Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: RUNAWAY
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- čas přidán 9. 09. 2021
- Tom Selleck takes on killer robots & Gene Simmons in the 1984 sci-fi flick "Runaway", directed by Michael Crichton.
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Only in the 80's could we have gotten Tom Selleck, Gene Simmons & killer robots in the same movie!
Too true! Back in the 70's, one had to settle for Tom Skerritt, Yaphet Kotto & a killer robot in the same movie!
If you want to view Paradise
Gene Simmons appearing in a film with Jean Simmons was a missed opportunity.
Did you ever do Superman 3?
Not to mention 1980's Kirstie Alley - ROWR-OWR-ROOOWWRRRR!!!!
"Gene Simmons plays an effective slimeball..." What do you mean, "PLAYS?"
You know they say play what you know so I guess you could say Gene Simmons is basically just playing Gene Simmons. 😂
Just rewatched "Extract" a sleeper Mike Judge movie.
Gene Simmons is a natural slimeball always.
@@richardrobbin2225
Yeah I totally forgot he was in that.
It is a bit of a hidden gem.
Then again most people didn't know about Idiocracy until a couple years ago too.
Now now, for all any of us know, Gene Simmons could be a very nice man in real life. Remember Peter Cushing? He played the evil Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars, and according to Carrie Fisher, he was the sweetest, kindest, gentlest man you'd ever want to meet. So much so that when she had to do scenes where she was practically spitting poison at him, she was like, "I can't do this! He's too NICE!"
@@graemesmith6721
Helped Nick Rivers
in Top Secret!
Killed Count Dracula (Dooku) a couple of times.
Love that guy!!
When my dad first told me Gene Simmons was the Demon from KISS my first reaction was ,
“That guy from that robot spider movie?!”
Tom Selleck, 80’s sexiest man alive with more man in his mustache than most men have in their entire bodies, getting chewed out by Police Academy’s Captain Harris, while chasing down Kiss’s front man Gene Simmons and clunky robots , makes my nostalgia meter practically explode.
Tom Selleck lived somewhere near my cousin's house near Woodstock because we saw him jog by all the time. You just can't miss that mustache, could see it coming from a mile away!!! It was confirmed to actually be Tom too.
Coincidentally also the same town where they filmed The Stuff!
I thought Selleck's boss looked familiar.
Speaking of 80s movies with robots Ramsey's Captain was also in Short Circuit
@@pappajudas9267 also in Mannequin.
If I had a nickel for each movie Brandon’s done that had Gene Simmons as the main villain, I’d have 2 nickels. It’s not much but it’s weird that it’s happened twice, especially in quick succession
I'm sad that Simmons didn't get more of a movie career. He's a lot of fun!
Wanted: dead or alive should be next.
@Th3Xp3rt
I honestly hope it is!
@@michaelccozens Yeah! He was also in Trick or Treat, that's a lot of fun too - Gene SImmons is certainly good value in these low budget shockers :)
That meme just popped up informing me about the suez canal being blocked again this week. Lol.
"I'm sure he got the shot" golden Brandon
I didn't realize Gene Simmons played in as many movies as he has.
It is also surprising how pretty good he is in most of them (and ironically he wasn't at his best in his Kiss related one).
@@vitorafmonteiro He does play some good characters for sure.
My favorite Gene role was in Wanted Dead or Alive with Rutger Hauer
Trick or Treat as well.
He was great as a sleazy lawyer in "Extract."
Nothing about the police chief being G.W.Bailey, most known for playing Captain Harris in Police Academy? For shame, Brandon, for shame!!!
Yeah, nobody, but _nobody,_ screws with him!
Makes for a lot of lonely Saturday nights at the Harris Seminary!
Fun Fact: Sellek's Co Star is the girl dancing in Toto's Rosanna video.
isnt she also "die hard's wife" ?
@@2st486 No
Nice!
@@2st486 she actually looks a bit like her. Never noticed that before, but no, it's not her.
She was Richard Marx's wife tho
The US military did experiment with high calibre sniper rounds with small rocket vents allowing limited course correction but I think they decided it would be better to spend the money to teach their guys to shoot better.
The tech was just too expensive, and specialized, for even assassination attempts as you needed a specialized gun that couldn’t fire any regular type of ammo. It’s kinda like the 1 million dollar guided mortar round, cool to have, but way too expensive to even train with.
Interesting, thanks! Though unless the course-correction was automatic (which would seem to remove the need for the sniper in the first place, or at least move in that direction), it's hard to imagine how this would operate. Would the spotter need to evaluate and make corrections in the short time between firing and impact? Would the bullet be wire-guided? TOWs work because at their typical effective combat range and projectile speed, you do have lots of time to course-correct, whereas a sniper's bullet travels at approximately 3x the speed with about the same max range (using the max loaded .50 cal round as the most charitable example).
Also, snipers already work with incredibly-complex ballistic equations to make their shots. Adding in a guidance system seems like it might make things harder, not easier. It would have to be super user-friendly, one might think.
@@michaelccozens they compromised by developing calculators for long distance rifleman to make the multimile shots when paired with the right high caliber ammo. The .38 lapua comes with its bespoke calculator just for that purpose.
Bullets that can go around corners. It's almost as if Gene Simmons was a part of an ancient weavers guild.
They can if you fling your arm fast enough while shooting.
He has a Revolver Ocelot gun!!
They had me at: "In a not so distant future...."
Me too, Mike and the bots would have ripped this cheese-fest to shreds!
La la la
Somewhere in time and space
#eyesonBreen
Tom and Crow woukd have loved the killer robots
This was a popular rental in my last two years of college, 86-88. Decent cast, interesting premise. Just too much competition. Of course it’s a little cheesy now, but a good cheese. A guy I attended college with dated a girl we called the Beast. He was known as The Beastmaster. Yeah, we weren’t nice guys.
Good 🧀 indeed
Frats boys are notorious for being asshats
Our brains don't finish developing until 25. For guys, this means that niceness often comes later in life.
The spider robots look very similar to the early replicator bots from Stargate SG1 a decade later.
Seeing the thumbnail made me laugh especially seeing Brandon with a Tom Selleck mustache also this movie was actually pretty good
This was the most serious police academy movie I've ever seen XD
Feels like a pre RoboCop prequel.
A Brandon review plus a promise to review The Beastmaster? Best thing that has happened all day!
If he reviews The Beastmaster, then he might review Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time! That would be the best.
@@zac3278 Here's to hoping!
@@zac3278 and survival quest too.
@@zac3278 Also Beastmaster 3: The Eye of Braxus is truly awful. It's on Tubi for free.
Ain' t nothin' but a tease, my friend!
Runaway is an underrated gem.
Absolutely!
2010 - The Search for Terminator was a great film. my entire childhood in one film.
Fun fact: Luthor got his bullet technology from the Tall Man.
Who got it from the Deadites. 🤣
I heard he got his magic bullets after getting stabbed by a golden arrow while listening to the Sex Pistols
She was also the dancer that gets pregnant in Dirty Dancing and mentions having been a dancer in Runaway for no reason at all. Serious type casting I guess.
His hairstyle, too! :D
Those spiders could've also been The Tall Man's creations.
Oh my gosh! I didn't know this movie was directed and written by none other than Michael Crichton, the author/father of Jurassic Park.
He also did a movie called)
Looker. It's really good. Give it a try.
@@dbsommers1 agreed.
Crichton was pretty good right up until he lost his damned mind with "State of Fear" and everything thereafter. That's the book where he created a character with the name of a literary critic who had criticized Crichton and made him a child molester with a small penis. Keep it classy, Mike.
@@michaelccozens What does that critic criticize him for? Crichton's commentary on humanity being too intelligent and science that can be dangerous that the critic disregarded that and ignore the fact World War II and Cold War is a thing? I guess Crichton's right all along, because this critic finds Crichton's commentary 'too uncomfortable'.
@@michaelccozens Actually, the thing with the critic was in Next, the book he published after State of Fear - and his last real book, cause he died shortly afterward. State of Fear's problem was that it was all about how climate change doesn't exist (it was also boring as shit). Crichton was very good at predicting upcoming issues in science and tech, but when he backed the wrong horse, oooh boy.
I can't even guess how many times I've watched this movie on TV. Any time I saw that it was on when I was flipping through channels I'd watch it. Also, yes please do Beastmaster! That's another one I've watched an unknown amount of times!
OMG! You posted this a day ago! Are you a time traveler?
"hey the frikkin robospiders movie is on!"
@@Invidente7 Nope, just had early access to the video through Patreon.
@@2st486 LOL Pretty much.
I feel like Beastmaster should be a milestone. It is pretty special at least to my friends and I.
This dude got my respect. He said an Amiga 500.
R.I.P. Kristie Alley.
I don't know how long the joke about her being ugly had even been a thing, but it's weird how it shifted, much like with Michael Jackson
Hey you missed one other 80's TV (semi) star G.W. Bailey who was the chief in this movie, he also played Luther Rizzo on MASH and LT Harris in Police Academy.
awww i knew it! awesome ^_^
He was also the corporate security chief in 'Short Circuit'.
I wondered that too.
Proctooor!!!
I saw this movie in theaters and loved it! Being a Magnum fan and a Kiss fan, this was a dream! This, and Quigley Down Under were and are still Tom's best movies.
Tom has done better movies than this. Tom has done a lot of really great westerns, a lot of them with Sam Elliot. Tom's a really great western star and I wish he had done more westerns in his prime
@@Gregbaltzer he has that quintessential western look and demeanor like Sam Elliot. Born in the wrong era in some ways. Both awesome, both moustachioed, all man lol.
@@leewright1 I've collected all of Tom's westerns. The guy was born for that genre. I just wish he'd done a lot more like John Wayne or Clint Eastwood.
High Road To China is all worth mentioning, as another really good movie for Tom Selleck.
Her Alibi is really good as well.
With a little practice, Gene Simmons could’ve been one of the best bad guys of all time. And those spider bots were wonderfully creepy.
You know it’s gonna be a good day when Brandon uploads a movie review
So, this is basically an alternative ending to Flight of The Navigator, where the boy ends up in an even more fucked up future than the one he was
I'm surprised that Brandon didn't make any Flight of the Navigator references in this episode due to the kid... oh well. Still a funny episode.
I was surprised he didn't reference that movie.
@Zoomer Waffen
Quantum Leap?
@@CorbCorbin----r/wooosh
Even more fucked up future in reality. He made no more movies and Joey Cramer ended up a drug addict and in jail for connection with bank robbery.
“It looks like they’re powering up an Amiga 500.”
Ah, memories
Do many people remember that? Christ, we're old.
Lol some people and their silly ancient tech. Had an Amiga 600 myself...
@@Emulous79 I don't know. Those graphics seem pretty "cutting edge" for that game system (said as someone who owned it at some point).
And yes, we are. Let's celebrate that fact? ;)
Meanwhile, my i9 processor and Nvidia GTX2080 is running smoothly....as I emulate DosBox
Time to bust out "Shadow of the Beast" and it's awesome David Whitaker soundtrack.
Well since you're sort of on a Gene Simmons run, how about the "Wanted: Dead or Alive" movie with him and Rutger Hauer?
That was actually a GOOD movie.
You beat me to it. But yeah, go for the Demon Hat Trick by doing Wanted!
@@ricosuave6898 unless you'Re a patreon you don't exist to Brandon. He had stated he wil not cobsidet requests from. Non patreons....
@@barackclinton568 ---Oohlala! Brandon's getting the big head now he's all famous, huh?
@@barackclinton568 That's okay, I know what it's like to have actual problems so if that's the worst thing that happens to me today, I should be fine.
"Was gonna be a dancer, til I took an arrow to the knee..."
I have been describing this movie to friends for years hoping to get a name. I just couldn't remember the name but had seen it many times growing up. Thanks for this upload. Now time to go make a purchase. 👍🏾
I'd think this movie would be the easiest to Google search for. "Tom Selleck+Gene Simmons sci fi movie". What the hell Google, stop giving me "no time to die"! That's not it!
@@dragonsword7370 My issue... I didn't remember it was a Tom Selleck film. I could only describe some events from the film. 😔
Yeah this movie was tailor-made for a nut like Gene Simmons. And this movie used to be on HBO a lot. Back in the day.
Seeing this as a kid , I enjoyed this cult movie review
I loved this movie when it first came out. A very under-appreciated gem
I remember when this came out in theaters. Tom Selleck's first leading movie role. I suppose it was like a consolation prize for getting screwed out of Indiana Jones.
Nah, that was High Road to China from 1983. It's not that great of a movie, especially considering they didn't really adapt the novel properly at all which is much better.
@@alucard624 Was that the one with Bess Armstrong? Yeah, I thought of that after I wrote this.
Selleck's first lead role was in 1972's Daughters Of Satan, a horror film made in The Philippines. Selleck was around for quite a while before finding stardom on Magnum PI.
I’d like to shout out Canadian acting legend Jackson Davies. He’s Jerry, another detective on the scene. Jackson Davies has had a long career of playing law enforcement, he played an RCMP constable on The Beachcombers forever🇨🇦
The Wild Guys,he played Stewart freaking hilarious role.
Tom Green cast him in Freddy Got Fingered because he loved The Beachcombers growing up. I'd ask Brandon to review that one except he hasn't run over my dog or stolen my girlfriend or anything like that yet.
Andrew you have great taste in actors, and yes I did over 450 TV episodes and 3 weren't cops :) thanks for the shout out.
@@TSpringsBC wow! You are a Canadian treasure. You better get a star on the Canadian Walk of Fame someday.
@@knowknaime Only if I moved to the U.S. :)
This was Jerry Goldsmith's first all-electronic score. He was better with synths than Maurice Jarre...
The little robots used in the car chase do have a real life analog.
Some police departments in the U.S. have a RC drone. They are used to disable a criminals car by getting underneath and disrupting the electrical system. I remember seeing this 10 or 15 years ago. My google fu is not giving me good results. It might have been a small project, that was ended for better ideas.
10:15 - I love how casually he says that line!
“She’s very attractive. Where do you think she bought her shoes? I’d like my house robot to have some shoes like that. I’m getting it the “sexy legs” upgrade for Christmas.”
When I was younger (in the 80s) I got this movies confused with Robocop.
Incredibly ironic that this movie was overshadowed at the box office by Star Trek III, but Kirstie Alley is in this rather than reprising her role as Saavik. Sure hope she was paid well, at least...
SHE DIDNT WANT TO GET TYPE CASTED....LMAO! I guess playing a dead pan vulcan was jusssst right.
Should have shot her agent with a phaser.
Badass movie! One of my favorite 80s movies right next to Blue Thunder
Loved the whole programmable bullets kick. That was awesome.
I love you "In Search of Darkness 2" you were some of the best parts of that.
Brandon, thanks, on this Dreadfully Serious Twentieth Anniversary this was just the escapism I needed. I always found this movie kind of odd and about the most I can say for it is "Eh, the story works better than Looker."
The Twentieth Anniversary of America Not Learning a Goddamned Thing. It's not a happy occasion.
I looked up the synopsis of Looker and was like, "What the hell am I reading?"
I love the cool "overhead projector" design these futuristic robots have...
Loved the poster. Looking forward to Beast Master
"They didnt die, they just have some looney tunes black face on them."
PHRASING!
Sounded accurate to me! As long he’s not doing a news gig on NBC, Brandon should be safe!
Another pretty great Brandon review on a movie from the 80s,well that's nice
I totally forgot about this movie. It really was on television all the time when I was a kid. More so the 80s than the 90s, tho....
Runaway also used to play a lot on ABC back in the late 80’s. That’s where first saw it, and it’s one of my favorite films, with one my favorite movie villains.
It played EVERYWHERE. I saw it on HBO first though. Damn, that was forever ago...
Wait, Tom Selleck's superior is played by Capt. Harris from ''Police Academy''!
*MOVE IT, MOVE IT, MOVE IT!!!*
"PROCTOR!"
I think this movie is an underrated classic.
I was 15 when I saw this on HBO. To this day, I still vividly remember the scene when a young, thin, hot Kirstie Alley had to take off her clothes for the scanning sequence. Because the cinematography was so good to my 15 year old mind.
There's a similar scene with Susan Dey in Chrichton's other movie, Looker. Definitely worth checking out.
Luther has a gun that shoots bullets that can turn and follow people huh?
I wonder if Araki used this as inspiration for The Emperor.
Sex pistols?
@@smcrevival1467 No, that's Part 5. The Emperor is a gun stand, which has its bullets practically targets its enemies, and that's from Part 3.
Omg ... Jojo reference
Yes it was over the top with extra cheeze, but Runaway was mildly interesting & extremely very 80s....what a great f**ing decade! Kristie Alley in the day!👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 and so was Selleck’s partner!👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 Agreed the robot spiders were memorable & Gene Simmons plays a very good villain.
Thank you Brandon, this a true b movie classic
The most impressive thing is that robot somehow reloading that revolver despite having only one arm.
Until I saw the spiderbots, I didn't realize I had seen this film. I remember watching this on TV. Those spiderbots have always stayed with me. Now I know a name to go with them.
80's Kristie Alley not Today Kristie Alley, that joke didn't get old well
Glad to finally see a review on this 80's sci-fi cult classic. I first saw this as a kid, before I even heard of the band Kiss and loved the movie and thought Gene Simmons did a decent job as the villain. I saw it again recently and it still as enjoyable as I remembered it as a kid.
Yea this movie seemed decent especially compared to some other cult classics.
So this is the movie I saw as a kid with the killer robot spiders. The joys of late night movies of "don't tell your mom."
Wow! That's the second movie you reviewed with Tom Selleck. I still remember Daughters of Satan. Plus isn't the kid who played the son the same kid who played David on Flight of the Navagator?
I can’t believe you didn’t throw in a clip of Police Academy somewhere with the chief!!
Saw in theatre Actually like this film a lot.
I saw this in the theatre as a kid and loved it! Tom Selleck in all his mustachioed glory, smokin' hot 80s Kirstie Alley, robots, heat seeking bullets, plus that cool chainmail suit that, criminally, only got used once (twice if you count the poster)! It hasn't aged great (that "brick" cell phone, lol) but it's still got a warm place in my heart! Great video review!
A sequel to this would be great, Tom Selleck as the Chief of police, Android robots that look human, getting hacked to rampage, I guess like the AD police OAV's
It's a shame that Crichton isn't alive still. He was a brilliant novelist
Not only am I old because I saw this in the movies. But it landed on Brandons Cult Movies. LOL. Dont care. STILL love this movie!!
Do LOOKER if you havent already. ANother one of my favorites! Also saw in theatres :P
I remember this movie from back in the day. I was terrified of spiders and this movie DID NOT HELP THAT PHOBIA!
'CLEAR THE F**KING ROOM NOW!'
That sounds too real, like Tom Selleck was legit angry that somebody was making too much noise on set
I'm sure Bobby woudl have been fine, if he was in any real danger Max would have come picked him up
Compliance!!
Actually, about 5 years back, we did invent smart bullets. They're only able to be fired from a 50 BMG due to their size. They have less range than a standard round for the same gun, but they are laser-guided and accurate to within 3 inches of the laser.
If Brandon was working at TBS during the 90's I bet he would've produced some sweet movie promos.
Okay, the robots in the movie are more reminiscent of Lego Technic. Especially these assassin spiders. But if you also like RoboCop, the film is still entertaining.
But I knew that I know the actor of the son from somewhere. That's the Navigator. From... the Flight of the Navigator.
Lego Technic! Ah ah!
Drones and tablet computers had been a thing since the early '70s - they were just prohibitively expensive. Crichton did not do speculative fiction. He did not look at the future and say "I think this will be a thing and this is how it will alter society" what he did was read tech and futurist periodicals and write about what he read in a contemporary setting. Good writer, but stole every idea he wrote about, so he really didn't understand what he was writing about, which is why he mostly got everything wrong.
Sure. Why haven't you stopped into the gap caused by his passing since it is so easy?
when I was a kid this was one of my favorite movies.... I've got it on my Roku alerts to lemme know when someone is playing it.....
Brah love the channel you bring back fond memories of being 9 years old and watching USA up all night good times you rock bro keep it up
Great video so when is the next godzilla vid? Btw ur Godzilla vs gigan vid is copyrighted if u didnt no
Cynthia Rhodes alone is a reason to watch!
Holy shit! This is the movie I've been trying to remember for YEARS! All I could remember was the flying bullet scene and the robot in the cornfield! Thanks for the memory jog! 😁
12:13 Captain Harris did in fact say the words 2 dead giddy “ PRICKS”.
Fun Fact: 13:23 Sellecks name in the movie is Jack Ramsay. This computer insists it’s John.
Wait the female cop couldn't become a dancer because of a bad knee so she became a cop instead. WTF.
There are more transferable skills than you would think.
RIP Kirstie she was hot
At last, I know the name of the movie that traumatized me as a child! Those robot spiders gave me so many nightmares.
6:54 I don’t know, Ray Bradbury had tablets in the Martian Chronicles.
Arthur C. Clarke described them in _2001!_. Heywood Floyd was reading a selection of newspapers on his way to the moon on the device, and young Angus, adorable budding geek that he was, read this in the 80s, and said this was the thing for him!
Can we just take a moment and recognize how hot Cynthia Rhodes is? She flies under the radar when discussing hot 80s girls but she shouldn't
Facts.
I remember watching this as a kid, I had no idea who Gene Simmons was. My mom's favorite show was Magnum PI, so I knew who he was. And my dad watched Cheers, so I knew Kirstie Alley. Later when I heard of KISS, had no idea why the singer scared me. And those stupid spider robots, hated those damn things.
This film was awesome. I saw it on TV in about 1987 and it was brilliant. So many cool ideas!
Now you have to finish the Gene Simmons trilogy with Trick Or Treat...
Awesome review with a lot of smart and funny lines. Just Great. Thanks
Gene kept one of those spider-bots.
You could see it in his office on Family Jewels.
I am addicted, you are under appreciated!
Oh man. I'd completely forgotten about this one! This was peak Magnum P.I. too! Awesome video!
Found your channel a week ago and I've been watching through your stuff. I saw the clip from Super Smash TV "Big money Big prizes" and now I need to play that non-sense again. Thank you :)
THANK YOU FOR DOING RUNAWAY, i loved this movie as a kid, it was always on tv and just fun craziness
Thank you!, thank you!, thank you!
For reviewing this, i have wondered for about 10 years what the name of this movie was. I saw this movie as a teen. And nowadays as a thirty+ i'm kinda nostalgic for certain things from when i was younger.
Your editing is perfect
Just added that to my list yesterday. Classic.