Cinepals - RUNNING MAN Reaction & Review!

Episode Date: August 8, 2024

Kristen & Vivian watch "The Running Man," a popular 80's dystopian action film where a wrongfully convicted man, forced to participate in a deadly game show, must fight for survival against ruthless stalkers while exposing the show's corrupt regime. This film is directed by Paul Michael Glaser (Killer Force), & it stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger (Terminator series & Predator), Maria Conchita Alonso (The Running Man & Vampires vs Bronx), Richard Dawson (Family Feud & The Greatest Show on Earth), Yaphet Kotto (Alien & Live and Let Die), and Jesse Ventura (Predator & Demolition Man). Join our Patreon https://www.Patreon.com/JabyKoay or become a YouTube member for access to full length watchalong reactions! SOCIAL MEDIA: ~CINEPALS~ YouTube: @CinePals Insta: https://instagram.com/TheCinePals Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheCinePals ~KRISTEN STEPHENSONPINO~ Instagram: @Kris10Kesp ~VIVIVAN~ Insta: @vivlingdarling

Sinha. Pals, I'll be back. What's up, guys? It's Kristen Stavisipino, joined by Miss Vivian Day. And today we're watching The Running Man. Ayah, aye. Are we going to run a marathon? I don't know.

It's funny, the only running man I'm aware of is there's a Korean show that was, like, huge. Oh, yeah? For a long time about the Running Man. It was hilarious. You heard it here first. But this obviously came first, because 1987, what a year. Let's go. That means it's going to be a good film with Mr.

Arnold. But we're going into it right now. The song's hitting. Right. Roll the dice. All right. The Running Man. Boy. What did you think? What did you think?

I love post-apocalyptic movies. I love Arnold. Like, it's always a good time. As always, the fights were always very gruesome. Yeah. No, right out of the, you know, we lost a guy in the beginning, and they blew his head up. And that was pretty like, whoa. No, but then, but then it's interesting because after that, I feel like the death scenes weren't as bad as that moment.

Yeah. And I'm kind of like, so right in the beginning, you just wanted to shock us. And then you're like, you know, maybe that was too much. I almost feel like it was like them going, I kind of feel sorry for you all. And I feel sorry for that scene. let me like make it a little lighter I was expecting that friend Loughlin right is that his friend's name

Loughlin? I was expecting us to see like guts all falling out and everything I thought his head got cut off him first yeah did it look like his head got chopped off at first or is that just me it was his tummy but I was expecting just like first I thought it was here or something but yeah

but then when they were just like oh it was just like boom I was like oh I guess we're spending all the money on the corpses of the old winners Well, you have to remember the time frame, too. Exactly. Like, for them back then, like, that was... There's a limit.

That was gnarly. One beheading and one... They went pretty hard on this one. They did. I think for the time frame, like, everything looked really great. The suits. The Shell Station suits. No, I...

This, it did remind me a little bit of, like, Hunger Games, but I'm glad that, like, we came back. I thought that little roller coaster, a little ride in the beginning's kind of fun. It's almost like... It's over fun. Okay, let me give you a little bit of fun before he's... you do your death. Right. But it's not.

Don't get me wrong. It's not. There's nothing fun about that. That's terrifying. But how shitty is it that they bring back all these people that have been through this and they're supposed to like, they're like not wanting to be a part of it. And then they end up dying anyways. Right.

You know, like, why don't you have to do that to Andrew Gordon? Yeah. That was mean. This is so, I think it's timeless because like, what are we? were in 24 and this is still relevant. This could easily happen. They could be like, 2028. Don't say that, Vivian.

It's already happening. I mean, I think we are living in a very privileged time where people are getting away with less. Like, we are more informed now. It's harder to lie to us. I feel like there's more truth bearers out there and we're a little more

woke. I feel like you can't, like this type of of world absolutely can exist and there's truth to it a lot of truth to it like media always making enough bullshit but even like

even now I don't know I don't know if I fully believe that it's harder to lie to us because everything's like controlled right just like what they were doing they're just it's all about control and I hate that and the thought of something even coming close

to a world like that I feel like that's us I know, but don't say that. I think we're already there. I'm trying to hold. Like the AI thing where the dating thing, I was like, hate it. That's why we have the union.

Hate it. It's terrifying. I was terrified of it for a strong second. Even doing something like this, I have moments where I'm like, oh, you know, anything could happen. But we can't let fear stop us from living. True. And spending time together. And we just pray for an Arnold to come save us.

Yes, Arnold, please come save us. Poor, poor nerdy friend passed. Oh, I was so used to. I thought, I thought that I was kind of bummed out that the nerd guy passed because I thought, okay, if the girl got elected to two, maybe, like, you know, we were just knocked out for a second. I was hoping he was just knocked out for a second. We were going to be able to bring him back to life. But that was not the case at all.

and I was bummed out. I felt like we kind of lost them a little too quickly. And I wanted more with them. But other than that, I really like the story concept and the idea of everything. Because it's timeless. Yeah. Could happen any time. And it's so true, even though it's like it was sensationalized,

but, you know, we do have, I mean, humans do have that spectrum of... Man, humans are disgusting. You can say it. We do have a history with brutality and enjoying it and egging it on and, like, all... Why? History. All over the world. I know.

And you know, they would guarantee people would watch it now today, too. Yeah. Because if you think about it, okay, we watch boxing. We watch, like, what are the thing? Boxing and I feel like MMA. I like, I like it, because. it's skill. Like that is like, oh, okay, you've

trained hard, this is all you do. It's a skill thing. But like, like, gladiator stuff. I feel like it's very close to gladiator. I don't know. Fine line. I'm going to just, I'm shocked. You like that? MMA fighting? Yes. Like, I have friends who are MMA and stuff like that, but

for me, I look at it, I'm like, that's somebody's baby you're hitting. Like, somebody like, and another part of me is like, okay, I don't see the joy. in beating the shit out of somebody. Like, there's nothing enjoyable for me to see somebody

constantly, like, getting something broken or seeing the blood, like, it actually hurts my feelings. But you're an actress, right? Yeah. You enjoy getting wrecked emotionally. I don't enjoy that. I don't enjoy that.

But you would do it on set. You know, why would you keep doing that over and over? Why do we watch these things over and over? It's because we recognize skills. Right? Part of me wants to be like, ha, let me go out.

It's the same thing. You have MMA friends. You know that it's their passion. You know, they're good at it. Yes, I know, but it doesn't mean. I respect it. I just don't like it. I just don't like it.

Even though I was a wrestler, we didn't, like, that's a different, though, you know? Like, you're slamming your bodies on the floor versus, like, actually, like, really like, Girl Muay Thai fighters, man. You know? Yeah.

But I think because back then, survival was so intense. And like, we, unless if you're on the battlefield, you don't really know what brutal that energy looks like. You know, so there's a curiosity. You don't know how anatomy works. So, like, you know, all the things. Like, no, I wouldn't want to see it. I guess there's a type of curiosity. Yeah.

Okay. I see that. But now we don't need that because we have. special effects and we have you know doctor things and we watch enough surgeries online I guess I guess I mean it's your inner animal instinct right like the inner animal in us all that I just I get the strength thing I'm not even a mom or anything but like yeah if that's I think or your love I think I'm just maybe I'm too soft no no you're empathetic that's different you you don't want to get punched like that.

I bet you, I bet you if you had the skills and you knew how to but I wouldn't want to do it just for fun. I wouldn't want to do it just for like to get paid or like I wouldn't want to do that. But you learn and you get better. The more you fight, the more

you spar and the more you train, the better than you get. No, but I... Okay. I'm like, it's like surfing. She's like, you want to surf with the... I love how she's looking at it. No, no, she's looking at me dead ass in the face. It's just like, you get better. I'm like, not getting it.

I'm like, what are you talking about? Like, what do you? It's just like, like, you practice and get, like, zoom in on my eyes. This is Vivian. And you get better, like, you know, better practice. I'm like, oh, you learn. I was like, this girl, get out of here. She's like, you're doing a great job at manipulating me right now.

That was, you know, manipulation to see it your way. You know, I respect that. Do I like it? No? Do I see it now? Yes. I don't know, man. I don't know. This film was great.

I respect fighters. And Arnold is such like a physique icon. He's trained hard all of his life. He was beautiful in the film. Like his whole like, every shot they had of his like face, I was like, whoa. Very nice. Good looking man. No one looks better.

You can't be oiled up. I mean. They didn't. them dirty with the yellow suit, but they did us good. They did well. They did good to us. They were good to us and the yellows. He can't be shirtless in

every scene. I got it. He could. I'm okay with it. You know who I really enjoyed? I really enjoyed the host. Oh, God. Oh, let's look him up. Richard Let me see. Dawson. I think he was on

Gilligan's Island. Yeah, click on him. Hold on, let's see. He was. That's why. I knew what I'm like. They paid a little too much attention. Okay, that's funny. Yeah, he looked obviously much younger. Catch Vivian.

Yeah, no, I think he was a great host. I loved how lovable he was with, like, the crowds. He was very charming. But then it was like he did such a great job at being like so nice. And then behind closed doors like, oh, wipe him out, blah, blah, blah. And I kind of like how it's like, it's like, you're never you're never going to know it was him yeah like he was like really good at keeping his hands clean you almost miss it how he's like fire and you're like yeah whatever it's so

quick yeah he's i feel like he was very clean like he's just the only thing i can think of is clean dirty yeah he's very dirty clean dirty whatever not sleazy like an a hole but he's not like sophisticated intelligent very intelligent with and very small smooth wise with like his choices and I could have had Arnold a little bit more intense I would have been okay with that

a little bit more intense and originally Amber she irritated me because I'm like Amber come on but I also and I also feel like she kind of got thrown into it a little too quick where we could we should have had

a little bit more like a scene with her and the other guys a little bit before they threw her in there as a punishment like something of her like fighting back or something a little bit more that part was just didn't really click for me but other than that I didn't I didn't mind it was very enjoyable

I liked it I liked it a lot I was six out of six yeah for 1987 a great year it's not bad super I love I think for that time frame this was this was intense I love the dancers the dancers are so good

the dancers are great I like the I like the way everything looked too Like they did a lot And they did a great job With the little I feel like they didn't have so much But yet they had a bunch

Yeah And they used like you know what I mean They really utilized everything very well The gadgets were really cool The cars that they had Even the bikes I remember In the first time we see Arnold go down Into the whole arena

There was this really cool bike That was like oh my God I almost missed it Because it was just an extra feature behind it. But that shows me that they had attention to detail and a lot of creativity and fun making this. So that's, I also like, I like how, you know, they bring it to your attention that things can be completely manipulative. Manipulated. It's because I just manipulated you. So you're still under my spell.

Yes, Vivian. Tell me what do you see? say, you know, I feel like that they show that you can be manipulate, manipulate, manipulated. I like that. That it shows that you can be manipulated very easily, but then also shown the truth. And it takes that one person to change the game and change your perspective and the way you see things. A grandma. And yeah, I love that. I love that line.

I can choose whoever I want. I do what I want. And I like that she. shows outside the box and it's not what they wanted you to do, but that's what she ended up choosing to do. And then everybody else was kind of in shock because they're like, are we allowed to do that? Yeah. Oh, shoot. We can do that. Let's change it up. So, no Betty White-esque. Her energy reminded me a Betty White. A little bit. I've missed Betty White. She's great. So anything else? Great job. This is really fun. I like this film. I thought it was great. You guys let us

know your thoughts in the comments. It was a lot of fun for me and Vivian as well. Make sure you hit the subscribe button, fill icons, all notifications, and up about this video. I'm Kristen Steffin-Sompino. I'm Vivian Day. And we'll see you next time. We'll be back. We'll be back until next time. Ah! Unward, I don't know. Yeah, I'm go with it.