TRC: Ep. 91 The Running Man

The Recasting Couch Movie Podcast

This week’s recast is The Running Man. To quote wikipedia, this 1987 science fiction action film, “...is very loosely based on the 1982 novel of the same title written by Stephen King and published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.” It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as Ben Richards, a soldier who is made the fall guy for a government sanctioned massacre. Maria Conchita Alonso does some damage in her breakout role as Amber Mendez, while the rest of this movie is packed with a whole lot of 80’s nostalgia, including Jim Brown, Jesse “The Body” Ventura, and Richard Dawson Richard Dawsoning all over this movie.

To be honest, we recorded this two weeks ago, and I don’t remember much about what we said, but I do remember laughing our balls off, so I guarantee this one is going to be a good time. I do remember a minimal amount of Arnold impressions, so… you’re welcome. This movie just kicks ass and is classic 80’s cheese.

As always, we love each and everyone one of you. We want to spread that love far and wide, so tell people to download the show so we can just spray all of our love all over them. Ok….that got weird there for a moment. Anyway, we’ve recently hit a huge all-time download milestone, and I honestly never would have guessed we would have ever gotten this far. Although that’s mostly because I don’t think either Mike or I thought we could go this long without grabbing each other’s throats.

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• Chris

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