The Running Man Review - Off The Shelf Reviews 

When the "Deep Fakes" software was released, it immediately reminded me the facial video editing from this movie. Also, just realized this video is 3 years old already. The Running Man is one of my favorites movies of that time.

Movies from the 80's always had a cool song playing during the end credits. You don't get that these days.

That's the thing about 80s movies for me, sure they have some dated and cheesy moments, but *_that's_* what makes them fun for me. Most of today's movies don't seem to have that sense of fun 80s movies have. I think _Guardians of the Galaxy_ is probably the closest to capturing that 80s feel, cause it almost feels like a fun 80s space action-adventure movie.

Love the way you edit your reviews, your facial reactions feel as if you were looking the final version of yourselves, along with us.

From 80s action packed films to governors, 2 of em!....holy crap how time has flown by

The Running Man is awesome. I love it. But i also cant help but think what Paul Verhoeven would have done with it - the social satire of the film is right up his alley.

I can remember seeing this movie in a drive in theater when I was a kid. Man I am getting old.

Underrated Arnold movie.

Outside of the Terminator, this is my favorite Arnold movie. I read the book last year.

Covid-19 is a more absurd TV show than anything I've seen in a movie.

RINNING MAN was the first modern Gladiator film (since 1975s DEATH RACE 2000 any way_ that never equalled the odd popularity of - HUNGER GAMES or...MAZE RUNNER setting a trend for these kind of films.

Nice review guys. I agree with you both about this movie. I like the commercials, especially Captain Freedom's workout but I do think that Robocop's commercials are funnier and better quality.

Guys you gotta do something I’m half way through the review and I’ve been onslaughted by 15 ads.

Arnie had been watching too many James Bond, Clint Eastwood films at this point, its likely to have been his idea to do the one line gags

Damn, Gary...I thought your shirt said RETRD and couldn't imagine why you were wearing it.

Iain, when you made your comment about a bootleg Fleetwood Mac cassette tape, were you aware that Mick Fleetwood played the part of the rebel leader?

Love movies from this era so much, there like video game movies, just so much fun.

My biggest problem with this movie, even back in the day as a child when I saw the movie the first time, is that the stalkers look like villains and pretty ugly and disgusting ones but for the reality they live in and the show they are perceived as the heroes and they should look and at least act like them to some degree. A luxuary of writing that in 2020 is that I now have an example how I imagined that and this would be The Boys with their on camera off camera attitudes, so the guy with the chainsaw should rather look like some Bruce Campbell/Ash Williams look alike, someone you would root for and the others should be similar in on screen charisma. We, the audience know they are the bad guys and they can be also in the movie "off screen" for the show's audience. And on a personal note, I don't like when the bad guys go out in a pathetic way, this lessens the challenge the heroes had to overcome like with Ultron, Loki and Elizabeth Banks in that Power Rangers movie. You did not show all the deaths here but they all go out strange or pathethic, one self electricuted with his pants down. Back then this wasn't really common but just look how anime villains go down, so often they are still badass in death and this resonates to the heroes who overcame that challenge, this just feels so much more earned. These things aside, this movie is awesome and you should watch it...but in general Arnie really should have been dubbed, his accent isn't even a typical Austrian accent, they sound pretty awesome, Graz is right at the border to Slowenia, maybe they have their very own accent limited to that region which differs enormously to the rest of the country...

This movie is kinda dated, These days nobody i know watches TV. Just uses the Internet, reality TV is dead.

SNES Super Smash TV. That is all.

Love this movie. i hope they dont ruin it with some shitty remake

200 dollars on Richards

Nobody ever mentions the security guard he was in predator red heat Conan the barbarian and most importantly mallrats and a horrible Russell Crowe movie

How did the most ridiculous part of this film - mapping Arnie’s face onto another person’s face - come true? I mean . . . who fucked reality so royally for DeepFakes to be predicted by The Running Man for God’s sake?

WEISS and LAUGHLIN

34:16

Dune the movie

Here lies sub zero

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Saw it when it came out. It was a pretty weak Arnold effort. Not highly thought of at the time.

Arnold and Jesse were both Governors of States in the USA

Notice how Richard Dawson says the only rebuttal to Arnie's "I'll be back" in movie history. "Only in a Re-run."

Watched it last night it's still awesome and reminds us all never to trust the BBC 😉

One of my favorite movies and one of my favorite books. The story in the book is so much better than the story in the movie, it deserves its own movie. Y'all have a badass day 🤘🍻🤘

On a very depressing note. The actor that played Dynamo passed away a few months after filming ended because of heart failure at only 34. He was a very versatile man. He was an actor, wrestler, opera singer and he studied computer science at MIT! Sad that such a talented person had to go so soon.

The running man is a quality film, I never get bored of watching this. 1987 was a great year for Arnie, predator and the running man classic's

Everytime I hear the Intro I just wish everyday was 1987 , great movies ( practical effects and smart minimal CGI use ), great games , great technology , great music , and a far more sane society. #NostalgiaUltra

In terms of one-liners, this movie is Arnie's best :P

I always thought Maria Conchita Alonso looked hot in the Running Man outfit.

Reminds me of Rollerball a bit.Can you do a review on that one please?

I grew up with Sky Movies in the early 1990s so yeah, The Running Man was part of that, see also... Cherry 2000, The RoboCop Trilogy, They Live, Commando, Raw Deal, The Terminator, the Mad Max Trilogy, Demolition Man, Total Recall, The Gremlins Duology, My Stepmother Is An Alien.

You guys are awsome

Sadly there are no tv show in this style of gladiatorian games when I write this comment in 2019, nor the technology, I´m disapointed now! xD

"You remember that earthquake, don't you Arnie?" "Fuck you!"

25:25 They also both became governors of U.S. states.

My only question about this movie is: WTF is with those outfits? I mean did they get them from the gay ice skating team, really wtf??? And I am gay, and I'm into Arnie, but not in that damn thing.

2 things I had no idea about here because I haven't seen this in maybe 25 years and was too young to put the faces (people) together at the time but Yaphet Coto (spelling?) from Aliens was one of Arnie's co contestants in this?! Also Mic Fleetwood was the resistance leader?! Fuck man I gotta watch this again and not with 12-13 year old eyes cause I actually didn't really like this as a kid.

Guys please please review The Emerald Forrest from John Boorman and the late Powers Booth also Enemy Mine.

i didn't know me and ian had the same childhood

Is it weird that I run a channel defending Eastern Orthodoxy and preVatican II Catholicism and yet "off the shelf reviews" is my favorite channel and that I never miss an episode?

I 'm dissapointed that the humour doesnt work all that well here in what is a sci fi black comedy, for the humour it should have equalled ROBOCOP but it never does, also the point they are trying to make about extreme 80s capitalism, in the game show format, seem muted, this film needed more...strength & daring. its often said in filmic entertainment that the public don't like propaganda, BUT some of the most classic films especially in the sci fi genra, use social comment& it works - ROBOCOP, BAT MAN BEGINS, KONG SKULL ISLAND (a metaphor for Viet Nam) & BLACK PANTHER, WEST WORLD to name just a few

Nothing will ever top the 80s when it comes to action horror and sci fi. Jesse the body rules.

Haven't seen this in years. I think I just recognized the lawyer with the pen in his back. He was the crazy Mohel from Seinfeld!

THE RUNNING MAN should & could have been better, it's clearly a weak tea ROBOCOP. some of the black comedy works, most of it doesnt, I thought that the biggest problem was pacing, the film NEVER really slows down & so there's no contrasting of pacing, also an uninteresting typical 80s music score.

No pun intended but Arnie went on a run of several classic films during this time.

There was a show in Korea also named Running Man, which was very popular. I didn't see that show at all, but after watching this review, I wonder who decided to name it Running Man and what they were trying to achieve...

It's scary to think that AI is just a couple of decades from looking real as shit, like in this movie. You dudes are dope. When I get enough money, I'm gonna join your patreon and request Apocalypto for a review. Greetings from Nogales, AZ, USA.

God the woman of the 80s was hot 🥵

Honestly I didnt realise there was a book! I thought this was a remake (and "themed" version) of the French movie - "prize of peril"..........wow

this movie is a classic of the 80s , great video

dynamo? catain light bright from the 80s

I was a big Arnie fan, also kid of the 80's....still miss Saturday morning cartoons!

On the note of films where a game is a battle, have you guys covered Rollerball? The 1975 original with James Caan? Not the absolute rubbish 2002 movie of the same name.

This film and the amazing game, for Megadrive 2 (genesis for the yanks), 'Super Smash TV' were staples of my childhood. That game always felt like an unofficial companion piece to this film.

PREDATOR 1987 : ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER JESSE VENTURA SVEN OLE THORSEN PREDATOR 2 : MARIA CONCHITA ALONSO

24:00 87? Looker did it in 1981!

They were only 3 years off with the Police state...

This reminds me so of the german movie "The Game of millions" from 1970 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Millionenspiel

The parallels between the media control in this film and the current fascist UK Tory govt, and GOP/MAGA in the USA are quite striking and prophetic.......

Absolutely love this film. This and Predator were my intro to Arnie back in 1989 when viewing these Bad Boys on VHS!!!!

Was never a fan of The Running Man,I think it’s very generic and uninspired, the book was much better. Having said that I love Commando so who can tell? 🤷‍♂️

Allthough it has a lot of good ideas..I remember a scene wich is so funny and stupid..itś about the girl finding the tapes used for the framing of the main character...and she finds the "real videos' and the 'mixed framed versions' ...why the hell would you keep here all the evidence...?

Solid film, though definetly not up to the standard of Predator or Total Recall. I have always felt that in the hands of a Paul Verhoeven, this film could have been a real classic! Paul Michael Glaser did a good job, especially when it came to the action sequences, but he seemed less interested in the satirical elements which could have really given the film the substance of Robocop or Starship Troopers. But with that said, The Running Man, as it is, still manages to be the perfect saturday night movie!

I loved this movie and the book is even better. I remember when reality TV first started in the 90's I thought 'here we go, Swim the Crocodiles is on its way' LOL

fun fact the dancers are real dancers not actresses

Please review Rollerball.

Before *Squid Game,* there was *The Running Man, the Original Squid Game.*

The book is better than the movie. I can’t help but feel that society today is heading toward the future that Stephen King has described in the book. 🤨🤨🤨🤨.

I love Arnold his one liners are gold LMAO I could watch Arnold movies all day.

Have you guys ever heard of the film, "Witness To The Execution?"

This movie was made from someone fantasy of seeing Schwarzenegger in tight lycra. 😅

Fireball is played by NFL Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown

19:54 hot chick on the left :)

We do have MMA cage fighting....that's pretty close....

I'd read this Stephen King story, and hated this movie because of it. Had it just been it's own story, I'd have been with it. Not a bad cheesy 80s actioner.

Arnold is funny in this one. Hey light head over here. Haha. I also like the tvs they are all flat screen in this movie

Good review, Great movie. I DON'T DO REQUESTS!

Please mate: give us the 34 oneliners from arnie..

Another criminally under viewed channel

Dynamo was played by Erland Van Lidth, who had a good voice as he also sang in Stir Crazy, the Gene Wilder/Richard Pryor prison comedy

80s hands down the best decade

Absolute Classic!

No the soldiers are combatants not civilians.

15:50 ❤ BRUNETTE ringing the gong

Loved this movie, so funny and true :) !

33 =P

The running Man is more relatable today. I would get behind a remake with more of a reality TV theme.

Classic Arnie 80s cheese and biscuits!

What an awesome off color shirt!

love your reviews video, came upon ur channel accidentally but i love ur show n think more people should watch it. keep up the great work.