True Beauty

Give me a break! A lot of eastern countries, and germany, have been publicized as being bad because of what has happened, and some countries, like holland are considered a bit TOO "free". So they make good fodder. The SAME is true of a few oriental countries, and the middle east.

So it lays down a good plot, and makes the villans more obvious.

I don't think richard dawsons character in the running man" would have been bad if he just DIDN'T CARE about the veracity of the conviction, or the level of violence. It wasn't like he planned everything up to that point, created the charge, or even pulled the triggers!

In many ways, it is like "the family fued"(the biggest game show he was the host of). He just smoozed, maybe advertised, and did a few relatively harmless things. In the running man, the last step was the "contestant" got looked in a little car, and sent to an area where others were equipped with a lot of weapons and devices to find and kill the contestant. As I recall, it was win, and go free, or die a painful death.

BTW Richard Dawson was working WITH the government here! He was assisting the convictions.

Steve

Back when I was a teen trying to be like a rock star it did.