Running Scared
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Running Scared
My apologies if there's already a thread on this movie. It looks pretty gripping, judging by the trailer. I'm wondering if anyone knows a way around the age verification that the official site has on it to allow you to view the first six minutes. I'm in Canada, so I can't really enter my address.
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looks like it might be good, most people dont like paul Walker, but i dont mind him, liked fast and the furious, 2 fast 2 furious and liked into the blue
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The initial trailers made the film look like shit.
However, after Harry Knowles' glowing review of the film on AICN and the preview of the first six minutes, I am very curious about this flick now.
However, after Harry Knowles' glowing review of the film on AICN and the preview of the first six minutes, I am very curious about this flick now.
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been looking forward to this since the first time i saw the trailer. the grittyness of the film and the plot and camera angles were all incredible. add to that it's rated r, i'm certain i'll enjoy it.
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if it aint got the Thompson Center, it aint Running Scared...
actually, the movie is rather mediocre, but I'll always respect it for giving the red-headed stepchild of Chicago architecture a prominent role...
actually, the movie is rather mediocre, but I'll always respect it for giving the red-headed stepchild of Chicago architecture a prominent role...
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I thought the trailer was a joke the first time I saw it, but the initial reviews have me curious, especially the bad ones (apparently lives up to it's pervasive strong brutal violence).
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Weirdest Marketing I've Ever Seen
My only real interest in this film was because I loved The Cooler. The trailer was terrible and practically swayed me away from wanting to see the film.
The marketing on this film is interesting: terrible trailer, showing the first 6 minutes of the film online, and now this idea to grab attention -
http://www.defamer.com/hollywood/mov...ife-153589.php
The marketing on this film is interesting: terrible trailer, showing the first 6 minutes of the film online, and now this idea to grab attention -
http://www.defamer.com/hollywood/mov...ife-153589.php
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Found a page with a direct link to the first 6 minutes of Running Scared:
http://www.davestrailerpage.co.uk/trailers_r.shtml
Plenty of pervasive strong brutal violence in the first 6 minutes...
http://www.davestrailerpage.co.uk/trailers_r.shtml
Plenty of pervasive strong brutal violence in the first 6 minutes...
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I just saw Walker on The Tonight Show, he said the violence in this movie makes Scarface look timid ( or something to that effect ). We shall see.
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A nice review over at IMDB:
Me, I think I'll go watch the 1986 version again.
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8/10, reviewer from the UK:
Nobody makes movies like Running Scared any more. Five years ago, this film would've been toned down by whichever studio released it in order for it to receive the lowest certificate possible. Bravo, then, to writer/director Wayne Kramer for sticking to his guns and delivering one of the most uncompromising, memorable and downright brutal thrillers in recent memory.
Joey (Paul Walker) is a small-time mobster hired to dispose of 'hot' guns for his bosses. One of these weapons (with particular value over all the others) falls into the hands of his son's best friend and is used to startling effect. Here is where the real fun starts. Joey can find neither the child nor the weapon in question, and he has only 18 hours before either the police, the Russian mafia or his own employers catch up with him.
Walker is surprisingly impressive considering the strictly one-dimensional roles he played in movies such as The Fast And The Furious and Into The Blue. Here he plays Joey as someone well aware of his impending death should he fail, and throughout he is totally watchable and believable. No more will audiences giggle to themselves every time he delivers a dud of a line.
The story occasionally flags, particularly in the middle of the film, but Kramer is not afraid to play with the camera-work to keep the audience's attention - whip-pans, CSI-style extreme close-ups, super slow-motion, sepia filters and colour bleaching are all used to give the film a gritty and somewhat unique look - take, for instance, the kitchen shooting about half an hour into the film, played from multiple viewpoints in both forward and reverse.
The film's charcoal-dark tone may be too relentless for some viewers, and the paedophilia subplot could be considered as taking things one step too far, but as long as you've got a strong stomach and can face hearing lashings of creative swearing, there's a lot of enjoyment to be found here. Unbearably tense, visually inventive and superbly acted from start to finish, Running Scared is the first real surprise of 2006 - it pulls no punches and thrills from its excessively bloody opening to its foul-mouthed conclusion.
Nobody makes movies like Running Scared any more. Five years ago, this film would've been toned down by whichever studio released it in order for it to receive the lowest certificate possible. Bravo, then, to writer/director Wayne Kramer for sticking to his guns and delivering one of the most uncompromising, memorable and downright brutal thrillers in recent memory.
Joey (Paul Walker) is a small-time mobster hired to dispose of 'hot' guns for his bosses. One of these weapons (with particular value over all the others) falls into the hands of his son's best friend and is used to startling effect. Here is where the real fun starts. Joey can find neither the child nor the weapon in question, and he has only 18 hours before either the police, the Russian mafia or his own employers catch up with him.
Walker is surprisingly impressive considering the strictly one-dimensional roles he played in movies such as The Fast And The Furious and Into The Blue. Here he plays Joey as someone well aware of his impending death should he fail, and throughout he is totally watchable and believable. No more will audiences giggle to themselves every time he delivers a dud of a line.
The story occasionally flags, particularly in the middle of the film, but Kramer is not afraid to play with the camera-work to keep the audience's attention - whip-pans, CSI-style extreme close-ups, super slow-motion, sepia filters and colour bleaching are all used to give the film a gritty and somewhat unique look - take, for instance, the kitchen shooting about half an hour into the film, played from multiple viewpoints in both forward and reverse.
The film's charcoal-dark tone may be too relentless for some viewers, and the paedophilia subplot could be considered as taking things one step too far, but as long as you've got a strong stomach and can face hearing lashings of creative swearing, there's a lot of enjoyment to be found here. Unbearably tense, visually inventive and superbly acted from start to finish, Running Scared is the first real surprise of 2006 - it pulls no punches and thrills from its excessively bloody opening to its foul-mouthed conclusion.
"Excuse me, we're from Noisebusters. Do you know where the Menudo concert is?"
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Originally Posted by Drexl
Is this a remake of the 1986 cop buddy film with Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines?
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Originally Posted by Trigger
Now - off to figure out how to trick my girlfriend into seeing this...
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There's a Running Scared video game on New Line's site and you basically drive around and shoot people, but the 3rd mission is to go home and give oral to the character's wife.
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Originally Posted by Trigger
Now - off to figure out how to trick my girlfriend into seeing this...
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Originally Posted by Mr. Cinema
Ebert gave it 3 stars.
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/...VIEWS/60222003
Speaking of movies that go over the top, "Running Scared" goes so far over the top, it circumnavigates the top and doubles back on itself; it's the Mobius Strip of over-the-topness. I am in awe. It throws in everything but the kitchen sink. Then it throws in the kitchen sink, too, and the combo washer-dryer in the laundry room, while the hero and his wife are having sex on top of it.
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Just got back from it. i didn't know paul walker could act. the only thing that i really didn't like was the ending.
the movie is very violent at times, and the "gun" seems to be more of a mguffin then anything else (a mguffin is a plot deivce or item that is there to do nothing but move the plot).
Spoiler: