Running Man

As part of my apartments tradition of watching an Arnold movie every Saturday, we watched "The Running Man". The impressive thing was how impressed I was by this movie! Sure, it was a somewhat campy 80's action film with some terrible (amazing) one liners from Arnold, but the message it sent seemed somewhat relevant to today. In a short 101 minutes, it painted a somewhat believable dystopia, showing the ridiculousness of how governments can take media, information, and television to control opinions of the masses. You get somewhat creeped out watching those people cheering for the death of Arnold's character, who they beleive murdered innocent people. Makes you wonder just to what degree this goes on today in America. Wouldn't be that far of a stretch to say it does. Also, the way the "stalkers" reminded me of mega man villians was awesome. Also awesome if the fact that I know now that The Fury in Metal Gear Solid 3 was most likely completley based of Fireball from this movie. Overall, a good watch.