some reason, which I'm very curious to know why.

SPEAKER_00 10:06

Yeah, I don't know why. So, um, so Richard Beckman, it was based on a Richmond Beckman novel. And Richard Beckman is Stephen King's pseudonym. So it's a Stephen King's story.

SPEAKER_03 10:19

But why? Why does he write it under a pseudonym? Uh is it like a publishing deal? Like, I mean, I'm gonna have to research this off camera, but uh I'm very intrigued to know. It's also fun to to see a connection between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Stephen King. Not a connection I would draw normally. That's what I mean. Like when you s when you like really go through the behind the scenes stuff, you're like, wow, there's there's a connection between these two juggernauts in some. What year was Stephen King's? What year did he live?

SPEAKER_00 10:56

What years did he live? What era? He's still alive. Is he still alive, Stephen King? Yeah. Cut that out. That was dumb.

SPEAKER_02 11:04

That was dumb. So um uh Stephen King's written books for fucking ages.

SPEAKER_00 11:09

No, I I know a lot of the Stephen King's books. I just don't know if he was from the 50s or if he was from the 90s or still alive. I had no idea.

SPEAKER_03 11:16

He's he was probably born in the 50s, I'm gonna say.

SPEAKER_00 11:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:20

Rough estimate. But um, like even movies from the as far back as like 70s based on his stuff. Based on his stuff, yeah. Well clearly, 1987. Yeah. Yeah. So who knows? Maybe he was influenced by Paws and Wells.

Stephen King’s Pseudonym And Origins

SPEAKER_00 11:40

Yeah. Let's uh let's get back to that. Let's make a point of that. Let's research it on the way to the cinema. Before we go to watch Running Man 2.

SPEAKER_03 11:50

You mean the running man? The running men. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02 11:56

That's what they should call it. That's what they should call it, yeah. That's that was funny. The running man.

SPEAKER_01 12:02

The running man 2025. Because now that there's two.

SPEAKER_03 12:08

Yeah, I wonder if they're gonna make it even more futuristic now or not. I'm super curious of are they gonna flesh out more of Ben Richards' like backstory because now Glenn Powell has a lot more range as well. But is Glen Powell playing Ben Richards? Yes. He is that's a hundred. 100%. 100%. I know that from the trailers. So it's definitely good for a remake. Remakes always seem to change stuff that worked in the original for no reason, just that they want to be different. Well, which always pisses me off.

SPEAKER_00 12:38

The thing that really worked about the first film now is just Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold Schwarzenegger, his cheesiness and one-liners, and I don't think anybody else can pull that off, so they're gonna have to change these things. You can't. I don't know if it's gonna work without Arnold Schwarzenegger.

SPEAKER_03 12:52

Yeah, it could definitely be a few one-liners, but I don't see them leaning into it for it wouldn't work tonally. Based on what I've seen of the trailer, this looks like it could have, you know, Marvel superhero, like an edgy Marvel superhero movie kind of sense of humor. I fucking hope not. I hope not, but I don't know. Edgar Wright's usually pretty good at writing comedy though. Okay, like Scott Pilgrim vs. the world, very funny movie. Yep. Um, Baby Driver had some great humour.

SPEAKER_00 13:24

Oh, Baby Driver's a good write as well.

SPEAKER_03 13:26

Yeah. That's pretty cool. So that's what I mean. Like he's he's written so many great original films. That's why I was so shocked. Because usually for a a prominent prolific director who's already accomplished so much on their own to go for remaking a classic film, they must they've always gotta have something where they're like, I'm gonna do something wow, like really different. Like in the 80s, you had The Thing and The Fly, which are two amazing 80s remakes of like 1950s, 1960s intellectual properties, right? And those directors, John Carpenter and David Cronenberg, do something wildly different to where if you put the two films, the the original and the remake, next to each other, they look completely different.

SPEAKER_00 14:22

I'm really curious to see what that writer's gonna do.

Hopes And Fears For The Remake

SPEAKER_03 14:24

Because usually remakes don't fucking work. No, and remakes of Arnold Schwarzenegger movies fucking definitely do not work. Like Total Recall, like if you just go back and watch Total Recall, the trailer, it is the most generic fucking trailer. The new one. The one that came out eight years ago that Colin Farrell was playing Arnold Schwarzenegger's character. It was like this such a generic corporate soulless fucking film that stripped all of the charisma, all of the personality of the original 80s movie. And that's what I'm so I'm not worried about it going into the new one because Edgar Wright, he oozes personality in his films. Like when you watch something of his, it has that unique tone or voice. It has his creative voice where I'm like, I know this is Edgar Wright. I trust this. Yeah, where you're like, no one else would make this. Like Baby Driver, even though that was like one of my least favourite Edgar Wright movies, I still could tell like how how well he uses music, turns it into almost like a musical crime heist movie. He does so many unique things that I know it's him. Or like I know this isn't just a gun for hire director, like whenever Marvel movies come out, and they just get a director who's done a couple of music videos or some shit, get them to do it so that they don't argue watched that did that?

SPEAKER_00 16:00

Um like, oh yeah, so this director just is a few music videos. The fuck did he score a feature film? Oh what was the last couple of movies that we've reviewed?

Villain Magic: Richard Dawson’s Performance

SPEAKER_03 16:11

It was one that wasn't very good. You're gonna have to be more specific than that. A few of them. Hold on, hold on. I'm very curious what it would have been. Was uh War of the Worlds? I think so, yeah. Yeah, but anyone could have fucking directed that. I could have made that right now with the camera equipment we're using now. And it would have looked better. And it would have had more emotions than that fucking movie. But I get what you're saying, like this is just this doesn't have the vibe of like a cash-in remake. I just don't get that sense that Edgar Wright would do something like that. It doesn't make sense. I'm not saying you can't make mistakes, but I just it just seems weird. I have heard mixed things, you know, like some of my favourite YouTubers have said it's not that good, but I'm also like sometimes I disagree with them about movies. Same. It's like my brother, like, I we watched the Naked Gun. I loved the new Naked Gun. He watched it and he was like, oh, it was fucking shit. He watched like 10 minutes of it. Oh, well and I was like, well, did you give it a chance?

SPEAKER_00 17:23

I mean it's still not the original, but it was good, it was decent. It was it was good. Um actually with funny with the naked gun. Uh I saw an article coming up, the original creator of the original films hated it. Hated it. Yeah. He was like, this is just a money grab. Yeah. You're not understanding the the spoof comedy that was existing in the 70s, 80s. You're not understanding it. So he he he denounced it. Yeah, I'm not surprised though that he did.

SPEAKER_03 17:51

Because like it's you can't find him, but it's not the same. You can't make the same though. It's a different era. The only way you could have done that is if you had gotten David Zuckerman to to be in control of producing that. Yeah, and it would never I wouldn't have had a problem with it, but I but I knew they weren't gonna do that.

SPEAKER_00 18:09

Obviously, because it's politically incorrect.

SPEAKER_03 18:11

Yep. Um but getting back to So with the running man, like you went in totally blind, you had no idea what to expect. What stood out was like a favorite scene for you.

SPEAKER_00 18:23

Favourite scene? I don't know if I had a favorite scene, like the thing I really enjoyed from watching it is just seeing that what is what I believe could have inspired making the film, but also seeing elements of what this movie inspired in other films, such as the whole game show situation, how it all played out, had a very similar and eerily similar feeling to Requiem for a Dream. Really? Yeah. Okay. Don't you think? I haven't seen that in so long. Oh, okay, you had seen it.

SPEAKER_03 18:57

It's in a long time. For a long time though.

SPEAKER_00 18:59

So I'm trying I'm trying to remember it. Well, the thing is that the mother t starts taking ecstasy, right?

SPEAKER_03 19:04

And then she does weird sexual shit, right?

SPEAKER_00 19:08

What? No, that's Jennifer Connolly's character. Oh, okay. Uh no, so the mother gets like all uh schizophrenic as she gets like delusions and she starts getting into that game show and the TV kind of thing. Ooh. And it's a very similar uh interaction as what's the character the actor's name that played Killian?

SPEAKER_03 19:26

Richard Dawson.

SPEAKER_00 19:28

That's the same interaction Richard Dawson had with his uh audience. That's the kind of relationship that he was having in Letter for a Dream with the mother who was being the delusional character. Speaking of, I love Richard Dawson in the show.

SPEAKER_03 19:44

He was amazing! He was so I think the best thing about Arnold Schwarzenegger movies is they always have such a great actor playing against him as a villain.

Ratings, Aesthetic, And Political Satire

SPEAKER_00 19:54

Which is so perfect. Yeah, but that that's the bit off-putting that I was talking about in the very beginning. It's like you have Arnold Schwarzenegger who is either on purpose or just is a bad actor, playing it terribly. It's funny, and it's the style, so it's accepted, but it's terrible acting, but then everybody around them, and especially the villain, put on such a good performance that it's just off-putting. Yeah, you're evil, but because you're realistic, I want to vouch for you, and it's like, ah, I'm inter I'm more interested in watching you, but he makes me laugh, and it's just off-putting because you don't know, you're forced into the middle ground.

SPEAKER_03 20:32

Well, in the sense here's the great thing about it this is something that can be improved upon in the remake because the it's not perfect in the original, so hopefully they nail it. Hopefully, because I I loved every scene with Richard Dawson's hilarious, and he was a TV show host. Oh, was he? Yeah, so he was pretty much just like in playing an evil version of what he does. Perfect. It makes sense why his TV host scenes were so good, yeah, and his voice and everything, and just seeing him seeing him just be so in love with himself and like just soaking up the the delusion that he's this powerful, almighty it wasn't acting, was it? I don't know. Uh but like he what wherever he got that from, he tapped into it really well. Oh, very well, and you wanted to see him get fucked up. Oh, yeah, which is the other great thing about Arnold Schwarzenegger movies, is the actors playing the villains are so good. You want to see them get fucked up, and you know they're gonna get destroyed in some very creative way, followed by a great one-liner. And even in this, it's like I always remember it, even though it doesn't make any sense and it's not realistic at all, it's not set up well or anything, but it's just perfect.

SPEAKER_00 22:00

No, absolutely. Absolutely. Now, between one to five stars, what would you give the original Running Man?

SPEAKER_03 22:05

Oh, the original Running Man, I would probably give it a four out of five because it's the perfect 80s quintessential, like over. Over the top, cheesy humor, but it's also got a very fun creative story behind it. I love the flashiness, I love the look of the movie. I feel it has a very colourful, flashy 80s aesthetic that works for it. Even just little things like the cheesy commercials and stuff like that that are really over the top kind of reminds me a bit of Robocop. Yeah. Yeah. Of that like political satire, making fun of the media, the manipulation, the lies, the deceit. It's something still relevant nowadays to the point where we catch out big news corporations for even manipulating and editing things to their liking. So The Running Man, while it's not like one of my favourite Arnold Schwarzenegger movies, it's definitely a really fun ride that I can just easily watch and just have a laugh with and not take it too seriously. Yeah, so I'm gonna say four out of five. It's pretty good. Yeah.

Swearing, Impact, And 80s Dialogue

SPEAKER_00 23:15

It's pretty good. I would agree. I'm gonna give it a four out of five as well. Uh reason for it is quintessential for the 80s. As you're saying, it's it's it's classic, it's fun, uh, very innovative, but also establishes itself very well in the period of time it sets in. I love they are progressive in a sense of dropping the F-bombs because you don't hear many fucks in 80s films and 90s. Uh, so I love that they just dropped a few single ones here and there, and it's just perfectly timed. It's not overly done like they are in nowadays films. We should count how many fucks are dropped in the new running man. Oh, in the new running man. In this one, I I think I heard two.

SPEAKER_03 23:55

I honestly don't remember hearing much swearing in this to the point. Like in the world. Fuck it's so brutal, like when they do it's so violent.

SPEAKER_00 24:03

Oh, yeah, no, but that's what I mean, because because it's not done so much, the power of the word is intact. If you drop an F-bomb with every single sentence you do, which a lot of films are fucking doing right now, it has no power anymore. It has no weight because you're expecting it and it's said for this, it's set for that. If you say fuck for every time you stab your toe, then I don't and and everything you're doing, it doesn't matter as much anymore. But if suddenly the one person you know never swears starts swearing, it's like oh shit, okay, he's serious. And the same with this film. As soon as the F-bomb is dropped, you know something is serious or it's funny, or it's the moment it stands out. I'm betting you. I think I counted two F-bombs and a bitch.

SPEAKER_03 24:49

Well, I always remember one F-bomb because it's it's that great moment when the villain's facing Ben Richards. Oh yeah, when Killian's facing Ben Richards, and he's like, So what do you say, man? And he's like, Fuck you. Fuck you, yeah. Like just stone faced fuck you. Yeah. I always piss myself laughing at the Because you don't expect it. Yeah, right. But also the part at the start when they show Ben Richards in the helicopter, yeah, and the close-up on Arnold Schwarzenegger when he's like, There's just a bunch of women and children down there for God's sake. It's coming down for it. All they want is some is some damn food, you heartless bastards. It's just so like it's so perfect where there's like no acting, no layers. He's just delivering it to the camera, and you but it's just so funny.

SPEAKER_02 25:50

Oh, it's so bad. But yeah, it's funny. It's fucking funny. Um no one else can do that. No, where that's what I mean.

SPEAKER_03 25:57

It's like I'm really curious to see what they're gonna do with this film. Glenn Powell, it's like like he's a he's a good looking guy, like muscular. I'm sure he's he's got like a ripped bod because you know every fucking guy in Hollywood does, but he doesn't have that like over-the-top look, that presence that Schwarzenegger has, where you go, oh, this makes sense for the story. Like when you see Killian looking at the footage and he's like, Oh, we need that guy, those biceps alone will get us like 10 more rating points.

Modern Humor vs 80s Cheese

SPEAKER_00 26:27

Yeah, because there's so many gym bros nowadays. Um okay, so my guess is the Neil Running Man is gonna be just an action film. More than like a comedy. Because this one was a bit comedy. The original.

SPEAKER_03 26:42

Yeah. It wasn't the original story. You can't. Unless it's like Predator. Predator's probably the only movie, but even then, like, there's some fun one-liners. Yeah. There has to be there has to be done. But but I guess with Predator, it starts off like you think it's gonna be a generic kind of Arnold Schwarzenegger and over-the-top action movie, and then it becomes that that horror thriller where you're like, oh shit, like Schwarzenegger's actually in danger. And this thing can actually, you know, match him. Yeah, exactly. Um, yeah, any final notes? I'd ask you for final notes because being that this was like I feel like you don't watch a lot of 80s movies, so for you I don't watch many 80 films. It's look what did you notice as far as like cinematography, the look of it, acting. I know you always pick up on like the difference in acting from like 80s movies to modern.

SPEAKER_00 27:45

I think we kind of when it comes to the acting, we've already talked a little bit about it. It's like it's 80 style, it's very dry. Um, Richards, not Richards, um Richard Dawes. Richard Dawes. Oh wait, fuck, what's his name? Richard Dawson. Richard Dawson. So Richard Dawson is just being himself as a uh TV presenter, which he does phenomenally. I think he really suited that character. It's just it's it was good, it was good. It was 80 style, but it was good. It was a good style of 80s. Um but then when it comes to Schwarzenegger, it's just classic Schwarzenegger, which is timeless. Because no matter what era you're watching him in, he's kind of doing the same thing all over. So you just have this what do you call it, an anchor in time. When you watch Arnold Schwarzenegger, you just know exactly what you're gonna get. No matter what era it's coming from. It modernizes a little bit over time, but it's just classic 80s, and he always is holding on to that bit. Which is interesting because that's the Arnold branding. Not my favourite, but it's entertaining. Uh we haven't talked about the girl. Oh, what's what the hell's her name? Not too important. What's not? She's not a standout, she has she doesn't do anything interesting.

Acting Styles, Supporting Cast, And Subtext

SPEAKER_03 28:55

I I feel like all the supporting characters were actually really good at making me care for them, despite not having a lot of a backstory or anything.

SPEAKER_00 29:05

Like, yeah, they they they were interesting, but it's like no no, the the two guys were really interesting. I really like them. The girl, she was like, I don't know, just a classic love interest. Sexy love interest, though. She's good looking, she's good looking. Nobody's denying that. She's good looking, quite sexy, very sexy, very sexy.

SPEAKER_02 29:25

Quite sexy, quite sexy.

SPEAKER_00 29:28

Um, but just a few moments of classic 80s, just shit acting of like shock moment when she realizes that that never happened.

SPEAKER_03 29:38

Oh, there was some dialogue where it's where it's just her being like, that's a lie, that didn't happen. You made that up, and like you liars. Yeah. And you kind of think to yourself, like, why would she even be able to get a chance to say stuff like that on the TV show?

SPEAKER_00 29:55

Like But but that's again, that's where we're gonna see a big difference with the new uh running man because that is just classic 80s film style where a lot is told through dialogue, whereas in the modern cinema it's all told through uh visuals, through cinematography, through looks, through uh subtext, yeah, non-verbal communications. In the 80s it's the exact opposite. It's like zero subtext, all spoken, because there was a relatively fresh transition from um well it's it was still in transition of no sound TV from the early 50s, way before 30s. No, look, you went from only physical to be able to use sound, yeah. Right? From the ear from the 30s through sound, and it just that's just a development, and now we're going back to pure visuals and using dialogue as a tool to uh add to it instead of relying on dialogue being the tool to tell the story. Now it's just adding to it. Yeah.

Final Scores And Closing Call

SPEAKER_03 31:01

Well it's clear in my mind, it doesn't come clear out. The 80s is not known for subtlety. Oh just put it like that. Oh, clearly. Alright, so if you enjoyed this review, please like, share, and subscribe for more reviews like this. Until then, for God's sake, give us a like and subscribe. There's lots of women and children down there. They want food, god damn it. Although wants some food for God's sake. For God's sake.