It amazes me how so many people don't know about this movie. When I first watched it as a kid late at night on BBC one I loved literally every minute of it, very underrated. I've seen it a few times since and still thoroughly enjoy it. Great video thanks for posting.
My grandma gave my mom VHS of this movie as a gift in 1987. I was 4 years old at the time. This quickly became one of my favorite movies. So much nostalgia!
LOLOL!!! That's the movie I'm waiting for! The episode where he got attacked by that fake-ass huge boa constrictor...I've been laughing at that in my head for about 30 years.
I like it when you have what people think what the future is going to be like in movies made in the 1960s 70s and 80s. And I remember seeing this movie on HBO in the late 80s.
Saw this movie on Showtime back in the mid-1990s and I loved it! Selleck did a great made-for-tv movie for TNT called "Crossfire Trail" back in 2001. Beautifully shot, well acted, and featuring Wilford Brimley. The villain in the movie, played by Mark Harmon, is interesting because he goes through the stages of villainy as laid down by Alan Rickman in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. He starts out very threatening, and over the course of the film becomes increasingly more campy, stopping short at growing a mustache and twirling it. If you can find it, check it out. It's a lot fun.
I am 50 and I was in 4th grade in 1984 when I watched this movie with my dad. I remember the ending was very intense and we both really enjoyed it. I guess my 10 year old brain remembers this as being a really good movie, I'm going to have to watch it again to see! If you haven't watched They Live it was one of the best movies from around this time.
OHMIGOSH, I utterly LOVE this movie! I have it on DVD & recently introduced my son to it; he loves it too, so now a whole new generation is appreciating it! One of my fave 80's Sci-Fi thrillers! 100% definitely one of the best movies you never saw! 🥰👍🏻🥰❤️🥰❤️🥰❤️🥰❤️
I absolutely love this movie!! (Along with Looker!) I saw this in the theatre, at least a half a dozen times. I'd go to the first matinee showing on the weekend, and stay and watch it over and over. I finally got the DVD a few years ago and I still love it just as much as I did back then! :D
Thanks for the vid made me remember a movie I loved as a kid of the 80s. Going to rewatch in a bit. Quigley is a great movie as well. He was also good with Sam Elliott in the Sacketts Western movies.
I remember watching this on a plane trip from Boston to Los Angeles, and it has stayed with me ever since. I also love the Jerry Goldsmith score. A better movie than its reputation may suggest.
I saw this movie when it first came out in the 1980s. It was amazing to a little kid to see the amount of robots and the future. It eventually help directed me to become an engineer so I can design robots. Not many movies made a huge impact on me as a kid, but this was one of them. There was another robot movie that was more like a love story. It was called Electric Dreams. Short circuit and Weird Science was also my favorite movies of that time. These old movies were real classics even though some haven't heard of them before. I almost left out another old favorite called Real Genius. That was a great movie also. I tried to build robots like these as a kid, but it was obviously way before its time and I didn't know much about robots back then.
I was really young when this came out. It was the robots that got me into electronics. This movie was one of my early influences. I just watches this last week. Yalls list is impeccable sometimes
I enjoyed this movie very much as a kid and still as a adult these 35+ years later. The heat seeking bullets really was over the top cool, as well as the car seeking and destroy RC small car launched road torpedoes sent after the convoy of unmarked police cars. This was for sure a 80`s cool movie. A+
I actually rewatched Runaway a week ago which I hadn't seen in years. It's still enjoyable and for me when watching older films I put my mind frame in the time it was made so that I can better accept anything that may have aged if that makes sense. Another good Tom Selleck movie is the western Shadow Riders and it also stars Sam Elliott as his brother.
All I have to say is thank you. I saw this probably in the late 80s I’d have been 6/7 years old. I couldn’t remember what the film was called but I had this memory of this scary looking bad guy and the part when the bullet is removed from her. For over 30 years I didn’t know what that film was called. Now I can watch it and see if it’s as good as I’d remembered. Cheers 👍
I saw it back then too. I was 13. But I'd seen Terminator and Blade Runner by then, so this film rather suffered in comparison, to say the least. I knew what the near-future was supposed to look like, and it wasn't those cheap little spiders.
+Eric Shosted In Burnsville, MN?! My mom lives in Rosemount, so we used to go to that theater in the mall a quite a bit! I remember seeing "Mom and Dad Save the World" there! :D
@@Fluoride_Jones At the time the theater was brand new and within biking distance for me and my friends. That was also likely the last first-run theater on the southern end of the twin cities until the 90s.
Selleck made, he is a prolific producer, a handful of very good Westerns for TNT(?). Really hit his stride and then went on to his 'Jesse Stone' series of TV movies. They are all really good, handsome films with great stories and a fabulous cast. Can't recommend them enough, if you like entertainment clearly made for grown ups.
Loved this when it came out as a child. Then years later as young adults had to show it to my wife.. while tripping on LSD. We couldn't stop laughing the whole movie. The acting is just that good! :D
I remember loving it back then, I'm pretty sure I watched it more then once at the Theater!!! Not sur how well it holds up, maybe it's time for a re-watch.
One of the positives of KISS taking off their makeup in the early 80s: Gene Simmons became a great on screen villain that you couldn't wait to see get his!!
You know Gene Simmons has a real menacing look that I feel like he probably uses in real life. I wonder how many groupies or girlfriend got that look from him LOL. I agree he is a natural villain.
I have to admit, while I would never want anything bad to actually happen to him, there is a certain satisfaction in seeing Gene Simmons attacked by killer robot spiders.
I watched this movie over and over as a teenager in the mid-late 80s. Despite all its problems, I found it compelling and fun to watch. Gene Simmons made it good. He was a proper villain. This movie is on Amazon Prime right now. June 2021
My uncle used to do local advertising for several movie studios and I remember getting and early screening preview pass to see this movie. The Gene Simmons jump scare terrified me but not as much as what Gene charges for VIP meet and greets.
i have to say that my favorite tom selleck movie is MR. BASEBALL film big part in japan something BIG at that time and you really learn a lot about japanese culture in that underated movie
I saw that in movie theaters. The local movie critics savaged it but I thought it was a fun movie about a baseball player trying to play for a major team in Japan and learning about their culture along the way.
I can't believe this just popped into my head, I remember him having a looong hard day at practice with the Japanese team. Once they hit the locker room, he saw a bathtub and jumped straight in. His new Japanese friend said "You are supposed to bathe first, THEN jump in!" Then another guy jokes "It's kinda like jacking off before sex!" 😁😁 The whole theater howled with laughter.
Interesting comment about Selleck playing a very respectful character because he has a similar vibe in much of Magnum. Yes, this behaviour is ahead of its time in some ways and yet is _also_ reminiscent of much older codes of conduct. After all, a 'gentlemen' is a pretty traditional role to play. I guess trends come and go and come back again...
As a big fan of the channel I was super excited to watch this video when I saw the title Runaway. I haven’t seen this movie in an extremely long time. As a young child in the 80s, I remember watching this movie with my father and really liking it. I remember periodically renting it from time to time but like I said before, I haven’t watched it in quite a while. Your review and break down of Runaway has definitely inspired me to go back and watch the movie. It’s streaming for free on IMDB and on Amazon Prime so I have all the more reason to rewatch it. Thank you for sharing and as always, I look forward to seeing the next video! Cheers!
I saw this movie as a kid. I recorded it on a video tape. I had never heard of it but I saw a commercial and I recorded it because I wasn't going to be home to watch it (remember that experience when you couldn't watch whatever whenever lol). When I watched it it blew my mind and I watched it a million times before finally recording over it. I forgot all about until I saw this video. This to me is ultimate nostalgia.
A guilty pleasure of mine, very underrated film with an easy to follow plot and the electronic score by legendary Jerry Goldsmith suits it well. Gene Simmons as the hammy villain is perfect.
Yes, the Tom Sellick. Yes, the Michael Crichton. Yes, the Gene Simmons. Yes, as ridiculously funny as that intro sounds, it's appropriate. Quigley Down Under, it's a treat!
It was about the time when The Dark Knight Returns! was released in 1986 that I thought Tom Selleck would make the perfect Bruce Wayne/Batman for a movie version. I also thought David Bowie would make the perfect Joker at that time.
I don't know. Selleck looked the part, but then, so did George Clooney. I think he'd have had the same problem. He's just too sweet and dimply to play such a grim character. The secret of Batman is you have to cast Batman, not Bruce Wayne. Batman is a monster, especially the Batman who drags people up to the top of Gotham Towers and hangs them by their ankles. You've got to cast the monster, so that the secret identity comes off as a monster pretending to be an ordinary man. I think the whole thrust of this video is that Selleck just couldn't find that monster, not enough to play these gritty roles. He was never as good as when he plays lovable dad types like Magnum. Bowie would have totally worked though. That would have been something to see.
@@rottensquid Perhaps, but I feel like I saw one or two darker episodes of Magnum P.I. which made me to feel like he could pull it off; but who knows, it was 35 years ago 😱 And yeah, Bowie would've worked. Too bad ✌️
@@MrChristopherMolloy I mean, it was a more innocent time. We were all speculating what it would take to bring comics to the big screen, TDKR in particular. My casting choice was Clancy Brown, after seeing him all big and scary in Highlander. In retrospect, I feel this was a more solid choice than I could ever have known as a punk-ass kid. I also wanted to see Richard O'Brien as the Joker. Though now I see the man has, shall we say, a limited range. Bowie would have been a way better choice. That guy was seriously underrated as an actor.
@@MrChristopherMolloy Richard O'Brien played Riffraff in the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Years later, he was in Dark City as the main villain. Clancy Brown played the main villain in Highlander, the huge barbarian warrior guy. Since then, he was the prison guard in Shawshank Redemption, and voiced Lex Luthor for the DC Animated Universe. You've probably seen him or heard his voice in a million things.
I also loved the movie when I watched it in the 80ies , Its very futuristic, I don't mind what other people think, this was futuristic ahead of its time and very smart and inspiring, one of the best movies I watched.
out of all the movies they have been remaking THIS is the one I put at the top of my list, the story and ideas are great, just need to be updated and stuff.
Like a lot of Michael Crichton movies, it was ahead of its time. Where the idea was much better than the execution. Would love to see a remake of it in today’s world
Bought ‘Runaway’ on Blu Ray having never heard of it before and watched it for the first time a couple of weeks back. Have to say I was really impressed and the unlikely casting choice of Gene Simmons really shines here being wonderfully psychotic! A hidden gem for sure... even if the malfunctioning killer robot at the start fires far more than six shots from the _six cylinder revolver_ it’s awkwardly wielding (with clearly no ability to reload)!
Yeah that was pretty goofy but a scenario like that isn't as far fetched now as it might've been then given how we have so much tech in our daily lives these days.
Omg, filming in Downtown Vancouver.....driving home from dinner one summer evening, I turn onto the Burrard Street Bridge....yes the sunset scene....nice 944 Porsche....yup it's me driving across the bridge and that scene made it into the movie lol, cheers!
I remember watching this when it came out on video. Pretty much watched all of his movies when they came out mid 80's until now. HIs Jessie Stone series is top notch.
This movie is pretty good! I just watched it for free on Crackle (June 2022) and had never seen it before. Honestly I don't think Tom Selleck can make a bad movie or tv show. This is definitely worth a watch!!
I'm a fan as well. It was the first VHS tape I chose and rented all by myself...years later I would become a Michael Crichton fan and realize it was from him...
All right, seriously... are you guys stalking my Amazon Prime streaming history?!? This pushes the number of times you've done a movie I watched on Amazon Prime into double digits!!!
Rhodes went on to do dirty dancing . Runaway was not the last time she acted . I also always loved runaway growing up . Gene was hilarious in this movie .
I recorded this movie off HBO back in the 80s. I fell in love with it and I thought Gene Simmons rocked the role of Luther. A fun flick that I've seen many times and always enjoyed. Nice to know someone else appreciates it too. Thanks for posting.
glad you showed support for Andrew Clay in 'Adventures of Ford Fairlane' - Runaway was a movie I remember being pretty good back in the 80s. before I got into Arnie's movies, Commando and Predator
Quigley Down Under is one of my favorite movies, the end is AWESOME! Tom and Alan are great in this movie.
Never said I didn't know how to use one! Classic
@@jamespetkwitz8737 absolutely agree. If I am channel surfing and come across it, I leave it on just so I can watch that scene.
I haven't seen that shit in years, totally forgot about it.
Laura san Giacomo was great in this movie too. She was beautiful back in the day 😍.
I like it....my favourite with Selleck is An innocent man....just love that one 😍
I bloody loved this movie when I was a kid. Haven't seen it in forever.
they look cheesy now, but the killer spider runaways honestly stressed me out when I watched it on vhs.
Me to thought they were cool back then but I was only 8
I was a young kid when this was on HBO and those spiders freaked me out. And Gene Simmons totally makes this movie one to watch.
Throw me into that pile. They were awesome and freaky at the same time. 👍
Yep, scary stuff.
Fast forward to Stargate, SG1...
High Road To China is such a great movie. I watched a million times when I was a kid.
Great music
Good movie but the book is definitely much better if you ever get a chance to read it.
@@JoBloOriginals Our military is already looking into guided bullets
Always liked Runaway.
And Tom would have been a terrific Indiana Jones.
And Omni man
It amazes me how so many people don't know about this movie. When I first watched it as a kid late at night on BBC one I loved literally every minute of it, very underrated. I've seen it a few times since and still thoroughly enjoy it. Great video thanks for posting.
It's aged fairly well in some respects regarding the premise of robots in every day use and possibly going rogue.
One of my all time faves. Found this looking for the movie
My grandma gave my mom VHS of this movie as a gift in 1987. I was 4 years old at the time. This quickly became one of my favorite movies. So much nostalgia!
This is an underrated classic that I would highly recommend.
"Trust me - I know what I'm doing!" - Sledge Hammer
LOLOL!!! That's the movie I'm waiting for! The episode where he got attacked by that fake-ass huge boa constrictor...I've been laughing at that in my head for about 30 years.
Sledge was a deliciously silly character in the hands of a very good actor.
The legendary!
But you forgot the.... dah, da, dah, da, dah.
I watched it when I was a kid in open TV in my country. They named it "out of control", the other day I was thinking about it. It was a good movie.
I watched Runaway dozens of times on VHS. ♥♥♥
I love this movie!! The actors do a great job, the soundtrack from Jerry Goldsmith (THE Jerry Goldsmith) is on point and it's great to watch.
I like it when you have what people think what the future is going to be like in movies made in the 1960s 70s and 80s. And I remember seeing this movie on HBO in the late 80s.
I enjoy it when an old movie shows off the “far future...” And it was forever ago fo us.
How bout when Japan was going to,take over everything....until their economy crashed.
@@hansjuker8296 The movie Gung Ho! was about that very thing. Michael Keaton and one of the Cheers guys was in it.
@@WhatsWrongWithTheStreet That movie is hilarious.
@@WhatsWrongWithTheStreetWhat's wrong with the street? Nothing, they're justifying next year's budget.
This was available on Amazon Prime last October which took the opportunity to watch and loved it.
Saw this movie on Showtime back in the mid-1990s and I loved it!
Selleck did a great made-for-tv movie for TNT called "Crossfire Trail" back in 2001. Beautifully shot, well acted, and featuring Wilford Brimley. The villain in the movie, played by Mark Harmon, is interesting because he goes through the stages of villainy as laid down by Alan Rickman in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. He starts out very threatening, and over the course of the film becomes increasingly more campy, stopping short at growing a mustache and twirling it. If you can find it, check it out. It's a lot fun.
HBO for me
I love this series. It makes me feel like less of a dork for having watched the majority of these films.😋
I am 50 and I was in 4th grade in 1984 when I watched this movie with my dad. I remember the ending was very intense and we both really enjoyed it. I guess my 10 year old brain remembers this as being a really good movie, I'm going to have to watch it again to see! If you haven't watched They Live it was one of the best movies from around this time.
Oh my GOD I LOVE Runaway!!!
Those damn spiders still freak me out 33 years later XD
IKR? I love robots and I love spiders, but something about this particular combination of the two worked excellently to be very disturbing. 🤷
Haha 😄 yeah it's definitely one of a kind movie.
12:28 I was ready to voice my disaffection when you, finally, mentioned "An Innocent Man"! This is one of my favorite movies from Tom Selleck.
I loved this movie as a kid. I've seen it a bunch of times.
The Jesse Stone series of movies are some of my favorite Selleck performances
OHMIGOSH, I utterly LOVE this movie! I have it on DVD & recently introduced my son to it; he loves it too, so now a whole new generation is appreciating it! One of my fave 80's Sci-Fi thrillers! 100% definitely one of the best movies you never saw! 🥰👍🏻🥰❤️🥰❤️🥰❤️🥰❤️
11:44-12:50 I just adore when you guys did this, now I have more movies to watch, also Ricochet from 1991 is a great "Best movie you never saw"
I'll second that. Although I have seen it. And it's from 1991. ;-) Random BMYNS suggestion: Dark Angel, with Dolf Lundgren.
Tim Selleck was brilliant in An Innocent Man, the bit in the prison where he's forced to kill someone is really intense.
Saw it and all of the movies you mentioned and yeah I liked them all was good. Also Tom Selleck was in Coma too.
I absolutely love this movie!! (Along with Looker!) I saw this in the theatre, at least a half a dozen times. I'd go to the first matinee showing on the weekend, and stay and watch it over and over.
I finally got the DVD a few years ago and I still love it just as much as I did back then! :D
He's a jack of all trades.
He can write a script direct the movie while doing a triple bypass at the same time.
Was.... ;_;
I saw that movie when I was a kid, at my cousin's and It haunted my nights for YEARS.
Thanks for the vid made me remember a movie I loved as a kid of the 80s. Going to rewatch in a bit. Quigley is a great movie as well. He was also good with Sam Elliott in the Sacketts Western movies.
An Innocent Man is a genuinely engaging film. You really feel for Tom’s character.
I remember watching this on a plane trip from Boston to Los Angeles, and it has stayed with me ever since. I also love the Jerry Goldsmith score. A better movie than its reputation may suggest.
I saw this movie when it first came out in the 1980s. It was amazing to a little kid to see the amount of robots and the future. It eventually help directed me to become an engineer so I can design robots. Not many movies made a huge impact on me as a kid, but this was one of them. There was another robot movie that was more like a love story. It was called Electric Dreams. Short circuit and Weird Science was also my favorite movies of that time. These old movies were real classics even though some haven't heard of them before. I almost left out another old favorite called Real Genius. That was a great movie also. I tried to build robots like these as a kid, but it was obviously way before its time and I didn't know much about robots back then.
I was really young when this came out. It was the robots that got me into electronics. This movie was one of my early influences. I just watches this last week. Yalls list is impeccable sometimes
I enjoyed this movie very much as a kid and still as a adult these 35+ years later. The heat seeking bullets really was over the top cool, as well as the car seeking and destroy RC small car launched road torpedoes sent after the convoy of unmarked police cars. This was for sure a 80`s cool movie. A+
The future happened to us back in the 80s.
I actually rewatched Runaway a week ago which I hadn't seen in years. It's still enjoyable and for me when watching older films I put my mind frame in the time it was made so that I can better accept anything that may have aged if that makes sense. Another good Tom Selleck movie is the western Shadow Riders and it also stars Sam Elliott as his brother.
Omg dude I absolutely LOVED this movie as a kid!
This movie is free everywhere right now.
So happy to had seen this.
Wow, you just took me back, like 40 years with this one and the looker reference.. gotta see that one again.
All I have to say is thank you. I saw this probably in the late 80s I’d have been 6/7 years old. I couldn’t remember what the film was called but I had this memory of this scary looking bad guy and the part when the bullet is removed from her. For over 30 years I didn’t know what that film was called. Now I can watch it and see if it’s as good as I’d remembered. Cheers 👍
Saw this film opening night at the Burnsville Center. Not too bad for it’s day.
I saw it back then too. I was 13. But I'd seen Terminator and Blade Runner by then, so this film rather suffered in comparison, to say the least. I knew what the near-future was supposed to look like, and it wasn't those cheap little spiders.
+Eric Shosted
In Burnsville, MN?! My mom lives in Rosemount, so we used to go to that theater in the mall a quite a bit! I remember seeing "Mom and Dad Save the World" there! :D
@@Fluoride_Jones At the time the theater was brand new and within biking distance for me and my friends.
That was also likely the last first-run theater on the southern end of the twin cities until the 90s.
Selleck made, he is a prolific producer, a handful of very good Westerns for TNT(?). Really hit his stride and then went on to his 'Jesse Stone' series of TV movies. They are all really good, handsome films with great stories and a fabulous cast. Can't recommend them enough, if you like entertainment clearly made for grown ups.
Holy crap dude...I totally forgot about this movie. I wore this VHS out when I was a kid.
Me too! Long before Tivo, we had VCRs. I backed it up to a VHS tape and wore it out completely too!
Thanks for the recommendation! I just started this on Prime and it’s excellent! I love me some Tom Selleck!
Loved this when it came out as a child. Then years later as young adults had to show it to my wife.. while tripping on LSD. We couldn't stop laughing the whole movie. The acting is just that good! :D
Love this movie
Saw it with my dad in the cinema. We liked it, and the neighborhood kids and i would actually play it out. Toms the best.
this was a great 80s movie.. thanks for covering it!
I have just watched this brilliant movie yesterday. One of my fav
Love this movie as a kid in the 80s it's also available to watch free on prime video 👍👍
One of my favorite old scifi movies
This was one of my favs growing up.
I remember loving it back then, I'm pretty sure I watched it more then once at the Theater!!!
Not sur how well it holds up, maybe it's time for a re-watch.
One of the positives of KISS taking off their makeup in the early 80s: Gene Simmons became a great on screen villain that you couldn't wait to see get his!!
You know Gene Simmons has a real menacing look that I feel like he probably uses in real life. I wonder how many groupies or girlfriend got that look from him LOL. I agree he is a natural villain.
His death scene is awesome, that last gasp/scream is so over the top and abrupt.
@@deederdoo oh yes, but his death in Wanted Dead or Alive was even more glorious!!!
I have to admit, while I would never want anything bad to actually happen to him, there is a certain satisfaction in seeing Gene Simmons attacked by killer robot spiders.
This and Trancers are 2 of my favourite goofy 80s sci-fi action films.
Man I loved this movie as a teenager! Saw it any time it came on.
Another vhs favorite of my childhood. The spiders were actually quite scary as a kid :)
I watched this movie over and over as a teenager in the mid-late 80s. Despite all its problems, I found it compelling and fun to watch. Gene Simmons made it good. He was a proper villain.
This movie is on Amazon Prime right now. June 2021
Young Tom Selleck would have made the perfect John Carter of Mars.
My uncle used to do local advertising for several movie studios and I remember getting and early screening preview pass to see this movie. The Gene Simmons jump scare terrified me but not as much as what Gene charges for VIP meet and greets.
i have to say that my favorite tom selleck movie is MR. BASEBALL film big part in japan something BIG at that time and you really learn a lot about japanese culture in that underated movie
I saw that in movie theaters. The local movie critics savaged it but I thought it was a fun movie about a baseball player trying to play for a major team in Japan and learning about their culture along the way.
I can't believe this just popped into my head, I remember him having a looong hard day at practice with the Japanese team. Once they hit the locker room, he saw a bathtub and jumped straight in. His new Japanese friend said "You are supposed to bathe first, THEN jump in!" Then another guy jokes "It's kinda like jacking off before sex!" 😁😁
The whole theater howled with laughter.
Interesting comment about Selleck playing a very respectful character because he has a similar vibe in much of Magnum. Yes, this behaviour is ahead of its time in some ways and yet is _also_ reminiscent of much older codes of conduct. After all, a 'gentlemen' is a pretty traditional role to play. I guess trends come and go and come back again...
As a big fan of the channel I was super excited to watch this video when I saw the title Runaway. I haven’t seen this movie in an extremely long time. As a young child in the 80s, I remember watching this movie with my father and really liking it. I remember periodically renting it from time to time but like I said before, I haven’t watched it in quite a while. Your review and break down of Runaway has definitely inspired me to go back and watch the movie. It’s streaming for free on IMDB and on Amazon Prime so I have all the more reason to rewatch it. Thank you for sharing and as always, I look forward to seeing the next video! Cheers!
I saw this movie as a kid. I recorded it on a video tape. I had never heard of it but I saw a commercial and I recorded it because I wasn't going to be home to watch it (remember that experience when you couldn't watch whatever whenever lol). When I watched it it blew my mind and I watched it a million times before finally recording over it. I forgot all about until I saw this video. This to me is ultimate nostalgia.
A guilty pleasure of mine, very underrated film with an easy to follow plot and the electronic score by legendary Jerry Goldsmith suits it well. Gene Simmons as the hammy villain is perfect.
I really enjoyed this movie, and Simmons' over-the-top performance. This move is highly underrated!!
O e of my favorite movies as a kid...in roku for free right now
Yes, the Tom Sellick.
Yes, the Michael Crichton.
Yes, the Gene Simmons.
Yes, as ridiculously funny as that intro sounds, it's appropriate.
Quigley Down Under, it's a treat!
Runaway was a good flick! I saw it when it came out in '83!
It was about the time when The Dark Knight Returns! was released in 1986 that I thought Tom Selleck would make the perfect Bruce Wayne/Batman for a movie version. I also thought David Bowie would make the perfect Joker at that time.
I don't know. Selleck looked the part, but then, so did George Clooney. I think he'd have had the same problem. He's just too sweet and dimply to play such a grim character.
The secret of Batman is you have to cast Batman, not Bruce Wayne. Batman is a monster, especially the Batman who drags people up to the top of Gotham Towers and hangs them by their ankles. You've got to cast the monster, so that the secret identity comes off as a monster pretending to be an ordinary man. I think the whole thrust of this video is that Selleck just couldn't find that monster, not enough to play these gritty roles. He was never as good as when he plays lovable dad types like Magnum.
Bowie would have totally worked though. That would have been something to see.
@@rottensquid Perhaps, but I feel like I saw one or two darker episodes of Magnum P.I. which made me to feel like he could pull it off; but who knows, it was 35 years ago 😱
And yeah, Bowie would've worked. Too bad ✌️
@@MrChristopherMolloy I mean, it was a more innocent time. We were all speculating what it would take to bring comics to the big screen, TDKR in particular. My casting choice was Clancy Brown, after seeing him all big and scary in Highlander. In retrospect, I feel this was a more solid choice than I could ever have known as a punk-ass kid.
I also wanted to see Richard O'Brien as the Joker. Though now I see the man has, shall we say, a limited range. Bowie would have been a way better choice. That guy was seriously underrated as an actor.
@@rottensquid I need to Google those two actors because neither is ringing a bell.
@@MrChristopherMolloy Richard O'Brien played Riffraff in the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Years later, he was in Dark City as the main villain.
Clancy Brown played the main villain in Highlander, the huge barbarian warrior guy. Since then, he was the prison guard in Shawshank Redemption, and voiced Lex Luthor for the DC Animated Universe. You've probably seen him or heard his voice in a million things.
Runaway is a great movie. It's a shame it never got the credit it deserved at the box office.
I used to have such a crush on him ( Tom) still kind of do. Never knew Mr Simmons was ever in a movie 😳
I also loved the movie when I watched it in the 80ies , Its very futuristic, I don't mind what other people think, this was futuristic ahead of its time and very smart and inspiring, one of the best movies I watched.
out of all the movies they have been remaking THIS is the one I put at the top of my list, the story and ideas are great, just need to be updated and stuff.
Like a lot of Michael Crichton movies, it was ahead of its time. Where the idea was much better than the execution. Would love to see a remake of it in today’s world
This is the type of films that should be remade...
Agreed. This story is ripe for a proper remake with today's tech.
I saw it in the theatre and LOVED it. Also a Quigley Down Under fan
An innocent Man is one of Selleck's Best if not The Best Theatrical Offering
Bought ‘Runaway’ on Blu Ray having never heard of it before and watched it for the first time a couple of weeks back. Have to say I was really impressed and the unlikely casting choice of Gene Simmons really shines here being wonderfully psychotic!
A hidden gem for sure... even if the malfunctioning killer robot at the start fires far more than six shots from the _six cylinder revolver_ it’s awkwardly wielding (with clearly no ability to reload)!
Yeah that was pretty goofy but a scenario like that isn't as far fetched now as it might've been then given how we have so much tech in our daily lives these days.
Omg, filming in Downtown Vancouver.....driving home from dinner one summer evening, I turn onto the Burrard Street Bridge....yes the sunset scene....nice 944 Porsche....yup it's me driving across the bridge and that scene made it into the movie lol, cheers!
I've watched this film, BBC1 used to show it all the time. That bullet was so cool.
I grew up on this one too, it's AWESOME!
I love Runaway!!
Runaway was a great film. I remember watching it back in the 80's
QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER!!! One of my favorite movies of all time, BY FAR one of the best endings.
I remember watching this when it came out on video. Pretty much watched all of his movies when they came out mid 80's until now.
HIs Jessie Stone series is top notch.
My mom had this VHS. I was actually quite fond of this movie as a kid.
This movie is pretty good! I just watched it for free on Crackle (June 2022) and had never seen it before. Honestly I don't think Tom Selleck can make a bad movie or tv show. This is definitely worth a watch!!
Mr Baseball, High Road and Runaway some of my favourite movies.
This movie was awesome watching it as an 80s kid.
I thought I was the only one that really liked Runaway as a kid. Great review and history.
I'm a fan as well. It was the first VHS tape I chose and rented all by myself...years later I would become a Michael Crichton fan and realize it was from him...
@@MatheusTiciani-z4y for me it was the movie that I would watch every time I caught it on HBO no matter what part of the movie it was on.
I've probably watched this movie 20 times when I was a kid.
This is one of my favourite sci-fi. I love the near future tech.
All right, seriously... are you guys stalking my Amazon Prime streaming history?!? This pushes the number of times you've done a movie I watched on Amazon Prime into double digits!!!
Runaway, Westworld and Coma are top movies which will still keep you entertained in 2021.
I'm 51 nowadays and I got to see High Road to China in theaters back then. (:
Rhodes went on to do dirty dancing . Runaway was not the last time she acted . I also always loved runaway growing up . Gene was hilarious in this movie .
This movie did a big impact on me as a child. But then I forgot all about it until now.
I recorded this movie off HBO back in the 80s. I fell in love with it and I thought Gene Simmons rocked the role of Luther. A fun flick that I've seen many times and always enjoyed. Nice to know someone else appreciates it too. Thanks for posting.
glad you showed support for Andrew Clay in 'Adventures of Ford Fairlane' - Runaway was a movie I remember being pretty good back in the 80s. before I got into Arnie's movies, Commando and Predator