The Running Man | Couples first time watching Reaction!!

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

We liked this one a lot. Excited to see how the 2025 remake does!

[@GyvonJante]

Family fued host Richard Dawson was a huge star of the 70s/80s tv and Battle royal was awesome! A game changer! This was also somewhat of a commentary on Americas hunger and need for entertainment and television.

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

Ah so he was a show host, we thought we recognized him from somewhere. Also agree 100% with Battle Royal it was so dope. When we watched Hunger Games I totally thought it copied the Battle Royal movie (without knowing it was from a book at the time).

[@hazeman4755]

Congratulations on 1000 subscribers! As a teen in the 90s, this was one of my favourite movies. I love the one-liners. The stalkers are a bit silly, but the movie is great fun. I'm pretty sure I've read the book by Stephen King (Richard Bachman), because in my teens I read every Stephen King book I could find. I have, however, seen the movie so many times that I can't remember the book anymore. I found this quote: "King wasn't happy with the changes made to The Running Man, with the Arnold film bearing little resemblance to the book outside of the basic concept.", so I guess they changed a lot for the movie.

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

Tyvm! I've enjoyed the movie so much i'm going to check out the book.

[@trenttaylor-n4d]

Thx for reacting to this one!

[@RealRecognizeReel]

"This is so 80's"? What else could it be? It was the 80's. What a 2024 thing to say.

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

Your comment makes me think what will stand out as 2020's in the future? Anyways thanks for commenting!

[@RealRecognizeReel]

@@OfficialDNJmoviehouse I'm gonna venture that we'll probably think reaction videos are weird.

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

@@RealRecognizeReel dont need to look in the future for that it already happens now!

[@RealRecognizeReel]

@@OfficialDNJmoviehouse Well, we're not unanimous on that yet. Give it like ten years.

[@dudermcdudeface3674]

The modern version of the "sadistic gameshow" genre started with another Stephen King novella, "The Long Walk." Much, much darker than the Hunger Games or Battle Royale. There's supposedly an adaptation in work, but I'd guess they'll soften it up a lot.

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

@@dudermcdudeface3674 I might take a look at this after the running man! I do like the premise of the deadly contest/gameshow. Have you seen Squid Game?

[@alvaromorenoc.9427]

Hello, there is a movie that no one has reacted to, it's called Black Rain, it's with the actor Michael Douglas, I recommend it, it's an excellent movie.

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

@@alvaromorenoc.9427 Holy what is this movie ive never heard of it but it looks like a gem! This’ll be added to our list for sure. Thanks for the reccomendation!

[@carlooldani3150]

Like obbligato per chi guarda questo film nel 2024!! ❤

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

Thank you very much!

[@carlooldani3150]

@OfficialDNJmoviehouse Killan: "sei un bastardo, devi crepare!!" Rchards: "non su ordinazione"

[@craigm3353]

Fun fact Richard Dawson who plays Dameion played Sergent Newkirk on TV sitcom Hogan's Heroes in the 60's. I really liked the music when Richards bursts in and says "It's showtime!" I got a movie reaction suggestion for you it's another one of favorites, The Final Countdown (1980) The U.S.S. Nimitz goes back to December 6th, 1941. It's filmed on the Nimitz. It's like Top Gun meets Back to the Future. Those are also two others you should react to.

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

Oh interesting, we'll add that one to the list! We do have plans for Back to the Future, but we have both seen Top Gun (old and new) so we won't be able to do a 'reaction' video for it.

[@watchreadplayretro]

Giving the people what they want! :D Settling down to this, the book was by Stephen King under an alias (but knowing you guys I might have to cross this out or remove it if you knew already) thanks sub poll, great choice!

[@gregorygant4242]

Richard Bachman

[@watchreadplayretro]

Haven't seen the original Battle Royale movies in a decade! But yup! lol I had the computer game back in the day (Commodore Amiga), lol running around levels with ICS on the walls! Great reactions guys, and yep Host was THE host back in the day, so Giddeon would be like getting Steve Harvey to play the host in the new movie or something, ie already famous on TV Ohhh there we go, right at the end, I KNEW IT, you guys already knew it was a book! ;) Thanks again guys, awesome stuff!

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

@@watchreadplayretroi enjoyed the movie so much im checking out the book from the library

[@thechosenones4375]

I also love the soundtrack for this movie.

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

It's still playing in my head haha

[@charlesmaurer6214]

A funny lower budget version of this idea is an old movie called Death Row Gameshow. It is more comedy and has some songs written for it.

[@champagnebulge1]

That car at 7:45. I love how it's both 2017 but also totally 1987.

[@GreenBeanGreenBean]

Last seasons winners?? no, last seasons losers!!! Fireball is Jim Brown, the NFL leading rusher.......ain't nothing on earth gonna stop him! The villain is Richard Dawson, the host of the TV show Family Feud. Popular for 10 years.... so he knew how to play a gameshow host hah The cheerleader choreography was done by Paula Abdul, famous singer/actress.

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

Lot of great lines in this one! Ok that's why his name looked familiar...

[@BileDuctBalderdash]

There most certainly is multiple entertainment divisions in the US government. It was set up to govern your mental ability. But it's okay because you never had a choice anyway.

[@trenttaylor-n4d]

Ok that's it. I'm subscribing

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

Tyvm!

[@chrisleebowers]

Dystopian gladiatory-sport sci-fi like "The Hunger Games" and "Battle Royal" goes back to a short story "The Seventh Victim" (1953 Robert Scheckley) which was adapted into the Italian movie "The 10th Victim." (1965) Other movies exploring the same idea are "Rollerball" and "Deathrace 2000" (both 1975) "Tron" (1982) and "Tron: Legacy" (2010) "The Salute of the Jugger" (AKA "The Blood of Heroes" 1989) "Star Wars ep 1: The Phatom Mencace" (1999) "Series 7: The Contenders" (2001) "Gamer" (2009) "Thor: Ragnarok" (2017) and "Alita: Battle Angel" (2019) "Gamer" is almost a remake of "The Running Man" updated for the online gaming generation. "The Running Man" also owes as much to the humans-hunting-humans sub-genre of suspense/thriller fiction created by Richard Connell's short story "The Most Dangerous Game" (1924) which was adapted into several movies and inspired dozens of others including "Hard Target" (1993) and "Surviving The Game" (1994)

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

@@chrisleebowers Thanks for that info! Id like to check out Alita one day it looked unique. Gamer looks interesting too!

[@Castragroup]

Chainsaw fight!

[@Castragroup]

Yes more reactions

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

@@Castragroup every weekend!

[@BobbyMoore2-mp8wb]

Y’all should watch Godzilla 98

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

Jane hasn't seen it, so it might be worth a watch! ty for the recommendation!

[@angryspudsinc.599]

Is it a happy ending at all? They're still living in a heavily controlled dystopian world.

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

True but it ended on the up-and-up with the rebels getting a victory. Maybe they can vacation in Hawaii and things are still ok there? 😆

[@Odessa-James]

The movie itself is pretty cool! But it's a bad movie adaptation of Stephen King's (as Richard Bachman) book!

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

How is the book? I'm next in line to check it out at the library its a 3 week wait.

[@michaelestrada3463]

The book was totally different. Very dark, very sad.​@@OfficialDNJmoviehouse

[@champagnebulge1]

Why'd they make it Bakersfield? That's a little far out from LA/Hollywood which this movie is otherwise depicting. Officially central valley. Hm.

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

Butcher of Bakersfield has a nice ring to it is my guess.

[@gregorygant4242]

I'm European I saw this as a kid back in 1988 , I know about Bakersfield it's the usual American trashy neighbourhood but because it's close to Hollywood they used it in the movie. The movie's ok but Arnie steals the show really he was just out of Terminator and his superstardome was just starting to shine .

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

​@@gregorygant4242 movie not as good without Arnie 100%

[@gregorygant4242]

@@OfficialDNJmoviehouse Yep, totally true Arnie just kept getting bigger and bigger after this there was no stopping him , the man grew to giant star status .