ROTTEN TOMATOES: Total Recall: Who's the Man?

Total Recall: Who's the Man?

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7. The Running Man (63%)

1980s sci-fi was unusually prescient. Blade Runner dissected eroding humanity, and Robocop briefly delved into the pervasiveness of advertisements. The Running Man depicts a world whose voracious appetite for violence and titillation leads to sadistic game shows. Sound familiar? Here, Arnold Schwarznegger stars as a wrongly convicted man forced to run a televised gauntlet of traps and killer combatants. With its macho 1980s swagger and non-stop scenery chewing, The Running Man is about as subtle as a game of Smash TV. But it is cheesy fun, and we'll take this kind of abuse over Moment of Truth's emotional torture porn any day.

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blsinner writes:
on Apr 30 2008 06:19 PM

I hate the Running Man, the movie of course. The book was a grade A thriller, I loved it.

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jokerboy1991 writes:
on Apr 30 2008 06:33 PM

IRON MAN is gonna be ausome, already got my tickets for tomorrow @8!!!!

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Binh Ngo writes:
on Apr 30 2008 08:46 PM

Good list.

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bountyhunter185 writes:
on Apr 30 2008 08:49 PM

Wheres Marathon Man?
That film is a classic! Gross oversight on that one

Other than that, the list is pretty good.
Can't wait for Iron Man!!!!!

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BjornFree writes:
on Apr 30 2008 09:49 PM

Yeah, leaving off Marathon Man seems like a misstep, but maybe they didn't want multiple Dustin Hoffman films on the list. And of the two, Rain Man is the better known.

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RT-Matchity writes:
on Apr 30 2008 10:23 PM

In reply to this comment (#1712390)
You're exactly right BjornFree - we considered Marathon Man, but we decided to go with Rain Man as our only HoffMan flick.

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SlyDante writes:
on May 01 2008 05:02 AM

...Wow, you guys are really running out of ideas for this feature, aren't you? =P

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John Z. Delorean writes:
on May 01 2008 06:45 AM

All these movies pale in comparison to the great comedic duo Ed Lover and Doctor Dre in "Who's The Man?". The best hood/cop/buddy movie ever!

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dahluzz writes:
on May 01 2008 06:56 AM

pretty good list with some interesting tidbits in the blurbs. no 'lawnmower man'? meh, i guess it wasn't really that great anyway.

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TombstoneLawDog writes:
on May 01 2008 07:26 AM

In reply to this comment (#1712116)
blsinner;

It was worth it for me to respond to this just to agree- Steven King's 'Running Man' is, while short and similar in theme to 'the Long Walk' (one of the other two stories in the Bachman Books), a powerful, poignant allegory about a nightmare collaboration between government and entertainment that shares ABSOLUTELY NOTHING with the suck-#ss movie other than a title and maybe some character names. I find it to be the very definition of irony that the story is supposedly about finding the truth behind corporate lies when the entire movie was nothing but a bloated, corporate rape of an honest story idea.

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minderbinder writes:
on May 01 2008 07:32 AM

Do articles like this have to be on eleven separate pages?

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JamesEarl writes:
on May 01 2008 08:06 AM

No Wicker Man? I'm of course talking about the original.

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Tim Ryan writes:
on May 01 2008 09:34 AM

In reply to this comment (#1712639)
I love that one.

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unbreakable_samurai writes:
on May 01 2008 09:52 AM

Demolition Man sucked, I can't believe it's on this list. Cinderella Man was a great movie though, and a very under rated one.

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Whistler19 writes:
on May 01 2008 09:57 AM

I agree with you, minderbinder, I hate lists that are spread out through 10, 25, 50 pages, etc. and you have to click through each and every one to find out what's on the list. Great, I know Encino Man is on the list, but while I'm intrigued to know what else made the list, I'm not going to go through all eleven pages to find out.

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Whistler19 writes:
on May 01 2008 09:58 AM

I agree with you, minderbinder, I hate lists that are spread out through 10, 25, 50 pages, etc. and you have to click through each and every one to find out what's on the list. Great, I know Encino Man is on the list, but while I'm intrigued to know what else made the list, I'm not going to go through all eleven pages to find out.

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cypress550 writes:
on May 01 2008 10:42 AM

what about

spider-man

superman

bat-man
aquaman
iceman
human
woman

who cares this is a stupid list

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Tim Ryan writes:
on May 01 2008 01:10 PM

In reply to this comment (#1712936)
"First, some ground rules. We decided against loading up the list with superheroes, so there's no Batman, no Spider-Man, and no Blankman."

That's why!

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thetruebastard writes:
on May 01 2008 01:21 PM

Why not load the list up with superheroes? The whole goddamn inspiration for the list is a superhero.

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RT-Ryan writes:
on May 01 2008 03:47 PM

I dunno, I think a list full of superheroes would be too easy, too predictable, and therefore a bit boring. Make a list of -Man superhero movies, and everyone's gonna know what's on it. With something like this, though, and you get a wider variety of movies to highlight; it's a little less predictable and a little more interesting. Just my $0.02.

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