Good Lord, what an awful film!
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proteus122 — 15 years ago(April 04, 2010 08:54 PM)
You should read the book. It's totally different. A lot darker and totally different. It's more of a cautionary tale for our future than this. I don't mind this though. It's just more hokey, Arnie popcorn fare.
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cunn9305 — 15 years ago(May 29, 2010 08:23 PM)
This film is TOTALLY 80's campy, corny and completely over the top. I'm watching this right bleeping now and it seems completely ridiculous but back when I watched it in the theater it actually seemed pretty cool. Jesus is that Mick Fleetwood ??? Dweezil Zappa ??? I miss the 80's
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fookushaba — 16 years ago(January 21, 2010 12:46 PM)
I love this movie.its an arnold movie so its never going to win any awardsI can think of much worse(American Ninja III, Berverly Hills Cop III, Phantom Menace) The book is 99% of the time always better than the movie.
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smoko — 16 years ago(January 28, 2010 04:17 AM)
"Hey flightsuit!"
starts up flamethrower, engulfs flightsuit in flames
"Lighten up!"
OK, I read the book too, and yes it was very different in plot and tone. I would have loved to have seen the game show occur in the outside world like in the book. But having
Richards fly a plane into the building at the end
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davegardner-744-717939 — 15 years ago(July 09, 2010 07:33 PM)
You have to remember that this is an Arnold Scwarzenegger movie. You are not going to get oscar worthy performances. At the time of it's release it was not so bad, just another Arnold action movie as Predator was released earlier the same year. Apart from the first two Terminator movies, in my opinion most Schwarzenegger action films were about the same. I actually liked Terminator 3 despite the bad press. As for Terminator Salvation, huge disappointment. Now THAT was an awful movie. CGI Schwarzengger! How ridiculous!!!
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CharmingAss_hole — 16 years ago(March 22, 2010 06:15 PM)
Yeah, seriously, who watches this movie with any other expectations than: Arnold shows his biceps, he performs his arm-hook move during a fight, there are scenes where he appears to be beaten but then somehow muscles his way to a victory, 80's music occurs, countless hilarious one-liners are uttered, and in the end there is no character who succeeds under his circumstances more than Arnold?
This movie is not technically sound (obviously) but that's not why it's popular.
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flashesbeforeyoureyes — 12 years ago(February 04, 2014 04:56 AM)
You forgot to mention the dancers, Arnie wearing his best Bruce Lee yellow suit apparel and the fickle reality of society reflected by the changing allegiance of the viewers based only on kills. What we really have here is a film that combines the original with 'the house of the dead', it is an intricate insight into how one mans physical prowess is more important than rebels, hackers or truth. Delivered with some of Arnie's less inspired, but damn dry one liners'now, plain zero'.
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cory-spicer — 15 years ago(July 15, 2010 08:57 AM)
I just watched it last night; I thought it was pretty good actually.
Yes, there is the corny Arnold camp ("Sub Zero now PLAIN Zero!!"), but there is also a cool atmosphere of Orwellian dystopia that the movie pulled off pretty well. I'm not saying it was a masterpiece, but it was an entertaining 100 minutes of campy action tinged with warnings of totalitarian excess.
I'm sure reading the book beforehand makes the movie pale in comparison; that's true for almost everything out there. I generally prefer to watch a movie before I read the book upon which it is based. -
prawna — 14 years ago(August 01, 2011 09:42 PM)
I wonder if Mr King read Phillip K Dicks story "Solar Lottery" before he was inspired to write his story.
Everything has been done before, all that we seem to see is a few tweaks to an existing story. Solar Lottery is about a TV show called "The Assassination Game". Nothing like hunting humans to occupy the mindless masses whilst a totalitarian government gets up to their usual dastardly deeds. -
hnt_dnl — 14 years ago(September 09, 2011 08:29 AM)
It's low budget, but I don't find the sets nearly as cheesy or cheap as many other 80s sci-fi movies. It still has a slick, appealing look. The movie only has a few locations and I really like the set design in this movie.
Regarding Arnie and Maria, I don't see the problem. During the course of the movie, both of them realized that there was more to each of them than meets the eye. She realized Richards was innocent and actually a do-gooder, and I think the fact that she helped him had to do with him beginning to like her. Not to mention that she's hot in this!