The Running Man - What's the Difference? 

Better than "I'll be back"? Better than "Get to the chopper!"?

Carys Nevard its part of the gag

Doesn't mean it worked well. I get the gag, and it works -- but there are too many of them and it is a bit distracting. Edit: Half-way through, I'm turning this off, it's just too distracting.

American attention span always baffle me... thats why your stadiums need music and shit every 20 minutes xD

Most of us are here for film and book differences, not "gags".

Yes too many. Tone it down.

And to be fair, there were parts that the Arnold did get right, albeit surface level stuff: - The Network was state run media that was actively involved in manipulating the masses. - Much of the game shows abused and exploited ther poor and desperate in games that were designed to hurt or kill them. - The class disparity was so bad that often violence erupted over food shortages and there were state sponsored attacks on the poor. - Killian dies in a heaping fireball. - There were resistance factions that Richards teamed up with to try and evade capture and get back at the Network. - The Network did use deepfakes to alter footage of Richards to say or do things he didn't actually do. But yeah, a more serious treatment of the original story would be an awesome watch... The only issue is alot of people would probably see it as woke propaganda due to how preachy it can be in the book.

@@shelbyherring92 Personally, I rather prefer the original 1982 Richard Bachman novel OVER the 1987 film version of "The Running Man" because the story was MORE impressive as ever. After all, I am waiting for a much better version where it would be MORE faithful to the Bachman novel and that it would be more acceptable to an audience that will sooner or later FORGET the previous 1987 film after so many years anyway. By the way, why do you think that the 1982 novel has been regarded as so-called "woke propaganda" when there have been novels for decades that had issues to contend with, especially of the science-fiction type? I can only speculate that right-wing people would always assume that anything in entertainment is being regarded as so-called "woke" politics and that is unfortunate in America these days.

@@robertpolanco1973 Just say Stephen King, Richard Bachman is an alias

@@nickirmen6671 SO WHAT? I blame whoever blew the pseudonym of Stephen King's alter ego of Richard Bachman anyway! I find it unfortunate that someone, probably in the entertainment media, did such an awful thing to Mr. King a few years ago!

@@robertpolanco1973 Would you refer to a transgender woman as woman?

His Bachmann stuff is some of his best. Very angry and dystopian.

If you've not read it I'd recommend checking out the Stephen King book Cell, it treats cell phones very similar to how people look at TV in The Running Man to a degree. Just don't bother with the movie, it sucks.

@@kageakuma3009 I definitely agree with you on the 1987 film version of "The Running Man" because it was NOT faithful to the Bachman novel from 1982 anyway. It really was such an awful film that had only capitalized on the Schwarzenegger phenomenon of the 1980's and a story that was, I think and believe, more cartoonish than the Bachman vision of the novel.

Modern Nostalgia critic effect

Ht Rubenstein glad I'm not the only one who thought that.

I completely agree

I utterly disagree. It really drives home the point of how the world is going by bringing it into a "meta" level. It's only "distracting and unnecessary" if you're utterly failing to contemplate the themes being discussed. That is to say, you're exactly the kind of brainless schlub they're warning about people turning into.

Just A Dude, people can understand the themes perfectly and still find it distracting. We get it. He is forced to censor what they say because the big man is watching their every move in the made up parking ticket story. Any slip is watched and studied carefully in that kind of world like a modern North Korea or George Orwell 1984 world. The joke supported the themes of the topic, but they decided to turn a side dish into the main meal by making the video half the ticket joke and half the actual video.

All the derp "I ARE CONFOOSED" comments on this page, brainlessly repeating each other and seeming to reflect least-common-denominator attention levels, were actually meant as ironic callbacks to the video's theme

Yeah, but a fold-out couch... Gawd, just let him sleep on the couch... those things are Horrendous!!!(Brought to you by: The Freedom of Thought Fighters)

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Cheeky Squirrel Nuts oh yeah forgot Roadwork, that was a good one....I don't think Long Walk has enough for a series, but it does enough for a movie...I'd like to make it in Rockstar movie editor...it's totally doable!

Cheeky Squirrel Nuts sure will..

There is a Long Walk movie in development.

check out the movie The Prize of Peril - it is what King based his book on in the first place

The writer seems like a fkn terrorist who encouraged 9/11.

True!! but i dont know if USA let the ending be like that... they still ban planes crashing on buildings from TV.

Michael Stott It would be awesome!

C4 in the UK actually made a show out of the 'Running Man' in the book, although hunters all ex army and police just captured rather than killed.

kamatari edgar "ban planes crashing on buildings from TV" What? Remember Me, South Park, Fringe, Reign Over Me etc.

kamatari edgar www.today.com/popculture/tv-loosens-restrictions-airing-9-11-images-wbna14769404

It was kept from them, and every other runner were killed by them because they couldn't differentiate them to normal civilians, but Richards was a goddamn genius and 20 steps ahead of them, in one chapter he manages to kill like 10 hunters by trapping them in an underground parking lot and then blowing it up

You should get a refund! Be sure to write it up for Yelp too

Brilliant! Kudos for pulling this off so masterfully. You guys and gals are most awesome movie nerds!!!

Especially with how big a piece of shit Ben is in the book, and how the game works.

Indeed. Much darker and more layered in the book.

I see sincerity makes you uncomfortable.

That was close. I almost got into a cyclical debate with a professional troll. Nice try, trollster :)

plz dont, that just depresses me...

Yes sir.

heh he.. the "running gag" in the "running man" review?

I think they are a joke based on the idea in the book and movie of controlled information so they do fit with the theme but that doesn't make the skits/jokes any less annoying to deal with.

If that's the case, they failed at it miserably. I agree with OP, always great content with what's the difference, but they over did the lame jokes this time around imo. Hopefully the feedback helps shape the channel a little if they look at them. Plenty of comments suggesting it.

here's sub zero now plain zero

The whole “they’re listening” bit was mildly amusing at first but by the 3rd time i was like “FFS JUST STOP IT”

what wrong with the hunger games movies?

Everything is better than the Plagiarizing Game.

what the plaiarizing games?

Read either the book or manga "Battle Royale".

Or go all the way back to books like The Most Dangerous Game and Lord of the Flies. Had it for those two, Battle Royale and other similar stories would not exist.

Agreed

Yeah. First video I've watched. Think im good

i agree, the video is somewhat hard to follow and incoherent.. i hope they go back to the usual stuff..

I felt lost almost the entire time. If each voice could be one the book and one the movie, that would be nice.

This comment and the replies are all meant as parodies of moronized 2020 media consumers, right