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Dynamo, by a country mile. But this made me laugh and caused me to spit out my drink, so... Although, if it was this, then Jericho would have won I fucking love Chris Jericho.

When you put it that way, it could be some kind of thing where he's on a TV show, and he thinks "Okay, I'm gonna give these assholes a fucking show!" so, instead of going by the spirit of the show, and becomes "The Running Man", he becomes the aforementioned "Fighty Killy, Fuck People Up Man". So, not only does he kill these hunters, who are considered celebrities for all intents and purposes, in front of an audience of millions on live TV, he then verbally teabags them and makes a joke about it. It's the Muhammad Ali element, Ali knew that if he talked shit, and played the villain, more people would tune in in the hopes that they see Ali get his ass kicked. Obviously, this is all conjecture, but maybe that was the plan all along, get as many people watching as he possibly can, and then make the case for his innocence. Or, I'm just thinking too much about it.

Hunted was great, if you haven't seen it, I can't recommend it enough. However, this show was also real, and it was GLORIOUS, it's a shame they only made 8 episodes.

I hate to be the guy who quotes his own post, but fuck it, I've had a theory about it now. Perhaps the reason why there's a jumpsuit in her size, with her name on it was because there's a higher up at ICS (maybe even Killian) saw her at the snack machine, and just said to whoever he was near, "See her over there at the snack machine? I hate the fucking bitch! If it were up to me, I'd put her in The Running Man!" In an effort to schmooz the higher ups, the person he said it to decided to commission a jumpsuit for her just in case there's the unlikely event that they shove her on the show. Considering their propencity to make shit up, like they did with Ben Richards, they probably could do that to get her out of the company without the legal wranglings and severence packages. Then, when they actually do just that, here's the schmoozing, backstabbing colleague, jumpsuit in hand, ready to give it to them, and be given a promotion in return. I bet it was Amber's supposed "friend". You can't trust anyone in a corporate environment, especially those that go into way too much detail about how the man who kidnapped you, and has just walked passed and looked you dead in the eye, could have done whatever reprehensible and depraved thing that she could fantasize about.

That's one of his trademarks. It's basically like Tom Cruise and running, Arnie shows feats of strength,

I was taking the piss.

More importantly, where did they find a jumpsuit in her size, with her name on it? She wasn't supposed to be in the show, she was just shoved out there with a "Go get 'em". Maybe they had to make alterations, and in their haste, fucked it up. It's live TV, time is money.

Oddly enough, I jokingly mentioned The Condemned, but they actually do combat the issue of audience blood-lust directly. The Condemned had 10 Death Row convicts dropped on an island in the Pacific Ocean, and they have the fight to the death over three days, all 10 of them had explosive devices attached to their leg, so if they try anything, it blows up. The "tournament" was broadcast over the internet to a worldwide audience that paid $40 to watch it. And the TV guy putting it on said "No, I don't feel anything. These are people who were going to die anyway", basically telling the audience "You're not a bad person for watching it, you're watching the bad people get what's coming to them."

"John Cena, Terry Crews, and Michael Cera star in... THE FIGHTY, KILLY, FUCK PEOPLE UP MAN!" Let's get this made, people!

I don't want to argue against Jason here, but I can't agree that Arnold was the original Katniss Everdeen, because the purpose of The Running Man wasn't to fight with the stalkers, it was to run away from them, hence the title "The Running Man", otherwise it would be called "The Fighty, Killy, Fuck People Up Man". The original Katniss Everdeen, is Jack Conrad in "The Condemned", Stone Cold Steve Austin is the original Katniss Everdeen. The Condemned was released in 2007, the first Hungee Games book was released in 2008, blatent rip off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JOFS4A2leo

What makes it even worse is the old lady. She is openly cheering for a guy who, to her knowledge, opened fire in an attack helicopter on unarmed people trying to get some food, in fact, she said he was a "bad motherfucker". Now it makes me wonder what she did when she watched the news. I can just imagine her sat there at the start of the news, edge of her seat saying "C'mon, give nanna what she wants" to the TV. Then the anchor says "Gang violence has erupted in downtown Los Angeles", she loses her shit with excitment. I bet she has her grandkids bareknuckle fighting in the basement, taking bets from her book club... I hate old people.

Kulap singing "Restless Heart" by John Parr has made me want HDTGM Karaoke, where the singer is pulled at random, and they have to sing a song from the soundtrack to end the episode.

There isn't really a "WWF connection" to it, in terms that they didn't have any real input, Jesse Ventura and Toru Tanaka had already retired, and the WWF weren't anywhere near as strict as they are now when it comes to their talent appearing in other shows. Arnold, however, is a very good friend to a lot of old school wrestlers, particularly Bruno Sammartino, who would train with Arnold, as they had both immigrated to America around the same time, Arnold even inducted Bruno into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2013

We had a show in the UK called "The Crystal Maze", it was an adventure game where a group of people would do various challenges to obtain crystals, which they would then parlay into time inside the "Crystal Dome", in order to win prizes. Well, that was divided into four different zones, you had The Aztec Zone, The Medieval Zone, The Futuristic Zone, and The Industrial Zone (which was then replaced with The Ocean Zone in series 4). The show would rotate which zone the contestants would start in, so I think it's the same principle with The Running Man.... Holy shit, talk about a long walk for a short drink of water, just for one simple point. All of that was irrelevant, I could have just said "I think they would rotate them".

The Jim Brown I "grew up" with for want of a better term, was as the colour commentator for the early UFC tournaments, I knew nothing of his NFL career, he was the UFC guy to me. I knew he played, but didn't know just how good he was. Then a joke that Joe Rogan told about him and his extra curricular activities, to put it politely, told me even more about him.

Speaking of Ventura, anyone else see the "Captain Freedom" chartacter to be an obvious dig at Hulk Hogan?

It was from an unaired episode.

In Commando, when Arnold said "I'll be back, Bennett!", Bennett said "And I'll be waiting for you, John!"

It was CGI. "Captain Freedom" was called to wardrobe because Richards has killed a bunch of stalkers, and they needed him back. But then they tried saddling him with a stupid gimmick, and Ventura said "I ain't doing this stupid shit", and quit. So they got an old episode of The Running Man, and superimposed Richards onto the guy who Captain Freedom killed, and ended the show then.

But, they also show the "Raw footage" of the Bakersfield Massacre, as well as last year's winners, Whitman, Price, and Haddad burnt to a crisp, which shows it's all bullshit. If the show is fixed, then it loses the public trust, which then causes ratings to go down, leading to it's inevitable cancellation. Which also goes into why Killian also said "The people like violence, they love wrestling!" as there are parallels here, you have a sports entertainment event that used to be built upon the audience believing it to be real, you have your babyface and heel characters (in the terms of the show, Ben Richards is the heel, he's the bad guy), flambouyant gimmicks, and a shit tonne of steroids.

Arnold and Jesse Ventura aren't only former state governers, they also have the even more prestigious accomplishment... they're also WWE Hall of Famers.

Damn, Kulap's fucking up all of my corrections & omissions for me.

Jason asked which movies Arnold says "I'll be back", well, he's said it in the following: The Terminator Franchise Commando Raw Deal The Running Man Twins Total Recall Last Action Hero Jingle All The Way The Expendables 2 He's said variations of it in other films, like "I might be back", or "I'm back" and things like that. Last Action Hero actually pokes fun at it when Arnold says "I'll be back... HA! You didn't know I was going to say that, did you?!" To which the annoying little shit of a kid replies "That's what you always say. People wait for you to say it."

Here's an old pic of my work in progress Arnie movie collection. No reason why I'm sharing it, just wanted to. I have since added to it.

Speaking of Guardians of the Galaxy 2, I loved every second of it, got emotional at some points, and Karen Gillan is still an absolutely stunning woman, even with no hair, painted blue, and covered in metal. Also, Dave Bautista needs his own Drax movie, he stole the movie for me.