2:20 Haha growing up me and my brother would copy Dynamo saying "cut, go to commercials!" when we did something silly which resulted in us hurting ourselves 😂
Dynamo’s outfit was rather a impressive bit of cinema tech for the day. We get spoiled by the low costs and ease of putting leds everywhere today. But that was all custom hand made electronics.
Arnold’s character makes it clear to the audience that he won’t kill a defenseless person by sparing Dynamo and later there is the video of him disobeying orders to shoot at unarmed civilians. I wondered why the crowd easily believed the video until I remembered this scene, where it’s established that Ben has a moral code that the audience had witnessed.
Just a year earlier, in a similar scene, Arnold had spared a helpless life form that was trapped under logs and rocks in the predator. At the end of the movie he's about to hurl a log at the downed being but then hesitates in a odd moment of compassion even though the alien hunter had killed his old squad and a bunch of other soldiers too
Erland and I grew up together in Ridgefield Ct....he was my best friend......he was an amazing person...in the 6th grade he was 6' 5" and 240 pounds, he was a very imposing but as gentile as a kitten.....he graduated from MIT at the top of his class getting the highest starting salary of ANY student to date....head programmer for CitiBank....he could not stand the bullshit of that "corporate mentality", so he quit....got into acting and raising his family....miss him beyond words. He was also an Olympic wrestler.....first alternate in the 1980 Olympics. On Sunday he was the soloist for the local The First Church of Christ, Scientist.....he and his brother Philip had outstanding singing voices!!!
Dynamo was played by Erland Van Lidth a Dutch American and former wrestler. He studied computer science at MIT unfortunately he died of heart failure at age 34 and one day after his first wedding anniversary.
I know Dynamo doesn't die until near the end of the movie, but this still had to be the sorriest Stalker defeat in the whole show. At least Buzzsaw and Sub-Zero get to go down fighting. Dynamo gets humiliated by being too stupid to understand the basic physics of driving.
Yes, and still has a better message and a more plausible scenario. Based on a novel written by Stephen King (under his pseudonym Richard Bachman) no less. Btw, Battle Royale (2000) did the kids killing each other until only one remains thing far better as well. Quentin Tarantino certainly thinks so. When a bored wife who makes her living by writing scripts for children's televisions shows (it's true) and wants a love story triangle at core (for the predominantly female readers) tries to incorporate a concept (dystopian system) she clearly hasn't a clue about that's how we got The Hunger Games. Suzanne Collins wrote a glorified Twilight novel set in a future only a middle-aged woman who has never set her foot outside her state, let alone traveled the world, could come up with. Targeted towards teenage girls who are yet to learn about the hardships of love, relationships and daily reality.
They probably had a Dynamo action figure, with car and realistic electric sparking motion so he can incapacitate his victims for sexual assault. Being a child in the 80s was great.
That line doesn't make sense. Buzz-Saw didn't leave the Running Man hunt, Richards used Buzz-Saw's own chainsaw against him by cutting him in the... ...oh I get it now.
This is the turning point. When Ben Richards refuses to kill Dynamo when he’s defenseless, the mood of the crowd, slowly but surely, starts to shift in his favor.
No, the turning point is when the old lady decides to vote for Ben Richards to make the next kill. In this scene, you see everyone booing him because he didn't kill Dynamo when he had the perfect chance.
The turning point was when the footage was shown of the helicopter firing on civilians and proving Ben Richards was innocent that's when the crowd realised they'd been lied to
A lot of people don't know that Stephen King wrote the book that this film is based on. He had to use an alias as the publishers didn't think a horror writer could do sci-fi.
@@ZoidZZX Just imagine they adapted it faithfully back then and as originally planned, Christopher Reeve as Ben Richards whom btw my only pick in my fan casting as Jack Torrance from the Shining. He can be a quiet, friendly guy at first but he can also be terrifying as seen in his performance in Deathtrap and Superman III when he became evil version of Superman.
It's definitely a gut-wrenching scene. It shows what a viscous monster that society created. You could see Killian was shocked and a little bit afraid of the audience from that point.
Terror from The Wanderers got duped into joining the marines, then, 40 years later in a dystopian future, he's a Christmas ornament that electrocutes criminals forced to go on a game show to try and run 🏃♀️ away from him and other proffesional killers with cool gimmicks.
Exactly...It reminds me of Robocop. It's criminally underrated in my opinion. They just don't make movies s like this anymore. Someone mentioned it should be remade in the comments. I don't that's a good idea. There's no way they good assemble such a great cast like the original.
Tomorrow (Saturday, June 3rd, 2023) would have been, if he were still alive, the 70th birthday of the actor who played Dynamo, Erland Philip Peter Van Lidth De Jeude. Rest in peace.
I do like how the audience has lots of senior citizens, and they are just as thrilled by the killing as everyone else. How could society be so depraved?
@@deadbeef576 Yes. It's sickening! I dread looking at the news. Our democracy is hanging on by a thread. We are one crisis away from a dictatorship. A recent survey showed that most Republicans support having a dictatorship. Are they stupid, or are they evil? I might have to move to Canada.
I just remembered there were only red and green LEDs in the 80s. Together they could make yellow, but that was it. No blue and hence no white or any other colors.
On February 19, 2021, Paramount Pictures announced that it would make a new film adaptation of the novel, one that would be more faithful to the source material.
This car chase scene could be more believable if they have changed Arnold for Tom Cruise. But, it's still more believable than the chasing of kid Leya in Obi wan Kenobi.
Arnold's enticement of Dynamo to follow him, seems to indicate he has planned a rout, leading Dynamo into some sort of blind turn where he could not avoid the previously hidden hazard at high speeds. I'm not sure if the way the crash was shot conveys that, but that seemed to be the set-up.
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“Hey Christmas Tree!”
“Follow me light bulb!”
I love all the cheesy one liners Arnold had in this movie!
Sub Zero now Plain Zero! (lol)
Cheesy?
Not as good as "Stick around" and "Get to the choppa!" that same year in Predator, but it's worth a runner up :)
Me too! Hey, light head! Lol😂
2:20 Haha growing up me and my brother would copy Dynamo saying "cut, go to commercials!" when we did something silly which resulted in us hurting ourselves 😂
lol, that’s funny. did you also say “Jesus Christ I have no power “
That's hilarious man! :))
I still say regularly today 😂
Lmao 😂😂
" Come to me my love " 😨😳💯🤣
Erland Van Lidth was such an interesting character: wrestler, actor and opera-singer. It's such a shame he passed away so soon, he really had it!
Damn apparently he died the year this came out.
@@DruuzilTechGames he died from massive cheeseburger overdose.
He was Grossberger in Stir Crazy with Richard Pryor & Gene Wilder
He sucked .
My dad sold him a hamster when they were kids lol
"Hey! Light head! Hey Christmas tree!"
Best insult ever, from Arnie.
and “follow me lightbulb” 💡
Yeah..that was brutal..roast material.
Dynamo’s outfit was rather a impressive bit of cinema tech for the day. We get spoiled by the low costs and ease of putting leds everywhere today. But that was all custom hand made electronics.
So was his car, built on a VW Beetle chassis.
@@willshaw3493 I'm sure sticking some aluminum panels on a VW frame was much easier than making the costume lol
"Hey Christmas tree!" That line was absolutely hilarious. 😂😂
Quite ironic when compared to Jingle All the Way.
Arnold’s character makes it clear to the audience that he won’t kill a defenseless person by sparing Dynamo and later there is the video of him disobeying orders to shoot at unarmed civilians. I wondered why the crowd easily believed the video until I remembered this scene, where it’s established that Ben has a moral code that the audience had witnessed.
And yet he kills Fireball after disarming him.
@@dragondude9637he was literally trying to kill both him and amber, and she was a second from getting barbecued. That’s a level playing field😂
@@dragondude9637he said he wouldn't kill a HELPLESS human being....Fireball was fair game
Just a year earlier, in a similar scene, Arnold had spared a helpless life form that was trapped under logs and rocks in the predator. At the end of the movie he's about to hurl a log at the downed being but then hesitates in a odd moment of compassion even though the alien hunter had killed his old squad and a bunch of other soldiers too
After Dynamo's defeat, Chris Jericho claimed his Jacket..
But out of respect for Dynamo, Jericho didn't say a word or cut a promo for a while when he put on the Jacket.
I got that reference.
Dude... classic
Good call!!
😂😂😂👍
My grandma use to love watching this movie in the mornings. Its a classic
Why specifically in the morning? 🤔
@@testshietchannel morning aerobics
@@mrtomcruise5192
She joined in with the Running Man dancers?
She chose Ben Richards. She can do what she likes.
no tongues! haha 👄
Nothing and I mean nothing could beat the 80's when it came to action movies.
That go-kart roaring like a mustang while going 8 miles per hour is the funniest thing.
Yep, this flick was even cheesier than I remembered. 😂
@@finntastique3891 Still absolutely fantastic, though! Lol!
I just wish there had been MORE characters they sent in there, to kill them!
It was built on a VW Beetle chassis.
One step above the "enforcers" in the MST3K classic Space Mutiny
To this very day it still makes me cry with laughter xD
Erland and I grew up together in Ridgefield Ct....he was my best friend......he was an amazing person...in the 6th grade he was 6' 5" and 240 pounds, he was a very imposing but as gentile as a kitten.....he graduated from MIT at the top of his class getting the highest starting salary of ANY student to date....head programmer for CitiBank....he could not stand the bullshit of that "corporate mentality", so he quit....got into acting and raising his family....miss him beyond words. He was also an Olympic wrestler.....first alternate in the 1980 Olympics. On Sunday he was the soloist for the local The First Church of Christ, Scientist.....he and his brother Philip had outstanding singing voices!!!
You knew him, and he sounds like a very interesting person, had a very eventful life.
died young, but lived about 3 different lives
Man, I'd love to hear more about him. What an interesting man.
Dynamo was played by Erland Van Lidth a Dutch American and former wrestler. He studied computer science at MIT unfortunately he died of heart failure at age 34 and one day after his first wedding anniversary.
Holy crap, MIT?? And he took up wrestling??? Talk about career changes!
"...that's Grossberger...my dear,...."
You can see the info on Wikipedia.
He was also in the the film the wanderers
He was in Stir Crazy too.
I know Dynamo doesn't die until near the end of the movie, but this still had to be the sorriest Stalker defeat in the whole show. At least Buzzsaw and Sub-Zero get to go down fighting. Dynamo gets humiliated by being too stupid to understand the basic physics of driving.
Really should've just stuck to throwing fistfuls of lightning.
yeah and he dies being electrocuted in water with his pants down
Not Dynamo's fault his accuracy went down to 0% as soon as he started shooting at the main character.
Running Man… the Hunger Games of the 80’s. 🤣
Exactly why I said to a friend ''imagine the Hunger Games but with Arnold xD''
Yes, and still has a better message and a more plausible scenario. Based on a novel written by Stephen King (under his pseudonym Richard Bachman) no less.
Btw, Battle Royale (2000) did the kids killing each other until only one remains thing far better as well. Quentin Tarantino certainly thinks so.
When a bored wife who makes her living by writing scripts for children's televisions shows (it's true) and wants a love story triangle at core (for the predominantly female readers) tries to incorporate a concept (dystopian system) she clearly hasn't a clue about that's how we got The Hunger Games.
Suzanne Collins wrote a glorified Twilight novel set in a future only a middle-aged woman who has never set her foot outside her state, let alone traveled the world, could come up with. Targeted towards teenage girls who are yet to learn about the hardships of love, relationships and daily reality.
More like the Death Race 2000 of the 80s.
@McLarenMercedes Battle Royale is indeed the true battle royale of the battle royale format, yes.
And Squid Games of the 80s
This is what 1980's children movies were like. 🤣
nowadays kids watch superhero movies.
Dark movies for kids!
They probably had a Dynamo action figure, with car and realistic electric sparking motion so he can incapacitate his victims for sexual assault. Being a child in the 80s was great.
So true.
This wasn’t for children…
“What happened to BuzzSaw?”
“He had to split.” 🤣
That line doesn't make sense. Buzz-Saw didn't leave the Running Man hunt, Richards used Buzz-Saw's own chainsaw against him by cutting him in the...
...oh I get it now.
Im Deutschen sagt er in der Synchronisation " Ihm gibt es jetzt Zweimal."
"What happened to Buzzsaw?"
"He had to split."
Movies like this show just how much of of an impact the media can have on the masses. Sad times we're in
I love how the crowd starts betting on Ben to win instead of the show’s own “villians.”
This might have been the most fun of all Schwarzenegger movies.
Its hard to believe movies were this bad and this good. Now we have 30 times the budget and 10% of the entertainment.
I guess that buggy was slow due to the cargo, for Arnie to be outrunning it. LOL
80s movies are a different level of warmth
The year Arnold Schwarzenegger at the highest powers
K.I.T.T's cousin didn't take that hill very well.
Love it when dynamo let's out his battlecry !!
“Hey, Christmas Tree!” 😂😂😂
"Follow me lightbulb!"
He forgot to include Rainbow Brite Man!
_Ride of the Valkyries theme song intensifies_
Arnold: hey christmas tree at 0:55 lol
0:55 HEY CHRISTMAS TREE 😂😂
Schwarzenegger acted his heart out with those lines...
I like to imagine Donald as him in any part. He really would have nailed it.
“Cut….go to commercial!”
Bahahaha! I love this cheesy 80’s flick!
Cheesy?
I always felt sad seeing Bob Lazar’s character die in this scene
This is the turning point. When Ben Richards refuses to kill Dynamo when he’s defenseless, the mood of the crowd, slowly but surely, starts to shift in his favor.
No, the turning point is when the old lady decides to vote for Ben Richards to make the next kill. In this scene, you see everyone booing him because he didn't kill Dynamo when he had the perfect chance.
The turning point was when the footage was shown of the helicopter firing on civilians and proving Ben Richards was innocent that's when the crowd realised they'd been lied to
yea when the winds blow one way and go another proof human kind only cares about its feelings and blood lust is what this proves
@@williamshaw9047 , good point.
@@benjack8477 , good point.
Van Lidth De Jeude, who played Dynamo, died of heart failure in September 1987 age 34, a few months after filming finishing on The Running Man.
For a man named Dynamo, he wasn't the brightest
Dynamo had a commanding presence, mostly a bad guy but not always, liked the wanderers and stir crazy performances. He passed in 2012, RIP.
He passed years before that
My bad 1987, need a cup of coffee ☕😊
@@bigp3006 no worries
I laughed so hard when he flipped his car lmfao😂
Top movie from my childhood. I always wondered why Richards didn't take Sub-Zero's hockey stick oder Buzzsaw's chainsaw, after he had finished them. 😜
A lot of people don't know that Stephen King wrote the book that this film is based on. He had to use an alias as the publishers didn't think a horror writer could do sci-fi.
Shame the movie has almost nothing in common with the book.
@@ZoidZZX Just imagine they adapted it faithfully back then and as originally planned, Christopher Reeve as Ben Richards whom btw my only pick in my fan casting as Jack Torrance from the Shining. He can be a quiet, friendly guy at first but he can also be terrifying as seen in his performance in Deathtrap and Superman III when he became evil version of Superman.
Settle down big guy.
I think this movie should have its own action figures toy line
It still can. Thought the Reaction toyline.
Lite-Brite Man and his Slo-Mobile.
"Who loves you and who do you love?"
Killian is LYING to you!
Back in the days when action movies were gold and when the cheese was like a fine wine
Wow, he is a badass. Evil, but joking, singing opera, so awesome.
I watched “ commando” last night…i understand now why Chuck Norris looks under his bed for Arnold before going to sleep…
Great Movie, reminds me of Smash TV nes game
At that moment, Killian realized it didn’t matter who was stalker and runner. The people just wanted blood.
It's definitely a gut-wrenching scene. It shows what a viscous monster that society created. You could see Killian was shocked and a little bit afraid of the audience from that point.
Terror from The Wanderers got duped into joining the marines, then, 40 years later in a dystopian future, he's a Christmas ornament that electrocutes criminals forced to go on a game show to try and run 🏃♀️ away from him and other proffesional killers with cool gimmicks.
He was also Grossburger from Stir Crazy.
Amazed no one has considered making a remake of this movie unlike Total Recall.
One for Netflix maybe
Real life in a couple of years.
the camera work is amazing! for a live show that is..
I wonder if there's anyone that watched this movie and failed to see that its a satire not meant to be taken at face value.
Exactly...It reminds me of Robocop. It's criminally underrated in my opinion. They just don't make movies s like this anymore. Someone mentioned it should be remade in the comments. I don't that's a good idea. There's no way they good assemble such a great cast like the original.
@@Barbarianbrotha Robocop has been remade .
Yes, a bit like Starship Troopers, I always found it odd people didn't get the satire in it!
Didn't realise Jim Sterling was a bad driver
I like Dynamo the funniest guy in all sense.
😆 at Jim 🏈 Brown:"My gas ⛽ line...my gas line!"
Love the way Jim says that line and also "Last season's losers!". RIP NFL legend Jim Brown AKA Fireball.
Buzzsaw was much better at singing his guts out .
Tomorrow (Saturday, June 3rd, 2023) would have been, if he were still alive, the 70th birthday of the actor who played Dynamo, Erland Philip Peter Van Lidth De Jeude. Rest in peace.
Love this movie.
I do like how the audience has lots of senior citizens, and they are just as thrilled by the killing as everyone else. How could society be so depraved?
Look at the state of USAs society right now.
Is it really so unbelievable? We are on a straight path into this kind of society.
@@deadbeef576 Yes. It's sickening! I dread looking at the news. Our democracy is hanging on by a thread. We are one crisis away from a dictatorship. A recent survey showed that most Republicans support having a dictatorship. Are they stupid, or are they evil? I might have to move to Canada.
@@GregoryTheGr8ster Can you tell me where this study is?
Set in 2025, there's still time!
Amazing how easily satisfied we were in the past.
Blue LED's were invented years later, LOL!
the old woman yelling "kill it" lol
Grossberger STILL ROCKS !!
One of my favorite Arnie films.
He was really running, man
Shoulda called it Powerwalk man at best, Or maybe beanrun man based off of 0:44
Maximus the Merciful!
Thats Grossberger from stir crazy
I just remembered there were only red and green LEDs in the 80s. Together they could make yellow, but that was it. No blue and hence no white or any other colors.
i just realized he's wearing, "Light bright" on his costume. look at all those beautiful little plastic colors. they made a running fat walking man!
This movie is nothing like the novel. I wish the did a version like the novel
His lite brite costume is sweet.
She’s presenting
On February 19, 2021, Paramount Pictures announced that it would make a new film adaptation of the novel, one that would be more faithful to the source material.
If he had magical powers of Dynamo from England this one will maybe survive
Blue lightning bolts = kill vs Yellow lightning bolts = stun
Is it just me, or are the red lights on the front of the car a bit of a rip off of the scanner light from Knight Rider?
Wagner's music has never been put to better use...
yeah. whenever I hear The Ride of the Valkeries I always think of this sequence!
I miss the 80s
Top 5 best film Arnold ever did I pray they don't make a remake of the classic
Of course they'll do a remake. We're talking about Hollywood.
first guy in scene looks like a young Malcom Gladwell
“Oh gawd! I’m stuck! Somebody’s help meeee!!!”🤣🤣
Poor weiss he such a brave running man
Dynamo was always my favorite in this movie.
that there are no reboots for this
I always feel this is a remake of death race 2000, about 12 years earlier.
This car chase scene could be more believable if they have changed Arnold for Tom Cruise. But, it's still more believable than the chasing of kid Leya in Obi wan Kenobi.
Oh god, that scene is right up there with the scooter gang from Boba Fett.
kept on gagging and throwing up watching that scene. Still trying to get a refund for the time spent watching.
I never doubted Arnold could do this.
2:01 Galaxy-brained decision by Dynamo to chase Ben up the scrap heap. What does he think will happen?
Who cares?
@@martykeaton182 I commented because I feel like doing so- no other reason present, and in fact no other reason needed.
Arnold's enticement of Dynamo to follow him, seems to indicate he has planned a rout, leading Dynamo into some sort of blind turn where he could not avoid the previously hidden hazard at high speeds. I'm not sure if the way the crash was shot conveys that, but that seemed to be the set-up.
@@dy031101 I should’ve added that he deserved to lose.
"Light brite" would've been the perfect thing to call him.
Gawd I loved this movie
When your Light Brite goes bad.
Darth Sidious really let himself go
Here's a film that could actually do with a good remake.
Wayne Brady for the Richard Dawson part.
@@toddwebb7521 Killian WAS black in the book and there is a remake in development that apparently is more faithful to the Stephen King novel.
@@kagemaru259 The book is brutal
If they made running man today...
Jeezus no wonder people loved Bright Lights back in the day 😆 they gave you Electrokenisis I'm sold 🥰
I just noticed, Erlindt...got to sing in every movie he did! 🤨
Very powerful words by Arnold:
“No. I won’t kill a helpless human being. Not even sadistic scum like you.” 👍🏻
Understanding America
In the book Killian is big black and bald so the late great Michael Clarke Duncan would have been perfectly cast in a remake/reboot
Or Steve Harvey
"Go to commercial."
We had Ah - nold in Running Man, today it's Jennifer in Hunger Games.
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