I read the book before seeing the movie.

The book is really good if I remember (it was about 18 years ago when I read it).

Highly recommend it. Much better than movie.

The premise is quite different.

Contestants volunteer to be on a gameshow. If they survive in America for 30 days, they get $1 Billion Dollars.

The catch: Whoever kills them gets a whole bunch of money.

You against the country. Can you dig it?

Dr. O' Nothing wrote:I'm about to watch this again for the first time since the early 1990s.
In case you forgot, the intro text reads something like this:

The year is 2017. The world economy has collapsed. TV is run by The State. No dissent is tolerated. Etc. Etc.

Should be interesting.

It's going to take until 2017?

lemur68 wrote:

Dr. O' Nothing wrote:I'm about to watch this again for the first time since the early 1990s.
In case you forgot, the intro text reads something like this:

The year is 2017. The world economy has collapsed. TV is run by The State. No dissent is tolerated. Etc. Etc.

Should be interesting.

It's going to take until 2017?

Yeah, i think they overshot it by a few years.

not crap, i'll watch it everytime it's on.

Dr. O' Nothing wrote:The year is 2017. The world economy has collapsed. TV is run by The State. No dissent is tolerated. Etc. Etc.

A Rick Reuben Joint.

chet wrote:

Marsupialized wrote:Predator, Running man, terminator all fine motion pictures

There was one called Raw Deal where he infiltrates the Italian Mafia, he greases his hair back and says 'fooguttabowtet' and they buy it and let him in

I almost rented this Raw Deal movie tonight, after looking at IMDB and realizing it was the only 80's Arnold I knew nothing about. The IMDB score is in the crapper though, and Im skeptical.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK8mOxKhuBA

still skeptical?

Dweezil Zappa's in it. NOT CRAP

Tom wrote:I read the book before seeing the movie.

The book is really good if I remember (it was about 18 years ago when I read it).

Highly recommend it. Much better than movie.

The premise is quite different.

Contestants volunteer to be on a gameshow. If they survive in America for 30 days, they get $1 Billion Dollars.

The catch: Whoever kills them gets a whole bunch of money.

You against the country. Can you dig it?

This was my experience too. I read The Long Walk first and loved that. Also read Rage at about the same time. Considering these stories predate reality TV and high school/college shoot ups (at least as commonly as they happen now in the US) I'd say these were ace sci-fi novels. Some of his best stuff.

ANYHOW, I liked the book enough to watch the movie. I don't think it's possible to enjoy both even though one has nothing to do with the other. I just have such a low threshold of tolerance for "hilarious cheesey 80's movies." But that's a whole different thread. Even out of the context of the novel, though, I don't see the movie as a very likable one, unless you saw it under the age of 10-12, then I get it. Gives you something to play in the backyard with your buddies.

CRAP

Why the hell did they cast Arnie and that bird in the two main speaking roles? Can you really understand what either of them are saying at any point?

not crap, good movie...the dance, she is'a not so'a good...