Ready? Mm-hmm. D- Ah, damn. Yeah.
What are you doing? What are you doing? Why are you still here? I'm trying to catch my breath.
What? Why are you so out of breath? What's going on? He told me to run.
Yeah. We want to play running, man. So I said I'll be the running. Right.
And I gave you a 12-hour head start. What the hell, man? Yeah, I started running. And I got to the end of the block, and I'm catching my breath.
Those 12 hours ago. Yeah, I'm really tired. Ah, geez. Dang.
Ah. Just, you know what? I have an idea. Ah, take, here's a loaded gun.
Take that, put me down like a dog. Do you want me to give you another 12 hours? I'll give you another 12 hours. Here's what we'll do.
Okay. We'll do. Just giving you, let's just do an episode of the podcast so I can phone it in, catch my breath, and then I'll start running again. All right.
All right. As soon as the podcast is over though, we're doing this again. For real. For real time.
All right. Okay. All right. Okay.
This week on King Me, survive 30 days while the world hunt you down. This is the running man 2025. King Me. King Me.
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We're here talking about 2025's the running man directed by Ed Go right. Oh, I might be right. I want my movies and Tump and Tuppets. Oh, sorry.
You say action over here. My mistake. Yes. Say Tuppets instead of action.
That's wild. Yeah. The running man just came out fresh in the air. We're on the we're on the beat.
We're on the I think this might be the first time. Maybe ever that we're so close. The turnaround is so close. I know.
And you know, and good for like way to bounce back after you know all that angry male we got being like, where's the Abraham's boys episode? Yes. Where's your Abraham's boys? I demand an Abraham's boys movie review.
Bring us the boys. Oh man. If we had gone with our initial podcast concept to we still would have had to do that movie. What was the initial?
Oh, boys. Oh, boys. We only talk about movies with boys in the names. Abraham's boys.
Abraham's boys. Give me some Jersey boys before some Abraham's boys. Yeah. Yeah.
Duh. I got a guy. Yeah. Duh.
Duh. Yeah. So he's the the Adam driver character in Lew and Davis. Oh, yeah.
Elder. Spoons. Wow. Yeah.
So the running man 2025 director right now. Not the first of its kind. Let's start there. Yeah.
A this is not a remake of the 1987 Schwarzenegger movie. This is a more faithful adaptation of the Richard Bachman book. Who what? Well, Richard Bach.
Oh, notes here. I thought this was King Me Not Talkin Bachman. Talk man. Talk about Bachman.
Yeah. I wish I was even King should do this again. He should bring Bachman back to life, you know. Bring Bachman.
Yeah. Bring backman Bachman. Sure. Walk me back.
We got a yes. I agree. I was thinking that watching this was like, well, you know, of course, we'll be. We've made the joke before.
We'll make it again every time. Guy did the long walk, the running man. What's next like the frickin what's another speed you can go? Yeah.
The scary job. The the crawl about. It's just about a guy on vacation in the bush. Yes.
Yes. Walk about. Well, yeah. Bachman to Bachman movies this year.
The long walk and running man. And each I'm just I'm just saying it. No, probably more of a long walk. I don't know if that's true.
Yeah. This is a there's some like fun action sequences in this and I. I just threw his cat across the room. I I think I'm more of a running man.
Yeah, between the two but just just barely. How about this? Neither great. Neither great.
Neither great. This so like, OK, I feel like, you know, it is a more faithful adaptation than than the one from the end. What the fuck are we doing here? It's a really good question.
What are we doing? Do we have a question gotten how to make a movie? How do I how what adaptations are the word? What that means?
Like do we have to be so like slavishly faithful to the source material? We have to we have to. You know, it's like I I think the premise of this lends itself perfectly well. Like I don't have any issue with staying face faithful to the source material in and of itself.
However, I do have an issue with hiring Edgar right and not and ended being like boring. Like the editing is like it's like weirdly slow paced, we paced and it's like. I don't know. There's just like I wanted a more I wanted 2010 Zigerite basically and this is like maybe a failing on my part that I thought that could happen.
Something like that could happen and not that it's like totally boring. No, it's not. But I think I feel like something like they should be ratcheted up so fucking high. Yeah, you know, and it's just not it's mostly not you think like when you when you hear like the running man, Edgar right is going to make the running man.
You're like, oh, that's going to be like fucking crazy. Yeah, it's going to be like silly and there should be like weirdo characters in here and a bunch of I don't know much of fucking nonsense. The other thing that I really feel like didn't do this any any help was the trailer really gives everything away. Sure.
Give away all of the action set pieces completely like if you're showing the super soaker thing, you better have so much left in the tank is right. Honestly, that I mean that whole sequence is probably like the highlight of the movie, right? Yeah, I mean, like, I don't know. Well, I like the hotel in Boston to the hotel in Boston, the airplane at the end like the airplane or whatever, like the action at least is like decent.
I don't know zero zero gravity, doming guys. That's fun. That's fun. But yes, I feel like see even that was in the trailer.
Like what are you doing, man? Yeah, why are you? Why is that? What are you doing running man?
What are you doing running man? Yeah, man. It's lukewarm. It should be a crime to hide Lee Pace's face for an entire film.
It's also so funny that they're like, oh, you're ugly. Yeah, but it's like Lee Pace with like acne scars scar and just like a little patch of acne scar. Please be serious. Yeah, Lee series.
The did you notice? I don't know if this happened in your. So I mean, Edgar Wright, their exes thing adapted from a Dickey Bachmann joint written by Edgar Wright and Michael Bacall when I the print that I saw or print, you know, I mean, it said written by Michael Bacall, Edgar Wright and Michael Bacall. Yes.
Is that just a typo? Someone did you cut paste? I think that is that happens sometimes because of like the writer's guild. So like what probably happened is Michael Bacall took like wrote a script for this movie by himself and then him and Edgar Wright punched up the script and wrote that script.
Okay. So like that's wild. It is wild. So like if because for those reasons, he has to be credited as because I'm sure it said like Michael Bacall, the word and Edgar Wright, ampersand Michael Bacall ridiculous.
It is ridiculous. It's like real semantic kind of shit. Yeah. But all right.
That at least makes sense though. I I straight up thought they just forgot to fix the title card. Michael Bacall also in the movie as the guy in the in the hotel. I was like, Hey man, you're on free.
Hey man, dude, dude. It should be better. Should have been better. This should have been better.
Literally. Why wasn't this better? Yeah. This is like this should have been for action movies, what the naked gun was for the naked gun in that like you're just like we're back.
Movies are back. It's going to be a real movies are back moment and it will be short. Yeah. Anyway, Michael Bacall, what else is he written?
Well, he's worked with Edgar Wright before. Hasn't he? I suppose. Yeah.
In addition to writing the 21 and 22 Jump Street movies, which like people like, right? Sure. He also has the screenplay credit for stop, he'll remember the world, which you know, that's the level of silliness I was kind of hoping for here and we did not get. Yeah, especially like the ending is so like over the top optimistic.
The ending of this movie, I think the last like five minutes or so are bad. I think like the movie up and down like action and tone and whatever else and like, oh, whatever. But I think the last five minutes are actually bad. Like with the revenge, the revenge of all of it all just the rise up, the people rising up once the yeah, once the plane explodes.
Yeah. And then you get that guy who's you know, whatever he's talking to you. Like you, the youtuber. Yeah.
Yeah. Doing all of his shit and then and then yeah, like, okay, like, people are not watching the room. Like whatever. I don't know.
I think if the rest of the movie is better, that basically doesn't matter at all. Sure. And when I say better, I mean, like lighter and sillier and more fun because then you're just like, yeah. Okay, that's just like another stupid thing that's happening.
Yeah, it's another stupid thing. Yeah, it's I don't even I don't even object to the just like winning out of it all. Like I think that's kind of it's really doesn't the exact same way as the long walk in a sense. I just getting fucking domed.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, which I bet a smarter person would have something to say about that.
What does that say that like that the only solution is just shooting the bad guy. You know, people, yeah, doing lone wolf assassinations. Yeah. Um, Luigi Manjiani.
Don't say that. Um, okay. Wait a second. Um, before, uh, damn, before we visit, these are our, you know, our initial preliminary thoughts here.
We're going to get into all of it. But before we do that, got a point over to patreon.com slash kami pod. Oh, I know. I got to jump on that.
Um, guys, check out the podcast over on patreon. We, uh, every Friday comes out. We, we pair it with the Tuesday episode and a big announcement today. Ring the bell to have a bell.
I can ring hold on. Dan's got to find his bell. That's unpleasant. That's, I thought it'd be more of a ring than a thing.
Think, think, think, think. There you go. I give up big announcement, big announcement. So as of January, we're going to be going patreon only.
2026 is our year of the hustle. Are you, are you're of green? Yeah. Are you're going to be little piggies rolling around in our little money troughs.
No, that's right. Uh, basically it's just become too, too much between work and life and things to do two episodes a week. So we're going to be doing one over a patreon, except for when a Stephen King or Joe Hill adaptation comes out. Those are still going to come out on the main feed when it happens, but sporadically sporadically.
I mean, there were seven of them this year. So not that's right. And I mean, we're going to have to cover seasons two, three, four, five, and six of Welcome to Dairy. Yeah, we still have.
And then the movie and then the movie. Imagine if they had happened and welcome to dairy and into a movie. And then it's just it. You know, like I saw this.
Did they just bill here again? What is happening? Yeah. Clown eating its own tail.
Yes. Some big shoes. That's all. There you have it.
Patreon.com slash king me pod. Yeah. So and then on Patreon, we're going to be doing the basically the same show. We're going to be sticking with themes and doing shit like that.
So yeah, dude. And if you don't want to do that, you could always rate and review over at iTunes, that's our podcast or whatever. It's called now, whatever. Yeah, that's helpful.
Yeah, that's it. Michael Bacall. Michael Bacall. Yes, wrote Scott Pilgrim.
He's also he's a he's a patron alum, I guess. Sure. Or no, no, he's a main fee alum. He's in Django Unchained.
Yeah, Django as a city recall sing last name. Oh, no. Easy to remember what he plays. This mini Bacall.
Yeah. He's the guy who like they shoot from like very far away when he's playing with his son. Yeah, that's one. He also was in an episode of hit record on TV.
Whoa, the TV adaptation of Joseph Gordon Levitt's fan fan fabulous project hit record Joe. That looms large here. So it does for some reason sort of like it's not the same as John Krasinski some good news or whatever, but it also is exactly the same. Kind of the same.
Fascinating. What? Anyway. I'm looking at the Stephen King adaptations on the horizon, then.
Oh, no. Okay. Oh, God. No, I mean, there's Mike Flanagan is doing a is I mean, this is classic, right?
An Amazon series. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I'm Stephen King's Carrie. Oh, no, oh, we're doing Carrie. Oh my God.
I can't wait for the 10 minute monologue where Carrie's mom finally explains her like fucking 101 philosophy explanation on why she doesn't like fucking dirty pillows or whatever. Yeah, 10 minutes on like them going back and forth on like whether or not. Yeah. On dirty pillows.
It's I mean, you know, we carry the first King adaptation. Some still say the best. Some people are going to bat real hard. It's got to be in the top five, right?
You got to be. Yeah. I mean, it is it's classic. But then they they they remade it into a little mini series on like the sci-fi channel when they remade it again as a series.
It's a movie with Chloe Grace Marettes and is it like Julian or in that we watched. Oh, yeah. They watch the porn. Yeah, the big climactic no pun intended orgy scene at the end.
Yep. People sucking and fucking to death. The I will I will give the porno some credit in dumping a big bucket of cum instead of. Yeah, you got up, right?
I mean, you have to. It really kind of writes itself, but it was pretty funny. Even now I've got that. I'm pretty funny.
If you're if you're new to the show, episode 69 episode 69 of the podcast, we review a Carrie porn parody, which yeah, honestly, I think better pace than the running man. Yeah, better pace than the running man. Lee paced than the running did record numbers for us. Being better paced than a movie with Lee pace in it is really saying something that's that's offensive.
Yeah. There's of course, Carrie to the rage. Oh my God. And rage.
And yeah, yeah, I carry to where where someone gets death by CDs. Death by CDs gets there by harpoon to the dick. Yeah, they're dick harpooned off to death. We used to be a country.
We use. No, like nobody in this movie gets harpooned in the dick to death. Sorry. No, sorry.
Also, how to kill people in interesting ways. Sorry. Sorry. This movie that's in the future that's supposed to be edgy.
Yep. Sorry. Also, this movie is rated are show me Glen Powell's dick. Show me his dick.
Show me his show me his fucking show me that's Powell. Yeah. Show me that fucking hog. All right.
Bring down the hammer on this audience. Would you? Yeah. Would it be great if they showed his dick and it was just okay.
It also has weird teeth show more OK, Dick's on screen. All right. Normalize that normalize normal dicks, please. So is that the only only thing we have coming up?
No, I mean, there's a ton of other shit. Well, skip it. Billy Summers and Mr. Yummy.
I don't know what those are. And I'm not that I don't want to watch more porn. We're there's going to be a series called fairy tale based on the book fairy tales. Great.
Another sort of not spin off. They're calling these like spin off series like welcome to dairy. It's like a spin off series. That and this one's called Dan Overlook.
It's about let's see here the overlook. Oh, God, back. It's just I would love if it was just like a workplace comedy about like a normal day. Like the like the season.
Yeah, the on season where nothing weird happens. The summer. Yeah. OK, listen, we'll have plenty of time to get to that in 2026.
Regrettably in the meantime, the running man 2025 stars Glen Powell, Mr. Hollywood himself has been Richard the self anointed Mr. Hollywood. I don't know.
He's he the like he's got to be one of the most sought after guys for your lead, right? I think so. I think so. Like you're doing an action movie or but I don't know.
He's also not just doing everything. Lead twisters, which seems like up his alley, right? That seems like like a move, you know, to be like, no, I'm going to be. I'm going to I'm going to return to fun movies.
He does seem like a guy who likes to have fun. That seems like I end up in this too. Sure. Of course, fun has been outlawed and so no one gets to have any.
Right. But let's get to have any while watching this. Especially because like honestly, I mean, this character is so I wouldn't say like so poorly defined, but like sometimes he's the angriest guy you've ever met. And other times he's just like, hi, I'm Glenn Powell.
Yes. So it's sometimes he is like grabbing the the taser end of a guards baton stick and he's just so angry. I'm so angry that you can't even this electricity. I'm more electric than this electric baton than I'm holding right.
And if you have to say it, then it's probably not true. Right. I don't know. I don't know.
But Ben Richards, he's a bring back like the tough guy. Bring back like the Schwarzenegger who's like giving one liners after he fucking kills somebody, you know. Yeah. Like you have to have him be, you know, he can love his wife and his daughter or whatever.
Yeah. But everyone else in the world, he has to be like, so I don't know deeply distrustful or whatever. But it's like you can't be snake plac in some of the time, basically. It's my issue here.
That's you're right. That's it. That's a perfect way to put it. You can't like that.
I patch doesn't come off. No, it doesn't come off. Yeah. Like that's what makes like those movies so good is that like, you know, you have Kurt Russell playing snake Pliskin, which is a cartoon character.
Sure. Right. But within the world and all that shit, you're just like, yeah, I don't know snake Pliskin, cool guy. Yeah, whatever.
See, he must be one real bad ombre. And it's also like him being that way does do a little bit of like world building where you're like, wow, the world, like the world of this movie generates that guy. Right. Like it leads to that guy.
And like, not that there's none of that here. Like I guess like Ben Richards, he's a family man. He's a hard work and family man. He's been fired from basically every job he's had for insubordination.
Yeah. We learned that his most recent firing was because he was like conspiring with like the trade union or something, even though he wasn't a part of it. Yeah. Well, he complained to the trade, his union rep that like there was radiation exposure.
Okay. And which we find like in the movie, whatever we find out that he, you know, Bert, that's really true. That's going to go on for a minute. No, that like he was able to have a child, but like a lot of his coworkers were not because their testicles have been fried by radiation.
Right. The year is 2026. It is 20, 25. It's all been fried.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, his whole thing, you know, he's like, oh, he's a good worker, but he's been blacklisted.
He won't, they won't hire him now because nobody will hire him because he's such a problem, which like, okay, that's, that's who this guy is. Right. He's like, uh, like, whatever you want to call it, a whistleblower, a troublemaker for these corporations, these businesses. And, uh, you don't get enough of that in when he's the, when he's the running man, you know, you know, well, he's got a low.
I know that. But like my, like comparing this to the, uh, you know, 87 movie, it's not like a one for one kind of thing. It doesn't, they're not the same movie, right? The original movie is not based really on the book.
It's just so loosely kind of adaptive. Right. I mean, the game in the movie is all like, you know, it's like a big obstacle. Yes.
Yeah. But I think, you know, there's like this resistance, this underground resistance in the shorteninger movie by McFleewood and shout out fucking do easels, Appa, uh, you know, obviously, would you, okay, you can only like, would you rather have McFlee wouldn't make in Dweasel or William H. Macey. Macey and Sarah.
I like Michael Sarah in this. No, I like him too. He has so much more juice, basically. Like him and, I mean, him and Macey.
Yeah. Yeah. They've got juice and like Michael Sarah has like the funny, he has like the only laugh line in the movie that works for me, which was what he's talking about his mom. And he's like, she used to be a like an intelligent and compassionate woman or something.
You know what I'm talking about? Yeah. Yeah. I got me good.
But yeah. Yeah. I'm not used in this movie. Like could be played by anybody.
Yeah, it's true. But whatever, I think, I don't know, I just think like having like more of an underground resistance, even the fucking guy with the YouTuber guy who I will find out his name. Yes. I also can't remember his name.
Who is everybody? The listing of the cast is like the order of people are listed. It makes no sense. It's impossible to find anybody.
I think it's just, you know, in order of appearance, but good God. Now I have to remember the movie. Now you got to remember the movie. And it's crazy too.
Cause like halfway down the page is Coleman Domingo, which tells you just how many people are in this movie. Yes. It's a Bradley. Is that him?
Yes. He's Bradley. If gun to my head. He gave me a hundred guesses.
I would never. I was only refer to you only ever hear him refer to as big bro by his little brother. Yeah. Whose name is no, no, no Stacy or is that the probably?
Yeah. Yeah. No, he's Stacy and then they have a sister. But who knows what her name is.
It's not important. Anyway, Daniel Ezra as Bradley. What about him? No, like he's kind of a somewhat of a like resistance guy, a freedom fighter of sorts of rebel, you know, with his like underground zine and shit like that.
But it's so unorganized, right? It's just that by the end of the movie, there should have been like more of a push for like an underground resistance rising up a, you know, and we don't really see like people that watch the running man start like shifting and like, like we kind of see it in the audience or whatever. But like, I don't know, there's just not enough for me of like people being like, oh, no, actually I'm on Ben Richard's side now. Richard is my guy.
I agree. And it's like, I also think it's just very interesting that even in the 80s, like the like the fucking Reagan S 80s, the concept of like an organized resistance was much more ingrained in the American imagination than it is now. Like I do think it is very interesting to me that like beyond that, like there's no organizers and the people who are resisting are, I mean, one's like a manor. So like a libertarian whose booby trapped his house.
Yes. Right. It's like, again, yeah, just like one guy who runs like a semi illegal gun shop or something in one image, Macy. Yes.
And a fucking YouTuber content creator, like they make zines like they're all just like doing media and there's no and like, yeah, the idea of like a resistance is just like a fucking mob bum rushing the stage or whatever. Right. And so like, I mean, that's not inspiring at all. Like that's one of the weirdest things about the ending is it's just like, yeah, he wins, but it has nothing to do with like, like the way you would actually defeat like a massive.
Corporate power like that. It's like one guy gets lucky. Right. Basically.
And like, yeah, I don't know. Even the idea of just like picking a guy and being like, you're our hero is so. I mean, it's true to the times that the movie is made in it. Like why?
Why is it true to the times? No, why do that? And you're why do that? And if you're like, I don't know, like, you know, people start to get on.
They're like rooting for Ben Richards, but like it will get into all of that. But the fact that he's like, you know, of the three runners, he's like the final guy, right? He's like, there's like the guy that's going to get killed immediately, the guy who is going to just like sort of party really hard until they get killed. And then there's the final guy who's actually like that we think can make it.
So this happens on a semi regular basis. It seems like that there's a guy who can almost make it to the end that people are rooting for, right? So why is Ben Richards the guy that they're like, you know, we want you to be, you know, the one, right? Yeah.
Also, the I do think it's like, I think it's lame that they are editing his his videos from day one. Yeah. Where it's like, I think it's way more interesting if you do a network kind of thing where you're like, yeah, say like truth to power as entertainment. Sure.
And then at a certain point, he says the wrong, he says something that crosses a line for them. Right. Changes. Yes.
Instead of just having it from the jump, you're like the media lies. Yeah. It's like, it's like, obviously the media lies. We all know that.
And that is like almost a, I don't know about an interesting observation, but at least like it rings true to me that like Ben kind of curries this public favor, like everyone's watching the show and they just like kind of know instinctively that they're getting bullshit. Sure. Like they're not, they're not being told what's actually happening. Like, so in the original movie, right?
Ben Richards, he's like, he's one of these like, he's like a cop. And in the opening scene, he's like flying a helicopter and he's ordered to like open fire on a group of riders who are like just, you know, it's like women and children trying to get food and he doesn't do it. He, you know, whatever ignores the orders. And that's when he's like, you know, blacklisted essentially and he's arrested and he's put into work camp and she like that.
But they edit all of that video of him and say, you know, and because they do open fire on, you know, they knock him at Ben Richards out and then the rest of those guys do kill a bunch of riders. And then they accused Ben, they laid all on Ben Richards saying calling him the butcher of Baker's field, right? It's a whole thing because they edit the video. That's what they show.
This is the narrative we're going with. Then at some point towards the end of the movie, they get the original raw footage and they show that and it blows everybody's mind. They're like, Oh shit, they have been lying to us. This is like, you know, this was the lie that they fed to us.
Okay. So now there's like a little bit more motivation for people, just consumers, audience members to be like to resist. Yeah, question the whole system. This is so individual, like from start to finish because as again, as you're saying that I'm thinking now of like this movie's version of that, which is Amelia, the character of Amelia played by Amelia.
Yes. Amelia, Amelia Jones is Amelia Williams. Hill alum. Hill alum from a Miss Miss May Angels lead you in herself.
Yes. She's also on that show task that people like. Oh, I didn't watch the task. Oh my God.
They got her done up like a Delco County and it's like the hottest thing I've ever seen. So fucking hard right now. She looks. She looks so good.
It's crazy. That's really what can I say? What can I say, man? What can I say?
I grew up in the suburbs. Yeah. I live, you know, I live in like a feeling now, baby. This is what I'm into.
Yeah. And she's like, go take care of the kids. I'm like, take care of your kid. I would take care of your dad.
I think you wouldn't have to ask me twice. You got a little kid. You kidnapped down then there down then there. So fucking hot.
Oh my God. Oh my God. Say that again. I was going to go down to the store.
Get a little hooge for dinner. Oh, it's so cool that you're talking like. What a great way to talk. What a great way to talk.
What a great way to sound. You sound like a garbage can. All right. Oh, yeah, she does like I'm going to picture this hover from task.
She looks great. It's a great. I mean, she's also very beautiful generally, but like it's I didn't quite recognize her first. Like who is this?
Who is this newcomer? Yeah. Yeah. That's me.
That's me angels lead you in. Yeah. All right. Yeah.
Yeah, me angels lead you in down there. Go ahead. Just dump her off the cliff. Yeah.
I'll go get the wheelbarrow. Just load her up. Dump her off the cliff. You just go ahead.
Dump her off. Yeah. Start in a stink. So yes, Amelia Jones is in this movie as Amelia Williams.
Yes. But anyway, to get back to what we were saying, even the like the like real, you know, the sort of like breaking of the illusion of the media is individualized where it's like just her in the car being like, oh, maybe he's isn't so bad. Yeah. She doesn't sound like that.
She doesn't sound like that all the time at all. But even yeah, and then it's like she gets fucking Michael Sarah's zine to distribute and that's like the act of resistance. Yeah. What?
I don't know. And like part of me is like I do I know it's kind of brow beady though, but like I do think there's something honest about the fact that like the proletariat class in the movie is sort of just like, yeah, Ben's our fucking guys killing those goons like that rocks. Sure. And she is like the bougie lady.
Yeah. I don't know. It doesn't quite add up to anything, I guess. Yeah.
It feels he got. Well, also I'm gonna say weird the point at which she gets introduced. Her arc has to happen like kind of lickety split. Yeah, it does.
Yeah. I want to be better if it's like he has this hostage for most of the run and he has to like convince like she like she actually, same thing like she has the whole character arc, but yes, that she has to come to terms. What is, I mean, it's again, it is the fucking the original running man, the Maria Concida Alonso character who is like, no, you're the butcher of Bakersfield. You're a dangerous person.
I need to stay away from you. And then eventually she is convinced that like, Oh shit, the media has been lying. I was duped and now I'm going to help with your, you know, cause and fucking like, why are we forgotten? How do fucking tell movies and emotional arcs for people and like what is going on?
You can really what is going on. Yeah, you can kind of feel how they like rationalize it to where it's like, well, all of the stuff that happens to her is like in a pressure cooker, right? It's like she, the one of the first things that happens is that the military lets them pass that checkpoint or whatever. Yeah.
So like there's, there's, yes, there are moments when, yeah, that she writes a pressure cooker situation, but I guess just the structure of the movie too is just like, okay, well, this is the, this is the bit where he's with Michael Sarah. This is the bit where he's with Bradley. This is the bit where he's with Amelia. Like you just kind of bounces like that.
And you know, every 20 to 30 minutes or whatever, he's kind of with a new, you know, side also, I mean, with the exception of the, like the Sarah part is the only, well, and the Amelia Jones segment too, but like the part in Boston is so kind of like anti-climactic in how it plays out where it's like, you know, they hide him and then his mom or wife, I don't even know what the woman is. Mom, I think is like, you know, she sees the video, the edited video of Ben on the show, right? And she's like, get him out of here. Like he's a monster or whatever.
Right. And they do. They just do. And there's like, they get chased by a gang and it's like three guys on motorcycles who don't even know who he is.
Like they don't know they have the running man with them. Right. And so it's just like this little nothing threat that doesn't build to anything because no one else knows it's happening. Isn't it so weird that like this guy Bradley who has the zine who had or no, he's not doing the scene, like a Sarah's doing the scene, but he has this YouTube channel, right?
Where it's all just like, it's all resistant stuff, right? And but also like his mom is like, get him out of here. And he's like, you know, like whatever, whatever lies they're telling about him on TV, like she is believing like wholesale. And you're like, why?
Like how, where's the disconnect here between the mom and Bradley where they're like, no, he is like, like leading some sort of a resistance online. And you are just another audience member that loves the show. Right. Yeah.
Like do you guys talk over breakfast at all or like, what is this? Yeah, it doesn't, it doesn't make any sense. It doesn't, it doesn't make sense. Let's keep going down the cast here.
Sure, sure. Carl Glesman, Gluesman, as Frank. He's one of the, the, the stalkers or the hunters in this, I know this guy from a, he's been in a bunch of movies, but he was this, who's a guy who did enter the void? Gasper in no way.
Yeah. Yeah. So gasper, no, he did this movie love, which is about like, it's about a couple like, it's a relationship movie, whatever. But the big deal with that movie was there was a bunch of unsimulated sex.
Far out. So it was just people fucking on screen for real. And he's in that movie and like the scene opens with him getting a hand job and you just see the whole fucking thing. And he's like, you see the rope.
You see the rope. Wow. I know. You see ropes.
You see fucking, you see it all. It's so funny to be like, how subversive is this? When there's such a thing as port off. I know.
So you, oh, you invented showing someone getting a hand job on camera? Gaspar, no way. I, I, in theory, I get it. We're like, you want to show like, if you're trying to get to, you know, like the most, like the deepest core of a relationship or whatever, that's part of it.
But also, if you're in French, it kind of is just literally just being French. It's also, I find, I just think it's very distracting from words. Maybe I'm a child, but it's just fine to very distracting. All these ropes are getting in the way of my story here.
Ropes get in your eyes. Yeah. That's like a, the jazz standard. Yes.
That's just Lee Pace as McCone, who wears a mask. Most of the movie, you know, Lee Pace at six, five. You look six, five. I mean, he looks big as hell.
But six, five. God damn. That's pretty crazy. How tall is Glen Powell?
Not that tall. He's nobody that tall. He's like, I'm a guy who's like, five, eleven and a half. Yeah.