Where the hell is Dart at? He would be that dude to say he knew ‘The Running Man’ was originally written by STEPHEN KING. I did not know that for real. It makes sense in hindsight with all the sadistic themes and the lack of faith in society to rise above its own depravity. I just never pictured KING books to translate so perfectly into classic action movies.
Let’s also agree that ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER’s star power also made this movie a classic. Sonn pwned the 1980’s as far as blockbuster films were concerned. I will bet you any amount of money that he will run for president one day on the strength of his filmography. I will be voting for his anti-christ ass too. Did any of you em-effs see ‘Total Recall‘? Thank you.
The Running Man is another movie where we see that corrupt profit driven corporations clearly administer the duties of the government. In this case we have a single broadcast network that acts as the government’s press secretary. Kind of like how Fox News does right now. Complete with video editors and graphic artists to make sure that the government’s message is properly filtered to keep the populace uninformed. These movies are hilarious timecapsules in the sense that they forecasted how politricks would be played in the future. Guess what party people? Now IS the future.
SCHWARZENEGGER plays the role of a police officer who is framed for the deaths of innocent, unarmed protesters. He manages to escape from the prison he is sent to with the help of my main man YAPHET KOTTO who wears this ridonkulous JAMES BROWN wig. Blacks in the future have it as bad as Blacks do now. Look at blind ass Jordi from Star Trek, or that Black dude from Star Trek with the turtle shell on his forehead. I should be happy about YAPHET KOTTO’s busted wig since there were virtually no Black men in ‘Firefly’ and none whatsoever in ‘BattleStar Galactica’. My bad sonn, there was that jig Cylon.
SCHWARZENEGGER gets re-apprehended when he returns to the quote unquote civilization. This is when the corrupt television broadcasting corporation places him on their sadistic prime time show which has convicts attempt to escape termination from various armed “hunters”. This is classic SCHWARZENEGGER good shit as he fills the arena with testosterone and witty punchlines (literally) in his trademark butchered english accent. He delivers lines from his previous films as he terminates the hunters one by one. I enjoy his exchanges with co-star MARIA CONCHITA-ALONSO who manages to have as bad an accent as ARNOLD. You almost need subtitles when they are on screen together.
There is so much ass-kicking that you wouldn’t believe it and there is a bevy of top-shelf B-list action movie stars. JESSE VENTURA finds a wig worse than YAPHET KOTTO’s and JIM BROWN sports a frosted flattop. Incidentally, JIM BROWN hasn’t run for governor of any state yet. I just wanted to mention that. He gets his shit blowed the fuck up at the end. Just so you know this movie gets bloody and violent. The bloodlust belongs to the movie viewers as much as the characters on the screen. The society described in ‘The Running Man’ is where we exist now. The future is now and you better get ready to run.
Yo, they got the guy from Family Feud…the FEUD!
Word to the fat opera guy sponsored by Lite Brite.
I watched this LAST NIGHT. Fantastic.
Oh, and Arnold can’t run for President since he isn’t a natural-born citizen. Nitpick.
Richard Dawson (R.I.P.) killed it. He even did some of his lines in the manner that he used on the Feud.
Congress is going to change the law that stated that whole natural citizen shit to “naturalized” citizen.
Trust me and NetFlix this shit this weekend and see if you don’t get that Vu Ja De feeling after watching some CNN or Faux News that this movie called it twenty years ago.
first religion was used to control people and their actions with the mean spiritual guilt trip now its the media. i always had a thing against this media machine.
this saturday is the festival in BK, ain’t it? that DVD might have to wait.
off topic:
doing the meanest dance move from the keyboard to the IC mixtape powered by koolaid that came into my life while I was reading this drop.
you wasn’t lying, Dallas. yall are the future, did you plan for that to happen? are yall under my bed or in my fridge hiding or something?
The short story is less action packed than the film, more like a piece of literature than some shitty book they were waiting to make into a movie a la John Grisham.
I clearly remember seeing it in the theater and some dude sitting behind me said “that nigga looks like Lite Brite” about the fat opera guy
D, you failed to mention that, bad accent and all, Maria Conchita Alonso, whose since aged, but back then, aw eff it, even now, she can get it!! I know how dem Spaniard chix will claw the eff out a dude’s back!!!
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000744/mediaindex
@Combat Jack: She was especially fly in Colors, and I think (don’t quote me) Moscow On The Hudson.
The book was dope. There wasn’t a happy ending where the good guy lived.
Richard Dawson’s character was black but Hollywood had to switch it up.
In regards to Running Man, yeah I knew Stephen King originally penned that shit. He’s from MA and I hate his fuckin’ guts with a passion (it’s a blog in itself).
In regards to “Firefly”, Shepherd Book was a main character in the cast (Ron Glass) and there were a few Black male co-stars, most notably bounty hunter Jubal Early in the fan favorite episode “Objects In Space”. He turned out to be the inspiration for The Operative (Chiwetel Eijiofor) in the “Serentiy” film. If there were simply more brothers in Canada, there’d be more in the Battlestar Galactica series.
As far as my Neggar Arnold goes:
Predator>Total Recall>Terminator>The Running Man
But all of ’em are classics.
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@Dart: No love for Commando?
Encyclopedia Black Says:
July 11th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
@Dart: No love for Commando?
Dart says: Commando was the greatest low budget, halfass action flick of all times. The main villian was an out of shape schlub, you could clearly see the smokepots and lifts in the final scene where he storms the compound and all the money went to pay Arnie and rent vehicles. Even to this day Rae Dawn Chong and Alyssa Milano are ashamed of that joint. It caked up regardless.
Watch it again closely and you see just how bootleg that shit was. I used to love it back it the days until I started fuckin’ with film school.
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An extra larg pause to ahnold’s entire oeuvre which is wild homo.
The Predator was a massive extra terrestrial Jeffrey Dahmer.
Watch Commando now and let the ROFLcopters fly. My favorite scene is when ahnold gets medevial on the baddies with shit from the tools shed by the pool out back.
True story is that rae dawn chong is my facebook friend and I will be tapping that when the i.C.’s go to Hollywood.