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370. Kings of King: The Running Man
🕑 Added 2021-03-19 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
Ah yes, the personification of the Stephen King everyman: Arnold Schwarzenegger. As we’ve learned, King’s protagonists are often nerds, dweebs, heck, even goofballs. So when the producers of the film approached Schwarzenegger with the adaptation of The Running Man, penned by King’s nom de plume, you know King was ecstatic about it. Michael and Abe discuss the outrageous and basic parody that permeates dystopian films as well as fondly remember that time a man named Buzzsaw got chainsawed in the balls.
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Comments
Brandon Patrick Sullivan
Great episode, but I'm tired of the meme "Tom Cruise is a tiny man." I looked it up to see if it was really that short and he's average height: 5'8". Nobody talks about how tiny Robert Downey Jr, Kanye West, Mark Wahlberg, or Steve Buscemi are and they're all the same height as Cruise. Plus, there is this odd implication every time someone mentions short height with disdain as if shorter people are inferior, which perpetuates a negativity for something nobody has control over. To me, it feels like that sort of low-hanging fruit "misobservation" has expired. Anyway, rant over, thanks for the analysis. I dug the discussion on satire and the flipping of the story's message in translation from page to screen.
Jeff Denver
I read this book in 2002 and was astounded that it ended with suicide flying a plane into a building.
minefreak555
Like the song intro
Tristan
I always want to hear Swaim sing
Taylor Hensley
We all love the song intro.
red sands
Oh! Didn't know that was King based
